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Monday, February 28, 2011
Psycho Charlie Sheen: “I Am On A Drug. It’s Called Charlie Sheen” (Video)
“I got tiger blood, man,” he said. “My brain….fires in a way that is — I don’t know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.”
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GOP Cuts Would Destroy 700,000 Jobs
A plan to lose 700,000 jobs and destroy the economy? What? Is George W. Bush back in power?:Zandi, an architect of the 2009 stimulus package who has advised both political parties, predicts that the GOP package would reduce economic growth by 0.5 percentage points this year, and by 0.2 percentage points in 2012, resulting in 700,000 fewer jobs by the end of next year. His report comes on the heels of a similar analysis last week by the investment bank Goldman Sachs, which predicted that the Republican spending cuts would cause even greater damage to the economy.
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
From Feminist Frequency: Women’s Stories, Movies and the Oscars (Video)
It's almost time for the Oscars, i.e., more awards for more movies almost exclusively by and about men. This year, the male centered The King's Speech and The Social Network are the top contenders to rake in the honors. We are all rather startled when women-centered films like The Kids Are Alright are even nominated.
via Women and Hollywood
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500 Turn Out For Nashville's Pro Union / Wisconsin Solidarity Protest (Video)
Reporters in Tennessee don't work on the weekends (see the exception below), so the coverage of Nashville's pro union and solidarity with Wisconsin protest is minimal. The best is from:Masaccio at Firedoglake -- Nashville’s Solidarity With Wisconsin -- has the story and more great photos!
Channel 4, NBC affiliate: Hundreds Rally To Support Union Rights - Nashville Rally One Of Dozens Planned By MoveOn.org
Video of Nashville's Pro Union Protest here (via Channel 4, NBC affiliate).
Photo credit: Masaccio at Firedoglake
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Reagan: 'The right to belong to a union is one of the most elemental human rights'
Oops, Wisconsin's Governor Walker's sacred hero, the hallowed GOP deity Ronald Reagan not only supported unions, he belonged to a union. Ooops, Ronald Reagan not only belonged to a union, Ronald Reagan was a union boss:Yet conservatives may be shocked to learn that their idol Reagan was once a union boss himself. Reagan was the only president in American history to have belonged to a union, the AFL-CIO affiliated Screen Actors Guild. And he even served six terms as president of the organized labor group. Additionally, Reagan was a staunch advocate for the collective bargaining rights of one of the world’s most famous and most influential trade unions, Poland’s Solidarity movement.
In Ronald Reagan's words, "the right to belong to a free trade union . . [is] one of the most elemental human rights."
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'We Are All Wisconsin' Rallies: Nashville, Tennessee
[UPDATE: Video of the Nashville pro union protest here.] Pro-Union Protest at the Capitol in downtown Nashville --Saturday, February 26, 12:00 noon:Rally to "Save the American Dream"
What: “Save the American Dream” rally in Nashville
When: Saturday, Feb. 26, at 12 noon
Where: Tennessee Statehouse Nashville (Charlotte Ave side)
Stand with Teachers Protest -- Saturday, March 5, 12:00 noon:
Rally with Teachers
What: Wear red and march to the Legislative Plaza with the Tennessee Education Association Teacher Rally in Nashville.
When: Saturday, March 5, at 12 noon - 3 p.m.
Where: Park and assemble at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, 600 James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, Tenn.
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Wisconsin Governor Walker Asked to Leave Madison Restaurant
The unpopular Governor Walker will be lucky if he manages to ever again appear in public without being booed. Staying in office for the remainder of his one term is also going to be a challenge. The name of the restaurant has been removed due to threats from Governor Walker's out of state fans:
The M******t [a restaurant] in Madison, WI confirms that on Friday night, ******* (one of the owners) politely asked Scott Walker to leave the establishment when other customers began booing him. A bartender at The M*****t said that ‘his presence was causing a disturbance to the other customers and management asked him to leave.’
Conservative bloggers are posting the restaurant's phone number and the owner's name and urging readers to call and complain. The very same conservative bloggers are simultaneously charging that the unpopular Governor's eviction never happened. Admittedly, the story sounds too good to be true. One can hope.
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Wisconsin Protest: Governor of Illinois Happy to Provide Political Asylum
Quote of the Day"Illinois is open for tourism all the time. We have Wisconsin legislators and I think Indiana legislators, I really think that everybody knows it is important to have collective bargaining. It is the best way to resolve differences, and what's happening in Wisconsin, I don't think will spread anywhere."
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Friday, February 25, 2011
CBS Pulls the Plug on Delusional Psycho Misogynist Charlie Sheen (Video)
Famed woman beater Charlie Sheen is finally out of a job, not for physically and verbally abusing women, but for "insulting Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre in anti-Semitic fashion:""I violently hate Chaim Levine (Chuck Lorre). He's a stupid, stupid little man and a pussy punk that I'd never want to be like."
If this was an even remotely sane country, people would be celebrating this fool's demotion from coast to coast. If you're looking for a reason to feel good about the mildly flawed people in your life, listen to this Mel Gibson wannabe:
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Rachel Maddow Proves that Politifact Is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Or Politifiction (Video)
If you saw all those headlines broadcast all over the internet by Politifact screaming that Rachel Maddow was wrong, wrong, wrong about something, don't believe them. Here Maddow presents irrefutable evidence that she was indeed correct and Politifact was wrong, wrong, wrong. Yet the cool doods at Politifact Politifiction are adamant about their refusal to issue a correction. (via Mediaite)
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Iowa Abortion Bills Could Allow Murder of Abortion Providers
As soon as that wretched South Dakota bill was shelved, wingnutty Iowa lawmakers decided that "making it legal to kill an abortion doctor in the name of protecting an 'unborn child'" is a good idea. Gawd, when will Republicans find a new obsession?Politics Feminist News Gender
Virginia Votes to Regulate Abortion Clinics Like Hospitals; Most Clinics Will Close
Putting abortion providers out of work, that appears to be your average Republican's idea of a jobs program. With the country in serious decline, obsessing over women's wombs is how our Republicans spend their time. Gawd help us:The Virginia General Assembly has agreed that abortion clinics should be regulated as hospitals instead of physician's offices, a move that antiabortion activists have sought for almost two decades, insisting that it would improve clinic safety.
Abortion rights advocates say it will make the state one of the most restrictive for abortions in the country and could force as many as 17 of the state's 21 abortion clinics to close.
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Feminist Quote of the Day
"[M]y gut instinct tells me that there’s a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there’s just a weird anxiety around women. . . I think that it's just easier to uphold, like, male heroes and men things. And that's just kind of how it is. I think we're getting better, but I think it's just deeply rooted."
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Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
I haven't had a chance to read it yet but here it is, another ground-breaking expose revealing that our 'leaders' are dummies. If you had any idealism left about the U.S. Government . . :
Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
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Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
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Union Protests at Every State Capitol
Protests supporting unions will be held in every state this Saturday, February 26. - Scroll down for Tennessee union protest info. Workers' rights are now being attacked by Republicans in countless states across the country, including Tennessee. 'We are all Wisconsin now!' Or as Van Jones calls it, February 26 will be the beginning of 'The American Dream Movement.'
Moveon is calling for "emergency rallies to Save the American Dream." A multitude of other groups are also organizing the protests.
There's a Facebook page: Rebuild The Dream.
Rally to "Save the American Dream"
What: “Save the American Dream” rally in Nashville
When: Saturday, Feb. 26, at 12 noon
Where: Tennessee Statehouse Nashville
Rally with Teachers
What: Wear red and march to the Legislative Plaza with the Tennessee Education Association Teacher Rally in Nashville
When: Saturday, March 5, at 12 noon - 3 p.m.
Where: Park and assemble at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, 600 James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, Tenn.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tennessee Rallies to Fight Union Busting Efforts Aimed at State's Teachers
Folks are gathering today at the State Capitol in Nashville to express opposition to the union busting efforts of Tennessee Republican lawmakers:Senate Republican leaders are pushing a bill that would do away with a 1978 state law that requires school boards to engage in collective bargaining negotiations in districts where a majority of educators have organized.
Representatives of Citizen Action, Tennessee AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union, Professional Firefighters, Fraternal Order of Police, United Campus Workers and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers are expected to speak.
And there will be a rally, in d0wntown Nashville on March 5th, in suport of teachers and against the union busting efforts of Tennessee lawmakers:
The Tennessee Education Association is urging all teachers to take part in the march to Legislative Plaza on Saturday, March 5 from 12 p.m. until 3 p.m. They're meeting at the Bicentennial Mall in Downtown Nashville, and asking everyone to wear red. . The Tennessee Tea Party is planning a counter protest from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 5.
Sign the petition: Wisconsin Protest: Sign the Petition to Support Unions/Workers' Rights
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Wisconsin Governor Walker Punked by Fake Koch Call
Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker was pranked when he talked frankly with someone he thought was his best buddy and funder, David Koch. The Governor's office confirms it.
Transcript and audio at Mother Jones.
Gov. Scott Walker Has 20 Minute Phone Conversation With Prank Caller Pretending To Be David Koch
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Transcript and audio at Mother Jones.
Gov. Scott Walker Has 20 Minute Phone Conversation With Prank Caller Pretending To Be David Koch
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U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore Thanks Republicans for Effort to Save Black Babies from Abortion (Video)
Goddess, I love this woman. While she's at it, she takes a righteous jab at welfare reformers, that would be especially Democrats.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tina Fey: The Definition of a Crazy Woman
Quote of the Day"I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they still work. The women though, they’re all crazy. I have a suspicion- and hear me out, because this is a rough one - that the definition of crazy in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore."
-- Tina Fey
via Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood
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Indiana Democrats Flee State to Escape Vote on Union Busting Bill
Shutting down repressive Republican governments by leaving town? Why didn't someone think of this before?The Indiana union-busting bill is said to be even worse than the one in Wisconsin.
Seats on one side of the Indiana House were nearly empty today as House Democrats departed the the state rather than vote on anti-union legislation. A source tells The Indianapolis Star that Democrats are headed to Illinois, though it was possible some also might go to Kentucky. They need to go to a state with a Democratic governor to avoid being taken into police custody and returned to Indiana.
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Wisconsin Protest: Where Are the National Democrats?
Quote of the Day
"From what I can tell not a single elected national Democrat has come to Madison to support the workers. And Obama nearly silent. "
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"From what I can tell not a single elected national Democrat has come to Madison to support the workers. And Obama nearly silent. "
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Wisconsin's Governor Walker Delivers For Koch Brothers
Wisconsin's Governor Walker is a prime example of a politico who is paid to deliver the agenda of the billionaire Koch Brothers:
It turns out that not only did billionaire conservative brothers David and Charles Koch support the candidacy of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, but they also pushed Walker to have a showdown with state unions. So says Tim Phillips, the president of the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity, who are helping to lead anti-union counter-protests in the state and leading anti-union measures in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, too. .
“The Koch brothers are the poster children of the effort by multinational corporate America to try to redefine the rights and values of American citizens.” -- Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI)
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Lara Logan Stripped, Beaten With Flagpoles, Fists
According to the latest report, Lara Logan was stripped in a mob of 200 men and brutally attacked for 30 minutes before a group of Egyptian women and about 20 soldiers rescued her:The CBS reporter was stripped and battered with fists and makeshift flagpoles, reports the Times of London, via the Daily Mail. She was pinched so hard by her attackers that the red marks that covered her body were initially thought to be bites. “The psychological trauma is as bad as, if not worse than, the physical injuries,” said a friend. Still, “Lara is getting better daily."
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Egyptians Buy Pizza for Wisconsin Protestors
You can support the protesters by buying pizza for them, but you'll have to get in line: Try calling Ian's, a "campus staple" pizza joint in Madison, which has given away thousands of slices of "donated" pizza to protestors, all bought and paid for by people calling in to the restaurant from around the world. No, really, around the world:
The blackboard behind the counter lists the "countries donating" as "Korea, Finland, Egypt, Denmark, Australia, US, Canada, Germany, China, London, Netherlands, Turkey" and has the abbreviations for all 50 states listed below, with donating states circled. As of Sunday afternoon, 38 states had been marked as contributors.
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Protesters in Wisconsin Say They Are Staying Put
Although union leaders have urged Wisconsin teachers to return to work at schools today, massive protests are expected to continue all week and for the duration. With the capital occupied 24/7 by protesters, the state government is closed for business:“We’ll be here Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday — as long as it takes,” Gary Lonzo, a union organizer and former Wisconsin corrections officer, said Sunday as he watched protesters banging drums and waving signs here for a sixth day in a row. “We’re not going anywhere.”
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Paul Krugman: Wisconsin's Governor Walker Threatens Democracy
Quote of the Day"What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin — and eventually, America — less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style oligarchy. And that’s why anyone who believes that we need some counterweight to the political power of big money should be on the demonstrators’ side. . .
"[I]f America has become more oligarchic and less democratic over the last 30 years — which it has — that’s to an important extent due to the decline of private-sector unions. And now Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to get rid of public-sector unions, too. . So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t."
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