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Comment by Neal on April 18, 2012 at 1:30pm

Hah! =)

Comment by Michel on April 18, 2012 at 1:18pm

Is there any hope for the southern states?

Comment by Neal on April 18, 2012 at 12:41pm

Is there any hope for the southern states?

The Defense of Marriage Act, an Act to Amend the North Carolina Constitution

By Antje Curphey, Northeastern Distr. Coordinator

For the citizens of North Carolina to add an amendment to the North Carolina Constitution, both houses of the State Legislature have to first vote for this amendment to be placed on the ballot.

SB 106, an act to amend the North Carolina Constitution, has been introduced to the General Assembly of North Carolina by Senators James Forrester (R-District 41), Jerry W. Tillman (R-District 29), and Dan Soucek (R-District 45). “An act to amend the North Carolina Constitution to provide Marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.”

So far this act has 20 co-sponsors. SB 106 has been referred to the Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate. You can follow the status of this act on the North Carolina General Assembly Web site: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/

Prayerfully contact your state senator and ask him to become a co-sponsor.

Let us pray that the citizens of North Carolina finally may have the opportunity to vote on this amendment in the election of September 2012

These are some fucked up bastards.

Comment by doone on April 18, 2012 at 10:52am

Comment by doone on April 18, 2012 at 7:37am

 CNN:

TRENDING: Nugent threatens death if Obama wins in November  —  (CNN) - Rocker Ted Nugent did little to quell his reputation as a conservative firebrand through comments at the National Rifle Association convention when he took aim (pun intended) at high profile members of the Barack Obama administration …

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Discussion: The Week, The Huffington Post, 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, Politico, CANNONFIRE,ABCNEWS, The PJ Tatler, American Power, Washington Monthly, The Mahablog, The Hill, The Moderate Voice, Pirate's Cove and Harry's Place

Comment by doone on April 18, 2012 at 7:34am

 Atrios / Eschaton:

THE ONE TRUE WANKER OF THE DECADE  —  Tom Friedman.  —  Tom Friedman, artist's conception.  —  Friedman possesses all of the qualities that make a pundit truly wankerific.  He fetishizes a false “centrism” which is basically whatever Tom Friedman likes, imagining the Friedman agenda …

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Discussion: The Impolitic, Hullabaloo, The Agonist, Brad DeLong, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Guardian

Comment by doone on April 15, 2012 at 4:48pm

50 AMAZING NUMBERS ABOUT TODAY'S ECONOMY

Morgan Housel in The Motely Fool:

50. The S&P 500 is down 3% from 2000. But a version of the index that holds all 500 companies in equal amounts (rather than skewed by market cap) is up nearly 90%.

49. According to economist Tyler Cowen, "Thirty years ago, college graduates made 40 percent more than high school graduates, but now the gap is about 83 percent."

48. Of all non-farm jobs created since June 2009, 88% have gone to men. "The share of men saying the economy was improving jumped to 41 percent in March, compared with 26 percent of women," reports Bloomberg.

47. A record $6 billion will be spent on the 2012 elections, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Adjusted for inflation, that's 60% more than the 2000 elections.

46. In 2010, nearly half of Americans lived in a household that received direct government benefits. That's up from 37.7% in 1998.

45. Adjusted for inflation, federal tax revenue was the same in 2009 as it was 1997, even though the U.S. population grew by 37 million during that period.

44. In November 2009, the nationwide unemployment was around 10%. But dig into demographics, and the rates are incredibly skewed. The unemployment rate for young, uneducated African-American males was 48.5%. For Caucasian females over age 45 with a college degree, it was 3.7%.

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Comment by doone on April 15, 2012 at 12:04pm

A map to offend us all

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 13, 2012 at 12:00pm

Comment by doone on April 13, 2012 at 11:16am

The Unseen Complexity Of Foreign Nations

by Zack Beauchamp

Richard Dowden bashes simplistic media treatments of African countries:

For the past ten years many African countries have been growing at rates we in the West can only dream about – thanks largely to an emerging middle class, mobile phones and China’s demand for its raw materials. Now our businesses are following the Chinese into Africa looking for its fabled wealth. Africa is now a place for investment. ... [Africa] can be both poor and disease-ridden and rich and dynamic at the same time, sometimes in the same village. To be a proper news story and fit into the outdated news agenda, it has to be one or the other.

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