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Someone had to post a link already. Congratulations to all my gay and lesbian friends! Hell, congratulations to all my American friends! This is a historic day.
Obamacare survives.
Kennedy & Roberts join in Majority decision!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/obamacare-supreme-court-decision_n_7346048.html
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin announced today that he was removing the Israeli flag from his presidential residence in Jerusalem as an acknowledgment of the more than 500 children killed by Israel in Gaza a year ago.
THIS IS A BIG DEAL.
It is symbolic.
But I am watching MSNBC RIGHT NOW
And I think this symbol is at last gone.
http://www.bing.com/news/search?q=gov+of+SC+to+remove+Confederate+Flag&qs=n&form=QBNT&pq=gov+of+sc+t
o+remove+confederate+flag&sc=0-11&sp=-1&sk=
THIS IS GOING ON NOW.
Does this 'solve' all things of race?
No.
But this is the State that fired on Ft. Sumter.
This is a big deal to me.
I guess I dream too much.
I feel this is very historically significant. Some of it was directed to us and our oligarchy.
The biggest challenge to the current world order posed by Pope Francis’s Encyclical is that it calls into question the basic way we measure our success and our accomplishment, the very yardsticks we use. “Problems have been exacerbated by the fact that economic activity is currently measured solely in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and therefore does not record the degradation of Earth that accompanies it nor the abject inequities between countries and within each country,” concluded Pope Francis’s expert panel.
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But he says it will be seismic in compelling a long over due “global conversation of, how do we even define prosperity? Is it just accumulating more dollars or do we have to factor in being accountable for our impact on the planet and the all people that live on it?”
Rove is at it again!
Rove is pissed at Trump.
I know I dwell on KO's too much at times, but this is really funny.
Turd Blossom is always hilarious to me since he fell out of power and then disgraced himself on FOX (of all places) in 2012.
It appears that the turd is having problems financing his PAC; but you have to give him some semblance of respect for spitting at Trump!
Any time the repubs fight each other, that is good news, as far as I am concerned.
With Neil Young in your corner, all Bernie needs now is Bruce Springstein.
Christian Science Monitor:
In anticipation of the upcoming UN summit on climate change this year, Pope Francis will release a papal encyclical on Thursday urging people to act.
The document, called "Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home," will paint climate change as a moral, rather than a political, issue, focusing on how poor communities are affected, Reuters reports. Those familiar with the encyclical have said it will censure the “throw-away” lifestyles of wealthy nations.
The ACLU is already looking at options to challenge laws, signed by Gov. Rick Snyder Thursday, that will allow faith-based adoption agencies in Michigan to refuse to serve prospective parents, like same-sex or unmarried couples, if doing so would violate the agencies' religious beliefs.
PDF: Read the bill's full language
Snyder's decision on faith-based adoption came as the U.S. Supreme Court is on the verge of ruling later this month on whether same-sex marriages should be legal in Michigan and several other states.
The decision came after the bill was placed on the Senate's agenda at the last minute -- and with no notice Wednesday -- passed and quickly concurred in by the House of Representatives.
There was a lot of bellyaching from the faith based adoption agencies because they feared losing state funding.
In the 2014-15 budget year, $19.9 million in state and federal funds went toward supporting agencies for adoption and foster care services, according to the state Department of Human Services. Nearly $10 million of that total went to faith-based agencies that would be covered under the religious objection bills.
and
ACLU attorney Brooke Tucker said the group is looking at ways to challenge of the law on constitutional grounds.
"The constitution doesn't allow discrimination based on religion and you can't do that with state funds," she said.
This may all be like a fart in a whirlwind: ..."it sends Michigan in the exact wrong direction just weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court could invalidate all legislative or constitutional provisions that permit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Should that happen, this statute, along with bigoted laws in states around the country, would fall like their predecessors — Jim Crow-era laws and regulations — after landmark rulings in the 1960s."
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Scalia has like six real degrees from USA and European Universities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia
I was just caught by the idea that there is a greater gooooooood.
I hate Scalia.
Cause I finished High School and this man is lying.
This speech bothers me.
And I do not know where in the hell to add this.
We have 40,000 year old cave paintings in Europe.
I blogged about cave paintings in the Americas that might be 100,000 years of age.
THIS IS BULLSHITE.
And what is worse, this asshole knows what he said is bullshite.
I dunno, this pissed me off.
Can you really tell me that this man never studied Picasso?
Again, I do not know why I was compelled to cite this.
THE GREATER GOOD?
TO WHOM?
Almost everything about SEAL Team 6, a classified Special Operations unit, is shrouded in secrecy —the Pentagon does not even publicly acknowledge that name —though some of its exploits have emerged in largely admiring accounts in recent years. But an examination of Team 6’s evolution, drawn from dozens of interviews with current and former team members, other military officials and reviews of government documents, reveals a far more complex, provocative tale.
I have fought for many of my 68 years against efforts to put women — our brains, our hearts, our bodies, even our moods — into tidy boxes, to reduce us to hoary stereotypes. Suddenly, I find that many of the people I think of as being on my side — people who proudly call themselves progressive and fervently support the human need for self-determination — are buying into the notion that minor differences in male and female brains lead to major forks in the road and that some sort of gendered destiny is encoded in us.
That’s the kind of nonsense that was used to repress women for centuries. But the desire to support people like Ms. Jenner and their journey toward their truest selves has strangely and unwittingly brought it back.
In May, this Indiana house of worship won the right to light up freely and spread its groovy gospel thanks to a newly awarded nonprofit designation from the Internal Revenue Service.
Members of the congregation, called “Cannabiterians,” say they smoke marijuana to connect more closely with themselves and others.
They believe in the “Deity Dozen,” a list of 12 tenets for living a good life, which is the cannabis congregation’s equivalent of the Ten Commandments:
Tenet #1
The election frenzy…seizes the country every four years because we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the polls.
— Howard Zinn, April 2008
The Bernie phenomenon has landed in my neighborhood. I am referring to “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders’ candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, heavily focused on Iowa, home to the nation’s earliest presidential Caucus. Last Saturday, downtown Iowa City’s usually quiet Robert A. Lee Recreation Center, six blocks from my house, was packed with 1100 liberals to hear Sanders talk. I looked down into the center’s gym, where I occasionally shoot baskets alongside no more than 5 or 6 young and poor Black men. It was wall-to-wall with middle class white folks, many white-haired
It was just after dawn on May 27 when Andrew Jennings’s phone began ringing. Swiss police had just launched a startling raid on a luxury hotel in Zurich, arresting seven top FIFA officials and charging them and others with running a $150 million racket. The world was stunned.The waking world, that is. If Jennings had bothered to climb out of bed, he wouldn’t have been surprised at the news. After all, he was the man who set the investigation in motion, with a book in 2006, “FOUL! The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandals,” followed by an exposé aired on the BBC’s “Panorama” program that same year, and then another book in 2014, called “Omerta: Sepp Blatter’s FIFA Organised Crime Family.”
This item just amazed me!
This school kitchen lady was fired because a tot was crying that she had lost her lunch money!
WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH THESE PEOPLE?
In case I screwed up the link:
Wait till you read the school lunch program rules in Aurora.
In case any of us were prone to believe what the Russian government has been telling us on this matter…
Scandalous Russian TV film presents Russia's Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague 1968 as preventing a NATO attack or coup from the west, rather than cracking down on recent Prague Spring liberties.
Once again, Russia labels any opposition protesters as "fascists, Nazis, and members of the Nazi SS", apparently their favorite card trick.
He died of brain cancer. He has been sick for a while. This is so sad. My sympathies for the Biden Family.
Roberts court had decided to take the case about who should be counted in a district for size. It has never been ruled upon whether a district should just count eligible voters equally among districts or should all be counted including immigrants and prisoners. If all is counted then that will move the power to the rural areas that are mostly older and conservative according to the author.
I am sure they will rule what ever keeps the GOP in power at the state and House levels. It is something to watch for.
Until recently, most presidential candidates have pretended that they aren’t beholden to the donors who finance their campaigns. For the 2016 race, however, the GOP’s candidates aren’t even hiding the fact that they want to be sold to the highest bidder. Their primary really is dominated by a handful of billionaires, with the candidates hoping to win all-important “auditions” with big-money funders like the Kochs and the Adelsons, who will collectively spend over $1 billion on the campaign.
A few weeks after Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced his candidacy, his super PAC took in $31 million, thanks to the support of Long Island hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer. Florida Senator Marco Rubio has won a $10 million pledge to his super PAC from the billionaire Miami auto dealer Norman Braman. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has been asking donors to give $1 million a pop to his super PAC, which expects to bring in $100 million by end of May, the most ever for an unannounced candidate this early in the process. The Bush campaign is planning to outsource many important campaign activities to his super PAC, from advertising to polling to policy development — despite a prohibition on direct coordination between these groups and the official campaigns. Jeb’s onetime chief rival for the nomination, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, has been struggling in part because, “unlike many of his rivals, he appears to lack a prominent wealthy donor prepared, at this point, to sustain a campaign with a multimillion-dollar contribution,” The New York Times noted.
Please take time to read the whole article.