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To The Nay Sayers

A LONG List of President Obama's Accomplishments! With Citations! The PCTC Blog

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Thankfully, they never follow through

Do you really think the Republican Party plans to do away with Medicare? Do you really think they want to be the ones who deprive women of their right to not be abused? For that matter, do you really think they care one little bit about same-sex marriage or reproductive rights? If they were so intent on kowtowing to the gun lobby, why are we still doing background checks? If you think their intent is to do all those horrible things the Republican House is proposing, you need to ask yourself why they didn't pass these laws when they had a chance between 2001 and 2006, when they had total control of the entire apparatus. They could have done so much untold damage in that time, yet all they've really done is given their rich patrons huge tax cuts, then borrowed and spent like drunken teenagers with a no-limit credit card to pay for unwise tax cuts and for shit we didn't need.

The PCTC Blog

do-nothing Republicans

If the do-nothing Republicans in Congress had passed the Administration's American Jobs Act, which contained more financial help for cash-strapped states that are still laying off teachers and other employees, many more Americans would be working.

Jobs Slowdown Could Cost Obama the Election - The New Yorker

Florida, You Really Suck.

World War II Vet Caught Up In Florida's Voter Purge Controversy : It's All Politics - NPR

And so ends any last shred of decency Google once had

Google adopts paid inclusion model for hotel and flight search results - The Verge

"Smarter"

TV is migrating back to TV, but "smarter." To read a book people will turn to their phones. But the web is where they will go to complain.

That is the point that I am trying to make. The web is not, despite the desires of so many, a publishing medium. The web is a customer service medium. "Intense moderation" in a customer service medium is what "editing" was for publishing.

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium - Ftrain.com

Technology

Paralysed woman moves robot with her mind – Nature Video

Insurgent? Outlier?

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

It's Even Worse Than It Looks – The Daily Beast

Texas isn't smart enough to implement a death penalty

Texas ‘executed an innocent man', report claims - BBC News

3D Input

Qumarion mannequin input device for intuitive 3D manipulation #DigInfo - Diginfonews