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Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism
Texas GOP Unveils Brand New, Far-Right Platform « The Washington Independent
The Texas Republican Party unveiled its new platform today and it contains some very far-right provisions, to say the least. Media Matters has the full details , but here are some of the more noteworthy measures: We oppose the legalization of sodomy.
Here’s the thing I want to repeat, ad nauseum, today: Fat Acceptance is for everyone. Everyone. That means thin people, too.
Second Verse, Same As the First; Fat Acceptance Is For Everyone
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have given farmworkers a minimal set of protections. According to Politics of the Plate : SB 1121 was hardly a radical-sounding piece of legislation. Among other things, it would have given California’s 700,000 farm workers the right to take one day off out of every seven.
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August 4 — Colorado's Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes has accused his likely opponent, Democratic Mayor John Hickenlooper, of "converting Denver into a United Nations community" by promoting bike riding and other sustainability issues. According to Maes, who is a Tea Party favorite, Hickenlooper's bike plans are "all very well-disguised, but [they] will be exposed." Specifically, the plans that Maes is raising the alarm over include the city's B-Cycle program which makes a network of about 400 red bikes available for rent at locations throughout the city. B-Cycle's website touts that, "bike sharing makes it economical and convenient to use bikes for trips that are too far to walk but too short to drive.... With your magic red bike, you don’t have to look for a parking space or bring your own bike with you everywhere you go.
Red Bike Scare: Republican Candidate Warns Bicycle Rentals Will Lead to UN Take-Over | GreenAnswers
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-37857" title="ari_neeman" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2010/10/ari_neeman.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="440" /> When Ari Ne’eman walked onstage at a college campus in Pennsylvania in June, he looked like a handsome young rabbi presiding over the bar mitzvah of a young Talmudic scholar. In truth, Ne’eman was facilitating a different kind of coming-of-age ceremony. Beckoning a group of teenagers to walk through a gateway symbolizing their transition into adult life, he said, “I welcome you as members of the autistic community.” The setting was an annual gathering called Autreat , organized by an autistic self-help group called Autism Network International. Ne’eman’s deliberate use of the phrase “the autistic community” was more subversive than it sounds.
Exclusive: First Autistic Presidential Appointee Speaks Out | Wired Science
Last week I spent some time with a group of people I don't usually spend much time talking to. They were not rich--by which I don't mean that they had overstretched themselves by buying a seven-figure principal residence but rather that they weren't rich: their household income was in the five or, for some of them, perhaps the very low six figures. And (which is unusual for Berkeley) they were not lefties, neither cultural nor sociological. They were deeply concerned with the future of our country. And they were desperate to figure out how to engage in effective political action--but had few illusions that the politicians they would vote for in November were their kind of people with their interests at heart. I suppose that in a previous era, back when there were private-sector unions, they might have been union stewards.
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