People United Means Action
From the monthly archives:
How big is the Puma Movement? Well, we were named the 8th biggest buzzword of 2008 by Time Magazine today (behind Change, Bailout, and Hockey Mom, but ahead of Tweet and Topless Meeting). And with the Action Teams and Organizational Plan we’re developing this month, expect Puma to overtake Change as the buzziest term of all in [...]
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(h/t Uppity Woman) This is really pretty funny. Roddy puts Harry Reid and obama between a rock and a hard place. The rock is the Race Card, which Blago expertly played yesterday with the help of Bobby (“Do not lynch Roland Burris“) Rush, by appointing a forgettable black man to obama’s vacant senate seat. How can Reid [...]
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Holy smokes people. It’s 9:45pm on the night before New Year’s Eve. We will NOT be planning a march on washington tonight. We will NOT be engaging in political activism tonight or tomorrow night. We WILL be discussing politics, the economic crisis, woman-lynching, and other topics germane to our mission. We may also chat about drinking [...]
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Mayor Nutter in Philadelphia, which faces a ONE BILLION DOLLAR budget shortfall over the next five years, is closing neighborhood libraries. Auto workers in Detroit facing downward mobility for their families. Home prices still in free fall and unemployment is 6.7%. The Taliban “burning and beheading their way” through Pakistan. Shall we even broach the [...]
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Riverdaughter perfectly expresses what has been bugging me for the last couple days. I’m as opposed to Caroline Kennedy being appointed as the next person, in fact I think it’s a disgrace. But, but, but — do you think there could POSSIBLY be some sexism underneath all the Princess, Socialite, Spoiled Girl rhetoric we’re hearing [...]
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Annabelle gets this so right. HP Boston in comments yesterday pointed me to the story in yesterday’s Boston Globe about the effort underway in city schools here to involve girls in gang violence by, get this, BLAMING THEM for instigating, supporting, and encouraging much of it. What Annabelle may not know since she’s not a [...]
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UPDATE: AOL’s Political Ticker has picked up on the Harriet Christian for Senator story. Check it out HERE. Puma Comments NEEDED! Afternoon Blogaround: Taggles has a great comparison of Harriet Christian and Caroline Kennedy’s records. Melissa McEwan’s interesting theory about Presidential Daughters. Annabelle on the US bribing Polygamist Warlords With Viagra. Tom in Paine on [...]
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Basically, what the “conscience rule” does is remove agency from the patient and give it, not to an individual doctor or pharmacist, but to an ideology — a fundamentalist Christian ideology. Because the only practitioners who want to deny medical services to pregnant women, lesbians, gay men, sexually active teenage girls, terrorized wives, etc. are those [...]
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There is something deeply wrong with the reporting in this article: MONTROSE, Calif.—Bruce and Sylvia Pardo started the new year in 2006 with all signs pointing to a bright future — an upcoming marriage, a combined income of about $150,000, half-million-dollar home on a quiet cul-de-sac and a beloved dog, Saki. But things quickly turned [...]
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[source] That is my absolute favorite quote of Bill Clinton’s. I heard it second-hand — apparently he said it in rebuke to Republicans like Newt Gingrich who led the Great Republican Undermining Campaign against his presidency. I believe he was referring to critics and hand-wringers who brought nothing but nay-saying, pot-shotting, and griping to political [...]
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