The Most Important Post About 9-11

READ THIS,

http://www.stonekettle.com/2016/09/renegade-911.html

especially all you hate-filled, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, white-bigotedTrump-loving racist assholes.  

Does Lowering Corporate Tax Rates Create Jobs?

NO! (Link)

Here is what the link at the top of the page has to say:

"The study, for example, found that a supermajority (22) of the 30 corporations paying the HIGHEST tax rates created 200,000 jobs between 2008 and 2012, while only 8 of those 30 had any reductions in the number of employees.  IN contrast, the 30 profitable corporations paying no or very little taxes in that period had an aggregate loss of more than 51,000 jobs--half created a few jobs and half reduced jobs between 2008 and 2012."

Bring Me Back a COLD One!

Global Warming Solution From Anthropogenic Deniers.

John Boehner - Cry Baby!

Arguing With Conservatives

The Problem With The Economy In One Picture

[Source]

Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast The First Stone

Let's Put This To Bed Once And For All

Straight from the republican god's own mouth.


[h/t to Angry Bear for the video.]

There is no reason for Social Security to be part of any deficit or debt discussion.  End of topic!

We Are Raising A New Generation

And it is scaring the hell out of the Tea Party!

Happy New Year!?!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeee.............

Gun Deaths

 

 As a followup to my previous post, here are some statistics on gun deaths in the US.

IN ONE YEAR ON AVERAGE* (all ages)
Over 100,000 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts, accidents, or by

police intervention.
31,537 people die from gun violence:
11,583 people are murdered.
18,783 people kill themselves.
584 people are killed accidentally. 334 are killed by police intervention. 252 die but intent is not known.

71,386 people survive gun injuries:
51,249 people are injured in an attack.
3,627 people survive a suicide attempt.
15,815 people are shot accidentally.
694 people are shot by police intervention.

IN ONE YEAR ON AVERAGE* (ages 0-19)
Over 18,000 American children and teens are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts,

accidents, or by police intervention.
2,829 kids die from gun violence:
1,888 children and teens are murdered. 766 children and teens kill themselves.
124 children and teens killed accidentally. 18 are killed by police intervention.
34 die but the intent was unknown.  

EVERY DAY ON AVERAGE* (all ages)

15,428 kids survive gun injuries:
11,929 are injured in an attack.
254 survive a suicide attempt.**
3,164 are shot accidentally.
81 are shot in a police intervention.**

Every day, 282 people in America are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts, accidents, and police intervention.
Every day, 86 people die from gun violence: 32 are murdered; 51 kill themselves; 2 die accidentally; 1, intent unknown.
Every day, 196 are shot and survive: 140 shot in an assault; 10 survive a suicide attempt; 43 are shot accidentally, 2 are shot in a police intervention.

EVERY DAY ON AVERAGE* (ages 0-19)
Every day, 50 children and teens are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts,
accidents, and police intervention.
Every day, 8 children and teens die from gun violence: 5 are murdered; 2 kill themselves. Every day, 42 children and teens are shot and survive: 33 shot in an assault; 1 survives a suicide attempt; 9 are shot accidentally. 

The NRA's solution is more guns on the street.  Are they crazy, or what?

When CA Leads Will Others Follow?

"Several blocks long, a line of vehicles formed early Wednesday at the Sports Arena parking lot."

What?  Is there a big sporting event going on at the Sports Arena?  No.  The LA police department is having a gun buyback and LA residents are turning in their guns...voluntarily!

Maybe this is what we need.  To hell with the politicians in Washington.  They aren't going to do anything anyway.  People at the local level, people who are concerned and patriotic, need to initiate such programs country wide.  

As discussed by The Pragmatic Pundit:

"2 Wars to Spread Democracy = 6,658 Deaths; Democracy in America = 110,000 Deaths"

 Furthermore he adds,

"Add in suicides and accidental deaths as a result of hand guns and the figure nears 400,000...over 30,000 deaths a year."

And the NRA's solution is to arm more people!  Is that crazy or what?  Come on people.  Have some common sense.

Happy Thanksgiving

Congratulations

OBAMA WINS!  (Called 15 minutes after polls close in the West)

The Stimulus Did What?!?

We have continually heard from our right-wing "friends" that the stimulus did nothing to help the economy.  Below are a few graphs that illustrate what was happening before the stimulus and what has happened after the stimulus.  There charts are available over at Mosler Economics.  I found them via Applesauce.

The stimulus certainly had an effect...and most of it was good.

Draw Your Own Conclusion...

I'm tired.

Fair Is Fair

From our friends at MoveOn via PoliticsPlus.

Critter's Crap Presents The Republican Candidates

Brought to you by our friends at Bad Lip Reading.

If Republicans Are The Fiscally Responsible Ones, Why...

...are we better off with a Democrat in the Presidency?

I have posted before about how the economy does better when there is a Democrat in the White House.  Here is another measure of how the economy does better with a Democratic President.  Take a look at the figure below.

This figure comes to us from our friends over at Bloomberg Businessweek.  

What it shows is that if you took $1000 and invested it in a S&P tracking fund at the beginning of Kennedy's term in 1961 and only took gains during subsequent Democratic presidencies, you would have ended up with $10,920 on Feb. 21 of this year.

Similarly if you took $1000 and did the same thing starting with Nixon's term, you would have only $2087.

In other words, you earned almost FIVE TIMES as much under Democratic presidents as under republican presidents.

Tell me again, which party is better for the economy?

John McCain Admits It.

Here is what he said,

"We're dumb, but we're not stupid,"


Man, these guys just keep writing ads for the Democrats.