Obama's Secret Plan To Lose The Election: A Rhetoric of Irony | The New Republic

President Obama is stumping in Scranton this afternoon, which is strange, because as everyone now knows, he has decided to abandon the white working class.

What, you hadn't heard? Everyone's been reporting it. Well, almost everyone. On Monday, Fox News' web site linked to a New York Times column by Tom Edsall by giving it this headline:...(Click here to read more)

Requiem for a Failed Education Policy: The Long Slow Death of No Child Left Behind - The New Republic

"Eleven years ago, I moved to Washington, D.C. to work on education. The liberal think tank that hired me focused on state issues, so I had nothing to do with the project that was consuming D.C. wonks at the time: a once-a-decade reauthorization of the mammoth federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would become the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001....."CLICK TO READ MORE....

US$31.2 Trillion Hidden from Taxman by Global Elite | The 2012 Scenario

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End the madness, Penn State, and give us Paterno's statue - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com

Give us the statue, Penn State. Take it down, and do it now.

What about this don't you understand? Seven months ago the school fired Joe Paterno for not doing enough -- barely doing anything, really -- during the previous decade to stop longtime assistant Jerry Sandusky from molesting kids. Eight days ago Penn State released its own commissioned report on the Sandusky scandal, a report that focused on blame for the cover-up and concluded it lay heavily with Joe Paterno.(read more...)

Pathos of the Plutocrat - NYTimes.com-Paul Krugman

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald — and he didn’t just mean that they have more money. What he meant instead, at least in part, was that many of the very rich expect a level of deference that the rest of us never experience and are deeply distressed when they don’t get the special treatment they consider their birthright; their wealth “makes them soft where we are hard.”(read more)

How America Became a Country That Lets Little Kids Go Homeless | Economy | AlterNet

Family homelessness essentially did not exist until the 1980s. And the financial crisis has made the problem massively worse.




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Master Teacher Corps: Barack Obama Proposes $1 Billion Effort To Boost Students' Achievement In Math, Science

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration unveiled plans Wednesday to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost U.S. students' achievement in science, technology, engineering and math.

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Willard Without Shame…It is All About the Win and Too Close for Comfort | God's Own Party?

When I was directed to this site, I was incredibly delighted!  As a "recovering Catholic", and not in favor of organized religion, yet with a devout broad spirituality....this was like 'spiritual thinkers' crack'! The site self-describes as :  DOMINIONISM IN AMERICAN POLITICS – "EXPANDING THE DISCUSSION BEHIND THE HEADLINES"




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Random post from Huff Post today....

I read this outstanding post on the Huff Post today....fully appreciated it:

outlandish 4 hours ago ( 3:15 PM)

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Things the Republican base has to like to vote for Mitt.
Corrupt mafia like figures that want to buy a war with Iran because they are more a citizen of Israel than the US: By corrupt I mean gambling kingpins who bribe with cash, women, use stand over tactics and who put wealth over nation, greed over good.
A Presidential candidate who is devoid of all notions of patriotism and decency, someone who courted Sheldon’s billions even though Sheldon paid for King of Bain, a documentary that showed just how amoral and heartless Mitt’s days at Bain were.
Politicians that block tax breaks and incentives for job importers and fight to keep an expand tax breaks and expanded incentives for job exporters leading to 12 million jobs going to China alone in the past decade and then complaining about Obama not doing anything about jobs.
Billionaires openly buying or attempting to buy the government and them supporting the eventual disenfranchisement of even themselves as government is finally bought and all opposition crushed, who think they’ll be fighting a pitch battle for freedom against the left while they give a very few people the whole country by supporting the sale of it wholesale and in collusion with vast amounts of foreign derived money.
Thank God they are a rapidly aging ethno-homogenous species in a nation undergoing a renaissance of ethno diversity and expansion adding the dimension of an outside world.
 The old White billionaires might own the media and therefore have control of the perceived message and own most of everything else but the internet is where we get to fight back, spread the truth, organize and plan to reintroduce democracy back into the wild freeing it from its captivity program that has seen nearly all of it locked away.
 With the only illusion of freedom being the freedom to shop and the freedom to be mind numbingly entertained and programmed by our TV screens.
Not forgetting the freedom to throw our money away at Sheldon’s house always wins casinos or Wall Street’s house always wins casinos.
 

The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems

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U.S. health care system: Worst in the world? - The Week

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U.S. Ranks Last Among Seven Countries on Health System Performance Based on Measures of Quality, Efficiency, Access, Equity, and Healthy Lives - The Commonwealth Fund

CLICK TO READ THE SHOCKING TRUTH! U.S. Ranks Last Among Seven Countries on Health System Performance Based on Measures of Quality, Efficiency, Access, Equity, and Healthy Lives - The Commonwealth Fund

The Shocking Truth About Joe Paterno, Penn State and Governor Tom Corbett | Culture | AlterNet

After 7 months, 400 interviews and the review of more than 3.5 million documents, Louis Freeh has completed his report on the dark underside of Penn State University....

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Banker Writes Suicide Note, Disappears, Perhaps with $17 Million

Compelling article...and not complete without the ending footnotes (which indicate the current shift).


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"How Trauma Traps Survivors in the Past"--Dr. Bessel van der Kolk/You Tube

Mitt’s real insult to the NAACP - Salon.com

I have to admit, I started out giving Mitt Romney some credit for agreeing to address the NAACP. I’m a sucker for the make-nice gesture in this age of political division and cruelty. Republican presidential candidates have been known to snub the group’s annual gathering: Bob Dole did in 1996, and while George W. Bush attended in 2000, when he was promising to be a compassionate conservative, he skipped it in 2004, when it was clear that he was not.

I knew Romney’s visit was mainly designed to make him appear reasonable to white swing voters who are a little worried about the GOP’s wingnuttery when it comes to our first black president. Still, I thought it was a mildly reassuring symbolic gesture that might serve to keep the chasm between African-Americans and the GOP from turning into a dangerous canyon.

I expected it would be awkward; .......

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Joe Biden's speech to Military Heroes will rank with one of the best ever

This Memorial Day Weekend, VP Joe Biden gave a speech to the families of those that have given their life for their country.  The speech was given at the opening session of the 18th Annual TAPS National Military Survivor Seminar.

Transcript: http://www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=116508

Bidens Honor Survivors, Biden Shares Loss

By Lisa Daniel
American Forces Press Service
ARLINGTON, Va., May 25, 2012 – The first family of the military......

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Supreme Court Finds Frivolous Lawsuit to Be Frivolous; Upholds “Obamacare” | News & Politics | AlterNet

Today's ruling was an enormous win for the Obama administration, and will likely lead to a fundraising bonanza for corporate front-groups opposed to the law......


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Thoughts on Texas, and .......

.....their eliminating HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) and CTS (Critical Thinking Skills) courses from all school curriculums:

"They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting [screwed] by a system that threw them overboard 30 years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly [worse] jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it"

~ George Carlin, 2005

Gratitude movement leader to speak in S.F. - SFGate

Are we in the middle of a gratitude movement? Evidence suggests so.

Publishers can't seem to print enough books with the words "gratitude" or "gratefulness" in the title. Scientists rake in millions of dollars in grants to study how feelings of gratitude might improve physical health and psychological well-being. And this weekend.........

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