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Show me what a police state looks like! (Graphic! Dial-up warning!) - Democratic Underground
Dear MSM: OWS does not "clash with the police" we are unarmed, peaceful protesters who are savagely attacked by the police. #MSM #noNATO
cops  occupy  protest  politics  to:fb  police 
2 days ago by deusx
A federal judge learned to code - O'Reilly Radar
The last couple of days, there's been a fair amount of blogosphere angst over Coding Horror's "Please Don't Learn to Code." Ironically, the best argument for learning to code appeared this morning, when it turned out that Judge William Alsup in the Google case could program, and learned Java in the course of the trial, and wasn't going for Oracle's claim that a short range-checking function was days of work. Alsup recognized immediately (and says he wrote the function hundreds of times during the course of the trial) that it's just a few minutes work for a competent programmer.
coding  law  politics  learning  google  oracle 
7 days ago by deusx
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is – Whatever
Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
to:fb  privilege  straight  white  male  politics  gender  games  race 
9 days ago by deusx
Unemployment Rate Without Government Cuts: 7.1% - Real Time Economics - WSJ
One reason the unemployment rate may have remained persistently high: The sharp cuts in state and local government spending in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and the layoffs those cuts wrought.
politics  duh  to:fb  economy 
15 days ago by deusx
Fox News guest laments ‘mistake’ of letting women vote | The Raw Story
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a tea party activist that’s appeared several times on Fox News, and founder of an organization where Sean Hannity serves as an advisory board member, said in a sermon recently published to YouTube that America’s greatest mistake was allowing women the right to vote, adding that back in “the good old days, men knew that women are crazy and they knew how to deal with them.”
women  voters  politics  fox 
16 days ago by deusx
The Real Reason They Still Play 'Mrs. Robinson' On The Radio
Stations haven't been playing "Mrs. Robinson" for 32 years just because everyone likes Simon & Garfunkel (although I really do love them!). It's because 80% of stations' playlists match all across the country. So much for thinking that media exposes us to new and different ideas, eh?
media  consolidation  infographics  visualization  politics 
16 days ago by deusx
Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake! - The Daily Beast
Mitt Romney has said, in effect, “I’m rich and I don’t apologize for it.” Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us want—those who aren’t blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn money—is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in America without America.
politics  stephenking  wealth  taxes  america  economics 
17 days ago by deusx
The Truth About the U.S. Postal Service by Jim Hightower on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent
In 2006, the Bush White House and Congress whacked the post office with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act — an incredible piece of ugliness requiring the agency to PRE-PAY the health care benefits not only of current employees, but also of all employees who'll retire during the next 75 years. Yes, that includes employees who're not yet born!
usps  mail  politics  to:fb 
8 weeks ago by deusx
The GOP can no longer avoid its Rush Limbaugh problem - The Washington Post
What we are saying is that Mr. Limbaugh has abused his unique position within the conservative media to smear and vilify a citizen engaged in the exercise of her First Amendment rights, and in the process he debased a national political discourse that needs no further debasing. This is not the way a decent citizen behaves, much less a citizen who wields significant de facto power in a major political party. While Republican leaders owe no apology for Mr. Limbaugh’s comments, they do have a responsibility to repudiate them — and him.
politics  rushlimbaugh  contraception  republicans  gop 
11 weeks ago by deusx
Santorum and the Sexual Revolution - NYTimes.com
Rick Santorum wants to bring sexy back ... to the 1950s, when he was born.
santorum  politics  sex 
11 weeks ago by deusx
Daily Kos: Newt Gingrich is a lousy human being
Newt Gingrich is a lousy human being. Any assessment of his presidential aspirations has to begin with that.
politics  newtgingrich  funny 
12 weeks ago by deusx
Santorum: Obama is ‘a snob’ who ‘wants everybody to go to college’ | The Raw Story
“President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college, what a snob,” he said.
to:fb  college  education  santorum  politics 
12 weeks ago by deusx
Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics - The Daily Beast
The right calls him a socialist, the left says he sucks up to Wall Street, and independents think he's a wimp. Andrew Sullivan on how the president may just end up outsmarting them all.
politics  obama 
february 2012 by deusx
slacktivist » The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.

Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
to:fb  religion  abortion  reproduction  christianity  politics 
february 2012 by deusx
Congrats, US Government: You're Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US | Techdirt
The federal government has been paying lip service to the idea that it wants to encourage new businesses and startups in the US. And this is truly important to the economy, as studies have shown that almost all of the net job growth in this country is coming from internet startups. Thankfully some politicians recognize this, but the federal government seems to be going in the other direction. With the JotForm situation unfolding, where the US government shut down an entire website with no notice or explanation, people are beginning to recognize that the US is not safe for internet startups.
business  copyfight  internet  censorship  politics 
february 2012 by deusx
Obama May Ditch Most US Nukes | Mother Jones
Will Republicans accede to a sweeping drawdown of US nuclear might? Beyond the knee-jerk emotions on top national security issues, there's an awful lot of defense pork—not just missiles, but also bombers, submarines, and scientific research—bound up in our nuclear program. That makes the most dramatic reduction scenarios highly unlikely to pass muster in Congress. But if the White House and Pentagon push one of their more modest proposals—cutting the number of bombs to, say, 700 or 1,000—that could represent a reasonable compromise that still offers compelling financial savings and progress toward greater global stability. Faced with a plan like that, resistant congressmen might end up looking like just a bunch of Dr. Strangeloves.
nukes  military  us  politics 
february 2012 by deusx
Komen's Excuse for Defunding Planned Parenthood Applies to Bank of America Too -- So When Will it Sever Ties With BofA? | AlterNet
To sum up, Komen is perfectly content with accepting millions from an entity under investigation for fraud across the country but when it comes to dispensing a portion of those and other funds to an entity that saves lives but that's facing a sham of an investigation, Komen draws the line.
cancer  komen  politics  abortion 
february 2012 by deusx
Rick Santorum On Opposition To Abortion In Cases Of Rape: 'Make The Best Out Of A Bad Situation'
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum explained his opposition to abortion even in cases of rape during an interview Friday, saying that women who face such circumstances should "make the best out of a bad situation."
whackos  republicans  politics  rape  santorum 
january 2012 by deusx
Nobody Understands Debt - NYTimes.com
So yes, debt matters. But right now, other things matter more. We need more, not less, government spending to get us out of our unemployment trap. And the wrongheaded, ill-informed obsession with debt is standing in the way.
politics  economy  debt  money 
january 2012 by deusx
Michele Bachmann, America's Perfect Monster | The Awl
Bachmann is a national clown and a global embarrassment, an extremist so foul that she poses nearly as much of a threat to Republican legislators as to Democratic ones. She's a Republican bomb-thrower who forgets the throwing part. Both parties will certainly be glad to be rid of her. But Bachmann's repose only means the absence of the messenger, not the absence of those who paid for the message.
republicans  bachmann  politics 
january 2012 by deusx
How SOPA's 'circumvention' ban could put a target on Tor | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
A broad interpretation of SOPA's anti-circumvention language would sweep even more broadly than Tor. Software such as VPNs, used by security-conscious businesses, can also "bypass" a SOPA-established blockade. So could DNS software. And even the humble "/etc/hosts" file, part of every major operating system including OS X, Linux, and Windows, can be pressed into service as a SOPA-bypasser as well.
politics  sopa  law  internet 
december 2011 by deusx
Daily Kos: John McCain is worried House Republicans are making the entire Republican Party look bad
But whether John McCain or House Republicans have done or are doing more damage to the Republican Party isn't something that most people care about. What they care about is making sure that Congress doesn't raise their taxes while the economy is still in recovery. And if Republicans cared more about that, we wouldn't be facing this stalemate now. The American public would be better off, and so would the GOP.
politics  republicans  economy 
december 2011 by deusx
MinnPost - Latest Amy Koch developments complicate GOP plans across the board
If allegations surrounding Koch, who is married, are true, she would become in the eyes of many a prime example of the double standard surrounding the heated marriage amendment battle.
politics  gay  republicans  marriage 
december 2011 by deusx
Lamar Smith is a cheap date - Boing Boing
How much has it cost the entertainment industry to convince Rep Lamar Smith to introduce and ram through SOPA, which will cost the American economy billions, which will nuke the games, microprocessor, search, and other high tech companies in his Texas district? A mere $50K a year for 10 years. You know, it's one thing to be a sellout; but to sell out so cheaply -- man, have some self-respect. (via /.)
sopa  politics  copyfight  us  law 
december 2011 by deusx
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard
So it was as proponents of the Hollywood-funded bill curmudgeonly shot down all but two amendments proposed by its opponents, who fought to dramatically alter the document to preserve security and free speech on the net. But the chilling takeaway of this whole debacle was the irrefutable air of anti-intellectualism; that inescapable absurdity that we have members of Congress voting on a technical bill who do not posses any technical knowledge on the subject and do not find it imperative to recognize those who do.
internet  sopa  government  nerds  tech  politics 
december 2011 by deusx
Walmart Heirs Worth Same Amount As Bottom 30 Percent Of Americans In 2007: Analysis
The six children of Walmart's founders, Sam and James "Bud" Walton, had the same net worth in 2007 as the entire bottom 30 percent of American earners, according to an analysis from Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist at University of California-Berkeley's Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics.
wtf  walmart  wealthinequality  economy  politics 
december 2011 by deusx
The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah! - Forbes
This is the true ‘bomb’ contained in Obamacare and the one item that will have more impact on the future of how medical care is paid for in this country than anything we’ve seen in quite some time. Indeed, it is this aspect of the law that represents the true ‘death panel’ found in Obamacare—but not one that is going to lead to the death of American consumers. Rather, the medical loss ratio will, ultimately, lead to the death of large parts of the private, for-profit health insurance industry.
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If you believe that the end of private, for-profit health insurance is some type of nefarious step towards a socialist society, then you might want to attend church this Sunday to mourn the loss of health insurers being able to worm out of covering the bills of a cancer patient because she forgot to write down on her application that she had skin acne for three months when she was a teenager.
health  medicine  insurance  obamacare  politics  usa  healthcare  obama 
december 2011 by deusx
Boehner On Whether Letting The Payroll Tax Cut Expire Hurts The Economy: 'I'm Not An Economist' | ThinkProgress
Later, Boehner came around to admit that an extension would help boost the economy. To help Boehner out, several actual economists have said that letting the cut expire would, in fact, hurt growth and destroy jobs. According to Macroeconomic Advisers, allowing it to lapse “would reduce GDP growth by 0.5 percent and cost the economy 400,000 jobs.” An analyst at Barclay’s estimated that letting the cut expire would knock 1.5 percent off of first quarter growth next year.
jackassed  politics  boehner  republicans 
december 2011 by deusx
The Rise of the Geek Lobby
In a time of legislative gridlock, the Stop Online Piracy Act looked like a rare bipartisan breakthrough. The bill, known as SOPA, promised a brave new Internet—one cleansed of “rogue websites” that hawk pirated songs and movies as well as counterfeit goods. For Congress, the legislation’s goals...
politics  sopa  geek  lobby 
december 2011 by deusx
Occupy George
Money talks, but not loud enough for the 99%. By circulating dollar bills stamped with fact-based infographics, Occupy George informs the public of America's daunting economic disparity one bill at a time. Because money knowledge is power.
occupy  ows  george  politics  money  economy 
december 2011 by deusx
Mayor Bloomberg: ‘I Have My Own Army’ | PolitickerNY
“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have,” Mayor Bloomberg said.
scary  politics  newyork  police  ows  occupy 
november 2011 by deusx
18 Newt Gingrich Quotes That Disqualify Him From Ever Being President | Addicting Info
Newt Gingrich is currently the leader of the Republican field of presidential candidates. So it’s only fitting that the quotes come out of the skeleton closet. Here are more than a dozen quotes from Newt Gingrich that reveal his lies, his arrogance, his hatred, and his hypocrisy and disqualify him from ever being President.
newtgingrich  republicans  politics  potus  election 
november 2011 by deusx
Did Mayors, DHS Coordinate Occupy Attacks? - Uprising
When a series of crackdowns on the Occupy camps suddenly occurred in, more or less, the same week, many observers wondered if perhaps the attacks had been coordinated at a national level. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan confirmed that suspicion during an appearance on the BBC - excerpted on The Takeaway radio program - when she casually mentioned taking part in a conference call with the leaders of 18 US cities right before the raids.
ows  occupy  corruption  us  politics  government 
november 2011 by deusx
Raids on OWS coordinated with Obama’s FBI, Homeland Security & others :: News From Underground
Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict “Occupy” protesters from city parks and other public spaces. As was the case in last night’s move in New York City, each of the police actions shares a number of characteristics. And according to one Justice official, each of those actions was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies.
ows  occupy  corruption  dhs  government  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now, only one side is choosing violence. It is a battle in which members of Congress, with the collusion of the American president, sent violent, organised suppression against the people they are supposed to represent. Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits streams. Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications of their movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams of reform are not.
ows  occupy  politics  corruption  usa 
november 2011 by deusx
OccupyYourBrain - Bloomberg the Book Burner - Bloomberg the Book Burner
It was a sorry sight. Only 1,273 books - a third of the stock - were returned to them, they said, and around a third of those were damaged beyond repair. Only about 800 are still usable. About 2,900 books are still unaccounted for.”
books  bloomberg  occupy  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
Occupy language: the struggle over meaning | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
If we know anything about the recent income and accumulated assets of the now notorious 1%, it is that much of this wealth, by any rational standard, is undeserved. This applies especially to the Wall Street bankers who looted the global economy with sleazy tactics and, sadly, also with impunity.

That is why, if I was the editor in charge of any news organisation, I would flatly ban the use of the word "earned", when "profited" or "made" (as in money) would be much more accurate, or at least neutral. I would not try to say who "deserved" profits; only that profits were made.
politics  economy  occupy  ows  money  finance  anger 
november 2011 by deusx
Why SOPA endangers America's Internet leadership
America's position of influence over the Internet economy is a valuable form of "soft power." If the US government uses this power judiciously, it can ensure that the Internet evolves in ways that serve US interests.

Instead, American policymakers are rapidly squandering this soft power by giving US law enforcement agencies—and, under SOPA, even private copyright holders—free rein to exercise this power with minimal judicial oversight. The US is home to many of the world's leading search engines, advertising networks, and credit card payment networks. These firms not only serve the US market, they are also widely used overseas. If the US begins to use them as pawns in its war against file-sharing, foreigners and their governments will become more reluctant to rely on them.
politics  internet  sopa  morons 
november 2011 by deusx
Daily Kos: Rick Santorum calls for low-income children to suffer
That is not a healthy thing for children, it's not a healthy thing for society ... Suffering, if you're a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it's not a bad thing, it is an essential thing in life ... There are all different ways to suffer. One way to suffer is through lack of food and shelter and there's another way to suffer which is lack of dignity and hope and there's all sorts of ways that people suffer and it's not just tangible, it's also intangible and we have to consider both.
suffering  christianity  santorum  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
Dan Cassino, a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson, explained in a statement, "Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News. Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all."
foxnews  politics  morons 
november 2011 by deusx
UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
What happened at UC Davis was the inevitable result of our failure to make sure our government stayed in the business of defending our principles. When we stopped insisting on that relationship with our government, they became something separate from us.
politics  occupy  ucdavis  police  corruption 
november 2011 by deusx
Daily Kos: Super Congress failed because of Republican allegiance to Grover Norquist
No, both sides aren't to blame for failure. That goes entirely to the Republicans. Maybe we should actually be giving credit to them for their refusal to accept the gutted sacred cows Democrats offered up on a silver platter. At this point you almost have to be grateful to Grover Norquist for keeping the Republicans in line and saving entitlement programs, this round.
politics  supercommittee  republicans  economy 
november 2011 by deusx
N.Y.P.D. Stops Reporters With Badges and Fists - NYTimes.com
Another truth co-exists. At least since the Republican National Convention of 2004, our police have grown accustomed to forcibly penning, arresting, and sometimes spraying and whacking protesters and reporters. On Monday, The New York Times and 12 other organizations sent a letter of protest to the Police Department. “The police actions of last week,” the authors said, “have been more hostile to the press than any other event in recent memory.”
press  newyork  police  occupy  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
America Occupies Wall Street Because Wall Street Occupies America
Why New York's Zuccotti Park is filled with people is no mystery. Reporters keep scratching their heads and asking: "Why are you here?" But it's clear they are occupying Wall Street because Wall Street has occupied the country. And that's why in public places across the country workaday Americans are standing up in solidarity. Did you see the sign a woman was carrying at a fraternal march in Iowa the other day? It read: "I can't afford to buy a politician so I bought this sign."
politics  ows  occupy  wealthinequality  journalism 
november 2011 by deusx
Memo Reveals How Seriously Powerful Interests Take OWS | The Nation
But if Rove thinks Occupy doesn’t present a clear message, why is he spending millions of dollars to attack them? Similarly, CLGC staffers are political professionals with many Wall Street clients, and the memo shows how seriously they consider the threat presented to powerful financial firms by the Occupy protests.
ows  occupy  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
Christian theocracy: How Newt Gingrich and the GOP would abolish courts and legislate morality. - Slate Magazine
Is the United States sliding toward theocracy? That’s what Republican presidential candidates have told us for more than a year. Radical Islam, they’ve argued, is on the verge of taking over our country through Sharia law. But this weekend, at an Iowa forum sparsely covered by the press, the candidates made clear that they don’t mind theocracy—in fact, they’d like to impose it—as long as it’s Christian.
politics  republicans  religion  theocracy 
november 2011 by deusx
Daily Kos: Confirmed: Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) coordinating Occupy raids
Many of us have been wondering why the raids on Occupy camps across the country have had such a coordinated feel. If only the official response to real social ills could have been as timely and widespread as the crackdown on peaceful demonstrators expressing their freedom of speech, assembly, and the press covering their protest. An article at Examiner.com was understandably derided as being under-sourced for a charge as serious as a national DHS crackdown on non-violent protests. However, we have now received confirmation via Amy Goodman's interview on the 11/17 episode of Democracy Now! with PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler that this private NGO coordinated high-level conference calls amongst 40 police chiefs, distinct from the mayoral "therapy session" referred to by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, in order to broadcast advice and documentation about cracking down on the Occupy social movement.
ows  occupypolice  protest  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
It's time to ban insider trading by Congress - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet
Congress is finally shamed into fixing a long-standing scandal.
politics  econony  ows 
november 2011 by deusx
Memo to American Bankers Association from lobbyists spells out $850,000 anti-OWS plan - Boing Boing
MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" broke the story today of a memo by Washington D.C. lobbyists to the American Bankers Association on how to go about discrediting the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is evidently perceived as a powerful threat to the interests of the financial industry.
ows  politics  banks 
november 2011 by deusx
The Silver Bear Cafe
$16,000,000,000,000.00 had been secretly given out to US banks and corporations and foreign banks everywhere from France to Scotland. From the period between December 2007 and June 2010, the Federal Reserve had secretly bailed out many of the world’s banks, corporations, and governments. The Federal Reserve likes to refer to these secret bailouts as an all-inclusive loan program, but virtually none of the money has been returned and it was loaned out at 0% interest. Why the Federal Reserve had never been public about this or even informed the United States Congress about the $16 trillion dollar bailout is obvious - the American public would have been outraged to find out that the Federal Reserve bailed out foreign banks while Americans were struggling to find jobs.
wtf  economy  government  bailouts  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
US State Department not for internet freedom - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
San Francisco, California: The US State Department is once again undermining its own Internet Freedom Initiative - this time by giving the green light to a copyright bill that will adversely affect online free speech around the world.
sopa  politics  law  internet  copyfight  freedom 
november 2011 by deusx
Political Animal - House readies vote on Balanced Budget Amend.
House Republicans don’t have time to address the jobs crisis, but they do have time for proposed constitutional amendments that would make the jobs crisis worse.
politics  republicans  economy 
november 2011 by deusx
Daily Kos: House readies vote on Balanced Budget Amendment, another bill that's not about jobs
This afternoon the House will vote on another pointless, partisan, finger-pointing bill, but at least this one doesn't directly attack women, so there's that. Today it's the Balanced Budget Amendment, just about the worst idea for the economy as a whole they could come up with. Really.
politics  government  economy  republicans 
november 2011 by deusx
Anti-piracy bill meets Web-freedom backlash - CNN.com
But a major online backlash has evolved, with everyone from lawmakers to Web-freedom advocates to some of technology's biggest players calling it a greedy and dangerous overreach that could have a chilling effect on free speech and innovation.
sopa  politics  copyfight  internet  freedom 
november 2011 by deusx
Daily Kos: John Boehner: War drawdown savings can't go to job creation
Item number 3,785 in the Republicans-really-don't-care-about-the-deficit file is this from Speaker John Boehner rejecting yet another offer of concessions from Democrats in the Super Congress negotiations.
politics  boehner  jobs  war  iraq 
november 2011 by deusx
How Pizza Became A Vegetable Through The Magic Of Influence-Peddling
On Tuesday, Congress decided that pizza is a vegetable. I have to imagine that this news instilled confusion in many Americans, as many Americans are (a) familiar with pizza, (b) familiar with vegetables and (c) sane.
politics  food  fda  pizza  morons  lobbyists 
november 2011 by deusx
BBC drops Frozen Planet's climate change episode to sell show better abroad - Telegraph
Viewers in the United States, where climate change sceptics are particularly strong group, will not see the full episode.
climatechange  usa  science  journalism  environment  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
carton rouge
“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out. Especially since only yesterday the City Government made a grandiose gesture to protect free speech. Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me. In the women’s movement there were signs which said: “Screw us and we multiply.’”
ows  politics  freedom  protest 
november 2011 by deusx
Bill Maher: Elisabeth Hasselbeck 'Had Some Bug Up Her Ass'
Elisabeth Hasselbeck had quite a bone to pick with Bill Maher on The View this morning about a joke he'd told about her months ago, and pick it she did. One would think he'd mind being attacked, but on tonight's Late Show, Maher told David Letterman he was actually pleased with how she reacted: "Thank you, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, for making me look good!"
funny  politics  theview 
november 2011 by deusx
Surprise, Homeland Security Coordinates #OWS Crackdowns
Remember when people were freaking out over the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and all this other conveniently ready-to-go post-9/11 police state stuff, because it would obviously be just a matter of time before the whole apparatus was turned against non-Muslim Americans when they started getting complain-y about the social injustice and economic injustice and income inequality and endless recession and permanent unemployment? That day is now, and has been for some time. But it’s also now confirmed that it’s now, as some Justice Department official screwed up and admitted that the Department of Homeland Security coordinated the riot-cop raids on a dozen major #Occupy Wall Street demonstration camps nationwide yesterday and today. (Oh, and tonight, too: Seattle is being busted up by the riot cops right now, so be careful out there.)
ows  police  politics  patriotact  dhs 
november 2011 by deusx
Did Bloomberg do Occupy Wall Street a favor? - The Washington Post
In aggressively clearing them from the park, Bloomberg spared them that fate. Zuccotti Park wasn’t emptied by weather, or the insufficient commitment of protesters. It was cleared by pepper spray and tear gas. It was cleared by police and authority. It was cleared by a billionaire mayor from Wall Street and a request by one of America’s largest commercial real estate developers. It was cleared, in other words, in a way that will temporarily reinvigorate the protesters and give Occupy Wall Street the best possible chance to become whatever it will become next.
ows  occupywallstreet  politics  winter  occupy 
november 2011 by deusx
Opposers of #Occupying | Trase Rants
The irony is that they are just playing into the hands of those in the 1% who want to see this cultural uprising squashed. They are the Kent to Prof. Terry Hathaway.
politics  ows  occupywallstreet  funny  occupy 
november 2011 by deusx
The Other Problem With Perry's 'Oops' Moment - NYTimes.com
There’s really no arguing with the consensus view that, after repeatedly courting calamity in prior debates, Rick Perry did grave damage to his presidential campaign Wednesday night. First the guy says that anyone who disagrees with him on illegal immigration must not have a heart, then he gets all twisted up while trying to attack Mitt Romney, and finally comes this new gaffe about … um … hang on a second … wait, it’ll come to me.
politics  perry  republicans 
november 2011 by deusx
We're in trouble: time to limit future warming to just 2°C has nearly run out
In other words, we've got five years to make a dramatic shift in the sorts of power plants we're building, or there's no way we're going to limit climate change to stated goals. It's also worth noting that the IEA ran a "New Policies" scenario that takes into account all current pledges by national governments. It resulted in much higher emissions and a likely temperature rise of 3.5°C. Still, if the New Policies targets aren't implemented, then the IEA estimates that we would be on track for a rise of 6°C.
climatechange  environment  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
Rep. Joe Walsh Explains His 'Don't Blame Banks' Rant: I 'Was Working On An Empty Stomach' | ThinkProgress
After our story, the Capitol Fax, an Illinois political website, contacted Walsh for a response. Walsh wrote in an e-mail that he was “working on an empty stomach and had a quicker fuse than normal.” Despite the fact Walsh’s biggest campaign benefactors come from the banking industry — $132,329 in campaign contributions from the finance industry and $18,400 from bank employees — the freshman congressman claims that he’s “no pal of the big banks.”


I guess along with his government healthcare, we need to make sure he has handlers that keep his blood sugar level up.
politics  republicans  walksh 
november 2011 by deusx
How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich | Politics News | Rolling Stone
After taking office, Clinton immediately seized the mantle of fiscal discipline from Republicans. Rather than simply trimming the federal deficit, as his GOP predecessors had done, he set out to balance the budget and begin paying down the national debt. To do so, he hiked the top tax bracket to nearly 40 percent and boosted the corporate tax rate to 35 percent. "It cost him both houses of Congress in the 1994 midterm elections," says Chafee, the former GOP senator. "But taming the deficit led to the best economy America's ever had." Following the tax hikes of 1993, the economy grew at a brisk clip of 3.2 percent, creating more than 11 million jobs. Average wages ticked up, and stocks soared by 78 percent. By the spring of 1997, the federal budget was headed into the black.
gop  republicans  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
Watch Rick Perry's Campaign Explode in an Excruciating Brain Fart
politics  republicans  perry 
november 2011 by deusx
End Bonuses for Bankers - NYTimes.com
What would banking look like if bonuses were eliminated? It would not be too different from what it was like when I was a bank intern in the 1980s, before the wave of deregulation that culminated in the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era law that had separated investment and commercial banking. Before then, bankers and lenders were boring “lifers.” Banking was bland and predictable; the chairman’s income was less than that of today’s junior trader. Investment banks, which paid bonuses and weren’t allowed to lend, were partnerships with skin in the game, not gamblers playing with other people’s money.
economy  banking  politics  bailouts 
november 2011 by deusx
McCain Predicts Rise of Third Party
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) predicted a third political party will emerge in response to Americans' economic frustrations and said it might as well be called "the Fed-Up Party," Reuters reports.
politics  mccain 
november 2011 by deusx
Bill Clinton: Let Presidents Serve Three Terms!
politics  clinton 
november 2011 by deusx
Daily Kos: Mitch McConnell: Obama jobs bill was designed to make Republicans look bad for rejecting it
You know what, Mitch? If you don't want to look "intransigent" ... then don't be intransigent! If you don't want to look like you're sabotaging the economy ... then don't sabotage the economy! And if you think rejecting the jobs bill makes you look bad ... then don't reject it!
politics  republicans  jobs  economy 
november 2011 by deusx
Fox News successfully creates climate confusion, but only among conservatives
A while back, a memo surfaced that reportedly came from a Fox News executive, in which he directed his staff to always present opposing views on something we can essentially regard as a fact: our planet has been getting warmer. There has been plenty of anecdotal indications that this strategy has been carried out, including a truly bizarre incident in which Bill Nye, on the channel in order to discuss volcanic activity on the Moon, was asked if these volcanoes raised doubts about climate change.
republicans  politics  climatechange  conservatives  morons  fox  foxnews  climate 
november 2011 by deusx
GOP Rep. Joe Walsh Melts Down, Screams At Constituents: 'Dont Blame Banks!...I Am Tired Of Hearing That Crap!' | ThinkProgress
Freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) is known for his anti-Obama rhetoric on cable television and his inability to pay his child support payments. But during a recent meeting with constituents in his Chicago-area suburban district, Walsh lost his cool when several attendees asked about why banks have so much power in government. At one point, Walsh even threatened to eject a man who asked Walsh about the revolving door of bank lobbyists infiltrating Congress and financial regulatory agencies.
politics  banks  economy 
november 2011 by deusx
Obama Now Attempting To Get Each Word Of Jobs Bill Passed Individually | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
"This is a truly vital piece of legislation that needs to be approved in a bipartisan manner as swiftly as possible, and if that means passing it one single linguistic element at a time, then so be it," the president told reporters, claiming he and Republican lawmakers had already agreed on several synonyms that could be substituted for various controversial modifiers.
funny  theonion  politics  obama 
november 2011 by deusx
Occupier/Army Ranger in ICU: Oakland PD "jumped me" - Boing Boing
Kayvan Sabeghi, a veteran of the US Army Rangers, is in the ICU at Oakland's Highland General Hospital after a clash with Oakland PD during the Occupy Oakland protests. Sabeghi claims he was "jumped" by OPD officers who severely beat him and subsequently denied him medical treatment.
politics  ows  occupyoakland 
november 2011 by deusx
How I Learned to Love the Goddamn Hippies - The Daily Beast
Andrew Sullivan on how he learned to love the ‘goddam hippies’—and why their protests aren’t going to end.
politics  occupywallstreet  ows  hippies  occupy 
november 2011 by deusx
Twitter / rentzsch: @lmorchard really? That’s ...
@rentzsch: @lmorchard really? That’s like Fan Service for political nerds
twitter  funny  politics 
november 2011 by deusx
Daily Kos: Republican filibuster of infrastructure bill is one more piece of economic sabotage
What we're seeing here is another piece of evidence that Republicans are more committed—much more committed—to opposing Barack Obama than to doing even the most basic, routine things to keep the economy going and keep bridges from collapsing under us. Filibusters like this are exactly why 50 percent of people believe Republicans are intentionally sabotaging the economy. (And, of course, Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson are joining them.)
politics  infrastructure  economy  jobs 
november 2011 by deusx
RIAA lawyer says DMCA may need overhaul | Media Maverick - CNET News
"I think Congress got it right, but I think the courts are getting it wrong," Pariser said during a panel discussion at the NY Entertainment & Technology Law Conference. "I think the courts are interpreting Congress' statute in a manner that is entirely too restrictive of content owners' rights and too open to [Internet] service providers.

"We might need to go to Congress at some point for a fix," Pariser added. "Not because the statute was badly drafted but because the interpretation has been so hamstrung by court decisions."
copyfight  riaa  dmca  politics  assholes 
november 2011 by deusx
3,000 sign whitehouse.gov petition seeking "vapid response," cookies
The tone of the White House's response to many of the petitions has spawned the latest rapidly-rising request for a White House response, so far signed by over 3,000 registered site users. A less sarcastic, but equally critical petition criticizing the White House's treatment of the petitions has reached 13,000 signatures.
politics  funny  petitions 
november 2011 by deusx
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