…are here in the Walmart, Sears, and others, supplier factory fire. It’s stunning that management was ordering the workers back to their stations as the factory was blazing. Absolutely stunning.
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Bankers trying to block Warren
from crooksandliars. Same o’ same o’.
The rule of law
A plea from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. I find it real hard to believe Israel feels threatened by Palestinians when they have nuclear capabilities. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe Hamas has those same capabilities. They just want to feed their families. To live their lives and be let alone. This means not starving them.
And how would Hillary Clinton help smooth tensions? Since she threatened to obliterate Iran if it starts a war with Israel, I’m not real confident that she would be seen as neutral by Palestinians. Just a guess.
Petition protecting Maya Lands
Turtle Talk also has this up on a petition to protect Maya Lands from oil drilling. Just look at that beautiful picture of the land…
Pay us enough…
…so we can raise our own families….
It’s now too common that workers in stores are paid so little that they can’t even afford to shop in the store they work for…
I’ve had a friend who shopped at Walmart and when I raised concerns about how they treated their employees, she was upset because she couldn’t afford to shop anywhere else. I avoid it like the plague–only going there if no other option is available (i.e., I’m in another town or the item I want is not in what few independent stores are left).
Another person remarked about how a national chain grocery store that paid its employees a decent wage was “gouging them with high prices” when Walmart had so much lower prices…the national chain store eventually went out of business, naturally, so now they’re stuck with only Walmart to shop for groceries in their small town. Wanna take bets on how long that lasts–either they’ll raise prices with no competition or the folks in town will find yet another mega-store in a nearby town that has even lower prices so they’ll shop there, driving miles out of the way…buying more crap made out of China in sweatshops…God, this depresses me even writing it…
When is Congress going to raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $11.00 an hour? Oh, wait, we can’t do that…because that will…what are the excuses again…?
Skating to independence
What a novel approach. And of course, there are the haters in the commenters who can’t seem to find any good intentions in white folks…imagine, thinking that someone trying to reach out in this way is somehow trying to act superior…? Seriously??
Edited to add: Yes, I do totally get not forcing Western beliefs onto others…I’m with that. But if there is some way to bridge cultures, then shouldn’t that be tried, to?
Food is…stuff?
From crooksandliars.com
Yep. I do wish they’d stop characterizing it as solely racism…I think we need to come up with another term: like poorism or something that focuses on that prejudice. Unless you’ve lived it, you don’t quite understand how folks treat the poor…lots of prejudice.
Cash and checks only…
Stephen Colbert has an excellent segment on what happens to *cough* campaign contributions….it just disappears, legally.
…and even though the IRS will come after you for the $200 you owe in back taxes, it won’t be able to touch this-all $766,000 of it.
Yep. We have a fair tax code. /snark
Getting money out of elections
Center for Media and Democracy has joined with others in “Money Out, Voters In” effort. I was a little more heartened after this election, because it would appear that the billionaires spent a lot of $$$ for nothing...
…more here on dark money–up 400%.
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In related news, protests against Romney and the vulture capitalists sending jobs overseas. The story was written pre-election, but still needs to be told. People just want to be able to work–to earn their own pay and take care of themselves and their families.
It’s utter cruelty to send jobs overseas and then complain when those that lost their jobs go on food stamps.
Big Bird breathes sigh of relief…
Congratulations, President Obama. Big Bird lives on…:)
I know better, but I was listening to the rightwing radio last night and they were painting a dim picture of Obama’s win. I turned it off and went to bed to read…thinking we were going to get Bush III…
Indiana voted in Mike do-nothing Pence for Governor, and now has a super majority in the legislature…<sigh>
…well, at least I am spared Richard my-sperm-is-a-gift-from-God Mourdock…
The news on the reaction in the Middle East. I hope this means a peaceful movement in Israel is underway….
DN! has this up on the elections. Elizabeth Warren is animated after her win. Thank God.
Unfortunately, the GMO lobby won and Californians defeated the measure requiring GMO labeling. Shit.
O”Reilly had a nice take on why Obama won–because people want “stuff” and Obama was going to give it to them…
Well, now…Romney has the gov’t pay $77,000 for the care and housing of his horse…has money in offshore accounts and John McCain has so many houses he can’t even remember how many he has…all because they don’t pay their fair share of taxes…now who feels entitled?
Is it entitlement when one wants to eat? Have a roof over their head? Get medical care? I’m confused.
They went on to talk about the shift away from the standard–now women and minorities are getting their voices heard. The boys of the old school are threatened…and it will probably get uglier before it’s all done.
To my sisters who were the power behind getting President Obama re-elected: Thank you. We can move mountains when we focus on what’s important to us and fight for it.
I want to say, though, that women have been characterized as of “one mind”–that any woman who manages to get before a microphone speaks for all women. They don’t.
This is one of the reasons that the middle-of-the-road women backed away from the Feminist Movement–they were treated as if they spoke for all women. Women who wanted to stay home with their children were characterized as dull twits who lacked ambition. Women who didn’t believe in abortion but believed in equality were marginalized, also.
And the 70s Feminists who fought against alimony because it…well, I’m not really sure why they were fighting against alimony…but as this quote by Barbara Seaman, amongst others, puts it quite well–this is something that I lost out on when I divorced. I also got less than half of the assets (with a mortgage to pay off) and my ex got away with only paying one-fifth ($20,000) of his income to support his three children. Although I had stayed home for eleven years, the judge did not allow for that, and had instead computed the amount of support as if I had a job!! Yes, I had a lousy lawyer–whose partner still smirks at me to this day whenever I have to trudge back to the place I grew up in…I’ve always wondered what that smirk means….
Anyway, I hope that with the election that women and minorities will do their homework, and support thoughtful politicians who approach the legislative process with the “Do unto others…” mindset…it would make life so much easier and just might bring about Peace…
Eagle 
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