http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 19 May 2013 18:07:59 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:07:59 The People's Budget
Budget of the Congressional Progressive Caucus

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/files/The_CPC_FY2012_Budget.pdf

Defense Savings
• End overseas contingency operations emergency supplementals starting in Fiscal Year 2013,
providing $170 billion in FY2012 to fund redeploymen... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/104 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:05:37 They would not have won Congress or reinstalled their dictator in 2004 unless the neocons could trump up a fake case for war and use it to label the Democrats as [b]unpatriotic[/b].

So it is bullshit to say that the GOPs were divided on military intervention.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/103 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:50:20 Source: [b]Akron Beacon Journal[/b]

COLUMBUS: Opponents of Ohio's new collective bargaining law say they have collected hundreds of thousands more signatures than needed so voters can weigh in on repealing the measure this fall.

We Are Ohio said Friday it has collected more than 714,000 signatur... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/102 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:17:22 or whatever those writers-without-editors at counterpunch are saying... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/101 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:28:09 IMHO, gasoline prices killed consumer spending and henceforth blew up the real-estate and bonds bubble.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/100 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:42:13 -ors at below-market prices. Japanese consumers paid the price with more expensive entertainment electronics and applicances. An economy based on a "distortion in the market" cannot prevail ultimately.

In no uncertain terms, Japan stole a lot of our jobs in electronics.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/99 Sun, 17 Oct 2010 07:59:41 Blogging with Alan Colmes! http://www.alan.com/2010/09/17/richard-dawkins-furious-at-pope-for-tying-godless-to-nazis/

Posted in Liberaland by Alan • September 17, 2010, 11:45 AMET • 102 Comments »

Pope Benedict’s speech to Queen Elizabeth in England praised how Britain fought “Nazi tyranny th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/98 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:42:01 Both of whom were considered to be "enemies" of the Saud monarchy and the Bushies. They accomplished price cuts by overproducing oil.

As a result, there was a glut of oil on the market that led to a period of overconsumption, more sprawl and more gas guzzling automobiles. Americans somehow "got... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/97 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:22:20 Bush EPA hid data on coal-ash risks, study shows
By Ken Ward Jr.

http://wvgazette.com/News/200905070785

Read more in Coal Tattoo http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Bush administration kept secret for nearly five years data that showed increased cancer risks from... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/96 Sun, 10 May 2009 06:35:06 [font size = 3]Congresswoman Kaptur Votes Against
Bill To Bail Out 'Reckless' Wall Street
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TOLEDO – U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) this afternoon voted against the Wall Street bailout bill, which was defeated on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Kaptur, the se... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/95 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:44:54 ...by moving into America with a different business model. They realized that they could make huge profits and keep growing because they were not hobbled with legacy costs.

All enabled by the highway system that our income taxes and fuel taxes funded years ago.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/94 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:42:31 http://www.ohio.com/editorial/commentary/35670704.html

WASHINGTON: Here is a number easily understood by even the math-phobic: Every 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate leads to another 1.1 million Americans becoming uninsured — and causes still another million more children and adults to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/93 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:10:19 We have heard decades of unsubstantiated dogma that union members are lazy and produce inferior products. I am sure the propaganda was the work of rich-Republican America. Now it snapped back and will destroy a big part of the economy.

Then they will just make fun of the Rust Belt residents as ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/92 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:35:06 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3374842

According to the NPR Morning Edition report this morning, the contracts that were issued were merely contracts to facilitate oil production. The four western oil companies do not get rights to the o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/91 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:02:53 Cars today are heavier. A Honda Accord is listed as a "large" car on some lists. A Civic or a Cobalt, the small cars on the lot are in the 2600 pound weight range.

Customers have not wanted 2000 pound cars like they were buying during the gasoline price inflation period of the 1970s. The Toyota... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/90 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:11:27 ...Saturn SL1, Chevy Cavalier, Chevrolet Cobalt, heck my Celebrity got 22mpg city.

I think that there is something wrong with the "perceived value" of domestic brands. Some of it is union bashing run amok. Quality had been trailing the best of the Japanese, and think the public's perception of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/89 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:20:37 It's range dropped off a lot if you had to use the lights (nightime), air conditioning (daytime) or if you had to climb hills.

It might have succeeded as a means of addressing air pollution if it was forced into fleet sales for governments and some corporations.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/88 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:59:54 Do you have any idea what has happened in the last seven years? We launched a racist war in an Arab land. The bushies and the neocons destroyed our control of the oil-producing Middle East. Our military is a paper shell. Our dollar has collapsed and so has our empire.

Not to mention that this... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/87 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:09:15 [i]yes, it is a fund raising email, but it is all I have to report.[/i]

The killing in the Greater Yellowstone region has already begun.

One of the first victims: Wolf 253M -- a celebrity wolf, affectionately known as “Limpy.”

https://secure.defenders.org/images/content/pagebuilder/24113.j... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/86 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:14:20 NAFTA has created a lot of wealth in agricultural America. There is some scheme where it has enabled Monsanto and the seed producers to claim ownership of strains of seeds in other countries and to enforce ownership rights. I am still putting that story together. It may be more function of WTO.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/85 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:17:02 Where you don't go out unarmed. I'm sure you got my meaning. We have a brutality in our culture that we cannot seem to shake. My theory at the moment is that it extends from our frontier culture with the elements of vanquishing the indigenous people and protecting against outlaws.

Hollywood ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/84 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:49:56 And those right wingers decide to be the first to take up this issue in 70 years. Just goes to show how out of touch the Republican leaders are with the real issues of the American people. They live in this frightful world of degenerate, divisive southern political messages. Well, God, guns, and ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/83 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:45:15 Bush is way too stupid to think something like this up. Forbes actually had something that would get him the endorsements of conservatives and conservative newspaper editors (that would include most newspaper editors).

So, early in his "campaign", bush lifted Forbes ideas and made them his own. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/82 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:25:32 NAFTA was pushed through with a promise that there would be negotiations for labor and environmental standards. Never happened

The more I read about NAFTA, the more I see the stories that are too complicated for the "Lou Dobbs" types in the media.

1. NAFTA forces Canada and Mexico to sell the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/81 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:02:52 "They are all the same", "Tweedle Dee and..."

I have been hearing that [b]lugubrious malaise[/b] from a lot of people since I was a youth. Well, it so happens that they are all full of shit. My course is better. Read the newspaper and learn something. Become an activist. Pick a team. Registe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/TheBorealAvenger/80 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:47:42