Hundreds of thousands lose unemployment benefits today due to GOP obstructionism.
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Animal lovers should read this article from today's New York Times about dogs who have come to the aid of vets dealing with PTSD.
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I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn't the Fed? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04burry.html
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Holy Father, the people of God are with you, and do not let themselves be impressed by the gossip of the moment, by the challenges that sometimes strike at the community of believers.
– Cardinal Angelo Sodano
Benedict rose to greet Cardinal Sodano with a warm embrace.
Yeah, because, you know, decades (at least, who knows, really how long?) of sexually abusing hundreds (thousands?) ofchildren around the world is nothing more than gossip. Ratzi, you and your cardinals are doing more to mock The Church than I could ever do. And on Easter Sunday, no less.
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Because these folks are as parasitic as it gets:
Here is how it works: If you were employed by a company that retains the Talx Corporation, they will contest every unemployment claim that a fired employee of those companies file. They will do it without having any reasons for such a contest. When the hearing officer rules against Talx, they will appeal.How can they sleep at night?
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Hopefully, this will end well:
A political climate that's already more overheated than any time in a generation. Plans for a large-scale rally of firearms enthusiasts in the nation's capital. A fast-growing group of (mostly ex-) military and cops that pledges to disobey "unconstitutional orders" from the president, and an "urgent" call from the group's leader to flood Washington to "shout your oaths in the tyrant's face" -- on the 15th anniversary of the worst home-grown terror incident in U.S. history, the Oklahoma City bombing.
What could possibly go wrong?
Just wondering if this would have happened when Bush was President ...
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I guess you could call it the War of the Bombs, for they are hitting us and we are hitting them.
Predator drones supposedly can fly at altitudes where they are high enough that they cannot be seen or heard. I would suspect that flying them at a lower altitude, where the engines can be heard, is a bit of psychological warfare.
This is not good news: The Special Operations boys killed some women and then tried to cover it up, which some folks should be going to prison for.
Add to that Gen. McChrystal's admission that the US and NATO forces have shot "an amazing number of people" near convoys and at checkpoints without any of them turning out to be threats.
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan Election Thief, is turning into a rogue puppet: "If you and the international community pressure me more, I swear that I am going to join the Taliban." Maybe he should check what happened to the last president of Afghanistan when the Taliban took over before he makes threats like that. Karzai would not join the Taliban, he and his clan will be living the life of retired corrupt 3rd world politicians in France if the Taliban prevail.
Which they will if Karzai makes it politically untenable for foreign forces to remain in Afghanistan.
Predator drones supposedly can fly at altitudes where they are high enough that they cannot be seen or heard. I would suspect that flying them at a lower altitude, where the engines can be heard, is a bit of psychological warfare.
This is not good news: The Special Operations boys killed some women and then tried to cover it up, which some folks should be going to prison for.
Add to that Gen. McChrystal's admission that the US and NATO forces have shot "an amazing number of people" near convoys and at checkpoints without any of them turning out to be threats.
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan Election Thief, is turning into a rogue puppet: "If you and the international community pressure me more, I swear that I am going to join the Taliban." Maybe he should check what happened to the last president of Afghanistan when the Taliban took over before he makes threats like that. Karzai would not join the Taliban, he and his clan will be living the life of retired corrupt 3rd world politicians in France if the Taliban prevail.
Which they will if Karzai makes it politically untenable for foreign forces to remain in Afghanistan.
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New data from the Census Bureau finds that conservative-leaning states have some of the lowest response rates to the Census. Almost "48% of households in Texas and 53% in Alabama have mailed in their forms so far, for example, while the response rate in Massachusetts, a more-liberal state, is at about 57%." Conservatives have in recent months demonized the Census.
Or, maybe they can't read and write.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Defending the Freedom to Hate: Supreme Court to Take Up Anti-Gay-Protest Case
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This Week In Holy Crimes
Over the last seven days...
Alabama: Pastor Bertha Wright arrested on 16 felony counts of Oxycontin prescription fraud.
Texas: Pastor Lester Cody pleads no contest to sexually assaulting a minor.
Texas: Youth Pastor Matthew Overstreet charged with sexually assaulting a minor.
Missouri: Father Patrick Grady pleads guilty to possession of child porn and trying to buy sex from a female minor.
Illinois: Deacon George Valdez charged with embezzling $315K from his parish.
Wisconsin: Pastor Leonard Van Vlaenderen charged with stealing $128K from his church.
France: Father Jacques Gaimard confesses to child molestation.
Ontario: Father John Duarte sentenced for molesting boys at Catholic mission he founded in Haiti.
France: Father Bonaventure Ouedraogo arrested for showing up drunk at the funeral he was to officiate and punching out one of the mourners.
North America: Bishop Accountability group claims that numerous accused priests are being quietly reinstated despite pending charges of child predation.
This Week's Winner-
Vatican City: Cardinal Angelo Sodano opened the Pope's Easter Sunday Mass today with a speech dismissing charges of the Ratzinger's complicity in the global child abuse scandal as nothing more than "petty gossip of the moment." Ill Papa made no mention of the controversy during his address.
Alabama: Pastor Bertha Wright arrested on 16 felony counts of Oxycontin prescription fraud.
Texas: Pastor Lester Cody pleads no contest to sexually assaulting a minor.
Texas: Youth Pastor Matthew Overstreet charged with sexually assaulting a minor.
Missouri: Father Patrick Grady pleads guilty to possession of child porn and trying to buy sex from a female minor.
Illinois: Deacon George Valdez charged with embezzling $315K from his parish.
Wisconsin: Pastor Leonard Van Vlaenderen charged with stealing $128K from his church.
France: Father Jacques Gaimard confesses to child molestation.
Ontario: Father John Duarte sentenced for molesting boys at Catholic mission he founded in Haiti.
France: Father Bonaventure Ouedraogo arrested for showing up drunk at the funeral he was to officiate and punching out one of the mourners.
North America: Bishop Accountability group claims that numerous accused priests are being quietly reinstated despite pending charges of child predation.
This Week's Winner-
Vatican City: Cardinal Angelo Sodano opened the Pope's Easter Sunday Mass today with a speech dismissing charges of the Ratzinger's complicity in the global child abuse scandal as nothing more than "petty gossip of the moment." Ill Papa made no mention of the controversy during his address.
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Steve Benen: CASSELL'S CRASS CONFUSION
This is painfully common -- some of the loudest, angriest critics of the Affordable Care Act are also some of the least informed, most confused, embarrassingly ignorant observers anywhere. In this case, Cassell has become a national joke because he's repulsed by a health care reform plan that he fully admits he doesn't understand.
It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
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