Open Thread: C&L's Saturday Night Podcast Round
Up

post from Crooks and Liars on 12 May 2012 11:30:00 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Happy Saturday night, folks! It's Blue Gal from The Professional Left Podcast, bringing you this week's podcast round up. Be aware that these podcasts are also available on i-Tunes, and may not be safe for work.

Virtually Speaking: Will Bunch and our own Susie Madrak on the future of Occupy.

Bruno and the Professor: Greece can't form a government and Biden moves the ball on gay marriage.

Bill Moyers (video): Fair Play on TV and Taxes.

Open thread below....

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Late Night FDL: Mayan Art and Their Remarkably
Accurate Calendar

post from Firedoglake on 12 May 2012 11:00:14 PM. © Firedoglake

The Mayan calendar ends on December 21st because that is the end of their Long Year, not the end of the world.[...]

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C&L's Late Night Music Club with Merle Haggard

post from Crooks and Liars on 12 May 2012 11:00:00 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Genre: CountryTitle: Mama TriedArtist: Merle Haggard

Whether or not it's roots are altruistic and sentimental or crass and commercial, tomorrow is Mother's Day. I'm asking for your favorite songs about mothers- good mothers, bad mothers, wise mothers, crazy mothers- or whatever else you've got.

Mama Tried (2001 Digital Remaster)

Price: $0.99 (As of 05/12/12 03:07 pm details)

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Saturday Stuff

post from The Liberal Doomsayer on 12 May 2012 10:14:00 PM. © The Liberal Doomsayer

Sam Seder brings us a moment of ?Fluffyhead? Gregory fellating the supposed popularity of Governor Bully; I mention Dancin? Dave because he?s going to head a ?conference for a major GOP advocacy group,? as noted here (yep, time for another blogger ethics panel).

?Let?s see, ethics and journalistic integrity, ethics and journalistic integrity?now where did I put that SPJ handbook again??
And imagine the hue and cry if Rachel Maddow did the same thing for the Dems (and no, assuming he was still working, Keith Olbermann attending Netroots Nation ? which he won?t this year due to a surgical procedure ? isn?t the same thing since the Dems don?t really pay attention to N.N., not enough of them anyway ? they?d be better off if they did).

As for Governor Bully running in 2016, I'd love to see that. All of this crap about how he's supposedly so overwhelmingly popular, a fabled Beltway media narrative, would be crushed once and for all (and by the way, kudos to Seder for being pissed off - more like this)...

?and as the immortal Mr. S. once said, ?Happy Mother?s Day to all you muthas out there.?

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Harry Reid Calls for Filibuster Reform

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In a rather monumental development Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called for the filibuster to be reformed on the Senate floor.[...]

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Mitt Romney announces bold new expansion of
Second Amendment

post from Daily Kos on 12 May 2012 09:45:05 PM. © Daily Kos

Via Rick Klein, Mitt Romney's official position on the Second Amendment:

As president, Mitt will work to expand and enhance access and opportunities for Americans to hunt, shoot, and protect their families [...]

Oh. Oh dear.

.@rickklein Whoa! Even Dick Cheney thinks shooting is for FRIENDS, not family.
? @Only4RM via web

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The Tea Party Report: Gay Marriage

post from Crooks and Liars on 12 May 2012 09:30:49 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Our favorite Tea Party Reporter Susie Sampson asks Americans about gay marriage.

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Health and Fitness News

Welcome to the Health and Fitness News, a weekly diary which is cross-posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette. It is open for discussion about health related issues including diet, exercise, health and health care issues, as well as, tips on what you can do[...]

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LGBT: The Times They Are A Changin'

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow GazetteYes, they are. And the change has finally struck right wing panderer Chris Matthews who finally called out Tony Perkins of the "Family Research Council" for "spreading hateful lies and junk research about the[...]

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U.S. | Rising innequalities in the United
States was a root cause of the financial crisis

Reblogged from Global Job Gap, Local Skills Gap:

As noted by The Economist, ?[s]everal prominent economists now reckon that inequality was a root cause of the financial crisis.? Indeed, in recent years there has been a proliferation of analyses supporting this view writes Till van Treeck in Did inequality cause the U.S. financial crisis? published on boeckler.de.

The explanation is straightforward: As the benefits of rising aggregate income over the past decades were confined to a rather small group of households at the top of the income distribution, the consumption of the lower and middle income groups was largely financed through rising credit rather than rising incomes.

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Open Thread: C&L's Saturday Night Podcast Round
Up

Late Night FDL: Mayan Art and Their Remarkably
Accurate Calendar

C&L's Late Night Music Club with Merle Haggard

Saturday Stuff

Harry Reid Calls for Filibuster Reform

Mitt Romney announces bold new expansion of
Second Amendment

The Tea Party Report: Gay Marriage

Health and Fitness News

LGBT: The Times They Are A Changin'

U.S. | Rising innequalities in the United
States was a root cause of the financial crisis

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