A snapshot of recent bits:
- Be thankful for government
- US Senate To Vote On Bill That Will Allow The Military To Arrest Americans On American Soil And Hold Them Indefinitely
- Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused Over Iran’s Nuke Program
- Giant Nasa rover launches to Mars
- “How Could This Happen in America?” Why Police Are Treating Americans Like Military Threats
- Discussing Occupy Wall Street, Coulter Says: “It Just Took A Few Shootings At Kent State To Shut That Down”
- Reality-based charts to help knock down absurd right-wing propaganda about the economy
- The GOP’s Oath To The One Percent
- United States Still Number 1 … In Health Care Spending – 2-1/2 times average
- The Average Bush Tax Cut For The 1 Percent This Year Will Be Greater Than The Average Income Of The Other 99 Percent
- Bank earnings at highest level in 4 years
- Companies Lay Off Workers While Spending Billions On Share Buybacks To Enrich Executives
- Corrupt capitalism trumps First Amendment
- Romney’s Economic Plan Includes $6.6 Trillion Tax Cut For The Rich And Corporations
- How The Oligarchy Gets Politicized
- Former AIG CEO Sues Claiming Taxpayers Need To Pony Up $25 Billion More
- Gingrich calls child labor laws ‘truly stupid’
- 2012 GOP Presidential Candidates: Views on Immigration Issues
- Prescott Bush, And The Golden Age Of War Profiteering
- CNN National Security Debate: The Return Of The Neocons
- The Right Wing Playbook On Occupy Wall Street
- Middle-class areas shrink as America divides into ‘two-tiered society’ of rich and poor
- Hunger In America, By The Numbers
- Robertson: “What Is This ‘Mac And Cheese,’ Is That A Black Thing?”
- Who Would Jesus Bully?
- The Fascinating History of How Corporations Became “People” — Thanks to Corrupt Courts Working for the 1%
- Romney Proposes Defunding Health Law To Subsidize More Military Spending
- The 5 Most Toxic Energy Companies and How They Control Our Politics
- Zombie Lie: Fox, WSJ Still Falsely Claiming Lower Taxes Generate More Revenue
- ‘Income inequality’ meets ‘corporate greed’
- Even David Frum Agrees that Republicans Have Lost It
- Taboo in Today’s GOP? Realism and Compassion
- Obama Didn’t Call Americans Lazy — But Right-Wing Media Routinely Do
- How White Supremacists Are Trying to Make an American Town a Model for Right-Wing Extremism
- Understanding The History And Purpose Of FOX News
- Diagnosing the ‘Personhood’ Problem: It’s in Your Brain
- House GOP kills high speed rail funding
- Colin Powell Uses The Founding Fathers To Explain Why The GOP Will Fail In 2012
- Climate Change May Make Insect-Borne Diseases Harder to Control
- Pope calls for “responsible and credible” climate deal
- Big emitters aim for climate delay
- Corporations Are Patenting Human Genes and Tissues
- Mirror mirror – Muslim Medical Students Refuse To Attend Evolution Lectures – ‘Clashes With The Koran’
- Fox Gins Up Outrage Over Obama’s Observation That The U.S. Has Fallen Behind In Math And Science Education
- Dickipedia – A Wiki of Dicks
- Online education companies and their political allies put profit before kids
- Former Bush Education Official: Reform Movement A Campaign To Privatize As Many Schools As Possible
- Chris Hayes Slams CNN for Allowing Torture Advocate David Addington to Ask Questions at GOP Debate
Video
So Called “War on Christmas” Persecution
- The White Nationalist Behind Bill O’Reilly’s War on Christmas
- 5 Reasons the Religious Right Should Stop Whining About Being Persecuted
- Christmas Truce: What If They Gave A War And No One Came?
To this strawman viral post:
“We can’t say Merry Christmas, now we have to say Happy Holidays? We can’t call it a Christmas tree, it’s now called a Holiday tree? Because it might offend someone? If you don’t like our “Customs” and it offends you so much then LEAVE!!! I will help you pack. They are called customs and we have our traditions. If you agree with this please post this as your status!! I AM A PROUD USA CITIZEN… MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! Do you have what it takes to repost this?”
Response:
You can say Merry Christmas as much as you want. We just want you to be tolerant of those who prefer to say Happy Holidays or celebrate the season in a way different from the way you do. You can call it a Christmas tree too. You just need to be tolerant of those who prefer to have a secular Holiday tree, or perhaps a Menorah. If you don’t like living in the SECULAR America that the forefathers intended, LEAVE. I will help you pack. Perhaps you can move to a theocracy like Iran or a country with less government involvement like Somalia. I AM A PROUD AMERICAN CITIZEN. Happy holidays to all of you, no matter how you choose to celebrate the season! Do you have what it takes to repost? Happy Holidays Everyone!!!!