Anyone need Canon 5 and 8 inkjet cartridges? Free! # Tree of life still at the Ritz. Wonder if the audience is people who fell so deeply asleep they haven't managed to rouse themselves. # Allyson Schwartz sent an email asking for help in the NY special. Crossed my mind that she helped make that election necessary. # Republicans to unemployed: Drop Dead. # Continue reading
@TonyPaytonJr But the truth won't help you win a Republicans Presidential nomination. # In the meantime, I called Comcast and asked them to lower their rate. They did. Got my initial deal back. Try it! # Glad the strike is over as I may switch to get Fios. # Continue reading
Who's suing who in the mobile world. Note: no one is suing Amazon. http://t.co/xWeuESc # I'm told that PA State Rep. Darryl Metcalfe announced today his intention to propose legislation making it illegal to floss while driving. # Continue reading
If O won't ask Congress to increase debt to create jobs then he should demand taxes on the rich, who are not spending, to create jobs. # OMG Moronic news "analysis" gives O exactly the wrong advice. The problem is jobs not deficits. http://t.co/aHpynoK # If the country's credit is so bad, why are people rushing into treasury bonds, driving down interest rates? # The stock market is down because investors are starting to recognize the increasing likelihood of a double dip recession. # If the stock market decline were due to S&P, interest rates would be heading up. Instead they are down. #dumbreporting # Hey, were more gays allowed to marry recently? My marriage has felt a little shaky and I was wondering if that perhaps was the cause. # Continue reading
@AlexU_A "Proof" in the vernacular means "evidence," which you can't avoid by waxing epistemological. # @price_laborecon We're arguing about slutwalk. Sorry you don't have a pony. # John Stuart Mill called conservatives the "stupid party." It's still true. http://t.co/cffhsrQ # @AlexU_A The proof you are wrong is that rates of sexual violence vary enormously from one place and time to another. # @AlexU_A "It's natural" is the refuge of reactionaries. It's what justified conquest, rape, unregulated markets. # @AlexU_A And third, that SOME men are predators of women is not a natural but social / cultural thing. We can change it. # @AlexU_A And second, should the whole world should be like a ghetto for women? Because if you are right, it doesn't matter how they dress. # @AlexU_A First of all, middle class white kids do march through black neighborhoods with $ buying drugs. # Rick Perry got Cs… Continue reading
@bettina27 At least. Beach boys and SF Giants. You can tell them apart by the different colored beards. # Thank you Harry Swengler, master plumber, who at our Hotel years ago taught me what I need to fix my toilet today! # Anyone know a good plumber in NW Philly? # Starting third day of intensive watering to keep our garden, especially the new plantings, alive. # Continue reading
Dear Friends, I’ll be leaving Penn ACTION at the end of the month. Last year, as the HCAN campaign was winding down, US Action asked me to become Executive Director at Penn ACTION with the hope of building a state wide grassroots political organization. We’ve done a lot of good work over the last year. But, as you all know, this is a difficult fundraising environment and we haven’t been able to raise enough, either in Washington or in Pennsylvania, to keep the project going at the level we had reached or to expand it further. So US Action decided to pull back on the project and Crystal Martzall, who did so much to make our work a success, and I will be leaving it. For the time being, Robin Stelly, who has done such great work in Bucks County will keep organizing there and will try to do as… Continue reading
@BooMan23 No one who will really do the job could be confirmed. So O should have made the nomination that makes that point. # Continue reading
Originally appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tuesday, July 05, 2011 After a public outcry stopped the Republican plan to radically transform Medicare, a new threat to our health care is coming, this time from a surprising direction. In the negotiations with Republicans about raising the debt ceiling, the Obama administration has proposed new rules for federal matching of state expenditures for Medicaid — we call it “medical assistance” in Pennsylvania — and CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program. These rules are troubling. They would lead to substantial cuts in federal support programs that provide health care to low-income children and parents, people with disabilities and senior citizens, including the 62 percent of seniors in Pennsylvania whose nursing home care is paid for by medical assistance. States now receive different matching rates for different groups of people. The federal government pays 50 percent to 75 percent of the costs for people currently… Continue reading
Originally appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot News, July 3, 2011 Ten years ago last month, President George W. Bush signed a bill cutting taxes by $1.35 trillion over 10 years. It was the first of several Bush tax cuts that ended up costing two and a half trillion dollars over a decade. Dan Gleiter, The Patriot-News Ten years later, what have we gotten for this tax cut? Where is the prosperity President Bush promised? Pennsylvania’s official unemployment rate in June 2001 was 4.8 percent. Today, the seasonally adjusted rate is 7.4 percent. Nationwide, the unemployment rate was 4.7 percent. Today, it is hovering around 9 percent. At the end of last year, supporters of Bush’s policies pushed through an extension of the Bush tax cuts for another two years. Many lawmakers say they want to extend the tax cuts again into 2013 and beyond, which would almost double the federal… Continue reading