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Nov 04 · Here are the ten finalists for the all-new Bumper Sticker Slogan Contest. It was tough narrowing them down!
Although she didn't make the finals an honorable mention goes to Arugula Latte for her entry, "I Won A Bumper Sticker Contest On DU and All I Got Was This Bumper Sticker With My Slogan On It."
Thank you to everyone who took part. Winners will be announced tomorrow (Thursday).
Please k&r so everyone gets a chance to vote!
Nov 04 ·
I am so angry now I could spit. My hands are shaking as I write this....
I called Speaker Pelosi's office in California about 15 minutes ago. I politely started to state my concerns about the removal of single payer debate on the House floor (the Weiner amendment) & the removal of the Kucinich amendment (allowing states to implement single payer). With just one word: hold, I was put through by the office staff to the answering machine. I left a message on the machine and then called the
Nov 04 ·
(Photo Illustration: Troy Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted From: ddharmasphere, snapsi42 and dutchlad / flickr)
Good News for the GOP? Not So Much.
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Columnist
Wednesday 04 November 2009
Ever watch "SportsCenter" on ESPN? Pound for pound, it's pretty much the most consistently entertaining program on television, but if you watch enough of it, you really get a sense of the similarities shared between sports reporters and political reporters. ES
Nov 04 · Jane Hamsher, in this mother of all battles:
November 4, 2009 7:32 am
(See link for embedded hyperlinks throughout this piece)
1993: Rahm is the architect of NAFTA
1994: Unions stay home after NAFTA. Democratic turnout poor, Democrats give up 54 seats in House.
2005: Rahm as head of DCCC recruits pro-war Dems, threatens to cut funds for any Dem who runs opposing the war
2006: Ned Lamont beats Joe Lieberman by opposing the war, opens the floodgates for candidates to buc
Nov 04 · I think that is wrong. I notice they are doing about the same thing on the issues of women's rights. That is wrong also.
We need to draw some lines in the sand about some things, some times.
"The Executive Director of Organizing for America sent an email to Mainers telling them to vote. Someone I know just got it:
"Tomorrow is Election Day once again in Maine. It's as important as ever for you to get out to vote. And just like you did last year, bring friends, family, and co-work
Nov 04 · I'm different.
I look different and that's not my fault.
I was born that way.
It's a birth defect called NF1, and it causes tumors to grow all over the body, inside and outside.
I didn't ask for this shit.
I had the most difficult type of NF1 at least for me, what's called "spontaneous NF1" which is one fucked up way of describing what happened.
Spontaneous is a three car accident on a Saturday morning in a Starbucks parking lot.
Spontaneous NF1 means you look one way at 35 and by
Nov 03 · All too often we have seen the particularly wrong and oppressive categorization of "Luddite" much as it is purposefully (mis)used by the Techno-Utopians, Globalizers and Corporate Savages to marginalize anyone who would dare question the status quo.
So then, "What's a Luddite?"
Luddite:
The knitting machines which provoked the first Luddite disturbances had been putting people out of work for well over two centuries. Everybody saw this happening -- it became part of daily life. They als
Nov 03 ·
(Photo Illustration: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t, Adapted From: Senate.Gov / wikimedia)
Little Joe
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Columnist
Tuesday 03 November 2009
Senator Joe Lieberman managed to shoehorn himself into the center of the national debate over health care reform last week with his announcement that he would filibuster any health care legislation that contained any kind of a so-called "public option." Lieberman, the erstwhile Democrat turned Independent fr
Nov 03 · Some of you may have been wondering what happened to the October edition of the T-Shirt Slogan Contest. Well, first of all you should know that our Cafe Press store is not a big money-maker for DU and, after handing out prizes for each month's slogan contest, we were lucky to break even. Figure in the time and effort it took to make the designs, and it was quickly becoming not worth it to run the contest each month.
But the contest was fun and people enjoyed taking part, so I held off on la
Nov 02 · Jane Hamsher :
November 2, 2009
(Waxman video at link)
In to on her biologics bill, Anna Eshoo vehemently claims it doesn’t allow “evergreening,” which would allow slight tweaks in drug formulas to grant drug companies endless monopolies and keep these lifesaving drugs from ever becoming generics:
There is no ‘evergreening’ clause in my legislation. There is in fact an ‘anti-evergreening’ clause which explicitly provides no new exclusivity period would be granted for “a c
Nov 03 · Americans United is starting to speak up some on this issue of the various ways that public money is going to religious schools.
From Rob Boston at AU.
Religious Right leaders often heap abuse on public schools, calling them “godless” and recommending that fundamentalists put their kids in private academies or educate them at home. At the same time, the Religious Right lusts for influence over public schools, seeing them as a “mission field” for new recruits.
Most public school of
Nov 02 · Source: Slate
By Johann Hari
Ayn Rand is one of America's great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed democracy on the grounds that "the masses"—her readers—were "lice" and "parasites" who scarcely deserved to live. Yet she remains one of the most popular writers in the United States, still selling 800,000 books a y
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