Displaying 3,451 To 3,480 Of 16,275 Comments It was very much worth sharing, k’es. » Posted By bito On November 6, 2011 @ 6:35 pm Anybody but Romney is the cry at Florida tea party convention [img]http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/teabagnever-300×225.jpg[/img] “The party establishment has wanted Romney all along, and they’ve been pushing him on us,” lamented James Koll of Fort Dodge, Iowa, who said he would support a third-party or write-in a candidate before voting for Romney. […] “Some of these Republicans think they have our votes in the bag no matter what, but they don’t,” he said, complaining that no top-tier Republican candidates came to the tea party convention. “They’re turning their back on us, and they will pay a price.” H/T and more from Paddy at http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/11/06/anybody-but-romney-is-the-cry-at-florida-tea-party-convention/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter » Posted By bito On November 6, 2011 @ 6:21 pm Nice post k’es! » Posted By bito On November 6, 2011 @ 6:14 pm Yes, pretty disgusting k’es, and he claims to be a “man of the cloth?” What the cloth, the 1000 dollar silk suits he can afford with his million dollar a year pay from Fux? » Posted By bito On November 6, 2011 @ 6:11 pm Weekly Address: We Have to Increase the Pace Speaking from the University of Pittsburgh, Vice President Biden argues that this month’s jobs numbers demonstrate that Congress should pass the American Jobs Act to strengthen our economy and create jobs right away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dwlIEGxmSus » Posted By bito On November 6, 2011 @ 1:42 pm How about a Sunday quiz to go along with Kalima’s trivia question? Who said this: “You see, there’s a reason our Founding Fathers decided to establish our political capital in a different city than our financial capital, because it’s time for us to reaffirm the wisdom of that decision by getting Washington D.C., out of free markets. And I’m running for president of the United States because I understand the difference between free markets and a Bernie Madoff style of government.” http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2011/11/wait-what-2.html Hint: Think Marty Feldman 😉 » Posted By bito On November 6, 2011 @ 1:21 pm Didn’t mean to be ‘snotty’ Em. 🙂 » Posted By bito On November 6, 2011 @ 12:34 pm KT/Em, » Posted By bito On November 6, 2011 @ 11:28 am KT, Why do we need another #OWS thread? Any member can write another post if they want but the one we have now is well broadcast now over the intertubes. » Posted By bito On November 6, 2011 @ 10:58 am I wish I could force every talker, every pudnut every staff member, every producer and every writer and their editors to read this from ReMapping Debate! A few high lights and at one time or another much of this article has been touched on at PPOV. You don’t get answers if you don’t ask questions No one, of course, would deny that the current economic disaster — the only serious question today is whether we are in a depression or “merely” a serious recession — has concentrated public attention on the gap between haves and have-nots. But it is hardly plausible that basic beliefs on issues like income inequality just shifted on a dime. Much more likely is the hypothesis that these widely held views have been in circulation for a long time — in circulation, that is, everywhere except in the White House, much of Congress, and almost all of the press corps. For the press, you don’t get answers if you don’t ask questions. And you don’t ask questions if you don’t think that there is an issue worth exploring. When the press was so aroused by the emergence of the Tea Party wing of the GOP, it could have examined whether there were any other political tendencies out in the land. Except for rare exceptions, it did not. Now, we find out, those identifying themselves as “Tea Party supporters” (24 percent now as compared with 18 percent in April 2010) are dwarfed by those who “generally agree…with the views of the Occupy Wall Street movement” (43 percent). […] Indeed, many of the individual components are not mentioned in the story, including the fact that the idea of spending money on the nation’s infrastructure to create jobs was supported by a margin of more than five to one (80 to 15 percent). The article does point out that it is not just Democrats (or Occupy Wall Street participants) who think that there is too much inequality of wealth: “two-thirds of independents…say that the distribution of wealth in the country should be more equitable.” The press is not responsible for the fact that the Obama administration and campaign have chased independent voters as though two-thirds of them thought there wasn’t enough income and wealth inequality, but it is responsible for failing to ask until recently questions that would open and encourage debate beyond the adored Ben Nelson – Joe Lieberman spectrum. [….] Take one of the few poll results that might discomfit progressives: the finding suggesting that half the public supports reducing or ending some government regulations on business “in order to try to create jobs.” The question (at least standing alone) has some obvious flaws. Inquiring about reducing regulation in general is more likely to elicit a positive response than a question asking respondents whether they want their air and water quality to return to the levels of the 1960s. A question measuring support for reducing regulation “in order to create jobs,” leaves poll respondents without the information that there is no evidence to suggest that cutting regulations would yield a net increase in jobs at all. Sorry for the length of the quotes but I was really impressed with this article and the authors ability to nail it! » Posted By bito On November 6, 2011 @ 10:45 am Thanks for this, k’es, she is a real trooper and I’m always glad when you share news from her. Her emails always contain her unique bit of humor no matter what the latest humanitarian emergency she is tackling. A soul like hers brings hope to many. » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 8:46 pm Em, the #Occupy thread can be found on the ‘Home Page’ and I can move this so that it others can read it and it’s not lost on TO/OT. OK? » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 8:18 pm Em, this is dated, but, here is a list from ThinkProgress on all the R’s requesting funds from the WH for recovery act funds and I’m sure the list is huge by now. Leader Reid has already said that the Veterans portion of the Jobs Act WILL be voted on next week and there will be many, many people watching that cloture vote! I have a friend sitting here right now, Nam Vet, and he has been writing emails all day, I know that he will be one pissed off Vet if the R’s block the vote. I doubt he is alone! » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 8:07 pm Could this be true!! Maybe just the threat will do the trick but I’m not sure with these hippocritters! Name and Shame? Obama May Go Public with Lawmakers’ Funding Requests In a move that could escalate hostilities with Congress, President Obama may be planning to use his executive authority to publicize special funding requests that lawmakers make for pet projects. A memo that the White House has floated on Capitol Hill would require executive branch agencies to make public any letter from a member of Congress seeking special consideration for any project or organization vying for government funding. National Journal obtained a draft copy of the executive memo. A White House spokesman declined to comment, except to say he did not believe the document would be coming next week. Oh I can hear the squealing from the hippocritters beginning in 5–3-2…. I wonder if any Sunday talker will mention this? Nah! The memo: http://nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/text-of-draft-executive-memo-20111105 The paragraph?
Second, whether or not such communications reference earmarks enacted » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 6:08 pm Em there is much in that article and report to be angry about. The DOD taking a scrape of every supplemental bill, which we are led to believe is going to actual combat, to build new armaments for a world war III is pure deception. Looking at the procurement costs of the F-22 is absolutely outrageous and they aren’t even used in combat, just put on the shelf for “just in case” the Fiji islands attack us? WTF?! [img]https://motherjones.com/files/images/air_force_fighter_jet_funding.preview.png[/img] » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 4:44 pm Andy Rooney: “My Lucky Life” October 2, 2011 12:35 PM In his last regularly scheduled appearance on “60 Minutes,” Andy Rooney says, “I’ve done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I’ve complained about, I can’t complain about my life.” http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7383154n&tag=pop;videos#ixzz1csL8A9iY » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 4:07 pm Also, the Hopi probably conform just to make the Navajo change their clocks when the come through 😆 😆 » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 2:37 pm One small exception to that, I think the Navajo’s still do the clock changing thing. They may have changed, I don’t know. Now that IS Arizona-esque. 🙂 » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 1:14 pm That is good, Khirad, I may be able to stay awake and watch it now. 😉 » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 1:06 pm I better NOT turn my clock back, I’ll be an hour late for everything. » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 12:47 pm Em, and yet the R’s campaign on how we are #1 and an exceptional country, blessed by jeebus yet allow this to happen right in front of the world. Just heard a line from a German economist, and what a contrast their attitude is compared to many on the rights attitude. What does Stiglitz know any way? Didn’t he win that commie Nobel Award? (we have to have another fund raiser to get the jet out of the shop. 😆 ) » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 12:43 pm Support the Troops? More like support the defense industry. Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons Since 9/11 Capitol Hill conservatives and Pentagon brass fighting cuts to defense spending have argued that the military is limping off the battlefield with decrepit hardware. It’s quite the sob story: At a hearing last week, Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), the chair of the House armed services committee, cut his remarks short to literally cry for “these young men that are going outside the wire over in Afghanistan, every day on patrol.” But a new report shows the US defense establishment is in much better shape than it claims: The DOD has blown roughly $1 trillion on shiny new tanks, ships, and jets since the 9/11 attacks—and it’s often done so with dollars that were supposed to be spent on those troops on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan. [img]https://motherjones.com/files/images/defense_procurement_funding.preview.png[/img] http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/military-trillion-dollar-weapons-spending But it’s a jobs program! The R’s have no problem with cutting off the Postal Service or not voting for a jobs bill for Vets, bit heaven forbid that we cut off money going to a shiny new toy that is needed for the cold war or WWII tactics. http://www.stimson.org/images/uploads/research-pdfs/Contentv2.pdf In the last decade: » Posted By bito On November 5, 2011 @ 12:20 pm OMG, Sue!
» Posted By bito On November 4, 2011 @ 8:14 pm Clever, Emerald, Clever, it’s a jewel. 😆 » Posted By bito On November 4, 2011 @ 7:03 pm Thanks guy! » Posted By bito On November 4, 2011 @ 6:28 pm Em, I wouldn’t! Try some saddle soap or a leather conditioner first. » Posted By bito On November 4, 2011 @ 6:14 pm KT, do you have a link to that story to tweet? » Posted By bito On November 4, 2011 @ 6:11 pm Good job, Woof ❗ It always smelled like petroleum distillates to me. 😉 » Posted By bito On November 4, 2011 @ 6:04 pm Another week of lazing about for PBO. West Wing Week 11/04/11 or “Let’s Get Moving” http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/11/04/west-wing-week-110411-or-lets-get-moving » Posted By bito On November 4, 2011 @ 5:19 pm Em, I didn’t know and I have used gallons of it. » Posted By bito On November 4, 2011 @ 5:14 pmComments Posted By bito
As I did mention yesterday, it is the on the home page and is the top story as a “sticky” (meaning it will be there.)
It is Adlib’s post and perhaps he can repost/update it to appear in the RP’s
Until then use these and perhaps bookmark the #OWS post.
https://planetpov.com/
https://planetpov.com/2011/10/05/the-occupy-wall-street-thread/
The #Occupy post is https://planetpov.com/2011/10/05/the-occupy-wall-street-thread/
Stimulating Hypocrisy: 114 Lawmakers Block Recovery While Taking Credit For Its Success
http://thinkprogress.org/report/touting-recovery-opposed/
If it is, how cool is this? What are they going to do, not pass any of his bills as retaliation? 😆
Draft White House memo would require federal agencies to reveal special funding requests from members of Congress.
into legislation or otherwise contained in legislative materials,
executive departments and agencies shall make available to the public
in searchable form on the Internet all written communications from any
Member of Congress, including all Member and committee staff,
requesting that agencies give special consideration to any specific
person, organization, or other entity or group of entities, or
consideration targeted to any State, locality, or congressional
district, in the course of agency decision-making with respect to any
federal project, program, contract, grant, or other expenditure.
Meanwhile the demand to cut WIC, Food Stamps,NPR and Planned Parenthood is but a drop in the bucket for the MIC.
“Unemployment isn’t a personal problem alone, it’s society’s problem.” He went on to explain how it drags down all of society, not just that one person’s.
To further that, it’s the same in education, housing, hunger…it’s a drain, harm on society.
••Procurement funding grew dramatically — from $62.6B in FY01 to $135.8B in FY10.
••Supplemental war funding significantly enhanced the resources available for procurement, making up 22 percent of all procurement funding.
••Most procurement programs already have been almost completely funded.
••The Army had its next-generation acquisition programs cancelled, but that freed resources — enhanced by significant supplemental war funding — to expand and upgrade its primary combat vehicles and supporting capabilities, giving it a fully modernized force.
••The Air Force modernized its force by fielding the next-generation systems of the F-22 and C-17, and also introduced an entirely new capability — unmanned aircraft. The Air Force bought fewer fighters than it projected because it made a conscious choice to pursue high-end and expensive next-generation systems.
••The Navy achieved the modernized force it projected at the start of the decade, and relied on the dramatic expansion of procurement funding to achieve that force.
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