News and Current Events - 2012

[Ellen (tellyouwhat)]

Just because it's true:

“Here's the story in a nutshell: A far-right predatory overclass has spent the last thirty years undoing the hard-fought gains of the mid-twentieth century, which had produced a robust middle class and vastly more economic and social justice in America than the country had ever known before. These regressives used every kind of deceit imaginable to persuade unsophisticated voters to choose candidates whose real agenda was to assist their plutocratic puppetmasters in fleecing the very same people who voted for them.
“Such candidates ran on issues like the death penalty, immigration, bogus wars, gay marriage and abortion. But what they really were about as legislators was exporting jobs to where workers are dirt cheap and politically neutered, crashing organized labor, shifting the tax burden onto the mass public, deregulating industry to allow unhindered profit-taking on the upside and socialized public responsibility for risk on the downside, and locking in a Supreme Court majority that would never blanch at even the most outrageous rulings enhancing corporate power in American society.”
— David Michael Green

I agree this is true. There isn't a sentence or word I disagree with.

[morrobay]

I was watching CNN, the tornado was on the ground, 1 to 2 miles wide, for just under an hour.  The destruction is unbelievable, they're still trying to get kids out of a school.

Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 4:58 p.m. Monday]

A tornado struck just south of Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, ripping apart homes and other buildings in populated areas.
 
The National Weather Service issued a rare tornado emergency for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, meaning that significant and widespread damage and fatalities were likely.
 
Video from CNN affiliates showed a funnel cloud stretching from the sky to the ground, kicking up debris.
 
The tornado was estimated to be at least two miles wide at one point as it moved through Moore, Oklahoma, in the southern part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, CNN affiliate KFOR reported.


http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/20/us/severe-weather/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[fritzkep]

We did watch the national news on NBC because of the storm. Horrific.