The point we have been making all along

Republicans seem to want to go back to the good old days... even though there never has been any good old days.

Debtors prisons were so nineteenth century...

How socialism has helped the United States.  And how Merikans don't know it.

People Finally Realizing For-Profit Education Is A Scam — University Of Phoenix Loses Half Its Students

Medieval medicine still works today... and works better than some modern medicines.

Breathe deeply.  Save our oceans.

Separation of church and state.  The US is actually NOT a Christian nation.

Jeb Bush thinks Governor Mike Pence did the right thing.  Do not forget the Terri Shiavo case. These indicate clearly where Jeb would go as president. Odd how the Republicans have hijacked the term, "religious freedom" so they can make it mean whatever they want it to mean.

Gadgets, Gaza, and Good Grief, Oklahoma!

Masai rebel woman fighting for women's rights.

How bad it actually is in Gaza.

Gadgets that are listening to you, a little too well.

It's snowing on the east coast.  That's that white stuff you see in the pictures.  And an explanation on why it is so cold.

Women's reproductive rights the worst it has ever been since Roe v Wade.

Robert Reich: This Very Bad Deal Will Make Wall Street Richer and Bust the Rest of America The truth about the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Oklahoma decides it doesn't like history unless it lies.

What religious fanaticism will do to women's rights if carried to the logical end.  And Men's Rights activist isn't any better.  And what 50 shades of crap does to relationships. Update:  and more.

Jeb Bush is using the same people that Georgie did for foreign policy.  Remember, Jeb was an original signer of the PNAC.  I'd like to see him explain that away.

A star hit and run with our solar system 70,000 years ago.

Our presidents.

Tuesday casserole

WTF is wrong with Americans?

Why we should watch the virulent religious fanaticism oozing to the surface in the US.

What is wrong with Governor Brown?  MORE jails? Really?

Paving with solar panels.

Hagfish kill by slime.

Drinkable books.

10 ingredients that don't belong in your bathroom.

Shaming, shunning, (soon to be stoning) women who have abortions.

A billboard actually doing something worth while: eating pollution.

Al Franken on the internetal tubes.

Oh, and Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.

States' rights ... and wrongs

You go, Georgia!

A Georgia man panicked parents and children at a local park and baseball field by randomly walking around and displaying his gun to anyone he encountered in the parking lot. According to witnesses who spoke with WSB-TV, the man wandered around the Forsythe County park last Tuesday night showing his gun to strangers, telling them “there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Just what exactly did you think would happen when you pass these kinds of laws? That people would behave in a civilized manner?  Really?

You go, South Carolina!

SC GOP candidate: Women cause ’95 percent’ of divorces by loving their kids too much

And

SC Republican wants to end public schools: Nothing ‘in the Bible about state education’

And you go, Tennessee!

TENNESSEE PASSES BILL ALLOWING THE BULLYING OF LGBT STUDENTS IN THE NAME OF ‘RELIGIOUS FREEDOM’

You go, Alabama!

Alabama’s chief justice: Buddha didn’t create us so First Amendment only protects Christians

You go, New York!

 NYC cyclist arrested for using cellphone to film cop, told iPhones are ‘being used as guns’

What's under the veil

Are smart girls and women who dream of a better life.

Stop it!

Being clueless and rich is hard!

Burns?  Or Romney?

Darrell Issa hits the big time...

Dealing with a troll.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

In Arizona, where anti-abortion crusaders have passed some of the most restrictive women’s health laws in the country, abortion rates seemed to have increased. 

And by the way, good Christian women? Shut up.

High Fructose Corn Syrup must be called that, not the 'disguised' name of Corn Sugar.

Maybe the Earth had two moons at one time?

Friday

Are you being persecuted because of your faith?  Because claiming you are persecuted is cool and makes people bond together against the bad guys and give money to churches and stuff.

We knew this when it happened.  It was obvious to those who could watch the news and think for themselves.  Bush and Cheney knew a lot more than they shared with us about Bin Laden and 9/11.  So when's the war crimes tribunal?

Jupiter saves Earth ... again.

If You Plan On Ever Getting Old And/Or Sick, You Need To See This

When the buffaloes roamed the prairies... and then when they didn't.

Should women be criminalized for having abortions?  Are we that close to losing the right to choose?  On the edge.

Scott Walker has a goon squad because 8x11 1/2 signs are a threat.  And being a mayor means you can do what you want.

Elizabeth Warren:



Rachel Maddow:  (sorry for the ads)

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From cows to cats

Cows are more dangerous than sharks.



Ryan hasn't run the numbers on his budget.  Isn't that what you do first when you figure out a budget?  Because it involves money?

Romney's medicare cuts are the same/different than Ryan's.

American Women are Under Assault from Christian Republicans

Jan Brewer denies deferred action recipients drivers’ licenses; will other governors follow suit?

Northern Gateway: Enbridge Accused Of Misleading Public With Video That Shows Smooth Sailing In Douglas Channel

GPS in your DNA: Genetics can reveal your geographic ancestral origin

And so forth and so on...

Martian plate tectonics!  360 degree panorama!

She wasn't a fetus so the Republicans don't care.  But if there's a fetus involved: Kansas Doctor Under Attack For Not Forcing Ten Year Old Rape Victim To Give Birth

Ohio is afraid of letting people vote.

Good guy bank.

You can fool some of the people all of the time.  The Ryan plan, and what choosing Ryan didn't and did do for Romney.

Romney supports Tranquility Bay, a Mormon behavior reformation camp that tortures kids.... and more on this.

Mute button.

The starfish story.  Found on this thread of Reddit.

The fun never ends

Well... it's one way to get that tithing money...Mormon Church 'owns unregulated gun sale website'

 Did Mitt Romney Take the 2009 Swiss Bank Account Amnesty and An Ex-Mormon Describes Some 'Secrets' Of The Church... that just might affect a president Romney's actions...

A State-By-State Guide to 2012’s Anti-Choice Laws (So Far) and the shift to deny even rape and incest victims an abortion.

 Missouri Votes to Allow Christians to Discriminate Against Non-Believers

 Sobering: Almost Half of Americans Die Close to Penniless

How dare you!!

Banks: How dare you tell us we can't make money dealing with Iranians!

Religious extremists: How dare same sex couples raise children! We must kidnap them! 

Romney campaign: How dare you get the economists we quote to indicate they don't agree with our conclusions!

Global climate change deniers: How dare you use the melting of Greenland to show that July's heat broke records all over the world!

Texas:  How dare you tell us we can't execute mentally handicapped people!  It's the obviously Christian thing to do!

White supremacist Nazi racist moron:  How dare you insult my dominant white manliness by saying I didn't know the difference between Sikhs and Muslims when all that mattered was that I could tell they were different than me and therefore obviously responsible for all my problems and that shooting them would solve everything or something....

Boiling in a vat of stupid

SCOTUS: Total Betrayal of Democracy

Kansas Board of Health Revokes License of Doctor for Not Forcing Ten-Year-Olds to Give Birth

Shocking Interglacial Shift to Hot Arctic Tied to Rapid Antarctic Ice Melt



Saudi Arabia beheads woman for 'sorcery'

 What privatizing prisons brings us... money over people. Man Dies After Prison Tries To ‘Cut Costs’ By Denying Him Care

 The Big Ag companies, poisoning workers in the fields so they can bring us poisoned food. Poisoning Workers at the Bottom of the Food Chain

 


 The United States of America... not the greatest country in the world anymore.

 

Bisphenol A exposure linked to brain tumor diagnosis.

What war does to soldiers.

Why am I in this handbasket and why is it getting so warm?

Drowning in our own garbage.

Let the United States Holy Wars begin!  Lo, the Lord sayeth, smite them, smite them, smite them!!

Surviving the flesh eating virus, lightning, and boobs.

The dangers of for-profit schools and prisons, and why the Republicans are embracing them wholeheartedly: More bodies, more money to wring out of them, and no oversight! Such a deal! Quality of schooling and dedication to returning prisoners to society are not involved:

Leonard invokes the “numerous lawsuits” against a company called Corinthian Colleges, including one in which a former admissions officer described high-pressure, even bullying recruitment tactics at one of the company’s schools, Everest: “The ultimate goal was to essentially make [potential students] wallow in their grief,” the admission officer’s affidavit says, feel that pain of having accomplished nothing in life, and then use that pain as their “reasons” to compel the leads to schedule an in-person meeting with an Everest admissions representative. A spokesman for Corinthian denied this account of its recruiting, but, as Leonard writes, “there’s little question that an obsessive focus on constantly boosting enrollment is crucial to survival in the for-profit college world. Sky-high withdrawal rates plague the industry.”

Further down in the same article:

Chang’s series in the Times-Picayune, meanwhile, took a close look at how it is that Louisiana nearly doubled its prison population in the past twenty years, to become the state with the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the country—the highest in the world, in fact. (Adam Gopnik has written for The New Yorker about our mass-incarceration culture.) What Chang finds is a system under which the state began housing the majority of its inmates in for-profit facilities, many of them run by cash-strapped local sheriffs and some by private prison companies. Both have a financial incentive to keep the prisons full— like hotels, prisons in Louisiana don’t want any vacancies. “If the inmate count drops, sheriffs bleed money,” writes Chang. “Their constituents lose jobs. The prison lobby ensures this does not happen by thwarting nearly every reform that could result in fewer people behind bars.”

I hate acknowledging that I am an agnostic

Because religious extremism is on the rise in the United States and the polarization of opinions means I am shunted off into the loony bin with the crackpots.  Luckily, I am unafraid of science, math, evolution, reason, logic, intelligence.  Questions cannot destroy what is true.  Understanding is strength.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains what happens when religious extremism takes over the scientific community.  Is the United States going the same way?

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The rights of women.

How napping could save your life.

How the Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservative Christians to Force Their Beliefs on You: Good people are willing to subvert the U.S. Constitution and even violate human decency in their quest for converts.

 The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is fighting against the religious extremists and their agenda to take over the military.

Rush is clueless how to treat women.

ANCIENT ‘ICEMAN’ MUMMY TRACES ANCESTRY FROM ALPS TO MEDITERRANEAN

Cradle robbers... by religious creeps.

Examining His Own Body, Stanford Geneticist Stops Diabetes in Its Tracks

And after the Irish dinner.... corned beef hash!

Arizona follows Utah and Virginia off the cliff

Arizona:Arizona Senate Passes Bill Allowing Doctors To Not Inform Women Of Prenatal Issues To Prevent Abortions

Virginia: Va. governor signs pre-abortion ultrasound bill

The rest of the states are under attack....

The Religious Right's Plot To Take Control Of Our Public Schools

The people who brought you "Jesus Camp" are moving into your neighborhood school. And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Benighted, bigoted, burka'ed

How wonderful it is to be a woman

In this era of understanding and compassion.

The fungus among us...

Why does the far right seem to ooze out from under the rocks when the economy is shaky and politics are polarized? Easier to blame others and reach for guns rather than work together to fix things?:

The far right is on the rise across Europe as a new generation of young, web-based supporters embrace hardline nationalist and anti-immigrant groups, a study has revealed ahead of a meeting of politicians and academics in Brussels to examine the phenomenon.

Research by the British thinktank Demos for the first time examines attitudes among supporters of the far right online. Using advertisements on Facebook group pages, they persuaded more than 10,000 followers of 14 parties and street organisations in 11 countries to fill in detailed questionnaires.

The study reveals a continent-wide spread of hardline nationalist sentiment among the young, mainly men. Deeply cynical about their own governments and the EU, their generalised fear about the future is focused on cultural identity, with immigration – particularly a perceived spread of Islamic influence – a concern.

"We're at a crossroads in European history," said Emine Bozkurt, a Dutch MEP who heads the anti-racism lobby at the European parliament. "In five years' time we will either see an increase in the forces of hatred and division in society, including ultra-nationalism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and antisemitism, or we will be able to fight this horrific tendency."

I have to admit I was shocked at the rabid savagery aimed at protesters of the Iraq invasion during Bush's reign of terror. The delight at going to war.. any war... after 9/11. The belittling of the humanity of the citizens of Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, etc etc. The bizarre embrace of torture with assurances it wasn't really torture and besides the detainees were islamofascists and Jesus would have approved. The suggestion that using nukes really wouldn't be so horrible. We have our own American Taliban and Nazis right here, despite our best efforts in education and exposure to other cultures.

They must hatch like toadstools, surrounded by bullshit and darkness. Sunlight is the only cure.