Political posterizing redux.

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House Passes Sweeping Anti-Environmental Bill As Final Business Before Elections

Despite its title, the bill isn't just about the coal industry: it repackages four previously passed House GOP bills, plus adds in another one, aimed at blocking carbon pollution standards. Specifically, the package would eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency's clean car standards, nullify the EPA's mercury and air toxic standards, weaken the Clean Water Act and block efforts to reduce damage from coal mining.

The bill already has a White House veto threat on it, and there's no chance it would move in the Senate, but Republicans went ahead and passed it anyway. They argued that their package would spur job growth -- the number one message for everyone ahead of the elections -- by removing regulations on the coal industry and on energy development in general.

http://labs.huffingtonpost.com/highligh ... e/2326930/

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Hobby Lobby Lawsuit Over Obamacare Morning After Pill Mandate Sparks Backlash [UPDATE]

The Huffington Post | By Harry Bradford Posted: 09/21/2012 11:57 am EDT Updated: 09/21/2012 4:39 pm EDT

The Supreme Court may have made its decision to uphold Obamacare months ago, but the backlash against one employer that has chosen to sue over one of the health care law's provisions shows the debate is far from over.

Earlier this month, the Oklahoma City-based crafts retail chain Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit claiming the Affordable Care Act's mandate to cover the costs of the morning after pill for employees is forcing the company's owners "to violate their deeply held religious beliefs under threat of heavy fines, penalties and lawsuits." Religious supporters and faith-based organizations may agree with the self-described "biblically-based” company’s complaint, but the lawsuit has sparked a backlash among others, according to Fox News.

Update: A petition to boycott Hobby Lobby has now reached more than 70,000 signatures, according to a representative from Ultraviolet, an activist group fighting for women's rights. Likewise, the boycott has inspired a Tumblr with anti-Hobby Lobby inspired crafts.

Fox News points to a Facebook group calling for a general boycott of Hobby Lobby, as well as one Flickr user’s post that reads, “even if you're pro-life this kind of action stinks to high heaven!”

Commenters on Hobby Lobby's own Facebook page have also been outspoken. One even questioned whether Hobby Lobby’s refusal to cooperate with the morning after pill coverage mandate could spread to other coverage, like the cost of cancer treatments “because it's ‘playing God’," the Examiner reports.

But Hobby Lobby, which stands to lose $1.3 million daily in fines if it does not provide the contraception coverage, according to the lawsuit, has supporters. Many fans have praised the company on its Facebook page with posts reading, “I support Hobby Lobby,” while a separate “Boycott boycotters of Hobby Lobby” page garnered around 213 “likes” just 18 hours after it was made.

Hobby Lobby isn't the first company to fight back against Obamacare’s morning after pill coverage mandate on religious grounds. Catholic owners of Denver-based Hercules Industries won a temporary court injunction over the summer, which held the company wasn’t required to uphold the mandate, according to Fox News. Likewise, Catholic churches across the country have protested the Obamacare provision, urging parishioners to appeal to Washington directly.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/2 ... ref=topbar

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Oklahoma. Figures. Hobby Lobby is closed Sundays.

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Oklahoma. Figures. Hobby Lobby is closed Sundays.

It used to be the only place around for me to buy cake supplies cheaply. Now, I live close to a Michael's!

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Oklahoma. Figures. Hobby Lobby is closed Sundays.

It used to be the only place around for me to buy cake supplies cheaply. Now, I live close to a Michael's!

And forsaking all others...

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[Ayaan]

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What Mitt Romney Really Represents

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
21 September 12

]American has had hugely wealthy presidents before - think of Teddy Roosevelt and his distant cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt; or John F. Kennedy, beneficiary of father Joe's fortune.

But here's the difference. These men were champions of the working class and the poor, and were considered traitors to their own class. Teddy Roosevelt railed against the "malefactors of great wealth," and he busted up the oil and railroad trusts.

FDR thundered against the "economic royalists," raised taxes on the wealthy, and gave average working people the right to form unions - along with Social Security, unemployment insurance, a minimum wage, and a 40-hour workweek.
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But Mitt Romney is not a traitor to his class. He is a sponsor of his class. He wants to cut their taxes by $3.7 trillion over the next decade, and hasn't even specified what "loopholes" he'd close to make up for this gigantic giveaway.

And he wants to cut benefits that almost everyone else relies on - Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, unemployment insurance, and housing assistance.

He's even a warrior for his class, telling his wealthy followers his job isn't to worry about the "47 percent" of Americans who won't vote for him, whom he calls "victims" and he berates for not paying federal incomes taxes and taking federal handouts.[/size]

For the rest of the story: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2 ... represents

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In 1970 I got to keep ALL of my $247/month. Except for SS deductions, and other stuff. But what was left could be a wild two days in Bangkok. Good thing one of our "entitlements" was three meals a day, when the cooks weren't hiding under the tables in the kitchen.