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Wackadoodles taking on the more pressing issue of our time….yoga pants.
A Brief History of the GOP War on Yoga and Its Pants
These folks won't be happy until they put women in this country in burkas.
Another example of how the last thing these people care about is jobs, and economic well being of their constituents judging by the legislation they give top priority.
When yoga pants are outlawed, only outlaws will wear yoga pants.
And as usual with these kinds of regulations, you don't want most outlaws to wear yoga pants. Only law-abiding citizens should wear yoga pants. Law enforcement officers need the fullest authority to enforce restrictions on yoga pants; because they're so dangerous, I suspect that the use of yoga pants as "less lethal" weapons will become more common among law enforcement in the near future.
What's this Montana guy got against the First Amendment?
From the vanguard of such constitutional protection:
…and @Pontifex laying the wood to those who think Armegeddon will solve all of our ills:
Pope Francis: A Christian Who Doesn't Protect Creation Doesn't Care About The Work Of God
Gawd, I'm loving me some Papa Francis today!
Kind of surprised Boehner wants him to come speak to congress. I don't think the GOTP members are going to like much of what he has to say.
…and while the Repubs are gnashing their teeth over the 'War on Coal', (which is a geological war, not a political one – the shallow, cheap coal is all but gone), this is happening:
#1 US Coal Company Peabody (BTU) Lost Over $700 Million in 2014
#2 US Coal Company Arch Coal (ACI) Lost Over $500 Million in 2014
#3 US Coal Company Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) Lost Over $800 Million in 2014
#4 Alpha Natural Resources reported their 4th Quarter and year-end (unaudited) results this morning. Net loss was $874 million dollars.
In spite of our gains in green energy in Colorado, we are still heavily coal-centric in our generation. Even with nearly every geologist and economist agreeing that a coal-future will be a folly for lots of reasons (economic and environmental), our Colorado PUC is still bent on giving the blessing to Xcel Energy to retrofit old coal plants and dramatically extend their life. It is absolute madness. Let's start treating the legacy fleet for what it is: a stranded asset that is going to put a noose around the energy consumers neck if we don't dump them.
It's way past time to move on…we didn't leave the Stone Age because we ran out of stones. Fortunately for the Stone Age, they didn't have a body politic who couldn't go to work without their knee pads.
While the Fossilonians cling to their black goo, technology marches on ….
Amen, brother….
Obamacare signups surge in Southern states http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/232489-obamacare-signups-surge-in-southern-states
Trickle Down Economics still the ideal for Republicans
And though it's quite obvious the books are never balanced when using this failed theory, they are always able to squeeze the poor and the Middle Class in some way or another while making sure the greatest among us remain that way.
Thanks for that post, Zap.
That drum must be beaten increasingly until every working person in the United States understands what is at stake and who is on their side. I wonder what our resident conservatives think of the idea of a net asset tax? It was heavily supported by that lil' ol' populist, Huey Long.
Part of the justification for the concept I found at Wiki…
I think Robin Hood may have said that, too.
And also while convincing middle class voters that this benefits them by allowing them to "keep more of your own money". Never mind their policies make for less of our own money in the first place and we are mostly "enjoying" the tax cut you get because you're earning less to pay on while a tiny elite pays a lower percentage on their ever more enormous piece of the pie.
And Dems mainly let them get away with it for fear of looking like radicals who want to "punish" the rich. Evidently the rich think they're being punished if the gap between them and the peasants doesn't keep growing and the peasants have enough to enjoy decent lives too. And Dems play along, hoping to show everyone they aren't commies by accepting all sorts of discredited cuts and austerity so they can say.. see, we're almost as responsible as the Republicans (whose polices haven't ever worked but we bow to their messaging hegemony because we're cowards who can only hope you'll forgive us for being Dems and vote for us once in a while).
Bennet cashing in on Keystone (no news/no surprise) with $115,000 in contributions from the affected partis. No money from those who don't want KXL. Hey, Senate campaigns aren't cheap, and our senior senator can't possibly win re-elect with no money, can he?
$823,623 for our junior Senator…
Cory really cashed in, I see….
Ya … he was #4 on a long list of Rs in terms of the cash haul; behind Cornyn, McConnell and Cruz.
Gardner must have been the harder sell; Bennett didn't receive nearly as much for his Yes vote.
I'll agree Cody much more hideous than M. Bennet.
NY Times: Unauthorized Immigrants’ Access to Driver’s Licenses Is at Risk
Sounds like you're pissed off because he's doing something you wanted him to do.
Exactly. More proof tht there is nothing ratioanl in their over the top hatred of Obama.It doesn't matter what he does or says. It isn't about policy.
he actually wants to follow the Constitution and the War Power Act, which is obviously bad as well.
Privatize the Post Office even more! Uh…
Drill, drill, drill. Kill, kill, kill.
The Endagered Species Act is probably what R's refer to when they say regulation is holding us all back. Or maybe they just need to see "papers, please" for any being they don't like in their 'hood.