News you can use all day
(Petunia and Pals) Did you know that anti-worker laws are a victory for capitalism? It's true! Check out the Chiron under the couch.
- As long as we're talking about Capitalism, the economy added a large number of jobs in November: 146,000 more people are employed, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent. The statisticians were expecting only about 85,000 new jobs. (Think Progress)
- The Ruth Institute, which is a lower-shelf, private label brand of NOM (the vanity project of notorious ethics-challenged shill for hire and unwed mother Maggie Gallagher) has concluded that marriage equality is Socialism, and it's coming for your family. Also/Too: feminism. Men should provide for their wimmins, who should be home birthin' some babies. No, really. (Equality Matters)
- And now we can rest assured that alleged adulterer South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will not stone-cold appoint herself to be Jim DeMint's replacement in the US Senate:
“I want to make two things clear from the outset. Number one, I will not take the appointment myself. Number two, I will appoint a person who has the same philosophy of government that Jim DeMint and I share."
God save us! But on the bright side, there is only one Michele Bachman... (Governor SC)
--Tengrain
I was hoping for Nikki Haley to have a larger, national stage. We've had our share of Senators, Presidents and other federal officials disgraced due to sex scandals. And thus far, all of them have been men. In the interest of gender equality, it's time for a woman to have a major sex scandal at the federal level and Nikki Haley is just the one to do it.
Posted by: DAS | December 07, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Looks as if the Couch Potatoes don't really care if they give capitalism a worse reputation than it already has. But, then, they'd cheerlead for chlamydia if Ailes told them to.
Posted by: montag | December 07, 2012 at 01:10 PM
Our entire civilization is bat-shit crazy. We sit idly by, doing our daily part to kill the planet on behalf of the 1% whose corporations continue to pollute land, water and air until the place will become uninhabitable IN OUR LIFETIME.
Have a nice day
Posted by: Tom | December 07, 2012 at 02:28 PM
Please forgive my ignorance but what does Chiron under the couch mean. I know of the Mythical Centaur and a minor planet named after him but I can't make a connection. I need some help here ....
Posted by: md | December 07, 2012 at 04:49 PM
MD -
The Chyron is the machine used by TeeVee shows to put things like the scrolling banners and other on-air graphics on shows. Oops, I see now that autocorrect struck again!
Regards,
Tengrain
Posted by: Tengrain | December 10, 2012 at 02:54 PM
How many people entered the workforce vs. the 146,000 that found jobs? How many were govt. jobs adding to the 16 tril?
Posted by: mark | December 10, 2012 at 03:44 PM