Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Mystery of twin's brain damage tied to wipes
Mystery of twin's brain damage tied to wipes
MSNBC | JULY 11, 2011
http://pulse.me/s/CZzO
For nearly four years, no one knew what caused the rare bacterial infection that left Myles Massey brain-damaged while his twin ... read more
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Bad bug: Gonorrhea strain resists all drugs
Bad bug: Gonorrhea strain resists all drugs
MSNBC | JULY 11, 2011
http://pulse.me/s/D04d
For several years, public health officials have been concerned that gonorrhea, one of the most prevalent STDs in the world, ... read more
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Pawlenty blasts Bachmann's 'nonexistent' record
Pawlenty blasts Bachmann's 'nonexistent' record
MSNBC | JULY 11, 2011
http://pulse.me/s/CViz
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty said Sunday that 2012 rival Michele Bachmann has a "nonexistent" record of ... read more
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Sunday, July 10, 2011
Labor Angered by Obama's willingness to cut Social Security in Debt ceiling Deal
Unions are making it known that Social Security cuts are unacceptable to them and say they will lobby against any cuts to the popular entitlement program.“I think this is a huge political mistake for Democrats,” Chuck Loveless, legislative director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), told The Hill.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
NY Times Column: The Unemployed Don't Matter to the Politicians
What gives? And where, if anywhere, is the outrage?
The United States is in the grips of its gravest jobs crisis since Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House. Lose your job, and it will take roughly nine months to find a new one. That is off the charts. Many Americans have simply given up.
But unless you’re one of those unhappy 14 million, you might not even notice the problem. The budget deficit, not jobs, has been dominating the conversation in Washington. Unlike the hard-pressed in, say, Greece or Spain, the jobless in America seem, well, subdued. The old fire has gone out.
Wisconsin GOP Running Fake Democrats to Undermine Recall Elections
It looks like allies of Wisconsin Republicans are growing so desperate that they’re resorting to sleazy dirty tricks in their last-ditch bid to help the GOP hang on to the state senate.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Scientist: NKorea paid Pakistanis for nuclear tech
The founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program claims that in the late 1990s North Korean officials paid kickbacks to senior Pakistani military figures in exchange for critical weapons technology.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Union Workers Replaced With Prison Labor Under Scott Walker’s Collective Bargaining Law
Union Workers Replaced With Prison Labor Under Scott Walker’s Collective Bargaining Law
While Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) law dismantling collective bargaining rights has harmed teachers, nurses, and other civil servants, it’s helping a different group in Wisconsinites — inmates. Prisoners are now taking up jobs that used to be held by unionized workers in some parts of the state.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Polifact: Gov. Scott Walker's Statement that “the largest deficit ever in Wisconsin” was 2 years ago, is false.
Appearing on a national cable TV show viewed by some 269,000 people, Walker said the state’s largest structural deficit had come two years earlier, under his Democratic predecessor. He was off by seven years and a political party. We rate his statement False.
Since 2009, 88 Percent Of Income Growth Went To Corporate Profits, Just One Percent Went To Wages
“Between the second quarter of 2009 and the fourth quarter of 2010, real national income in the U.S. increased by $528 billion. Pre-tax corporate profits by themselves had increased by $464 billion while aggregate real wages and salaries rose by only $7 billion or only .1%. Over this six quarter period, corporate profits captured 88% of the growth in real national income while aggregate wages and salaries accounted for only slightly more than 1% of the growth in real national income. …The absence of any positive share of national income growth due to wages and salaries received by American workers during the current economic recovery is historically unprecedented.”
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Transcript: President Obama News Conference (6-29-11)
Full Transcript. Excerpt Below:
Q There is some question about the constitutionality of the War Powers Act.
THE PRESIDENT: I’m just saying I don’t have to reach it. That’s a good legal answer.
Q (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: Let me start by saying that this administration, under my direction, has consistently said we cannot discriminate as a country against people on the basis of sexual orientation. And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending “don’t ask, don’t tell,” making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples. Across the board — hate crimes — we have made sure that that is a central principle of this administration, because I think it’s a central principle of America.
Now, what we’ve also done is we’ve said that DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional. And so we’ve said we cannot defend the federal government poking its nose into what states are doing and putting the thumb on the scale against same-sex couples.
What I’ve seen happen over the last several years, and what happened in New York last week I think was a good thing, because what you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious; it was emotional; but, ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that’s exactly how things should work.
And so I think it is — I think it is important for us to work through these issues — because each community is going to be different and each state is going to be different — to work through them. In the meantime, we filed a — we filed briefs before the Supreme Court that say we think that any discrimination against gays, lesbians, transgenders is subject to heightened scrutiny, and we don’t think that DOMA is unconstitutional [sic]. And so I think the combination of what states are doing, what the courts are doing, the actions that we’re taking administratively, all are how the process should work.
Q Are you at all uncomfortable that there could be different rules in different states, you know, and for somebody to make the argument that’s what we saw during segregation –
THE PRESIDENT: Chuck, I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out. It’s not going to be perfectly smooth, and it turns out that the President — I’ve discovered since I’ve been in this office — can’t dictate precisely how this process moves. But I think we’re moving in a direction of greater equality and I think that’s a good thing.
CBSNews: Poll: Many say economy is in permanent decline
--http://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/86224351032119297
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Politfact: Michelle Bachmann has a Problem with the Truth
This is why she's a flake. Bachmann is charlatan who's made a career of saying anything that would promote her political ambitions:
SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you about something else. A lot of your critics say you have been very fast and loose with the truth.
You know, the PolitiFact, which is a website that won a Pulitzer, did an analysis of 23 statements that you made recently. Of these 23, only one they said was completely true. Seven they call "pants on fire" kind of falsehoods. Four were "barely true" and two were "half- true."
Gaza activists say ship sabotaged in Greece
- I wonder who was doing the sabotaging. It's disputes like this could end up dragging us all into a world war.
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Boeing, NLRB: Congressional Republicans interfere with NLRB case that involves Boeing
The NLRB is looking into whether Boeing chose to establish a manufacturing plant for its new 787 airliner in South Carolina to punish its unionized workers in Everett, Wash., which would be illegal. But the board is months, if not years, away from making any such determination or taking any concrete action against Boeing. An administrative law judge convened a hearing June 14, but thus far has heard not a single word of testimony.
Republican Party of the Rich Plunged us into Deficits before Obama
The failure of our leaders to offer realistic budget proposals was a major reason I decided to retire after 28 years in Congress, most of them as a professional staff member on the Republican side of both the House and Senate Budget Committees. My party talks a good game, railing about the immorality of passing debt on to our children. But the same Congressional Budget Office that punctured Obama's budget also concluded that the major policies that swung the budget from a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion in 2001 to the present 10-year deficit of $6.2 trillion were Republican in origin.
