Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Rick Scott's Crusade Against Voters

Ari Berman: Rick Scott's Crusade Against Voters | The Nation

Domestic Violence – A Safety/Escape Checksheet

Domestic Violence – A Safety/Escape Checksheet « The Pixel Project

Pass it on, someone needs this, everyone should be prepared to help.

Daily Kos: Mitt Romney unveils two-word health care plan for people who aren't healthy or insured: 'Tough luck'

Daily Kos: Mitt Romney unveils two-word health care plan for people who aren't healthy or insured: 'Tough luck'

The Tough Luck Plan, very similar to the Don't Get Sick Plan. Both are synonymous with the GOP favorites under the Ryan "Crawl Under A Rock And Die Plan" and the "We Don't Like You So We Won't Insure You" plan championed by the Religious Right. Our conservative brethren revel in the "freedom" and "liberty" to trample their fellow Americans without mercy. Their hero Ayn Rand would be so proud.

Let's hope that the Nuns On The Bus talk some sense into them.

Iceland Provides Blueprint for How to Deal With the Financial Crisis | FDL News Desk

Iceland Provides Blueprint for How to Deal With the Financial Crisis | FDL News Desk

Meritocracies become oligarchies

Meritocracies become oligarchies - Boing Boing

Health Care Insurers Spent $100 Million To Combat The Affordable Care Act | ThinkProgress

Health Care Insurers Spent $100 Million To Combat The Affordable Care Act | ThinkProgress

Happily Abused: How to Use a Woman's Faith and Trust to Make Her a Willing Accomplice to Her Own Abuse | RH Reality Check

Happily Abused: How to Use a Woman's Faith and Trust to Make Her a Willing Accomplice to Her Own Abuse | RH Reality Check

Abuse is abuse, no matter what faith you follow. STOP. Get out. Get help. The cycle of abuse must be broken for you and your children.

Penile Implants COVERED By Medicare

Penile Implants COVERED By Medicare | Addicting Info

War on caterpillars.

Nuns on the Bus

Nuns on the Bus

Follow Nuns on the Bus in their pursuit of economic justice across America!

Risking Women’s Health in 50 Different Ways: Anti-Birth Control Advocates Turn to the States « From the Desk of… the National Partnership for Women & Families

Risking Women’s Health in 50 Different Ways: Anti-Birth Control Advocates Turn to the States « From the Desk of… the National Partnership for Women & Families

U.S. completes warmest 12-month period again

U.S. completes warmest 12-month period again, smashes spring record - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

Warmest one year period since record keeping began in 1895. See link for more charts and graphs.

Bernie Sanders Nails the GOP: 'If it’s Good for America, We Can’t Do it'

Bernie Sanders Nails the GOP: 'If it’s Good for America, We Can’t Do it'

Hey Mitt, Leave Our Teachers Alone

Hey Mitt, Leave Our Teachers Alone | OurFuture.org

Bass Diseased and Dying

Bass Diseased and Dying, But DEP Says PFBC's Claims of River Impairment Need More Study

Wealth and Welfare: As budget ax prepares to fall on social services, big business gets a hand up | News | Pittsburgh City Paper

Wealth and Welfare: As budget ax prepares to fall on social services, big business gets a hand up | News | Pittsburgh City Paper

Penn State trial: witness says Sandusky threatened him after assault |

Penn State trial: witness says Sandusky threatened him after assault | World news | guardian.co.uk

Schools Are More Segregated Today Than During the Late 1960s

National - Emily Richmond - Schools Are More Segregated Today Than During the Late 1960s - The Atlantic

PGH City Paper cover whacks Gov. Corbett's relationship with big biz. - Capitol Ideas Blog

PGH City Paper cover whacks Gov. Corbett's relationship with big biz. - Capitol Ideas Blog

Company at center of Romney’s latest attack didn’t move because of Obamacare - The Plum Line - The Washington Post

Company at center of Romney’s latest attack didn’t move because of Obamacare - The Plum Line - The Washington Post

The owner explained that there is lower demand and uncertainty based on attacks on Obamacare.

Jesus, the Radical Economist

Jesus, the Radical Economist | Consortiumnews

But you knew this...

Cafe Owner After Hosting Romney Event: "I felt like it was a mocking

Cafe Owner After Hosting Romney Event: "I felt like it was a moc - KPTM FOX 42: Omaha News, Sports and Weather; kptm.com |

 Romney's uncommon touch. And his team isn't much better.

Gohmert Misleads on ENDA, Criticizes Faith Groups that Affirm Gays and Lesbians 'Despite the Plumbing that God Created' | rightwingwatch.org

Gohmert Misleads on ENDA, Criticizes Faith Groups that Affirm Gays and Lesbians 'Despite the Plumbing that God Created' | rightwingwatch.org

This hate is just tragically sad. Jesus weeps.

Yinzercation | Yinzer Nation + Education = Yinzercation

Yinzercation | Yinzer Nation + Education = Yinzercation

Citizens of southwestern Pennsylvania are concerned about the state of education under the current Governor.

Senate Republicans Introduce Bill To Block Home Health Workers From Making Minimum Wage | ThinkProgress

Senate Republicans Introduce Bill To Block Home Health Workers From Making Minimum Wage | ThinkProgress

Don't workers deserve a living wage? Even minimum wage is below poverty line. What problem do Republicans have against workers?

Tuesday Morning Coffee: Booze debate to continue in the House today. - Capitol Ideas Blog

Tuesday Morning Coffee: Booze debate to continue in the House today. - Capitol Ideas Blog

Pennsylvania, Republicans, privatization, and booze. I need a drink.

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The occupational licensing racket #wonkbook - The Washington Post

The occupational licensing racket #wonkbook - The Washington Post

How many degrees, certifications, licenses do you have? I have quite a collection myself, for which I paid dearly in time and money.  Like badges on my sash, they may gratify the ego, and open some doors, but mostly: not so much.

The field these days is ripe for profiteers eager to sell you the necessary program and effort and paperwork to obtain your prize. The Golden Ticket. It comes with a complimentary mountain of debt, and no guarantees. And what happens when you need or want to switch career paths in these changing times? More of the same, rinse and repeat.

How do the costs and benefits of our collective need to see the papers play out in our economy today?

Why Conservatives Wrongly Blame Single Moms for the Disastrous Failures of the Right-Wing Economic Model | Economy | AlterNet

Why Conservatives Wrongly Blame Single Moms for the Disastrous Failures of the Right-Wing Economic Model | Economy | AlterNet

When in doubt, blame the ladies. It's a strategy as old as Adam.

Mutiny on the Bountiful

Over the past few weeks stories have emerged and discussion flows regarding the malevolent mutineers who have taken control of the Ship of State. Republican politicians and strategists met over a lavish dinner a few blocks from the White House on the night of President Barack Obama's Inaugural celebrations. That night they formulated and solidified their plan to effectively hobble the new President's agenda by any and all means at their disposal.

Since that time, we have borne witness to the obstruction, lies, propaganda, smears,and general mayhem resulting from the implementation of their devious plan. The RNC, the GOP House and Senate, the Republicans in the various state governments throughout the US have sabotaged the economic recovery at all times. The Bush years had created the mess, and these guys are determined to keep rubbing Americas' face in it. All this for the singular goal of removing the black man from the White House.

If they could fool all of the people all of the time, this strategy may have worked for our treasonous Pirates of the Wannabeans. And to be fair, they have convinced many within their own ranks of the wisdom of mutiny. They know their own, they understand how to control and manipulate the GOP base through fear and greed and racism. Winning at any cost through carefully crafted false messaging, voter disenfranchisement, buying off the public through massive funding from wealthy donors and Super PACS, creating diversions and scandals, inventing outrage, propping up talking heads to spew endless nonsense are just some of the tools in their treasure chest.

The damage done to millions of Americans has been intentionally prolonged because these Republicans CHOOSE to block the necessary steps to full recovery. They thrill at the sound of higher gas prices, economic downturns, weak employment numbers, trouble in Europe. In GOP Land, bad is good!

This week they have chosen to make Eric Holder walk the plank. He is black, the highest ranking law enforcement official in the Obama Administration, the perfect proxy for our racist and dastardly mutineers. The Pirates of the Wannabeans are having their fun at the expense of America.

Sail on, sail on, oh Ship of State!