http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 22 May 2013 17:45:43 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:45:43 The rich will continue to have their toilets cleaned by the poor.


But the poor will learn a life's lesson by cleaning other people's toilets.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/19 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:31:14 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/18 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:23:04 Organizing here:
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyLouisville#!/OccupyLouisville?sk=wall

(Nice graphics, by the way.)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/17 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:03:48 "I think we overvalue passionate feeling in this country as some form of cleansing sincerity. Feeling something has the sensation of actual knowledge, bypassing mental work, the necessity of thought and the application of reason, not to mention actual information. I think it is significant that amo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/16 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:50:44 As one of my favorite music reviewers wrote recently in regards to internet comments: [i]"Feeling something has the sensation of actual knowledge, bypassing mental work, the necessity of thought and the application of reason, not to mention actual information. I think it is significant that among p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/15 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:38:39 The 1st $4896 of income is taxed at 10% = $489.60

The next bracket is $4897 - $16,896. The 1st $4896 is taxed at 10% and the next earnings up to $12,000 is taxed at 15%. Thus if your taxable income is $16,896 the actual tax rate would be 13.6%

The next bracket is $16,897 - $39,552. The 1st $... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/14 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:28:07 to legislate less than the state level or eliminate sales taxes altogether.

And again, this is bullshit. The company that I work for must take out a resale license in every state in which we want to do business (that is, ship wine to). We collect the taxes and pay the taxes. What Amazon is arg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/13 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:12:22 From AFP via Forbes

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g9C6x99EnFVdFuXw_B8pvDRzLqcA?docId=CNG.e740b6d0077ba8c28f6d1dd931c6f679.5e1

[div class="excerpt"]Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal's decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rath... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/12 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:51:39 FYI, Assange is the Editor-in-Chief. Most of the articles were by-lined with "Wikileaks Staff". Though, Wikileaks states that he wrote most of the summaries that introduce the leak documents.

But here are some articles that Wikileaks has produced.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/The_looting_of_Ken... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/11 Wed, 25 May 2011 17:26:42 that a President can exercise when engaging our military in a new war.

[div class="excerpt"](c) The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indica... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/10 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:04:01 "Today, Lisbon’s trendy bars, Porto’s factories and the Algarve’s glamorous resorts are powered substantially by clean energy. Nearly 45 percent of the electricity in Portugal’s grid will come from renewable sources this year, up from 17 percent just five years ago."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/0... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/9 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:25:58 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/us/politics/08obama.html

"President Obama on Wednesday will make clear that he opposes any compromise that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy beyond this year, officials said, adding a populist twist to an election-season economic package that is ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/8 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:30:00 "Indeed you can usually tell when the concepts of democracy and citizenship are weakening. There is an increase in the role of charity and in the worship of volunteerism. These represent the élite citizen's imitation of noblesse oblige; that is, of pretending to be aristocrats or oligarchs, as oppos... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/7 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:29:19 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/5 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:21:57 I've been seeing this falsehood reported around the internet and repeated on DU with zero supporting evidence that it is true. I've spent an hour+ looking for evidence that FDL has anything to do with the "Dump Obama" Facebook page and I've come up with nothing.

I'm willing to eat my hat if offe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/6 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:07:33 You made me snort!... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/4 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:29:14 [div class="excerpt"]Illinois state law states that public school teachers can join a union through a card check election, hence labor leaders say this should be the case at charter schools like CMSA that receive public funding. CMSA’s own website describes it as a public school.

But charter scho... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/3 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:51:44 Though I'm sure you will find some Hamsher defenders deeply critical of Obama's "bipartisanship".

What you also find is that most Hamsher demonizers who heavily rely on Jane's letter signing as a slur, are also great defenders of the President's "bipartisan" tactics.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/1 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:54:33 Chris Bowers, founder, OpenLeft
Dean Baker, co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Robert Borosage, co-director, Campaign for America's Future
James Kenneth Galbraith, economist
Gary Kalman, Washington director, Public Interest Research Group
Robert Weissman, president, Public Cit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Luminous Animal/2 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:49:04