Say it Ain’t So, Joe: Wurzlebacher Dissed by P-Town Plumbers

Joe Wurzlebacher is criticized by union plumbers in Pittsburgh for trying to discourage passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, a measure that would make it easier and potentially less personally perilous to try to organize labor in non-union shops.

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Merrill Lynch Uses TARP $ to Reward Losers

Corporate giants above the law, living like monarchs, on money made available by politicians, borrowed in our children’s names, kicking back to the legislators and entities that made the transactions possible…rewarding failed performance, underwriting a lifestyle of entitlements and excess.

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Ahmnodt Heare For America

This post officially announces my support of an independent candidate I just became aware of two weeks ago, the honorable Ahmnodt Heare.  Mr. Heare is a a pragmatic, thoughtful, insightful human being with new ideas–ideas much needed in today’s tumultuous political and social landscape.
I intend to continue my support for President Obama and do everything [...]

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GOP Still Using Fear to Gin Up Votes

One either believes in Capital Punishment or doesn’t. If one fundamentally objects to institutionalized killing based on religious, philosophical, economic or any other grounds, preferring life in prison without parole, that’s that. Such beliefs are inherently absolute and as such, indeed apply to every convicted criminal, regardless of the depravity of his or her crime. There can be no double standard.

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Spanish Court Seeks GOP Torture Perps

Spanish human rights lawyers have accused former Bush administration officials of providing legal cover to Bush policies under which detainees were tortured. Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense under Dubya is accused along with David Addington, former chief of staff to Cheney; Jay Bybee, one of the authors of a now-infamous Bush “torture memo;” [...]

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You’re Welcome In, Just Don’t Crap on My Carpet

The author of  a mean-spirited, conservative site that deals in racist slurs, presents unsupported opinions as fact and generally exists to slime liberals, announced that I’ve banned him from my site.  While I did block his comments, I didn’t ban him.  It’s a free country–at least for now.
I did politely ask him to remove his [...]

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John Amato: “Leave Limbaugh Alone”

From “Jazz From Hell.”  No need to embellish.
“You knew it was coming. Via Crooks & Liars, this spoof of Chris Crocker’s famous vidJohn Amato himself!” stars

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While at “Jazz From Hell,” this caught my attention and again,  I see no reason to change a word or add to it in any way.  [...]

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Gentle Giant Announces Reunion Show

I agree that Gentle Giant was among if not THE most original progressive rock band ever to grace the stage but I feel they got short-changed in the acclaim and popularity departments.

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How Blue Can You Get?: Jobless claims top 5.5 million

” The number of people continuing to file for jobless benefits rose 122,000 to 5,560,000 people in the week ended March 11 – the latest week for which data was available. It was the highest number since the government began keeping records in 1967.”

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Dean to Scarborough: “Total Nonsense”

Right-wing pundit Joe Scarborough stood corrected by DNC chair Howard Dean yesterday on his Morning Joe (an obvious “send up” of SNL’s old Morning Latte) program. Just listen to the banter and watch Mika Brzezinski during the setup. It’s spot on.

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