Plunderbund

Just for fun check out this slideshow at nytimes.com that makes fun of presidential logos like this one:

Sometimes, I absolutely love pop culture. Sometimes. Like this time.

Put me down for Pro:

Video #2 in our weeklong progressive series. Check back tomorrow for another. Or cheat and look for them on YouTube. Whatever.
Video 1: Progressive. And Proud Of It!

I really wanted to call out Ted Strickland after I read the first few paragraphs of this AP article posted today on Ohio.com.
According to the article, our governor recently signed an executive order that banned discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the (government) workplace.
The order forbid state agencies from offering […]

Wikipedia defines Public Safety as “the protection of the general population from all manner of significant danger, injury, damage or harm, such as may occur in a natural disaster, and the prevention of the same.”
Notice that the definition does NOT say “protection of the English speaking population” – it says “the general population” - […]

CNN is reporting that Homeland Security Adviser Fran Townsend turned in her resignation letter and “will be looking for new opportunities outside government.”
“I’m going to just take another job doing 20-hour days, but this time in the private sector,” said Townsend, who has spent 25 years working in law enforcement and government.
It’s about time someone […]

Brilliant:

Mark me down for Pro. This is the first in a series. Look or a new one each morning all week!

So Foxnews.com posted this story today:
Ohio GOP, Christian Group Demand Apology From State Attorney General for Good Friday Comments
And I am left asking myself a bunch of questions like:
How does this impact anyone besides Marc Dann and his communication director i.e. the guy to whom the email was sent? Let alone people outside […]

The Dispatch has another story today about Ohio’s shameful charter school system and over 30 charter schools found to be stealing money from Ohio’s taxpayers…

Would-be Ohio charter-school operators received a total of $2.55 million in state and federal “planning grants” to start 33 schools that never opened, state records show.
That’s nearly 10 percent of the […]

Damn it’s cold out!
And for people here in Ohio that is going to mean high heating costs.
According to Forbes Magazine Cleveland is the seventh most expensive place in the country to heat your home.
Even though local natural gas prices are “below national averages”- the average heating cost are still $1,154.77.
Brrr….
So as I sit here wrapped […]

Push polls. Republicans love them.
I kind of figured they would show up this election season- not really so soon though.
According to the AP “New Hampshire’s attorney general is investigating phone calls to voters that pretend to be opinion polls but then undercut presidential contender Mitt Romney and his Mormon faith.”
Funny thing about this […]

via WaPo:
Federal agents on Wednesday raided the Evansville, Indiana headquarters of the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Codes (NORFED), an organization of “sound money” advocates that for the past decade has been selling what it calls Liberty Dollars, a private currency it says is backed by silver and […]

MC Frontalot might be my favorite artist right now. And you’ve certainly never heard of him.

Ken Blackwell is teaming up with disgraced, money launderer Tom DeLay in a new “grass-roots action and advocacy organization” called Coalition for a Conservative Majority.
DeLay is still under indictment in Texas and accused of violating campaign laws which, I imagine, is why he can’t run the organization himself.
According to their press release , the […]

The ongoing battle against the oppressive, christofascist forces of Citizen for Community Values continues today when attorneys representing Ohio’s strip club owners head to court in Cleveland in an attempt to convince a judge that the new anti-strip club law is unconstitutional.
[ AP article ]