Support Their Dreams - International Day of the Girl Child
Submitted by Alex Ocana on Tue, 10/11/2016 - 12:08pmGirls Deserve the Chance to Reach Their Dreams
Time To Break Up The
Submitted by capforfun on Tue, 10/11/2016 - 6:30amMEDIA
So how in the world did a crazy person like Trump get as far as he did in the primaries ending up with the shit show we have today.
IMF: A quarter of the banks won't make it
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 10/10/2016 - 6:40pmIt's amazing just how little was fixed after the 2008 financial crisis that the big banks caused.
Last week's IMF meeting couldn't have made that any more clear.
One-third of Americans have no savings at all
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 10/10/2016 - 6:00pmEarlier this year President Obama said in his State of the Union address, “Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.”
This week Obama said that his administration has created a “more durable, growing economy” with “15 million new private-sector jobs since early 2010”.
The Evening Blues - 10-10-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 10/10/2016 - 4:23pm
To vote or not to vote that is the question
Submitted by Borkrom on Mon, 10/10/2016 - 3:39pmMy grandpa (former Steelworker local Union president) once told me if you do not vote then you do not have the right to complain and I totally agreement with this bit of wisdom.
I know some of our choices are terrible (Hillary and Trump), and many of us are disguised by this election or feel disenfranchised; however, let me give you my take on this circumstance.
Tony Perkins: Never a wrong time to advocate hate
Submitted by Robyn on Mon, 10/10/2016 - 2:48pmTony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council said last Wednesday that the US armed forces should be shut down rather than allow transgender service members.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and "stupid" protestors
Submitted by MichaelSF on Mon, 10/10/2016 - 11:14amhttp://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/17763208/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-...
I'll have to admit that my opinion of RBG has dropped after reading the above article.
My proposal for a new party
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 10/10/2016 - 10:30amThe Sensible Futures Party.
Our platform:
1) phase out fossil fuel production according to the general template given here
2) a community garden in every suburb -- use eminent domain to take over vacant lots
3) redirect the military toward climate change mitigation work
STOP the War in Syria!! End the American Empire
Submitted by Big Al on Sun, 10/09/2016 - 10:34pm
I feel it can't be said enough. STOP the War in Syria!
Damn man, what are we doing?
I grew up during and served in the Vietnam war. I remember the horrors and atrocities and the lies. Wars are always based on lies and the war in Syria is no different.
