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Archives: April 5, 2011

If Obama Wins A Second Term... And One GOP Operative Thinks He Can...

'Hope' and 'Change' Meet Reality: President Obama's Reelection Roadmap

The story about John Boehner is fake.

Anthony Weiner on Lawrence O'Donnell: Tea Partiers are nihilists about federal budget.

Man charged with theft for demanding $100 finders fee for lost wedding ring

Man charged with theft for demanding $100 finders fee for lost wedding ring

"The Kennedys" now premier on Reelz, channel 299.

Bank repossesses NBA millionaire's home

Arizona Medicaid Obese Fee?

Jimmy Carter and Fukushima

Why don't Democrats buy a spine and tell the ReTHUGS

Imminent OCC Enforcement Order on Banks Barely a Slap on the Wrist for Foreclosure Fraud - FDL

Mont., Conn. Govs Want Public Option; Texas Gov. Perry Opposes Health Insurance Exchange

At Chernobyl, A Warning For Japan - WaPO

In Libya, the West showcases new weapons for sale: Potential buyers see European/US jets in action

Rachel on the South West Emergency Landing

State Roundup: Budget Cuts In Texas, Wash. State; Ariz. Smoking, Weight Fees; Coping With Rx

I am watching the Kennedy miniseries

I miss the good ol' days of G.W.Bush

I blink in wonder and poof! Too fast for me.

Walker gives lobbyist's college dropout son an $81,000-a-year job

Romney Defends Mass. Health Law But Says It Doesn't Diminish His Opposition To Federal Law

Court Rejects Suit on Network Neutrality Rules

Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs

Are we still allowed to ask questions in the Ask the Administrator forum?

Let's Roll!

Protesters blast Gov. Corbett’s school cuts

What age are we happiest?

If Faux news existed throughout history

If Faux news existed throughout history

Wildlife enthusiast, check in if you know how to set up a cam to capture nocturnal wildlife.

Oregon Supreme Court urged to block warrantless cell phone searches

Texas Lawmakers creat a "Death Panel" for HIV Patients - editorial

In 2004, Bush used 'You don't change leaders mid-war' to justify another term.

Great - now the House GOP embraces Ryan's economic plans - including a complete phaseout of Medicare

I Fully Expect That I'll Probably Check The Box For Barack Obama In 2012, Maybe...

Everything you see and hear on TV is faked (national collegiate b-ball championship)

Self-deleted by member

Basketball game, football score.

Basketball game, football score.

Nasty wall of storms moving into Alabama/Georgia for the rest of the night.

Thank You Rachel... I Couldn't Agree More !!!

oy,vey. I'm sticking to non-election topics. Disregard my previous post.

Mandatory Monday Malloy Truthseekers check in!! Brad Friedman subs for Mike!

North Texas hospitals blast Medicaid cuts

PC Mag - "Corporate Sock Puppets" - Featuring Whole Foods' RW CEO

I'm enjoying checking out recall the republicans .com

Looking back at gas prices

$5,000 PER DAY offered to work in the Fukushima Nuclear plant

Budget Deal Would Give DOD Extra Funds In Exchange For Cuts To Social Programs

REPORT: Everything You Need To Know About The Koch Brothers

Just was reminded teabaggers don't like that name. How about the Tea Potty Pahty?

Must See! VIDEO: Another awkward moment on Fox

What do you read to keep up on politics? I read the local liberal paper, a right wing one (to keep

Arrgh!!! CNN, NPR, Etc., Giving Free Airplay To GOP Attack Ads!?!?! Already?

Take this vote and shove it!

Peter King Gets Severed Pig's Foot Mailed To Office

The US Now Has Boots on the Ground...In Haiti?

Donald Trump unveils cast for Celebrity Apprentice 2012: My Path to the White House

Some fucking Asshole is threatening to back Net Neutrality

Anyone here for WI have any thoughts on how the election on

Is the only reason that grand ol pervs always leave tax cuts to the rich out of the pic when talking

We are One... Seattle pics

OMG - did anyone see Jon Stewart just now?

Feds Seeking $7M Worth Of Privately-Minted 'Liberty Dollars'

Former TN Gov. Ned McWherter passes away

Why should we overlook contradictions in the war on terror?

Yay! Budget deal would give DOD extra funds in exchange for cuts to social programs!!

House GOP prepare shutdown plan

Wives of political prisoners denounce Venezuelan judiciary

How do you defend against attacks that are based on delusional thinking?

How do you defend against attacks that are based on delusional thinking?

A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to Nirvana

Petraeus may shift to head of CIA??

Texas House votes to redirect (cut) all family planning funds

11 dead - but execs paid 'safety bonus'

Food Recall: Jennie-O Turkey Burgers (drug resistant salmonella)

GOP's Plan to Cut Defense: No More Color Copies!

Scientific American admits bias in favor of the rational.

Don't know what to make of this

Shootings kill one, wound seven (I have a funeral to go to)

What is a progressive?

Dept of Broken Clocks: Scaife's WSJ add in support of Planned Parenthood

Good fugging grief

Toles Toon: "But the good news is..."

Howdy all my DU sisters and brothers

GPs must return flu vaccine over narcolepsy fears; Scientists have linked drug to sleep disorder

Status of the VT healthcare Bill at this moment: It has already passed the senate and the House.

Dayton (OH) looks to immigration to revitalize city, create jobs

Live: 'Final' assault on Gbagbo launched in Abidjan

"Please Stop!": The 5 Dumbest Tropes in the EdReform Debate

Bachmann nabs top Huckabee aide in Iowa

Heads Up Korea and Japan. Fukushima Radiation Heading Your Way:

Upset over the "loss of unity" at DU? Gosh, gee, wow, hand wringing, etc...

Jesse Ventura on CNN

Philippine fund-raising concert for Japan raises over $400,000

Dolphin That Jumped In Boat ID'd As Oscar

Texas House approves budget that makes sweeping cuts

College Republicans Still Acting Like College Republicans

Mitch Albom: 'Office' is now the code word for our low morale

Dear Scott Walker, this is what a REAL "Emperor" does...

The Courageous, Serious, Gutsy Paul Ryan

Attention all - Eaglets being fed right now

Prosser tells Republicans: "I feel like David against the whole empire of the Wisconsin left."

Why is the Boehner story at the top of the greatest when it is not true?

Derf- Isn't this what these guys dream of at night?

Trace amounts of radioactive Iodine found in U.S. drinking water

Savings fostered by (Ohio) collective-bargaining law anything but a sure thing

The GOP really is trying to kill us, literally .......

345 Ground Zero workers have died of cancer

Skinner... would you please take down the Boehner story that is at the top of the greatest page

Should factual accuracy be a reason for locking/deleted a post?

A hole opening in a plane's roof - frightening. Simply coming in for a landing at National airport.

Tepco starts to pay partial compensation to people and towns near plant

Tepco starts to pay partial compensation to people and towns near plant

Lindsey Graham: Give Libyan rebels U.S.-built, tube-launched, optically-tracked guided missiles

Immigrants' allies on right: The business end of conservatism can act as a check against xenophobia.

U.S. Human Rights Groups Deplore Order to Try 9/11 Suspects Before a Military Commission at Gitmo

ElBaradei: We'll fight back if Israel attacks Gaza

So apparently Obama & Biden are out.. One question.. (edited with pics)

I know what's going to happen. But damn, Charles K. Edwards?

Media Matters: Fox's One-Two Punch For Wisconsin Justice David Prosser

How many here are happy with the idea of entrenching Teabagger government

Supreme Court rules against challenge to religious school aid

House Dividing

House Dividing

Mr Fish Toon- Barack vs. Obama

Sick of corporate freeloaders? Check this out and send a message.

Water off a penguin's back: Bald bird able to fit in after getting her own special wetsuit - w/pics

Only in America can someone make $85 million in a year and feel underpaid.

Appeals Court Strengthens Warrantless Searches at Border

Who is responsible if the government shuts down - Democrats or Republicans?

For anyone that knows or loves someone with developmental disabilities... please watch...

For anyone that knows or loves someone with developmental disabilities... please watch...

Scott Walker's administration gave a state job and a 26% raise to the son of a major supporter

Some unavoidable pug just said on CNN that military wouldn't get the pay when they expected it and

Some unavoidable pug just said on CNN that military wouldn't get the pay when they expected it and

Some unavoidable pug just said on CNN that military wouldn't get the pay when they expected it and

Why we will win.. and they will lose

So elected Dems are going to roll over on Medicare?

So elected Dems are going to roll over on Medicare?

FBI questioning US Libyans: report

High level of cesium detected in sand lances

Financial Sector Gave $50 Million To Republicans Who’ll Repeal Reform

White House Orders Agencies To Prep For Government Shutdown

Softbank's Son gives ¥10 billion to victims

Fire that shuts down Arkansas NPR station looking like arson.

Pugs chasing me around every channel. Not one dem this a.m.

The Stupid it burns

Decorah, Iowa eagles

Navy Panel Agrees, DADT Dead; Gay Sailor Derek Morado Stays ...

Radiation in water at Japanese nuclear plant 5 million times over the legal limit

Radiation in water at Japanese nuclear plant 5 million times over the legal limit

Any deficit cutting-real or imagined-is there to pave the way for even more tax cuts for rich people

"Trust me."

The push back in Ohio on SB 5 and Kasich is starting

Report: Petraeus 'seriously considered' for CIA director

Stuff the GOP's "Color Copies" Defense Cut Could Buy

US Dept. of Labor orders Md. school system to pay millions to mostly Filipino teachers

Puerto Rico DU'ers.. HEADS UP! Over 40 low Mag. quakes in the last 24 hours

I'm in Wisconsin and I just voted! I checked the scanner

Anyone else noticing gas station shut downs in their area?

Don't you wish she was still Majority Leader? Pelosi rips Ryan's budget

FL GOP Senate immigration measure passes amid cries of "let us speak" from opponents

I voted Republican and All I Got...

Air Force spending $4 million a day for Libya war

If only we had a Democratic fighter like Weiner as president!

Letter to my R rep pending shutdown.

Establishmentarianism!

Gaddafi forces take Brega

Joe Bageant died last week

Japan nuclear plant operator says may have slowed radioactive leak

Juliano Mer-Khamis was murdered yesterday in Jenin

Rick Scott unimpeachable (Damn!)

so,which cuts do the "Christian Conservatives" push?

so,which cuts do the "Christian Conservatives" push?

Two Numbers that Put the Social Security 'Crisis' into Perspective.

Go online and try to buy a Geiger counter. You can't.

Please DU this WSJ Poll: Should Paul Ryan's Plan to (Privatize) Medicare Be Passed?

Coal ash is NOT more radioactive than nuclear waste - fyi

ABC News Reporter Served as FBI Informant - Iraq Involvement OK City Bombing

Govt holding radiation data back / IAEA gets info, but public doesn't

FBI questioning US Libyans: report

AIG plans to buy back its bad mortgages

Hmmm... what's really going on in Libya?

Awesome Altruism

GOP on CNN: 6 trillion dollars in cuts that "the American people will be really excited about".

GOP on CNN: 6 trillion dollars in cuts that "the American people will be really excited about".

5,000 people marched on banks in San Francisco yesterday.

Imagine if the Government really shut down

update from the Gulf of Death - turtles

Democrats take control of another US Circuit Court with Reyna confirmation

A Message From The Nuclear Power Industry

James Randi: Science-bashing is in full throttle

Wisconsin Democrats - Get out that vote today for JoAnne Kloppenburg

Is the Shadowy World of ALEC & the Koch Brothers Leading the GOP Charge to Suppress the Youth Vote?

Bonehead: No agreement with Obama on budget

Crazy Mofos

The GOP opposes the HCR because of mandatory insurance, but wants to make it mandatory for Medicare?

Shutdown Looms as Talks on Stopgap Budget Fail

2 missing in huge Tenn. sewage plant spill. Millions of gallons of sewage flow into river

Why is the media pretending that cutting the deficit is more important than protecting Americans?

OpEd News: Bob Fitrakis on Ohio Republicans' New Jim Crow Voter ID law that Disenfranchises 900,000

Gas prices and crisis in Japan making used Japanese cars a hot commodity

Can anyone explain how speculators intentionally drive up the price of oil?

The morning after (and years after). The job of voters

If President Obama is so successful...

"Radioactivity in Sea Up 7.5 Million Times"

The Fabulous Fourteen (WI) are on Time's 100 Poll - VOTE!

Will Air Traffic Controllers still work if there is a government shutdown?

Chris Hedges: This Is What Resistance Looks Like (Civil Disobedience is all we have left)

Governor Martin O'Malley Announces Formal Application for Federal High-Speed Rail Funding

Isn't it time for a Jubilee year?

Isn't it time for a Jubilee year?

Oklahoma Pastor Arrested, Accused of 70 Sex Assault Charges

If Gop Kills Medicare it will Kill Me, My Family and You

Bill O'Reilly on Florida Pastor Terry Jones and his Koran burning: He has 'blood on his hands'

What is the turn-out like in Wisconsin today, does anyone know?

Nicolas Cage loses big bucks on his RI Mansion

ACLU of Florida’s new website: ‘Incorporate My Uterus’

ACLU of Florida’s new website: ‘Incorporate My Uterus’

Russia Speeds Up Space Mission Plans as U.S. May Cut Spending

7 Ways You Can Save Significant Money On Your Fuel Bill

Radiation 101: How far will radioactive water leaking from nuclear plant go?

What's Hurting White America? It's Not the Welfare State

We Are One Solidarity Rally in KC - pictures

We Are One Solidarity Rally in KC - pictures

Urgent: GOTV for Kloppenburg-Call from Any State

Afterrally

8 Outrageous Executive Perks

McDonald's jobs: Can it hire 50,000 workers in a day?

For or against Obama, let's acknowledge a few things

Wave of Demonstrations On April 4th Against Attacks on Working People

Cantor vs Boehner? Or Is It The Ruling Elites vs The Rest of Us That Really Matters?

Cantor vs Boehner? Or Is It The Ruling Elites vs The Rest of Us That Really Matters?

MSNBC reporting that Tim Kaine running for U.S. Senate in Virginia

Appreciate moments of sheer contentment as they come.

Does anyone else find Jon Stewart unbearable since Obama got elected?

ALEC's role in NC tort reform bill especially heavy-handed -- even a "boot camp" for legislators

Photo - Great White Shark lurks while kids play on beach

The Global Gag Rule: Life Sentence for the World's Poorest Women

The Global Gag Rule: Life Sentence for the World's Poorest Women

Paul Ryan on MSNBC now selling his snake oil; what a lying sack of shit!

Paul Ryan on MSNBC now selling his snake oil; what a lying sack of shit!

Why don't we ever see a discussion of medical inflation?

great pics to keep handy today...

Obama needs to say any GOP proposal with tax cuts for the rich is DOA.

Wife of 'idiot cop' says shame on Ohio Gov. Kasich

Colin Powell is as decent human being as Obama will ever be

Paul Ryan Does Wall Street’s Bidding In Budget

Baucus blasts House plan to end Medicare

US lawmakers target ‘rogue websites’ with online infringement act

CNN's Elizabeth Cohen: "The key here is the dose. It is so teeny-tiny that

Nothing Beats a Limerick About the GOP

Mom is feeding the two baby eagles right now!

Mom is feeding the two baby eagles right now!

Is it legal for volunteers to do the work elected officials have staked out for themselves?

Is it legal for volunteers to do the work elected officials have staked out for themselves?

Vote JoAnne Kloppenburg for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Today! For the sake of our Unions

Shame on you America. Shame on you for:

Is Boehner going to cry during the live press conference?

homeless children in America. Yes,they DO exist

Tim Kaine Running for Senate

Interesting rumor going around at work lately . . .

Marketing Company Follows 3 of 4 U.S. Households as They Shop

It's official I'm never going to make it in corporate America.

I know it's Rasmussen but.... 48% Say Their Views Closer to Tea Party Than Congress

I know it's Rasmussen but.... 48% Say Their Views Closer to Tea Party Than Congress

Mandatory Gay Adoption!

Mandatory Gay Adoption!

Kaine announces Senate campaign

Eaglets being fed again!

A Goverment Shutdown, in a "Time of War"?

HUCKABEE did what NIXON was too scrupulous & respectful of history to do: Destroyed his records

Jon Stewart calls Obama out on his epic game of hide and seek

Jon Stewart calls Obama out on his epic game of hide and seek

What Osama Couldn't Do, Paul Ryan Is Determined To Do

What Osama Couldn't Do, Paul Ryan Is Determined To Do

It's completely possible for free speech and hate speech laws to coexist. I'll prove it.

Check out the eaglet (3:11)

Japan hastily sets seafood radioactivity limit amid overseas concern

Japan hastily sets seafood radioactivity limit amid overseas concern

Capture Of Government Regulators By The Big 4 Accounting Firms

Can't wait until the GOP is back in power

Can't wait until the GOP is back in power

fuckwad tea party House freshman call on Reid to pass bill or resign

Canada: Students ejected from Harper rally because of Facebook profiles

Jon Stewart Mocks Obama Campaign Video: From ‘Yes We Can’ To ‘You Know, Whatever’

Kansas upholds laws against gays making them criminals

Wanna see something that's just too cool for words?

Krugman: The Threat Within (will the Dems help kill medicare?)

so... as we prepare for 2012 ,what are OUR talking points?

How did Karzai find out about the Koran burning?

What Osama Couldn't Do, Paul Ryan Is Determined To Do

The chick is niibling at the dead bird carcass now.

Relocalization

Obama launches campaign...

The Military's Rape and Sexual Assault Epidemic

Anyone else hear the whisper of Bob Boudelang in the voices of the remaining Obama supporters here?

Exclusive: Gaddafi pre-planned attacks on civilians: prosecutor

Governor Rick Scott’s 7 steps taking Florida to the abyss

a Governor gives rich people $1 billion in tax cuts and cuts education spending

A year ago today 29 West Virginians died in Don Blankenship's death trap.

If I Had To Bet, I’ll Get My 72 Virgins And Check From Soros First

Have Democrats completely forgotten how politics works?

AMA vs AMS

Prices up & places to smoke down, smokers purchase more "Loosies"

Problem solved.

LAPD rip apart 2 story house to get at suspect who shot officer

Jeff Greenfield leaving CBS News, apparently involuntarily

To the remaining Obama supporters, please

There's so much on Paula Jones I can't hone in on the one detail I'm looking for.

2007: We can end a war! We can save the planet! We can save the world!

2007: We can end a war! We can save the planet! We can save the world!

Phoebe Allens Hummingbird. Fledgeday.

Ryan to 32M Americans: No Insurance for You

It seems many around here have forgotten

Western IA Rs not happy with proposed redistricting map.

"Tiger Mother’s" daughter accepted into Harvard

Workers missing as million of gallons of sewage spill in Great Smoky Mtns Natl Park

Namecheap raises $20k for Save the Elephants following GoDaddy CEO’s hunt video

Democrats are at a decided disadvantage in negotiatons

Report: Tea party Republicans given veto power over deal to avert shutdown

Couple sit with lights out to avoid census worker.

Milwaukee Prepared For Turnout Four-Times Higher Than Usual

Okay....Admit it. Who else got suckered into that fake Boner post?

The GOP is deliberately trying to trigger a second major depression

Simply put: Obama SHOULD call the Republican's bluff

Know Your History 2: A US court agreed, MLK assassination involved US gov't agencies

The ladies of the view are all relieved that KSM's trial won't be held in NYC

ON, WISCONSIN!

House liberals use Radiohead music to darkly portray GOP budget

Profanity and gay sex to be found in uncensored 'From Here to Eternity' e-book

The only reason Conservatives pretended to care about

Top ten Obama lies (feel free to add your own)

MADISON Polling Place: 75-80% Turnout!

So sayeth the man who has lifetime healthcare,a pension and never took a pay cut

Seriously? 249 Recs for a hoax?

Bristol Palin's teen pregancy work brings in $262,000

DNC Chair: Wasserman-Shultz...

Rep. Gerry Connolly Proposes Officially Changing Title Of Anti-EPA Bill To ‘Koch

You might be a redneck if...

A list of Sarah Palin's feuds

How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs

You know why I'm so mad at Obama? I think he is a genuinely decent human being.

Dyslexia (or carelessness?) creates voting problem in 2 Milwaukee Wards

Dear Republican party-------Bush left a budgetary nightmare

Oops Ecuador expels US ambassador over Wikileaks cable

Huffington fires AOL Movie Critics, ask them to work for free

Fix Social Security.....? Really....?

I read Alan Grayson posts here. If so, please pm me. If anyone

Theft victim receives thank you note (and flowers) from robber in RI

Thanks Obama - no more cuts

"I Have Sex"

Thank you DU!

Dean Baker: "The Real Story Behind Job Creation"

Krugman- Ryan the Ridiculous

How did we get from 33 billion to 73 billion?

5 April 1861

On Jon Stewart, President Obama, and the "Cult of Personality":

Rep. Paul Ryan proposes $6 trillion in spending cuts

Radiation Research May Be Slashed by Budget Cuts

Kloppenberg Needs volunteers at Madison college polling stations

Hows it goin in Red areas =35% voter turn out in R stronghold of Waukesha

Anti-Choice Activist Likens American Cancer Society To Nazi Scientists

Americans Still Dying in Iraq…14 So Far This Year

The most fundamental flaw in the GOP's "logic" is obvious...

Bring Someone In

Question: How hard can it be to shut down Guatanamo?

MO Rebublicans are refusing to accept federal aid for unemployment AND for schools

And this is what they've become:

Congrats Debbie Wasserman Shultz

Sad fact of life... productivity is the driving force behind tepid job growth

Record turnout in Wisconsin court race

Republican philosophy

Think Progress: "Thank a Union."

Pink-Ribbon Theatre--$$$$$

Texas House budget requires public colleges to advocate heterosexuality

In Texas, a Brave, New Lethal Injection

OFA phonebanker: it isn't the business of government to put people in jail

Parole granted for one of three Chowchilla bus kidnappers

Giants fan beaten at Dodger Stadium appears to have brain damage

Propaganda: "TARP Was A Success"

I'll criticize Obama when needed, but goddamn it he's still my president!

Report: Wis. GOPer's Car Damaged By Random Stone, Not Vandals

Eaglets -- I think the #3 egg has hatched!!!

Do you remember this? " WHAT HAS GOP DONE FOR WORKERS?" It was posted on DU, years ago.

Do you remember this? " WHAT HAS GOP DONE FOR WORKERS?" It was posted on DU, years ago.

Madison Turnout #'s As of Two Hours Ago

The Economist slams Paul Ryan's plan to replace Medicare as "fundamentally immoral"

Paul Ryan’s Plan, the Coming Shutdown, and What’s Really at Stake

Socialism vs Corporatism

Socialism vs Corporatism

Senate sends repeal of hated tax provision to Obama

Prediction? Pain.....at the pump.

America is NOT broke

Did this come from the GOP, the teabaggers, or Obama's camp?

GOP Willing To Kill Medicare, You & Your Family---SO---rich people can recieve more tax breaks

US. ArmyResisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)

SCARY! Driver tapes 2 x 4 coming through windshield

New York may restrict Happy Meals, kids meals

UK to Pressure US on Treatment of British Citizen Bradley Manning

The Michelle Bachman head bobbing and blinking have made a complete believer

WI: Turnout high in Appleton, low in Green Bay

GOP Completely Fixes Economy By Canceling Funding For NPR

Fringe conservative: Welfare makes African Americans ‘rut like rabbits’

Fringe conservative: Welfare makes African Americans ‘rut like rabbits’

All DU Women, please go and incorporate your uterus!!

Rich CEOs are killing your retirement: 11 reasons bankrupt Reaganomics ideas are leading to collapse

Democrat. Democrat. Democrat. Democrat. Democrat. Democrat. That is how I intend to vote.

Scott Pelley to take over for Couric on CBS?

Photos from Anchorage's "We Are One" Rally

Diane Sawyer started out with a story about how boomers aren't ready for retirement and then

Why Republicans Persist in Demanding the Elimination of 700,000 Jobs: Must Read by Robert Creamer

Unqualified Son of Scott Walker Contributor "Demoted" to $62K Job

Not a Wonderful Life: The Effects of Aggressive Foreclosure

Walker gives his friend's son a demotion...to $62,000 or so a year...

Walker gives his friend's son a demotion...to $62,000 or so a year...

We aren't going to get real change in this country

WI - just got back from voting

Leak at Fukushima appears to be lessening

John Boehner's policy director gave out Abramoff favor money

House Dem: Change title of EPA bill to 'Koch Brothers Appreciation Act'

If there is a government shutdown, does the US military get shutdown?

Anyone else feel the "blame congress" meme is crap?

It's a plutocracy, stupid

this is national poetry month

The Fiesta Bowl is in question

German teen trains cow to jump like a horse

Radioactivity in sea up 7.5 million times; Marine life contamination well beyond Japan feared

I stuck my finger in Scott Walker's eye today.

Libyan Revolution Day 47 (Brega turnover for a 3rd time)

If you don't think they are out there- There ARE Democrats-to-be

If you don't think they are out there- There ARE Democrats-to-be

Kloppenburg Voting in Eau Claire Area

Bristol earned 262,000 for her "work" on teen pregnancy

Just heard on the radio that two men that hate each other are locked in a room

Newt Gingrich could lose Georgia to Barack Obama

Debbie Wasserman Schultz reminds me a bit of Hillary

Robert Reich: All the President has to do is connect the dots

Okay, I'm convinced. Palin/Bachmann 2012

More scenes from Madison April 4, 2011 - warning: pics

Wisconsin report from the local polling place.

Guardian UK: Workers' rights are under threat across the world

Tea Party's historian, David Barton, gives thumbs up to theocratic ideology of dominionism

I'm really depressed

Wisconsin's Supreme Test: Prosser v. Kloppenburg

Shared Sacrifice my ass

The FIX Congress will never consider

I want to know where are all the prosecutions of the motherfuckers that

British moral authority 'at risk' (UK to question US on Bradley Manning case)

The Religious Right's Anti-Union Crusade

I wonder if those who voted for Ron Paul in the Ron Paul DU poll ---know if he's a racist?

I'm sorry, Mr. President. I've (mostly) been a supporter, but...

Wash. DC Fox 5 News is reporting: Tim Kaine WILL run for the Senate (Webb's seat)

Bernanke, Summers, Paulson, Gramm, Cassano, Sullivan, Greenspan, Geithner, Fuld, Sparks, Viniar, ..

Bernanke, Summers, Paulson, Gramm, Cassano, Sullivan, Greenspan, Geithner, Fuld, Sparks, Viniar, ..

AMAZING NEWS: TURNOUT OVER 50% in some districts!! One at 57%!! Link (and edited)

The corporate Republicans and the media are formidable enemies ..

"One Percent" 2006 documentary

David Barton: Propaganda Masquerading as History

Tonight I came face to face with pure, unadulterated EVIL: KKKarl Rove

UN may declare Palestine its own sovereign state

Why I completely support re-election of Obama... and EVERY DEMOCRAT running in 2012

Government Shutdown??

Walker agenda would be stopped if Prosser is defeated, governor's attorney says

Radiation-shielding sheets to be installed in Sept. at earliest at Fukushima

Obama "admits defeat": NO Gitmo suspects will be tried in civilian courts

Pleas from within Maine GOP stir up tea party activists (they're lashing out at the "gang of 8")

Ohio SB 5's "stealth death notice to public college teachers unions" -- faculty now "management"

For every person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die due to coal

"The PR industry must condemn massive, automated sock-puppetry"

"The PR industry must condemn massive, automated sock-puppetry"

part of me just says fuck it.

If Ron Paul ran with Kucinich as his running mate...

No difference between the parties? Holy shit are we ever getting a detailed lesson

NYT: Obama administration cowardice blocks the 9/11 trial

NYT: Obama administration cowardice blocks the 9/11 trial

What really burns my ass...

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

There is one change to Social Security I do adamantly support

The problem is that TEPCO bet that they could save the reactors

So Boehner didn't blame the poor for the financial crisis? Really?

Scenes from Madison yesterday. Scott Walker greets the crowd. Pic warning

if you dare- The National Right-to-work Petition. Love,Rand Paul,M.D.

Fool Us Twice? Can Obama Get Reelected?

DUers Should Run for Office. Why Not? Create the Change!

Should the US institute some kind of required national service....

If I was given ONE question to ask the President tonight

If I was given ONE question to ask the President tonight

If things get much worse we might be able to get foreign aid?

1967 - The Summer of Love

Olbermann tells College Republican that ‘most conservatives are wildly stupid’

fYi, I rcvd email from Sibel Edmonds today

Obama threatens to veto anti-EPA bill derided as ‘Koch Brothers Appreciation Act’

KRUGMAN: 'those assurances about how nobody currently over 55 will be hurt turn out to be empty'

Thank you to all the baby eagle cam watchers here!

Fox News host ’100 percent’ in favor of pepper spraying kids who throw temper tantrums

Obama presser: He seems pissed and fed up to me. I think he's presenting the

"What words and promises of Obama can you trust?" A widow of husband killed on 9/11 speaks out

America may have to accept shantytowns

CBS News Washington Bureau Chief Was an FBI Snitch (while at ABC)

Let's list all the people we used to like when they rodes bush's ass but that we now

We are One Rally Denver Colorado.......... Pics!

Remember the old poster "Bank of America, Isla Vista Branch"?

Know Your History: MLK was not shot until he initiated a Labor Movement

Super-Rich CEOs are killing your retirement

Quelle surprise !!!: Rahmbo threatens Chicago unions

Quelle surprise !!!: Rahmbo threatens Chicago unions

Kevin Drum: "I think I'm going to be sick." (me too...)

I said it before. I'll say it again. Revolution in our lifetime!

I said it before. I'll say it again. Revolution in our lifetime!

In a Clubby World of San Francisco Mothers, Men Needn’t Apply

Paul Ryan reminds me of the asshole in high school

Giants fan beaten at Dodger Stadium appears to have brain damage

If you haven't already done so, start a garden...

Don't Join the Book Burners. Who Said this?

Tomorrow in Madison we get to vote against Corporate Personhood.

Tomorrow in Madison we get to vote against Corporate Personhood.

Amid nuclear crisis, Japan’s Tepco planned new reactors

Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz a good choice for DNC chair?

President Obama’s top 5 broken campaign promises

Stockholm Voters, they just love to be punished, hurt, lied to...and they still remain loyal

Smokers and the obese cheaper to care for, study shows

Democratic politicians have a stark choice -- raise taxes on the rich, or destroy their own base.

Greenwald -- The impotence of the loyal partisan voter

A Familiy Friend Has Died..... Suicide

How Debbie Wasserman Schultz, inexplicable DU hero, treats progressive Democrats

$4 for gas? It could hit $5 a gallon

I need DU's help in winning a blog contest!

Our storms last night= 8 dead.

3.000.000 gallons of poisoned atomic water just got dumped in the Pacific

2 of Rupert Murdoch's News Editors were just ARRESTED for phone hacking. Please look at FOX next!

Jon Stewart really struck a chord last night, didn't he?

Jon Stewart really struck a chord last night, didn't he?

My sister sent this to me

Obama lost his "progressive" base, because he's done nothing progressive.

Japanese Public Worker's Heroic Final Moments - Stayed at post to warn residents

Rachel talked about something last nite that really needs to be answered. Why is it that the

I hate that Obama got involved with Libya

Obama treats tax dodging GE's Immelt better than consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren by Ralph Nader

No pain - no gain - the price of gasoline should be allowed to float freely -

Police use pepper spray on second grader

Eagles: Babies are eating; mom and dad are both there

Speaking of exploitation: Anyone sold on Ebay lately?

The Nowhere Man

Pastor Terry Jones Receives Death Threats After Koran Burning

The Jeanette Maples Project - please help

Fischer: Welfare Just Gives Money To "People Who Rut Like Rabbits"

Dear Debbie WS. Are you going to "stamp feet" if a party breaks DNC rules?

"Your uniforms don't fit, 'We' ... We forget the place we're in ...Cause we love you, we love you"

"When I look into your eyes, your love is there for me ... And the more I go inside...

"Open up your heart and let your feelings flow ... You're not unlucky knowing me...

Behar *only* loves BahBwah WAHwah and Larry KING.

'Andguns?!?!?!?!? We don' need no stinking 'andguns!!!!!

It's April.......and I miss her greatly

To be perfectly clear, when MFM tells you to "Stay away from drugs", he means OTHER people's drugs.

I just love this cool front that blew in today, yesterday shorts tonight sweat pants.

Kinda uplifting song....You Are Loved..Don't Give Up..Josh Groban

Lame "answer" songs - here's "The Dawn of Correction"

There is nothing worse than a bored zombie. ... ... except a bored, WHINY zombie.

Alice In Chains - Would?

Can you measure your intoxication level by your musical taste?

Ripped Open By Metal Explosions

"Play that Concertina, I'll be your temptress... and baby I'm defenseless... singin' harmony..."

Any other Loungers hooked on Minecraft?

Do You Play?

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu%$^$%

You say "Potato"... and I say... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... "is murder."

NCAA Tournament Championship Game Thread

I may be the only adult in America that LIKES this song...

ZORRO. Courageous defender of the downtrodden or simply a smartass who liked slicing things up?

Using my droid phone as a wi-fi hotspot

Not many know that Waldo is an existentialist.

Dog owners, here's your public service announcement for the day:

some VERY twisted early Jim Henson pre muppet tv ads

Congratulations GearDaddy - winner of the DU's NCAA tournament 2011

Funniest Faux News fails (I think I wet myself from laughing so hard)

Teach your children well about the dangers of crack.

WTH? The mom eagle just left the babies alone!

Continued Existence Of Edible Arrangements Disproves Central Tenets Of Capitalism

I give you: IKEA storage for idiots

Batman, finding the need to set some boundaries with Commissioner Gordon, responds to the Bat Signal

WHEE THE DUCK !!!!!!!!!!

Me and Mrs. Jones... Mrs. Jones... Mrs. Jones... ... ... ... we got a thinnnngggg... goin' on.

Meow.

PHOTO: It'a a beautiful day...ON ELM STREET!

Dark Side of the Loom:

Oscar located!!!1!!1!!

Once again, THANK YOU FOR THE IGNORE OPTION!!!

Informing pizzeria owner that he can't eat 8 slices, MiddleFingerMom asks him to slice pizza into 6

Liquor-impaired head.

Lycra repair thread

Post a Shocking Meat song

MiddleFingerMom admits that there are some (OK, many) occasions where he could be more enthusiastic.

"They Killed John Henry" - Justin Townes Earle (Live on KEXP)

"Shocking meat" is the phrase for this evening. Modify a thread title to include "shocking meat".

Cat owners! Here's a tip:

"Facebook is a Clocksucker" by Elayne Boosler

Calling all Tolkien geeks!

What beer/ale gives you the most gas?

Killer Biscuits Wanted for Attempted Murder (AP)

"Gas" is the word for today. Modify a thread title to include "gas".

Ptah opened Tucson's 1st private penitentiary, but it closed when there was a breakout within days.

Springing spring.

Amazing painted hands. A buddy from Calgary sent me this.

"Painted Hands" is the phrase for this evening. Modify a thread title to include "painted hands".

Call Me Wesley - Merry Prankster

Lyric repair thread

Jesus fucking Christ on a crutch!!!! Brewers lose AGAIN????

Minister Clean:

"Convair? I thought you said 'Launch the CORvair."

Residential demographics -- as per The Beatles:

You know what? May 21 just might be the end of the world after all.

Whatever happened to "The Captain and Tennille?"

I really need advice. Does anyone know of any car insurance

Would you please go back to your room and put SOMETHING on? ... ... ... ... ... Please?

It's all fun & games 'til someone loses a pie.

This is my new background on my computer at work.

How many here have a DVR, I love mine.

The fabulous ‘50’s…what I remember….

Ever wish people wouldn't use "the former" and "the latter?"

Each and every night, MiddleFingerMom's username comes back to haunt him.

Amerigo Vespucci has the best furry suit EVER... but is instantly recognizable by the way he speaks.

Anybody know the inside story on how Carrie Fisher got the role of Leia

RIP Layne Staley - died April 05,2002.

Sign on a Chicago borders, going out of business

It's Tito time. Won't you join me?

Lyrics repair thread

Should Prince William and Kate have a pre-nup?

Cats aren't as much help as you might think on moving day.

I've posted here 39694 times

A belated welcome to all new DUers from Wisconsin and elsewhere!

And now, for my 7290th post, the triplets are turning 10 tomorrow (with pics)

Anyone know anything about lead poisoning?

Man, 92, honored for bravery in 1954 civil rights case

(G20 protester killed by cops) Ian Tomlinson inquest hears police officer 'feared for his life'

Goodell Wants HGH Tests in Next NFL Labor Deal

Israeli actor slain in Jenin refu­gee camp

Colombia investigates military jail 'special treatment'

Speedy Trials Sought in Texas Rape Case

Japan's nuclear plant operator pays "condolence money"

Trace amounts of radioactive Iodine found in U.S. drinking water

Rally supports referendum on SB 5 (Ohio anti-public sector unions law)

Dayton (OH) looks to immigration to revitalize city, create jobs

Bachmann nabs top Huckabee aide in Iowa

Republicans Ram Immigration Bill Through Committee (FL)

$4 for gas? It could hit $5 a gallon

Ozone depletion over Arctic at record level: WMO

Obama summons Boehner for budget talks

Scott Walker's administration gave a state job and a 26% raise to the son of a major supporter

ElBaradei: We'll fight back if Israel attacks Gaza

Libya chaos 'allows al-Qaida to grab surface-to-air missiles'

In Libya, the jihadists go up to the front

Chairman of University of Michigan's faculty senate calls FOIA request 'harassing'

Sanctions Are Dropped Against Libyan Defector

UN condemns plans for east Jerusalem settler homes

Lesbian Judge Chosen for Top Massachusetts Court

Inflation inflicting pain, as wages fail to keep pace with price hikes

Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for California killer

Supreme Court Blocks Texas Execution

Ivory Coast: Pro-Ouattara forces launch palace assault (& claim to be inside presidential residence)

Brown has $8.3 million cash on hand

US ‘deeply concerned’ over rising trend of detentions in China

Town near nuclear plant rejects Japanese utility's 'token' offer

7.5 mil. times legal limit of iodine in sea

Air Miles among firms hit by huge data breach (JPMorgan, TiVo, Citigroup, more)

Two US workers missing after sewage tank bursts

California's budget issues delay training at new Baldwin (for profit) prison

UN: Cote d'Ivoire's Gbagbo 'has surrendered'

Radioactive Material Found in Fish Near Japanese Nuclear Plant

White House rebuffs GOP long-term budget plan

Radioactive Fish Found in Eastern Japan, Ban is considered on Certain Shipments

Obama’s top spokesman criticizes Congress for failing to break stalemate on budget issues

Libyan rebels and government trade salvos at Brega

India bans Japan food imports, says radiation spreading

Florida ACLU launches 'Incorporate My Uterus' website

Montana Senate backs constitutional referendum that denies right to abortion

Richmond cops allegedly hired, armed teen Explorers

Kenyans sue UK for alleged colonial human rights abuses

Supreme Court Allows Tax Credit for Religious Tuition

Debbie Wasserman Schultz picked as Democratic National Committee chair

Conservation groups say ‘we are under assault’ by Scott, Florida lawmakers

DA scrutinizes Mass. camp where Sen. alleges abuse

Leak At Fukushima Appears To Be Lessening

I broke my diet today in order to have a hot cocoa. How much weight will I gain?

Trial begins for 'violent' MS-13 gang members

STOCK MARKET WATCH, Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Libyan rebels deny offering Lockerbie compensation

Amid nuclear crisis, Japan’s Tepco planned new reactors

GOP budget resolution calls for pay freeze through 2015

Bradley Manning supporters welcome UK government's expression of concern

Japan stops radioactive leaks into sea from reactor

SpaceX to build heavy-lift, low-cost rocket

Tim Kaine announces for Senate in Virginia

International union: Human rights should block US trade deal

House Dem: Change title of EPA bill to 'Koch Brothers Appreciation Act

(Calif.) Assembly panel kills two anti-illegal immigration bills

Vote to Repeal Health Law Provision

350 rally for collective bargaining (Omaha Steve Included)

Space junk threatening space station, 3 residents

Huge pool of fresh water in Arctic could disturb Europe's climate, oceanographers say

2,000 Protesters March On Koch Industries’ D.C. Office

Man With Obama Sign Attacked In San Francisco

(Va. Gov.) McDonnell weighs proposal that would allow gays to adopt

Geithner Says Failure to Raise Debt Limit Would Make Recent Financial Crisis Look "Modest..."

Budget Impasse Could Hit Troops' Paychecks

Plant Radiation Monitor Says Levels Immeasurable

Obama navigates tricky racial landscape as he courts black voters at Sharpton convention

Walker demotes son of campaign contributor

Sen. Baucus Rips Paul Ryan Budget: "Not On My watch

What music are you listening to today?

Ecuador expels US ambassador in flap over after cable divulged by WikiLeaks

Debbie Wasserman Schultz picked as Democratic National Committee chair

Bristol Palin earns $262K for teen pregnancy work

After Rape Report in Libya, Woman Sees Benefit in Publicity

Cuba accuses Reuters journalist of collaborating with US intelligence

For the last time, NetFlix, I am NOT interested in Anime, so stop suggesting it

Health-care sector facing increased antitrust scrutiny

Hostage Drama

To top it off, a lot of the billion dollars will go to union print shops!

Has anyone been watching Rachael Maddow tonite? What do you think?

This Is What Resistance Looks Like

Twilight Zone

Weird

Ryan's Radical, Ridiculous, Rip-off Roadmap

Tony Auth: How Republican budget showdown is like Charlie Sheen

Political Wire: Huckabee's Gubernatorial Records Missing

Democratic memo: why Barack Obama can’t close Gitmo or try KSM in New York

TPM's Josh Marshall: Deep Breath, Keep it Simple

Mother Jones' Kevin Drum: The Courageous, Serious, Gutsy Paul Ryan

Ezra Klein: Will Ryan's Budget Revive Simpson-Bowles?

QUESTION: What does GOP Budget ask of their Constituents--

Boehner: No Agreement With Obama On Budget

TPM - Pathetic (dem saying that Ryan is courageous)

Politco: 'One one level, Ryan's projected savings aren't worth the paper they're printed on.'

I want to see an ad in the midwest where republicans are saying bankrupt the car industry and...

Americans are stupid!

TPM Breaking: Tim Kaine announces Senate bid

GOP Budget Ignores CBO To Claim Health Care Repeal Will Reduce The Deficit

Dem Chris Van Hollen now on C-span 2 responding to Ryan Budget proposal

Which Side Are You On?

I fully support the election of a President who'll fight for working Americans

Death Row Inmate Seeks Reprieve Over Drug Method

The Plumline: GOP has again moved goalposts for budget compromise

W.H. vows to protect net neutrality - Threatens veto of GOP effort to overturn FCC rules

GOP launches first full-on 2012 smear ad against President Obama.

The media's sick, twisted "love" for Paul Ryan

Judge Refuses To Dismiss Assault Charges Against Rand Paul Supporter

By what date will Obama see a primary challenger from the left?

Top ten Obama lies (feel free to add your own)

What the Fuck?

Mark Penn has awful advice for President Obama

Senator Conrad slams Ryan's proposal

US Military Deaths In Iraq War At 4,442

Did I hear right? Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be DNC Chair?

Top ten Obama lies (feel free to add your own)

3 more hours before polls close in Wisconsin. They close at 8 PM.

Elizabeth Warren: A Few Questions

Harry Truman - prophet.

Harry Truman - prophet.

the pendulum had swung back to the left by 2008

CBO: GOP Budget Would Increase Debt, Then Stick It To Medicare Patients

TPM: CBO: GOP Budget Would Increase Debt, Then Stick It To Medicare Patients

GOP fiscal plan relies on projections from group that predicted Bush boom

Robert Reich blog: Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich

Paul Krugman blog: Privatizing Medicare. So they're really going to propose it.

NH (R) POLL: "The Donald" within six points of Romney, 27/21.

They are coming for you...they came after us

How do we get our hands on the billionaires' payouts?

I'm tired of hearing about them trying to make a deal on budget cuts.

The Ryan Plan Should Be a Gift

White House Blasts Ryan Plan, Says it fails the "fairness" test.

"we're actually fighting a much larger battle, and losing isn't an option we want to contemplate."

"Sticker shock" for Obama's pricey April SF fundraiser

Let them eat vouchers.

GOP has again moved goalposts for budget compromise, Dems say

Excluding Dean (since he'd have a large consensus here), who would be your dream DNC chairman?

Wisconsin voters will not sit out todays elections to "teach anyone a lesson"

You gotta love the RW. Latest conspiracy theory? Obama was a conjoined twin.

I'm almost certain Barack Obama would govern much differently in a 2nd term

BREAKING: Debbie Wasserman Schultz new head of the DNC!

What if Pres. Obama loses the 2012 election......

Jon Stewart Skewers Obama For His Hypocrisy On Transparency

Can we get a Progressive to Run...Please?

Fuck Nader

We Are One Interfaith Worker Justice.org

PBS NewsHour interview with ProPublica's Dafna Linzer about 9/11 military tribunal

The Cornell Review questions Keith Olbermann March 31st Lecture, The Tone of Politics

La Cicatriz de Paulina. Documental de Manuel Legarda

Good Morning America: Former Governor Jesse Ventura Picks Fight With Feds Over 9/11 (04.04.11)

"You Want To Know Why We're In Afghanistan?" Jesse Ventura Interview pt.1

Mad as Hell in America with Adam Klugman-The Wash Co. Dems!

naming the names of the enemy...

Kucinich Identifies Next U.S. Target for Democracy Building

Former CIA Analyst Tells Truth About Libya ("Theatre") Intervention On CNN, Hilarity Ensues

Al Jazeera English: US Fighter Jets End Their Combat Missions In Libya

MLK on Poverty in the U.S.

March On Koch DC Offices 4/4/2011

TDPS: Jesse Ventura Interview on Wikileaks, 9/11, Bradley Manning, TSA, Atheism, More

Papantonio: What Monsanto Chemicals Are In Your Food?

Thom Hartmann & Alex Jones: Can Texas or any state secedes from the union?

Boehner explains GOP platform

TYT: Will Obama Close Guantanamo Bay?

Stephen Harper (far right prime minister of canada) steals speech from Emperor Palpatine

TDPS: Climategate Debunked, Corporate Media Silence, Right-Wingers Still Citing

MSNBC: Budget Battle - Senator Sanders w/ Cenk

Election Day Madison Wisconsin April 5, 2011

Gitmo KSM Trial Breaks Obama's Promise

Full Video-Michael Moore In Madison WI

RT Interviews ARNIE GUNDERSEN: 'No way out of waste water dumping to keep core cool at Fukushima'

WEST COAST READ ALERT! - Tap water has radiation 18,000 % higher than allow by EPA

Single Party in the USA

Misrata “Hell” Captured On Video

Majority Report w/ Sam Seder is LIVE @ majority.fm

Robert Rubin Is Above NYC Traffic or Get To Know How the Uber Rich Think!

Anderson Cooper Interviews Eman Al-Obeidy, Libyan Woman Accusing Gaddafi Soldiers Of Rape & Torture

"A Good Day"

Ralph Nader discusses athletic scholarships

Keith Olbermann Answers a Question from a Republican College Student

Thom Hartmann: Tea Party says NO! to taxpayer subsidies for big oil

The Leadership Americans Deserve

Fukushima Units 5 & 6 flooded,risk of losing their cooling systems,TEPCO official cries giving news

How much did YOU pay for war this year?

9/11 'mastermind' denied right to civil court trial, will go to Gitmo

At what point will the White House say there's a Republican plan to end Medicare?

Independent UK: Study reveals how bees reject 'toxic' pesticides

A perfect example of why not trusting the nuclear industry is wise.

NASA/EO - Arctic Ozone Levels Approaching Lowest Levels Of Instrumental Era

Fukushima: Chernobyl fallout may have led to 40000 extra deaths in vulnerable populations in the USA

EPA to raise limits for radiation exposure while Canada turns off fallout detectors

CSIRO - 0.4C Increase In Average Temps = 25% Increase In Bushfire Risk In 10 Years - Canberra Times

18-Year Study Of 27,000 Trees Shows Far Bigger Climate Impact On Growth, Reproduction Than Thought

After 18 Month Moratorium, World Bank Announces Plan To Resume Oil Palm Lending

David Orr - "Perhaps The President Reasoned That Climate Destabilization Would Not Be All That Bad"

Monarch Survey - "We Have Enough Data Now To Say That We Are Seeing A Long-term Decline”

Cong. Jim Moran's work re: EPA's fiscal support (HR 1) - still fighting

Iowa Senate OKs tax credit for solar, wind energy

speculation in food commodities - more speculative contracts than those held by producers & users.

Solar leads the pack for industry growth in 2010

Cover Up - What You are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power by Karl Grossman free download

In Year Ending 6/10, World Bank Provided 40X Coal Funding Of Previous 5 Yrs, Now Wants To "Reform"

Grains, Soybeans Jump on USDA Data, Signaling Higher Food Costs

Bury the Nuclear Renaissance Once and for All

Rich CEOs are killing your retirement: 11 reasons bankrupt Reaganomics ideas are leading to collapse

Obama's re-election: 6 obstacles he must overcome

Obama wants more than a "good one term" - Globe and Mail

Make poverty an election issue: religious group

A Country the NFL Can Be Proud Of

Legislators: They. Are. For. Sale. (FL)

Indian IT firms hire few U.S. workers

Afghanistan: A Country, Not a War ( by David Swanson)

Whistleblower: Libya "Vampire War" is About Oil, Lockerbie and CIA Heroin Op

Think a Hole In a Plane Is Scary? GOP's Plan to Gut Airline Regulation Is What's Frightening

Robert Reich: Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich, ASAP!

The Spanish Holocaust (civil war)

Obama's War of Choice: Did the president mislead the American people about Libya?

The Four Horsemen of the Budgetopolypse: If Republicans Were Planning your Household Budget

Enter the Anthropocene—Age of Man

Mitch Albom: 'Office' is now the code word for our low morale

Salon: The subversive legacy of comic Bill Hicks...the legend continues, 17 years after his death

Obama up's ante in Budget Battle - oh yeah? Why don't you really get tough & listen to Sen Sanders

Evangelical Liberty University received half a billion dollars in federal aid money

Do you think the poor are lazy?

American workers got what they deserved (Good Read)

"Missionaries" and Planned Parenthood Spar on Campus

speculation in food commodities - more speculation in futures than those held by producers & users.

Slate: Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia's "master class in human apathy, a moral flat line"

Vanity Fair: Dubai on Empty

Analysis of radioactive emissions at Fukushima - much more than Chernobyl or TMI

Sea-Level Rise "At Upper End" Of 2007 IPCC Forecast - Sydney Australian

More Illinoisans get out of state concealed-carry

Pizza Shop Robbed; Owner Now Wants Workers Armed

There seems to be a rash of old fatality post being posted.

Colombia investigates military jail 'special treatment'

Over 2,000 bodies from mass graves remain unidentified

Nule directors surrender to Colombian authorities

Identity of Cuban Double Agent Recruited by CIA Revealed

International union: Human rights should block US trade deal

Martelly’s Historically Weak Mandate (CEPR)

Wives of political prisoners denounce Venezuelan judiciary

Press Conference with former U.S. President James Carter

Ecuador tells Hil's ambassador bye bye

Cuba accuses Reuters journalist of collaborating with US intelligence

Patrick nominee Lenk would be first openly gay Supreme Court justice in Massachusetts

Court: Anti-Gay Christian Bigot Not Protected by 1964 Civil Rights Act

RI LawmakersConsider Alternatives to Gay Marriage

Our community lost an incredible ally today.

Could Defendants' Background Challenge Hate Crime Law?

Today marks the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death

Washington Times' Transphobic Editorial

US lawmaker: Suspend Deportation of Gay Spouses

Brothers and Sisters starts with episode 1

"Rice Owls, we didn't make it to the Final Four, but neither did Texas!

Fishwax has a NCAA Chapionship thread over at the Lounge.

Big East

Congratulations UCONN! As usual, I predicted the winner!

UConn. Congrats.

Gloat Free Baseball Scores (Monday, April 4)

Shaka Smart agrees to eight-year deal to stay at VCU

Congratulations Texas A&M!!!

Sharks clinch Pacific Division title..

Why the Christian right is backing a brutal despot

Alright. Who was the jerk that gave Ohio State a first place vote?

State Department: Goldstone affirms U.S. position Israel did not commit war crimes in Gaza

U.S. 'deeply concerned' about Israel settlement expansion

Juliano Mer-Khamis was murdered yesterday in Jenin

UN condemns plans for east Jerusalem settler homes

Former Mossad, Shin Bet chiefs draft new Israeli-Palestinian peace plan

Obama, Peres see urgent need for Middle East peace

U.N. Human Rights Council: Goldstone Report Stands

Israel is confusing victimhood with foreign policy

'Goldstone says he'll work to nullify report in UN'

ElBaradei: We'll fight back if Israel attacks Gaza

Peres: I asked Obama to pardon Pollard

Israeli actor slain in Jenin refu­gee camp

Democracy Now: Goldstone Retracts Part of His Report on Israeli Assault on Gaza, Leaves Rest Intact

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