House Votes To Trim Some Health Benefits

Cut Medicaid to pay for the repeal of a law that pressures government contractors to fully pay their taxes.


House Votes To Trim Some Health Benefits

"Foreclosure mill" law firm's Halloween party celebrating/mocking people foreclosed upon

"..... a former employee of Steven J. Baum recently sent me snapshots of last year’s party. In an e-mail, she said that she wanted me to see them because they showed an appalling lack of compassion toward the homeowners — invariably poor and down on their luck — that the Baum firm had brought foreclosure proceedings against." ~ Joe Nocera, New York Times

 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/what-the-costumes-reveal.html?_r=3

What is needed is a new paradigm of disrespect for the banker, the financier, the One Percenter, a new civic space in which he is openly reviled, in which spoiled eggs and rotten vegetables are tossed at his every turning. What is needed is a revival of the language of vigorous old progressivism, wherein the parasite class was denounced as such. What is needed is a new Resistance. We face, as Hessel describes, a system of social control “that offers nothing but mass consumption as a prospect for our youth,” that trumpets “contempt for the least powerful in society,” that offers only “outrageous competition of all against all.”

“The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.” ~Mark Twain

Written by Christopher Ketcham before the Occupy movement:

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6470/

I cannot understand people who vote against their own best interests. Words can be discounted. Sometimes, pictures are more effective. Does this graph illicit any emotion?

http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=2909

Little identity crisis...

Am I a drone?

“more than a photo, but not quite a video” ~ fun & fascinating

http://www.beautifullife.info/art-works/amazing-cinemagraphs-byjamie-beck-and-kevin-burg/

Looking for a good cigar...