This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Understand the importance of the Hobby Lobby case
John Roberts Offers Conservatives A Way Out Of Birth Control Dilemma (Click here to read more)
Sahil
Kapur
March 26, 2014.
Skeptics
of the legal challenge to Obamacare's birth control mandate warn that
a ruling against it could conceivably declare open season on
virtually any law that a person or business can mount a
religious-based objection to. If Hobby Lobby can be exempt because of
its owners' Christian beliefs, Justice Elena Kagan wondered, what
legal principle would stop other corporations from seeking
religious-based exemptions from minimum wage or sex discrimination
laws?
Shooting report
Images posted to remind you, on a regular basis, of the everywhere shootings of people every day, and the need for new gun control legislation.
We need a second Bill of Rights (excellent article)
Poverty:Ye Auld New America: Didn't We Go Down This Road Before? (Click here to read more)
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Note:
This is a cross post from Ramona's Voices. See the original here.
Thank you, Ramona !!!
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Working
for someone else, fingers to the bone with no expectation of decent
wages or a foothold on the ladder, is back in vogue here in America.
Even your big deal congresspersons will tell you that. There are no
greater patriots than the country's laborers, and the very, very
finest--the finest patriots of all--are those who have no use for
unions. The best patriot/workers understand that in America it's All
for One and None for All.
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And
this, too: If God wanted you to be healthy, wealthy and wise, he
would have given you better parents. It's a practice near to sin to
get the taxpayers to take care of you and yours. The taxpayers have a
hard enough time taking care of the rich.
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The
rich have earned our blind, gushing loyalty (How, you ask? By being
rich, you ninny).
[...]
PovertyChild
coal mine workers, 1900s
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I
bring this up because Nate Silver says there's a 60% chance the
Republicans will take the senate. Nate seems to know what he's
talking about but he doesn't say why the Republicans deserve to take
the Senate. That's for the rest of us to chew over. So I'm chewing:
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How many workers see something in the Republicans that tells them life will be better when the GOP/Tea Party takes over Congress? What is it they see?.
How many women see something in the GOP that the rest of us don't? Enough to take them over the top? What is it they see?.
When the Republicans win will they finally get busy and deliver on sustainable jobs? Affordable, ethical health care? Bridges? Roads? Pollution? Kids? Or will a comfortable win tell them all they need to know about the sterling virtues of capitalism and the ready acceptance of an oligarchy?
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Paul
Krugman:
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America's nascent oligarchy may not yet be fully formed - but one of our two main political parties already seems committed to defending the oligarchy's interests.
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Despite
the frantic efforts of some Republicans to pretend otherwise, most
people realize that today's G.O.P. favors the interests of the rich
over those of ordinary families. I suspect, however, that fewer
people realize the extent to which the party favors returns on wealth
over wages and salaries. And the dominance of income from capital,
which can be inherited, over wages - the dominance of wealth over
work - is what patrimonial capitalism is all about.
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In
Bernie Sanders' report, "Poverty is a Death Sentence", he
warns:
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"If people don't have access to health care, if they don't have access to education, if they don't have access to jobs and affordable housing then we end up paying not only in terms of human suffering and the shortening of life expectancy but in actual dollars."
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These
are not revelations new to the 21st century. Krugman and Sanders are
both echoing what President Roosevelt said in his 1944 State of the
Union speech, in the midst of the Second World War, when he proposed
a second Bill of Rights:
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[...]We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. "Necessitous men are not free men." People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made..In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all regardless of station, race, or creed..
Among these are:.
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation;.The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;.The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;.The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;.The right of every family to a decent home;.The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;.The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;.The right to a good education.
How small-minded and hateful must one be to try to subvert the health of their fellow countrymen and women?
Hobby Lobby invests in contraceptive, abortion drug manufacturers (Click here to read more)
by HunterApr 01, 2014
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It's peculiar how a group of individuals who are so devoted to their religious beliefs that they demand the very laws of the nation be rewritten to accommodate them can be so lax about those same religious beliefs if ignoring them will net them a little dough.
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Documents filed with the Department of Labor and dated December 2012-three months after the company's owners filed their lawsuit-show that the Hobby Lobby 401(k) employee retirement plan held more than $73 million in mutual funds with investments in companies that produce emergency contraceptive pills, intrauterine devices, and drugs commonly used in abortions. Hobby Lobby makes large matching contributions to this company-sponsored 401(k).
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Several of the mutual funds in Hobby Lobby's retirement plan have holdings in companies that manufacture the specific drugs and devices that the Green family, which owns Hobby Lobby, is fighting to keep out of Hobby Lobby's health care policies: the emergency contraceptive pills Plan B and Ella, and copper and hormonal intrauterine devices.
Building the tea party
From what I gather, the Tea Party is an amalgam of the old Christian Right, the John Birchers and bigoted Americans who still hate black people on general principles. So there's some truth to the poster above.
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
And the Republicans keep electing hacks
Pentagon Says GOP's Benghazi Probes Have Cost Millions (Click here to read more)
Donna
Cassata,
Tuesday,
March 25, 2014
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WASHINGTON
(AP) - The Pentagon says Congress' multiple investigations of the
deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya,
have cost the department millions of dollars and thousands of hours
of personnel time.
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In
a March 11 letter, the Pentagon described repetitive requests for
information from about 50 congressional hearings, briefings and
interviews. The department was responding to a Feb. 4 letter from
Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, the top Democrat on the House
Armed Services Committee.
Shooting report
Not much new today on the gun control front, and the unregulated shootings continue.
Think the love of "slave states" is dead?
Neo-Confederate Ties Haunt South Carolina Lt. Gov.'s New College Job (Click here to read more)
Eric
Lach
March 25, 2014
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The
College of Charleston received more than 100 applications from people
interested in being the 22nd president of the 13th oldest educational
institution in the United States. The applicants included current
university presidents, chief academic officers, deans, and leaders
from both the public and private sectors.
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On
Saturday, the college's Board of Trustees announced that it had voted
to offer the job to Glenn McConnell, the current Republican
lieutenant governor of South Carolina.
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Students
at the college, along with the NAACP, had expressed opposition to
McConnell's candidacy for weeks prior to the Board of Trustee's vote.
Protests had been held, and signs had been posted around campus
reading "Go home Glenn" and "No Confederates for
President." McConnell's opponents cited, and continue to cite,
his lack of experience in higher education and his longstanding and
public enthusiasm for the Confederacy.
The GOP loves them some commies - must be the whole "totally in charge" concept.
GOP Rep. Defends Russia: 'Not One Person Was Killed' In Crimea (Click here to read more)
Caitlin
Macneal
Tuesday,
March 25, 2014
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Rep.
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) on Tuesday defended Russia's annexation of
Crimea, arguing that the people of the region had a right to secede
from Ukraine, Buzzfeed reported.
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"From
what I understand, what happened in Crimea, not one person was
killed. Maybe one - maybe there was one," he said during a
markup of the Ukraine Support Act in the House Foreign Affairs
Committee.
Think about Tri
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