SUN FEB 05, 2012 AT 12:36 PM PST
Breaking: States with Democratic Govs had 15% better unemployment numbers than states with GOP Govs
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BREAKING—States with Dem Govs 15% better employment numbers



Virginia Republican Governor Bob McDonnell claims that the improved numbers on the economy are a result of their policies. NOT SO! A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation shows states with Democratic Governors performed 15% better on the latest unemployment per capita than states with GOP Governors. The analysis took maybe 20 minutes elapsed time. Doesn’t Governor McDonnell have any staff?

You can check it yourself! The data for week ending January 28th is at the Department of Labor at this link: http://www.dol.gov/...
http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/current.htm

Plug those numbers into a spreadsheet. Next, add the list of Governors and their party affiliation. Then sort by GOP or Democrat. Now put in the state population. My results: GOP new claims -50,818 and the total population of those states 133,760,000. Democratic new unemployment claims -47,561 and the total population is 109,102,000. So per capita new claims for GOP Governor states is a reduction of 0.0380%, while per capita new claims for Democratic Governor states is a reduction of 0.0436%, a 15% better performance.

The numbers in the announcement are for 27 states with 79% of the US population. The remaining states had less than a thousand difference in new claims.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/05/1062036/-Breaking:-States-with-Democratic-Govs-had-15-better-unemployment-numbers-than-states-with-GOP-Govs?via=siderec

Jim Bakker’s Christian amusement park is now a post-apocalyptic ghost town






http://io9.com/5882369/jim-bakkers-christian-amusement-park-is-now-a-post+apocalyptic-ghost-town

so Dr. Paul lives to fight another day, at least in his own mind and in the minds of his dedicated followers who whooped and hollered as he gave another one of those endless, rambling addresses in which he waves his hands and says, "liberty," and you half-expect a dove to fly out of his ear, or a rabbit to hop out of his pocket. He implied, with a spectacular degree of pure wrongness, that "regulation" was partly responsible for our current economic difficulties, ...

much more:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ron-paul-nevada-minnesota-6651672#ixzz1lXOjZgeV

They just do.

They hate you because you respect gay people as normal human beings.

They hate you because you respect African-Americans as normal human beings.

They hate you because you respect Asians, Latinos, and everyone else who isn’t a straight white male.

They hate you because you respect a woman’s right to choose.

They hate you because you respect the right of people to be with who they love.

They hate you because you respect the right of anyone to adopt a child.

They hate you because you respect international law.

They hate you because you believe in economic and tax fairness.

They hate you because you respect the right of anyone to worship any way they want.

They hate you because you respect scientists and their collective knowledge.

They hate you because you respect teachers and the work they do educating Americans.

They hate you because you respect the human dignity of every American.

They hate you because you respect the rights of people over corporations.

They hate you because you respect nature and think we have a duty to take care of the environment.

They hate you because you respect your right to vote, and they don’t think you deserve it.

They hate you because you respect the constitution and the rule of law.

They hate you because you respect laws against torture.

In short, they hate you. Period.


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http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/02/05/they-fucking-hate-you/

MUCH MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/04/1061746/-Breaking:-Mr-1-Romney-Lost-NH-Too?via=siderec

No Drawing: Art, Politics, and Gaza
by Sam Ross-Brown
January 6, 2012




The Gazan students whose works make up A Child’s View From Gaza were not part of a political protest or advocacy group. Nor did they even have an intended audience for their work. Rather, they were participants in a healing-oriented project aimed at helping children in Gaza deal with the overwhelming physical and psychological stress left over from the 2008-2009 Gaza War. The vast majority of Gazan children witnessed and experienced the war’s devastation firsthand, and three out of four are still dealing with psychological trauma, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.





http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/no-drawing-art-politics-and-gaza

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/03/1061611/-STUNNING:-When-a-Single-Image-Cuts-to-the-Core-of-an-American-Injustice-?via=siderec