* The Republican War on Women's Rights continues. "North Dakota Senate approves 6-week abortion ban:" http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57574622/north-dakota-senate-approves-6-week-abortion-ban/Read more... )

* Tasmania and New South Wales appear to be on fire. Shit ( Read more... )

* I think that if Mississippi doesn't believe in hurricane disaster relief for Northern States, they should give back all the money they've taken from New York and New Jersey for there own hurricane relief for the last century. Seems only fair. I mean, it would be putting their money where their mouth is. "Gulf Coast Lawmaker Votes Against Sandy ( Read more... )

* There have been a rash of adults going into schools in China and stabbing children. (The BBC has been covering it, but the American media, not so much). The most recent one had 22 wounded, but no deaths. This because it's just much harder to stab a large number of people to death. Adding guns means the fatalities go way up. Just saying. ( Read more... )

* Remember how the Republicans illegally purged Democratic voters from the Florida voter rolls to fix the 2000 presidential election? They are taking that strategy National targeting Latinos, Democrats, and Independents. This includes a 91 year old decorated WWII veteran who can't understand why his country is so ungrateful:

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* More Right Wing Christian Terrorism in Georgia designed to stop women getting health care. (I refuse to call anyone who is actively trying to kill live adult human beings "pro-life." I am using the word "terrorism" because if you are killing people with bombs in order to intimidate people so you can impose your political will you are a ( Read more... )

* Thanks to austerity measures, the UK economy is worse of now than it was this far into the Great Depression. I am confused as to why taking deliberate measures to contract the economy actually resulting in the economy contracting is a surprise, but it seems to be both there and in Spain ( Read more... )

* Todd Akin wants you to know that Student Loans are the "stage three cancer of socialism." Guess which political party he's a member of. Go on, guess ( Read more... )

* House Republicans caved on their plan to double student loan interest rates, but chose to pay for it by cutting things like AIDS prevention, cancer screening, and the like, rather than remove a tax loop hole helping the most profitable business in the history of the world, the oil companies. After all, who cares if mere humans suffer and die ( Read more... )

* There are now 11 UN observers in Syria. People have been pointing out sniper's nests to them in violation of the cease fire and risking their lives bringing them evidence. Assad's people are targeting the folks talking to the observers, of course. Nothing is being done, of course, and Assad starts up the genocide as soon as the observers leave ( Read more... )