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I'm not arguing the merits of common core. But studdard seems to think states have been coerced into adopting the standard by the Feds by threatening their funding. That's a bull lie. Studdard watches too much Fox News.
All of them if they had any sense. Common core, thus far, is a poor strat/curriculum.
I'm not arguing the merits of common core. But studdard seems to think states have been coerced into adopting the standard by the Feds by threatening their funding. That's a bull lie. Studdard watches too much Fox News.
True.. There is the potential to lose control of le 1 funds...but thats not losing funding.
NRA darling Ted Cruz requires background check for supporters who want to shoot with him
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/nra-darling-ted-cruz-requires-background-check-for-supporters-who-want-to-shoot-with-him/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
fed aid for Sandy's blue states? no
fed aid for TX red rurals? yes
b/g checks for everybody? no
b/g checks for shootin with me? yes
Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is leader of 2016 election pack in Iowa
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/repu...e+Raw+Story%29
Iowa!
Grassley + Ernst!
relevance of less than 1% of the country!
Jeb Bush’s Favorite Author Rejects Democracy, Says The Hyper-Rich Should Seize Power
he is free to rail against democracy to his heart’s content. And that is exactly what he does in his new book,By The People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission.
Pay no attention to the le. Government “by the people” is the last thing Murray cares to see. Murray admits that the kind of government he seeks, a libertarian fantasy where much of our nation’s regulatory and welfare state has been dismantled, is “beyond the reach of the electoral process and the legislative process.” He also thinks it beyond the branch of government that is appointed by elected officials. The Supreme Court, Murray claims, “destroyed” cons utional “limits on the federal government’s spending authority” when it upheld Social Security in 1937. Since then, the federal government has violated a “tacit compact” establishing that it would not “unilaterally impose a position on the moral disputes that divided America” (Murray traces the voiding of this compact to 1964, the year that Congress banned whites-only lunch counters).
King George’s Revenge
Murray is probably best known for co-authoring 1994’s The Bell Curve, a quasi-eugenic tract which argued that black people are genetically disposed to be less intelligent that white people. Yet, while The Bell Curve “practically spawned an entire field of scholarship devoted to debunking it,” Murray remains one of the most influential conservative thinkers in America today.
The government Murray seeks is “not going to happen by winning presidential elections and getting the right people appointed to the Supreme Court.” Rather, By The People, is a call for people sympathetic to Murray’s goals — and most importantly, for fantastically rich people sympathetic to those goals — to subvert the legitimate cons utional process entirely.
“The emergence of many billion-dollar-plus private fortunes over the last three decades,” Murray writes, “has enabled the private sector to take on ambitious national or even international tasks that formerly could be done only by nation-states.”
Murray’s most ambitious proposal is a legal defense fund, which “could get started if just one wealthy American cared enough to contribute, say, a few hundred million dollars,” that would essentially give that wealthy American veto power over much of U.S. law.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...ant-democracy/
any of you rightwingnuts got anybody on the left as scary as this subversive asshole?
FatBas wants war, because REPUGS love war and killing
Christie: It's Time For A 'Military Approach' To Show China Who's Boss
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ch...+%28TPMNews%29
FatBas , and all you gun-fellatin, war-loving rightwingnuts:
China can and will do whatever the it wants to do, just like the USA, which compromised itself by outsourcing its industry to China.
VRWC/Repug War On Employees, with Christ's help
Montana Republican: Noah was 600 years old when he built the Ark, so why do Americans need retirement?
Greg Gianforte, aspiring Republican governor of Montana, urges college students to reject policy that favors savings plans and retirement options because, like Noah, Christians have “an obligation to work” until they are hundreds of years old, the Huffington Post reports.
Speaking at the Montana Bible College in February, Gianforte told students, “There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. And yet it’s been an accepted concept in our culture today. Nowhere does it say, ‘Well, he was a good and faithful servant, so he went to the beach.’ It doesn’t say that anywhere
“The example I think of is Noah,” Gianforte continued. “How old was Noah when he built the Ark? 600. He wasn’t like, cashing Social Security checks. He wasn’t hanging out; he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/mont...e+Raw+Story%29
you rightwingnuts elect and support some really ed-ass crazy-ass politicians.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill.
This bill prevents science-based agencies like the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from working on any substantive issues regarding climate change.
This means NOAA will no longer be able to publish its reports on global temperature trends, and NASA's online resources about climate change will go dark.
This bill contains the “Bird Killer Amendment,"offered by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), which guts the enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, our country’s premiere law for bird conservation.
The amendment prevents the Department of Justice from spending any funds to prosecute violators of the Act, even if those violations are egregious, intentional and kill millions of birds.
http://www.audubonaction.org/site/News2?abbr=aa_&page=NewsArticle&id=6323&pgwrap=n&a utologin=true&utm_source=action&utm_medium=email&u tm_campaign=2015-06-11-advisory#skip_interests
gun fellators everywhere loadin and lockin to kill Ms of migratory birds.
Koch-Republicans In Senate Vote To Nullify the Clean Water Act
the real Republican objection to the EPA following its mandate, and Supreme Court directive, is that the oil, coal, and chemical industry will be required to adhere to the Clean Water Act regulations prohibiting the mass dumping of toxic chemicals, coal waste, petroleum products, and carcinogens in America’s water supply. On Wednesday, Republicans did what the Koch brothers have demanded and voted to pass a bill that effectively nullifies the EPA’s recently announced regulations to stop the oil, coal, and chemical industry from poisoning Americans’ water.
The vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works committee was, naturally, along party lines (11-9) with only Republicans supporting the nullification vote. The bill was sponsored by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) and simply put nullifies the Waters of the United States Rule released barely two weeks ago. The Koch bill also sets very specific guidelines that the Kochs claim it will allow the EPA to enact when it re-writes the rule to permit the oil, coal, and chemical industry unrestricted rights to dump waste products, toxic chemicals, and carcinogens into Americans’ water supplies.
The new Republican requirements include a very long list of the bodies of water the Kochs forbid the EPA to regulate, and it requires that the EPA must consult Republican legislatures and private corporations before the Kochs will allow the agency to even begin rewriting the new rules. The Senate Republican bill eliminates any involvement by President Obama, or the Executive Branch the EPA is part of, from the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation or enforcement of any provision of the 43-year old Clean Water Act.
As it stands now, the newly-released Clean Water Rule does precisely what the Supreme Court advised the EPA to do in several recent cases; clarify exactly which bodies of water can be regulated under the Clean Water Act. The 1972 Clean Water Actalready prohibits the EPA from addressing or regulating groundwater contaminated by the oil, coal, and chemical industries.
In its current form, the Waters of the United States Rule, also known as the Clean Water Rule (CWR), restores protections for what any half-wit understands are “navigable waterways and their tributaries, or bodies of water that feed rivers and lakes.” Those “navigable waterways” represent the sources that over a third of the population gets its drinking, cooking, and bathing water from.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/...iticus+USA+%29
Scott Walker & The Haunting Terror of Knowledge
We got a huge amount of reader response to my post yesterday about the impending demise of the University of Wisconsin. That's not terribly surprising. One of the things we've learned over the years from audience research is that about half our readers have advanced degrees and a disproportionately large number of them are in education, from K through college. As I said in that post, I'm more interested in the practical effect of what Walker is trying to do than a discussion of tenure in the abstract. Because what Walker is doing is basically like lighting your own house on fire. States can get into financial jams and need to cut spending, either because of budgetary mismanagement or rough economic times.
But if you look closely at what Walker is doing there's no real budgetary imperative behind it. It's just a desire to destroy a great public ins ution for the sake of doing it, driven in part by right-wing ideology and in part by the palpable animus Walker himself holds to people who managed to get an education.
A big part of what is happening here is that, to people like Walker, Madison is an anchor of Wisconsin liberalism. But not just liberalism in the partisan political sense, also scarier things like empirical thinking and new ideas. And it's not just the humanities. What really comes out in this article is how much of the scythe is aimed at the sciences.
At the end of the day, the people of Wisconsin aren't victims here. They elected Walker and his no less aggressive GOP legislatures. Indeed, they've reelected them, albeit in low turnout off year elections. But the University of Wisconsin is a great public ins ution. Indeed, it is one of the first models of the American research university, a model for research and higher education with roots in Germany but which took on a unique and ambitious form in the United States, particularly in its state university incarnation. Ivies get a lot of the glory. But even though the Harvards and Princetons and Yales predate these schools by more than a century in most cases, these glitz universities were themselves remade in the image of these flagship state research universities starting a bit over a hundred years ago.
The country will get along okay without a great University of Wisconsin. But these great universities are public trusts. This really is pretty much like just lighting it on fire. Still, as I said, a great opportunity for pro-science states that want to swoop in and take advantage.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/...+%28TPMNews%29
VRWC, Repugs ing up EVERYTHING they can.
Nevada GOP congressman: My kids ‘will not be a drain on society’ like disabled children
Rep. Cresent Hardy (R-NV) said recently at a Libertarian Party event that he hoped his children would never be a “drain on society” like people who were disabled.
“I have three children,” Hardy explains. “One of them is summa laude and two were magna laude. The other one, he didn’t need an education. He works for Raytheon, smarter than all the rest. He works hard, he builds things that are genius. Some people have that ability.”
“But they all work hard. They are raising their own families,” he continued. “They will not be a drain on society, the best they can. Hopefully they will never have some disability that causes them to have to utilize that.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/neva...bled-children/
Goddam, you rightwingnuts and your Repug politicians are ing sociopathic, hateful assholes.
Bill would devastate Big Bend National Park
Our newly minted U.S. Representative, Will Hurd, has co-sponsored a bill in the US House of Representatives led: Secure Our Borders First Act of 2015, (HR399).
This is the same snake oil that was peddled by our former Tea Party Representative, Canseco, during his one term representing the 23rd Congressional District.
The man behind the curtain pushing this bill is the same man who pushed identical legislation in 2010, Utah Tea Party Congressman Bob Bishop, who is heavily funded by the oil and gas industries. Their goal is to open our national lands to exploitation by the mineral extraction industries.
I was willing to grant Congressman Hurd the benefit of the doubt, attributing his support of this pernicious legislation to naiveté and inexperience in this new job.
However, after reading his comments in an OpEd wherein he claimed to be an authority on US-Mexico border issues by virtue of his having served with the CIA in the Middle East, his ignorance of said issues is willful and unforgivable.
Let me explain what this bill will do and why it is so repugnant. First off, Homeland Security does not support this legislation and said so back in 2010.
That agency feels this bill is heavy-handed, unnecessary and would harm the good rapport they have built over the years with the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service.
This bill specifically applies to National Parks located within 100 miles of the U.S. borders, and paints a bulls-eye on Big Bend National Park.
The bill would mandate that the Border Patrol build 192 miles of additional roads in the Big Bend Sector, as well as build/deploy high-tech surveillance balloons, drones and towers. It denies the National Park Service, or any other executive agency, any say in where or how this new infrastructure will be installed.
http://www.alpineavalanche.com/opinion/article_3a680610-b7d6-11e4-98a6-bfbb0654e697.html
Repugs ing up EVERYTHING they can to pander to their xenophobic, jingoist, racist base, iow Spurs Talkers.
GOP Sends Out Mailer With Phone Number Of Dem's 91-Year-Old Mom
A Democratic candidate for the Michigan House said Thursday that the state GOP sent out campaign mailers this week that urged voters to call him to complain about Obamacare.
The hitch: candidate John Fisher said the phone number printed on the mailer connected voters to his 91-year-old mother, who is receiving ho e care.
"To direct people to call a suffering woman who deserves peace and comfort is beyond the pale," Fisher said in a statement, as quoted by MLive.com.
"Their lack of ethics and contempt for personal privacy is just another reason for people to question what – or better, who – the Republican Party stands for, so that they can make a wise decision at the ballot box on Nov. 4."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
you rightwingers and your politicians are s bags
Repugs War On Employees (retire NEVER)
Montana Republican: Noah Was 600 Years Old When He Built the Ark, So Why Do Americans Need Retirement?
Greg Gianforte, aspiring Republican governor of Montana, urges college students to reject policy that favors savings plans and retirement options because, like Noah, Christians have “an obligation to work” until they are hundreds of years old, the Huffington Post reports.
Speaking at the Montana Bible College in February, Gianforte told students, “There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. And yet it’s been an accepted concept in our culture today. Nowhere does it say, ‘Well, he was a good and faithful servant, so he went to the beach.’ It doesn’t say that anywhere.”
“The example I think of is Noah,” Gianforte continued. “How old was Noah when he built the Ark? 600. He wasn’t like, cashing Social Security checks. He wasn’t hanging out; he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.”
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...y-do-americans
Bible Humping makes you MORE stupid, irrevocably ignorant, iow, the Repug base.
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FatBas speaks 1% Garbage
Chris Christie Claims Free College Tuition For All Will Destroy America
Chris Christie broke out the old Republican myth that giving people anything will destroy America by suggesting that the country doesn’t need tuition free college and that people have to “earn” their education.
CHRISTIE: Listen, it is available for all Americans, George. We have grant programs that are very broadly used. We have loan programs that are very broadly used.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/...iticus+USA+%29
Christie's father went to college when it was within reach of most people. Now, college is totally out of reach for most people, without $10Ks or more of 7% loan debt.
Repugs budgets cut "grant programs", govt loans, Pell, etc.
For Repugs, "earn" means only money.
"earning" the right to free college by working, earning good grades in HS, keeping good grades in college isn't "money".
^^ Is Fat Bas actually going to survive his toll road closure bull ?
It looks like his staff, trying to save themselves, is going to bring him down. slow process
there's also this:
Report: Christie accused of breaking grand jury law
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/0...#ixzz3d3cITDmR
but NRO, natch, defends FatBas as not subject to the "govt attorney" secrecy law, since FatBas wasn't a govt attorney at that point. FatBas unethical , but not strictly illegal.
Like 90% of the Repug wannabe's, FatBas doesn't have a chance.
Paul Ryan Falls Apart On Fox News And Admits Republicans Have No Obamacare Alternative
Chris Wallace asked if Republicans would come up with a way to keep the ACA subsidies going? Ryan answered, “We will have an answer. We will have a solution. We don’t want people to fall victim because of this bad law, and we want to give people freedom from Obamacare.”
Ryan listed a series of Obamacare lies, and Chris Wallace come back at him by asking if he was guaranteeing that people will be able to keep their subsidies. Ryan tried to dodge the question, “Well, we will have a solution that address this law that gives people a bridge from Obamacare.”
Wallace asked, will you demand an end to the mandates, the employer mandates, the individual mandates, and Ryan refused to answer again, “Well, I’m not going to get into all that, because we want to see what the ruling is. We want to give people freedom from Obamacare. We want to actually let them buy what they want to buy.”
Paul Ryan refused to answer the simple question of whether House Republicans are going to screw millions of people out of their health insurance. Ryan’s answers were an admission that the Republican Party has no backup plan because Republicans can’t agree on what to do if the Supreme Court strikes down the subsidies.
Most of the states where people will lose their subsidies are Republican controlled red states.
Instead of honestly answering the question, Paul Ryan ducked and dodged while doing his usual deer in headlights schtick. Reality is knocking on Paul Ryan’s door, and the Wisconsin Republican is about to discover that life isn’t an Ayn Rand fantasy novel.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/...iticus+USA+%29
If the SCOTUS5 political hacks kill Obamacare, the Repugs will "get what they've wished for" but be so screwed.
"There are 59 vacancies in the federal courts, including 27 judicial emergencies."
So 1000s of people have to wait years, often in detention, for a court trial, instead of a "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy . . . trial . . . ."
Repugs would rather stuff the courts with their VRWC/pro-business/anti-citizen/Bible humping/theocrat extremist judges, like Priscilla Owen, Scalia, Thomas, rather than respect the Cons ution they originalist-ly "adore".
McConnell: 'Highly likely' Senate won’t appoint new circuit, SCOTUS judges
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...new-judges-for
GOP lawmaker offers what may be the dumbest argument for voter suppression yet
The GOP Minority leader of the California State Assembly has a brilliant idea to increase voter participation in the state — make it harder for residents to vote.
Assemblymember Kristin Olsen (R-Modesto) suggested to a Fresno-area conservative talk radio show that “maybe we do need to make it harder” to vote in order to increase voter participation,
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/16/gop_...ppression_yet/
you rightwingnuts, bubbas, gun fellators REALLY elect politicians dumber than a bag of hammers
John McCain Says American Workers Shouldn’t Be Protected If We Can Get Cheap Goods
In an June 12th interview with Chris Merrill on the Phoenix based KFYI talk radio station, Arizona Senator John McCain (R) defended his support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), by arguing that cheap goods and services are more important than protecting American workers or businesses. During the interview, McCain took a hard line free trade over fair trade stance. He defended past trade deals like NAFTA saying only “hardcore union spokespersons” are still against that deal.
"There [are] some people who and businesses that can’t be protected, but frankly they shouldn’t be protected really, when you get down to it, if it means a lower cost to the consumer of some goods and services that then more Americans can afford them."
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/...iticus+USA+%29
Florida Tax Break For Fancy Yacht People Will Create All The Jobs, You Betcha
The Florida Legislature is doing its part to prove that tax cuts always equal jobs — like this brand new tax cut package that limits the amount of sales tax on yacht repairs over $1 million.
No, that’s not on boats that cost more than a million, that’s boat repairs that cost more than a million bucks. It’s the Florida Legislature, doing what it does best: favors.
Hidden away among a whole bunch of other tax cuts was this nifty little gift to owners of megayachts, and/or to whatever Florida businesses do repairs on the things — we’ll go out on a limb and predict that the luxury-yacht repair facility industry is not a major segment in Florida’s economy, but there is a Florida legislator who knows a guy who golfs with a guy who owns Obscene MegaBoat Repairs R Us, and that’s how that little provision made it into the bill: for boat repairs over a million dollars, the maximum tax is capped at $60,000.
Thompson noted that as things stand, “the lower income person pays a higher proportion of their earnings already in taxes” than do rich people, but as we all know, that is really an excellent incentive for people with lower incomes to become rich. This Geraldine Thompson sounds like some kind of class warfare advocate!
http://wonkette.com/588647/tax-break...obs-you-betcha
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