March 2012
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February 2012
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I Made it onto Radio Havana Cuba’s Mailbag...
January 2012
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kopoint:
This is the KoPoint Political...
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January 2012 Iowa Caucus Roundup
What a night. First the Results: Mitt Romney wins Iowa Caucuses by 8 votes. A real nail biter, to be sure. Santorum comes in second, trailing Romney by 8 votes (obviously) and Paul finishes third with 21% of the vote going his way. The bottom three were Gingrich, who despite a massive surge that I predicted wouldn’t last right here on the Haberdasher, finished with a disappointing 13%...
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December 2011
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Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists « Louis... →
I don’t know that I necessarily agree that the socialist left needs to take a more activist role in Occupy. It is perfectly legitimate work to declare allegience and do parrallel work toward the same goals, working together where it is applicable, and not where it is not. As far as OWS advancing socialism in the US, we can and should work together. But the fact is, they are on their own...
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The Rise of the New Confederacy: How... →
Seriously. It’s like, when the party of Lincoln and TR adopted the Southern Strategy in the late 60’s and early 70’s, they sort of forgot where they came from: The Party’s first President ran and was elected AGAINST this sort of nonsense.
Today, the currents of victimization, separatism and fatalism coursing through p.d. have spread beyond the true believers to...
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Moving On Up More Difficult In America : NPR →
The point: We think we are some how exceptional: that unlike other countries in the world, work is rewarded in America with upward social mobility, that our society is meritocratic instead of aristocratic, and that anyone can be whatever the set their mind to. Ideologically-based propositions like this are difficult to test, right? Well, apparently not. And what is more exceptional about...
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Rick Perry confirms that individual mandate is a... →
And the term “Obamacare” is actually a nice example of Orwellian Newspeak. Double Plus Good!!!
So there you have it. Perry first confirms that the individual mandate originated as a Republican idea. Then he says that now that Obama has employed it, the question of the mandate’s fate has become nothing less than a referendum on whether “big government liberals” will be allowed to...
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FOX says 'Muppets' are brainwashing kids, for... →
Fantastic! Don’t see the Muppet Movie unless you want your kids to turn into Socialists!
“He suggested that there “should be” Occupy Wall Street Muppets, saying that Occupy protesters “have been indoctrinated literally for years” by TV shows such as 1980s cartoon “Captain Planet” or Nickelodeon’s “Big Green Help,” which...
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Sebelius singlehandedly guarantees an increase in... →
Sebelius Overrules F.D.A. on Freer Sale of Emergency Contraceptives - NYTimes.com
Looks like the Obama Administration fails on progressive issues once more. Seriously: except for the lack of an alternative not bent on sacrificing the very social fabric of our country to Mammon Profit, why would ANYONE vote for this guy?
“In her own statement, Ms. Sebelius said, “After careful ...
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In Major Gaffe, Obama Forgets To Dumb It Down |... →
All satire is based in truth.
This could very easily be an entirely real story. From the post:
“Instead of saying, ‘There are many global variables at work here, and unless they all fall into place, we could find ourselves back in a recession,’ he should have just said, ‘Times are hard. We gotta be strong,”
Read more at the Onion.com
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Home - Stewart Alexander for President 2012 -... →
The New Haberdasher congratulates Stewart Alexander and Alex Mendoza on their nomination as the Socialist Party’s candidates for President and Vice President. On a personal note, I have had the opportunity to get to know Alexander in 2007 when he was nominated as Vice President Candidate for the SP, and he is a real good person.
Read more about the Alexander/Mendoza Ticket here.
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Today the Bomb buried in Obamacare goes off. ... →
Today, the part of the law which requires for-profit insurance companies to pay 80% of their premium toward their customer’s care, or rebate their customers, takes effect. The Author seems to believe this is the beginning of the end of for-profits, and the beginning of the beginning of universalized, public health care as for-profits are wiped out by their inability to make unlimited...
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Minecraft: The Kotaku Review →
Here’s a great review of a fun game. Thank you to Dan Patterson, for both pointing out the article, and for hooking me up with a license to play this game to my little heart’s content!
Read the entire review at Kotaku.com
“For all that’s been written about Minecraft over the past few years, you’d think it was one of the greatest video games ever created. A...
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The Secret Army →
The Secret Army does not exist.
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On the Horse Race (Nov, 2011)
Recently I had the opportunity to comment on an editorial which discussed the possibility of Newt’s assendency, and possible threat to Romney’s inevitable primary victory. Since then, I am happy to say that at least one thing I have predicted is starting to happen: Romney is starting to feel the need to talk about Gingrich.
Anyway, here’s the commentary, taken from my feed at...
April 2011
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The Story Behind 420 - Pot Smokers' Favorite... →
It’s nice to see that ABC radio is covering this. It’s a sign of the times.
abcnewsradio:
(NEW YORK) — At 4:20 p.m. Wednesday—in whatever time zone they happen to be in—pot-smokers will be lighting up to celebrate an unofficial holiday whose origins are debated by stoners with time on their hands. Does 420 refer to a police code for illegal marijuana use? Is it a veiled allusion...
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BBC News - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoes... →
“The governor of Arizona has vetoed a bill requiring presidential candidates to prove US citizenship in order to get on the state’s election ballot.
Republican Jan Brewer said the bill would have allowed officials to judge who is eligible to run for office.
A lingering “birther” conspiracy theory asserts US President Barack Obama was not born in the US and is thus...
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Project Dyszombie- Field Report: "The Character...
theinevitablezombieapocalypse:
Field Report, Johanna Ellas:
Update 0.2
Commissioned by Dr. Frederich Hausen
Civilian Defensive Control, Z Task Force
January 18, 2021
Atlanta
Introduction: The purpose of our field research and thus this short report on the nature of the person afflicted by “ADZ”, or the airborne variant of Derivative Z was to study the nature and habits of the human ...
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W. Doc Stodden » Blog Archive » A Review of the... →
This is a review of the 2011 Album by the Strokes called “Angles, posted up on my website
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BBC News - US warned on top credit rating by... →
Bam! Our neo-liberal monster has finally set its sights on us.
An excerpt:
The US Treasury responded that S&P had underestimated its ability to tackle the national debt.
“Because the US has, relative to its ‘AAA’ [top-rated] peers, what we consider to be very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us,...
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W. Doc Stodden » Blog Archive » On The Flat Tax →
From docstodden.com
On the Flat tax and why it will not only cause the bankruptcy of our country, but also Social Revolution, and why it is part of the Right’s design to starve the Poor out of existence.
An Excerpt:
Let’s introduce then, your flat tax system. Just a straight up flat tax system of 17% on everyone over 50K, no deductions (yet) for anything. System wide revenue becomes...
February 2011
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Breaking: ABC News Radio Live Coverage from #Cairo →
Live coverage from ABC Radio
January 2011
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NY Times: A Bronx Elementary School, Surrounded by... →
creepysleepy:
By Friend of Creepy Sleepy @yardenas & @NYTimes
A woman who called herself Virgin Sanabria said that she was ashamed of practicing prostitution near a school, but that drugs numbed her.
By YARDENA SCHWARTZ
When Nicole Murray’s 10-year-old daughter, Diamond, first started going to West Farms elementary school three years ago, she asked her mother why one woman they passed...
December 2010
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Creepy Sleepy 2010 Month-by-Month
creepysleepy:
Right around this time of year, people begin posting retrospectives of the year which is rapidly passing away. Creepy Sleepy, is of course, no different though clearly we are better. What follows is 2010, a fairly eventful year for a few, and a generally eventless mundane year for most of us.
For example: Few of us, relatively speaking, will be involved in some life changing...
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Recommend The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse on... →
creepysleepy:
Hello Creepy Sleepy faithful, and happy holidays! Each week on Creepy Sleepy we ask you to tell us what your favorite news and politics blogs are (and please do let us know!) on Tumblr. For the past few weeks we’ve highlighted our own Creepy Sleepy contributors.
This week we ask you to follow and recommend something seemingly out of the ordinary: The Inevitable Zombie...
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“In its patronizing desire to instruct us on what is wrong with our politics, No...”
– Frank Rich on the No Labels Astro-Turf ‘Movement’ [link] (via politicalbrief)
It’s so true. But I will add, as an instructor in the political science field, that it is important that someone point out what is wrong with the political system. Whether that is patronizing or not, it still...
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Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the... →
@creepysleepy:
Looking at things like this kind of makes the debate over taxes and the debt and almost every single argument that the political right comes up with in this country seem kind of stupid, doesn’t it?
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Creepy Sleepy: Guest Editorial: In Defense of... →
@creepysleepy:
Editor’s Note:
This article was sent to me by a guest contributor who wishes to keep remain anonymous. It is published under a nom de plume. The contents of this article represent the opinions of the actual author, and are not necessarily endorsed by any member of the Creepy Sleepy staff, any…
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PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's... →
from @creepysleepy:
Thank you to my friend @Patrick McDonel, for pointing this one out. Whether you are a rabid supporter or a blind-hate detractor, this site has something for you, if nothing else, so that you can back up your ridiculous argument about whether or not Obama is any better than any other President in recent history.
From politifact.com, a trusted source in campaign fact...
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Game: Zombie Shuffle! →
theinevitablezombieapocalypse:
Click the link or photo for a random zombie!
This simple game* shuffles posts from The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse and displays a random zombie post!
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*okay, okay who are we kidding - it’s just Tumblr’s ‘random’ feature - but hell, it’s still a ton of fun and a great way to kill time!
Looks like a lotter fun!
November 2010
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Malignant Capitalism: What A Waste!
Suppose a future society that has resolved the inefficiencies of capitalism were explaining those inefficiencies to a person who knew only capitalism and assumed that system to be the best organization of the economy possible. Such an account would look like Chapter 22 of Bellamy’s Looking Backward. Here is an Excerpt
“The wastes which resulted from leaving the conduct of industry...
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Creepy Sleepy Editorial: Holiday Shopping Season →
creepysleepy:
An editorial by W. Doc Stodden
Now that most of us are, for the most part, done eating the Turkey and Stuffing and potatoes and yams, and whatever else most of us eat on the fourth Thursday of November, and after we have watched the last football game of the evening, and put the kids to bed,…
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because-hiddles asked: Hey, I totally want to join this new Zombie story! Lemmie know how?
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misterhawks asked: How can I be added to the Dyszombie project?
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Revival of Project Dyszombie →
Posted over at @theinevitablezombieapocalypse, this is a project I am working on, about the anti-zombie.
Posted as a link because I apparently cannot reblog from there to here for some reason.
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British Man Dies From Caffeine Overdose - ABC News →
creepysleepy:
Information from the coroner’s inquest revealed that Michael Lee Bedford ingested two spoonfuls of pure caffeine powder that he washed down with an energy drink.
Apparently the above is the equivalent of 70 cans of red bull, at once. 5,680 or so mg of caffeine is, apparently, too much for one sitting.
Creepy Sleepy: On Auto-Destabilization and the GOP... →
creepysleepy:
EDITORIAL:
Destabilization: The instrumentalist foreign policy adopted by one government against another government for the purposes of removing the political leadership of that government from power, accomplished by changing the balance of power within the target state in favor of the…
Creepy Sleepy: Picking Up The Pieces →
creepysleepy:
Editorial:
The midterm election battle is over and yes, it wasn’t a pretty night to be a Democrat. Donkey carnage was scattered all over the battlefield as many of their opponents stood up in triumph. The GOP took the House of Representatives by a sizable number of seats, even exceeding the…
October 2010
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September 2010
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