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Current featured article is about a potential serial killer in SC. For the past week it has been MJ stories. No Palin, McNamara, etc.

Dead. To. Me.

But innocence and guilt are funny things in America. If you are rich and guilty, if you have defrauded banks and customers and investment firms of billions of dollars, as AIG or Citibank has, if you wear fancy suits and have degrees from elite universities that cost more per year than Brown used to make, you get taxpayer money. You get lots of it. You maintain the lavish lifestyle of jets and spas and million-dollar bonuses. You live a life of unchecked greed and have too much in a world where most have too little. If you are moral scum in America we take care of you. But if you are poor, if you are, say, Tearyan Brown and African-American and 39 years old with four kids and no job and you live in the inner city, you are in trouble. No one comes to help you. You don’t get a second chance. This is what being poor means. Chris Hedges (via azspot)
Conservatives have little patience for feminists who argue that the deck is stacked against women of childbearing age, that our assumptions about how work and family life should be organized make it very difficult for women, especially those with kids still at home, to have the kinds of careers ambitious men take for granted. What then do they say about the questions Palin was pressured to answer that none of her male competitors are ever asked, about how she’d balance her public duties with her private ones? Gov. Palin’s Exit Challenges Ideas About Powerful Women : NPR
But see, blaming sexualized women is too easy, too simplistic, too trite. To say only that there’s a pressure to get naked is to ignore the other half – that the “critique” of raunch culture is as patriarchy friendly as the pressure to get nekkid. That half of the culture will encourage you to be sexy, and half will condemn you for it. Lily Allen is a feminist issue. Here is one of the better readings, by Queen Emily at Feministe. (via tigerbeatdown) (via wannablessedbe)
Food, Inc. also explores why for the average working class family in America, buying healthy food isn’t an option. It is far cheaper to buy the cheeseburger from the drive-thru dollar menu than it is to buy fruit or vegetables. That is because everything in that cheeseburger comes from corn which our government subsidizes so much that farmers can sell it below the cost of production. So the poor American eats the extremely unhealthy food because it is cheaper. But the rising epidemic of type 2 diabetes shows the hidden cost of that value meal. The poor in our country - those with no health or job insurance - are getting sick at alarming rates due to the unhealthy cheap food they eat. This is injustice of the highest extreme - but it’s all part of our industrial food system. It’s a complicated system that gives us unhealthy, unsustainable food that disrespects the earth, animals, and people all in the name of making the greatest profit for a handful of corporations. This is the story of the food we eat every day. Julie Clawson (via azspot)
The losses for June brought the tally of jobs shed since the beginning of the recession to 6.5 million — a figure equivalent to the net job gains over the previous nine years. “This is the only recession since the Great Depression to wipe out all jobs growth from the previous business cycle,” Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the labor-oriented Economic Policy Institute in Washington, said in a research note. She called this fact “a devastating benchmark for the workers of this country and a testament to both the enormity of the current crisis and to the extreme weakness of jobs growth from 2000 to 2007. 467,000 Jobs Lost in June, Far More Than Expected - NYTimes.com (via sexartandpolitics) (via enjoli)

“Do you agree with Barack Obama’s decision to close the dentition (sic) center in Guantanamo Bay and move some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists to the United States?”
“Do you believe Barack Obama’s apology tours of Europe and the Middle East has (sic) helped strengthen our national security?”

“Do you approve of the Obama Democrats’ plan to give more than $100 billion in taxpayer funds to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) even though that money is likely to end up in the hands of tyrannical regimes?”

“Obama’s handling of which region of the world worries you the most: (Click up to three choices): Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, Middle East, Central America, North America (Canada & Mexico), South America”

Questions from a recent GOP survey, or “survey”, as CNN describes it.

No, those questions aren’t leading AT ALL. They’re so well balanced that they defy the laws of physics. 

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