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Stand by your man, honey. Would you still prop up your spouse in the face of all the evidence? She should throw his ass out. But no, she'll be a good, submissive Southern Babtist wife. I should feel sorry for her, but I don't. Because she won't stand up for herself, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that Squirmin' Herman has lived a lie for YEARS. How could you continue to live life through a lie?

As promised, except maybe not. :rofl:

My brother's malignant brain tumor has shrunk. My wife still loves me after 30 years, and it hasn't been easy. I still have a job that pays shitty wages, but it's a job.

This fellow, I'll call him Ken, was in a tight spot. He's completely broke and has a daughter who lives with her mother, his estranged girl friend. I guess Herman Cain would say that it's his own fault. Tonight, he found out he has to work Friday which coincides with his visitation with his daughter. So he'll make about seventy bucks that day and pay someone fifty bucks to sit his daughter, and get maybe two hours with her. This guy is my coworker. He works fifty hours a week. He litera...

(Link) <snip> Mike O'Brien pitched his tent in front of the Gresham Best Buy Monday, four days before the consumer electronics retailer's midnight opening on Black Friday. The camping trip, his third pre-Black Friday sojourn at Best Buy, made him the chain's first Black Friday customer in line across the Pacific Northwest. It also makes him quite the hero at home. "My wife made me do it," said O'Brien, 43, who spoke from the warmth of his car Tuesday night, as he watched a movie and r...

(Image) The gas masks are coming out now. Live stream: (Link) Arrests happening now.

Source: Christian Science Monitor PORTLAND, OREGON Anti-Wall Street protesters and their supporters flooded a city park area in Portland early Sunday in defiance of an eviction order, and authorities elsewhere stepped up pressure against the demonstrators, arresting nearly two dozen. Crowds converged on two adjacent downtown Portland parks where protesters decrying economic injustice are camped after city officials set a midnight Saturday deadline to disperse. Hours later, protesters remained...

(Link) Portland officials and Occupy Portland protesters each claimed victory as dawn broke Sunday on Downtown Portland. Many protesters, who have been living in Lownsdale and Chapman squares since Oct. 6, remain in the downtown parks despite a large police presence and a 12:01 a.m. deadline set by Mayor Sam Adams. At 7 a.m., protesters remained in both squares, which were both littered with the remains from campers who left in advance of Sunday morning's deadline. "This has regalvanized ou...

(Link) Thieves attempt to steal Ronald Reagan statue in Newport Beach NEWPORT BEACH – A life-size statue of Ronald Reagan was damaged during an attempted theft from a memorial at Bonita Canyon Sports Park early Sunday, police said. The bronze statue was found by authorities at about 5:30 a.m., broken off its foundation and tilted forward with other damage, after thieves apparently tied a chain around it and tried to pull it away using a pickup truck or other vehicle, police said. "Either som...

(Link) MOSIER, Ore. -- It's one of the smallest towns in the Northwest. But it's now home to Oregon's newest Occupy movement. The Occupy Mosier camp began Friday in the tiny town on the Columbia River between The Dalles and Hood River. And not surprisingly, there are some who like the addition to Mosier's First Avenue and there are those who don't. Just beyond the sign that show's Mosier's modest population is another sign. It reads, "Mosier is already occupied by hard working people." That t...

The Oregonian, once a great newspaper and now just a bunch of Libertarian derp, brings you the following wisdom about Occupy Portland: Four weeks after Occupy Portland planted itself in the heart of downtown, forces are colliding inside and outside the camp. The most significant is Occupy's effort to spread its general message of political and economic fairness while providing food, shelter and sanitation for its downtown occupation encampment, where an undetermined number of residents are ch...

I just want my fair share for working hard for 40+ years. So after the 40 years I've worked so far, why do the rich want to take my modest earnings away from me? I don't want a pony or a Maybach 57. I just want Ms. D and I to keep our home and leave it to our kids and to have enough money to eat and stay warm in winter and maintain and give back after we retire by volunteering. You know, give back some of what we earned to the community that made it possible. I don't want the kids to have t...

Or are they going to wimp out? Do we have to do this without them? I'm sick of the prevarication. Dems in Congress: Get off the fence! Dammit. We have the support of 70% of Americans. We should be kicking Republican ass. This vehicle is perfect. Any Democrat should be embracing this. Instead, crickets. I'm thinking we have to do this independently. What do you think?

‘Incensed’ Moynihan Fights BofA Critics in Letter Campaign Bank of America Corp. (BAC) Chief Executive Officer Brian T. Moynihan said he’s “incensed” by public criticism of his company and is pushing back by reminding local leaders of its contributions to their economies. Moynihan, 52, told employees in a global town hall meeting last week from the firm’s Charlotte, North Carolina, headquarters that the “place to win the battle” over the bank’s battered public image is at the state and municip...

(Link)/ Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry accused President Obama Saturday of endangering U.S. troops by announcing plans to end the nation's military role in Iraq by Christmas. "The last thing you want to do is put those men and women's lives in peril, and I think that's what the president's done by making a political statement to his base that he's going to be out of Iraq by a date certain," Perry said. The Texas governor, who had joined a number of his Republican rivals in critic...

Then Herman Cain could be his VP nominee. That way, we could have a Koch/Cain ticket. Think of the possibilities! KOCH-CAIN 2012! What better way to support the Colombian "Free Trade" agreement. :) *Credit to a guy from Portland who called Thom Hartmann's show...

(Link) This link has some great charts: (Image) And this: (Image) And this: (Image) So when your crazy right-wing uncle or your teabagger coworker says the 99% don't know what they are angry about and are just a bunch of fleabagging hippies, show them this. Much more at link.

link: (Link) Police: Possible sexual assault in Occupy Portland camp PORTLAND, Ore. – Police said they are investigating a possible sexual assault in Chapman Square where the Occupy Portland protesters are camping. Police said no victim has been identified and the allegation has not been substantiated. Police are working with representatives from Occupy Portland to figure out if the assault actually happened, according to Sergeant Pete Simpson. Officers were flagged down Friday night at 11:...

From The Oregonian. (Link)

(Link) WASHINGTON _ Rick Perry’s presidential campaign said Sunday that his family moved quickly when they found they’d leased a Texas hunting camp informally named “niggerhead,” painting over the offensive word on a rock next to the camp entrance. The rapid response from the Texas governor’s campaign, to a newspaper report Sunday about the camp name and to criticism from his one African-American rival, reflected an urgent move to stem any political fallout for a candidate who’s struggled to r...

(Link)/ BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Burnsville police say a Northfield man who had just lost his job committed suicide in front of former colleagues by locking himself in his car and shooting himself in the head. Fifty-one-year-old Patrick Joseph Graves was still alive Thursday morning when officers arrived. He died about an hour later at a hospital. Graves had just been let go from Goodrich Corp., where his girlfriend said he worked for three years. Jill Murphy says Graves received an unexpecte...

Seriously. This is the name of Rick Perry's hunting camp. (Link) Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance. “Niggerhead,” it read. Ranchers who once grazed cattle on the 1,070-acre parcel on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River called it by th...

Time to return you to our regular programming, including but not limited to, fighting with Republicans and teabaggers and each other. Probably mainly mostly each other. :) Woo-hoo! :silly:

I'm not calling anyone out. I'm just saying look carefully. Not just here at DU, but everywhere. Unlimited corporate personhood speech is very pervasive. Just look around. :)

Watch this 'public service announcement' to get an idea why our generation still has so many bigots. No wonder we are socially fucked up as a nation. (Link)

Actually, a call center supervisor. Late nineties. We were inundated with a backlog of 3000 calls on hold. Let me phrase this right: 3000 ANGRY callers on hold. And all 3000 of them were right to be angry. We'd completed a merger. They wanted me to take angry calls. For eight hours a day. I puked every morning before work. Yes, it was that bad. I gained 60 pounds. I blazed my quit thing at 5:00 AM by cleaning out my desk and dropping my security tag in the pile. I hate Wells Fargo a...

(Image) What a star-studded lineup! :rofl:

Source: Bloomberg Standard & Poor’s, the rating company that downgraded the debt of the United States to AA+ from AAA for the first time, now finds itself assailed by investors led by billionaire Warren Buffett for making a political decision that has more to do with Tea Party politics than the financial stability of the U.S. S&P officials, shrugging off a $2 trillion calculation error, blamed “uncertainty” in the policymaking process on Aug. 5 when they cut the assessment of the U.S. governme...

He was Mark O. Hatfield. He was the last Republican I ever voted for. He opposed the war in Viet Nam. Governor of Oregon, and later a US Senator. Not to put too much of a point on it, but moderate Republicans are an endangered species. Mark Hatfield was one of those. (Link)