Mike's Blog Roundup
LittleSis: Two big players, in both the Democratic party and the business community, teamed with the Chamber of Commerce to fight financial reform
Pruning Shears: What happened to WaMu? The FDIC won't say
FDL News Desk: Dorgan exploring the mystery of who killed his drug reimportation legislation
Crooked Timber: The failure of trickle down...
Mock, Paper, Scissors: I needed a laugh. Thanks Tengrain
HOLY CRAP: Satan attacks Rod Parsley...Christian Radio...Indoctrination is all the “Hip”...Suck on this, infidel...Christmas quagmire...Oral Roberts passes on...This guy has absorbed too many kicks to the head...Ted Haggard still begging forgiveness...Oh, the humanity!...Christmas billboard...Christian radio, part ll...The courthouse is not a church...Criminal resigns from pedophile cult...Principles...
I had to check out that "Christmas Billboard". Interesting.
A New Zealand church challenging the notions of a "male" God and "virgin" birth?
Whatever the uproar in NZ, I'm certain it would be 100x worse if they posted it here. :)
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Go see http://bit ly/traitorjoe and also Tell Senator Ben Nelson you will boycott Omaha Steaks and Nebraska beef until Senator Ben Nelson removes all anti abortion language from the final health care bill.
Also see http://WWW.DEMOCRATZ.ORG for more actions to get progressive legislation enacted by congress.
A very good piece, thank you for that. It is relatively long but clearly well thought out and will require study.
A quick point I would make, much has been said about the growing inequality of income in the US, certainly since Reagan began his conquest but really since the early '70s.
Emmanuel Saez has done considerable work in this area, see here.
However, it should be noted, the higher the income bracket, the more resources are available and used to diminish the reported income, LEGALLY. In fact, the higher income types set about writing the tax laws to their advantage.
This skews the understanding of the forces at work.
More important in my thinking is the inequality of wealth, wherein lies the full tale of the disparity of power. This is even greater than the inequality of income.
However the study and thus the reporting of this is more problematic.
But clearly to me, we are in a new gilded age and the Robber Barons of late are having a field day.
If one has one million dollars, that guarantees a lifetime of living reasonably well. How much better at ten million? Why would one need one hundred million? A billion? Ten billion? Sixty billion?
At what level does one transition to being a sociopath?
Working class people, over 60% of the population, to a large extent, have no wealth, except what is in the homes. If they still have one.
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Thanks to all of those Repug Regulation Reformers Regurgitants of Ronald Reagan the wealthiest 0.1% saw their income quadruple.
If you were in the upper 5% your income doubled.
If you are below that....the American dream is just a dream.
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
blooper you tube, @ 1:23 this camouflaged dude comes out of the background like the movie "predator"...weird
EXTINCTIONSISTS/DENIERS/'skeptics'....STFU: 97% of Climate Scientists Agree: Humans are Causing Global Warming - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/97-cl...
The other 3% took the 10-20,000 dollars from ExxonMobil's shill PR Fronts (AEI, CEI, AFP) out of the change purses of the Koch Brothers (the source of pure evil & stupidity in the Universe...)
Breaking: LEAKED final draft of Copenhagen treaty declaration - http://www.desmogblog.com/breaking-leaked-fin...
Henry Waxman at Copenhagen: "We Have to Follow the Science" - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/henry...
Behind Hillary Clinton's $100 Billion Pledge to Poor Nations - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/behin...
Proof Copenhagen Is "an Elaborate Sham": Leaked Doc Shows Weak Targets - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/proof...
Copenhagen Endgame: Will the World Get a Good Foundation For Progress or a Greenwash? - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/copen...
A complete waste of existence: Inhofe's Big Trip to Copenhagen to Rail Against Global Warming 'Hoax' Only Lasts Two Hours - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/inhof...
Copenhagen is not on the verge of signing a treaty that would lock in 3C warming! - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-18-copen...
Not the Change I worked for: Obama Interior Department surrenders to the coal interests - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-17-obama...
When we voted for change in November of 2008, environmentalists rallied to a standard. We didn't realize that it was a white flag.
The Democrats' Health `Reform' Bill: Kill It Before It Comes to Life! – Dave Lindorff - http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/434
Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side The United States Government is On With Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras - http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/23384
Hey right wingnuts stop the BS: There are already 355 terrorists in American prisons. - http://www.slate.com/id/2219268/
The preposterous arguments against allowing Gitmo detainees into the U.S. And don't forget all the right wingnut ones...
How Banks Prey on the Unemployed: Bleeding Money From the Poor: By Barbara Koeppel - http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2009/1215...
SCAM ALERT: Visa gift card expired in less than a year and so did its $300 balance - http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/proble...
They're not a 'good' present....
Ski Industry on the Front Lines of Global Warming - http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40831
We're in deep trouble: Senate Banking Committee votes 16-7 to send Ben Bernanke's nomination for another term as Fed Chair to the full Senate.
- http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bernank...
Joe Conason: The Democrats Blinked - http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_democ...
Well known Secessionist: Todd Palin encourages himself to "get the hell" out of America - http://blog.windycitywatch.com/2009/12/todd-p...
I'll buy the boat ticket...
Go Al! About time!! Democratic Sen. Al Franken has taken the unusual step of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor.
- http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A...
Top 5 Reasons to Spread Turn Off Fox -- BuzzFlash News Alert - http://blog.buzzflash.com/alerts/736
Obama Presses China for Accountability on Climate - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/science/ear...
The Tea-Partying Left - http://blog.buzzflash.com/carpenter/566
John Cornyn Wins BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week Award For Pretending His Party Supports Obama on Afghanistan - http://blog.buzzflash.com/honors/261
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We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
Will you have to lengthen mine?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWNLlamPyLY
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
oral roberts passes on what, Xian groupie sex?
Does he have a sister named Anal?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Hysterical & shows the true nature of those insufferable hypocrites...
They're all either Ted Haggards, Ralph Reeds, or Jim Bakers...
Jesus pimps that preach you can go to heaven no matter what you do here...as long as you claim JC as your personal savior...
Talk about the mother of all cop outs...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
Who else gets paid for promising something will happen that they can't prove can happen?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Not quite right.
They teach that works won't save you without conversion, I think the Anglican 39 Articles no's IX through XIV cover this, particularly Article XIII, which is typical of most Protestants:
http://anglicansonline.org/basics/thirty-nine...
They wanted to avoid the church requiring works that they then charge for like the corrupt medieval church, previous to Martin Luther's 99 Thesesis.
They also avoided any unofficial doctrines like the Roman Catholic Purgatorium, which was never part of the official doctrine.
They also avoided the heresies of Pelagius and his Pelagian followers, and the Mariolatry that was unofficial in the Roman Catholic Church until 1950 with Pope Pius XII Encyclical Munificentissimus Deus.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Oopsie, I forgot the Semi-Pelagians
How thilly of me...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Sen Coburn is on Washington Journal. He said he has a much better relationship with Obama than he did with bush. He said when he, Coburn, was running for the Senate he criticized bush and as a result they never had a good working relationship. I guess bush doesn't take criticism well.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
was "Doc Coalbin"...oh well, Thats what Army dick calls him
Obama is a Republican lite.
Bush was…
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