New Budget addresses Library Privatization!
Today Congress passed a new bill promoting the Privatization of all Public Libraries by the year 2020. This is one of the main cost-cutting proposals offered up by the Republican Caucus in the House....
View ArticleThis Month in Crazy: GOP Misdeeds Flying Under the Radar
[cross-posted at DLCC.org] The GOP’s war on workers has dominated recent national media coverage, with two states in particular getting most of the attention. Unfortunately, this means that some...
View ArticleNew Restaurant Opening in New Orleans Today
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1-April-2011 NEW RESTAURANT OPENING TODAY IN NEW ORLEANS - LONG'S AT THE LIBRARY CONTACT: info@fouronegroup.net NEW ORLEANS-The Four-One Group, who have developed such exciting...
View ArticleOpen Letter To: Walker, Kasich, Brewer, Snyder, LePage, Scott, Christie
Hey, govs, those Tax Cuts you said meant more money in our pockets ... um ... you left out the part that in order to pay for Tax Cuts you had to lower our wages. those Tax Cuts you said meant more...
View ArticleSOUL Kos Open Thread
Happy Friday! Happy Weekend! How did it get here so fast? I only have a few minutes before I need to jump in the shower. I think I might be almost ready to start writing substantive diaries again....
View ArticleImagine how incredibly hard it must be for Glenn Beck to play an April Fool's...
I saw a loud mob of angry protesters shouting "COMPROMISE! COMPROMISE!" BREAKING: AT&T announces 4G iPhone service, network upgrades, and free tethering. "We've taken our customers for granted...
View ArticleMarch to Stop the Freeloaders
Reckless Wall Street banksters get taxpayer-funded bailouts. Billionaires get tax breaks. Corporations like GE and Bank of America pay absolutely no federal income taxes. But workers don’t get those...
View ArticleGOP Overreach: The Mess That Greed and Ignorance Made
Republican overreach is in the air. You can see it, smell it, taste it everywhere, as you have in years past. And the only surprise is that it happened so quickly this time around.
View ArticleSNARK: Boehner announces education cuts from whore house!
This is a fake story. No GOP House Speakers were harmed while writing this diary. WASHINGTON (BS) – In a daring move at a morning photo op, House speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced significant...
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Mojo Friday - NFTT, It's No Joke - Edition
There was a moment where I was tempted to do a April Fool's Joke Mojo Friday, that moment passed. Nothing about Netroots For The TroopsTM is a joke. as the burdens on our military personnel increase...
View ArticleJ Town: Got Diary? April 1, 2011
Welcome to J Town: a friendly little place in the big bad blogosphere. A place to hang out, promote diaries, check on the weather (and brag about yours!) and waste spend a little time. (more under the...
View ArticleEvil Lies Thrive When Climate Activists Are Silent
When Al Gore was actively promoting awareness of the Inconvenient truth of climate change, by 2008 nearly two thirds of Americans when polled on the question said they worried "a great deal or a...
View ArticleTake your medicine
Heard the interviews this morning from the Tea Party gathering in D.C. yesterday. Each one said that they wanted the spending to end or be cut but no one ever mentioned a single program that should be...
View ArticleFukushima Status Update 4/1 AM (full update)
For those who missed my previous diaries on this topic, I have a background in physics and worked at Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station providing computer support for the reactor core engineering...
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Profile in Courage: the History-Making Geraldine A. Ferraro
Today she was put to rest. Last summer, at 11am on Thursday, August 26, I attended the Long Island City Post Office Dedication Ceremony – for only one reason. The building was being dedicating to...
View ArticleObama Ups the Ante in Health Care Poker
Barack Obama continues to be a lot smarter than the GOP and the media. There was much hand-wringing and liberal gnashing of teeth over Obama's supposed health care "sell-out" back in February that...
View ArticleReducing Pest Damage Without Damaging the EnvironmentPesticides are expensive...
Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet. Pesticides are expensive and often hazardous to human health and the environment. In developing countries, farmers sometimes apply...
View ArticleSocial Security Links: April 1
Scott Hochberg Policy Fellow, Strengthen Social Security Campaign www.strengthensocialsecurity.org NEWS Schakowsky: GOP goal remains cutting Social Security Erik Wasson The Hill 3/31/11...
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Win the Future with Real Solutions
With our seemingly ever mounting trade and budget deficits, unemployment stubbornly above 9 percent (and, dependent on counting, un- and under-employment perhaps 20 percent), looming peak oil and...
View ArticleNotebook, 1 April 2011: Ironies . . .
No, this is not an April Fool's diary, unless you want to call the people of France and of the US fools. Perhaps we deserve it. Those who have gone back and forth with me on DK know that I like to...
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