Fox News has just announced the lineup for its GOP candidates’ debate on Thursday: In: Trump, Bush, Walker, Huckabee, Carson, Cruz, Rubio, Paul, Christie, Kasich. Watching it on TV: Perry, Santorum, Jindal, Fiorina, Graham, Pataki, Gilmore. (But they also get a consolation debate between th[...]
Archive for August, 2015
August 4th, 2015 - 2:04 pm § in Politics
Customer leaves a rude lecture about wages instead of a tip
The problem is, Seattle’s $15/hr minimum wage hasn’t phased in yet, and the bartender isn’t making $15/hr. (Nor did the customer pay “for that increase” at today’s prices.) But don’t expect people who wear their rightwing politics on their sleeve to bother w[...]
August 4th, 2015 - 12:44 pm § in Uncategorized
Why do these people want to be president?
And why would we want any of them? Look, I don’t share Republican values. They like war, think torture is okay, and cover up atrocities; they’re racists and bigots; they’re against government, democratic process, and dissent; they’re hate unions, don’t like workers, and[...]
August 4th, 2015 - 12:23 pm § in Religion, Schools & Colleges
ACLU sues teacher who punished 2nd grader for not believing in God
The ACLU has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against a Fort Wayne, Indiana, teacher who punished and shamed a 7-year-old boy for telling a classmate he doesn’t attend church because he doesn’t believe in God. The teacher apparently has never heard of the First Amendment or court r[...]
August 4th, 2015 - 12:04 pm § in Politics
What it’s like living in a country run by Republicans
During the Bush administration, Republicans enacted a federal law giving gun dealers legal immunity. Citing that law, a federal judge threw out a lawsuit by the family of a Colorado theater shooting victim against the dealer who sold the bullet that killed their daughter, and ordered them to pay the[...]
August 4th, 2015 - 10:51 am § in Uncategorized
Trump supports gov’t shutdown to destroy Planned Parenthood
GOP Donald Trump said today on a conservative radio show that “he believes Republicans should shut down the government rather than fund Planned Parenthood,” CBS News reports. Trump apparently is trying to establish his radical rightwing chops ahead of Fox News’ pre-primary Republi[...]