Well, now. Didn’t expect they would do it. I seriously thought that Limbaugh was entrenched and nothing short of him murdering someone would they cut the strings. I’m happy that they are cutting off the hate-filled blather. Who are they going to get now to bang the drum for the rightwingers…?
I just hope they aren’t replaced with more hate-filled blather by someone even worse than Limbaugh and Hannity.
(hat tip to fatster at FDL)
John Boehner, while constantly saying “The American people want, need, demand…” while ignoring what the American people want, need, and demand….has promoted the XL pipeline…while investing in the companies tied to it.
I’m just shocked, shocked, I tell you, that a politician who stands to benefit financially from legislation is…promoting that legislation. /snark
Where have all the good ones gone that did what was right for the country and not for their bank accounts…?
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Also from fatster~~
Related to this is a heartwarming story of a small group of folks protesting the Enbridge pipeline….unfortunately, they’re from Michigan…that will be the day when Hoosiers start protesting Enbridge…
I can’t believe they were charged with felonies. Seriously? Like a commenter said on the website, we should be concerned about the crackdown on public assemblies….you know, that First Amendment thingy?
From the comments:
Enbridge is being disingenuous. No one has come to harm from these non-violent protests. On the other hand, from the Athabasca Chippewa cancer rates to the impacts of climate change, many will be harmed if the tar sands industry achieves its goal of tripling production by 2030. Just imagine Bangladesh flooded by rising sees. That’s millions of refugees in that region alone. We should be working to stop changing the climate. We should have global peak emissions by 2020 then steadily decline. Tripling tar sands production is inconsistent with that goal. These protesters are the modern equivalent of Rosa Parks, who incidentally was hated by conservatives also. As FDR said “I welcome their hatred.” It’s a sign you’re doing something right. Go M-CATS.
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I have to admit a chuckle at the enthusiastic guy commenting on how beautiful state Michigan is…which it is…but then the conservative joker does have a point about him never being in poor Detroit, the dumping ground of the Kochs and anyone else who feels like it. But let’s say that MOST of Michigan is quite beautiful… NOT the parts that conservatives and DINO’s (Democrats in Name Only) have polluted.
It’s always interesting to me that these polluters will trash one area, and then move to a non-polluted area. It should be a rule somewhere that if you pollute an area, you must live in that area for the rest of your life…
…not only that, but your children and grandchildren must live in that area, too. Seems fair, eh?
Diane Ravitch has this and this up on the continued invasion of privacy…only this time, it’s your kid they are gathering information on. This critical information gathered by a Foundation that now owns 500,000 shares of Monsanto, .
…and what about Rupert Murdoch getting hold of your family’s records? Especially since the newspaper he owned invaded people’s privacy already…even after a warning about his dealings went unheeded.
From the first Guardian article:
When the high court last summer ordered the News of the World to pay damages to Max Mosley for secretly filming him with prostitutes, the paper was furious. In an angry leader column, it insisted that public figures must maintain standards. “It is not for the powerful and the influential to run to the courts to gag newspapers from publishing stories that are TRUE,” it said. “This is all about the public’s right to know.”
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Does anyone else see the irony of a paper that is invading innocent people’s privacy complaining about maintaining standards….apparently lying and invasion of privacy are not standards someone should uphold…?
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One of the commenters here called the absence of real oppositional parties the “Uniparty”. …yep.
See…the Dems really believe in the Fourth Amendment and the rights of the American public to be let alone…
bwhahahahaha *snort* bwahahahaha…
Don’t blame me. I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. The first time in all the years that I had been voting that I wrote a candidate’s name on the ballet. Of course, now Indiana has changed to the computerized system so a voter wouldn’t be able to just write in a candidate. Supposedly, they have paper ballots at each voting station, but this voter was not told there were paper ballots available, not even when I voted early, nor were there any paper ballots visible so that one could ask for it.
They changed the law so that one had to have 2% of the general votes cast for the Secretary of State in the previous election. Note the deadlines were repeatedly pushed back in order to diminish the ability to gather signatures during summer events where crowds gather…
I found this page absolutely fascinating. I had no idea that we had other candidates to choose from, as the write in candidates were not on the electronic ballot. And being without access to media (no TV antenna in the community room at the time), nor did I have more than an hour per time from the library’s internet computers…so information was limited, as are most poor. And I would venture a guess that even with cable TV, many middle class were also ignorant of this–funny how the nooz just doesn’t seem to get around to covering important issues like this….they’d rather scare you into getting a vaccine that will likely cause as much harm to your body as any good or tell you not to take Vitamin E because some bogus *study* says it’s bad for you…pfft.
(I didn’t get much sleep last night, and my ADD is always worse when I’m tired, so forgive any faux pas.)
I’m flipping through the channels this morning and land on CNBC with Dan Gilbert, the grand pooh bah wizard of rejuvenating Detroit. I only caught the last part of his schpiel, but what I was hearing made me sick. He spoke of bringing in “interns”. Interns? Yep, he’s bringing in young minds that can be manipulated into believing what they’re doing is innovative and exciting and the right thing to do….
…I find it more than mildly curious that 50-somethings are by appearances being ignored.
And it’s disturbing how the article below reads that the sharks are circling to see how much they can get away with–everyone is watching to see who wins the “tug of war” between the unions and the moneyed interests.
From the NYTimes article:
….Detroit officials have proposed paying off small fractions of what the city owes, they have indicated they intend to treat investors holding general obligation bonds as having no higher priority for payment than, for instance, city workers — a notion that conflicts with the conventions of the market…
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An obligation is an obligation. I don’t know why the city would be any less obligated to the workers who labored and were made a promise than to bond holders who were also made promises but did nothing to earn that but sit on their butts? In my view, EVERYBODY should be made to give a little. Everybody loses a little bit for the good of the whole.
Now I know folks will be saying that “investors won’t invest if they aren’t getting top dollar…” I don’t believe that if they are still making money for doing nothing that they are going to pass on that opportunity. Investing is a risk….why shouldn’t the investors share in the losses as well as the gains?
(Ironically, or not, I’m playing David Crosby’s “Hero” )
My other blogs on Detroit here and here . Note the link to Dan Gilbert profiteering off of the carcass of Detroit.
Background on the “Emergency Manager”
…I was flipping through the channels this morning, and happened upon Paul McCartney singing George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”…then the camera pans to Eric Clapton taking over singing lead and playing guitar. …later the camera focuses on the drummer, and you guessed it–it’s Ringo playing with passion. And I think, but I’m not sure, one of the younger guitar player might have been George’s son….or else he just bore a remarkable resemblance to him.
A poignant moment because Clapton and George were friends when Clapton had an affair with George’s wife. Which led George to have an affair with Ringo’s wife…it’s wonderful they were able to get past it and reconnect. And a wonderful tribute to George.
(We’re in something of a heat wave here…and the power has gone out three times while trying to post this. I think the “hamster” overheated. haha)
A post script to this blog…what I meant when I referred to Katrina is that I told them I thought the George W. Bush administrations’ slow response to the emergency was racist. It was September, 2005, so it was only a month after the storm hit, but it was apparent to me. What really shocked me was how only the one black woman agreed with me, again, subtly, but she saw it, too. This why I probably began to think that Daniels was dismantling or weakening the Civil Rights Commission and blurted that out.
When I think about that interview and how I missed such a fabulous opportunity–a life changer- because it would have been a career I would have enjoyed with its daily change, using the creative along with the analytical, and fighting for the underdog—and all the misery that mercury has caused me, I want to cry in despair. This poison has taken so much more than can be neasured…
I give myself 24 hours to feel sorry for myself, and then move on…
…but damn,he sure is trying with everything he’s got.
<sigh> I was all ready to rip into Gates once again… but I’m halfway through the article of Chronicles of Higher Education….and this one sentence that Gates “just wants to get more people through the system with college degrees so that it will lift them out of poverty…”
bwahahahaha. That’s rich.
Then, further down, they disclose that Gates Foundation is supporting the Chronicles of Higher Education financially. I think I’ve already read that somewhere, but alas, the brain didn’t bring it up…the article is clearly a promo by Gates…so yeah….
So…I’ll have to refer to previous blogs on Gates…
Here. Supporting Brookings Institute that dismissed Diane Ravitch
Here. Not content with just controlling education, but the food supply, as well.
Here.
Diane Ravitch has this up on the continuing guttering of public schools….now with Indianapolis in its sights.
This sentence pretty much tells you they’re up to no good:
Kloth’s been loath to share the NEO Plan with taxpayers through Indy’s media. He especially didn’t want this columnist to have a copy.
Keep out the press so that we can do our dirty work in the dark before the public knows we’ve taken their key to a better life away from them and given them junk instead.
And then there’s this:
Since African-American researchers were forbidden to participate in NEO, I did my own research.
And this:
African-American students have a greater higher risk of attending a low performing school in Indianapolis/Marion County than whites and Hispanics.
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Black folks should be all over this. A clever way to get Separate but Equal schools.
Eagle 
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