Saturday, March 31, 2012
keith olbermann and current
most of you know that Keith Olbermann and his show on current has ceased.
Here is a statement from his twitter account on the subject:
"My full statement:
I'd like to apologize to my viewers and my staff for the failure of Current TV.
Editorially, Countdown had never been better. But for more than a year I have been imploring Al Gore and Joel Hyatt to resolve our issues internally, while I've been not publicizing my complaints, and keeping the show alive for the sake of its loyal viewers and even more loyal staff. Nevertheless, Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt, instead of abiding by their promises and obligations and investing in a quality news program, finally thought it was more economical to try to get out of my contract.
It goes almost without saying that the claims against me implied in Current's statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently. To understand Mr. Hyatt’s “values of respect, openness, collegiality and loyalty,” I encourage you to read of a previous occasion Mr. Hyatt found himself in court for having unjustly fired an employee. That employee’s name was Clarence B. Cain. http://nyti.ms/HueZsa
In due course, the truth of the ethics of Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt will come out. For now, it is important only to again acknowledge that joining them was a sincere and well-intentioned gesture on my part, but in retrospect a foolish one. That lack of judgment is mine and mine alone, and I apologize again for it.
Here is a statement from his twitter account on the subject:
"My full statement:
I'd like to apologize to my viewers and my staff for the failure of Current TV.
Editorially, Countdown had never been better. But for more than a year I have been imploring Al Gore and Joel Hyatt to resolve our issues internally, while I've been not publicizing my complaints, and keeping the show alive for the sake of its loyal viewers and even more loyal staff. Nevertheless, Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt, instead of abiding by their promises and obligations and investing in a quality news program, finally thought it was more economical to try to get out of my contract.
It goes almost without saying that the claims against me implied in Current's statement are untrue and will be proved so in the legal actions I will be filing against them presently. To understand Mr. Hyatt’s “values of respect, openness, collegiality and loyalty,” I encourage you to read of a previous occasion Mr. Hyatt found himself in court for having unjustly fired an employee. That employee’s name was Clarence B. Cain. http://nyti.ms/HueZsa
In due course, the truth of the ethics of Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt will come out. For now, it is important only to again acknowledge that joining them was a sincere and well-intentioned gesture on my part, but in retrospect a foolish one. That lack of judgment is mine and mine alone, and I apologize again for it.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
NLRB Investigates Claims of Post-Lockout Union-Busting at Honeywell Plant - Working In These Times
NLRB Investigates Claims of Post-Lockout Union-Busting at Honeywell Plant - Working In These Times
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Last Wednesday, a National Labor Relations Board agent arrived in Metropolis, Ill., to investigate unfair labor practices charges made by uranium workers who work at a Honeywell International facility there. The workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 7-669 who went back to work for the multinational energy and security company last August after a long lockout, charge that the company has sought to illegally limit the union's power and failed to follow the terms of their new three-year contract.
On the USW local's website, union members claim that Honeywell has attempted to limit their free speech about workplace conditions and has forbidden workers from talking to other workers about safety problems. They also say the company has violated the new contract by failing to comply with the grievance procedure and laying off union members before laying off nonunion contractors hired during the lockout. And the union claims Honeywell has engaged in a campaign to fire key union members.
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Last Wednesday, a National Labor Relations Board agent arrived in Metropolis, Ill., to investigate unfair labor practices charges made by uranium workers who work at a Honeywell International facility there. The workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 7-669 who went back to work for the multinational energy and security company last August after a long lockout, charge that the company has sought to illegally limit the union's power and failed to follow the terms of their new three-year contract.
On the USW local's website, union members claim that Honeywell has attempted to limit their free speech about workplace conditions and has forbidden workers from talking to other workers about safety problems. They also say the company has violated the new contract by failing to comply with the grievance procedure and laying off union members before laying off nonunion contractors hired during the lockout. And the union claims Honeywell has engaged in a campaign to fire key union members.
Billy Jack Goes To Washington Trailer
old flick where is Billy Jack today? DC does not seemed to changed much except more money and power
my understanding, new Billy Jack movie due out this year
2012 USW Health and Safety Conference Closing Statement
I was union safety-man and union safety chairman for well over 15 years at the American Can plant 083 in St. Louis, Missouri.
I am proud of the work that the workers and management did in this area. Managers for the most part did quickly take care of safety woes that was in their power to fix in a rapid manner, although some did bitch, moan and otherwise cry.
I was also impressed with the USW safety program and folks. good to see they still on the ball
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Dirty Thirty - Corporations Pay To Keep Tax Loopholes Open
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need some loopholes myself since my bailout check must have been lost in the mail
Saturday, March 24, 2012
BP Sounds Like Baghdad Bob
this is an old one.
I was thinking, maybe the gop should hire Bagdad Bob to do some of the press releases for their canidates
Friday, March 23, 2012
ObamaCare: Two Years Later
I am not a big Blunt fan and skeptical of this vid
fellows are wrong: it is not you and the doctor, it is what whim the insurance company decides.
note: the big provisions of "Obamacare" have not kicked in yet.
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were it my call, we would have universal healthcare (hr676)
Thursday, March 22, 2012
03-22-12 5 War On Women, with Irin Carmon - Countdown with Keith Olbermann
too bad Kay voted for the Blunt bill on the subject
No ‘magic potion’ will make the GOP budget plan work
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Jennifer Granholm is joined by Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to discuss the GOP’s proposed budget plan. Dean Baker says Representative Paul Ryan’s budget plan not only cuts care to the country’s most vulnerable but “ignores all the evidence all around us” that proves these kinds of cuts just don’t work.
“(Paul Ryan) acts as though there will be some magic,” Baker said, ”that if we hand over (health care) to the states that the governors have some magic potion that will make all their dollars go further. Well, we’ve tried this… and it costs more.”
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
On tour, Sebelius touts health care law here
On tour, Sebelius touts health care law here
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promotional tour for health care reform stopped in St. Louis Monday to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act as challenges to the law are expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court next week.
Secretary of Health and Human Resources Kathleen Sebelius spoke to a supportive crowd at the Forest Park campus of St. Louis Community College about the benefits for retirees on Medicare.
Each day this week, Sebelius and other administration officials will be visiting swing states to speak on various aspects of health care reform. Sebelius spoke in St. Louis at the invitation of the Alliance for Retired Americans.
"Millions of Americans have begun to see benefits already from the Affordable Care Act," Sebelius said. "In spite of some of the predictions, Medicare has actually gotten stronger."
Changes to Medicare have saved 5.1 million people who are disabled or older than 65 more than $3.2 billion on prescription medicines, according to the health department.
Under the law, people on Medicare who reach the "doughnut hole" gap in prescription drug coverage have received $250 rebates and 50 percent discounts on drugs. The gap in coverage is expected to be closed by 2020.
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promotional tour for health care reform stopped in St. Louis Monday to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act as challenges to the law are expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court next week.
Secretary of Health and Human Resources Kathleen Sebelius spoke to a supportive crowd at the Forest Park campus of St. Louis Community College about the benefits for retirees on Medicare.
Each day this week, Sebelius and other administration officials will be visiting swing states to speak on various aspects of health care reform. Sebelius spoke in St. Louis at the invitation of the Alliance for Retired Americans.
"Millions of Americans have begun to see benefits already from the Affordable Care Act," Sebelius said. "In spite of some of the predictions, Medicare has actually gotten stronger."
Changes to Medicare have saved 5.1 million people who are disabled or older than 65 more than $3.2 billion on prescription medicines, according to the health department.
Under the law, people on Medicare who reach the "doughnut hole" gap in prescription drug coverage have received $250 rebates and 50 percent discounts on drugs. The gap in coverage is expected to be closed by 2020.
Editorial: Caucus mishap makes it clear: Time to stop the shouting
Editorial: Caucus mishap makes it clear: Time to stop the shouting
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By the Editorial Board | Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:05 am
The Missouri Republican Party had its John McCain moment on Saturday.
In October 2008, Mr. McCain, the U.S. senator from Arizona and the Republican nominee for president, famously grabbed the microphone from an elderly woman at a town hall in Lakeville, Minn., and gently chided her for calling then-Sen. Barack Obama an Arab.
Mr. McCain was courageous and decent that day, but it's worth noting that his campaign quietly had helped stoke the "Obama is a Muslim" lies during that presidential contest. He was reaping what he sowed.
The Missouri GOP did some reaping itself on Saturday when angry, screaming partisans shut down the caucus in St. Charles County, sending the process of choosing Republican presidential delegates into further disarray.
While the biggest problems appeared to be in the caucus in St. Peters, the largest among those held Saturday, there were plenty of problems elsewhere, as rabid supporters of Republican candidates Ron Paul and Rick Santorum clashed, and folks who profess to belong to the same party couldn't even agree on the rules, let alone their candidate.
The caucus system always has been messy. It's one reason Missouri abandoned it after supporters of extremist Pat Buchanan took over the 1996 voting process in the Show-Me State.
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By the Editorial Board | Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:05 am
The Missouri Republican Party had its John McCain moment on Saturday.
In October 2008, Mr. McCain, the U.S. senator from Arizona and the Republican nominee for president, famously grabbed the microphone from an elderly woman at a town hall in Lakeville, Minn., and gently chided her for calling then-Sen. Barack Obama an Arab.
Mr. McCain was courageous and decent that day, but it's worth noting that his campaign quietly had helped stoke the "Obama is a Muslim" lies during that presidential contest. He was reaping what he sowed.
The Missouri GOP did some reaping itself on Saturday when angry, screaming partisans shut down the caucus in St. Charles County, sending the process of choosing Republican presidential delegates into further disarray.
While the biggest problems appeared to be in the caucus in St. Peters, the largest among those held Saturday, there were plenty of problems elsewhere, as rabid supporters of Republican candidates Ron Paul and Rick Santorum clashed, and folks who profess to belong to the same party couldn't even agree on the rules, let alone their candidate.
The caucus system always has been messy. It's one reason Missouri abandoned it after supporters of extremist Pat Buchanan took over the 1996 voting process in the Show-Me State.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Robert Kuttner excoriates the creators and supporters of the JOBS Act, says it will strip investor protections
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Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect and a senior fellow at Demos, and Eliot Spitzer, former governor of New York, discuss the nefarious intentions of the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act. “The one thing we have going for us is, there are disclosure laws so that if investors have the wit to read the disclosures, they can protect themselves, and that’s what this retched piece of legislation would gut. Shame on anybody who votes for this,” says Kuttner.
Check out this great MSN video: The political war over gas prices jo ann emmerson
Check out this great MSN video: The political war over gas prices
click link for Hardball segment
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note: you are incorrect Rep Emmerson of Missouri on production stats from 80s
click link for Hardball segment
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note: you are incorrect Rep Emmerson of Missouri on production stats from 80s
Editorial: IRS must verify tax-exempt status of independent political organizations
Editorial: IRS must verify tax-exempt status of independent political organizations
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Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has it right. "Sending the IRS on a politically motivated witch hunt," he said Friday, "is simply unacceptable and could have a chilling impact on the constitutionally protected right to free speech."
Therefore, the IRS must scrupulously avoid any taint of political favoritism as it aggressively pursues investigations of possible tax code abuses by political advocacy groups. It must disregard the groups' liberal or conservative leanings, and, if it finds abuse, it must come down hard on the violators.
To be fair, that's not exactly what Mr. Hatch had in mind. The senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee was trying to discourage the IRS from conducting such investigations, which he suspected were an attempt by Democrats to get the agency to impede fundraising and electoral spending activities by groups with conservative agendas.
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Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has it right. "Sending the IRS on a politically motivated witch hunt," he said Friday, "is simply unacceptable and could have a chilling impact on the constitutionally protected right to free speech."
Therefore, the IRS must scrupulously avoid any taint of political favoritism as it aggressively pursues investigations of possible tax code abuses by political advocacy groups. It must disregard the groups' liberal or conservative leanings, and, if it finds abuse, it must come down hard on the violators.
To be fair, that's not exactly what Mr. Hatch had in mind. The senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee was trying to discourage the IRS from conducting such investigations, which he suspected were an attempt by Democrats to get the agency to impede fundraising and electoral spending activities by groups with conservative agendas.
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note: tea party has accused IRS of witch hunting.
Unexpected battle looms in Illinois primary
Unexpected battle looms in Illinois primary
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • Illinois' 12th Congressional District primaries this coming Tuesday were supposed to be among the year's sleepiest. Eleven-term incumbent Jerry Costello, a powerful Belleville Democrat and the state's senior congressman, appeared to be a shoo-in for re-election, with no primary challenger on the horizon and few Republicans anxious to take him on.
Then in early October, Costello unexpectedly announced he would retire after his current term.
It was the starting gun for a frantic race that no one saw coming.
"The Democrats were assuming they were safe in the 12th" until Costello's announcement, said political scientist Kent Redfield of the University of Illinois at Springfield. "It makes the map more complicated than they thought it would be and provides the Republicans with an opportunity."
That explains why the district's primaries have drawn a total of five candidates, three of them Republicans. The winners of each of the two party primaries will square off in the November general election in a region that has been in Democratic hands for well over a half-century — but which has been trending Republican in recent years.
Metro East voters on Tuesday will also help choose nominees for the 13th and 15th congressional districts. And voters across Illinois will nominate candidates for all 177 seats in the Illinois House and Senate, which, like the congressional seats, are under a new map because of this year's redistricting process.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • Illinois' 12th Congressional District primaries this coming Tuesday were supposed to be among the year's sleepiest. Eleven-term incumbent Jerry Costello, a powerful Belleville Democrat and the state's senior congressman, appeared to be a shoo-in for re-election, with no primary challenger on the horizon and few Republicans anxious to take him on.
Then in early October, Costello unexpectedly announced he would retire after his current term.
It was the starting gun for a frantic race that no one saw coming.
"The Democrats were assuming they were safe in the 12th" until Costello's announcement, said political scientist Kent Redfield of the University of Illinois at Springfield. "It makes the map more complicated than they thought it would be and provides the Republicans with an opportunity."
That explains why the district's primaries have drawn a total of five candidates, three of them Republicans. The winners of each of the two party primaries will square off in the November general election in a region that has been in Democratic hands for well over a half-century — but which has been trending Republican in recent years.
Metro East voters on Tuesday will also help choose nominees for the 13th and 15th congressional districts. And voters across Illinois will nominate candidates for all 177 seats in the Illinois House and Senate, which, like the congressional seats, are under a new map because of this year's redistricting process.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Arrests at Compton Hill Reservoir-Occupy the Midwest
police in third district in Saint Louis not know for restraint
Friday, March 16, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Jonathan Cohn considers how opposition to the Affordable Care Act is impacting public opinion
Keith and Jonathan Cohn, senior editor of The New Republic and a senior fellow at Demos, discuss the public relations battle raging around the Affordable Care Act in the weeks leading up to a Supreme Court hearing on the legality of the health-care reform bill. Cohn contextualizes a revised forecast on the cost of the bill from the Congressional Budget Office and describes how skewed talking points relating to the bill are impacting public opinion: “You have this industry out there and you have the Republicans out there hammering away day after day: ‘It’s expensive. It’s going to destroy your liberty. It’s going to create death panels.’ You know, that’s going to have an effect. People are going to get confused, and it’s going to start to sink in.”
China Does Capitalism Better Than America
China Does Capitalism Better Than America from Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates on FORA.tv
good debate from i-2 folks. intelligence squared folks do a good job
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Romney: "Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that."
remarks by Romney to ksdk in St. Louis yesterday
Monday, March 12, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
After Icet Introduction, Randles Receives Standing Ovation from STL Co. ...
Allen Icet, former House Budget Chairman and President of the Missouri Club for Growth, is on the Bill Randles bandwagon. Speaking at the Saint Louis County Lincoln Day on Saturday, March 6:
from Fired up Missouri site
Saturday, March 10, 2012
How to catch Joseph Kony
How to catch Joseph Kony
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The Lord’s Resistance Army began fighting the government of Uganda in the mid-1980s partly as a response to the government’s marginalization of the people of the country’s north. It swiftly degenerated into one of the most brutal and merciless of armed groups, able to replenish its ranks only by abducting, terrorizing and brainwashing children to fight. Its forces, currently thought to number 150-300 fighters plus hundreds of captive civilians, left Uganda in 2005 and now operate in remote areas of Congo, South Sudan and the CAR, leaving a trail of death and destruction among all those in its path.
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Topics:Africa, Lord's Resistance Army
As more than 50 million viewers on YouTube of the Kony2012 viral video now know, Joseph Kony, founder and leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, is a wanted man with the blood of many people on his hands. We’ve spent years investigating the horrors perpetrated by the LRA in central Africa — Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic (CAR), and South Sudan. We gathered evidence at massacre sites — wooden clubs covered in dried blood, rubber strips from bicycle tires used to tie up the victims, and freshly dug graves – and spoke to hundreds of boys and girls forced to fight for his army or held captive as sex slaves. And we’re elated that #stopKony is a trending topic on Twitter – if anyone deserves global notoriety it’s Kony.The Lord’s Resistance Army began fighting the government of Uganda in the mid-1980s partly as a response to the government’s marginalization of the people of the country’s north. It swiftly degenerated into one of the most brutal and merciless of armed groups, able to replenish its ranks only by abducting, terrorizing and brainwashing children to fight. Its forces, currently thought to number 150-300 fighters plus hundreds of captive civilians, left Uganda in 2005 and now operate in remote areas of Congo, South Sudan and the CAR, leaving a trail of death and destruction among all those in its path.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Restrict Vasectomies Missouri
wonders in Missouri
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The debate over women’s reproductive health is now hitting men right where it counts. A bill that would prevent men from having vasectomies unless it was to avoid serious injury or death was filed in the Missouri House of Representatives this week.
Representative Stacey Newman calls herself a member of the “Silent Seven.” She is one of seven democratic women who stood on the house floor for seven hours last week waiting to speak on the birth control issue.
Those seven women were never allowed to speak, so Newman is now speaking out in her own way.
“A vasectomy shall only be performed to avert the death of the man or avert serious risk,” or so says House Bill 1853 introduced on Wednesday by Newman.
“If it takes government interference in vasectomies for people to wake up and understand the absurdity. The restrictions that we women have to deal with that government keeps interfering in our person private medical decisions then this is what we have to do,” says Newman.
The bill, a statement from seven Democratic women who say they find it absurd that only men’s voices are being heard on the topic of birth control and women.
http://fox4kc.com/2012/03/02/proposed-bill-could-regulate-vasectomies/
Thursday, March 8, 2012
joseph kony madman and monster
Joseph Kony speaks on Foreign Correspondent in 2006
Updated March 09, 2012 11:32:20
Joseph Kony speaks on Foreign Correspondent in 2006.
Source: ABC News | Duration: 8min
will withdraw if objections made:
Updated March 09, 2012 11:32:20
Joseph Kony speaks on Foreign Correspondent in 2006.
Source: ABC News | Duration: 8min
will withdraw if objections made:
KONY 2012
very disturbing film here in full
will discuss next meeting
soar 11-3 on record opposing child slavery. this is as bad, worse in fact
the only brightside is that folks are taking positive actions.
vampires of daylight trailer
The Vampires of Daylight Trailer from marilena marchetti on Vimeo.
have not seen yet, but on the list.
This documentary film about health care looks at the crisis from the perspective of ordinary people. It asks if they believe health care is a human right and if they support a single-payer, national health care system. It's also an unapologetic takedown of President Obama's fundamentally flawed health care legislation, the PPACA. The filmmakers argue that a mass movement must be built to abolish the for-profit health insurance industry. We document the fight in 2009 for single-payer that the mainstream media ignored.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Preachers Leave Pulpit to Talk Payday Loans | KOMU.com | Columbia, MO |
Preachers Leave Pulpit to Talk Payday Loans | KOMU.com | Columbia, MO |
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JEFFERSON CITY - Faith leaders lobbied at the Missouri State Capitol Tuesday to express their concerns with payday loans.
Metropolitan Congregations United, or MCU, is one of 75 organizations that spoke in Jefferson City. MCU says the outrageous 444 percent annual percentage rate (APR) on some loans exploits vulnerable people in the state.
MCU wants to place a cap on all payday loans. The organization seeks to cap the APR at 36 percent. MCU's payday loans proposal is drawing support from legislation.
"This is something we need to do for our community," said Democratic State Representative Mary Still.
"If 36 percent is good enough for the FDIC a
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JEFFERSON CITY - Faith leaders lobbied at the Missouri State Capitol Tuesday to express their concerns with payday loans.
Metropolitan Congregations United, or MCU, is one of 75 organizations that spoke in Jefferson City. MCU says the outrageous 444 percent annual percentage rate (APR) on some loans exploits vulnerable people in the state.
MCU wants to place a cap on all payday loans. The organization seeks to cap the APR at 36 percent. MCU's payday loans proposal is drawing support from legislation.
"This is something we need to do for our community," said Democratic State Representative Mary Still.
"If 36 percent is good enough for the FDIC a
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Arrests Continue and Riot Police Move in at the #M3 Women's Rights Rally...
not a lot of national attention on this
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
MICHELLE OBAMA st. louis march 5th
Obama for America
cordially invites you to a reception with special guest
First Lady Michelle Obama
Monday, March 5th
2:30 PM
At the Peabody Opera House
400 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103
Please contact Michael Kurtz with any questions at
mkurtz@barackobama.com or 312.985.1164
RSVP online: https://my.barackobama.com/march5stlouisreception
cordially invites you to a reception with special guest
First Lady Michelle Obama
Monday, March 5th
2:30 PM
At the Peabody Opera House
400 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103
Please contact Michael Kurtz with any questions at
mkurtz@barackobama.com or 312.985.1164
RSVP online: https://my.barackobama.com/march5stlouisreception
jefferson-jackson dinner saint louis
The Missouri Democratic Party is pleased to announce that the 2012 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner will be held on June 22 at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in Downtown St. Louis.
We are working hard to finalize details surrounding the reception, dinner and all of our special guests. I will be contacting you in the coming weeks with the latest information. Keep checking back here for more details.
The Jefferson-Jackson dinner is an opportunity to support Democrats, to win elections and bring real, positive results to hard working families across Missouri. Please don’t forget to mark your calendars.
Thanks for your support and I look forward to seeing you in June.
Sincerely,
Mike Sanders
Chairman, Missouri Democratic Party
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have checkbooks in hand
We are working hard to finalize details surrounding the reception, dinner and all of our special guests. I will be contacting you in the coming weeks with the latest information. Keep checking back here for more details.
The Jefferson-Jackson dinner is an opportunity to support Democrats, to win elections and bring real, positive results to hard working families across Missouri. Please don’t forget to mark your calendars.
Thanks for your support and I look forward to seeing you in June.
Sincerely,
Mike Sanders
Chairman, Missouri Democratic Party
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have checkbooks in hand
stupid in America
old one from 4 years ago, but No child left behind did not help problem
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Stupid in America
40:45 - 4 years ago
20/20 Stupid in America Documentary 20-20 investigation by John Stossel entitled "Stupid in America" highlighting some of the flaws with the education system in the United States. The story started out when identical tests were given to high school students in New Jersey and in Belgium. The Belgian kids cleaned the American kids' clocks. The Belgian kids called the American students "stupid", which gave the piece its name. Seperation of School and State:
Rep. Barney Frank on Mitt Romney's record in Massachusetts: 'He lies"
I am shocked. a politican would lie