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kpete's JournalOn behalf of Science-Lovers---Please don't say the word Science when your Ideology is talking
All-Male Fox Panel Freaks Out About Female Breadwinners"When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it's not antithesis, or it's not competing, it's a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complementary relationships in nuclear families, and it's tearing us apart."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/fox-female-breadwinners_n_3358926.html
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Dear Fox Business: Nature's Calling
Posted: 05/31/2013 8:52
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There are many balanced perspectives on the pros and cons of four out of 10 breadwinners in family households being women, but none are to be found on Fox Business. Watching a collection of supposed experts trying to positively align the idealised (and increasingly narrow) vision of a conservative "nuclear family" and the natural world should be funny, but instead it's just deeply worrying.
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Let's be perfectly honest here, guys. I'm a cartoonist, I'm just gonna draw my doodle and poke a little fun at those who have left themselves embarrassingly open to ridicule, and the nuances and subtleties of exactly how wrong these opinions are will not require my satire to be self-evident.
But that being said, and speaking as someone who knows far from everything, here's my one piece of advice for the Fox Business panel, y'know, just between us blokes:
On behalf of science-lovers everywhere, please please don't say the word Science when your Ideology is talking. It makes you look like an idiot.
David TrumbleAward-winning artist, cartoonist and illustrator
So, How Bout Them Rove, Norquist, Koch Bro's secretive 501(c)(4) groups?
So, How Bout Them Rove, Norquist, Koch Bro's secretive 501(c)(4) groups?Well seems the tobacco industry, plenty more, loves dealing with them social welfare nonprofits that don't do political advocacy, snicker, snicker!
Reynolds Americans contributions include $175,000 to Americans for Tax Reform, a nonprofit led by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, and $50,000 to Americans for Prosperity, a free-market advocacy outfit heavily backed by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.
The tobacco companys donations are just a fraction of the nearly $50 million that those two groups reported spending on political advocacy ads during the 2012 election cycle, almost exclusively on negative advertising. Federal records show that Americans for Prosperity alone sponsored more than $33 million in attack ads that directly targeted President Barack Obama.
read more>>>
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/05/30/12740/tobacco-giant-funded-conservative-nonprofits?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=watchdog&utm_medium=publici-email
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/31/1212829/-So-How-Bout-Them-Rove-Norquist-Koch-Bro-s-secretive-501-c-4-groups
ROBERT REICH:If the median wage had kept up with the overall economy, it would be over $90,000 today
REFRAMING THE DEBATE: NOT THAT MOST AMERICANS HAVE BEEN LIVING BEYOND OUR MEANS, BUT OUR MEANS HAVENT KEPT UP BECAUSE OF WIDENING INEQUALITY.
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The notion that we cant afford to invest in the education of our young, or rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, or continue to provide Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, or expand health insurance is absurd.
If the median wage had kept up with the overall economy, it would be over $90,000 today and tax revenues would be more than adequate to cover all our needs. If the wealthy were paying the same marginal tax rate they were paying up to 1981, tax revenues would be far more.
Get it? The problem isnt that most Americans have been living too well. The problem is we havent been living nearly as well as our growing economy should have allowed us to live.
Widening inequality is the culprit. If President Obama is looking for a central theme for his second term, this is it.
http://robertreich.org/post/51726367160
Hey Obama Haters - Do YOU Realize How Pitiful It Is To Pick On Women & Children?
posted by: AMERICANS AGAINST BARACK OBAMA
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=582747028423556&set=a.104660819565515.8698.104657486232515&type=1&theater
Krugman unleashes a welcome blast of genuine outrage at Republicans trying to reduce food stamps
From the Mouths of Babes
By PAUL KRUGMANMAY 30, 2013
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And why must food stamps be cut? We cant afford it, say politicians like Representative Stephen Fincher, a Republican of Tennessee, who backed his position with biblical quotations and who also, it turns out, has personally received millions in farm subsidies over the years.
These cuts are, however, just the beginning of the assault on food stamps. Remember, Representative Paul Ryans budget is still the official G.O.P. position on fiscal policy, and that budget calls for converting food stamps into a block grant program with sharply reduced spending. If this proposal had been in effect when the Great Recession struck, the food stamp program could not have expanded the way it did, which would have meant vastly more hardship, including a lot of outright hunger, for millions of Americans, and for children in particular.
Look, I understand the supposed rationale: Were becoming a nation of takers, and doing stuff like feeding poor children and giving them adequate health care are just creating a culture of dependency and that culture of dependency, not runaway bankers, somehow caused our economic crisis.
But I wonder whether even Republicans really believe that story or at least are confident enough in their diagnosis to justify policies that more or less literally take food from the mouths of hungry children. As I said, there are times when cynicism just doesnt cut it; this is a time to get really, really angry
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/opinion/from-the-mouths-of-babes.html?ref=opinion
and check this out:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022926795
Don't be fooled. It was bank borrowing that caused the debt crisis, not consumer borrowing.
The financial sector, having burned down the economy, tried to plant the box of used matches in the hands of the public. Ordinary Britons were fingered as a major cause of the crisis due to accepting a rush of cheap credit they couldn't afford.
They glossed over the fact that the banks and building societies were the pushers of the cheap credit. And they also omitted to point out that actually it was overwhelmingly the banks - not the consumers nor the non-financial businesses - that went on a borrowing frenzy.
Why did the banks borrow so much? "Casino banking" is intended to be derogatory, but bankers probably don't realise they are supposed to feel insulted - as it couldn't be closer to the truth. Idiot sons for hundreds of years have been gambling away their family fortunes - relying on indulgent parents to bail them out. Cunning bankers have been gambling the nations money in the same way - knowing that indulgent politicians would bail them out using the taxpayer's money.
MORE good info:
http://www.blog.rippedoffbritons.com/2012/03/who-was-irrational-borrower-that.html
So lying's okay as long as the dupes who are sending you money and supporting you believe them. Wow.
WALDRON: Well the knee jerk reaction to your question is, well no one's perfect Martin. What do you expect? On the other hand, your question is serious. I believe that she has made misstatements. Knowing her as I do and as well as I do, I know that she doesn't sit down and make up a list of deliberate lies.
What I do know is that she can be misinformed. What I do know is that she can misunderstand and what I do know is that she has made a lot of mistakes and she has misspoken and I'm certain that it's caused her embarrassment.
With respect, those statements are not always intended for the Washington Post or Politico or even MSNBC Martin Bashir, but those statements are for her constituency. She represents a constituency that believes much of what she says. There are many in America, many American voters, not only Evangelicals, but others represented by Rick Santorum or Senator Rand or former... or his dad. There is a constituency that believes that Obamacare is not good for America. There are many businessmen who say Michele, you're right. It's not good for America.
So with all due respect, there is two sides to every opinion, but she speaks as a champion. She speaks to a constituency and there are many people across the board, east to west, north to south that agree with what she's saying.
Now there can be the policy wonks that will say Oh, that's horrible and it may be tragic. It may be for you tragic, but with all due respect, she's a champion, and she speaks for millions of people.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/former-bachmann-staffer-lies-okay-because
Clear Channel Reduced to Apologizing for Ads on Rush Limbaugh
The world's largest radio company is now apologizing to companies whose ads are airing on the world's biggest radio star's program.
This week multiple Flush Rush Facebook volunteers received the following letter, forwarded by a casino whose ads were airing on the Rush Limbaugh Show in Sacramento against its will:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/31/1212736/-Clear-Channel-Reduced-to-Apologizing-for-Ads-on-Rush-Limbaugh
Ellsberg re Manning: "I would have done in the digital age just what he did-He did it exactly right"
I have a considerable identification with whistle-blowers, but Bradley above all because it is the first time in 40 years since the Pentagon Papers that someone has put out a large raft of material. And therefore he does deserve to be, I believe, seen as a hero, he told AFP.
Ellsberg leaked the so-called Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1969, revealing the government had lied about the progress of the Vietnam war. The incident marked a major turning point in public opinion of the war and ignited a famous legal case that was eventually decided by the Supreme Court.
Manning is accused of transferring thousands of secret State Department files to WikiLeaks. The United States Army soldier is facing a controversial espionage trial.
People criticize him for putting out material he hadnt read, Ellsberg said. But he clearly had read a great deal of it. I hope that I would have done in the digital age just what he did. He did it exactly right.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/daniel-ellsberg-wikileaks-suspect-bradley-manning-deserves-to-be-seen-as-a-hero/
California Senate votes to revoke Boy Scouts tax exempt status
Source: Raw Story
The Boy Scouts of America would lose tax exempt privileges in California under a bill approved Thursday by the states Senate.
While the Boy Scouts of America took a step in the right direction to include LGBT youth, the standing ban on LGBT adults is premised on absurd assumptions and stereotypes that perpetuate homophobia and ignorance, California Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Long Beach), who authored the Youth Equality Act of 2013, said in a statement.
Equality doesnt come with an expiration date and we shouldnt allow discrimination to be subsidized; not in our state, not on our dime.
The California Senate voted 27-9 to pass the bill, which would revoke the sales and corporate tax exemption for any youth group that discriminated against participants on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/california-senate-votes-to-revoke-boy-scouts-tax-exempt-status/
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