Boehner's Boners clarification
I proposed using Boehner's Boners as the name for the 113 Do-Less-Than-Nothing Congress, using the meaning of the word "boner" as "a clumsy or stupid mistake," according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary. He has "governed" by creating one mistake after another, and we know the countless examples of that.
The ACA and Voter ID Laws
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think there is a link here that no one is talking about. Written into the ACA was the stipulation that all individuals who use the exchange to purchase insurance, receive subsidies or enroll in Medicaid MUST BE US CITIZENS OR LEGAL RESIDENTS. When one uses the marketplace, it would seem logical that through social security numbers and employment and income information, citizenship would be verified.
The Kochs + The Family + Birchers = TEA PARTY Disinformation Machine
Exposé - 80 Years of Planning:
The Kochs + The Family + Birchers = TEA PARTY Disinformation Machine
EPA caught drastically understating Methane emissions: may actually be 50% more!
They lied about car mileage, I guess it also helps big oil/fracking/Obama/Clinton to understate Methane.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/25/us-methane-emissions-study-epa/3699735/
How atheism saved the world
A hot topic in the Thom Hartmann forums has been "What's the matter with supernaturalism," and it has generated pages and pages of enjoyable, and sometimes daft, comments. People like to comment, I believe, because supernaturalism dovetails with spiritualism, which dovetails with religion, which dovetails with culture, which dovetails with politics, and eventually dovetails with government. Therein lies the matter with spiritualism, i.e. its connection with government. The U.S.
Internet Freedom a joke under The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): "SOPA on steroids."
Negotiated behind closed doors by the governments of a dozen countries (including ours) colluding with corporate interests, this secret "trade" deal (much of which has little to do with actual trade) would grant unprecedented snooping and censorship powers to ISPs, copyright holders, and governments.
Obama authorizes move to increase exports$$$ of LNG from Fracking.
The 99% bears the social cost of production and the 1% gets all the profits (excepting for a few low paying jobs on the "petroleum plantation")
NEW BOOK: “Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism”
Excerpt:
“theory that our current system is informed by a “machinery of social and civil death” that chills “any vestige of a robust democracy.”
