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Occupy Wall Street Humor
Great to see Horsey throw in an environmental message. The first of the cartoons below also does: h/t Selfdeprecate.com Related Post: Top Ten Occupy Wall Street Cartoons
Great to see Horsey throw in an environmental message. The first of the cartoons below also does:
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In the nation’s capital, underground is where it’s at
For the moment, let’s say we’re not buying the official, nothing-to-see-here story the White House is dishing about the gaping hole being ripped into the lawn outside the Oval Office.
Let’s say we suspect the construction crews that have been dipping their backhoes into the most secure soil in the free world are doing something more complex than mere utility work.
‘Passback Day’ is a key date in the federal budget process
For hundreds of federal budget analysts, the Monday after Thanksgiving is a day to step back, take a deep breath and prepare for a stressful holiday season, marked less by parties and gift-giving and more by complex political maneuvering and tricky math.
“Passback Day,” as the last Monday of November is known in budget circles, is when the White House and the Office of Management and Budget literally pass back drafts of proposed budgets for the next fiscal year to agencies and departments and begin a series of negotiations in hopes of completing a final budget proposal for President Obama by January.
New Jersey nurses charge religious discrimination over hospital abortion policy
A dozen nurses in New Jersey have rekindled the contentious debate over when health-care workers can refuse to play a role in caring for women getting abortions.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court Oct. 31, 12 nurses charge that the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey violated state and federal laws by abruptly announcing in September that nurses would have to help with abortion patients before and after the procedure, reversing a long-standing policy exempting employees who refuse based on religious or moral objections.
Will they stay or will they go? Occupy LA faces test of peaceful relationship with city
LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of Occupy Los Angeles protesters showed no sign they planned to move Sunday ahead of a city-imposed midnight deadline to abandon their encampment, saying they would instead hold an “eviction block party.”
Although city officials have told demonstrators they must leave the weeks-old protest site and take their nearly 500 tents with them by 12:01 a.m. Monday, just a handful were seen packing up Sunday.
Team Obama Gears Up for 2012
Jim Rutenberg, New York Times
AS North Carolina Republicans tell it, the Obama for America volunteers stole in under cover of night and stayed, undetected — noticed belatedly only because of election results across the state.“It was very scary,” said Chris Sinclair, a strategist for Billie Redmond, the Republican candidate for mayor in Raleigh. “You don’t know what’s going on until you wake up after Election Day and go, ‘Oh my gosh, what happened?’ ”
SS Spendaholic Sailing Into Abyss
Mark Steyn, Orange County Register
I see Andrea True died earlier this month. The late disco diva enjoyed a brief moment of global celebrity in 1976 with her ubiquitous glitterball favorite:”More, More, MoreHow do you like it? How do you like it? More, More, More How do you like it?How do you like it?”
Climategate 2.0
James Delingpole, Wall Street Journal
Last week, 5,000 files of private email correspondence among several of the world's top climate scientists were anonymously leaked onto the Internet. Like the first “climategate” leak of 2009, the latest release shows top scientists in the field fudging data, conspiring to bully and silence opponents, and displaying far less certainty about the reliability of anthropogenic global warming theory in private than they ever admit in public.The scientists include men like Michael Mann of Penn State University and Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia, both of whose reports…
A Step Forward on Immigration Reform
Will Demographic Shifts Save Obama?
Dan Balz, Washington Post
The 2008 election was a reminder of the demographic forces that are changing America and potentially the political balance in the country. The most diverse electorate in the nation’s history added to the favorable winds that pushed President Obama to victory. He will need the assistance of those shifts even more in 2012 if he is to avoid defeat.Much has been made of the president’s unusual coalition in 2008 — huge turnout and overwhelming support from African Americans, the backing of Latinos, the energy of younger voters, the help from college-educated Americans…
Here Comes the Capital Strike
From his seat in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner announced in mid-September that American business owners would continue to hold the nation’s wealth (and thus the public welfare) hostage until government granted them the “low-tax, deregulated world they wanted,” writes journalist and author Thomas Frank in Harper’s online. Yes, in response to the murmurings of an ungrateful working class, our brave captains of industry have gone on strike. The whims of prevailing economic power, not a concern for the common good, should determine the amount of comfort, security and protection allotted to common Americans. In reviewing the ruling class’ attempts to wage “capital strikes” during the New Deal era, Frank makes it clear—as Truthdig’s own Chris Hedges so often has—that the current imbalance of wealth in America makes political blackmail possible again. For the time being, there is no way to vote against the interests of the 1 percent. —ARK Thomas Frank at Harper’s: There were two distinct “capital strikes” during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt. The first, which is still referenced on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s historical society, consisted of a decline in new stock and bond issues in the first years of the New Deal. The second was a more general revolt of business interests, which were supposedly struggling to preserve laissez-faire political conditions by withdrawing investment from the economy in 1937, sabotaging the recovery and the chances of President Roosevelt. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes delivered a ferocious iteration of this theme in December of that year, warning that “the United States is to have its first general sit-down strike — not of labor, not of the American people — but of the sixty families [a then-popular term for what we now call “the 1 percent”] and of the capital created by the whole American people of which the sixty families have obtained control.” Should Americans yield to the demands of the walkout, Ickes warned, “then the America that is to be will be a big-business Fascist America—an enslaved America.” … We live in a time when political blackmail works: The bank bailouts and bonuses of 2008 and 2009 were done on an emergency basis, lest the geniuses of Wall Street shrug off their burden and abandon us to Great Depression II. The Republican strategy during last summer’s debt-ceiling fight was simply to point a gun at the global economy’s head. And now, in 2011, the Speaker of the House tells us not only that capital strikes happen, but that the capital strike is happening now. John Galt lives, reader, and your task is to bow down and hail the Big Business America Harold Ickes feared — or be dropped forthwith into the poverty and darkness you no doubt deserve. Read more
From his seat in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner announced in mid-September that American business owners would continue to hold the nation’s wealth (and thus the public welfare) hostage until government granted them the “low-tax, deregulated world they wanted,” writes journalist and author Thomas Frank in Harper’s online.
Yes, in response to the murmurings of an ungrateful working class, our brave captains of industry have gone on strike. The whims of prevailing economic power, not a concern for the common good, should determine the amount of comfort, security and protection allotted to common Americans.
In reviewing the ruling class’ attempts to wage “capital strikes” during the New Deal era, Frank makes it clear—as Truthdig’s own Chris Hedges so often has—that the current imbalance of wealth in America makes political blackmail possible again. For the time being, there is no way to vote against the interests of the 1 percent. —ARK
Thomas Frank at Harper’s:
There were two distinct “capital strikes” during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt. The first, which is still referenced on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s historical society, consisted of a decline in new stock and bond issues in the first years of the New Deal.
The second was a more general revolt of business interests, which were supposedly struggling to preserve laissez-faire political conditions by withdrawing investment from the economy in 1937, sabotaging the recovery and the chances of President Roosevelt. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes delivered a ferocious iteration of this theme in December of that year, warning that “the United States is to have its first general sit-down strike — not of labor, not of the American people — but of the sixty families [a then-popular term for what we now call “the 1 percent”] and of the capital created by the whole American people of which the sixty families have obtained control.” Should Americans yield to the demands of the walkout, Ickes warned, “then the America that is to be will be a big-business Fascist America—an enslaved America.”
… We live in a time when political blackmail works: The bank bailouts and bonuses of 2008 and 2009 were done on an emergency basis, lest the geniuses of Wall Street shrug off their burden and abandon us to Great Depression II. The Republican strategy during last summer’s debt-ceiling fight was simply to point a gun at the global economy’s head. And now, in 2011, the Speaker of the House tells us not only that capital strikes happen, but that the capital strike is happening now. John Galt lives, reader, and your task is to bow down and hail the Big Business America Harold Ickes feared — or be dropped forthwith into the poverty and darkness you no doubt deserve.
PHOTO: President Obama & Bill Murray Meet & Share A Laugh
Both face the challenge of living up to the great legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but it was probably more quick pleasantries than in…
Stewart J. Lawrence: Newt Gingrich’s Immigration Gambit: Is He Crazy Like a Fox?
Was Newt Gingrich crazy to suggest that the United States needed a more “humane” immigration policy? Crazy like a fox, perhaps. Gingrich’s gambit wasn’t a Rick Perry-style stumble or gaffe: it was a cleverly calculated maneuver.
As Tahrir Protests Continue, Secular Parties In ‘Real Dilemma’ Ahead Of Elections
CAIRO — Raied Salama sat in a small office, eyeing the clock on the wall of his political party’s headquarters, a few blocks from restless…
Glenn Beck’s Network Attempts Conservative Daily Show Knock-Off
Glenn Beck, comedy entrepreneur, is trying to tap into the market for a “nonpartisan” alternative to The Daily Show with a fake news show on his GBTV network, called The B.S. of A..
Brownback Complaint About Student Tweet Lands Kansas Teenager In Principal’s Office
A Kansas teenager got in some trouble with her school for comments she posted on her Twitter account — in which she claimed to have trashed Gov. Sam Brownback (R) to his face during a field trip.
Rove’s January surprise?
The media loved the tea bagger’s antics but were quick to report the dangers to health and safety presented by the Occupy Protests. Why the difference?
The Great Rope a Dope trick
Barack Obama learned a political trick from Muhammad Ali called Rope a Dope. For you youngsters, this refers to the epic Rumble in the Jungle Heavyweight fight against George Foreman in 1974. Here is the Wikipedia explanation. The rope-a-dope is…
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Big Oil Doesn’t Need Handouts
Here’s a scary fact: Last year, the biggest five oil companies alone scored $76 billion in profits. And here’s an even scarier fact: Last year, the oil industry received more than $4 billion in tax breaks. These numbers don’t lie…
‘Pennies From Heaven’
When I joined Monitor Company (now Group) in the spring of 1992, the first party its directors, my new?colleagues,?invited me to was at Mitt Romney’s mansion in Belmont. Romney was at the time still with Bain Capital, but his political…
Open Thread Plus Cartoon of the Week
Opine away or pine away or ….
Opine away or pine away or ….
Occupy Oklahoma City Mic Checks Wal-Mart On Black Friday
Occupy Oklahoma City took aim at corporate greed at a Wal-Mart on Black Friday and greeting customers with their very own “Mic Check.” The protesters noted that Wal-Mart’s CEO makes an enormous salary while its everyday employees are notoriously underpaid. Watch it:
Occupy Oklahoma City took aim at corporate greed at a Wal-Mart on Black Friday and greeting customers with their very own “Mic Check.” The protesters noted that Wal-Mart’s CEO makes an enormous salary while its everyday employees are notoriously underpaid. Watch it:
President brings daughters to bookstore to promote small-business holiday shopping
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has pitched in to help small businesses get into the holiday shopping season.
The president took his daughters, Malia and Sasha, along on a shopping run to a bookstore a few blocks from the White House.
He says he made the visit because it’s “small business Saturday” and he wanted to support a small business.
Rep. Charlie Gonzalez to retire
Rep. Charlie Gonzalez (D-Texas), the chairman of the Hispanic Caucus, is retiring in 2012 after 14 years in office.
“I still find the job hugely rewarding, but the demands pull me somewhere else,” Gonzalez told the San-Antonio Express News. “[F]inancially I would like to be productive and have the resources to make a better life.”
Democrats post big fundraising numbers for 2012 House races
Democratic leaders raising money to be spent on the most competitive House races in next year’s elections are doing something remarkable: outraising their Republican counterparts, despite a historic drubbing a year ago that left Democrats in the minority.
House Democrats have raised $52.1 million to the Republicans’ $48.7 million. The difference is small, but it’s significant given that no minority party has been able to get such an edge in fundraising since the 1994 election cycle.
Newt Gingrich Inc.: How the GOP hopeful went from political flameout to fortune
Anyone who doesn’t believe in an afterlife must not live in Washington. Rarely, however, has reincarnation been so lucrative as it has for the man who now tops some polls for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich transfigured himself from a political flameout into a thriving business conglomerate. The power of the Gingrich brand fueled a for-profit collection of enterprises that generated close to $100 million in revenue over the past decade, said his longtime attorney Randy Evans.
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