Michele Bachmann: “Gays have the same rights to get married, as long as they marry someone of the opposite sex”
While at a small town hall type meeting in Iowa, Michele Bachmann is confronted by a high school student who confronts her about Bachmann’s views on gay marriage, and all Bachmann can do is vomit up ignorance.
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December 2, 2011
December 2, 2011
What’s going on with Indian labor?
Ok, let start with this dude
His name is Manish Sabharwal - he runs TeamLease, and Indian based temp agency.
India isn’t really supposed to do the temp agency thing because they have really strict labor laws.
Some feel these labor laws are keeping the economy from growth. Because the labor laws make it nearly impossible to fire someone, Indian companies find it easier to simply not hire anyone. Hence, few new jobs are being created.
December 2, 2011
Santa Ana Winds in Cali and Some Math
Santa Ana winds are super dry, super hot and super into rolling through California in late Fall, early winter. Here’s what their up to this season:
97 = miles per hour, the speed of the winds and they roll over Southern California
340,000 = the number of people without power as of Thursday
40 = the number of buildings city officials have said are so messed up there need to be torn down
10 = the number of years since Santa Ana winds were this bad
20 = the number of flights that were headed for LA airport, but were diverted
December 1, 2011
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December 1, 2011
Michele Bachman, during a debate, on global warming
December 1, 2011
What’s the deal with the Occupation of Wall Street?
There are a lot of misconceptions about what’s been going on with the protest that has spread from downtown New York to dozens of cities in America. So, let’s clear some of them up…
WHO
AdBusters is an “anti-consumerism” (read anti capitalism) activist group based in Canada. They publish a magazine called Adbusters, which I had only read once before for the article a few years ago that admonished hipsters. But in July, they turned away from hating hipsters and focused on seducing them…to occupy wall street. They suggested a peaceful take over of the symbolic Wall Street park - Zuccotti park. Most people credit the head of AdBusters - Kalle Lasn - as the founder of the movement. He wrote often about how the election of Obama empowered young people to take political action, ect. However, while AdBusters inspired the beginning of the protest, it was largely organized primarily by a fews guys such as Edward Hall III. This is him (in case you were unsure, he’s the one in the hat.)
Edward Hall, a graduate of Bard and grad school drop out, has been living off a trust fund since college graduation.
WHAT
The Occupiers have coined the term “We are the 99%” - a term which sums up their goal of calling attention to the enormous difference on wealth between the wealthy and everyone else. Wall Street is to blame for it’s participation in the recession, knowing that the market was doomed to crash and not allowing it to become public knowledge. The primary criticism of the protest is that it lacks focus. While it is famed for calling attention to economic issues, there are people standing around with signs focusing on everything from the Pakistan to the environment.
They are also famed for their unique “human microphone system.” Because they can not have electrical systems set up in the park, the movement has developed a tactic in which one person speaks and the crowd repeats everything they are saying so people far away can hear.
OCCUPY ON TUMBLR
November 28, 2011
GOP Candidate of the Week: Michelle Bachmann
Who Is She:
- A congresswoman from Minnesota
- She was born in Iowa, but raised in Minnesota. Her parents divorced when she was young and she was raised by her single mother.
- Started out as an attorney for the IRS, but then quit her job to raise her children, of which she has 5. Her and her husband have also provided foster care to over 23 kids.
- When she got over the whole soccer mom thing, she decided to run for senate and won. She’s been doing that for the past 11 years-ish.
Successes
- In 1993, started a charter school with some other parents in Stillwater.
- In 2004, was appointed Assistant Minority leader in Charge of Policy for the Senate Republican Caucus
- Cosponsored the Credit and Debit Card Receipt Clarification Act, which is a complicated economic bill I don’t fully get - it has to do with lessening law suits or whatever. Anyway, wikipedia it. President Bush signed it in 2008.
Controversies
- One of her major campaign points since she has been in office is hating on gay people. So much so that her husband and her run a “counseling practice” that’s supposed to rehabilitate gay people from their messed up lifestyle to make them better.
- Her and her husband were also long time members of the Salem Lutheran Church, which is connected to the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. This church is said to believe crazy town things like the Pope is the anti christ and women can’t be pastors. Even though Bachmann and her husband withdrew from the church before the race, she has said to the press she thinks a lot of the accusations about the church are untrue (i.e they don’t think the Pope is the anti Christ.)
Things she Likes
- The Tea Party (i.e limited government)
- Stimulus Spending
- fluorescent light bulbs
- Carbon dioxide - which she says is beneficial to nature. Hence, global warming is a hoax.
Things she Doesn’t Like
- Obamacare
- abortion
- gay people
November 28, 2011
What’s the Deal With That Greek Property Tax?
The Eurozone
Greek belongs to this group known as the “Eurozone.” The Eurozone is comprised of 17 countries that are all pretty intimately connected to each other other because they all use the Euro. If they were siblings, they would be sleeping in bunk beds and having to put up with each other weird sleeping noises. But because their countries and not people, they mostly just hold each other’s debt. Greece’s debt is one of the largest.
The Greek Economy
- 2009 is when the recession really hit Greece. They went about solving this by borrowing money, which made shit worse
- Industrial production slowed. Because the garment industry is pretty important to the Greek economy, this resulted in a state of being way more fucked. Since 2010, unemployment has skyrocketed.
- On top of all this, the Greeks have not been entirely forthcoming about the extent of the debt.
The Possibilities For Destruction
Not to put to much pressure on Greece or anything, but here are some things that could happen if their economy collapses:
- The entire world will be sent into a downward financial spiral
- The end of the Euro as a feasible form of currency
- Europe will cease to exist and there will be no more Christmas
The Bill
- Part of what makes it a big deal is that Greece has typically been pretty lax in it’s tax. Greeks have only paid real estate taxes when property was bought, sold or inherited. Not on the daily.
- It links electricity to tax payments. If you don’t pay the tax, you lose electricity.
- You’re taxed based on square footage, the age of the building and the average value of a neighborhood. Liberals are pissed because it doesn’t take the individual’s income or employment status into account as well.
The Mayor Iraklis Gotsis
He’s the major of a Northern suburb of Athens that the New York Times just profiled. He, like many Greek people, are pretty pissed about this whole “getting taxed” thing. The New York Times is in love with him because he’s been telling electricians in his district to illegally turn people’s power back on if it gets turned off. As he ingeniously points out in the article, the people don’t want to be taxed.
I shouldn’t be sarcastic, this guy is obviously badass, but couldn’t we have found a mayor in Greece taking guerrilla measures who doesn’t look like a Star Trek alien?
The Greek Response
Their split between being super pissed and thinking the Greek government will never go through with actually turning off everyone’s power. Many are saying their just not gonna pay it.
November 28, 2011
What is happening in Syria?
Ok, Let’s start with this guy:
This is Bashar al Assad. He’s the current president of Syria, a position he took over after his dad, the previous president, died. It was not exactly in the cards for Bashar to take over - actually his big bro was being groomed for the job. But when big bro died unexpectedly, lil’ Bashar was suddenly strapped with the job, despite having no idea what the fuck he’s doing.
How Assad Has Fucked Up
First of all, Assad’s daddio sucked (wikipedia Hama Massacre). Then, in 2006, he had all this drama with Lebanon. You see, Syria occupied Lebanon for a really long time, starting in the late 1970s. But then Lebanon’s prime minister, Rafic Hariri was killed by a car bomb in 2006, the Lebanese people started protesting and pointing fingers at Assad. Assad responded to this by quickly peacing the fuck out of Lebanon.
Meanwhile, in his own country, he wasn’t making to many friends either. Actually, he was pulling all your basic dictator stuff - he made a law where internet cafes have to track peoples comments and email exchanges, there are rumors of political opponents being hardcore tortured and killed, expansion of travel limitations against dissidents, ect, ect. Syrians are pretty not happy about all this, their like “We didn’t even fully sign on for this guy and he’s being a dick.”
What do they want?
You see, the Syria has been a single party system for awhile now (that means there is one political party and there can be no others. It’s basically the scientific term for a multi-person dictatorship). Syrians want to allow for a multi party system instead, plus they want Assad to be resign and they want their political freedoms back (freedom of press, ect.) There is also a race of people living in Syria called Kurdish people, who are frequently being abused, which the protestors are also not down with.
Then what?
Assad was like, “How do I handle this? I know! I will send the army to slaughter all the protestors!”
Within the first week of the protest, there were almost 300 dead and the number keeps rising dramatically. Of course, over at the UN, they were pretty pissed about this. They called Assad’s actions crimes against humanity.
Since then, shit has just continued to escalate. The protestors are vandalizing private property and rioting in the streets. The army is confiscating flour and water, plus shutting off electricity in various neighboring villages (productive?) and generally killing people.
Now, everyone is pissed at Assad. Even the Arab League is like “What are you doing?!” and just suspended Syria’s membership. Not only that, they just put forth a whole crap load of sanctions that sever trade with Syria. This is not good because the European Union and the United States have already cut Assad off from their money pot.
In Summation
Assad - bad dude
Reason for protests - to get rid of Assad
America’s involvement - lots of bark, little bite
Most current update - Assad’s totally fucked
MUCH THANKS TO MOLLY ORINGER - My Middle East expert. All the smart parts of this article came from her.
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