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Denton County Democratic Party-Reminder: Attend this rally on Tuesday, August 16! Join us as we greet Congressman Michael Burgess at his Town Hall Meeting with a Where Are the Jobs rally at 6:00 p.m. The official meeting is from 7 - 8 p.m. at The Colony High School at 4301 Blair Oak Drive, The Colony. You are welcome to bring signs. Here are a few suggestions: Where are the Jobs?; Jobs Now; No Compromise, No Progress; or Big Cuts = Bigger Tax Cuts. We will bring additional small signs, and will collect them before the meeting resumes indoors. Look for Roosevelt Johnson, and Phyllis and Roddy Wolper for signs. Please come early to make the biggest impact, but if you can't arrive until later - come anyway. Please have your questions ready and get in line at the microphone as soon as you are able. The question line fills up fast. Bring water and dress comfortably. We look forward to seeing you!
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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich By WARREN E. BUFFETT NY Times | 
OUR leaders have asked for "shared sacrifice." But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as "carried interest," thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own stock index futures for 10 minutes and have 60 percent of their gain taxed at 15 percent, as if they'd been long-term investors.
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Democracy Now | 
Standard & Poor's announced Friday it has downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time in history, just days after Congress approved a $2.1 trillion deficit-reduction plan. We speak with Barbara Ehrenreich, who has just published the 10th anniversary edition of her book "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," in which she tells the story of life in low-wage America and tries to earn a living working as a waitress, hotel maid, nursing home aide and Wal-Mart associate. Ten years later, she compares the current situation of low-income U.S. workers to "third-world levels of poverty." Watch/Listen/Read On Monday, a federal appeals court refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two U.S. citizens against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and unnamed others for developing, authorizing and using harsh interrogation techniques against detainees in Iraq. We speak with plaintiff Donald Vance, a U.S. Navy veteran, and with Andrea Prasow, the senior counsel in the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program at Human Rights Watch. Watch/Listen/Read As radiation readings in Japan reach their highest levels since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdowns, we look at the beginning of the atomic age. Today is the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which killed some 75,000 people and left another 75,000 seriously wounded. We play an account of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the pilots who flew the B-29 bomber that dropped that bomb, and feature an interview with the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Weller, who was the first reporter to enter Nagasaki. Our guest is Greg Mitchell, co-author of "Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial," with Robert Jay Lifton. His latest book is "Atomic Cover-Up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki and The Greatest Movie Never Made." Watch/Listen/Read The veteran broadcaster Tavis Smiley and the author and Princeton University Professor Cornel West are in the midst of a 15-city, cross-country trek they have dubbed "The Poverty Tour: A Call to Conscience." The tour comes on the heels of last week's deficit agreement, which has been widely criticized for excluding a tax hike on the wealthy, as well as any measures to tackle high unemployment. Watch/Listen/Read |
Burgess wants to impeach Obama and redistricting - what can you do ? | 
From Tarrant County Dems.....According to yesterday's Star Telegram, Congressman Michael Burgess believes that President Barack Obama should be impeached! He doesn't know what for, and apparently he doesn't care. According to Rep. Burgess "We need to tie things up..." It is hard to decide what is worse, a sitting congressman's admission that using impeachment as a stalling tactic is a good idea, or that an incumbent congressman is so scared of losing his job that he would support such a plan just to appease 100 extremists. Congressman Burgess was elected to represent all of the people in District 26, not just the most vocal, angry, out-of-touch and extreme elements within it. In response to his absurd remarks, I encourage you to do the following four things. It will take no more than five minutes of your time, and will be an effective message to Congressman Burgess that neither his constituents, nor the people of Texas, approve of his immature nonsense. 1. Contact his office and tell him you are offended by his actions and that you will remember them on November 6, 2012 2. Forward/facebook/tweet about this to let everyone you know, not just Democrats, but all of the voters in Tarrant County, letting them know what kind of person Congressman Burgess is. 3. Sign the following petition to Attorney General Eric Holder, protesting the gerrymandered redistricting maps forced on us by the Republicans - maps which virtually guarantee Republicans like Burgess will stay in power. |
Sam Seder on Countdown 8/11/11 talking Do-Nothing Congress | 
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The Majority Report's (http://Majority.FM) Sam Seder on Countdown 8/11/11
Sammy breaks down the Do- Nothing Congress
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Big Brother isn't watching you by Russell Brand Guardian UK | 
* You'll be glad you read this ! Dismissing rioters as mindless is futile rhetoric. However unacceptable the UK riots, we need to ask why they are happening I no longer live in London. I've been transplanted to Los Angeles by a combination of love and money; such good fortune and opportunity, in both cases, you might think disqualify me from commenting on matters in my homeland. Even the results of Britain's Got Ice-Factor may lay prettily glistening beyond my remit now that I am self-banished.
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Announcing Daily Kos radio | 
NEW YORK, NY- August 8, 2011 - Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced that it will launch a live, interactive four-week radio series with Daily Kos, the influential online progressive political community, news organization and activist hub. Daily Kos Radio will launch on August 13 at 10:00 am ET, and air Saturdays through September 3 live from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET on liberal/progressive talk channel SiriusXM Left, ch. 127. Daily Kos contributing editors David Waldman and Armando Llorens will co-host the show from SiriusXM's Washington, D.C. headquarters, breaking down headlines and issues with other members of the Daily Kos community to bring the interactive experience of the blogosphere to SiriusXM listeners coast to coast. "SiriusXM Left, with its national reach and influence, is the perfect environment for the expansion of the Daily Kos brand to radio," said Daily Kos creator Markos Moulitsas, who appears weekly on Mark Thompson's SiriusXM Left show Make It Plain. "Daily Kos Radio is the latest example of SiriusXM's commitment to creating innovative political programming from across the spectrum," said Jeremy Coleman, SVP, Talk and Entertainment Programming, SiriusXM. "Daily Kos Radio is a great addition to SiriusXM Left as the leading national voice for the progressive perspective on current events and politics, and we look forward to our listeners calling in live to the Daily Kos team." |
North Texas Democrats : Notes and News | 
North Texas Asian Democrats Monday, August 15 7:30 PM, Hunan Dynasty, 8150 N Macarthur Blvd., Irving Texas Coalition of Black Democrats Tuesday, August 16 6:30 PM, Moorland YMCA, 907 E. Ledbetter Rd., Dallas Stonewall Democrats of Dallas Tuesday, August 16 6:30 PM, Ojeda's Restaurant, 4617 Maple Ave., Dallas Tarrant County Young Democrats-Monthly Meeting Tuesday, August 16 at 6:30pm Location: Ol' South Pancake House |
| Something you need to know this week that's happening on Twitter | 
GOP Debate Live Tweet Event By WitStream Comedians
If you missed the GOP debate, relive it here with a replay of WitStream's "Tweet The Press" event. If you like your debates served with a generous helping of sarcasm, then this is the place to be. Some of the funniest people on Twitter (and earth) joined in, including Andy Kindler, Lizz Winstead, John Fugelsang, Frank Conniff, Sam Seder, Adam Felber and more! here http://www.witstream.com/#spotlight Today, the DNC [will roll] out phase two: a Twitter campaign called @GOPsayWhat. ... @GOPsayWhat will have a little fun at the expense of verbally challenged Republican candidates, members of Congress, and pundits by highlighting the extreme, often outrageous, or just plain ridiculous things GOPers say as they continue to follow the far-right wing of the Republican Party. 'Instead of leading, the 2012 GOP candidates are following the extreme Tea Party wing of the Republican party hook, line and sinker. With @GOPsayWhat, we will put all the extreme things they say on display for the Twitterverse to see,' said DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse." |
Texas Democratic Women of Collin County on August 22 Women's Health | 
Join the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County on August 22 to discuss Women's Health. What is new in the area of Women's Health? How can we get and remain healthy? What is preventive healthcare? How have recent legislation and budget cuts affected availability to healthcare? Our two dynamic speakers: Dr. Kimberly Williams of Innovations Wellness Center and Kelly Hart of Planned Parenthood of North Texas will address these issues and answer your questions. This should be a very informative, passionate, and timely discussion on how we as women can protect ourselves and stay healthy. All of our meetings are open to the public. Come and bring a friend or two. Gather at 6:45. Call to order at 7:00. Preston Ridge Campus of Collin College, 9700 Wade Blvd., Frisco, Texas, Founders Hall, Shawnee Room F148 |
Texans must warn the country about Perry! | 
Top 10 Things Texas Gov. Rick Perry Doesn't Want You To Know About Him read here
As our regrettable Governor edges closer to throwing his hair into the ring for President, the Texas Democratic Party is starting to show other states his true colors. Watch their YouTube video Meet the real Rick Perry. So we're putting that knowledge out for the world to see on MeetRickPerry.com. Rick Perry's announcement that he's running for Prez on Saturday will be followed by the launching of PerryPoop.com next week. Texas on the Brink 2011 -From Texas Legislature How Texas Ranks Among the 50 States February 2011 ~ Fifth Edition Read / pdf to print out
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| The Texas Unmiracle by Paul Krugman NY Times | 
As expected, Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, has announced that he is running for president. And we already know what his campaign will be about: faith in miracles. Some of these miracles will involve things that you're liable to read in the Bible. But if he wins the Republican nomination, his campaign will probably center on a more secular theme: the alleged economic miracle in Texas, which, it's often asserted, sailed through the Great Recession almost unscathed thanks to conservative economic policies. And Mr. Perry will claim that he can restore prosperity to America by applying the same policies at a national level. So what you need to know is that the Texas miracle is a myth, and more broadly that Texan experience offers no useful lessons on how to restore national full employment.
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America's Real Job Creators Are Broke by: Jim Hightower | As narrators used to say in Western movies: "Meanwhile, back at the ranch..." Our policymakers in Washington have totally lost sight of what's happening at the ranch. John Boehner's GOP-controlled House and Barack Obama's White House have agreed to slash trillions of dollars from the federal budget, as though that's America's most important need. Bovine excrement! If they'd lift their vision to the countryside, even they could figure out that our great economic urgency is for the creation of good, middle-class jobs to get America moving again - moving upward and moving together. read on
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Drinking Liberally | Drinking Liberally returns to Addison on Thursday August 18th at 6pm. Join us at The Quarter, 15201 Addison Road. We'll be indoors since it's another scorching hot month. Come out to talk about debt ceilings, down grades, and maybe a going away drink for Rick Perry. Had enough Tea? Join the Keg Party. Drinking Liberally Mid-Cities Third Thursday of each month, 6:30 pm Los Jimadores, 3314 Harwood Road, Bedford Hosts Kathleen Thompson | Brad Walker | Doug Weathers 7:00. Preston Ridge Campus of Collin College, 9700 Wade Blvd., Frisco, Texas, Founders Hall, Shawnee Room F148.
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Bill Maher's New Rule: If The GOP Gets The Tea Party, Liberals Need The 'Donner Party' | 
In Bill Maher's final New Rule of the night, he suggested that if tea partiers get to control the Republican party and act like hostage negotiators, the Democrats should have their own branch party that would be just as ridiculously partisan as the tea party, because the only thing they haven't tried yet is fighting crazy with crazy.
Reflecting on the past week of debt talks, Maher compared the tea party to that loon you always see in the subway who's rambling on about something or other. He then compared the tea party's influence over the Republican party to a really cheesy action movie where a bank robber is pointing a gun at some woman's head in order to get her cooperation. In these scenarios, as Maher stated, you have the typical police negotiator (played by some random character actor) who can't get anywhere with the psycho holding a gun, so they have to bring in the renegade, a "Mel Gibson" character, who can talk the robber down because they're both operating on the same insane level. Maher concluded that if the Democrats are going to be effective negotiators against tea party Republicans, they're going to need "their own Mel Gibson." read on
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The Dallas Alternative Energy Meetup Group | 
The Dallas Alternative Energy Meetup Group Free: Learn Greywater Recycling and How to Set Up Greywater Irrigation System Added by Terry Jensen When: Where: RSVP: Thursday, August 18, 2011 6:00 PM Senter East Building 228 Chamberlain Irving, TX 75060 Fran Witte of the City of Irving wants people to recycle graywataer but wants them to do it within city, county, state codes. So Irving is offering this free class but you must register to take it. Click thru this page to register: HERE
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New Documentary "Gloria Steinem : In her own words " HBO | 
Chat Live with Gloria Steinem Tomorrow at 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT, join a rare live chat with author and feminist activist Gloria Steinem at HBO Connect. Chat live here
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