Today, the Houston Chronicle covered, above the fold on page 1, the fact that people died on Deepwater Horizon. From that article:
THE 11 WHO DIED
• Adam Weise, Texas
• Jason Anderson, Texas
• Dale Burkeen, Mississippi
• Donald Clark, Louisiana
• Roy Kemp, Louisiana
• Stephen Curtis, Louisiana
• Gordon Jones, Louisiana
• Karl Kleppinger, Mississippi
• Blair Manuel, Louisiana
• Dewey Revette, Mississippi
• Shane Roshto, Mississippi
Action alert: Tell Fox to fire John Stossel
This nation cannot abide the foolish belief that it is OK for private businesses to discriminate in how they provide public accomodations.
Please join me in telling Fox that John Stossel’s attitude is NOT acceptable. It is not acceptable for providers of public accomodations to discriminate for any reason.
Watch Stossel’s comments here.
Daily Kos: Icebergs loom: COBRA subsidies end, high risk pools begin
Over the coming two months, Americans will begin to really feel the effects of our bold new 21st century healthcare system.
The first event (not connected to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) is that the first round of COBRA subsidies will begin to expire.
The largest single group of people set to collectively roll-off of the COBRA subsidy could be the group that loses their subsidies in June. Anyone qualifying for the subsidy between September 2008 and March 2009 — a six month period when unemployment increased from 6.2% to 8.4%(2) — will have reached the end of their 15 subsidized months of COBRA in June 2010.
What will happen to these people? Many will join the ranks of the uninsured.
In the rest of the industrialized world, if you lose your job, you don’t lose you right to healthcare.
My only comment: Eve is right. Go read it.
Everyone loses when politicians set the curriculm standards, especially when those politicians are far right wing ideologues from deep East Texas. And when I say everyone, I don’t just mean everyone in Texas. Continue reading
Then I read this article about neo-Nazi parents in the U.S.
Nazi nightmare: The U.S. parents who teach their children to idolise Hitler | Mail Online.
Smiling proudly as she wraps her arms around her two children, Cynthia Keene’s family paint a happy picture.But as they roll up their sleeves to reveal dozens of swastika tattoos it’s clear there is nothing average about their lifestyle.
Because the Keenes are just one of a growing number of Nazi families who have joined the racist group, the NSM (National Socialist Movement).
The group in question is sadly misnamed. There is nothing at all socialist about Nazi beliefs. The NSM is actually neo-Fascist in nature. Continue reading
Another example is a new anti-Muslim screed making the rounds on the Internet, criticizing what it calls efforts to “islamicize our schools.”
The author of the piece is Pamela Geller, a blogger and commentator popular in the far-right media (including the cable news networks). Think Ann Coulter, but with even less restraint or shame. Seriously.
TFN Insider
Wow. I’ve read the piece in question, and it is beyond insane. Continue reading
Well, they posted the final result while I was busy with the ICU. Anyway, if you go here (YouTube) or here (TPC site) or here (@ZenShadow‘s blog) you can see that result. If you watch long enough, you might see a familiar face or two.
US senator: No US citizenship rights for terrorists – Yahoo! News.
And I thought Joe McCarthy was bad. McCarthy just wanted to arrest and imprison Communists. Lieberman proposes stripping American citizens of all civil rights if said citizen “is found to be involved with a foreign terrorist organization as designated by the Department of State.” Continue reading
I love a good snarky comment. I really do. And let me tell you, this is a really good snark. It ranks right up there with some of the best I have ever encountered! What am I talking about? Why this:
Know what “Grunning” is? Well do I have a story–with guns and kitties–for you: http://bit.ly/9TgVKt
(from @KirkPWatson)
If you follow his link, and read the story offered by Kirk Watson (D – Texas State Senator), you will find a hilarious story about guns, kittens, and giant rats. Seriously. And you need to do that before you continue. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Continue reading
You should too! This is a great idea. Just a quick video of yourself asking “Do I look illegal?”. @GottaLaff will edit the videos together, and post the result on the web. The more, the better. I actually look Hispanic to a lot of people. In reality, my heritage is probably Black Irish. But that wouldn’t help me in Arizona.
Go here to join in, and help us make a statement: The Political Carnival: "Do I look illegal?"
An Aging Trans Woman 