Jaison's Random Thoughts
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Our grandparents (or great-grandparents) — children of the Great Depression — could teach us a thing or two about going...
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I volunteered at the Salvation Army center around here a couple years ago, helping families pick out toys. It...
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We previously described the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) as one of the “most effective pieces of anti-poverty legislation in decades,” saying its temporary expansion of the safety net kept 4.5 million people out of poverty in 2009. Actually, the impact was greater than we thought.
Welcome to the detention-industrial complex.
Last month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) leaked confidential data about oil speculation to a number of media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal. Ordinarily, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the regulatory body that oversees futures trading, does not provide identities of speculators to the public. However, the data leaked by Sanders provides a rare snapshot into the trading volumes by major speculators right before the oil price spike in the summer of 2008.
On Tuesday, September 6, a Chatham County Superior Court judge put the final stamp on a 19-year battle to save the life of an innocent man from Georgia’s executioner.
On that date, Judge Penny Freeseman signed a death warrant for Troy Anthony Davis, setting his execution between September 21 and September 28; the exact date will be decided by Georgia’s Department of Corrections.
The claimed intent of these restrictive Voter ID laws, explained here, is to prevent voter impersonation fraud. However, there are barely any cases of such fraud. Instead, these laws make it harder for young people, people of color, low-income people, the disabled, and older Americans to vote. Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin have all passed Voter ID requirements this cycle, joining Georgia and Indiana, which had already passed such restrictions.
From CampusProgress
While many in the mainstream media have gone ballistic over Rick Perry’s stances on science and Social Security, and new poll reveals that only 34% of tea partiers believe in global warming and evolution.
I’m surprised. I thought it would 0%.
This morning, Chris Larsen was fired for informing his colleagues at the DMV about the Wisconsin state Department of Transportation’s policy not offering free voter IDs to people unless they specifically asked to have the fee waived. If the fee isn’t waived, the Voter ID costs $28.00.
Two Years Ago Obama Decided Not to Prosecute Torturers, Now We Get An Account of Why
From Common Dreams.org
Wisconsin is not the only state here in the Midwest where power has gone mad. Wisconsin’s struggle against abused power is vital and important, and I don’t want to take anything away from them… but I do want to explain why the situation in Michigan under our own Tea Party governor, Rick Snyder, is as great a threat – and maybe a greater one – to freedom than the overt abuses across the lake.
From PoliticusUSA
‘Christian Warrior’ Charged with Firebombing Oregon Mosque
A 24-year-old Oregon man — who told police that he was a “Christian warrior” — has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly firebombing a mosque last November.
Cody Crawford faces 10 to 30 years if convicted of firebombing the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center, which is about 200 feet from his house. Although his DNA has been connected to the crime scene, Crawford has maintained that he’s “100 percent innocent.”
In an unrelated incident, Crawford had ranted to police about Muslims, according to court documents.
“You look like Obama,” he said to a McMinnville officer in December. “You are a Muslim like him. Jihad goes both ways. Christians can jihad too.”
The documents reveal that Crawford also told authorities that “only Christians could understand him, that he was a Christian warrior that they were persecuting.”
“You will never know the truth about the mosque,” he allegedly said.
The firebombing came just two days after Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who had occasionally attended the mosque, was arrested in connection with a plot to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony Portland.
Mohamud’s plot was reportedly uncovered with help from the Muslim community.
Mozafar Wanly, who also worships at the Corvallis Mosque, believes that Crawford’s alleged crimes were based on a ignorance.
“I would say to him, ‘I think you misunderstand Islam. Islam is the religion of the love. We love everybody. You are misunderstanding us,’” Wanly said.
From Crooks and Liars
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
You might think that at this moment, nobody would question the value of these services, you’d be wrong. Republican Congressman, Eric Cantor is warning that any money spent on Disaster Relief should be matched with Spending Cuts.
Now this is nothing new for Eric Cantor, he said the same thing in May when a tornado tore through Joplin, MO. killing 159 people and causing billions in damage.
We’re looking at ideology that is extreme. It distrusts even the most essential services that Government provides. Keeping people safe is the most important thing today. Politics aside, people are in danger’s way.
~ Al Sharpton
From ThinkProgress
From Commons Dreams.org
From PoliticusUSA
If don’t know comic books, SHUT THE FUCK UP!! Ok, Fox News and Glenn Beck?
