2012-11-14, 23:47 | Link #3281 | |
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2012-11-15, 04:44 | Link #3283 | |
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2012-11-15, 06:44 | Link #3284 |
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How the GOP shot itself in both feet and tripped into its own cesspit (and will probably repeat this in 2014 ... maybe even 2016).
Glaring contradiction #1: The evil of big government except when running wars, paying subsidies, or legalizing morality --- tin foil hats with large holes in them. Glaring contradiction #2: Plutocrats should run democracy? Really? Isn't that feudalism without the perks for the peasants? Glaring contradiction #3: The myth of the rugged individualism of the super-rich. Glaring contradiction #4: When ignorance is neither bliss, nor power but a spotlight. Glaring contradiction #5: When social wedge issues lose their edges because they have no credible basis to begin with. http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...tions-sunk-gop And they're looking incompetent afterward as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/he...-deadline.html The GOP governors didn't bother to prepare for the healthcare law because they were deep in the reality distortion bubble.
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2012-11-15, 11:02 | Link #3285 |
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Census: U.S. Poverty Rate Spikes, Nearly 50 Million Americans Affected
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/...cans-affected/ Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with cost of legislation http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2CJ7ABWEN Texas Instruments Cuts 1,700 Jobs, Winds Down Tablet Chips http://www.cnbc.com/id/49835852 Jobless claims went up 78,000. http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/e...m#.UKTvPI7paao
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2012-11-15, 11:39 | Link #3286 |
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^ If people want straight economic news and data without the commentary, maybe check out www.bloomberg.com or actually, maybe www.finviz.com -- the latter even offers equity market "visualizations" over time and color coded by gains/losses as well as scaled by size. Also, shouldn't most of this be in the Economics thread?
Here's another headline to balance out some of what GundamFan is posting: Millionaires to Washington: More Taxes, Please! A pack of millionaires descended on Washington, DC, Wednesday to tell Congress to take more of their money. The Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, a group formed in 2010 to push Obama to allow the Bush tax cuts on millionaires to expire, are back, and lobbying for the same thing as Congress faces the looming fiscal cliff. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012...al-cliff-taxes Re: Denny's -- the headline is misleading, the charge is not from the "Denny's" corporation, but someone that owns 40 franchise restaurants in Florida. He's also explicitly doing it as a political statement. PS: So apparently someone has taken a "disliking" to what I posted here .. which is unfortunate .. because all I am doing is relaying information. Getting angry or upset at someone that provides information you disagree with isn't productive. Information, as unbiased as possible, is good .. regardless of the message. I'd hope that people could simply appreciate opposing viewpoints and ensure their opinions are always as informed as possible. Reply hazy, ask again later Last edited by willx; 2012-11-15 at 14:50. |
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Republicans to Mitt Romney: Exit stage left
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From the 47% to ‘gifts’: Mitt Romney’s ugly vision of politics http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...itics/?hpid=z3 Quote:
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2012-11-15, 17:36 | Link #3289 | |
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http://patrioticmillionaires.org/
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2012-11-15, 17:51 | Link #3291 | |
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Also saw this on MotherJones and it made me laugh so I had to share it.
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2012-11-15, 18:05 | Link #3293 |
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Besides, psychologically, it'd be hard to be the only ones to pay.
And, not that I'm a millionaire or anything, but I don't know that I'd like to give money to a government which can't even be arsed to raise taxes when they so blatantly need to. |
2012-11-15, 18:44 | Link #3294 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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If the idea is that everyone shares some pain and you have a small pack of sociopath robber barons avoiding it at all costs even when its the community that provides the environment they were able to loot and pillage in ... well, the other barons tend to get annoyed.
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2012-11-15, 19:04 | Link #3295 |
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Woman Runs Over Husband for Not Voting
Ok, is there a contest of "who can do the most outrageous thing because my favorite candidate/political party lost"? |
2012-11-15, 19:12 | Link #3296 | |
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2012-11-15, 19:14 | Link #3297 | |
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2012-11-15, 19:17 | Link #3298 | |
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That reminds me, one of the local election around here (I think it was for city council or something like that) had two candidates literally tied after the final count, and as it turns out one of the candidate's wife didn't vote Though she did have good reasons though, between taking care of the kids, working, and attending nursing school, she just didn't have time to make it to the poll, another reason we really should make voting day a national holiday :/ |
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2012-11-15, 19:23 | Link #3299 | |
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What is dis? "Back in my day, black people couldn't vote. Now that was the days when we shared good old fashioned American values! Fuck that shit; teaching black people and women how to read. Look how downhill America has gone down since! Remember what our founding fathers envisioned America. White = 1 person, Black 3/5*, Women = 0. That's in the constitution!" *Yes I'm aware 3/5 refers to slave. But it's not like they can tell the difference. I don't get why they're blaming anything. It's just pathetic. Work on the next election. Be a bit better at lying.
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2012-11-15, 22:43 | Link #3300 | |
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You need to read this book, so you learn what propaganda is. Do you have any idea who that magazine is named after, Willix? From their own website. http://www.motherjones.com/about/wha...es/our-history And who was Mary Harris Jones? Oh, that's right, she was a Marxist. http://communpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mother_Jones So when a bunch of literal Marxists publish anything about capitalism...period...you need to realize that it's probably bullshit and move on.
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