Tuesday, April 06, 2010
let this headline sink in
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if you want to get science information
don't get it from the clearly disturbed glenn beck.
robert f. kennedy jr. says not to get science from glenn beck. - don't get your science from glenn beck. that's the message environmental activist robert f. kennedy jr. wants to bring to citizens and media across the country, and recently he brought it to utah. - lake deseret morning news
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mad about "pants on fire" mccain
mad kane, that is!
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Monday, April 05, 2010
a meme is a wish your heart makes
we have seen all the joke names for fox: faux news, fox noise, etc etc.
but we have decided that the best way to label that channel is to call it exactly as it is, and without rancor or snark:
also, on the subject of memes, mrs. skippy came up w/a great idea for a new film:
"i've had it with these motherf*cking krakens on this m*therfucking plane!"
it's a a sure-fire hit!
addendum: but who can resist a good comedy?
but we have decided that the best way to label that channel is to call it exactly as it is, and without rancor or snark:
the fox opinion channel
who could argue w/that/also, on the subject of memes, mrs. skippy came up w/a great idea for a new film:
krakens on a plane
we can see samuel l. jackson now:"i've had it with these motherf*cking krakens on this m*therfucking plane!"
it's a a sure-fire hit!
addendum: but who can resist a good comedy?
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it's my tea party and i'll lie if i want to
we were equal parts confounded and skeptical when we saw today's memeorandum report with above-the-fold (that's newspaper talk, hildy!) links to various hardly-ever-right wing blogs touting two, count 'em, two separate polls.
these polls (the winston group & gallup, and who wouldn't trust polls named after cigarettes and new mexican towns?) seemingly prove that tea baggers are cut from a broad swath of american stock, if we can mix metaphors at the same time we deconstruct grammatical syntax for no apparent reason:
yikes! that's scary! four in 10!
but wait, let's actually read the article:
"four in 10 tea party members are democrats or independents". firstly, nice ignoring of strunk & white's elements of style.
but more importantly, the reality of the situation points out that merely one out of ten (appx.) tea baggers consider themselves democrats, and three out of ten consider themselves independent. wouldn't a smart and/or honest journalist (you remember those?) put the weighted representation up front, ie, "4 in ten tea party members are independents or democrats"?
instead, we get a headline that implies that almost 40% of tea baggers are democrats, when the truth is it's more like 10%.
but, let's let someone far more erudite than we deconstruct this. steve benen:
so, based on the responses of 295, we can extrapolate that america lurvs the tea baggers.
sure.
these polls (the winston group & gallup, and who wouldn't trust polls named after cigarettes and new mexican towns?) seemingly prove that tea baggers are cut from a broad swath of american stock, if we can mix metaphors at the same time we deconstruct grammatical syntax for no apparent reason:
yikes! that's scary! four in 10!
but wait, let's actually read the article:
the national breakdown of the tea party composition is 57 percent republican, 28 percent independent and 13 percent democratic, according to three national polls by the winston group, a republican-leaning firm that conducted the surveys on behalf of an education advocacy group. two-thirds of the group call themselves conservative, 26 are moderate and 8 percent say they are liberal.
now, even ignoring the idea that many repubbblicans declared themselves to be independent (right, mr. gallup?) since the disaster that was the bush administration, and therefore can expected to be nothing more than repubbbs in indy clothing, let's just look at that headline."four in 10 tea party members are democrats or independents". firstly, nice ignoring of strunk & white's elements of style.
but more importantly, the reality of the situation points out that merely one out of ten (appx.) tea baggers consider themselves democrats, and three out of ten consider themselves independent. wouldn't a smart and/or honest journalist (you remember those?) put the weighted representation up front, ie, "4 in ten tea party members are independents or democrats"?
instead, we get a headline that implies that almost 40% of tea baggers are democrats, when the truth is it's more like 10%.
but, let's let someone far more erudite than we deconstruct this. steve benen:
at first blush, reading that "four in 10" teabaggers are dems or independents makes it sound as if the unhinged, misguided movement has broad support. it doesn't. even if we accept a republican firm's results at face value, the tea party is dominated by republicans and republican-friendly independents (remember, thinking on indys as a coherent, self-contained group is completely wrong).
if an analysis is going to lump tea party-friendly independents with one of the major parties, it makes far more sense to say 85% of movement members are republicans or independents.
while about a third of the nation at large approves of the republican party, with the tea party crowd, gop approval is a whopping 71%.
that's not especially "mainstream." on the contrary, it sounds like a pretty conservative group of folks.
and then there's the gallup poll.
gallup goes ahead and gives the right the headline it wants to see: "tea partiers are fairly mainstream in their demographics."
but it's difficult to review gallup's results and reach that conclusion. the pollster found that 28% of americans identify themselves as part of the right-wing group. greg sargent took a closer look at that 28%.
marc ambinder summarized the findings this way: "tea partiers are conservative. moving along..."
late breaking addendum: chris good @ the atlantic dissects the numbers even finer:if an analysis is going to lump tea party-friendly independents with one of the major parties, it makes far more sense to say 85% of movement members are republicans or independents.
while about a third of the nation at large approves of the republican party, with the tea party crowd, gop approval is a whopping 71%.
that's not especially "mainstream." on the contrary, it sounds like a pretty conservative group of folks.
and then there's the gallup poll.
gallup goes ahead and gives the right the headline it wants to see: "tea partiers are fairly mainstream in their demographics."
but it's difficult to review gallup's results and reach that conclusion. the pollster found that 28% of americans identify themselves as part of the right-wing group. greg sargent took a closer look at that 28%.
- forty-nine percent of tea party supporters are republicans, 43% are independents, and only eight percent are dems. that means a huge majority -- 92% -- are republicans or indys, and again, many of those indys could be former republicans or lean gop anyway.
- seventy percent of tea party supporters say they're conservative, and only 22% say they're moderate. and who knows what they even mean by that word to begin with.
- a whopping 79% of tea party supporters are non-hispanic whites. only 65% of americans were non-hispanic whites as of 2008.
marc ambinder summarized the findings this way: "tea partiers are conservative. moving along..."
this set of data, taken from surveys of 1,033 adults total (28% of whom were tea party supporters), fights the perception of who the tea partiers are, at least as it's presented sometimes by left- and center-leaning (or non-leaning) media sources: that the tea partiers are a bunch of angry white people, or that they're the working-class whites who, liberals have long complained, vote against their interests by supporting republicans. or that a lot of them are unemployed, as were the jobless tea party activists interviewed by kate zernike for this new york times piece.
but these results should come with a caveat: they are not the demographics of activists who regularly go to meetings hosted by "tea party" groups, nor are they the demographics of people who show up for tea party rallies.
they are the demographics of people who told gallup they consider themselves to be a "supporter...of the tea party movement," as opposed to an "opponent," or "neither." it's one thing to tell a gallup pollster that you support something; it's another to show up at a rally and hold a sign, or chant, or just be there in the crowd to oppose the agenda of president obama and the tarp bailout initiated under president bush. gallup's poll is as much a test of the "tea party" brand as it is of the movement itself.
there may or may not be a sight divergence between the tea party movement's leaders and its rank-and-file participants.
most of the organizers--i.e., the leaders of local tea party groups--i've talked to have been older, middle- and upper-middle-aged, and many of them (certainly a disproportionate amount, compared to the national population) have been small business owners. that's just the impression i get; it is informed, partly, by a meeting of tea party activists at the freedomworks office in washington, dc, which reporters (including myself) were invited to attend in january, and obviously those in attendance were the organizers with the time and means to travel to dc for a weekend, which would logically filter them by economic status and job type, perhaps to a significant degree.
we have little to add to that, save that the original number of tea baggers used as the model for the poll, if you remember your math is (28% who identified as "supporting" the tea baggers out of 1033 adults) equals a whopping 295 people (rounded up).but these results should come with a caveat: they are not the demographics of activists who regularly go to meetings hosted by "tea party" groups, nor are they the demographics of people who show up for tea party rallies.
they are the demographics of people who told gallup they consider themselves to be a "supporter...of the tea party movement," as opposed to an "opponent," or "neither." it's one thing to tell a gallup pollster that you support something; it's another to show up at a rally and hold a sign, or chant, or just be there in the crowd to oppose the agenda of president obama and the tarp bailout initiated under president bush. gallup's poll is as much a test of the "tea party" brand as it is of the movement itself.
there may or may not be a sight divergence between the tea party movement's leaders and its rank-and-file participants.
most of the organizers--i.e., the leaders of local tea party groups--i've talked to have been older, middle- and upper-middle-aged, and many of them (certainly a disproportionate amount, compared to the national population) have been small business owners. that's just the impression i get; it is informed, partly, by a meeting of tea party activists at the freedomworks office in washington, dc, which reporters (including myself) were invited to attend in january, and obviously those in attendance were the organizers with the time and means to travel to dc for a weekend, which would logically filter them by economic status and job type, perhaps to a significant degree.
so, based on the responses of 295, we can extrapolate that america lurvs the tea baggers.
sure.
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when millions go hungry
millions of pounds of food is just tossed...what's wrong with this picture?
farmers, restaurants and supermarkets throw away millions of tons of edible food each year at a time when a growing number of californians struggle to put food on the table.
more than 6 million tons of food products are dumped annually, enough to fill the staples center in los angeles 35 times over, state studies have found. food is the largest single source of waste in california, making up 15.5 percent of the state's waste stream, according to the california integrated waste management board. - sfgate
Labels: california, farmers, farms, food, food supply, restaurants
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poor unemployed americans...tough luck
sometimes the brits cut through the verbage cr** and cut to the chase.
so our old pal the us senate left town without extending unemployment benefits. as a result, somewhere around 200,000 americans will lose those benefits starting today.
....republicans don't manage to raise these objections about deficit neutrality when the question involves tax cuts heavily weighted toward the rich. the bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 increased the deficit. i don't remember many republican protestations about that. as you can see from this roll-call vote from 2006, extending the tax cuts (well after their deficit-augmenting reality was known), all 51 (at the time) republican senators voted for them, coburn and bunning among them.
rich people are rich because they're good, so by definition the deficit isn't their fault. working-class unemployed people, well, hard luck. - the guardian
Labels: america, jobs, senate, taxes, two americas, unemployment
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
happy easter
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like christianity itself, here's a golden oldie
this never gets old
ten things i hate about commandments
ten things i hate about commandments
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quote of the day
steve benen, washmonthly:
this is painfully common -- some of the loudest, angriest critics of the affordable care act are also some of the least informed, most confused, embarrassingly ignorant observers anywhere. in this case, cassell has become a national joke because he's repulsed by a health care reform plan that he fully admits he doesn't understand.
it'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
it'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
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how's that big money media darling thing workin' out for ya? *wink*
sarah palin's big tv debut on faux news was an unmitigated dud. tvnewser:
while coming in first in its time period -- beating the total viewer average of the 10pm programs on msnbc, cnn and hln combined -- fnc's "real american stories with sarah palin" was down substantially versus the performance of "on the record with greta van susteren" last thursday as well as that program's thursday average for the month of march. "real american stories" delivered 2.073 million total viewers and 472k a25-54 viewers, down 10% versus last thursday among total viewers and down 28% in a25-54. for all thursdays in march 2010, the "stories" premiere was down 10% among total viewers and down 19% in a25-54.
looking at quarter hour data, "real american stories" shed viewers from start to finish -- down 18% among total viewers (2.319mm vs. 1.895mm) and down 22% in a25-54 (533k vs. 418k) from the program's first to its final quarter hour.
sarah, you're no greta van sustern!
looking at quarter hour data, "real american stories" shed viewers from start to finish -- down 18% among total viewers (2.319mm vs. 1.895mm) and down 22% in a25-54 (533k vs. 418k) from the program's first to its final quarter hour.
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question of the opening day...
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environmental news story sunday
for those stories you won't be hearing on the sunday talking head shows....but are far more important than any of the bloviating they highlight.
there's nothing like a dunking in dirty water. - the river jordan, where, the bible says, john baptised jesus christ and declared him the messiah, is now little more than an unholy brew of raw sewage, chemical run-off and brackish agricultural leftovers - sydney morning herald
coastline is still in danger. - no one denies america faces an energy crisis. but it is well-documented that opening america’s coast to renewed exploration and drilling would do nothing to change pump prices - ventura county star
flushed away. - the planet may still be paying for the cold you had last winter. the planet is also paying for your dad's hypertension, your aunt's high cholesterol and your colleague's throat infection, all of which were treated with drugs whose chemical residue then leaked into sewers or was leached into landfills and water tables - time magazine
vermont Senate seeks plastic additive ban. - senate lawmakers took a bold step friday toward banning the use of a potentially dangerous chemical in many plastic containers, including baby formula packages, sippy cups and water bottles. - barre montpelier times argus
ithaca college scholar wages impassioned fight against carcinogens. - the perc-contaminated water sandra steingraber grew up drinking in her hometown of peoria, illinois may not have caused her cancer, but it certainly caused somebody's - ithica journal
fungus kills off 90% of n.j. bats. - white-nose syndrome has killed off about 90 percent of the state's bat population, according to scientists who recently conducted a count of hibernating bats. - gergen county record
n.j. mosquito control officials expect surge in population after record precipitation. - as a result of all the rain in march, experts are predicting an unusually large mosquito population this spring. the problem could be exacerbated by the fact that 90 percent of the bats in new jersey have been wiped out - newark star ledger
most oregon greenhouse gas not what you might think. - an inventory conducted by metro concludes that driving our cars and heating our homes aren't the region's biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. it's how we make, move and toss away all the stuff we consume. - portland oregonian
millions to be hit by drought. - the lives of tens of millions of vietnamese people living in river basins will be affected by the increasing scarcity of fresh water resources resulting from climate change and salt water intrusion into rivers and watersheds caused by rising sea water. - vietnam news
barack obama aims to drive gas guzzlers off the road with greener laws. - in a coup that achieves something president clinton promised but never delivered, president obama has forced the big three us carmakers, and their unions, to accept tough mileage rules for cars and suvs - london times
trinity rescue mission farm to supply organic produce to jacksonville’s hungry. -when residents of trinity rescue mission sit down for their daily meals, they're usually eating the kind of food that's easy to donate: canned vegetables and boxes of processed food that don't spoil. - jacksonville times union
former pfizer scientist wins whistle-blower lawsuit. - a federal jury has awarded $1.37 million in damages to a former pfizer scientist who claimed she was sickened by a genetically engineered virus at a company laboratory and then fired for raising safety concerns. - nytimes
oil spill pollutes yangtze. - a tributaty of china's yellow river has been polluted by an oil spill, state-run media reported on saturday, in the latest environmental accident to threaten the nation's drinking water. - afp
preserved: britain's 'barrier reef.' - a government scheme to protect the ecology of the chagos islands delights the green movement, but exiled islanders will be kept away so that the us can retain use of its airbase on diego garcia. - london independent
maryland lawmakers target student environmental lawyers. - when cash-strapped activists and riverkeepers take on polluters in court, they often turn to the university of maryland law school for legal representation. student lawyers receive on-the-job training, while the activists get low-cost lawyers. - annapolis capitol
study identifies threats to appalachian trail. - a new study lists air pollution, funding shortfalls and encroaching development as some of the modern-day threats facing the appalachian trail. - knoxville news sentinel
bpa widespread in ocean water and sand. - japanese scientists testing ocean water and sea sand have found widespread contamination with high levels bisphenol a, a chemical used to make plastic that's able to mimic the female hormone estrogen in living things. - toronto globe and mail
pests, poison ivy, kudzu will thrive in tennessee as earth heats up. - sure, some species benefit from a warming planet, but they can be the annoying ones that sting, bite, or make you itch - nashville tenneseean
there's nothing like a dunking in dirty water. - the river jordan, where, the bible says, john baptised jesus christ and declared him the messiah, is now little more than an unholy brew of raw sewage, chemical run-off and brackish agricultural leftovers - sydney morning herald
coastline is still in danger. - no one denies america faces an energy crisis. but it is well-documented that opening america’s coast to renewed exploration and drilling would do nothing to change pump prices - ventura county star
flushed away. - the planet may still be paying for the cold you had last winter. the planet is also paying for your dad's hypertension, your aunt's high cholesterol and your colleague's throat infection, all of which were treated with drugs whose chemical residue then leaked into sewers or was leached into landfills and water tables - time magazine
vermont Senate seeks plastic additive ban. - senate lawmakers took a bold step friday toward banning the use of a potentially dangerous chemical in many plastic containers, including baby formula packages, sippy cups and water bottles. - barre montpelier times argus
ithaca college scholar wages impassioned fight against carcinogens. - the perc-contaminated water sandra steingraber grew up drinking in her hometown of peoria, illinois may not have caused her cancer, but it certainly caused somebody's - ithica journal
fungus kills off 90% of n.j. bats. - white-nose syndrome has killed off about 90 percent of the state's bat population, according to scientists who recently conducted a count of hibernating bats. - gergen county record
n.j. mosquito control officials expect surge in population after record precipitation. - as a result of all the rain in march, experts are predicting an unusually large mosquito population this spring. the problem could be exacerbated by the fact that 90 percent of the bats in new jersey have been wiped out - newark star ledger
most oregon greenhouse gas not what you might think. - an inventory conducted by metro concludes that driving our cars and heating our homes aren't the region's biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. it's how we make, move and toss away all the stuff we consume. - portland oregonian
millions to be hit by drought. - the lives of tens of millions of vietnamese people living in river basins will be affected by the increasing scarcity of fresh water resources resulting from climate change and salt water intrusion into rivers and watersheds caused by rising sea water. - vietnam news
barack obama aims to drive gas guzzlers off the road with greener laws. - in a coup that achieves something president clinton promised but never delivered, president obama has forced the big three us carmakers, and their unions, to accept tough mileage rules for cars and suvs - london times
trinity rescue mission farm to supply organic produce to jacksonville’s hungry. -when residents of trinity rescue mission sit down for their daily meals, they're usually eating the kind of food that's easy to donate: canned vegetables and boxes of processed food that don't spoil. - jacksonville times union
former pfizer scientist wins whistle-blower lawsuit. - a federal jury has awarded $1.37 million in damages to a former pfizer scientist who claimed she was sickened by a genetically engineered virus at a company laboratory and then fired for raising safety concerns. - nytimes
oil spill pollutes yangtze. - a tributaty of china's yellow river has been polluted by an oil spill, state-run media reported on saturday, in the latest environmental accident to threaten the nation's drinking water. - afp
preserved: britain's 'barrier reef.' - a government scheme to protect the ecology of the chagos islands delights the green movement, but exiled islanders will be kept away so that the us can retain use of its airbase on diego garcia. - london independent
maryland lawmakers target student environmental lawyers. - when cash-strapped activists and riverkeepers take on polluters in court, they often turn to the university of maryland law school for legal representation. student lawyers receive on-the-job training, while the activists get low-cost lawyers. - annapolis capitol
study identifies threats to appalachian trail. - a new study lists air pollution, funding shortfalls and encroaching development as some of the modern-day threats facing the appalachian trail. - knoxville news sentinel
bpa widespread in ocean water and sand. - japanese scientists testing ocean water and sea sand have found widespread contamination with high levels bisphenol a, a chemical used to make plastic that's able to mimic the female hormone estrogen in living things. - toronto globe and mail
pests, poison ivy, kudzu will thrive in tennessee as earth heats up. - sure, some species benefit from a warming planet, but they can be the annoying ones that sting, bite, or make you itch - nashville tenneseean
Labels: animals, california, cancer, cars, china, climate change, ecology, energy, environment, epa, hunger, obama, offshore drilling, organic, pollution, rivers, science, toxins, water
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Saturday, April 03, 2010
get beck to where you once belonged
according to stopbeck.com, bmw has pulled their ads from the crazy show:
last week, some bmw advertisements ran during glenn beck’s show. this seemed a bit strange as i was pretty sure that bmw had excluded glenn beck from ad rotations many months ago. accordingly, the stopbeck effort reached out to bmw for clarification.
bmw confirmed that glenn beck’s program was already excluded from their ad purchases – and had been for several months. they advised that the ads in question were from a regional bmw group. notably bmw indicated that the ads were “bonus” ads, meaning that they were non-paid ads “ran at the discretion of the network/cable provider.” accordingly, bmw took action to ensure that going forward even regional advertisements (one’s purchased by dealer groups) will be excluded from glenn beck’s program.
i’ll leave it to others to speculate as to why unpaid commercial advertisements are running on glenn beck’s show.
statement from manager of marketing communications and consumer events for bmw of north america (emphasis added):
you can find a list of the 100+ advertisers that have disassociated their brands from glenn beck’s vitriol, sexism and race-baiting here.
bmw confirmed that glenn beck’s program was already excluded from their ad purchases – and had been for several months. they advised that the ads in question were from a regional bmw group. notably bmw indicated that the ads were “bonus” ads, meaning that they were non-paid ads “ran at the discretion of the network/cable provider.” accordingly, bmw took action to ensure that going forward even regional advertisements (one’s purchased by dealer groups) will be excluded from glenn beck’s program.
i’ll leave it to others to speculate as to why unpaid commercial advertisements are running on glenn beck’s show.
statement from manager of marketing communications and consumer events for bmw of north america (emphasis added):
when i first investigated your inquiry, i verified that the glenn beck program is not on our national television programming “buy” list (i.e., bmw of north america does not purchase this program). however, upon further investigation we learned that a bmw dealer group did run in the program via an “adu” unit (i.e., a bonus/non-paid spot). this bonus spot aired in the new york area through the tri-state dealer group at the discretion of the network/cable provider and not bmw.
moving forward, we have specified that this program will not be purchased nor will it be utilized in bonus weight at the national or regional levels of bmw advertising. i hope this clarifies the matter.
the significance of this action speaks for itself.moving forward, we have specified that this program will not be purchased nor will it be utilized in bonus weight at the national or regional levels of bmw advertising. i hope this clarifies the matter.
you can find a list of the 100+ advertisers that have disassociated their brands from glenn beck’s vitriol, sexism and race-baiting here.
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Friday, April 02, 2010
peg o' my chart
the unemployment numbers are in and, while less than expected, are still encouraging. steve benen:
granted, 50,000 of those jobs are temporary census workers, but over 100,000 are private industry employees. hey, it's a start in the right direction, kids!
for a year, the most common republican talking point on the economy has been a straightforward, four-word question: "where are the jobs?" in light of the latest data from the bureau of labor statistics released this morning, the gop may need a new argument.
we've stolen steve's chart (below) to illustrate the main point: that not only has the downward trend reversed, but for the first time since the recession started under bush (the red), the chart breaks thru into positive territory.the american economy added 162,000 jobs in march, the labor department reported friday, in a month when the government hired thousands of temporary census workers.
the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent, the labor department said, but it is expected to worsen later this year as discouraged workers re-enter the labor force. [...]
[e]conomists said the ambiguity surrounding the data did not change the underlying prognosis for the labor market. many believe the economy has reached a turning point and will begin adding jobs at a slow, but steady, pace.
the jobs report is easily the best we've seen since the start of the great recession late 2007, and the strongest overall in three years. with revised numbers for recent months, march is now the third month to show positive job growth since the start of the economic downturn, but last month's totals far exceeded the modest totals from november 2009 and january 2010.the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent, the labor department said, but it is expected to worsen later this year as discouraged workers re-enter the labor force. [...]
[e]conomists said the ambiguity surrounding the data did not change the underlying prognosis for the labor market. many believe the economy has reached a turning point and will begin adding jobs at a slow, but steady, pace.
granted, 50,000 of those jobs are temporary census workers, but over 100,000 are private industry employees. hey, it's a start in the right direction, kids!
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hannity inanity
buzzflash tells us that an official complaint against sean hannity's charity has been filed w/the irs:
just over a week ago, accusations against sean hannity, oliver north, and the freedom alliance charity “scam” began to raise the ire of people from the full breadth of the political spectrum. now the outrage from concerned citizens — like turn off fox readers — over hannity’s use of the organization to burnish his patriot credibility with questionable allotment of funds for actual veterans and their families has apparently led to citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington (crew) formally filing a complaint with the federal trade commission (ftc) and the irs.
crew took the investigation further than most and decided to file a complaint with the ftc for what it described as hannity’s and freedom concert’s “illegal and deceptive marketing practices by suggesting that all money generated by ticket sales for the freedom concerts he sponsors each summer goes to scholarships for children of killed and wounded service members.”…
as far the irs request for investigation, crew alleges that freedom alliance has failed to live up to the restrictions of a 501(c)(3). in order to qualify for its tax-exempt status, freedom alliance had to remain outside the realm of politics, a pretty difficult thing for it to accomplish with its very political founder, north. nonetheless, sloan explained how “they’ve been promoting oliver north’s commentary [and] running these freedom cruises where michael steele and newt gingrich come on board.” that kind of activity sounds awfully political and may ultimately cost freedom alliance its status as a charity.
crew took the investigation further than most and decided to file a complaint with the ftc for what it described as hannity’s and freedom concert’s “illegal and deceptive marketing practices by suggesting that all money generated by ticket sales for the freedom concerts he sponsors each summer goes to scholarships for children of killed and wounded service members.”…
as far the irs request for investigation, crew alleges that freedom alliance has failed to live up to the restrictions of a 501(c)(3). in order to qualify for its tax-exempt status, freedom alliance had to remain outside the realm of politics, a pretty difficult thing for it to accomplish with its very political founder, north. nonetheless, sloan explained how “they’ve been promoting oliver north’s commentary [and] running these freedom cruises where michael steele and newt gingrich come on board.” that kind of activity sounds awfully political and may ultimately cost freedom alliance its status as a charity.
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