Monday: Obviously a conservative plot to punish the middle class
Walmart Tricks Police Into Handcuffing Organizer Of Black Friday Strike by Liberal Lamp Post:
In case you hadn’t already heard, thousands of Walmart employees are expected to walk off the job before next week’s shopping extravaganza known as Black Friday. The workers are striking to protest suppressed wages, spiking health care premiums, and management retaliation against employee organizing. Read more
Through the website Wonkette today, the hacker collective Anonymous released a statement on the election, and the content of the statement is an eye opener. Read more
Barbara Bush Advises Would-Be Secessionists To Get Over Themselves, Move On by Liberal Lamp Post:
While the better part of our nation forges ahead to face the real challenges of the future, tens of thousands of immature faux-patriots and their clumsy, short-sighted secession campaign are better left ignored. Read more
Most American Jail Inmates Have Not Been Convicted Of Anything by Wendy Gittleson:
The Tea Party is right. Our freedom is being stripped away. However, the threats to our liberty are not coming from gun laws. They aren’t coming from tax laws. In many cases, they aren’t even coming from the government. The threats to our freedom are coming from the prison industrial complex, and for nearly 2/3rds of American jail inmates, their crimes have not yet been proven. Read more
I’m writing to you because I am an American woman and I voted for Obama. I voted for equality—equality for all, not just women. I think this idea of equality must be very frightening and disturbing to you. You see, you’re an old-timer, stuck in the stale belief that men are somehow superior to women, blacks, gays, Hispanics and anyone who is not a white male. Read more
You can blame polls, and weather events, and skewed electoral votes, and biased media, and urban minorities who supposedly want free stuff, till you actually turn into the slow-moving, regressive elephants who represent you if you wish, but no manipulating the facts. Read more
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien Hands Congressman His Head On A Platter (VIDEO) by Teeluck Sooknarine:
One is at a loss for words to watch Joe Heck, a Republican Congressman on the Intelligence Committee and is about to be part of an Intelligence Hearing at which former CIA Director Petraeus is due to testify about the Benghazi event, is schooled over and over on his obvious lack of Intelligence and the sheer vindictive attitude he and his fellow Republicans harbor against the Obama Administration as they try to carry on the country’s business. Read more
Hostess Bankrupt – Vulture Capitalists Picked Corpse Clean (VIDEO) by Nathaniel Downes:
Of course the unions were expected to surrender despite the fact that the management company was asking the bankruptcy court to give their outgoing CEO up to $5.5 million. All of this was in addition to the 80% raises the executives were being treated to. Read more
Idiot Killed The Radio Star – How Limbaugh Crushed Radio Giant Dial Global by Lorraine Devon Wilke:
It’s one thing to incite boycotts, stir the outrage of millions, inspire hate in one of our two genders, even shed advertisers like…well, Rats Leaving The Sinking Ship, but when one man’s big, fat mouth can gas business so badly a top radio company tumbles right off the NASDAQ, you know things have taken a turn. Read more
Catholic Teen Denied Confirmation For Picture Of Equality by Lorraine Devon Wilke:
As the Catholic Church continues to flounder in the rapidly changing world, struggling to overcome scandal and maintain relevance in a culture that values independent thought over blind obedience, a story emerged today that further demonstrates the institution’s growing disconnect from the very people it seeks to embrace. Read more
