Detroit bankruptcy tests state pension protections The big question … will the courts order Detroit to renege on its promises to retirees, its bondholders or the citizens who need services?[...]
Posts Tagged ‘radical right’
DRUDGE: what happened to global warming?
Click image for a link from DRUDGE or click these: ALL-TIME HIGH TEMPS COULD BE SMASHED... DEATH VALLEY 129... VEGAS TO 117... [...]
July 8th, 2013 - 10:59 am § in Politics
Right Wing Governor SUPPORTS Academic Free Speech
Scott Walker, best known as a right wing Republican radical, has used his line item veto to support academic freedom at the University of Wisconsin! Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker issued a line-item veto to strike an unconstitutional ban on faculty speech and research from the Wisconsin state budge[...]
July 4th, 2013 - 3:37 am § in America
Happy July 4
A homeowner in Stratford, Conn., Joseph Sincavage, is flying a swastika flag outside his home. “I have no animosity toward Jewish people,” said Sincavage, a 73-year-old retired Marine. “They too are being given an unfair deal by President Obama. The founder of my religion was a Jew.” The oth[...]
June 21st, 2013 - 11:51 am § in Misc.
Anniverary of Death of Big Bird
Big Bird’s Daddy Passes As we contemplate there near death of Big Bird last November, today is an important day to remember Kermit Love, the creator of such classic children’s characters as Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and the Cookie Monster . Kermit was a Gay man. Even the most cursory [...]
The Republicans are preparing to declare war … not on Syria or Iran, but on Science,
Republicans Challenge Peer Review Chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee Lamar Smith (R-Texas)(Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) The Scientific American reports that Lamar Smith and his Republican colleagues on the House committee that oversees the NSF have authored The High Qualit[...]
April 22nd, 2013 - 11:07 pm § in Misc.
Is Steve Meyer One of Seattle’s Great Biologists?
The Discovery Institute’s mask just slipped a bit more Atheism, Creationism by PZ Myers That ghastly collection of homophobes and right-wing zombies, Focus on the Patriarchy, is starting a new initiative to take on the happily growing army of student atheists. They’re launching a series of ‘ed[...]
GUNS: SHOW ME YOUR INSURANCE!
If I own a car … I need libaility insurance. If I own a gun, ????? New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney and eight other House Democrats have introduced the “Firearm Risk Protection Act” to require gun buyers to have “a qualified liability insurance policy” “It shall be unlawful for a [...]
President Romney Puting Work First
President Romney “We Were Too Nice to the Hungry, I applaud the Congress for insisting that the poor, even the working poor, be given the incentive of hunger to motivate them to find work.” Text of signing speech for the 2103 Farm Bill, section on reform of food stamp program. “I[...]