Cenk Ugkar and Baratunde Thurston have engaged in a great conversation about race in the wake of the NY Post Cartoon matter. I disagree with both and think the cartoon is exemplary of a breakdown in social civility.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Michelle Malkin Reports Twitter Problems; Punishment For Following Rush Limbaugh
She reports
"Having twitter problems. Anyone else?"
Nope! Michelle, that's what you get for blindly following Rush Limbaugh!
Jill Tubman Asks You To Help Set the Agenda at Netroots Nation 2009
More at Jack & Jill Politics Jill Tubman at Jack & Jill Politics wants you to help her and others establish the agenda at Netroots Nation. Here's what she wrote:
Click on the link above to help out.
In the next 12 months, we’ll be working together more than ever to push progressive policy into legislation. And there’s no better place to strategize our priorities and plan how to make them a reality than at Netroots Nation, the grassroots event of the year.
In order to create the most well-rounded agenda possible, we need your input. Will you help us develop and organize the sessions that you’ll attend at Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh—and help shape the dialog for progressives in 2009?
Click on the link above to help out.
Stimulus plan: Invest in our country
It’s small businesses that will put people back to work; that’s how we’re going to get this country back on its feet. It’s entrepreneurs and small business owners who respond with enthusiasm that are key. Big, established, "trusted" companies dug this hole by defining success in terms of short-term profits on their bottom line that do little if anything to protect American jobs or the well-being of their employees.
When we see bulldozers
and excavators moving dirt for new construction, when we see trucks hauling instead of sitting idle at auction sites, then we'll know things are turning around.
While Bush was pushing privatized retirement plans, we were all being set up to fund Wall Street bonuses. We need lenders to play fair, not slap new fees and payments on consumers. More regulation of lending practices, not less, is critical to our economic health.
Bottom line: The new administration needs to reverse the trend of layoffs and plant closures; our government needs to work for the people by rebuilding economy and the American Dream - by putting Americans back to work.
When we see bulldozers
and excavators moving dirt for new construction, when we see trucks hauling instead of sitting idle at auction sites, then we'll know things are turning around.While Bush was pushing privatized retirement plans, we were all being set up to fund Wall Street bonuses. We need lenders to play fair, not slap new fees and payments on consumers. More regulation of lending practices, not less, is critical to our economic health.
Bottom line: The new administration needs to reverse the trend of layoffs and plant closures; our government needs to work for the people by rebuilding economy and the American Dream - by putting Americans back to work.Obama Citizen's Briefing Book Has Not Reached President's Desk
More at techPresident According to techPresident, the Obama Citizen's Briefing Book of suggestions by Obama supporters during the transition period never made it to President Obama's desk.
What the hell happened?
That's a lot of hard work by people who may have submitted the one method that gets us out of this mess. Someone in the Obama Administration, please get this to the President ASAP!
What the hell happened?
That's a lot of hard work by people who may have submitted the one method that gets us out of this mess. Someone in the Obama Administration, please get this to the President ASAP!
YouTube's Steve Grove - 3 things on 3/3
YouTube's Steve Grove announces the online events for March 3rd:
Three things to check out on YouTube this week:
1 - Senator of the Week, Claire McCaskill, asks YouTube about wasteful spending:
http://www.youtube.com/senatehub
And Representative of the Week, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, asks about nationalizing 401K plans: http://www.youtube.com/user/househub
2. Did you know the GOP does weekly response to the President's weekly address on YouTube? Check out last weeks from Senator Richard Burr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gTUP5...
3. One of the best videos I've seen in awhile comes from Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times:
Hurray for Hollywood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4EsR6...
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