Monday, December 14, 2015

DKos and AlterNet Summaries


  • Cartoon: Hair Hitler


  • Grocery shopper alerted police to a man's strange behavior and may have prevented a mass shooting


  • Cartoon: The N.R.A. merriest Christmas


  • Rush Limbaugh cooperating with the Feds to protect his property from climate change beach erosion


  • Sign if you agree with the Democratic Governors Association: Voting should be easier—move Election Day to a weekend.


  • Han Solo smashes the fourth wall to tell Donald Trump he's delusional


  • Conservative radio just loves to hate—and it's turning on the GOP


  • The privileged idiocy of 'Just let the Republicans win'


  • Fascism: It's what all the cool kids are doing these days


  • Prime Minister's reaction to refugees arriving in Canada will be a highlight in world history


  • Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin says Obamacare not working—70 percent of Kentuckians disagree


  • America's backslide into a vile and overt bigotry


  • Democrat Loretta Sanchez channels Trump, says 'five to 20 percent' of Muslims are terrorists


  • Sign if you agree with the Natural Resources Defense Council: We need our world leaders to work together and fight for a clean energy future.


  • Yes, America's religious freedom was explicitly intended to include Muslims


  • The 'market' has failed on pharmaceutical drugs—epically. Time for government to act


  • Sista soldiers: Black American women in the military


  • White House: Donald Trump just disqualified himself from becoming president


  • CA policeman rapes 21-year-old with internal 'cavity search' & department attempts to bribe her

    • Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
    And right in the middle of winter. READ MORE»
    Dartagnan, Daily Kos
    Taibbi interprets the “Trump phenomenon” as a rather damning indictment of an American culture guided by worship of the superficial. READ MORE»
    AlterNet
    Can we breathe a sigh of relief? READ MORE»
    By Brian McFadden, AlterNet
    Trump's racist mixture is ready in no time. READ MORE»
    By Erin Callahan , AlterNet
    The Telling Room teaches teens that their stories are worth telling. READ MORE»
    By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
    Guess which region has the most highly concentrated economic disadvantage? READ MORE»

    Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet
    Common to developing nations, a dual economy is taking root in the U.S. MIT economist Peter Themin explains how this happened and what can be done to stop it. READ MORE»
    David Rosen, AlterNet
    The Donald did not invent this particular brand of xenophobia and demagoguery. READ MORE»
    William Greider, The Nation
    She has a plan that she claims will reform Wall Street—but she’s deflecting responsibility from old friends and donors in the industry. READ MORE»
    By Heather Cox Richardson, Salon
    The last time a U.S. political party put forth a radical like this was 1860. There are really frightening parallels. READ MORE»
    By Michael Schulson, Religion Dispatches
    An eye-opening new study finds children of faith are less likely to share, more likely to mete out punishment. READ MORE»
    By Nur Lalji, YES! Magazine
    If you watch the news, you'd think anti-Muslim hysteria is everywhere. Thankfully, that's not true. READ MORE»
    By Deborah James, AlterNet
    The ministerial meetings for the WTO must deliver on food security and development for the world's poor. READ MORE»
    By Phillip Smith, AlterNet
    While ketamine can send recreational users "down the K-hole," the club drug is showing promise as a fast-acting antidepressant. READ MORE»
    By Eric Margolis, The Smirking Chimp
    The objective of ISIS and other anti-western groups is to drive the western Great Powers out of their hold over the Mideast and Muslim world. READ MORE»
    By David Edwards, Raw Story
    A detective determined that 31-year-old Anna Yocca attempted to “self-abort” her pregnancy in September. READ MORE»
    By John Vibes, The Free Thought Project
    After the fact, Spencer claimed that the dog was charging at people in the neighborhood. READ MORE»

    posted by Dot Calm @ 5:39 PM