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Oh this is rich: Mitt Romney says he’s ‘haunted’ by past verbal gaffes, and is a "victim". 11 recs : By bluesbassman
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Paul Krugman: Egos and Immorality
(NY Times) But here’s the thing: If Wall Streeters are spoiled brats, they are spoiled brats with immense power and wealth at their disposal. And what they’re trying to do with that power and wealth right now is buy themselves not just policies that serve their interests, but immunity from criticism.
Amazon.com Becomes The Eighteenth Group To Drop ALEC
(Think Progress) According to an email ThinkProgress received from the Center for Media and Democracy, one of the leaders of a progressive campaign to push corporations and other funders to break with the American Legislative Exchange Council, online retail giant Amazon.com just announced that it will part ways with ALEC.
Florida Congressman Demands Gov. Rick Scott ‘Immediately Suspend’ Voter Purge'
(Think Progress) Florida Congressman Ted Deutch (D) told ThinkProgress today that Gov. Rick Scott was engaging in a “blatant attempt to supress voter turnout.” Scott is currently involved in a massive effort to purge up to 180,000 from the voting rolls.
PPP: Gay Marriage Likely to Pass in Maryland (Obama endorsement key)
A new Public Policy Polling survey in Maryland finds a significant increase in support for same-sex marriage among African American voters following President Obama’s historic announcement two weeks ago. The referendum to keep the state’s new law legalizing same-sex marriage now appears likely to pass by a healthy margin.
NY GOP does not *heart* DU
(NY Caller) Nearly half of the Republicans serving in the New York State Assembly have proposed legislation that would ban anonymous online comments. If enacted, the legislation would require websites — including social networks and online newspapers — to remove all anonymous comments that are brought to the attention of administrators.
Strong Support for Gay Marriage Now Exceeds Strong Opposition
(ABC News) Strong public support for same-sex marriage exceeds strong opposition by a significant margin for the first time in ABC News/Washington Post polls, and African-Americans have moved more in favor, perhaps taking their lead from Barack Obama on the issue. Overall, 53 percent of Americans say gay marriage should be legal, steady the past year but up from 36 percent in just 2006. Thirty-nine percent “strongly” support it, while 32 percent are strongly opposed – the first time strong sentiment has tilted positive. Six years ago, by contrast, strong views on the issue were negative by a broad 27-point margin.
Biden: Romney’s Bain experience ‘no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber’
(WaPo) Vice President Biden on Tuesday weighed in on the ongoing debate over Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, arguing at a New Hampshire campaign event that the presumptive GOP nominee’s investment-firm background no more qualifies him to serve as president than would experience working as a plumber. “Your job as president is to promote the common good,” he said, comparing the job of a president to that of a private equity mogul. “That doesn’t mean that private equity guys are bad guys; they’re not. But that no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber!”
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Good Reads
- Encouraging the Admirable Qualities of Man (Sic) With Lots and Lots of Guns
- Viewpoint: The time Britain slid into chaos (BBC)
- Dumb Rich People
- David Sirota: A Rare Admission That Money Trumps Everything Else
- The Conception of the Birther
- It's official: Barack Obama is American
- Total Eclipse
- Honduras Coup Delivering a Bloody Return on Washington's Military Investment
- A Court Covers Up (torture)
- This Week in Poverty: Wage Theft in the City of Millionaires
Politics 2012
- This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy
- Biden recalls suicidal thoughts in remarks to families of fallen troops
- Internal Dem poll shows dead heat in recall race!
- Joe Klein: Obama stumbles? Why the President's Right to Talk About Bain
- CO congressman apologizes for Obama birth comments
- Democrats blowing ‘birther’ bonanza
- Birthers Firm Despite Obama Birth Certificate
- Dem Lt. Gov Candidte Mitchell fires up more than 100 dems leads them to early voting in Racine
- Follow the bouncing jobs estimate
- Mass knows Robdme - NY Times: Romney’s Massachusetts Woes: A Bad Omen? (Obama up 25)
General Discussion
- How did we miss this gem about Matt Drudge - Social media Moonie?
- If This Shocking Photo Doesn't Convince You That We Need Student Debt Relief, Nothing Will
- The Depressing Rise of People Robbing Banks to Pay the Bills
- First Lady: This photo makes us smile (vintage edition)
- This Weirdly Political Graphic About Space Aliens Has Been Shared 50k Times On Facebook
- Obama, Romney continues to be tight race - OR How the republicans plan on stealing Ohio in November
- As China Marches Ahead, Is It On Solid Ground?
- Group pushes to lift ban on abortion care for women in the military
- Things Romney doesn't want to talk about
- Support The Troops
Topics
- Poetry: Don’t start the revolution without me
- Environment & Energy: DNA evidence shows that marine reserves help to sustain fisheries
- Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity: The Pope is provoking disobedience
- Foreign Affairs: Egyptian election results a 'nightmare scenario'
- Netflix, Streaming Videos & DVDs : I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
- Pets: Pet Overpopulation
- Ancestry/Genealogy: DNA & Melungeons - Interesting thread
- National Security & Defense: U.S. probes China's ZTE over tech sales to Iran
- LGBT: Freaky logic from Zimbabwe: Gay Rights Are Inherently Misogynistic
- Career Help and Advice: Position Anouncement, Huntington, Long Island
Places
- Pennsylvania: Another great column about how out of touch our Governor has become
- Wisconsin: Free air time for Walker ,running up to election is illegal, and unfair to Barrett.
- Latin America: EU refers Argentina's import restrictions to the WTO
- Arizona: I love Arizona, a beautiful State!
- Texas: Shale play a worry for Bexar ozone
- California: Send a message to tax the rich - Vote Mike Strimling in the primaries.
- Delaware: "Bodie's" campaign for senate claims Booth not eligible because he's a teacher.
Latest Breaking News
FBI probes fires at women's clinics in Georgia
3 min ago - FBI probes fires at women's clinics in Georgia By David Beasley ATLANTA | Fri May 25, 2012 2:51pm EDT (Reuters) - The FBI says it is investigating "intentional" fires that erupted this week at two Atlanta-area women's clinics, one of whic ... (Reuters)
French left ahead in parliament vote: poll
6 min ago - French left ahead in parliament vote: poll PARIS | Fri May 25, 2012 1:32pm EDT (Reuters) - The French left will comfortably beat the conservative UMP party in next month's parliamentary election, a poll showed on Friday, as rivalries triggered by N ... (Reuters)
Murdoch private eye targeted U.S. hedge fund boss
8 min ago - Murdoch private eye targeted U.S. hedge fund boss By Mark Hosenball Fri May 25, 2012 1:54pm EDT (Reuters) - A private detective working for Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers used a legally questionable tactic to obtain a hotel bill that a New Yor ... (Reuters)
Federal judge declares DOMA, CA tax code unconstitutional for same sex couples
33 min ago - On Thursday evening U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California ruled that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and a provision of the current California tax code place unconstitutional limits on domestic partne ... (Raw Story)
Chris Christie's attacks on Newark schools are false
36 min ago - http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2012/05/chris_christies_attacks_on_new.html ONLINE TITLE: Chris Christie's attacks on Newark schools are false NEWSPAPER TITLE: Governor's trash talk is hurting Newark's schools Published: Friday, May 25, 2012, 9 ... (The Star Ledger)
Mass. Moves to Require End-of-Life Talks
47 min ago - 5/25/2012 @ 2:44PM |20 views Mass. Moves to Require End-of-Life Talks WBUR radio and Kaiser Health News report that the Massachusetts Senate has quietly approved a measure requiring doctors and nurses to discuss end of life options with patients wh ... (Forbes)
Police: Gunman has hostages in Indiana realty office
48 min ago - Police: Gunman has hostages in Indiana realty office Friday May 25, 2012, 2:39 PM Associated Press VALPARAISO, Ind. — Police in the northwestern Indiana city of Valparaiso say a gunman is holding an unknown number of hostages inside a real estate o ... (Associated Press)
Romney adviser stands by Trump
55 min ago - By Alex Seitz-Wald Despite the fact that Donald Trump reaffirmed today that he’s pretty sure President Obama “was born in Kenya,” Mitt Romney adviser Kevin Madden defended an upcoming joint fundraiser in Las Vegas today, arguing that Romney shouldn’ ... (Salon)
Trump, Still A Birther, Says Obama Was Born In Kenya
1 hr ago - In a typically candid interview with The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove, Donald Trump demonstrated that he is still very much in the vanguard of the birther movement. From Grove’s piece: “A book publisher came out three days ago and said that in his wri ... (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Director of Vatican Bank resigns under pressure
2 hrs ago - VATICAN CITY -- In an unprecedented move, the board of the Vatican Bank on Thursday forced its president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, to resign. According to a Vatican statement, the bank's supervisory council unanimously passed a no-confidence motion in ... (National Catholic Reporter)
Defense Of Marriage Act Ruled Unconstitutional By Second Federal Judge
3 hrs ago - OAKLAND, Calif. -- A second federal judge in California has struck down a law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage. Wilken says the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act violated constitutional standards when it denied federal benefits to same-sex ... (Huffington Post)
Utility Says It Underestimated Radiation Released in Japan
4 hrs ago - Utility Says It Underestimated Radiation Released in Japan TOKYO (Reuters) — The amount of radioactive materials released in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was almost two and a half times the initial estimate by Japanese safety reg ... (Reuters)
Montreal's student protesters defy restrictions as demonstrations grow
4 hrs ago - Demonstrators in Montreal have continued to defy an emergency law passed by the provincial government in Quebec to restrict protests by students against planned tuition fee hikes. As has become traditional, groups of protesters banged pots and pants ... (Guardian.UK)
Typical CEO made $9.6M last year, AP study finds
4 hrs ago - NEW YORK (AP) -- Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs. The head of a typical public company made $9.6 million in 2011, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive p ... (finance.yahoo.com/news (AP))
Captain Paul Watson meets with the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica Enrique Castillo
4 hrs ago - Captain Paul Watson meets with the Foreign Minister of Costa Rica Enrique Castillo Friday, 25 May 2012 Captain Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd Director of Investigations Scott West took a quick train trip to Stuttgard, Germany today to meet with the C ... (Marine Environment News)
Consumer Sentiment in U.S. Climbs to Highest Since 2007
5 hrs ago - By Alex Kowalski - 2012-05-25T14:10:14Z Consumer confidence rose in May to the highest level since October 2007 as prices at the gas pump became less of a drag on household budgets. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of consumer ... (Bloomberg)
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buys Media General newspaper group
5 hrs ago - Warren Buffett, the world's most famous investor, has made a big bet on small newspapers. The billionaire investor has bought Media General, owner of 63 local US newspapers covering markets across Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia ... (Guardian UK)
FDIC: Bank profits at highest level since 2007
6 hrs ago - FDIC: Bank profits at highest level since 2007 Industry ‘continues to gradually improve,’ FDIC’s Gruenberg says Bank profits in the first quarter of 2012 reached their highest quarterly income levels in nearly five years, a federal banking regulato ... (MarketWatch)
Judge strikes down Defense of Marriage Act provision in state employees' case
7 hrs ago - Judge strikes down Defense of Marriage Act provision in state employees' case Bay City News Service OAKLAND -- A federal judge ruled Thursday that the state's public-employee pension system must make long-term care insurance equally available to s ... (Marin Independent Journal)
German medical association apologizes for Nazi-era crimes committed by doctors
9 hrs ago - German medical association apologizes for Nazi-era crimes committed by doctors By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, May 25, 4:51 AM BERLIN — Germany’s medical association has adopted a declaration apologizing for sadistic experiments and other acti ... (Associated Press)
Gov. Scott talks to King Juan Carlos of Spain about elephant hunt, creates international stir
11 hrs ago - Gov. Rick Scott became a Spanish punch line this week after a televised gaffe with the king of Spain, who's reeling from an elephant-shooting scandal. "I've ridden elephants, I've never tried to shoot one," Scott said, smiling as he walked ... (Tampa Bay Times)
Gunman misses Colombia union leader, kills brother
12 hrs ago - Gunman misses Colombia union leader, kills brother The Associated Press Published: Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 8:52 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 8:52 p.m. A gunman opened fire on a labor leader in the Colombia city of Cali but missed ... (Associated Press)
Two jailed over New Zealand Rena ship disaster (oil spill)
12 hrs ago - Two officers of the container ship that ran aground off New Zealand, causing its worst maritime spill, have been jailed for seven months each. The Filipino captain and navigating officer had previously pleaded guilty to mishandling the vessel and al ... (BBC)
More talks planned on Iran nuclear issue
13 hrs ago - Iran and world powers will meet in Moscow next month for more talks to try solve a longstanding dispute about Iran's nuclear energy programme, Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign-policy chief, has said. Speaking in Baghdad on Thursday, the ... (aljazeera)
French President Hollande in Afghanistan on troop visit
13 hrs ago - French President Francois Hollande has arrived in Afghanistan on a previously unannounced visit. Mr Hollande, who took office earlier this month, flew into Kabul and is expected to spend only a few hours in Afghanistan, visiting French soldiers. He ... (BBC World Edition)
Scottish independence campaign has stalled, says Alistair Darling
13 hrs ago - Alistair Darling has claimed that Alex Salmond's campaign for Scottish independence has stalled at the starting line after a poll found that only a third of Scots want to leave the UK. The poll findings were released by the former chancellor a few h ... (The Guardian)
(NJ Gov.) Christie Accepts Monitoring of Muslims
13 hrs ago - The New York City police did not violate New Jersey laws when they conducted cross-border surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques and student groups, Gov. Chris Christie’s administration said Thursday. The determination, by the state attorney ge ... (AP)
After Barreling Ahead in Recession, China Finally Slows
13 hrs ago - XI’AN, China — A nationwide real estate downturn, stalling exports and declining consumer confidence have produced what a Chinese cabinet adviser, quoted on the official government Web site on Thursday, characterized as a “sharp slowdown in the econo ... (New York Times)
An Often Procrastinating Congress Is Raring at the Gate on Tax Cuts
13 hrs ago - It is a maxim in Congress these days: If high-profile legislation affecting millions of Americans is about to expire, deal with it at the last possible second, preferably with rancor. But a major exception is in the offing with the Bush-era tax cuts ... (NY Times)
U.S. Human Rights Report Cites Bright Spots, but Also Points to Abuses
13 hrs ago - After an “especially tumultuous and momentous year” for human rights, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Thursday, the challenge in many Arab countries has shifted from breaking the back of entrenched dictatorships to protecting new fr ... (NYT)
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Response to Bristol Palin's failed damage control
The Last Word - Democrats fight for equal pay for women
Rachel Maddow Show - Gaffe Count Grows as Romney Takes on Education
End of the week LOL's (May 25th) - pics
Oops! Romney ADMITS Bain 'DIDN'T CREATE' Jobs
Thom Hartmann: How do we stimulate the REAL job creators - the middle class?
Thom Hartmann: Nick Hanauer's - Is Romney a Predator?
Thom Hartmann: Debunked: The Myth of the 1% Job Creator
What Is One Of The Most Satisfying Moments Of Barack Obama's Presidency?
Daily Kos: Florida begins MASSIVE voter purge in early bid to steal Presidency before elections
Rachel Maddow - Very existence of Wisconsin Democratic Party at stake in recall election
The ED Show - Romney flunks education trip to Philly
The ED Show - Florida Governor purges voters from voting rolls
Wells Fargo has blood on its hands (and Californians can do something about it)
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