Displaying 3,661 To 3,690 Of 16,275 Comments BREAKING: Michigan Supreme Court denies Rep. Paul Scott appeal – RECALL IS ON!!! A heartening and, to my mind, quite surprising turn of events. I commend the Supreme Court for their unanimous 7-0 ruling. Adding…I just want to add that this is HUGELY BFD. The Michigan Supreme Court is heavily Republican. Not only that, this recall is against the most anti-teacher/teachers’ union Representative in Michigan. He’s so bad that the Michigan Education Association got involved with this recall. Organizers had only two weeks to collect nearly 10,000 signatures and they did. In fact, they collected more than they needed: 12,350. » Posted By bito On October 21, 2011 @ 6:42 pm Cher, that is a bit strange. đ Occupy LA Joins News Corp. Protest » Posted By bito On October 21, 2011 @ 6:18 pm ICYMI: President Obama on Ending War in Iraq
Remarks by the President on Ending the War in Iraq » Posted By bito On October 21, 2011 @ 5:51 pm Hows that Chile plan working out, Mr. Cain? Chile Street Protesters Invade Senate Student demonstrators in Chile took direct action in the nation’s Senate headquarters Thursday, forcing their way into the building in Santiago. They interrupted a committee meeting and broadcast their demonstration live over the internet by webcam, calling for more people to come and join them.
» Posted By bito On October 21, 2011 @ 5:38 pm The woman of the mythical headless bodies has now been waterboarded? Arizona Gov. Brewer: Criticism Of My Radical Anti-Immigrant Law Was Like âWaterboardingâ A: how does she know? » Posted By bito On October 21, 2011 @ 4:49 pm #OWS 50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010 1) Half of all workers made less than $26,364, the median wage in 2010. That means the typical wage is at its lowest level since 1999, after adjusting for inflation. 2) The number of millionaires increased by about 20 percent. 3) The size of the missing workforce is 10 million. The number of working people fell by 5.2 million since 2007. But that’s not the entire job deficit, because, based on population growth estimates, 4.5 million more would have joined the workforce between 2007 and 2011. Add it up, and you get a 10-million-worker gap. [img]http://static.reuters.com/resources/media/global/assets/images/20111019/20111019_88353331.jpg[/img] » Posted By bito On October 21, 2011 @ 4:04 pm Perfect hash tag Cher! Every time I read a bogus article, I’ try to use that one. #OccupytheMedia » Posted By bito On October 21, 2011 @ 3:20 pm I think it’s fantastic Cher, the minute the R’s block one, introduce another part of the Jobs Act and another, and another….. I also liked this line: (It would be nice to see these reporters question Republicans as aggressively on why they wonât back policies that even GOP voters like, but thatâs probably expecting too much.) » Posted By bito On October 21, 2011 @ 2:43 pm Yes, Mr. Reid! Reid announced that the Senate would vote in early November on the next provision in Obamaâs jobs bill: The Rebuild America Jobs Act. The plan would create a national infrastructure bank and would invest $50 billion in upgrading highways, rail, and bridges, with the goal of putting thousands of construction workers back on the job, and would be paid for by a 0.7 percent surtax on income in excess of $1 million. Beyond these specifics, though, what was particularly of interest was that Reid said Republicans would face many more votes on measures funded in this fashion. And he repeatedly argued that Republicans who oppose funding jobs policies this way are at odds with the America people, Republican voters included. âThe Senate GOP has had a love affair for many years now with Grover Norquist â they will not touch any new revenues,â Reid said. âThey are not in touch with reality or their own constituents. But they are in touch with Grover Norquist.â [….] In a particularly interesting moment, reporters repeatedly pressed Reid to explain why he was going to force Republicans to vote this way, given that they have already said theyâll never support raising taxes. (It would be nice to see these reporters question Republicans as aggressively on why they wonât back policies that even GOP voters like, but thatâs probably expecting too much.) But Reid refused to give ground, again and again pointing out that the public is on the side of Dems, and against Republicans, on this issue. » Posted By bito On October 21, 2011 @ 2:16 pm Done @Khirad79 » Posted By bito On October 21, 2011 @ 5:03 am Queen Sabreen, I agree with you 99.5%. I get angry all the time at the Firebaggers/EmoProgs/Hamsters/Greenwalds/Cornel Wests/ T.Smilies…..And I get angry at the MSM even having them on spewing their BTW, Thanks for alerting me to the West/Smiley carnival show months ago. Cornell West really ticks me off. While many of us slung garbage cans for a living, he was sitting in a classroom or teaching. » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 10:39 pm Love me some VP Joe! Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 9:01 pm Hear-Ye, Hear-ye! 100 percent of Republicans voted against 99% of the country to night and for their party! 100% (and from a different thread with Cher, Pryor (D-AR) voted nay. Hmmm, just guessing, is Wall-Mart in Arkansas? Tyson Foods? » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 8:44 pm Thanks Em, I saw that and I was a bit too quick with my comment. Should I apologize to MSNBC? đ » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 8:12 pm And what does MSNBC have to say about it? It was blocked by a procedural vote. No mention of the One-Half-of-One-Percent-on-the-SECOND-Million! Damn librul MSM strikes again! » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 7:48 pm Sabreen, blue dogs, yellow dogs, spotted purple and red dogs, professional left, Trade Unionists, liberals and progressives, any and all assorted Dems–They are NOT the problem! Blogs like these I find nothing but divisive and belong in ‘Daily Caller.’ IMHO We have have a party that exists that are corporatists, anti-women and their health, anti-LBGT, anti-income equality, anti-contraception, anti-separation of church and state, pro-militarism….. Don’t mean to be dismissive. But. Now is not the time to be divisive and this article is just that. Another “Us against Them” within the Democratic Party. H/T KQuark. » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 4:10 pm From Andy Borowitz via Twitter: BorowitzReport profile BorowitzReport Getting Bin Laden & Gaddafi has done nothing for Obama’s popularity. Maybe he should go for Casey Anthony. » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 1:11 pm Beat me by 30 seconds Sabreen! đ Team Romney responds: âMitt Romney has a tax plan that cuts taxes for the middle class. This is another pathetic attempt by President Obamaâs political machine to distract attention from their non-existent record on creating jobs,â said Gail Gitcho, spokesperson for the Romney campaign. âJust this morning, we learned that an unprecedented 26 million people are unemployed, underemployed or have stopped looking for work – and President Obama has no plan to deal with it. Barack Obama put forward a second stimulus bill that has been rejected by Congress, and he has yet to offer any alternative.â Well not exactly the truth, is it Team Ronmey? 100% of Senate Republicans, your party and a minority party, wouldn’t even allow a vote on it and the leaership in the house won’t allow a vote either. » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 12:30 pm From our news widget: Factory, jobs data offer hope for economy While reading this article, that is filled with news on an improving economy, why do I get this felling it is filled with “yeah, but…” “most economists” (without naming one,) and other unnamed sources. This one also got me: U.S. stocks initially rose on the data, but surrendered gains on nagging doubts over whether European leaders would decisively deal with the euro zone debt crisis at a summit this weekend. Prices for U.S. Treasury debt rose marginally and the dollar firmed against a basket of currencies. But elsewhere I heard stocks rose for a completely different reason and with so much computer trading small gains are consumed for pure profit motive, no other reason. Just another article filled with » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 12:12 pm President Obama Speaks to the Press October 20, 2011 2:00 PM EDT » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 11:00 am Very true funk, and I often ask myself why I complain about the MSM, daily, like I expect more or that they will improve. Perhaps I’m the dumb one. » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 10:55 am Sabreen I do like Milt Shook’s blog and this is great. Well researched and every accomplishment linked and sourced. » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 10:36 am When Saddam was captured the R politicians and pudnuts practically had GWB there pulling him out of his spidey hole, today PBO is barely mentioned except to say he “led from behind” and “along with NATO.” » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 10:30 am Exclusive – Al Sharpton Extended Interview Pt. 1 See Part 2 Here: » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 9:42 am As Ex-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates often pointed out (he was for Increasing Foreign Aid vis the State Dept.) The DoD has more people and spends more on military bands than we do the State Department. Maybe AC Cooper should have asked them if they would cut out military bands instead of cutting Foreign aid. Here are the facts: We spend less than 1 percent of the federal budget on foreign aid. We spend roughly $50 billion a year on the entire State Department and the foreign aid budget. We spend about 11 times that on the Defense Department plus another three or so times that on “overseas contingency operations” like fighting wars and firing drones into various compounds and convoys and that sort of thing. (Let’s not count the Veterans Administration or the Department of Homeland Security or the intelligence community in these budgets though they certainly might be thought of as part of our broader national security establishment.) As it happens we spend a smaller percentage of our GDP on aid than almost any developed country and we spend roughly 10 times on defense what the next biggest spender, China, pays out to defend itself. (Go get a pencil and figure how that works out in terms of per capita defense spending. It won’t take you long.) » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 8:03 am Chuck must be expanding, I’m surprised that he didn’t pull out some poll and say some about what it will mean for the next elections. » Posted By bito On October 20, 2011 @ 7:29 am k’es, Well now I am totally pissed (not officially, because it’s not over) but it looks like I got thrown into a district that runs from the Mexican border to the Utah border. There is a little spit of the district that cuts me out of Gabby’s Tucson district. What in the hell does where live have anything to do with Flagstaff or the Four Corners? I can not even believe this little carve out! » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 7:59 pm k’es, from what I understand it still has to be reviewed, Khirad or j’avaz may know more. » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 7:17 pm Exactly, Sue, China does charge us a tariff that is way higher than the one we charge them. But what happens if any country starts a trade/tariff war? The other(s) countries react and where does it end, when there is zero trade? » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 7:03 pm k’es Any and all changes regarding anything to do with voting in AZ still has to pass through the DOJ and federal courts and there usually are separate lawsuits. » Posted By bito On October 19, 2011 @ 6:21 pmComments Posted By bito
http://www.eclectablog.com/2011/10/breaking-michigan-supreme-court-denies.html
http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2011/10/21/occupy-la-join-in-protest-news-corp/
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/videos/10420/chile-street-protesters-invade-senate
B: Doesn’t she mean “enhanced interrogation?”
C: Can her term end sooner? Please?
Reid: Dems will force GOP to continue voting on millionaire surtax
(P.S.( Did you get thrown into the Utah/Mexico/New Mexico/Four Corners/Hopi/Navaho/ Flagstaff/ Yuba……. district/? My Hopi is a little rusty, hows yours?)shit junk. And I want to alienate them more than I want to give them a stage to promote them. Politico is a RW site, as are people that use them as a source on most things.
I have been accused of being an optimist, and I guess I am guilty as charged, I have to . I would much rather promote PBO and not promote the naysayers claiming they dunces of the “Professional Left.”
The voters that we all need to work on our neighbors to GOTV and most of them have no idea of the people in the Professional Left are. They are becoming more and more a fringe and we need to concentrate on the body. They are but just a hangnail while the TPGOP are a destructive cancer killing the average working person.
I say ignore or alienate them but work, concentrate on a Dem Congress and and the reelection of The President.
I want to choose my foes carefully, and they are the apathy and the RW, not the “Professional Left.”
The clip of VP Joe was good!
Love me some JOE, he can get feisty!
As to The President not having any alternative, it will be broken up in sections and the R’s will block everyone of them. They plan on blocking a jobs program for teachers, Cops and Firemen and paying for it with a One-Half-of-One-Percent tax on millionaires and your party won’t allow a vote on it.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111020/bs_nm/us_usa_economy
‘False Equivalents,’ I guess.
EDIT: Concluded and removed, and I will post the transcript when it become available.
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Some perspective from the FP article:
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I am absolutely NOT arguing that our trade agreements are perfect, far from it but a trade war is not the answer.
Smoot-Hawely of 1930 turned the financial crash of ’29 and a deep recession into the great depression and the the cause but a contributor to WWII.
When nations turn nationalistic whether it be trade or militarily the results are often not pleasant.
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