Get the 2013 Barack Obama Commemorative Calendar
| The historic re-election of President Barack Obama is celebrated in the Limited Edition Commemorative Barack Obama 2013 Calendar. This calendar captures the President in various settings during his first term in office. Each month features a high quality image along with first term accomplishments noted on their anniversary dates and of course traditional holidays. The item is available for purchase immediately for the holiday season, the inauguration, as well as for Presidents’ Day and Black History Month. Don’t delay because supplies are limited! Makes a nice gift for: |
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WSJ Misrepresents Personal Injury Law In Support Of ALEC Effort To Deny Asbestos Relief In Ohio
A Wall Street Journal editorial echoed right-wing talking points to endorse an Ohio bill that would restrict asbestos victims from proving their claims at trial. But the editorial, which claims “rampant fraud” exists in asbestos-related litigation, provides no evidence of systemic abuse, conceals the fact that multiple companies can be legally responsible for asbestos injuries, and fails to disclose that the state legislation is a corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council bill pushed by top Republican ALEC officials.
Asbestos kills 10,000 people annually through cancer and catastrophic lung damage. Asbestos is still legal despite the fact that it is the proven cause of an ongoing epidemic, which is why companies that continue to produce or use asbestos may be sued for asbestos-caused disease. A victim can pursue legal relief against a bankrupt asbestos company by filing a claim against its trust. Personal injury law – tort law – generally holds that multiple actors can be legally responsible for the same injury and sued separately.
The WSJ, however, obscured this general tort principle in the editorial and misleadingly accused asbestos victims of “double-dipping” by filing claims against multiple companies who may all have contributed to the harm:
In screwed news…because of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, our worst fears have been realized: foreign entities are meddling in our elections. As investigative reporter Lee Fang of The Nation uncovered, the nation’s largest oil lobby group – the American Petroleum Institute – which spends heavily in our elections, is receiving much of its money from agents of the Saudi government. According to disclosure documents, hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by the API this election cycle actually came from foreign oil companies like Aramco, which is a subsidiary of the Saudi state-run oil company and is headed up by Tofiq Al-Gabsani – one of the directors of API and a registered foreign agent for the Saudi government. Nearly all of the Saudi money spent by the API this election cycle went toward defeating President Obama and Democrats and trying to help Republicans like Scott Brown in Massachusetts. This would have been criminal before the Citizens United decision, but now trade groups like the API can spend unlimited foreign money buying our elections and never have to disclose those sources. This is one of the biggest threats to our democracy. Join the movement to overturn Citizens United and get corporate and foreign money out of our elections by going to http://www.MoveToAmend.org.
Mitt Romney is attributing his loss in the 2012 election to the “gifts” President Obama gave to minority voters, the Los Angeles Times isreporting. Speaking to donors on Wednesday, the former Massachusetts governor praised his own campaign, but speculated that Obama won because he was “very generous” to his base:
Romney Says Obama Only Won Because He Gave ‘Big Gifts’ To Blacks And Latinos | ThinkProgress.
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Mitt Romney is already slithering into the mists of history, or at least La Jolla, gone and soon to be forgotten. A weightless figure unloved and distrusted by even his own supporters, he was always destined, win or lose, to be a transitory front man for a radical-right GOP intent on barreling full-speed down the Randian path laid out by its true 2012 standard-bearer, Paul Ryan. But as was said of another unsuccessful salesman who worked the New England territory, attention must be paid to Mitt as the door slams behind him in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s brilliant victory. Though Romney leaves no political heirs in his own party or elsewhere, he does leave a cultural legacy of sorts. He raised Truthiness to a level of chutzpah beyond Stephen Colbert’s fertile imagination, and on the grandest scale. That a presidential hopeful so cavalierly mendacious could get so close to the White House, winning some 48 percent of the popular vote, is no small accomplishment. The American weakness that Romney both apotheosized and exploited in achieving this feat—our post-fact syndrome where anyone on the public stage can make up anything and usually get away with it—won’t disappear with him. A slicker liar could have won, and still might.
Frank Rich on the GOP’s Denial — New York Magazine.
This morning I had two interesting conversations with some friends and associates regarding the election, both of which happen to be conservatives who voted for the President.
Slaus:” Yeah last night was a barn burner. I don’t think I went to bed til 3am finally. So glad that part of the foolishness is over. Now time for the real madness.”
Friend:” Really! My facebook timeline is filled with angry white people. You would think they took nutella off the market.
Slaus:” lmao. That’s racist.”
Friend: ” No what is racist is all of the rage towards black people on my timeline in twitter and FB. They are blaming this on ‘N*ggers coming out in droves’ to back their messiah’. I’m going to even have to block my own father over this.”
Slaus: ” What’s funny is that I see a lot of whites on twitter and FB pissed off at Black people when the fact is…. Blacks as a voter group are not what ’caused’ the President to be reelected. It was white women…..”
Congrats to Elizabeth Warren
Congrats to Elizabeth Warren
Political Science + Organization + Candidate = VICTORY!
It isenough to witness the stunned looks and listen to the silly excuses offered by Republican strategists, and their media shills, attempt to explain why the Grand Obstructionist party crashed and burned at the polls to understand that they were caught off guard by the President’s smashing victory.
Viewing the smug statements of confidence offered by Fox’s favorite presidential soothsayers Dirty Dick Morris, and that prissy know-it-all George Will – who always reminds me of “Jughead” from the old “Archie” comics – they appear totally out of touch with the new political reality in the US.
Hence when Nate Silver, the real numbers crunching wizard at the New York Times, gave President Obama an 85% chance of reelection and predicted that he would win with over 300 votes in the Electoral College, he was greeted with boisterous chorus of angry invective and contemptuous ridicule by Mitt Romney’s supporters. However as I write Silver is looking like a 21st century Nostradamus, except there is no mystery to his method of predicting the future.
via What the Obama Victory Means « Commentaries on the Times.
chauncey devega
The decline of White America thesis, and what changing demographics will mean for the country’s politics and future is an old and tired trope that has been around from (at least) the end of the Civil War. The befuddlement by the Right-wing media and political establishment in response to their thorough thrashing by President Obama and his coalition of women, young people, and people of color, is focused on how to bring more brown people into the Republican Party.
http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/2012/11/victimology-follies-mitt-romneys-loss.html
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