January 2011
27 posts
“Nearly two-thirds of Americans choose higher payroll taxes for Medicare and...”
– Poll Finds Wariness About Cutting Entitlements (via shaneguiter)
“Once you accept that profit and greed as practiced on a mass scale create the...”
– Naomi Klein
here's hoping everything the GOP does is merely...
greenstate:
i reckon it’ll be a lot easier for the adults to get things done if the children are off playing pretend.
if you make them hello kitty burgers…i volunteer to test taste them.
Gay Marriage Litigation Takes Forever
Kay srsly. Gay marriage litigation takes forever. The California district court rules on it. Then stays its own ruling. Then puts a timetable on lifting the stay. Then the 9th Circuit stays the ruling. The 9th circuit hears the case, then says that it actually can’t decide anything until the California state supreme court rules on whether or not the plaintiffs have standing, but to do that...
“It’s incredibly ominous that they are waving away the CBO opinion. That’s...”
– Rep. Peter Welch: Gearing Up For Health-Care Repeal Effort, Republicans Push To Delegitimize CBO Analysis (via corruptpolitics)
“It is better to stand for something, to be about something, to make a...”
– Maude Barlow
Pakistan Drones' Success Rate: 2% →
jonathan-cunningham:
According to NAF’s research, there have been 215 drone attacks since 2004 in the bad-guy tromping grounds of northwest Pakistan, killing between 1,372 and 2,125 people. (The wide variation in estimates shows how difficult it is to track these stats, even with press and government reports.) Of those, 1061 to 1584 were called militants “in reliable press accounts.” For those...
The Green State: I had to do this. →
stfuglennbeck:
I’m signed up for the Tea Party Patriots email list and behold:
“Tea Party Patriots, Inc. operates as a social welfare organization organized under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.” [emphasis mine]
social welfare organization
social welfare organization
BAHAHAHA.
