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Is This A Joke?
Is someone at the New York Times getting pwned or is this for real?
Despite her enduring popularity, a formidable fund-raising network and near unanimous support from her party, Mrs. Clinton, Republican leaders believe, is vulnerable to appearing a has-been.
“Perhaps in the Democratic primary and certainly in the general election, there’s going to be an argument that the time for a change of leadership has come,” said the Republican strategist Karl Rove. “The idea that we’re at the end of her generation and that it’s time for another to step forward is certainly going to be compelling.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/us/politics/republicans-paint-clinton-as-old-news-for-2016-presidential-election.html?smid=tw-share
For a party trying to make inroads with women voters, calling Hillary Clinton’s age into question seems a dubious strategy. But also:
• The party that constantly invokes the sainted name of the long-dead Ronald Reagan, the oldest president ever elected, questions Hillary Clinton’s age?
• The party whose base shows up wearing Revolutionary War costumes is questioning how current the likely Democratic Party candidates are?
• The party whose White House hopes rest with Jeb Bush, brother of the last failed Republican president and son of a failed Republican president before that, is throwing around words like “change of leadership” and “end of a generation”?
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Hilarious!
Seriously, they just don’t have a clue, do they?
the rest:
http://southernbeale.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/is-this-a-joke/
Yet another reminder of how hard we work to ensure poor people stay poor.
Yet another reminder of how hard we work to ensure poor people stay poor.
For these largely hourly workers, paper paychecks and even direct deposit have been replaced by prepaid cards issued by their employers. Employees can use these cards, which work like debit cards, at an A.T.M. to withdraw their pay.
But in the overwhelming majority of cases, using the card involves a fee. And those fees can quickly add up: one provider, for example, charges $1.75 to make a withdrawal from most A.T.M.’s, $2.95 for a paper statement and $6 to replace a card. Some users even have to pay $7 inactivity fees for not using their cards.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/business/as-pay-cards-replace-paychecks-bank-fees-hurt-workers.html?hp&_r=1&pagewanted=all&
Video: Jim DeMint Says Women Want Mandatory Vaginal Probes --- Yes, he really did say it
Video: Jim DeMint Says Women Want Mandatory Vaginal Probes
Yes, he really did say it
Not only do Jim DeMint and Ralph Reed say they’re in favor of forcing women who request abortions to have ultrasound probes, they say women want this.
It’s an amazingly revealing moment.
DeMint: She’s forgetting about the thousands of women who want an informed choice, who want the opportunity to get a free ultrasound, which they can get not from Planned Parenthood, but from a lot of these pregnancy centers.
These “pregnancy centers” to which DeMint refers are usually explicitly Christian facilities, that exist solely to scare, intimidate and mislead women out of choosing abortions.
VIDEO:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42207_Video-_Jim_DeMint_Says_Women_Want_Mandatory_Vaginal_Probes
War On the Unemployed - By PAUL KRUGMAN
War On the Unemployed
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: June 30, 2013 419 Comments
Is life too easy for the unemployed? You may not think so, and I certainly don’t think so. But that, remarkably, is what many and perhaps most Republicans believe. And they’re acting on that belief: there’s a nationwide movement under way to punish the unemployed, based on the proposition that we can cure unemployment by making the jobless even more miserable.
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So what’s going on here? Is it just cruelty? Well, the G.O.P., which believes that 47 percent of Americans are “takers” mooching off the job creators, which in many states is denying health care to the poor simply to spite President Obama, isn’t exactly overflowing with compassion. But the war on the unemployed isn’t motivated solely by cruelty; rather, it’s a case of meanspiritedness converging with bad economic analysis.
In general, modern conservatives believe that our national character is being sapped by social programs that, in the memorable words of Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, “turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency.” More specifically, they believe that unemployment insurance encourages jobless workers to stay unemployed, rather than taking available jobs.
Is there anything to this belief? The average unemployment benefit in North Carolina is $299 a week, pretax; some hammock. So anyone who imagines that unemployed workers are deliberately choosing to live a life of leisure has no idea what the experience of unemployment, and especially long-term unemployment, is really like. Still, there is some evidence that unemployment benefits make workers a bit more choosy in their job search. When the economy is booming, this extra choosiness may raise the “non-accelerating-inflation” unemployment rate — the unemployment rate at which inflation starts to rise, inducing the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates and choke off economic expansion.
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the rest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/opinion/krugman-the-war-on-the-unemployed.html?ref=paulkrugman&_r=0
If You’re Poor and You Live in Texas, Your Right to Vote Has Been Taken Away
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The poll tax, and by extension Voter ID, is absolutely unconstitutional.
Let’s take a look at the Texas Voter ID law (poll tax), since the attorney general there zealously enacted his state’s Voter ID law before the ink was dry on the Shelby County v Holder decision.
-Texas driver license—unexpired or expired less than 60 days
-Texas identification card—unexpired or expired less than 60 days
-Texas concealed handgun license—unexpired or expired less than 60 days
-U.S. passport—unexpired or expired less than 60 days
-U.S. military identification with photo
-U.S. citizenship certificate with photo
Any of the above forms of identification will literally cost money to attain, and now you must attain an ID in order to vote. Therefore a Republican state law demands that you pay to vote.
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the rest:
http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/if-youre-poor-and-you-live-in-texas-your-right-to-vote-has-been-taken-away/
Al Gore must be getting fatter....
Al Gore is Fat
by BooMan
Mon Jul 1st, 2013 at 10:02:02 AM EST
But Al Gore is fat.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/30/us/arizona-missing-firefighters/
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/7/1/1022/84253
http://www.prescottaz.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=120733
Liar, Liar pants on fire....Bush says ‘civil liberties were guaranteed’ under his NSA surveillance
Bush says ‘civil liberties were guaranteed’ under his NSA Internet surveillance
“I think he damaged the security of the country,” he explained. “I put the program in place to protect the country, and one of the certainties is civil liberties were guaranteed.”
The former president added that his program had found “the proper balance” between privacy and security.
Bush said that he “could care less” that polls showed more Americans now viewed him favorably.
“Ultimately history will judge the decisions I made, and I won’t be around because it’s going to take a while for the objective historians to to show up,” he grinned. “So, I’m pretty comfortable with it. I did what I did.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/01/bush-says-civil-were-liberties-guaranteed-under-his-nsa-internet-surveillance/
the only safe place for Snowden
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/30/1220091/-the-only-safe-place-for-Snowden
Hudson Cornelius Heinemann ? Really? Hud? Huddy? HH? The Hudster? The Hudmeister?
Wealthy UES Parents Sue School Over $50K Fingerpainting.....................
According to the Post, socialite Michelle Heinemann and her investment-banker husband Jon say in the lawsuit that their son, Hudson Cornelius Heinemann, was “underappreciated” there. “Plaintiff’s son was consistently left out of school exhibits and films...and was made to go last at nearly everything,” the lawsuit states.
Even more ghastly, “On one occasion, plaintiffs’ 5-year-old son was relegated to the role of ‘door-holder’ and ordered to hold the door for all of the other students.” Look, if the Heinemanns wanted their kid to "build humility," they'd have sent him to The Avenues.
School administrators allegedly promised to cease all door-holding labors for young Hudson Cornelius if the Heinemann's gave some donations (including $6K worth of “designer clothing items” to the auction) and if “renowned artist” Michelle Heinemann helped Hudson’s class create a sellable work of art for the auction.
The Heinemanns agreed to put in the winning bid for the finished finger painting for $3K, but they claim the school had a first-grade teacher named “Ms. Bryant” drive the bid up to “the outrageous sum of $50,000.” So the Heinemanns have since pulled Hudson out of the school, and are now demanding compensation for all of the attending costs, including $20,000 tuition to a new school, forfeited class fees for his little sister Hyacinth Cornelia, and Hudson’s $60,000-a-year chauffeur.
MORE:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/feelingbidder_bNie678FebHbCaXhiDKnaN
http://gothamist.com/2013/06/30/socialite_parents_sue_school_for_tr.php
EGYPT!
benwedeman ✔ @bencnn
Photo: The anti-Morsi demonstrations are THE biggest I've ever seen in #Egypt. #30June pic.twitter.com/BTA0N18RVq
10:36 AM - 30 Jun 2013
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=551336371591205&set=vb.100001445400931&type=2&theater
Reuters actually quotes an unnamed Egyptian military source putting the number at 14 million - which would be roughly a sixth of the country’s population. As Reuters notes that number seems “implausibly high” and it is not at all clear that the military is an impartial judge (an ambiguity which could have great portent in the coming days). But as a national institution monitoring protests around the country via helicopter, the military is perhaps the best or only institution in a position to assay an estimate.
http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/06/amazing_9.php?ref=fpblg
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/30/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE95Q0NO20130630
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