After ignoring 54 attacks and 13 deaths against U.S. diplomatic targets under the Bush Administration, the Right are pushing Benghazi as bigger than Watergate. What does that make Bush? Jon Stewart takes them to task for their insanity.
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(Watergate + Iran-Contra) x 10 = Benghazi? Not so, according to Jon Stewart. He takes on the needless speculation which the right-wing media have been hyping for months with nothing behind it. Watch the clip below.
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News broke last night of a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. With just 3 hours to go, Congress finally got their job done. Not that the bill was voted on, but the first is a federal holiday, and no markets are open to trade. So the sequester will not happen and the markets won't have to react to bad news when they resume later this week. Congress will return and (hopefully) pass the bill to avoid this all happening. Millions won't see a tax rise, and millions won't go without their unemployment benefits (which they have paid into all their careers, by the way).
Which is all fine and dandy. Except in a couple of months, we'll face another fight to raise the debt ceiling. In any sane universe, it wouldn't even be a question (especially after we've defaulted once and the GOP have seen the consequences): we pay our bills. The debt ceiling isn't a penny of new spending, it is paying for what we've already bought. We'll face a fight. We will wait to the last second, and maybe even go over the cliff again. This is the new normal in Washington: we'll keep setting up these scenarios where we'll keep risking self-inflicted wounds, whether it is defaulting by not raising the debt ceiling or bombing the economy by budget sequestering.
Cliff-diving is the new normal. I hope you like the adrenaline, and I hope you brought a parachute. Happy New Year, folks.
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Many of you reading this are my Facebook fans. I try to keep an anonymous, low profile because of the career field in which I work. But here are some things you should know about me.
I am a college student, studying music education.
I am underemployed, working in a minimum wage job.
I want to be a teacher because I love working with children, I believe their successful education is the key to our future as a nation, and because I am passionate about music and the life skills it teaches.
My minimum wage job is as an office temp work-study position on campus.
I believe that teachers should have the right to collectively bargain, and that they should have the resources to allow their students to blossom. I believe the government should invest in education, as it is doing for me through Pell Grants, student loans, and through the work study program. The future of our country is dependent on a well-educated work force.
To Wall Street, I am the 99%. To the GOP, I'm the 47%. But I am actually 51%. The 51% of Americans who believe in change. Who believe government can give a leg up to people like me. Who believe that social programs like Social Security have done their job in keeping the elderly out of crushing poverty. Who believe everyone should have access to health care. Who believe in workers' rights, collective bargaining and living wages. Who believe that education is they way to prosperity. And who believe we need to reach prosperity responsibly, without damaging the environment or risking the entire economy. I am the 51%, the 332 electoral votes which reelected Barack Obama in a landslide victory. And I believe in America.
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Ahhh, it's that time of year again, when right-wing fears of creeping secularism and a war against all that is good and baby Jesus and Santa Claus.
That's right folks. The annual War on Christmas we liberal atheist socialist communist agnostics wage every year, like Black Friday sales, Christmas music on the radio, and Christmas decorations for sale in stores, has come even earlier this year.
Yep. The War on Christmas has started even before *gasp* Thanksgiving. The crazies patriots at Fox News have started the fear mongering brave campaign against Christian persecution. Here's the story:
Oh wait. Christians are in the greatest majority in history and are just mad because we secular liberals are making the government obey the laws! Silly me. How they forget Separation of Church when it's convenient for them, but God forbid a Muslim group builds a community center in New York!
Is Jesus the real reason for the season? That's up to you to decide, but not our government to enforce. It's up to Christians to put the Christ in Christmas, if they so choose. But when it comes to city property, either all decorations must be allowed, or none. And given the limited resources cities have, they should stick with the latter to avoid unnecessary and costly lawsuits by religious watchdog groups like the ACLU and FFRF. The War on Christmas is only a problem for the batshit crazy right wing who made it up in the first place.
I'm going to leave you with this video on the pagan origins of Christmas, and let the War on Christmas commence!
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