First, please listen to this:



I want to impress upon this comment:

Let me quote Mr. Limbaugh one more time:

Do they want to synchronize their menstrual periods?
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52 comments (Latest Comment: 11/12/2011 03:28:10 by wickedpam)

Normally, off-year elections are poorly attended and involve local and state races, or are "special" elections to fill vacated seats. In this case - a year before a presidential election - they can also be construed as harbinger of things to come. Yesterday's elections contained some rather large referendums, and provided some surprising results.
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98 comments (Latest Comment: 11/10/2011 04:55:42 by livingonli)

While many people on are rightfully concerned with the idea that we now have corporate personhood in the United States, there is a movement around the country to give personhood rights in a very strange place: Wombs.

Mississippi is one of a handful of states that appears to be taking a huge step backwards when it comes to Women and reproductive rights. There is a particular disturbing organization, Personhood USA, that is pushing personhood. In reading a little more about this, Think Progress has reported the following, via an interview on the Diane Rhem show that it's a lot more radical than that:
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94 comments (Latest Comment: 11/08/2011 22:11:29 by Raine)

I wanted to see what all the commotion was about, so I set out to join an Occupy movement. It's a bit more violent and racist than I ever imagined! Why are these people so angry? I asked a few of them while walking amongst the tents.

One woman said (and, I'm having to paraphrase here because she spoke so loudly and fast that it was hard to decipher exactly what she was saying), "they want to destroy our republic! They want fascism and slavery! We will not be slaves! We'll not take this sitting still - we need to arm ourselves and fight! This is what our Founding Fathers wanted!"
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 11/06/2011 17:16:18 by Raine)

Ask enough people in the U.S. what the number one issue is facing our country, and the majority will answer "Jobs". The Bush-era economic policies resulted in those at the top being financially rewarded for shipping jobs overseas, and unregulated financial groups selling debt as assets until the whole ponzi scheme collapsed. The fallout has resulted in a stagnant job market as companies sit on money rather than investing in growth.

Despite it being Congress's job to create bills to alleviate this sort of thing, the Republican leadership in the House has criticized President Obama for not coming up with a jobs bill. So - he did. He created a comprehensive bill that covers a lot of territory and is well thought out. He presented it to Congress where it quickly stalled.

In the meantime, the House Republicans have been working on plenty of bills themselves - there was the bill redefining rape, bills about abortion, and - yesterday - the bill affirming "In God We Trust" as the official U.S. motto. What does this have to do with jobs, America wonders?...
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79 comments (Latest Comment: 11/05/2011 04:04:10 by BobR)