The latest BofA ad….
My friend Kirk sent this to me and I thought it was cute, fun, accurate and worth sharing…
FDR Warned Us about Social Security and the GOP….
Back in the 1930′s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt foresaw today’s GOP and their tactics….
Filed under Politics, Social Security
For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage
This is a very thought provoking article that I recently read in the New York Times.
There is a lot to consider here and a lot to think about and discuss….
But one thing is clear: The Families Values crowd is blatantly out of touch with the reality of modern American life. Not just for Gays, but for Women…
They argue incessantly for the Nuclear Family, that is pretty much becoming a minority situation- just like the GOP.
And their recent attacks on birth control availability seems sheer madness in light of realities such as these….
Whether they like it or not, it’s not the 1950′s anymore and Ward and June Cleever are gone….
Abstinence Based Sex Education just isn’t realistic…
It’s time our social and political philosophies recognize this fact…
LORAIN, Ohio — It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.
Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America. The fastest growth in the last two decades has occurred among white women in their 20s who have some college education but no four-year degree, according to Child Trends, a Washington research group that analyzed government data.
Among mothers of all ages, a majority — 59 percent in 2009 — are married when they have children. But the surge of births outside marriage among younger women — nearly two-thirds of children in the United States are born to mothers under 30 — is both a symbol of the transforming family and a hint of coming generational change.
One group still largely resists the trend: college graduates, who overwhelmingly marry before having children. That is turning family structure into a new class divide, with the economic and social rewards of marriage increasingly reserved for people with the most education.
via For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage – NYTimes.com.
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What’s Wrong with Education: Or How Education Kills Creativity
This video is brilliant in its summation of how Public Education developed and where it went wrong by focusing on testing and suppressing creativity and collaboration…
I also love how it takes on over-medication of children to make them malleable….
Thanks, to my friend Robert Ward, for posting this on Facebook where I originally saw it…
It’s about 11 minutes long, but it’s well worth watching, contemplating and discussing…..
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The Latest Republican Hypocrite: Arizona Sheriff Rocked By Accusations Of Alleged Immigrant Ex-Boyfriend
And the latest Republican Hypocrite is: Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu
Not only Gay, but publicly anti-immigrant and dating a male Mexican Immigrant….
They are just going to love this in Arizona!
I somehow think his Congressional campaign just ended…
From TalkingPointsMemo, click the link at the bottom for full story and pictures:
Rising Republican star and well-known border hawk Sheriff Paul Babeu, who’s now running for Congress in Arizona, was hit Friday night with bombshell accusations from a Mexican immigrant who said he dated the sheriff for years and was threatened with deportation if he ever told anyone about their romance.
The Phoenix New Times newspaper broke the story on its website in a piece written by veteran journalist Monica Alonzo. The accusations came complete with text messages said to be between the two men as well as compromising photos purportedly of Babeu that are reminiscent of recent sex scandals that ended the careers of Congressmen Anthony Weiner and Chris Lee.
In one photo, Babeu is seen posing in front of a mirror in nothing but his underwear. In another, he has his hand inside the man’s partially unbuttoned shirt.
The newspaper identified the accuser only by his first name, Jose, citing his fear that the sheriff would try to challenge his immigration status.
Jose said he met Babeu through the dating website gay.com in 2006, before he became sheriff, according to the newspaper. Babeu was a police officer in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler at the time and was elected as sheriff of Pinal County in late 2008.
Beyond the romance, the newspaper also said Jose volunteered for Babeu’s campaign, maintaining his websites and social media accounts.
They were apparently together during Babeu’s fast rise to becoming a national figure in the fight against illegal immigration. The sheriff first burst onto the national stage in 2010 when he appeared alongside Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) in a now-famous television ad, calling on the federal government to complete “the danged fence” along the US-Mexican border.
More recently, Babeu has been a frequent guest for Fox News for immigration-related topics, including the ongoing Fast and Furious scandal. He has endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary, and touted as a co-chair of the candidate’s presidential campaign in Arizona. He even recorded robocalls for Romney that went out to voters in Iowa last year.
via Arizona Sheriff Rocked By Accusations Of Alleged Immigrant Ex-Boyfriend | TPMMuckraker.
Ex-congressman Virgil Goode Eyes Presidential Bid
Hasn’t he already embarrassed Virginia enough?
This man is seriously crazy- which is normal for Virginia Republicans…
Now it seems he is taking his crazy on the road…
Thank god, Goode finally lost his Congressional seat to the great Tom Perriello and we thought we were rid of him. Unfortunately, Tom lost to that dim bulb Robert Hurt who currently occupies the VA 5th District seat and is, at least, a much quieter embarrassment than Goode.
Now, it seems, the national GOP just isn’t crazy enough for Virgil, so he’s going to try to make a comeback….
God, help us…
It will take at least a century for Virginia’s image to recover from this- especially if the current right-wing lunatic governor with really bad televangelist Republican hair ends up as the GOP VP nominee…
The good news, is there are a few people crazy enough to vote for Virgil Goode, at least in Southside Virginia, so he will at least pull a few dozen votes away from whoever the GOP nominates….
From The Washington Post:
Virgil H. Goode Jr. — the former Virginia congressman and state Senator who switched from Democrat to Independent to Republican during his time in office — is apparently interested in the nation’s top job. Goode filed papers with the Federal Election Commission last week to create the Virgil Goode for President Campaign Committee.
The form does not specify which party’s banner Goode will run under, but in 2010 he was named to the executive committee of the Constitution Party, and last year the party unanimously adopted a resolution calling on Goode to run for president. He said at the time he would “consider it.”
via Ex-congressman Virgil Goode eyes presidential bid – Virginia Politics – The Washington Post.
Filed under Politics, Uncategorized, Virginia
Obama poised to win 2012 election with 303 Electoral Votes
And even more good news from Yahoo News!
Let’s have the Election today, before anything goes wrong…
I never under estimate the Democratic Party’s talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by doing something incredibly stupid….
For reference, see the 2010 Elections and how they embraced deficit reduction instead of a larger economic stimulus, screwed up the messaging on the Economic collapse and blew the chance to launch a new New Deal….
With fewer than nine months to go before Election Day, The Signal predicts that Barack Obama will win the presidential contest with 303 electoral votes to the Republican nominee’s 235.
How do we know? We don’t, of course. Campaigns and candidates evolve, and elections are dynamic events with more variables than can reasonably be distilled in an equation. But the data–based on a prediction engine created by Yahoo! scientists–suggest a second term is likely for the current president. This model does not use polls or prediction markets to directly gauge what voters are thinking. Instead, it forecasts the results of the Electoral College based on past elections, economic indicators, measures of state ideology, presidential approval ratings, incumbency, and a few other politically agnostic factors.
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