this is shocking! Fracking has destroyed half of a national forest in West Virginia!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: News Releases
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: News Releases: "Details"
Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers - ABC News
Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers - ABC News
Guess I missed this a few months back!
Texas - Jury Rejects Assertion of Rape Against Military Contractor in Iraq - NYTimes.com
Texas - Jury Rejects Assertion of Rape Against Military Contractor in Iraq - NYTimes.com
Outrageous....but then this was a Texas jury...that says it all...
Texas - Jury Rejects Assertion of Rape Against Military Contractor in Iraq - NYTimes.com
Texas - Jury Rejects Assertion of Rape Against Military Contractor in Iraq - NYTimes.com
Outrageous....but then this was a Texas jury...that says it all...
Friday, July 8, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Man mistakenly jailed for trying to cash check at Chase Bank | The Raw Story
Man mistakenly jailed for trying to cash check at Chase Bank | The Raw Story; loses his car and his job, thnaks to Chase, who will not help him.
UK News and Opinion on The Huffington Post
UK News and Opinion on The Huffington Post
Farewell to news of the world!
Verizon's Illegal App Blocking | Save the Internet
Verizon's Illegal App Blocking | Save the Internet
This is wrong, wrong, wrong. Time to switch!
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
Big corporations compose the membership behind the fight to keep their taxes low.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Related to the last post, but contains the chart showing the job loses and gains throughout the last 2 administrations as compared to the current one.
Obama Created More Jobs In One Year Than Bush Created In Eight
This morning, the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 private sector jobs, knocking the unemployment rate down sharply from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent — its lowest rate since July 2009. The “surprising drop — which was far better than the modest step-down economists had forecast — was the steepest one-month fall since 1998.” October and November’s jobs numbers were also revised upward by almost 80,000 each. Still, 14.5 million Americans remain unemployed, and jobs will have to be created much faster in coming months for the country to pull itself out of the economic doldrums.
Responding the jobs report, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) noted that President Obama and the Democratic Congress have created “more jobs in 2010 than President Bush did over eight years.”
Indeed, from February 2001, Bush’s first full month in office, through January 2009, his last, the economy added just 1 million jobs. By contrast, in 2010 alone, the economy added at least 1.1 million jobs. This chart, produced by Pelosi’s office, demonstrates the difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration on jobs:
As the Wall Street Journal noted in the last month of Bush’s term, the former president had the “worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records.” And job creation under Bush was anemic long before the recession began. Bush’s supply-side economics “fostered the weakest jobs and income growth in more than six decades,” along with “sluggish business investment and weak gross domestic product growth,” the Center for American Progress’ Joshua Picker explained. “On every major measurement” of income and employment, “the country lost ground during Bush’s two terms,” the National Journal’s Ron Brownstein observed, parsing Census data.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Tell Missouri: veto the bill to remove protection for puppies!
Tell Missouri: No More Puppy Mill Cruelty!
Ask Governor Jay Nixon to oppose legislation that would relax rules for commercial breeding facilities.
Ask Governor Jay Nixon to oppose legislation that would relax rules for commercial breeding facilities.
Goal: 30,000 • Progress: 11,757
Sponsored by: The Animal Rescue Site
The Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act (PMCPA) was passed in Missouri in November 2010 in an attempt to put more regulations on puppy mills and their practices. This was a huge success for puppies in Missouri — the state that leads all others in commercial dog breeding.
But in mid-April 2011, legislators voted to reject the bill — and won.
Now it's up to Missouri governor Jay Nixon to either sign or veto the new bill. If he supports the rejection, commercial breeding facilities won't be required to increase the standard of living for the puppies. They won't have to take care in providing acceptable cages, allowing time each day to play outside, or making sure the dogs aren't breeding too often.
This could mean disaster and even death for thousands of puppies. Speak out for the puppies and sign the petition asking Governor Nixon to veto the rejection of PMCPA.
But in mid-April 2011, legislators voted to reject the bill — and won.
Now it's up to Missouri governor Jay Nixon to either sign or veto the new bill. If he supports the rejection, commercial breeding facilities won't be required to increase the standard of living for the puppies. They won't have to take care in providing acceptable cages, allowing time each day to play outside, or making sure the dogs aren't breeding too often.
This could mean disaster and even death for thousands of puppies. Speak out for the puppies and sign the petition asking Governor Nixon to veto the rejection of PMCPA.
DEC: Fracking on private land OK - News Articles - Rochester City Newspaper
DEC: Fracking on private land OK - News Articles - Rochester City Newspaper
But how do you stop it from messing up your neighbor's water supply if you are doing it anywhere near a water table.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Daily Kos: Announcing: Corporations United
Daily Kos: Announcing: Corporations United
Is this for real??? They want to improve the middle class?
Daily Kos :: State of the Nation
Daily Kos :: State of the Nation
Cut spending, cut jobs! The Republican mantra.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Rand Paul Plans Senate Filibuster Over Debt Ceiling
Rand Paul Plans Senate Filibuster Over Debt Ceiling
He is such a child. Such a spoiled child.
Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Absolutely incomprehensible. At least to me. This is cowardly rather than shrewd in my opinion.
Executives' Pay at Big Companies Rose 23 Percent Last Year | Truthout
Executives' Pay at Big Companies Rose 23 Percent Last Year | Truthout
makes me want to scream obscenities and cry...2 kids out of work, husband out of work, and my pay has been lowered.
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