Rants From The Rookery: Hope

Outraged by the arrest of two nurses and a union organizer volunteering at the Occupy Chicago protest over the weekend, National Nurses United is planning a protest at Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office today.

The group, the nation's largest union of registered nurses, is calling on its membership in Chicago to picket City Hall this morning to demand that misdemeanor trespassing charges against the nurses and all of the protesters be dropped.

Do you think they've learned anything? The Iraq war is finally over. And it marks a complete neocon defeat

About time:

Regulator throws lifeline to underwater borrowers

and

'We can't wait': Obama to use executive authority to boost economy as Republicans dither on jobs

And magic! There is no more poverty!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Looking up hopefully

NTodd of Dohiyi Mir and his family went to a protest.

Phila of Bouphonia offers his Friday hope post.

Saturday, October 01, 2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Friday Hope on Saturday

Phila of Bouphonia's Friday Hope blog.

And a cat:

Saturday, August 13, 2011

To Everything There Is a Season

And hope and laughter are included.

Phila of Bouphonia's Friday hope.

And then there's a puppy tasting a lime...

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Hope and humor

An all electric car

Contentment.

Standing up for veggie gardening!

And, as always, Phila of Bouphonia's Friday hope blog.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Monday, March 07, 2011

Blog sprinkles

Phila of Bouphonia's Friday hope blog.

Blackwater(Xe) gets to stay in Afghanistan.

A satisfying answer to idiot racism.

New Study: The American Public Prefers LIBERAL Policies Which Would Cut Budget By $437 Billion

Excellent graphic of the tax breaks and budget cuts....

We owe our hands to rocks.

Good. Wis. Dems File Ethics Complaint Over Walker's Comments On 'Koch' Call

Krugman continues to scare me:

Yes, we need to fix American education. In particular, the inequalities Americans face at the starting line — bright children from poor families are less likely to finish college than much less able children of the affluent — aren’t just an outrage; they represent a huge waste of the nation’s human potential.

But there are things education can’t do. In particular, the notion that putting more kids through college can restore the middle-class society we used to have is wishful thinking. It’s no longer true that having a college degree guarantees that you’ll get a good job, and it’s becoming less true with each passing decade.

So if we want a society of broadly shared prosperity, education isn’t the answer — we’ll have to go about building that society directly. We need to restore the bargaining power that labor has lost over the last 30 years, so that ordinary workers as well as superstars have the power to bargain for good wages. We need to guarantee the essentials, above all health care, to every citizen.

What we can’t do is get where we need to go just by giving workers college degrees, which may be no more than tickets to jobs that don’t exist or don’t pay middle-class wages.

The story of an abortion provider.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Hope springs eternal

Just a reminder to read Phila of Bouphonia's Friday Hope posts. Very worth it.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Caturday on Sunday and Friday hope

Phila of Bouphonia's Friday Hope blogging.

Friday, December 03, 2010

It's FRiIIIIiiiDDDddaaAAaaaYYYYyyyy!!!!

And Phila of Bouphonia has his Friday Hope blog post up!

Friday, October 01, 2010

Blog sprinkles

The Brits are being droned?

Two official safety inquiries took place into the military use of drones over southern England after near-collisions with helicopters, the Guardian can reveal.

The investigations are the first of their kind involving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are increasingly being flown in British civilian airspace after extensive use in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obviously the drone operators were distracted by eating cheetos or something. Gotta get real gamers to operate the things, they would know how to avoid collisions!

How many accents can you do?

The GOP will not.. no they won't! ... WON'T eat their evil nasty green ugly vegetables. So there!

Was Christine O'Donnell going from A to Z with her religious quest to see which one would offer the best way to make money?

Two hope blogs for the price of one!!

We could have predicted that all the gay bashing that has gone on would lead to youthful gays killing themselves in despair. Hate speech leads to hate crimes.

And GOPs will claim when caught that they were only joking!

Friday, September 17, 2010

Blog sprinkles

A reminder why the Gulf of Mexico will not be the same for decades and decades. And BP's happy story about oil eating bacteria? Gulf bacteria digests gas, not oil.

Monkeyfister notes that a Florida man's blood was tested and was off the charts with the chemicals that BP uses: Florida man gets tested: Six of nine VOCs in blood — Hexane “off the charts”

The tree of crazy and why we need a chainsaw.

Californians better watch who's doing what to our water supply.

And speaking of water.... it can be turned into a blade and defuse bombs!

A watery blade is saving the lives of American soldiers in Afghanistan. Known as the Stingray, the device uses conventional military explosives to craft a blade of water sharp enough to slice through a metal bomb and scramble its innards.

Developed by the Sandia National Laboratories, thousands of units of this technology have already been shipped to Afghanistan to help diffuse the improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, that are so deadly to U.S. soldiers.

High fructose corn syrup producers want to change its name but not its potency.... basically hiding the ingredient in the product. Be careful what you eat.

The Art of Drew Struzan

Digby quoting Michael O'Hare about those super rich whining about the ending of the Bush tax cuts: