- This is why I love Stephen Colbert
- "A rising tide lifts all boats and when the tide goes out I want to drag you down with me"
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- Friday Genius Ten “Lemon Out” Edition
- If I may shift to seeing the character of Liz Lemon as an individual person with her own idiosyncratic needs, instead of a generic Single Woman Cursed With Singleness, I would like to offer another interpretation: Liz Lemon sabotages relationships because Lemon doesn’t want relationships. …It’s a great portrayal of a loner, and I think it confuses people because we’re all socialized to believe women can’t be loners. And part of the reason is that Hollywood is so dudely, and thus women are always viewed in movies and TV through their relationships with men, and thus can’t be loners.
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- Rescuing 4 Children, but Struggling for Assistance – The Bay Citizen
- Last October, Theresa Coleman received a call from a child-welfare investigator. Four young children, distant family members, had been discovered in a Georgia motel room filled with drugs, alcohol, a half-loaf of bread, a half-jar of peanut butter and a dwindling supply of baby formula.
Coleman, who lives in the Bayview district of San Francisco, was told she had six days to pick up the children.
Unable to afford a plane ticket, Coleman rode the bus 2,200 miles to Marietta, Ga…
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- A Public School Kept Afloat by Private Donations – The Bay Citizen
- A public school is one “maintained at public expense,” the dictionary says. By that definition, San Francisco might receive an “incomplete” for its financial support of the city’s schools, including Lowell High School, one of the nation’s best public schools.
Over the past few years, the San Francisco Unified School District has been unable to pay for all of the school’s operating expenses. To meet the shortfall, alumni, parents and students have stepped in with more than $1 million in private donations.
- Pockets of Abundance in ‘Distressed Areas’ – The Bay Citizen
- The enterprise zone program, which was created in 1984, has come under fire from Gov. Jerry Brown, who wants to eliminate it as part of a plan to help fix California’s $25 billion budget deficit.
The state Department of Finance estimates that eliminating the state’s 52 economic development areas could generate $343 million in new tax revenue this fiscal year and $581 million next year. The non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office supports eliminating or restructuring enterprise zones.
- WI Assembly GOP Passes Walker Budget In Surprise Vote — Dems Chant "Shame!" | TPMDC
- …at about 1 AM Speaker Pro Tempore Bill Kramer (R) announced that he would hear a voice vote for a roll call on final passage. Immediately, the majority Republicans shouted their ayes, and the Democrats were booing, as they tried to be recognized to demand a separate motion to cut off debate.
Then Kramer called the vote. Within seconds, the digital vote system on the wall announced 51 ayes and 17 nays, and voting was suddenly closed. With a total of 96 members, that got to a majority for the bill but left 28 members who hadn't had a chance yet to vote.
At that point, the Democrats got up, chanting "Shame! Shame! Shame!" and similar exclamations, as the Republicans filed out of the room.
There were many Democrats I spoke to and overheard in the chamber, who said they didn't get a chance to vote, or that they were pushing the "No" button at their desks as hard as they could — keep in mind that a majority of their 38-member caucus was recorded as casting no votes at all.
- Koch Execs Respond To Prank Call: We Will Not ‘Back Off’ | TPMMuckraker
- "With the Left trying to intimidate the Koch brothers to back off of their support for freedom and signaling to others that this is what happens if you oppose the administration and its allies, we have no choice but to continue to fight," Fink said.
[Yes, that is the person's actual name. -L]
- The Conservative Group Behind The Poll Of Walker’s Budget Plan | TPMMuckraker
- "BREAKING: Poll Shows 71% of Wisconsinites Think Walker's Budget Changes are 'Fair'," said the release from the Franklin Center. Local and national news outlets cited it, including MSNBC (watch below). But no one, it seems, asked where the poll came from…
- Town Hall Attendee Asks GA Republican When Someone Is Going To Shoot Obama | TPMMuckraker
- The unidentified town hall attendee's question got a big laugh from the audience, reports Blake Aued of the Athens Banner-Herald.
But Broun didn't exactly condemn the remark, according to the newspaper report…
Broun had asked the audience who had driven the farthest to be at the meeting and let the winner ask the first question, according to the newspaper. The reporter couldn't hear the question himself, but Broun's press secretary confirmed [what it was about].
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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