February 2012
A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words →
Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips. Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on. Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge. Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone. Gymnophoria - The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you. Tarantism - The urge to overcome melancholy by dancing. Autolatry - The...
Previously Legal WI Voters Turned Away at Polls... →
The Republicans don’t have any ideas, so the only way they can win is to cheat.
Daily Number: Bi-Partisan Agreement that New... →
More than half (54%) of Americans are aware of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that allows unlimited independent expenditures on political ads and made Super PACs a big factor so far in the 2012 presidential campaign.
Among this group, 65% of all Americans believe that the new rules have had a negative impact on the 2012 presidential campaign. This issue is one of few in which there is no...
Corporate Margins And Profits Are Increasing, But... →
As we’ve been noting, corporate profits have made it back to their pre-recession heights (even if corporate tax revenue hasn’t followed suit). In fact, in 2011, corporate profits hittheir highest level since 1950. But as Bloomberg News noted today, this hasn’t translated into wage growth or more purchasing power for workers:
Companies are improving margins and generating profits as wage growth...
Santorum Knocks Public Schools, But Sticks... →
While Santorum is an unapologetic opponent of public schools, or as he calls them, “government-run schools,” he has no problem making taxpayers cover the tab for his homeschooling. While a U.S. Senator, Santorum moved his family to Virginia but still stuck Pennsylvania taxpayers with the bill for his decision to have his children attend a cyber-school
How to Remove Your Google Search History Before... →
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google’s other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly...
5 FACTS about rising gas prices, Republicans, and...
think-progress:
1. Domestic energy production has soared under President Obama.
2. President Obama has taken huge steps to reduce our dependence on oil.
3. Big oil made a record $137 BILLION in profits last year.
4. Republican politicians refuse to end taxpayer handouts to big oil.
5. Republican politicians want to cut big oil’s taxes even more.
More details at Think Progress
“He is rigid and a homophobic. He said, ‘I want a constitutional amendment to ban...”
– Former US Senator Al Simpson, (R-Wyo.) on Rick Santorum. In 2011, Simpson emailed me this statement on HB 74, a bill to ban recognition of same-sex marriage in Wyoming:
“I can’t imagine anything more inhuman, insensitive and unfair. Wyoming people believe in getting the government out of their...
Rick Santorum's Beer Money | Mother Jones →
Rick Santorum might not be the political candidate you’d most associate with a keg party. But during his 12 years in the Senate, few members did more to promote the suds industry’s interests in Washington than Santorum.
Big Beer is big business in Pennsylvania, home to major breweries like Rolling Rock, Yuengling, and Keystone. And the beer industry has worked hard to make its voice heard in...
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'Pepper Spray Cop' Suit Filed - NPR →
brooklynmutt:
Some of those Occupy protesters who famously got face fulls of pepper spray last November on the campus of University of California Davis have now filed suit in federal court.
They allege “the university used excessive force to break up the demonstration,” The Sacramento Bee writes. “The Occupy UC Davis students were sprayed as they sat on the ground.”
The American Civil...
“And let’s be honest, any deal where libraries are giving publishers money for...”
– Annoyed Librarian on libraries and ebooks and patrons and ebooks and what are we going to do about this because I’m really hoping we gain some ground in the right direction very, very soon. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
Terrible idea for publishers to alienate libraries. Not all publishers will do...
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The GOP’s Big Investors | NationofChange →
tartantambourine:
Robert Reich writes:
Have you heard of William Dore, Foster Friess, Sheldon Adelson, Harold Simmons, Peter Thiel, or Bruce Kovner? If not, let me introduce them to you. They’re running for the Republican nomination for president. I know, I know. You think Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney are running. They are – but only because the...
“I said that we’re going to cut taxes on everyone across the country by 20...”
– Mitt Romney admits his tax plan will give the 1 percent a HUGE tax break, after saying not 12 hours ago he’d make sure the 1 percent keeps paying the same rate or more. (via think-progress)
“a number of new studies suggest that, in certain key ways, people with that much...”
– Why it matters that our politicians are rich - Ideas - The Boston Globe (via firthofforth)
“Historically, financial speculators accounted for about 30 percent of oil...”
– Blame Oil Speculators, Not Obama, For Rising Oil Prices
(via anticapitalist)
“…under George W. Bush, the price of gasoline increased from $1.60 per gallon...”
– GOP Deceptions About Gas Prices (via azspot)
Stocks Return More With Democrat in White House:... →
shihtzuman:
While Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall Street, stock investors do better when Democrats occupy the White House. From a dollars- and-cents standpoint, it’s not even close.
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afternoonsnoozebutton:
Gingrich: “This is the administration where if you’re America’s enemy, you’re safe.”
I think Republicans have a quota of stupid things they have to say every day, or they get kicked out of the party.
The Definition of Insanity: Deregulating Over and... →
tartantambourine:
” … [W]e’ve become a bipolar nation, 1% manic and 99% depressive. Our affliction is caused by a 30-year experiment in the dismal economics of delusion. Deregulation for corporations and tax cuts for the wealthy have defined conservative policy since the 1970s, when University of Chicago economist Arthur Laffer convinced Dick Cheney and other...
Congressional members and Stephen Colbert, Jon... →
reuters:
Three members of Congress have received threatening mail containing a suspicious powder later found to be harmless and law enforcement officials on Wednesday warned that more may be coming.
Another U.S. law enforcement official said letters sent to television personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert threatened biological attacks on U.S. senators.
Other letters to a number of news...
2012, B.C.? →
blissandzen:
First came the soccer moms.
Then the security moms.
Will 2012 be the year of the “birth control moms”?
Just a few weeks ago, the notion would have seemed far-fetched. The country is deeply divided on abortion, but not on contraception; the vast majority of American women have used it, and access hasn’t been a front-burner political issue since the Supreme Court decided Griswold...
Gay spouse given health benefits in U.S. court... →
reuters:
A U.S. judge ruled unconstitutional part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, saying that a plaintiff court employee’s same sex spouse should be allowed to enroll in her government health insurance program.
Read more of this report filed by Dan Levine
Sorry, Republicans, Your Savior Won't Come | Ben... →
theamericanbear:
The candidates whose names are being tossed out as options—Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush—have plenty of potential liabilities. Daniels has been fined for drug possession. His marital history is complicated, although at least on the surface it’s much more sympathetic than, say, Newt Gingrich’s. He also was director of the Office of Management and Budget back when...
Watchsilas216:
Dr. Seuss? Seriously?!?
I wonder if anyone told Dobbs that “Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now?” is really about Nixon …
(via More “Indoctrination” Paranoia: Fox Attacks Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax | Media Matters for America)
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“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
– Frederick Douglass (via whb2)
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