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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
Nov 03 · Cons
No money
Gruelling hours
No chance of promotion
Unhealthy working conditions
Skinner's awful temper
EarlG's bad breath
Elad's endless gushing over the legacy release of version 2.2.14 of the Apache HTTP Server
Really, no money
Pros
Democratic Underground Needs Volunteers To Serve As Moderators!
Nov 02 · By Scott Horton
November 2, 11:50 AM
Did Cheney Lie to the Plame Prosecutors?
In the prosecution that led to the conviction of former Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, Patrick Fitzgerald famously spoke of a “cloud over the vice president.” His remarks suggested that, while no charges had been pressed against Cheney, the vice president was considered an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme hatched in the White House to out covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. When, after a l
Nov 02 · They will get public taxpayer money to continue their schools as non-religious schools. Since they, like the 7 Catholic schools that now get public money, are keeping their faculty and personnel...I wonder just how secular they will be with that money from taxpayers.
Barry Lynn of American United wonders also.
"This is problematic particularly if you have the same personnel as when it was a private religious school," said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation o
Nov 02 · Failure by Design - the "Public" Option
Triumph of the Money Party
Do you know what the "public option" does or who it covers? If you've had trouble finding out, it's not your fault. Reading the corporate media coverage provides little or no clue. It's hardly ever defined. There's a very good reason for the lack of clarity and definition. But first, a brief summary or a public debate that characterizes just about every public debate we have on critical issues.
If you think th
Nov 02 · Statements of undisputed facts about President Barack Obama's actions can generate declarations on progressive websites that one has "gone too far" or said something that "should not be said." Honesty has been replaced by loyalty.
The most common place to find accurate statements on presidential abuses of power is buried in a sea of lunacy on rightwing websites that conclude their analyses with encouragement of violence, gun purchasing, and assassination.
Denunciations of rightwing incite
Nov 02 ·
The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 376
November 2, 2009
Traitor Joe's Edition
This week Joe Lieberman (1,2) spits on his colleagues yet again. Elsewhere, The GOP (3) is eating itself, George W. Bush (7) entertains Canada, and Liz Cheney (8) has more trouble with the truth. Don't forget the !
Joe Lieberman
Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
No... it's LIEBERMAN!
Straighter than a speeding bullet! As personable as a locomotive! It's LIEBERMAN!
This week's epis
Nov 01 · The under-treatment of pain in the United States is a public health problem of great magnitude. (It is also a major problem as well)
It has been estimated that from from chronic pain. In the good majority of instances, the suffering is unnecessary, since to successfully treat the great majority of cases of pain. One example of this is that showed that one quarter of nursing home residents received no pain medication at all for their persistent pain. that 70% of patients showing up in
Nov 01 · Is there anything scarier than the New York Times' entitled, "Documents Detail Conditions Found at Secret C.I.A. Jails"?
Pardon my Palinese, but -- You betcha! You damnbetcha!
For starters, the "conditions" the Times mentions only briefly are, in reality, depraved, corrupt, immoral, inhumane torture. According to the Times...
"F.B.I. agents who arrived at a secret C.I.A. jail overseas in September 2002 found prisoners “manacled to the ceiling and subjected to blaring music around th
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