Displaying 391 To 420 Of 2,270 Comments Glenn, good for you. Country would be a lot better place with about a million more just like you. » Posted By funksands On May 16, 2014 @ 8:56 am Actual footage from actual Idaho Republican Governor Primary Debate. It may change your life…
» Posted By funksands On May 16, 2014 @ 8:54 am Nirek, notice that money is always referred to as “speech” and not “free speech”. That is purposeful. It is “paid speech”. Free speech isn’t free if some people are not free to speak it….or something like that. » Posted By funksands On May 2, 2014 @ 8:15 am Oh the biggest piece of this phased-in minimum wage hike is an automatic 2.4% cost-of-living increase per year once the wage is fully phased in. That’s interesting. » Posted By funksands On May 1, 2014 @ 9:30 pm Seattle Mayor Details Plan for $15 Minimum Wage “…The result, in an agreement reached late Wednesday, with 21 of the 24 members supporting the plan, he said, was a two-tiered minimum-wage structure. Employers with more than 500 workers — no matter where those workers are around the nation — would move on a faster track toward $15 than smaller employers.” I’m loving that Washington State is seizing one of the rare opportunities in the current political system to make giant strides tackling important and complex issues Minimum Wage Address THE most regressive tax system in the country and I may just faint before I get to my couch! 🙂 » Posted By funksands On May 1, 2014 @ 9:25 pm Kalima, these stories are awful. Why am I not hearing about them on network or cable news?? BTW, here’s a story from the Guardian a couple of years ago about Nigeria’s oil “troubles” “In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta’s network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of a major ecological catastrophe caused by oil that has poured from a leak triggered by the explosion that wrecked BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig last month.” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell » Posted By funksands On April 30, 2014 @ 9:20 pm Nirek, I’d really like your take on this article. I think it makes some very good points. Hope you are well. Let This Earth Day be the Last http://www.thenation.com/blog/179375/let-earth-day-be-last# » Posted By funksands On April 22, 2014 @ 5:12 pm The long, slow, sad slide of 60 minutes continues…. CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ admits to faking Tesla car noise “The latest example came a week ago today when CBS’ 60 Minutes aired a report on Tesla and its amazing electric car. It was basically the kind of coverage that any automaker would kill to have (and must have left flummoxed General Motors executives wondering why they never got it for the plug-in Chevrolet Volt). Just one problem: As the Associated Press reported, a CBS editor made what is being called an “audio error” in dubbing the sound of a loud traditional car engine over footage of the much quieter Tesla electric car. The Model is whisper quiet, no matter how hard you push it.” » Posted By funksands On April 6, 2014 @ 10:29 pm Kes, I’m familiar with this particular practice, and am very interested to read the book. I view flash-trading as analogous to doping in professional and amateur sports. It doesn’t necessarily mean the game is rigged, but someone does have an artificial advantage in the competition. Right now, most people don’t care because they don’t feel how it impacts them. This will continue until it becomes so egregious that something breaks. It will take serious money-makers losing a LOT of money over the antics of these crews before the problem goes away. » Posted By funksands On April 3, 2014 @ 8:02 pm Nirek, can you imagine having to do what you did in Vietnam, 3,4,5 times? I’m amazed any of them come back intact. I weep to think of this entire generation of broken soldiers broken for no reason. And the families the really broken ones leave behind just keep suffering. Utterly heartbreaking. » Posted By funksands On April 3, 2014 @ 8:58 am Some of you may be interested in this little tidbit I found: What if we Paid Off the National Debt?: The Secret Government Report An interesting piece about a gentleman who found an internal government memo from 2000 about what would happen if the government paid off the national debt by the then-projected 2012: The upshot is that that there would be no Treasury Bonds/Notes left in the world which would throw it into chaos. Interesting read as well as thought-provoking. The study is linked in the article » Posted By funksands On April 3, 2014 @ 8:49 am Kes, its worth a try. You could always stop off at your local Payday Speech store if you are a little short… » Posted By funksands On April 2, 2014 @ 8:29 pm Supreme Court continues our country’s march toward oligarchy by upholding the $5200 limit that anyone may contribute to any individual candidate, but eliminates the $123,000 limit that anyone may contribute in total to candidates or PACs during 1 election cycle. What this Court continues to say via its rulings is that if you have money, you have more speech than someone with less money. A wealthy person’s child is born with more speech than another child. Which is of course what made our country great in the first place. » Posted By funksands On April 2, 2014 @ 9:24 am Y-Axis fun! » Posted By funksands On April 1, 2014 @ 9:19 am Kalima, that’s a good number! I tried to call my state exchange today to verify some conflicting info I was getting. My wait time was expected to by 145 minutes. 🙂 Good sign indeed, but it also shows how the infrastructure could be even better. Lot of valuable and expensive lessons learned over the last 6 months. » Posted By funksands On March 28, 2014 @ 3:57 pm Ad, there is no consequence for their “omissions” or laziness, so why change the behavior? The GOP just got done holding the nation underwater for 5 years and may receive a brand new Senate for it, so why change a thing? The Golden age of the Post, Times, Murrow and Cronkite is seemingly, like the middle class, destined to be a historical anomaly. » Posted By funksands On March 27, 2014 @ 8:27 pm Nirek, about halfway down the page (left-hand side) that you are writing on is the gray “Save Draft” button. » Posted By funksands On March 27, 2014 @ 1:39 pm Why Is It That So Many Reporters Seem to Know So Little about Obamacare? – Part 1 (From Maggie Mahar) “When it comes to covering the Affordable Care Act (ACA), not only televison networks but our major newspapers have fallen far short of Murrow’s fearless standards. Instead of ideas and information, the mainstream media serves up opinions and anecdotes. Tall tales about “Obamacare’s victims” have become standard fare. In recent months I have deconstructed two faux fables: one that appeared in the Ft. Worth -Star Telegram,(URL), another that aired on CBS stations nationwide.” » Posted By funksands On March 27, 2014 @ 1:28 pm Kes, he looks really really thirsty… Looks like he’s going to unhinge his jaw and just take the glass with it… » Posted By funksands On March 17, 2014 @ 6:13 pm Two amazing unbelievably cool things today!!!! Cosmic inflation: ‘Spectacular’ discovery hailed Scientists say they have extraordinary new evidence to support a Big Bang Theory for the origin of the Universe. Researchers believe they have found the signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansion of space that must have occurred just fractions of a second after everything came into being. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26605974 And then there’s this: [img]http://www.flicksandbits.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/star_wars_7_movie_poster.jpg[/img] Geek overload! » Posted By funksands On March 17, 2014 @ 6:08 pm Quote of the Day: “Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof” – John Kenneth Galbraith » Posted By funksands On March 13, 2014 @ 3:21 pm Thanks Nirek, I really appreciate Vermont being the leading laboratory of democracy over the last several years. If I’m not mistaken Vermont used to be a pretty safe Republican state for a long time, the fact that that has changed gives me hope for the rest of the country. » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2014 @ 10:55 am Glenn, you are spot on with your venting. What’s even better is that Ryan stole the story from here: The paper-bag lunch story is from a 2011 book about a hungry, panhandling kid in New York City. And the kid in the book wasn’t turning down gov’t subsidized lunches at school, he was reacting to a private benefactor’s offer to pay for his cafeteria lunches at school. “Look, Maurice, I don’t want you out there hungry on the nights I don’t see you, so this is what we can do. I can either give you some money for the week–and you’ll have to be really careful about how you spend it–or when you come over on Monday night we can go to the supermarket and I can buy all the things you like to eat and make you lunch for the week. I’ll leave it wih the doormen, and you can pick it up on the way to school.” Maurice looked at me and asked me a question. I didn’t really understand the question. “Do you want it in a brown paper bag?” I asked. “Or how would you prefer it?” “Miss Laura,” he said, “I don’t want your money. I want my lunch in a brown paper bag.” “Okay, sure. But why do you want it in a bag?” “Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?” Read more at http://wonkette.com/543369/somebody-is-stealing-children-to-put-in-paul-ryan-speeches#eIp1TAbkHesbPeGK.99 » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2014 @ 10:54 am Kes, this isn’t too surprising. When the GOP held the House in 1996-2006 they would occasionally tell their Dem colleagues that a hearing was in one room when it was really in another. They would begin a hearing early then lock the Dems out. They would end a hearing like this then leave and cut the power to the room. It just gets more attention now, which is probably why it isn’t worse than it is. » Posted By funksands On March 6, 2014 @ 7:10 pm 15 Vermont Towns Vote to Start a Public Bank that Works for Them, Not Wall Street By a more than three-to-one margin on Tuesday, communities voting on whether to support the creation of a public bank in Vermont approved the idea, calling for the state legislature to establish such a bank and urging passage of legislation designed to begin its implementation. In a show of direct democracy that also exposed the citizenry’s desire for a more localized and responsible banking system, fifteen of nineteen towns passed the resolution during ‘Town Meeting Day’— an annual event in which voters choose local officials, approve municipal budgets, and make their voices heard on a number of measures put before local residents for approval. The specific proposal under consideration, Senate Bill 204, would turn an existing agency, the Vermont Economic Development Authority, into a public bank that would accept deposits and issue loans for in-state projects. Currently, the only state in the U.S. to maintain a public state bank is North Dakota. However, since the financial downturn of 2008, other states have looked into replicating the North Dakota model as a way to buck Wall Street while taking more control of state and local finances. – See more at: http://thecontributor.com/15-towns-vote-start-public-bank-works-people-vermont-not-wall-street#sthash.AKWX65Rv.dpuf » Posted By funksands On March 6, 2014 @ 7:01 pm Every Republican candidate for federal office has to be able to attain this position at least once before being allowed to run. » Posted By funksands On March 6, 2014 @ 6:58 pm [img]http://i0.wp.com/www.theminorityreportblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/outrage2.gif?resize=326%2C235[/img] » Posted By funksands On March 6, 2014 @ 6:57 pm Glenn, IMO Maggie is one the best and brightest in her field of dissecting the healthcare industry. Her book is excellent. Her blog is pretty damn good too. » Posted By funksands On March 1, 2014 @ 7:39 pm 60 Minutes has officially surrendered its credibility. Great detective work by Maggie Mahar. How A CBS Video About An Obamacare Victim Misled Millions- Part 2 (What the “Victim” Revealed in Our Final Interview) “Woman Battling Kidney Cancer Losing Company Health Plan Due To Obamacare.” That was the headline on a story that CBS’ Washington Bureau sent to its affiliates last fall. CBS correspondent Susan McGinnis narrates the piece: “During the 10 years that Debra Fishericks has worked at Atkinson Realty, the company has provided group health insurance with manageable premiums,” McGinnis explains –“until owner Betsy Atkinson learned the policy would be terminated because it doesn’t meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act….” » Posted By funksands On March 1, 2014 @ 3:09 pm Tweet of the Week: 🙂 toddstarnes @toddstarnes 5h Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer makes Christians in her state second class citizens. » Posted By funksands On February 26, 2014 @ 10:02 pmComments Posted By funksands
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