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Wednesday September 09, 2009 · 6:41 PM PDT

2009/09/09 · 18:41

Court signals it may let corporations donate directly to campaigns

Not that there isn't plenty of horrifying things going on, but I saw this and wanted to highlight it, because it really will be the end of democracy as we currently understand it if they let corporations donate directly to campaigns. They already pretty much own our government, now they will own it out right.

From the NYTimes:

The Supreme Court may be about to radically change politics by striking down the longstanding rule that says corporations cannot spend directly on federal elections.

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Tuesday May 12, 2009 · 6:08 AM PDT

2009/05/12 · 06:08

I get hive outbreaks from an unknown allergen that sometimes will go away with two benadryl and sometimes, will take me out and require IV steroids to stop the reaction. This happened to me last week. I was walking home when the reaction started and by the time I got home and took the benadryl I knew it was going to be a bad one so I called a taxi to take me to the hospital. Now I am smart enough to know that I should have called an ambulance, but I didn't want to pay for it. As a result, the reaction increased, I passed out on the sidewalk and someone walking by called an ambulance.

Seriously.

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Wednesday February 11, 2009 · 2:42 PM PST

2009/02/11 · 14:42

My dad told me about this but I can't seem to find any mention of it anywhere on the web. Why wasn't this more commented on?

I enjoy watching Morning Joe, but on Monday morning he uttered crass and insensitive comments about one of the Hudson flight attendants that epitomize crudeness. He ceaselessly crows about being this big conservative, so we'll see if he's man enough to apologize publicly for his remarks, as well as personally apologizing to the flight attendant he publicly castigated. I can't help but wonder how Joe might have reacted if he would have been in that situation.

Apparently the comment was awful but I can't find any other follow up?

What the hell? Another one? 65,000 gallons of oil sludge spills near Chicago

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Sunday February 08, 2009 · 10:02 PM PST

2009/02/08 · 22:02

Apparently yet another company failed to run their business well and now we have a 3 mile wide sludge spill.

Caterpillar Inc., the Peoria-based maker of mining and construction machinery, confirmed in a statement Sunday that "an undetermined amount of waste oil" overflowed from a storage area at the company's manufacturing facility in Joliet.

"Caterpillar has notified appropriate authorities about this overflow, and the company immediately began corrective action when the overflow was discovered," the statement said. "The company is coordinating efforts to contain and remediate this overflow."

The company also said it would investigate the incident and "put in place management practices that minimize the potential for future occurrences."

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Monday September 15, 2008 · 3:20 PM PDT

2008/09/15 · 15:20

I completely missed this and thought it was strange that no one here had posted it. Apparently the Justice Dept was in fact actually doing something somewhere and it involves Big Oil and Halliburton!

By agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors, Stanley, who ran KBR (KBR, news, msgs) when it was a subsidiary to Halliburton, promises to become a hammer for federal investigators seeking to crack open additional cases under a 30-year-old statute designed to halt overseas corporate corruption. About 80 cases involving major corporations accused of overseas bribery were under investigation as of last year, a high-level Justice Department official said.

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Cheney's involvement

Had no idea

1 vote

Made money off of it

12 votes

Designed it and approved it

33 votes

has never heard of Halliburton and doesn't know what we are talking about

45 votes

Why Republicans are sacred

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Sunday September 14, 2008 · 11:14 AM PDT

2008/09/14 · 11:14

I have struggled tremendously over the last 8 years to understand my friends and co-workers who find solace in republican leaders. It was clear to me that what they heard when Bush spoke was wildly different that what I heard. I didn't want to have a beer with Bush, I wanted to grab him and shake him and beg him to realize that this was really happening and he really was in charge of the US and using the term crusades was a really bad idea.

My friend found this article that at least causes me to breathe a bit.

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Monday March 24, 2008 · 12:59 PM PDT

2008/03/24 · 12:59

You heard the rumors and said there was no way they would actually attack, but we seen them do it before and they couldn't even flatter us with an imaginative approach.

The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday's bombardment of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.Green Zone Attack helped by Iran

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Actually Iran

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CIA

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NSA

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Cheney

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Fat CEO pay and society

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Friday January 05, 2007 · 8:11 PM PST

2007/01/05 · 20:11

An article in Reuters summarizes the growing problem of excessive corporate compensation...CEO pay article

A section gives startling numbers...

In 2005, the ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 411-to-1, according to a report by the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy, two groups that focus on social justice issues. That compares with a 1980 ratio of 42-to-1, as calculated by BusinessWeek, the two groups said

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a significant problem for a democratic society

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a moderate problem for a democratic society

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not a problem for a democratic society

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not sure

1 vote

Chris Matthews on the "shrieking" Nancy Pelosi

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 8:18 AM PST

2006/11/08 · 08:18

I sat flipping between CNN and MSNBC last night and was on MSNBC when they showed Nancy Pelosi speak. It was depressing to listen to Chris Matthews state as assumption that it was going to be terribly difficult for her to "control her screaming" and that hearing a woman in that position of power would be "like nails on a chalkboard for MOST people". I then sat hoping that Keth Olbermann would call him out on his language..... Read More

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