Oil Corporations fiddle, fiddle around, tweak the debate, create MORE FRONT GROUPS... and all the while the Grim Reaper that is the end of the Oil Age waits to be acknowledged; or planned against/for; or see any citizen (we are NOT consumers, honest, we are 'citizens') give a toss about what they're going to do about it, and its partners, Climate Change, Water, and Nuclear (a shout-out to Tennessee - a state with a glow-on.)
03 August 2011
VIDEO: GOP Presidential Campaign Town Halls Become Lobbyist Theater As Oil Industry Front Group Plants Questions
02 August 2011
"This is a New Day" "Este es un nuevo día"
Uno de mis favoritos - descanses en paz, Facundo.
One of my favorites - rest in peace, Facundo. "This is a New Day"
One of my favorites - rest in peace, Facundo. "This is a New Day"
11 July 2011
House GOP Unanimously Passes Anti-Abortion Bill That Redefines Rape, Raises Taxes, And Creates Rape Audits
WHEN YOU OPEN THE ARTICLE, YOU WILL SEE BUT TWO OF THE MOST VILE FACES OF THEIR TRUE FEELINGS: WE ONLY CARE ABOUT ISRAEL AND OUR CORPORATE MASTERS - AND YOU THE PEOPLE, WE CARE NOTHING - NOTHING ABOUT.
– Redefinition Of Rape: The bill sponsor Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) faced serious backlash after he tried to narrow the definition rape to “forcible rape.” By narrowing the rape and incest exception in the Hyde Amendment, Smith sought to prevent the following situations from consideration: Women who say no but do not physically fight off the perpetrator, women who are drugged or verbally threatened and raped, and minors impregnated by adults.
Smith promised to remove the language and while it is not technically in the bill, Mother Jones reports that House Republicans used “a sly legislative maneuver” to insert a “backdoor reintroduction” of redefinition language. Essentially, if the bill is challenged in court, judges will look at the congressional committee report to determine intent.
– Tax Increase On Women And Small Businesses: H.R. 3 prevents women from using “itemized medical deductions, certain tax-advantaged health care accounts or tax credits included in last year’s health care law to pay for abortions or for health insurance plans that cover abortion.” In doing so, the bill forces women and small businesses that provide health insurance that covers abortion to pay more in taxes than they would otherwise. Both economic conservative Grover Norquist and the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce noted that the bill is basically a tax increase.
– Rape Audits: Because H.R. 3 bans using tax credits or deductions to pay for abortions or insurance, a woman who used such a benefit would have to prove, if audited, that her abortion “fell under the rape/incest/life-of-the-mother exception, or that the health insurance she had purchased did not cover abortions.” Essentially, the bill turns Internal Revenue Service agents into “abortion cops” who would force women to give “contemporaneous written documentation” that it was “incest, or rape, or [her] life was in danger” that compelled an abortion.
House GOP Unanimously Passes Anti-Abortion Bill That Redefines Rape, Raises Taxes, And Creates Rape Audits
– Redefinition Of Rape: The bill sponsor Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) faced serious backlash after he tried to narrow the definition rape to “forcible rape.” By narrowing the rape and incest exception in the Hyde Amendment, Smith sought to prevent the following situations from consideration: Women who say no but do not physically fight off the perpetrator, women who are drugged or verbally threatened and raped, and minors impregnated by adults.
Smith promised to remove the language and while it is not technically in the bill, Mother Jones reports that House Republicans used “a sly legislative maneuver” to insert a “backdoor reintroduction” of redefinition language. Essentially, if the bill is challenged in court, judges will look at the congressional committee report to determine intent.
– Tax Increase On Women And Small Businesses: H.R. 3 prevents women from using “itemized medical deductions, certain tax-advantaged health care accounts or tax credits included in last year’s health care law to pay for abortions or for health insurance plans that cover abortion.” In doing so, the bill forces women and small businesses that provide health insurance that covers abortion to pay more in taxes than they would otherwise. Both economic conservative Grover Norquist and the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce noted that the bill is basically a tax increase.
– Rape Audits: Because H.R. 3 bans using tax credits or deductions to pay for abortions or insurance, a woman who used such a benefit would have to prove, if audited, that her abortion “fell under the rape/incest/life-of-the-mother exception, or that the health insurance she had purchased did not cover abortions.” Essentially, the bill turns Internal Revenue Service agents into “abortion cops” who would force women to give “contemporaneous written documentation” that it was “incest, or rape, or [her] life was in danger” that compelled an abortion.
House GOP Unanimously Passes Anti-Abortion Bill That Redefines Rape, Raises Taxes, And Creates Rape Audits
Facundo Cabral "Este es un nuevo día"
Rest in Peace, Troubadour.
Thank you for your heart
And your Courage.
Send us some more who sing, write, and are unafraid. Paz.
Thank you for your heart
And your Courage.
Send us some more who sing, write, and are unafraid. Paz.
13 June 2011
Back Against the Wall... Steve Earle
Even more homeless now... keep your bedroll dry
See the faces... see a neighbor
Help now.
Peace... for the courageous
See the faces... see a neighbor
Help now.
Peace... for the courageous
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