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- qoob0
Imagine being able to prevent millions of children from dying of preventable diseases. Imagine being able to prevent millions of people dying from malnutrition. Imagine being able to do it with just a quarter of a year's income.
The world's 100 richest people earned enough money last year to end world poverty four times over, according to a new report released by international rights group and charity Oxfam.
- ukit20
yurimon, every one of your posts is just the stereotypical Fox News/GOP babble...try posting an original thought once in a while.
Yea Obama is just like Hitler, Mao and Stalin...they were the only politicians ever to pose with kids in a photo..
- ukit20
You can see how this stuff travels around the right wing propaganda machine before yurimon dutifully copies and pastes it.
Drudge Report Links Obama To Hitler, Stalin Using "Children As Props"
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201…
Fox News: Obama Uses Children To Further His Agenda
- So you are saying he isnt using children as props? kinda contradicts your previous post.yurimon
- Yes, he is militarist. just like bush. I think its ok as long as its obama attitude is lame dawg.yurimon
- So obama close gitmo, stopped the war, and fast and furious doesnt contradict gun control. Libya, Syria Egypt not empire buildingyurimon
- building. you the man now dawg.yurimon
- he's a motha fukin angel. Drone attacks for everyone. on the house.yurimon
- colin_s0
i am pretty sure as far as photo ops with kids go, this one takes the cake.
- Bush might as well be obama. same sheyt. but we dont want to impeach obama cause of his cool repackaging of same policies.yurimon
- policies. I mean no corruption there dawg.yurimon
- Yeah Bush = Obama, they are so identical that people on the other side spent about a trillion dollars trying to defeat him.ukit2
- He campaigned on change, and undoing bush policies ended up more of the same under a different name.yurimon
- Example, a Rep does same as obama, Dems get pissed. vice versa. Both sides blind by their own labeling mechanism cant see whats really going on. divide and conquer.yurimon
- think. just like racist who only sees one sided through a biased visor. he is good politician his promises but actions are not what he says.yurimon
- what he promises.yurimon
- err in his promises.yurimon
- uhm anthing else yuri?74LEO
- mg330
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/arc…
Josh Marshall January 24, 2013, 7:08 PM 49182
A week ago I noted a new Republican push to gerrymander the electoral college to make it almost impossible for Democrats to win the presidency in 2016 and 2020, even if they match or exceed Barack Obama’s vote margin in 2012. Is something like that really possible? Yes, very possible.
To review, here’s how it works. The US electoral college system is based on winner take all delegate allocation in all but two states. If you get just one more vote than the other candidate you get all the electoral votes. One way to change the system is go to proportional allocation. That would still give some advantage to the overall winner. But not much. The key to the Republican plan is to do this but only in Democratic leaning swing states — not in any of the states where Republicans win. That means you take away all the advantage Dems win by winning states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and so forth.
But the Republican plan goes a step further.
Rather than going by the overall vote in a state, they’d allocate by congressional district. And this is where it gets real good, or bad, depending on your point of view. Democrats are now increasingly concentrated in urban areas and Republicans did an extremely successful round of gerrymandering in 2010, enough to enable them to hold on to a substantial House majority even thoughthey got fewer votes in House races than Democrats.
In other words, the new plan is to make the electoral college as wired for Republicans as the House currently is. But only in Dem leaning states. In Republican states just keep it winner take all. So Dems get no electoral votes at all.
Another way of looking at this is that the new system makes the votes of whites count for much more than non-whites — which is a helpful thing if you’re overwhelmingly dependent on white votes in a country that is increasingly non-white.
This all sounds pretty crazy. But it gets even crazier when you see the actual numbers. Here’s a very illustrative example. They’re already pushing a bill to do this in the Virginia legislature. Remember, Barack Obama won Virginia and got 13 electoral votes. But as Benjy Sarlin reported today in a series of posts, if the plan now being worked on would have been in place last November, Mitt Romney would have lost the state but still got 9 electoral votes to Obama’s 4. Think of that, two-thirds of the electoral votes for losing the state. If the Virginia plan had been in place across the country, as Republicans are now planning to do, Mitt Romney would have been elected president even though he lost by more than 5 million votes.
Remember, plans to do this are already underway in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other states in the Midwest.
This is happening.
- how is this legal ?? fucking cheats... cant the Dems do the same thing to the Rep in their districts?Ramanisky2
- Yeah this is ridiculous. Don't think it will really happen.ukit2
- I heard Virginia along with Florida are backing away from this nonsense however Michigan is notRamanisky2
- It's OK. I am sure all those NRA types will go and protect the Constitution by bearing their armsTheBlueOne
- They'll stop these kind of shenanigans no doubt. They love them thar Constitution.TheBlueOne
- locustsloth0
reality happens to be going the other way. The theme behind ultra conservatism and libertarianism is that everyone should do it on their own, fuck everyone but you and yours, if they can't hack it, let them become the fertilizer for my crops. There is far more resentment for other people present in those who would want to dismantle the government than there is in those citizens who you would categorize as wanting total governmental control (who are, in fact, a non-existent figment of your imagination).
- http://www.politico.…yurimon
- Everything is fine and dandy carry on. Reality has been established without contempt lolyurimon
- disregard all executive orders.yurimon
- yurimon0
^ he raised the bar on what you can get away with in crimes of a presidency. and Bo ran with it. Oh BO why you so naughty.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/bl…
Promise Promises,
- hahaha: He said he had been guided by US policy that it would not repatriate people to countries where they were likely to face torture.yurimon
- torture.
cause gitmo is a resort ya knowyurimon - http://www.verifiedf…zaq
- teh0
george bush closed all the armed forces based in states that didnt vote for him. and that cock sucker didnt get impeached.
- yurimon0
este artículo es interesante
- well, duh. http://www.youtube.c…severian
- Eres un esclavo pasivo coñoyurimon
- http://www.verifiedf…zaq
- qoob0
- < look at 8.9 vs 8.6qoob
- loljohnny_wobble
- Figure don't lie....
Liars figure!utopian - and 9 and 8.6 are the same on the last 2.
Twatce™.mikotondria3
- qoob0
Netanyahu: African Immigrants A Danger To Israel’s National Identity
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the phenomenon of African migrants infiltrating the country was a danger to Israel’s national identity. Netanyahu said the number of migrants, which today stands at around 60,000, could increase to 600,000 if untreated and that the “flood of migrants” could negatively influence the Jewish and democratic nature of the state.
- randommail0
- if it were vodka or GHB, it'd be news. Otherwise, who careslocustsloth
- It's news because politics is all about the speech and camera presence.randommail
- IRNlun60
Politician moves to make vulgar Photoshopping illegal
- bwaaahahhhaaa! we should make a PSB of this guy just out of spitemonospaced
