Where's the Bread?
These past two years have seen the country engaged in great substantive debates, they've also seen the rights mastery of cheap publicity stunts. Among these the billionaire backed, never quite really...
View ArticleUndermanned, Underfunded and Floating in a Sea of Oil
I found this post over on rpg.net
View ArticleAusterity and Group Think
If your friends all jumped off a bridge would you follow? What if you saw the big, messy, splat on the rocks that the first to take the leap made. Looks like, according to the New York Times, that...
View ArticleCreate a Million New Jobs Today
Let me suggest what to some in the Republican party is unthinkable: the Federal Government should take sixty billion dollars and directly create one million news jobs this year. We should hire half a...
View ArticleIt's unemployment insurance stupid.
We live in a political world where no action is ever seen as having consequence. Republicans blocked the extension of unemployment benefits for over a month in the second quarter. GDP in the second...
View Article[OH-9] Rich Iott dons the uniform of the SS
Nazi standing next to the man in the blue uniform in the middle. From The Atlantic: Iott, whose district lies in Northwest Ohio, was involved with a group that calls itself Wiking, whose members are...
View ArticleOn Patriotism and Rep. Shelley Berkley
I am not about to play a game of chicken with my constituents' lives hoping, hoping Republicans are going to blink in January. - Rep. Shelley Berkely on the tax bill. Berkley's Nevada district faces...
View ArticleRepublicans want to default on 2.5 Trillion in US Treasury Bonds.
There has been a lot of talk on the right about "reforming" or "saving" social security. What this boils down to is a direct attempt to default on 2.5 Trillion in US Treasury Bonds held in the Social...
View ArticleGlobal Warming is Causing the Recession!
When it comes to global warming we associate the phenomena with large disasters. We expect to see low lying cities wake up under fifteen feet of water overnight. While their are some dramatic weather...
View ArticleIrresponsible HIV Testing
According to the Wall Street Journal, next Friday all the Seniors at San Fransisco's Urban High School will have the opportunity to undergo voluntary HIV testing. Getting tested is voluntary for the...
View ArticleWI - How Do You Deal With a Madman?
So Politico is running a story about how a failure in Wisconsin could break the American labor movement. While politico is calling for labor leaders to take a decisive stand and agree to lose the...
View ArticleDKos and (un)natural disasters
We need a better way of disseminating information about emergency situations on this site. In the last month or so we've had revolutions, two earthquakes, a Tsunami, and potentially a nuclear...
View ArticleNuclear Disaster: Just Say It (the end of the world)
If all, or even a couple of the spent fuel pools at Fukushima burn, the radioactive isotopes released will spread into the upper atmosphere, there encircling the globe (see most volcanic eruptions)...
View ArticleObama and a Lack of Leadership
The lack of public leadership coming out of the Obama administration right now is frightening. We are bombing Libya and a major ally is dealing with both multiple natural disasters and a nuclear...
View ArticleGuardian reports possible Full Meltdown at Fukushima
The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor, experts say, raising...
View ArticleBreaking: Supreme Court Overturns Brown v. Board (not kidding)
Today Americas experiment in integrated education came to an end. Today the Supreme Court upheld Arizona’s Tax voucher system in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn. The statute...
View ArticleGOP Anarchists: The TEA Party Gone Insane
Anarchism: a political theory holding all forms of governmental authority to be unnecessary and undesirable and advocating a society based on voluntary cooperation and free association of individuals...
View ArticleRemember our military families
Let us be honest, the government is going to shut down. The TEA Party is insisting on a shutdown. If the non-TEA Party wing of the Republican Party attempts to cut a deal they risk their party...
View ArticleThere is no deal
I'll put this simply: I don't think John Boehner can deliver the votes needed to pass the agreed compromise budget. If there had been a bill ready to go last night, he could have done it. Instead we...
View ArticleObama and Medicare - Black and Unelectable
The Washington Post is reporting that Obama plans to introduce cuts to Medicare. As somebody living let me be blunt: if Obama does this all many seniors are going to see is the scary black man trying...
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