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Monica, Karen and Aracelli have been working to register voters with Minnesota SOL (Strengthening Our Lives). Monica is 19 years old • I always thought politics was for old nerds. But, since I joined this group, I realize that we can make a difference. There are so many things that aren’t right in our community. The fact that schools don’t get funded the way they should, or that college is becoming harder for me to pay. Continue Reading
Diego and Danny have been working to register voters with Minnesota SOL (Strengthening Our Lives). Diego is fourteen years old. • I never thought I could go up to strangers and engage them in conversation. However, for the past few months that is exactly what I have been doing. Working at Minnesota SOL, I have come to enjoy meeting new people and gauging their responses when I ask them if they are registered. Continue Reading
Minnesota’s own Michelle Bachmann called for an investigation of “the people in Congress” to find out whether they are “pro-America or anti-America”—as well as voicing her suspicion that Barack Obama has “anti-American views.”Click on the comment button and tell the world (or at least the readers of the TC Daily Planet) what YOU think is pro-American and anti-American. Continue Reading
We asked local leaders to respond to the presidential debate. Read the whole story here. Carl Nelson of the Green Institute criticized the lack of focus on energy efficiency and conservation.The candidates spoke very little about energy conservation. We’ve done a lot of work on energy efficiency to help the working poor. We helped to start the Philips Community Energy Coop, which helps the poor and working class in Philips by using energy efficient appliances. Continue Reading
We asked local leaders to respond to the presidential debate. Read the whole story here. Trixie Golberg of Lifetrack Resources said she wished the candidates could meet families that her agency works with.”A couple of the families that we’re currently working with are examples of people who are doing everything right. They’re working hard. They’re using the system. Continue Reading
We asked local leaders to respond to the presidential debate. Read the whole story here. Here’s part of what Steve Cramer of Project for Pride in Living had to say. “There was a lot of focus on—particularly from McCain—on the anger of people. We don’t see anger as much as fear with how things are heading—the rules of the game are changing so fast they can’t understand.”For someone who is deeply fearful in today’s economy, people at the bottom of the economic pyramid, I don’t think either candidate really addressed the conditions they experience.”So if we were to ask them after listening to the candidates debate ‘do you feel comforted?’ my overwhelming sense is, not so much.” Continue Reading
Much has been made of McCain’s angry crowd in Lakeville last week, where the candidate snatched a microphone from the hands of a questioner asserting that Barack Obama is “an Arab.” McCain’s response to this claim? “No ma’am. He’s a decent family man and citizen.”Let’s run the tape again:Questioner: “He’s an Arab.”McCain: “No, he’s decent.”The candidate’s response manifested in headlines like “McCain tamps down hostility” and “McCain calms supporters.”It took respected pollster James Zogby to cry foul and declare “I am an Arab and a decent man.”
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We are left to infer that an Arab man is less then a “decent family man.” Enough is enough! From the beginning of this campaign there have been those who have used Muslim and Arab in an effort to smear Barak Obama. This exploitation of bigotry and the stoking of racist fires to forward an agenda is reprehensible. Continue Reading
“Foley folly” … “Tragic mistake” … “Disappointment by St. Thomas choice” … “Money isn’t everything.” Continue Reading
How badly is the campaign going for John McCain? Ben Smith reports that he’s even struggling to hold on to the white racist vote:
An Obama supporter, who canvassed for the candidate in the working-class, white Philadelphia neighborhood of Fishtown recently, sends over an account that, in various forms, I’ve heard a lot in recent weeks. “What’s crazy is this,” he writes. “I was blown away by the outright racism, but these folks are f***ing undecided. They would call him a n—-r and mention how they don’t know what to do because of the economy.”
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As if $700 billion weren’t an incomprehensible enough sum on its own, that widely repeated figure only represents Henry Paulson’s personal stash of get-out-of-debt-free cards. The total tab on the array of taxpayer-financed Wall Street bailouts presently contemplated is likely to be closer to $1.8 trillion by the reckoning of CNBC, whose highly recommended estimate includes a rundown of the additional bailout billions. The following list of things you can buy with a trillion dollars is cadged from the invaluable Undernews. One trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) is enough money:
To buy everybody living in Los Angeles at least one Lamborghini Gallardo (pictured above; base couple starts at $186,900). To buy 88,052 394-foot custom mega yachts; enough to stretch around one-fourth of the world. Continue Reading