lnkI disagree CitizenAnonymous2013-08-04 06:40:00I do not believe Americans are cowards. I do believe the "boogeyman" terrorist is real and that our years of relative peace on the North American continent are drawing to a close. I don't believe "benefits" are a fair trade for slavery. lnsIf terrorists were to attack DC OCisstilldoomed2013-08-04 06:37:02I would have to seriously question which side I would want to win.slcSnowden comes to mind. Yes i agree case8002013-08-04 06:36:47simple but true!detI think they are Republicans § blue-heron2013-08-04 06:36:38slcI don't typically post anything UnMitigated_Galt2013-08-04 06:34:59with the Anonymous mask - but this exception seemed to be worthy 
omaWhat does that have to do with politics? Gandolff2013-08-04 06:32:15and why would i give a shit about your teeth?prvI'm cancelling my trip to Yeman noneoftheabove312013-08-04 06:31:20US out of Yeman, Afghan, UAE, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Oman, Syria, etc etc. omaNICE EXAMPLE OF THE FDA AT WORK? SaintK--Mark2013-08-04 06:30:04Let it be known I am providing my fellow man with my testimony so he may be aware of things that he has been taught are stereotypical of being mentally ill. However that is not the case as I have found.It is that Peopleare being targeted. By Whom you may wonder. I will tell you. Why? I just don't read minds so I don't know. A while back I had a filling break and my dentist said I needed to replace with a crown. So I had it done. About eight months later I started to have stomach issues, I also developed a ringing in the ears which later became a ringing and a chirping, it became multitudinous in nature. After some time my reflux got worse and I was researching possibilities for causation. I had all my mercury fillings removed as a possibility. I studied nerve endings as a possibility and found that the nerve centers for different areas of the body run through the tooth nerve network. For instance the crowned tooth is chorelated via nerve network to the stomach area where my problems cropped up. Now I also started researching the ringing/chirping thinking it was possibly external. Nope, now on a whim I took some a cotton cloth and cut strips and rolled them up and I padded around this crown and to my surprise the ringing chirping stopped. I removed the padding and it started again. I repeated the process with the same results to make sure it wasn't a fluke. It wasn't. I cannot say why, I just don't know. However it is my Civic duty to warn my fellow mankind. The doctor who put in the Crown is SD Cain 908 north howard ave Grand Island Nebraska That is my testimony so help me God. p.S. In my original journey to find a cure for my reflux disease, I went to Dr. Wirth here in Grand Island. Now this was when I still had my Mercury Amalgam Fillings leaching into my body via my teeth. (amalgam fillings are 45 percent mercury.) He gave me CARAFATE ( ALUMINUM) it made me sick when I took it, now this video will show you why too. I dont' know if they just wanted to make me sick and soak my insurance company or .......... Heres two links to see what happens when you mix aluminum and mercury. It's no wonder it made me sick to take the carafate with mercury fillings in my teeth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbUPjHHml1Ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Ilxsu-JlYknxNo! I disagree. CROOKED politicians did it! § case8002013-08-04 06:17:45houI'm thinking NO. § Carl_Spackler2013-08-04 06:17:01detI'm glad you asked. Here: blue-heron2013-08-04 06:15:48http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIg7o17iDcdetEvictions at Gunpoint MechTech112013-08-04 06:12:12Evictions at Gunpoint It was three in the morning when at least a dozen police cruisers pulled up to the single-story, green-shuttered house in the African American Atlanta suburb where Christine Frazer and her family lived. The precise number of sheriffs and deputies who arrived is disputed; the local radio station reported 25, while Frazer recalled seeing between 40 and 50. A locksmith drilled off the home’s locks and dozens of officers burst into the house with flashlights and handguns. “Who’s in the house?” they shouted. Aside from Frazer, a widow with a vocal devotion to the Man Above, there were three other residents: her 85-year-old mother, her adult daughter, and her four-year-old grandson. Things began to happen fast. Animal control rounded up the pets. Officers told the women to get dressed. Could she take a shower? Frazer asked. Imagine there’s a fire in your house, the officer replied. “They came to my home like I was a drug dealer,” she told reporters later. Over the next seven hours, the officers hauled out the entire contents of her home and cordoned off the street to prevent friends from helping her retrieve her things. “I have no idea where some of my jewelry is, stuff I bought when I was 30 years old,” said Frazer. “I am sixty-three. They just threw everything everywhere, helter-skelter on the front lawn in the dark.” The eviction-turned-raid sparked controversy across Atlanta when it occurred in the spring of 2012, in part because Frazer had a motion pending in federal court that should have stayed the eviction, and in part because she was an active participant of Occupy Homes Atlanta. But this type of militarized reaction is often the outcome when communities -- especially those of color -- organize to resist eviction. When Nicole Shelton attempted to move back into her repossessed home in a picket-fence subdivision in North Carolina, the Raleigh police department sent in more than a dozen police officers and an eight-person SWAT team. Officers were equipped with M5 submachine guns. A helicopter roared overhead. In Boston, one organizer with the community group City Life/Vida Urbana remembers the police acting so aggressively at an eviction blockade in a Haitian neighborhood that the grandmother of the family had a heart attack right in the driveway. detMillions of Americans Have Had Their Homes Taken MechTech112013-08-04 06:11:51Away by the Banks -- Often at the Point of a Gun (Keep sending israel billions and bail out banks with trillions just to have this happen to Non-jews.) Against all odds, and continued predatory Wall Street behavior, community activists are working to reclaim devastated neighborhoods. 
Continued from previous page However, African American neighborhoods were targeted more aggressively than others for the sort of predatory loans that led to mass evictions after the economic meltdown of 2007-2008. At the height of the rapacious lending boom, nearly 50% of all loans given to African American families were deemed “subprime.” The New York Times described these contracts as “a financial time-bomb.” Over the last year and a half, I traveled through many of these neighborhoods, reporting on the grassroots movements of resistance to foreclosure and displacement that have been springing up in the wake of the explosion. These community efforts have proven creative, inspiring, and often effective -- but in too many cities and towns, the landscape that forms the backdrop to such a movement of hope is one of almost overwhelming destruction. Lots filled with “Cheap Bank-Owned!” trailers line highways. Cities hire contractors dubbed “Blackwater Bailiffs” to keep pace with the dizzying eviction rate. In recent years, the foreclosure crisis has been turning many African American communities into conflict zones, torn between a market hell-bent on commodifying life itself and communities organizing to protect their neighborhoods. The more I ventured into such areas, the more I came to realize that the clash of values going on isn’t just theoretical or metaphorical. “Internal displacement causes conflict,” explained J.R. Fleming, the chairman of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign. “And there’s no other country in the world that would force so much internal displacement and pretend that it’s something else.” Do People Become More Conservative as .... 2013-08-04 06:05:55Do People Become More Conservative as they age: Amidst the bipartisan banter of election season, there persists an enduring belief that people get more conservative as they age -- making older people more likely to vote for Republican candidates. In fact, studies show that people may actually get more liberal over time when it comes to certain kinds of beliefs. That suggests that we are not pre-determined to get stodgy, set in our ways or otherwise more inflexible in our retirement years. Using surveys taken between 1972 and 2004, the researchers found that groups of people actually became more tolerant, not more conservative, after age 60 -- calling into question some enduring myths about old age. Survey questions addressed attitudes about boundaries of privacy (such as the right to die), historically subordinate groups (such as women and Blacks) and civil liberties (for groups like atheists). Results, which are just starting to emerge, suggest that each belief follows its own complicated pattern. Seniors seem to have become more liberal about subordinate groups, for example, but more conservative about civil liberties. Overall, what's happening in society at large as people come of age seems to matter most in determining the starting point for their core beliefs, said Karl Pillemer, a sociologist and gerontologist at Cornell University, who conducted more than 1,000 in-depth interviews with seniors for his book, "30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans." From there, people's attitudes can evolve as they age. And flexibility often trumps rigidity. Late in life, his research shows, people often become more open, more tolerant, and more appreciative of compassion. Even if they started out conservative, they may become less extreme in their conservatism. "Many describe themselves as open to ideas or open to new ways of thinking, and they come back to a sense of much greater tolerance for different points of view," he said. "I had someone say, 'I used to think I was always right, but now that I'm 80, I'm not so sure I'm always right.'" Millennials Killing Off the Religious Right Re 2013-08-04 06:03:55Millennials Killing Off the Religious Right Religious progressives are on the rise. Are we facing down the end of the conservative death grip on religion in America? It's true that religious progressives have always been a part of the conversation—it's not just Republican politicians who pay fealty to God in their public speeches and appearances—but by and large, when faith is discussed in public forums, it's almost always religious conservatives using it as a cudgel to attack women's rights, gay rights, and secularism. That may be changing, however, as the numbers of religious progressives are on the rise, according to the Public Religion Research Institute. In fact, for people ages 18-33, religious progressives outnumber religious conservatives. ThinkProgress reports: According to the survey, 23 percent of people aged 18 to 33 are religious progressives, while 22 percent are nonreligious and 17 percent are religious conservatives. By contrast, only 12 percent of those aged 66 to 88 are religious progressives, whereas 47 percent are said to be religious conservatives. I'm sure religious conservatives had a hunch that they were losing young people long before this polling data confirmed it, just by looking at the people sitting in their pews. Evangelical leaders have been fretting about this loss for a couple of years now, and it's an open secret that the youngest generation finds the reactionary politics and hostility toward science that marks religious conservatism to be repulsive. Some of the kids fleeing the flock just end up having no religious beliefs at all, but some clearly want to retain a connection to faith without having to sign off on the anti-feminism, homophobia, and creationism that comes with the more conservative churches. While it's unwise to write off the possibility of yet another revival of conservative religious mania—conventional wisdom would say that the young progressives will get more conservative as they age, though that's not necessarily true—for the time being, the signs point to a simmering down of the religion wars in the U.S. Religious progressives are politically aligned with the nonreligious, particularly in their opposition to the religious right's impact on politics. GOP isn't just wrong, its understanding of publi the__lie-detector2013-08-04 06:03:36GOP isn't just wrong, its understanding of public attitudes is the exact opposite of reality. The public is prepared to hold Republicans responsible for this self-inflicted wound that will undermine the economy, the military, and public needs. The one thing the GOP is counting on -- avoiding blame at all costs -- is already failing miserably. Indeed, looking ahead, voters were asked, "What should be the focus of steps to reduce the deficit?" A whopping 76% majority said there should be a combination of spending cuts and new revenue. Only 19% of the public -- fewer than one in five -- agrees with the Republicans cuts-only approach. Given the number of Americans who self-identify as members of the GOP, this suggests the Republican Party has failed to even persuade some of its own voters.Wait, it gets even worse for Republicans (and better for Democrats). On specific issues, the same poll found that Americans side with President Obama over the GOP on who has the better approach to reducing the deficit, who's right on reducing gun violence, who has the better plan to deal with immigration, and by a huge margin, who's better on the climate crisis. What's the good news for Republicans in these new national polls? There is no good news for Republicans in these new national polls. Now I never get too crazed about this type of data for the long term because politics is such a fluid ecosystem, but hopefully the Obama administration will take this data to heart and become stronger negotiators since the GOP is stuck with a jack high hand while Dems are holding a full boat. And if they play their cards right and not have any major scandals they can keep a winning hand up until 2014. There’s Not Much That’s Funnier Than a Republica the__lie-detector2013-08-04 05:56:36There’s Not Much That’s Funnier Than a Republican Confronted With Facts I’m sure I’m not the only one who, when debating a Republican, walks away thinking, “I wonder what reality is like on their planet?” For instance their hero is President Reagan, someone they call a “true conservative.” Except, they can’t tell you exactly how he was a conservative. He quadrupled our national debt, something Republicans don’t deny. Yet they still consider him the epitome of “Republican conservatism.” Or let’s look at the recession — they actually blame it on President Obama, and the ones that don’t blame it on him say he made it worse. Which is just about as bad as those who think he caused it, considering our job losses were cut by more than 50% 4 months after he took office. Only in the world of Republicans can reducing job losses by more than half, quickly, be a bad thing. Last year’s presidential election really brought about the most ridiculous behavior by Republicans. Nothing quite like a party which had pushed Obama to release 2 different forms of a birth certificate, and some pushing for the release of college transcripts, then saying their presidential candidate had no obligation to show more than 2 years of his tax returns. What made it even more ironic was that Romney’s own father was the man who set the precedent for a presidential candidate releasing multiple years worth of tax returns. Then Republicans tried to say Obama was playing politics over tax returns, even though it was during the GOP primaries that fellow Republicans made Romney’s tax returns an issue. Just more proof that blaming Obama for something they created is nothing new for conservatives. And I can’t forget the “Great Benghazi Conspiracy". Except—there’s nothing to it. In fact, the real “conspiracy” is who edited the “leaked emails” that were initially released to try and create a story that wasn’t there. You’re telling me that Republicans knew nothing of the emails being edited? Sure they didn’t. But if you point this out to a Republican they’ll paint Benghazi as an attack as bad as 9/11 and a “cover up” even more scandalous than Watergate. No, seriously—Republicans have compared those events to Benghazi. uvasharpton and other so called black leaders khandoor992013-08-04 05:56:30met with obie and holder demanding he issue some EO's to somehow overturn SCOTUS' recent ruling on voter ID. When he said he could not they went into a collective meltdown. I wish I was there to witness that...but can you imagine the smell in that room?I fuck animals § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:54:27I put dynamite up my ass for pleasure § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:54:11unkTexas Tea party Leader Defends Fascist Party as the__lie-detector2013-08-04 05:53:25Texas Tea party Leader Defends Fascist Party as 'Pro-Constitution, Pro-America' A tea party leader in Texas is defending his promotion of the American Fascist Party as something he thought was "pro-Constitution, pro-America." James Ives, who was listed as the president of the Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party in 2011, confirmed to The Texas Tribune on Monday that he had made a promotional video for the American Fascist Party and advocated tea party principles on a Fascist Party message board. In the video, a man who looks like Ives sits in front of a Fascist Party logo wearing a uniform with yellow shoulder patches. Another photo shows a uniformed man sitting in front of a fascist cross. The blog that inspired Norwegian mass shooter Anders Behring Breivik describes fascist solar crosses as "symbolic representations buried deep in the regions of the brain where the primal responses to stimuli are rage, awe, and fear." But Ives says that he was simply curious when he came to the Fascist Party as an "amateur political science student and frustrated novelist" in the early 2000s. "From my point of view, it was all pro-Constitution, pro-America," Ives explained to the Tribune. "I never did anything... There really weren’t enough people involved to be a gathering, let alone a rally. It was basically a scattering of people across the continent just complaining.” The tea party leader claimed that he his participation in the Fascist Party was part of an effort to write a novel about what he thought was a cabal. But instead of writing that novel, Ives wrote on the message board about how building the Fascist Party in America was "our spirit, our calling." "It will be our greatest challenge, and our sweetest victory, to finally surpass this dark menace, this numbing threat from the shadows, and replace it with the pure sunbeam that is our Fascist Faith, our Fascist Truth," Ives wrote. Republican state Sen. Dan Patrick pledged not to host Ives on his radio show in the future if the links to the Fascist Party proved to be true. Patrick called the tea party leader's involvement with the fascist movement "very disturbing, no matter how far in the past it is." The state senator insisted that Ives had "never been on our payroll, never been an employee." unki have anal warts in my preoptic area § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:52:27unki have anal warts in my Metathalamus § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:51:59unki have anal warts in my Pulvinar § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:51:31unkSocial Mobility Much More Difficult in Red State the__lie-detector2013-08-04 05:51:23Social Mobility Much More Difficult in Red States Conservatives love to give lip service to the American Dream. And to achieve it, they insist, all you need to do is work really hard. Who needs all those government programs, asked Marco Rubio, when the son of a bartender and KMart worker is a US Senator? But the reality is, today the United States lags far behind other advanced countries in social mobility. The "American Dream" is actually easier to achieve in Sweden. And the least likely place in America to move up the economic ladder? Yep, you guessed it: the Red States. Climbing the income ladder occurs less often in the Southeast and industrial Midwest, the data shows, with the odds notably low in Atlanta, Charlotte, Memphis, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Columbus. By contrast, some of the highest rates occur in the Northeast, Great Plains and West, including in New York, Boston, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Seattle and large swaths of California and Minnesota. This isn't surprising. We already knew the Red States are poorer, less educated, have higher rates of teen pregnancy, divorce and gun deaths. So, it makes sense that the American Dream is harder to come by there. But what I want to know is this: if right-wing economic policies are so superior, why does living in the Red States make it harder to achieve the American Dream conservatives love to idealize? unki have anal warts in my Ventral tegmental area § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:50:55unkA GOP more dysfunctional than you could ever ima the__lie-detector2013-08-04 05:50:39A GOP more dysfunctional than you could ever imagine Jonathan Bernstein at The Washington Post explains that it's not "divided government" that's the problem with Congress. It's a GOP divided against itself: As to the problem: Yes, there’s divided government. But political scientists have found that divided government isn’t necessarily an impediment to legislative productivity. No, the problem is actually pretty simple. It’s not, overall, a dysfunctional Congress; it’s a dysfunctional House. Sure, the Senate has plenty of inefficiencies, but it’s the House now which really just can’t do much of anything. It’s pretty simple: most Republicans are either hostile to the entire idea of finding compromises with Democrats or are terrified of other conservatives who hate compromise; and, at the same time Republicans aren’t unified enough to be able to pass very much in the House on their own. There’s a lot more to say about it, but that’s really the bottom line: They aren’t going to compromise and they can’t get anything done without compromising. If the foundation of the GOP’s majority—and the cause of its extremism—is gerrymandering, then you can fix the problem with bipartisan (or nonpartisan) redistricting. But if the problem isn’t connected to the process, you have a different challenge. The evidence, I think, points to the culture of the Republican Party as the problem, and not the circumstances of its particular lawmakers. For starters, you have similar attitudes among Republican members of the Senate, i.e., politicians who represent entire states, and not just districts (Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, for example). What’s more, even if you could explain GOP extremism through gerrymandering, there’s nothing about a highly ideological approach to politics that requires intransigence. You can have a strong attachment to your beliefs and show a willingness to compromise for the sake of advancing them. What’s missing in the Republican Party is that willingness to compromise for anything, even if it benefits the particular interests of individual lawmakers or the interests of the party writ large. And this seems to stem from an attitude that emerged during the 1994 elections and has only grown since—the idea that conservatives aren’t just opposed to liberals but that they’re at war with liberalism. unki have anal warts in my inferior colliculi § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:49:48unkI have anal warts in middle cerebellar peduncle § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:48:59unki have anal warts in my third ventricle § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:47:59
omaWhat does that have to do with politics? Gandolff2013-08-04 06:32:15and why would i give a shit about your teeth?prvI'm cancelling my trip to Yeman noneoftheabove312013-08-04 06:31:20US out of Yeman, Afghan, UAE, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Oman, Syria, etc etc. omaNICE EXAMPLE OF THE FDA AT WORK? SaintK--Mark2013-08-04 06:30:04Let it be known I am providing my fellow man with my testimony so he may be aware of things that he has been taught are stereotypical of being mentally ill. However that is not the case as I have found.It is that Peopleare being targeted. By Whom you may wonder. I will tell you. Why? I just don't read minds so I don't know. A while back I had a filling break and my dentist said I needed to replace with a crown. So I had it done. About eight months later I started to have stomach issues, I also developed a ringing in the ears which later became a ringing and a chirping, it became multitudinous in nature. After some time my reflux got worse and I was researching possibilities for causation. I had all my mercury fillings removed as a possibility. I studied nerve endings as a possibility and found that the nerve centers for different areas of the body run through the tooth nerve network. For instance the crowned tooth is chorelated via nerve network to the stomach area where my problems cropped up. Now I also started researching the ringing/chirping thinking it was possibly external. Nope, now on a whim I took some a cotton cloth and cut strips and rolled them up and I padded around this crown and to my surprise the ringing chirping stopped. I removed the padding and it started again. I repeated the process with the same results to make sure it wasn't a fluke. It wasn't. I cannot say why, I just don't know. However it is my Civic duty to warn my fellow mankind. The doctor who put in the Crown is SD Cain 908 north howard ave Grand Island Nebraska That is my testimony so help me God. p.S. In my original journey to find a cure for my reflux disease, I went to Dr. Wirth here in Grand Island. Now this was when I still had my Mercury Amalgam Fillings leaching into my body via my teeth. (amalgam fillings are 45 percent mercury.) He gave me CARAFATE ( ALUMINUM) it made me sick when I took it, now this video will show you why too. I dont' know if they just wanted to make me sick and soak my insurance company or .......... Heres two links to see what happens when you mix aluminum and mercury. It's no wonder it made me sick to take the carafate with mercury fillings in my teeth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbUPjHHml1Ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Ilxsu-JlYknxNo! I disagree. CROOKED politicians did it! § case8002013-08-04 06:17:45houI'm thinking NO. § Carl_Spackler2013-08-04 06:17:01detI'm glad you asked. Here: blue-heron2013-08-04 06:15:48http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIg7o17iDcdetEvictions at Gunpoint MechTech112013-08-04 06:12:12Evictions at Gunpoint It was three in the morning when at least a dozen police cruisers pulled up to the single-story, green-shuttered house in the African American Atlanta suburb where Christine Frazer and her family lived. The precise number of sheriffs and deputies who arrived is disputed; the local radio station reported 25, while Frazer recalled seeing between 40 and 50. A locksmith drilled off the home’s locks and dozens of officers burst into the house with flashlights and handguns. “Who’s in the house?” they shouted. Aside from Frazer, a widow with a vocal devotion to the Man Above, there were three other residents: her 85-year-old mother, her adult daughter, and her four-year-old grandson. Things began to happen fast. Animal control rounded up the pets. Officers told the women to get dressed. Could she take a shower? Frazer asked. Imagine there’s a fire in your house, the officer replied. “They came to my home like I was a drug dealer,” she told reporters later. Over the next seven hours, the officers hauled out the entire contents of her home and cordoned off the street to prevent friends from helping her retrieve her things. “I have no idea where some of my jewelry is, stuff I bought when I was 30 years old,” said Frazer. “I am sixty-three. They just threw everything everywhere, helter-skelter on the front lawn in the dark.” The eviction-turned-raid sparked controversy across Atlanta when it occurred in the spring of 2012, in part because Frazer had a motion pending in federal court that should have stayed the eviction, and in part because she was an active participant of Occupy Homes Atlanta. But this type of militarized reaction is often the outcome when communities -- especially those of color -- organize to resist eviction. When Nicole Shelton attempted to move back into her repossessed home in a picket-fence subdivision in North Carolina, the Raleigh police department sent in more than a dozen police officers and an eight-person SWAT team. Officers were equipped with M5 submachine guns. A helicopter roared overhead. In Boston, one organizer with the community group City Life/Vida Urbana remembers the police acting so aggressively at an eviction blockade in a Haitian neighborhood that the grandmother of the family had a heart attack right in the driveway. detMillions of Americans Have Had Their Homes Taken MechTech112013-08-04 06:11:51Away by the Banks -- Often at the Point of a Gun (Keep sending israel billions and bail out banks with trillions just to have this happen to Non-jews.) Against all odds, and continued predatory Wall Street behavior, community activists are working to reclaim devastated neighborhoods. Continued from previous page However, African American neighborhoods were targeted more aggressively than others for the sort of predatory loans that led to mass evictions after the economic meltdown of 2007-2008. At the height of the rapacious lending boom, nearly 50% of all loans given to African American families were deemed “subprime.” The New York Times described these contracts as “a financial time-bomb.” Over the last year and a half, I traveled through many of these neighborhoods, reporting on the grassroots movements of resistance to foreclosure and displacement that have been springing up in the wake of the explosion. These community efforts have proven creative, inspiring, and often effective -- but in too many cities and towns, the landscape that forms the backdrop to such a movement of hope is one of almost overwhelming destruction. Lots filled with “Cheap Bank-Owned!” trailers line highways. Cities hire contractors dubbed “Blackwater Bailiffs” to keep pace with the dizzying eviction rate. In recent years, the foreclosure crisis has been turning many African American communities into conflict zones, torn between a market hell-bent on commodifying life itself and communities organizing to protect their neighborhoods. The more I ventured into such areas, the more I came to realize that the clash of values going on isn’t just theoretical or metaphorical. “Internal displacement causes conflict,” explained J.R. Fleming, the chairman of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign. “And there’s no other country in the world that would force so much internal displacement and pretend that it’s something else.” Do People Become More Conservative as .... 2013-08-04 06:05:55Do People Become More Conservative as they age: Amidst the bipartisan banter of election season, there persists an enduring belief that people get more conservative as they age -- making older people more likely to vote for Republican candidates. In fact, studies show that people may actually get more liberal over time when it comes to certain kinds of beliefs. That suggests that we are not pre-determined to get stodgy, set in our ways or otherwise more inflexible in our retirement years. Using surveys taken between 1972 and 2004, the researchers found that groups of people actually became more tolerant, not more conservative, after age 60 -- calling into question some enduring myths about old age. Survey questions addressed attitudes about boundaries of privacy (such as the right to die), historically subordinate groups (such as women and Blacks) and civil liberties (for groups like atheists). Results, which are just starting to emerge, suggest that each belief follows its own complicated pattern. Seniors seem to have become more liberal about subordinate groups, for example, but more conservative about civil liberties. Overall, what's happening in society at large as people come of age seems to matter most in determining the starting point for their core beliefs, said Karl Pillemer, a sociologist and gerontologist at Cornell University, who conducted more than 1,000 in-depth interviews with seniors for his book, "30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans." From there, people's attitudes can evolve as they age. And flexibility often trumps rigidity. Late in life, his research shows, people often become more open, more tolerant, and more appreciative of compassion. Even if they started out conservative, they may become less extreme in their conservatism. "Many describe themselves as open to ideas or open to new ways of thinking, and they come back to a sense of much greater tolerance for different points of view," he said. "I had someone say, 'I used to think I was always right, but now that I'm 80, I'm not so sure I'm always right.'" Millennials Killing Off the Religious Right Re 2013-08-04 06:03:55Millennials Killing Off the Religious Right Religious progressives are on the rise. Are we facing down the end of the conservative death grip on religion in America? It's true that religious progressives have always been a part of the conversation—it's not just Republican politicians who pay fealty to God in their public speeches and appearances—but by and large, when faith is discussed in public forums, it's almost always religious conservatives using it as a cudgel to attack women's rights, gay rights, and secularism. That may be changing, however, as the numbers of religious progressives are on the rise, according to the Public Religion Research Institute. In fact, for people ages 18-33, religious progressives outnumber religious conservatives. ThinkProgress reports: According to the survey, 23 percent of people aged 18 to 33 are religious progressives, while 22 percent are nonreligious and 17 percent are religious conservatives. By contrast, only 12 percent of those aged 66 to 88 are religious progressives, whereas 47 percent are said to be religious conservatives. I'm sure religious conservatives had a hunch that they were losing young people long before this polling data confirmed it, just by looking at the people sitting in their pews. Evangelical leaders have been fretting about this loss for a couple of years now, and it's an open secret that the youngest generation finds the reactionary politics and hostility toward science that marks religious conservatism to be repulsive. Some of the kids fleeing the flock just end up having no religious beliefs at all, but some clearly want to retain a connection to faith without having to sign off on the anti-feminism, homophobia, and creationism that comes with the more conservative churches. While it's unwise to write off the possibility of yet another revival of conservative religious mania—conventional wisdom would say that the young progressives will get more conservative as they age, though that's not necessarily true—for the time being, the signs point to a simmering down of the religion wars in the U.S. Religious progressives are politically aligned with the nonreligious, particularly in their opposition to the religious right's impact on politics. GOP isn't just wrong, its understanding of publi the__lie-detector2013-08-04 06:03:36GOP isn't just wrong, its understanding of public attitudes is the exact opposite of reality. The public is prepared to hold Republicans responsible for this self-inflicted wound that will undermine the economy, the military, and public needs. The one thing the GOP is counting on -- avoiding blame at all costs -- is already failing miserably. Indeed, looking ahead, voters were asked, "What should be the focus of steps to reduce the deficit?" A whopping 76% majority said there should be a combination of spending cuts and new revenue. Only 19% of the public -- fewer than one in five -- agrees with the Republicans cuts-only approach. Given the number of Americans who self-identify as members of the GOP, this suggests the Republican Party has failed to even persuade some of its own voters.Wait, it gets even worse for Republicans (and better for Democrats). On specific issues, the same poll found that Americans side with President Obama over the GOP on who has the better approach to reducing the deficit, who's right on reducing gun violence, who has the better plan to deal with immigration, and by a huge margin, who's better on the climate crisis. What's the good news for Republicans in these new national polls? There is no good news for Republicans in these new national polls. Now I never get too crazed about this type of data for the long term because politics is such a fluid ecosystem, but hopefully the Obama administration will take this data to heart and become stronger negotiators since the GOP is stuck with a jack high hand while Dems are holding a full boat. And if they play their cards right and not have any major scandals they can keep a winning hand up until 2014. There’s Not Much That’s Funnier Than a Republica the__lie-detector2013-08-04 05:56:36There’s Not Much That’s Funnier Than a Republican Confronted With Facts I’m sure I’m not the only one who, when debating a Republican, walks away thinking, “I wonder what reality is like on their planet?” For instance their hero is President Reagan, someone they call a “true conservative.” Except, they can’t tell you exactly how he was a conservative. He quadrupled our national debt, something Republicans don’t deny. Yet they still consider him the epitome of “Republican conservatism.” Or let’s look at the recession — they actually blame it on President Obama, and the ones that don’t blame it on him say he made it worse. Which is just about as bad as those who think he caused it, considering our job losses were cut by more than 50% 4 months after he took office. Only in the world of Republicans can reducing job losses by more than half, quickly, be a bad thing. Last year’s presidential election really brought about the most ridiculous behavior by Republicans. Nothing quite like a party which had pushed Obama to release 2 different forms of a birth certificate, and some pushing for the release of college transcripts, then saying their presidential candidate had no obligation to show more than 2 years of his tax returns. What made it even more ironic was that Romney’s own father was the man who set the precedent for a presidential candidate releasing multiple years worth of tax returns. Then Republicans tried to say Obama was playing politics over tax returns, even though it was during the GOP primaries that fellow Republicans made Romney’s tax returns an issue. Just more proof that blaming Obama for something they created is nothing new for conservatives. And I can’t forget the “Great Benghazi Conspiracy". Except—there’s nothing to it. In fact, the real “conspiracy” is who edited the “leaked emails” that were initially released to try and create a story that wasn’t there. You’re telling me that Republicans knew nothing of the emails being edited? Sure they didn’t. But if you point this out to a Republican they’ll paint Benghazi as an attack as bad as 9/11 and a “cover up” even more scandalous than Watergate. No, seriously—Republicans have compared those events to Benghazi. uvasharpton and other so called black leaders khandoor992013-08-04 05:56:30met with obie and holder demanding he issue some EO's to somehow overturn SCOTUS' recent ruling on voter ID. When he said he could not they went into a collective meltdown. I wish I was there to witness that...but can you imagine the smell in that room?I fuck animals § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:54:27I put dynamite up my ass for pleasure § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:54:11unkTexas Tea party Leader Defends Fascist Party as the__lie-detector2013-08-04 05:53:25Texas Tea party Leader Defends Fascist Party as 'Pro-Constitution, Pro-America' A tea party leader in Texas is defending his promotion of the American Fascist Party as something he thought was "pro-Constitution, pro-America." James Ives, who was listed as the president of the Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party in 2011, confirmed to The Texas Tribune on Monday that he had made a promotional video for the American Fascist Party and advocated tea party principles on a Fascist Party message board. In the video, a man who looks like Ives sits in front of a Fascist Party logo wearing a uniform with yellow shoulder patches. Another photo shows a uniformed man sitting in front of a fascist cross. The blog that inspired Norwegian mass shooter Anders Behring Breivik describes fascist solar crosses as "symbolic representations buried deep in the regions of the brain where the primal responses to stimuli are rage, awe, and fear." But Ives says that he was simply curious when he came to the Fascist Party as an "amateur political science student and frustrated novelist" in the early 2000s. "From my point of view, it was all pro-Constitution, pro-America," Ives explained to the Tribune. "I never did anything... There really weren’t enough people involved to be a gathering, let alone a rally. It was basically a scattering of people across the continent just complaining.” The tea party leader claimed that he his participation in the Fascist Party was part of an effort to write a novel about what he thought was a cabal. But instead of writing that novel, Ives wrote on the message board about how building the Fascist Party in America was "our spirit, our calling." "It will be our greatest challenge, and our sweetest victory, to finally surpass this dark menace, this numbing threat from the shadows, and replace it with the pure sunbeam that is our Fascist Faith, our Fascist Truth," Ives wrote. Republican state Sen. Dan Patrick pledged not to host Ives on his radio show in the future if the links to the Fascist Party proved to be true. Patrick called the tea party leader's involvement with the fascist movement "very disturbing, no matter how far in the past it is." The state senator insisted that Ives had "never been on our payroll, never been an employee." unki have anal warts in my preoptic area § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:52:27unki have anal warts in my Metathalamus § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:51:59unki have anal warts in my Pulvinar § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:51:31unkSocial Mobility Much More Difficult in Red State the__lie-detector2013-08-04 05:51:23Social Mobility Much More Difficult in Red States Conservatives love to give lip service to the American Dream. And to achieve it, they insist, all you need to do is work really hard. Who needs all those government programs, asked Marco Rubio, when the son of a bartender and KMart worker is a US Senator? But the reality is, today the United States lags far behind other advanced countries in social mobility. The "American Dream" is actually easier to achieve in Sweden. And the least likely place in America to move up the economic ladder? Yep, you guessed it: the Red States. Climbing the income ladder occurs less often in the Southeast and industrial Midwest, the data shows, with the odds notably low in Atlanta, Charlotte, Memphis, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Columbus. By contrast, some of the highest rates occur in the Northeast, Great Plains and West, including in New York, Boston, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Seattle and large swaths of California and Minnesota. This isn't surprising. We already knew the Red States are poorer, less educated, have higher rates of teen pregnancy, divorce and gun deaths. So, it makes sense that the American Dream is harder to come by there. But what I want to know is this: if right-wing economic policies are so superior, why does living in the Red States make it harder to achieve the American Dream conservatives love to idealize? unki have anal warts in my Ventral tegmental area § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:50:55unkA GOP more dysfunctional than you could ever ima the__lie-detector2013-08-04 05:50:39A GOP more dysfunctional than you could ever imagine Jonathan Bernstein at The Washington Post explains that it's not "divided government" that's the problem with Congress. It's a GOP divided against itself: As to the problem: Yes, there’s divided government. But political scientists have found that divided government isn’t necessarily an impediment to legislative productivity. No, the problem is actually pretty simple. It’s not, overall, a dysfunctional Congress; it’s a dysfunctional House. Sure, the Senate has plenty of inefficiencies, but it’s the House now which really just can’t do much of anything. It’s pretty simple: most Republicans are either hostile to the entire idea of finding compromises with Democrats or are terrified of other conservatives who hate compromise; and, at the same time Republicans aren’t unified enough to be able to pass very much in the House on their own. There’s a lot more to say about it, but that’s really the bottom line: They aren’t going to compromise and they can’t get anything done without compromising. If the foundation of the GOP’s majority—and the cause of its extremism—is gerrymandering, then you can fix the problem with bipartisan (or nonpartisan) redistricting. But if the problem isn’t connected to the process, you have a different challenge. The evidence, I think, points to the culture of the Republican Party as the problem, and not the circumstances of its particular lawmakers. For starters, you have similar attitudes among Republican members of the Senate, i.e., politicians who represent entire states, and not just districts (Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, for example). What’s more, even if you could explain GOP extremism through gerrymandering, there’s nothing about a highly ideological approach to politics that requires intransigence. You can have a strong attachment to your beliefs and show a willingness to compromise for the sake of advancing them. What’s missing in the Republican Party is that willingness to compromise for anything, even if it benefits the particular interests of individual lawmakers or the interests of the party writ large. And this seems to stem from an attitude that emerged during the 1994 elections and has only grown since—the idea that conservatives aren’t just opposed to liberals but that they’re at war with liberalism. unki have anal warts in my inferior colliculi § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:49:48unkI have anal warts in middle cerebellar peduncle § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:48:59unki have anal warts in my third ventricle § the__lie-defecator2013-08-04 05:47:59 This post has been generated by Page2RSS
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