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Mitt Romney thinks that if you eliminate the teachers' unions, you eliminate all the problems in the educational system. Mitt Romney is wrong. Who had time to read the news yesterday?
Democratic Campaign Manager’s Cat Killed With Word ‘Liberal’ Written On Fur (Contains Graphic Picture) | Addicting Info
Jacob Burris, campaign manager to Arkansas Democratic Congressional candidate, Ken Aden , arrived home to a horrifying site Sunday evening. The Burris family cat was laying dead on the doorstep of their house with its head bashed in, an eyeball barely hanging from the socket and the word ‘liberal’ in black marker on its side. “To kill a child’s pet is just unconscionable,” Aden said Monday morning.Republican Congressman Screams At Mother With Two Children, Tells Her To Join The Military Instead Of Using Pell Grants | Addicting Info
When a mother with two children and two jobs expressed her concern about Pell Grants, which she relies on to pay for college, during a town hall held by Republican Congressman Steve Womack in Arkansas last week, she probably didn’t expect his reaction. According to Blue Arkansas , Kelly Eubanks asked Womack about the Pell Grant program which she uses to attend college. Eubanks, who has to work two jobs to take care of her two children, was concerned about his vote to slash Pell Grants for 100,000 low income students. She expected an explanation. Instead, Womack avoided her question and callously told her that she should “join the military” to pay her own way like he did.
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We've heard recently of CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act , a bill currently making its way through Congress that many are calling the latest incarnation of SOPA. Reader SolKeshNaranek points out an article at Techdirt explaining exactly why this bill is bad , and how its backers are trying to deflect criticism by using language that's different and rather vague. Quoting: "The bill defines 'cybersecurity systems' and 'cyber threat information' as anything to do with protecting a network from: ' (A) efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network; or (B) theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information. ' It's easy to see how that definition could be interpreted to include things that go way beyond network security — specifically, copyright policing systems at virtually any point along a network could easily qualify."
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Isn’t it delightful how geek culture works? During my Christmas shopping last year, I stumbled into a favorite little pop culture shop in Little Collins Street in Melbourne which is well known for its comprehensive stocking of all things Lovecraftian. I was looking for some stocking fillers for the kids; instead I walked out with [...]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday no jobs were created in August. Zero. Nada.
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Moyers & Co.: How Washington and Big Business Colluded to Make the Rich Richer | Truthout
This weekend Bill Moyers returns to television with Moyers & Company. In his first show, Bill explores how Washington made the rich richer at the expense of the middle class. On Friday, the premiere episode of Moyers & Company, Bill’s guests – Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer -- And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, argue that America’s vast inequality is no accident, but in fact has been politically engineered.
Revealed: The FBI's Secretive Practice of "Blackballing" Files | Truthout
Have you ever filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and received a written response from the agency stating that it could not locate records responsive to your request? If so, there's a chance the FBI may have found some documents, but for unknown reasons, the agency's FOIA analysts determined it was not responsive and "blackballed" the file, crucial information the FBI withholds from a requester when it issues a "no records" response. The FBI's practice of "blackballing" files has never been publicly disclosed before.This young man isn’t being cynical or melodramatic; he’s articulating a terrifying reality for many of the children and youth sitting in our classrooms—a reality that is often invisible or misunderstood. Some have seen the growing numbers of security guards and police in our schools as unfortunate but necessary responses to the behavior of children from poor, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But what if something more ominous is happening?
Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline | Truthout
Since Rush Limbaugh caved in to reality and hired a crisis management team , media coverage has suggested a campaign against his talk show has failed . Others involved in contacting advertisers ... by Richard Myers 0 Recs Back when journalists used to ask the hard questions.
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It's not enough for some lawmakers that for the better part of a century, selling and buying sex has been illegal in every state of the union. (The exception is the system of legalized brothels dotting a handful of low-population counties in Nevada, the existence of which has done little to deter an underground, illegal sex trade.) Each year, scores of new laws are proposed to make prostitution somehow even more illegal than it already is. These laws against prostitution don't simply increase penalties for buying or selling sex; they extend to creating criminal consequences for every aspect of sex workers' lives. After just one prostitution arrest, a person can be denied a job, an apartment, or the right to parent her children. She could find herself followed by police just for leaving her home.
Confiscating Condoms? The Dumbfounding Ways Police Deal With Prostitution | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet
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A Gawker writer fiddling with the ad's advanced targeting options, found that they could reveal how many Facebook employees are into kinky sex , by tweaking a few settings. In the easy to use advertising system, anyone setting up a Facebook advertising campaign can target employees of any organisation, and type in any kind of interest they want to target. That could be kittens and cupcakes, or it could be kinky sex, Barely Legal magazine or the Tory party. The ad system can dig into private details that Facebook users had no intention of sharing outside their chosen "friends" to show these preferences. The flaws outing have major implications for employee privacy.
Facebook Ads Reveal Users' Sexual Preferences
A 0.2 percent dip in GDP at the end of 2011, which followed a drastic decline in the third quarter, has thrown Ireland back into recession, alongside Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Greece, and begs the question of whether austerity is the answer to Europe’s economic woes.