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Dangerous Finds: Wealth gap fueling social unrest, Rand Paul vs the GOP; Why Bernie’s gonna win!
06.09.2015
06:54 pm
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Dangerous Finds: Wealth gap fueling social unrest, Rand Paul vs the GOP; Why Bernie’s gonna win!


 
My Prediction: Bernie Sanders Will Win the White House: Compelling reasons why, when the dust settles, it’s going to be a Democratic Socialist Senator from Vermont who will be the next President of the United States. Doubt it? Read this analysis. (Washington’s Blog)

Driver Sues City After Video Shows Cops Admitting They “Don’t Know Why” They Pulled Him Over: He had his cell phone recording these dumb fucks the entire time. (Gothamist)

Billionaire Cartier Owner Sees Wealth Gap Fueling Social Unrest: “We cannot have 0.1 percent of 0.1 percent taking all the spoils,” said Johann Rupert, who has a fortune worth $7.5 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “It’s unfair and it is not sustainable.”(Bloomberg)

Oops: Franklin Graham moves bank accounts from gay-friendly bank to one that sponsors gay pride events: Even bags of wet hair think Franklin Graham is a fuckin’ big dummy. (Raw Story)

NYPD chief Bratton says hiring black officers is difficult: ‘So many have spent time in jail’ I wonder how that happened? (The Guardian)

Birth Control That Works Too Well: A Colorado program to give low-income teens long-acting contraception dropped the teen abortion rate dramatically. But conservatives refuse to fund it. (The Nation)

Wall Street fears leftward swerve by Hillary Clinton: As Sanders gains traction, Clinton’s backers expect her to take a tougher stance on banks. (Politico)

Jeb Bush In 1995: Unwed Mothers Should Be Publicly Shamed Guess where he got this idea? One guess? If you guessed Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, that’s the right answer! (Huffington Post)

Republicans Trashed Democracy in Michigan. Now They Want To Trash It in Your State, Too As Governor Snyder sets out on a national tour to sell the “Michigan Story,” other states should be wary of such a depressing tale. (Mother Jones)

Senator Unveils New Obamacare Attack, Immediately Becomes A Laughingstock Sen. John Thune (R-SD) probably wishes that he’d thought twice before debuting a new attack on the Affordable Care Act on Twitter. (ThinkProgress)

Rand Paul Battles the GOP Over 9/11 Secrets: The Kentucky Republican is pushing an amendment to declassify 28 pages from the congressional report—and exactly zero of his GOP colleagues are behind him. (The Daily Beast)

Catholic League president: Pope wrong on climate change because God never said ‘air pollution is intrinsically evil’ And there is nothing I can add to that. Snark fails me in the presence of such low level superstition and derpitude… (Raw Story)

Must read interview with rapper Divine Styler: ‘It’s getting hot. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. You have to destroy it in order to rebuild it.’ (LA Record)

Posted by Richard Metzger
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06.09.2015
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