Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Justice Scalia Makes Epic Blunder In Supreme Court Opinion
Justice Scalia Makes Epic Blunder In Supreme Court Opinion:
It's not often that a Supreme Court justice makes a factual blunder in a formal opinion.
Legal experts say Justice Antonin Scalia erred in his dissent in the 6-2 decision Tuesday to uphold the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate coal pollution that moves across state lines. The Reagan-appointed jurist argued that the majority's decision was inconsistent with a unanimous 2001 ruling which he mistakenly said shot down EPA efforts to consider costs when setting regulations.
He got it exactly backward. Just proves what I always argue... half the Supremes are living in a mirror universe.
It's not often that a Supreme Court justice makes a factual blunder in a formal opinion.
Legal experts say Justice Antonin Scalia erred in his dissent in the 6-2 decision Tuesday to uphold the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate coal pollution that moves across state lines. The Reagan-appointed jurist argued that the majority's decision was inconsistent with a unanimous 2001 ruling which he mistakenly said shot down EPA efforts to consider costs when setting regulations.
He got it exactly backward. Just proves what I always argue... half the Supremes are living in a mirror universe.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Poll: Young Voters Uninterested In November 2014 Elections : It's All Politics : NPR
Poll: Young Voters Uninterested In November 2014 Elections : It's All Politics : NPR
Kick ass, take names, and get people out ot vote. It's as important, maybe more so, to vote in the off year elections, as it is in the Preznitial froofraws. VOTE. Early and often! ;)
Kick ass, take names, and get people out ot vote. It's as important, maybe more so, to vote in the off year elections, as it is in the Preznitial froofraws. VOTE. Early and often! ;)
NY Congressman Michael “I’ll Throw You Off This F**king Balcony” Grimm Indicted On 20 Counts (VIDEO) | The Everlasting GOP Stoppers
NY Congressman Michael “I’ll Throw You Off This F**king Balcony” Grimm Indicted On 20 Counts (VIDEO) | The Everlasting GOP Stoppers
You may remember U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) as the d-bag congressman that we featured back in late January when he was caught on film threatening to throw NY1 reporter Michael Scotto of the balcony off of the Capital Rotunda at the State of the Union Address.
You may remember U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) as the d-bag congressman that we featured back in late January when he was caught on film threatening to throw NY1 reporter Michael Scotto of the balcony off of the Capital Rotunda at the State of the Union Address.
Limbaugh: Sterling Only 'In Trouble' Because He Didn't Donate Enough To Obama (AUDIO)
Limbaugh: Sterling Only 'In Trouble' Because He Didn't Donate Enough To Obama (AUDIO):
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday said that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling's racist rant is only news because he didn't contribute enough to President Barack Obama's campaign.
Rush is our idiot of the week...er, no... month... wait.... year? nah, let's make it an Idiot Lifetime Achievement Award :)
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday said that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling's racist rant is only news because he didn't contribute enough to President Barack Obama's campaign.
Rush is our idiot of the week...er, no... month... wait.... year? nah, let's make it an Idiot Lifetime Achievement Award :)
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Conservative Christians In Virginia Plan 40-Day Fast
Conservative Christians In Virginia Plan 40-Day Fast
Forty days without food? They're like to become irrational and do and say stupid things. How will we know when the strike is over? ;)
Forty days without food? They're like to become irrational and do and say stupid things. How will we know when the strike is over? ;)
Creationist Battle With Neil deGrasse Tyson of Cosmos Is Humiliating For America
Creationist Battle With Neil deGrasse Tyson of Cosmos Is Humiliating For America:
The ongoing, and one-sided, battle between creationist Ken Ham of “Answers in Genesis” notoriety and highly-regarded astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson of Fox’s Cosmos is humiliating for America because Ham typifies the right wing evangelical Christian ignorance founded on ancient mythology
The ongoing, and one-sided, battle between creationist Ken Ham of “Answers in Genesis” notoriety and highly-regarded astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson of Fox’s Cosmos is humiliating for America because Ham typifies the right wing evangelical Christian ignorance founded on ancient mythology
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Can The GOP Save Itself From The Desire To Make A Hero Of Cliven Bundy? - The National Memo
Can The GOP Save Itself From The Desire To Make A Hero Of Cliven Bundy? - The National Memo:
Even after he suggested that black people were better off under slavery, Cliven Bundy probably could still be elected to the House of Representatives in certain districts, if he were the Republican nominee.
Even after he suggested that black people were better off under slavery, Cliven Bundy probably could still be elected to the House of Representatives in certain districts, if he were the Republican nominee.
America Is Exceptionally Dumb When It Comes To Guns - The National Memo
America Is Exceptionally Dumb When It Comes To Guns - The National Memo:
While Americans typically laud our national “exceptionalism” — a sense that the trajectory of history has bestowed greatness upon the United States — there are a few of our distinctive characteristics that don’t deserve celebration. On the subject of firearms, for example, the United States is exceptionally irrational. No other nation has set guns aside as an object of worship.
While Americans typically laud our national “exceptionalism” — a sense that the trajectory of history has bestowed greatness upon the United States — there are a few of our distinctive characteristics that don’t deserve celebration. On the subject of firearms, for example, the United States is exceptionally irrational. No other nation has set guns aside as an object of worship.
Now We Know: Economic Inequality Is A Malady -- Not A Cure - The National Memo
Now We Know: Economic Inequality Is A Malady -- Not A Cure - The National Memo:
It has been a long, long time since Americans accepted the advice of a French intellectual about anything important, let alone the future of democracy and the economy. But the furor over Thomas Piketty’s stunning bestseller, Capital in the 21st Century – and especially the outraged reaction from the Republican right – suggests that this fresh import from la belle France has struck an exposed nerve.
It has been a long, long time since Americans accepted the advice of a French intellectual about anything important, let alone the future of democracy and the economy. But the furor over Thomas Piketty’s stunning bestseller, Capital in the 21st Century – and especially the outraged reaction from the Republican right – suggests that this fresh import from la belle France has struck an exposed nerve.
Secret Court Denies Phone Company's Challenge of NSA Demands
Secret Court Denies Phone Company's Challenge of NSA Demands:
A secret U.S. court overseeing government surveillance programs denied a phone company’s legal challenge contending that it shouldn’t be required to give calling records to the National Security Agency.
Why do I see a boot stamping on a face, forever?
A secret U.S. court overseeing government surveillance programs denied a phone company’s legal challenge contending that it shouldn’t be required to give calling records to the National Security Agency.
Why do I see a boot stamping on a face, forever?
10 Things I Learned About the World from Ayn Rand's Insane "Atlas Shrugged' | Alternet
10 Things I Learned About the World from Ayn Rand's Insane "Atlas Shrugged' | Alternet
Entertaining take-down of Ayn Rand and the endless Atlas Shrugged (the climax is a speech that goes on for iirc 60+ pages). Pretty much hitting all the highlights mentioned here :)
Entertaining take-down of Ayn Rand and the endless Atlas Shrugged (the climax is a speech that goes on for iirc 60+ pages). Pretty much hitting all the highlights mentioned here :)
Friday, April 25, 2014
Three Reasons Why You Should Keep Gmail far Away from Your Credit Card Information | Alternet
Three Reasons Why You Should Keep Gmail far Away from Your Credit Card Information | Alternet:
Google wants your money. Or, more precisely, Google wants your bank account and credit card info.
Google wants your money. Or, more precisely, Google wants your bank account and credit card info.
We're NOT Number 1: Guess Which Country Now Has a More Affluent Middle Class Than America? | Alternet
We're NOT Number 1: Guess Which Country Now Has a More Affluent Middle Class Than America? | Alternet:
Fancy living up in Canada? Granted, it’s a bit chilly. But the middle class up there has just blown by the U.S. as the world’s most affluent. America’s wealthy are leaping ahead of the rest of much of the globe, but the middle class is falling behind. So are the poor.
Fancy living up in Canada? Granted, it’s a bit chilly. But the middle class up there has just blown by the U.S. as the world’s most affluent. America’s wealthy are leaping ahead of the rest of much of the globe, but the middle class is falling behind. So are the poor.
Why Economist Thomas Piketty Has Scared the Pants Off the American Right | Alternet
Why Economist Thomas Piketty Has Scared the Pants Off the American Right | Alternet:
Thomas Piketty is no radical. His 700-page book Capital in the 21st Century is certainly not some kind of screed filled with calls for class warfare. In fact, the wonky and mild-mannered French economist opens his tome with a description of his typical Gen X abhorrence of what he calls the “lazy rhetoric of anticapitalism." He is in no way, shape, or form a Marxist. As fellow-economist James K. Galbraith has underscored in his review of the book, Piketty "explicitly (and rather caustically) rejects the Marxist view" of economics.
But he does do something that gives right-wingers in America the willies. He writes calmly and reasonably about economic inequality, and concludes, to the alarm of conservatives, that there is no magical force that drives capitalist societies toward shared prosperity. Quite the opposite. He warns that if we don't do something about it, we may end up with a society that is more top-heavy than anything that has come before — something even worse than the Gilded Age.
Thomas Piketty is no radical. His 700-page book Capital in the 21st Century is certainly not some kind of screed filled with calls for class warfare. In fact, the wonky and mild-mannered French economist opens his tome with a description of his typical Gen X abhorrence of what he calls the “lazy rhetoric of anticapitalism." He is in no way, shape, or form a Marxist. As fellow-economist James K. Galbraith has underscored in his review of the book, Piketty "explicitly (and rather caustically) rejects the Marxist view" of economics.
But he does do something that gives right-wingers in America the willies. He writes calmly and reasonably about economic inequality, and concludes, to the alarm of conservatives, that there is no magical force that drives capitalist societies toward shared prosperity. Quite the opposite. He warns that if we don't do something about it, we may end up with a society that is more top-heavy than anything that has come before — something even worse than the Gilded Age.
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