June 2012
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The facts about spending under President Obama →
jenonthenet:
On Obama spending and Romney lies:
In recent days, fact-checkers of different stripes have debated whether federal spending under President Obama has grown very slowly or just slowly. But you don’t have to slog through the numbers to know that there is no truth to the Romney campaign’s claim that, “[s]ince President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has...
May 2012
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Fox exec says criticized Obama video unauthorized... →
stfuconservatives:
Fox News Channel’s morning show on Wednesday twice aired a nearly 4-minute video that contrasted President Barack Obama’s words with negative statistics about his administration in a format that looked similar to a campaign advertisement.
The liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America called the video “essentially a four-minute anti-Obama attack ad.” The segment also...
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WatchCoeur de Pirate live / Comme de Enfants
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Peabody Coal buys coal from U.S. taxpayers for... →
So, to summarize: You, the U.S. taxpayer, just leased another huge chunk of your land to Peabody Coal at $1.11 per ton of coal. Peabody will strip-mine that land and take the coal to China, where it will sell it for over $100 per ton. Peabody pockets enormous profits*, the U.S. taxpayer gets devastated land, and China accelerates global warming.
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Z-Day is here! →
A Miami police officer on Saturday fatally shot a naked man who was chewing on the face of another man on a downtown causeway off-ramp, police and witnesses said.
The Miami Herald reports (http://hrld.us/KiMC2Y) that gunshots were heard at about 2 p.m. on the MacArthur Causeway off-ramp, which is near the newspaper’s offices. Witnesses said that a woman saw two men fighting and flagged down a...
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“If you let one (truant student) run loose, what are you gonna’ do with the rest...”
– Houston judge Lanny Moriarty • On his decision to sentence a 17-year-old honor student, who (since her parents divorced and both skipped town) has had to work both a full and a part time job just to support two siblings, to spend a day in jail, after she missed school recently. Diane Tran, who also...
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Billionaire Scott Walker donor's business paid no... →
cartonplanet:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011 statement that going after collective bargaining for public workers was the first step in his plan to divide and conquer was made to billionaire roofing and siding wholesaler Diane Hendricks, who had asked him, “Any chance we’ll ever get to be a completely red state and work on these unions and become a right-to-work? What can we do to help you?”...
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Finished 3 hours of yoga focused on arm-balancing....
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Truth: Get Your Annual National Parks Pass →
usagov:
If you enjoy visiting America’s beautiful national parks and recreation areas, consider buying an annual pass.
The $80 pass lets the you and your accompanying passengers (or up to four adults at sites where per-person fees are charged) enter more than 2,000 federal recreation…
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“Unfortunately, a lot of young folks haven’t had the opportunity to really...”
– Mitt Romney to WBTV in Charlotte, N.C., discussing the protests at Bank of America.
Oh, we young people don’t understand “real jobs” and “what banks do,” yeah?
I argue we do. There’s a lot of us working two and three minimum wage jobs, going to school, graduating, barely surviving, or some...
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Cat to my left, Cat to my right, Tumblr on my lap, Wishing it was you.
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April 2012
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“We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years,...”
– Thomas Mann, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institute & Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, in the Washington Post (via herblondness)
RECALL ALL REPUBLICANS 2012!
(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
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