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Friday, April 29, 2011

LtSaloon.org gets hacked


We noticed this post on LtSaloon.org. Rightrardia uses a lot of the cartoons that RS Jaynes creates. He has an excellent web site. 
We are sorry to inform you that on Monday, May 2, 2011, LTSaloon.org with cease publication on the net. The reasons are varied, including disagreements about the very nature of the site you have come to know. 
Specifics are mostly unimportant and personal. But the major reason is last week the site was hacked by someone with a very specific agenda. 
They not only jacked up part of the host’s settings on the site so within a day or two there was a $200 bill, but they made it very clear who this attack was aimed at: the editor who pays the bills here and then asks the other two to chip in. apssphrase
They changed that editor’s password and altered some of his postings: including erasing the private, copyrighted, work of several posters on various editions of the Literary Magazine. 
They also erased at least one whole month and posted something else there. This hacker most likely had, or was given, a password to do this amount of damage.
It was a childish and petty act, possibly done out of revenge or not willing to put up with disagreement.
Rigtrtardia had one of it email accounts hacked and also had some Usenet email headers forged. Our blog and Usenet posts have been under attack for more than a year by forgers and spammers named Patriot Games and Buster Norris. 
Apparently, some ultra right wing Republicans are trying to suppress free speech on the Internet and Usenet. We suspect due to the right wing volume of spam we see in alt. politics and other Usenet conferences that a ring is involved
Recently the Digg's Patrots ring was closed down in which several hundred wingnuts were giving progressive articles low ratings to try to suppress the posts
Why would people do this? America is changing demographically and the GOP is fading into a minority regional party. The right wing is using desperate measures to try to hold onto political power. 
For example the Florida  legislature is passing an act to suppress voting because they know the US will no longer be a "white Christian nation" in the next 5 to 10 years. This is also what the immigration fights in the southeast are about. 
This is also why you should vote using an absentee ballot in the next Florida election. This is how you can avoid getting your vote thrown out or caged. 
If you are a Democrat, liberal pr progressive voice, don't let the right wing suppress your message. Make sure you use a web server that is secure and use a long password or pass phrase that is not easily hacked. Change your password every month or two. 
Don't let these bastards get you down. 

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The real labor day is May Day

4/28/2011

By Doug Cunningham
Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be the epicenter of May Day rallies expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people nationwide. Workers from all walks of life in America will join in solidarity from California to Wisconsin and beyond, rallying and marching with progressive allies commemorating the legacy of May Day. It will be a protest against the assaults on worker rights and a call to fix America’s broken immigration system. Students and churches are joining workers and political progressives in the rallies. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka will join the Milwaukee rally Sunday – ground zero for the defense of worker rights. Trumka says this year all working people are standing strong together to show the world that the fights for worker rights and immigrant rights are “cut of the same cloth”. Trumka says working people will speak with one voice on May Day to fight for better wages and benefits, job security and safer workplaces for everybody.


By Doug Cunningham
Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be the epicenter of May Day rallies expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people nationwide. 

Workers from all walks of life in America will join in solidarity from California to Wisconsin and beyond, rallying and marching with progressive allies commemorating the legacy of May Day. 

It will be a protest against the assaults on worker rights and a call to fix America’s broken immigration system. Students and churches are joining workers and political progressives in the rallies. 

AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka will join the Milwaukee rally Sunday – ground zero for the defense of worker rights. Trumka says this year all working people are standing strong together to show the world that the fights for worker rights and immigrant rights are “cut of the same cloth”. 


Trumka says working people will speak with one voice on May Day to fight for better wages and benefits, job security and safer workplaces for everybody.



The next "Labor Day" in the US will be September 5 in 2011.


According to Wikipedia, The first Labor Day in the United States was observed on August 26, 1878, in Boston, by the Central Labor Union of New York. 

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike

President Grover Cleveland made reconciliation with the labor movement as a top political priority. 

Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike.

The point is what we called labor Day is the US celebrates a huge labor defeat in Chicago. The International Labor Day on May 1 is the real labor day. 

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Haaretz: Egypt to pemanently open Gaza border crossing



The Egyptian Foreign minister  tells Al-Jazeera that preparations are already underway to permanently open Rafah border crossing. This which would allow goods and people in and out of Gaza with no Israeli supervision.
The Isralei prime minister has also stated that he il not hold talks with Palestine that include Hamas, who won the elections in Palestine. Israel claims Hamas is a terrorist organization. 
From Rightardia's perspective, Israel has a bigger Middle Eastern terrorist apparatus than Hamas. We have continually advocated that the Obama government should not waste time trying to bring Bibi Netanyahu to the negotiating table because he has no interest in peace. 
The US government should try to undermine his Likud government so more moderate leaders can take the helm in Israel. 
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Gallup: The decline of the Tea Party

April 28, 2011

by Frank Newport
PRINCETON, NJ -- About half of Americans, 47%, now have an unfavorable image of the Tea Party movement, the highest since it emerged on the national scene. Only 20 per cent of Americans hold a favorable view.

Rightardia predicts the Tea party will not be a factor in the next election because the country club Republicans will not nominate a candidate that will appeal to this group. Earlier Gallup Polls could not distinguish the views of the Tea Party members and mainline Republicans.

source: Gallup Poll


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Democratic Underground: Baptist Church receives threats after comments from Sean Hannity

By Hamil R. Harris

Shiloh Baptist Church in the District said it has received threatening phone calls and e-mails after an Easter visit from President Obama.  A conservative television commentator’s s
mith, who shared several of the e-mails with The Post, said he had not notified authorities but is consulting with church leaders about what to do.


Subsequent playing of a videotape in which the pastor said that those espousing racial prejudice do so “under the protective cover of talk radio.”

The Rev. Wallace Charles Smith said the church has received more than 100 threats since Fox News channel’s Sean Hannity aired a tape Monday of a speech Smith gave in January 2010 at Eastern University in Saint Davids, Pa.

“We received a fax that had the image of a monkey with a target across is face,” Smith said. “My secretary has received telephone calls that have been so vulgar until she has had to hang up.”

Smith, who shared several of the hate fileed e-mails with The Post. He had not notified authorities but is consulting with church leaders about what to do.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/shiloh-baptist-chur... 

mith, who shared several of the e-mails with The Post, said he had not notified authorities but is consulting with church leaders about what to do.


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The gay marriage between GOP politicians and the oil barons


APR 28, 2011
The relationship between the House Republican leadership and Big Oil has gone on for many years. Having accepted over $2 million in contributions from the oil and gas industry and voted to protect numerous taxpayer giveaways for Big Oil, this union comes as little surprise. 
At roilwedding.com, Americans can view the invitation and can share their thoughts on these nuptials in the online guest book.The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) cordially invites you to celebrate the R-Oil wedding between House Republicans and Big Oil at a new website, www.roilwedding.com.
“For this wedding, in lieu of gifts, the happy couple would surely prefer more Big Oil tax breaks,” said Jesse Ferguson of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee .
”After House Republicans had a decade long relationship of protecting Big Oil taxpayer giveaways, speculations and price gouging, this wedding seems like the next step. In their relationship for richer or really richer, we wish the happy couple all the best.”
The Relationship
  • House Speaker John Boehner (OH-08) has taken $346,700 from the oil and gas industry while in Congress. [opensecrets.org, accessed 4/27/11]
  • Republican Leader Eric Cantor (VA-07) has taken $295,550 from the oil and gas industry while in Congress. [opensecrets.org, accessed 4/27/11]
  • Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy (CA-X) has taken $142,350 from the oil and gas industry while in Congress. [opensecrets.org, accessed 4/27/11]
  • NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions (TX-32) has taken $677,164 from the oil and gas industry while in Congress. [opensecrets.org, accessed 4/27/11]
  • Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (TX-5) has taken $255,950 from the oil and gas industry while in Congress. [opensecrets.org, accessed 4/27/11]
  • Republican Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers has taken $205,050 from the oil and gas industry while in Congress. [opensecrets.org, accessed 4/27/11]
  • Republican Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (MI-6) has taken $262,850 from the oil and gas industry while in Congress. [opensecrets.org, accessed 4/27/11]


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Day Riffer: How the hell did Obama get into those Ivy League Schools?


Donald Trump was right: How the Hell Did This President Get Into Those Ivy League Schools?


- "The dean looked over Barack's transcript and college boards and then suggested in a kindly way that he apply to some less competitive colleges in addition to Columbia."


- "There were no class rankings at his high school, but Barack never made honor roll even one term, unlike 110 boys in his class."


- "His SAT scores were 566 for the verbal part and 640 for math. Those were far below the median scores for students admitted to his class at Columbia: 668 verbal and 718 math."

- "At Columbia, Barack Obama distinguished himself primarily as a hard partier, and he managed to be detained by police twice during his university years: once for stealing a Christmas wreath as a fraternity prank and once for trying to tear down the goalposts during a football game at Princeton."

- "Obama's transcript at Columbia shows that he was a solid C student. Although a history major, he sampled widely in the social sciences and did poorly in political science and economics while achieving some of his best grades (the equivalent of a B+) in philosophy and anthropology. 


The transcript indicates that in Obama's freshman year, the only year for which rankings were available, he was in the twenty-first percentile of his class—meaning that four-fifths of the students were above him. 


Yet at the same time that he was earning Cs at Columbia, Obama displayed a formidable intelligence in another way. At his induction into the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity, he and others were asked to name all fifty-four pledges in the room. 


Most were were able to name only five or six. When it was Obama's turn, he named every single one. Later he rose to become president of DKE, and he was also tapped into Skull and Bones, an elite secret society to which his father had also belonged."

And then he somehow got into Harvard for graduate school.

Oh, wait.
My bad.
I made a mistake.
Please replace the reference to "high school" with "Andover."
Please replace "Columbia" with "Yale."
Please replace "Barack Obama" with "George W. Bush."
Thanks.
(PresidentProfiles.com)

source: 

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China Daily: Why do polls show more satisfied people in China?



Updated: 2011-04-25 13:56

By John Ross (chinadaily.com.cn)

International opinion polls consistently show that the population of China is more satisfied with the direction of their country than people in the US. 
Naturally, here one is not talking about polls carried out by governments - no one could treat a poll on such a question carried out by the government in any country as objective. These are polls conducted by independent polling organizations.
The most comprehensive is one carried out by the Pew Research Center, based in Washington. Its regular Pew Global Attitudes Project can scarcely be accused of anti-US bias as it is chaired by Madeleine Albright, former US Ambassador to the UN.
Asked the annual question, "Overall, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in our country today?" in the last poll in 2010, 87 percent of those in China answered "satisfied" compared with 30 percent in the US . . .
At first glance this might seem a puzzling finding. After all it is no secret that incomes are much higher in the US than in China.

Furthermore, while China's economy is growing much faster than in the US, the starting gap between incomes in a developing country such as China, and the developed economy of the US, is so large it will take many decades for China to catch up. 
Why therefore are people much more satisfied in China?
The answer lies in the fact that people are realistic. 
There is no magic wand that can be waved whereby incomes in China can immediately catch up with the US. But the point is that each year in China, people's living standards are getting better. 
Not enough attention is paid to the fact that China has not only the fastest growth in GDP of any major economy but also the fastest rate of growth of consumption. This means each year people in China are able to consume around 8 percent more.
The difference between the two countries was thrown into even sharper relief by the respective ways they responded to the international financial crisis. The US responded by cutting wages and incomes. 
In China the government responded by increasing the rate of average wage increases. China went through one of the biggest consumer booms in its history last year, with a 15 percent increase in wages and equivalent increases in retail spending.
It is therefore no surprise that when the same Pew survey asked whether the country's economic situation was good or bad, 91 percent in China answered good and only 24 percent did in the US . . .
Why do polls show more satisfied people in China?
Updated: 2011-04-25 13:56
By John Ross (chinadaily.com.cn)
John Ross is Visiting Professor at Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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Capital Soup: Florida House passes resoultion to break down barrier to public aid to church schools


Tallahassee – Yesterday the Florida House of Representative passed House Joint Resolution (HJR) 1471, known as the Religious Freedom Act. The HJR proposes an amendment to Florida’s constitution that repeals  the Blaine Amendment language currently in Article I Section 3 of the Florida Constitution, which bars public aid to religious schools. 
Such a resolution has no substantive effect. Florida voters would have to approve such a change in a plebiscite. The GOP changed the Constitution so that changes must be approved by a super majority of 60 per cent of the voters. 
it is clear that the radical Republicans governor's office, house and senate would like to provide public aid to church schools, an old issue that was defeated in the courts decades ago. 
Rick Scott would like to voucherize the public school system and he would have to change the Florida Constitution to do it. This is what HRJ 1471 is really about.
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TPMMuckraker: Orly Taitz says long form should show Obama's race as "Negro"


Orly Taitz, the birther queen, says back then the term "Negro" would have been used on Obama's long form of birth rather than "African."

Hawaii has been a multicultural society for a long time and it is unlikely that term would have been used there.

Of course, Orly is entitled to her opinion.

Source: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/orly_taitz_obamas_long-form_birth_certificate_should_say_negro_not_african.php?ref=mblt

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Rightardia breaks the 6,000 Netcraft barrier

Hoo-ray, we broke into the top 5000 Netcraft web sites during an off week. We are now ranked 5841 by Netcraft. Our Alexa ratings went haywire when out meta data got lost in our html template. We fixed the problem and our Alexa ratings are returning to normal.

Rightardia is ranked #489,051 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. About 26% of visits to this site consist of only one pageview (i.e., are bounces). Visitors to it view 7.5 unique pages each day on average. We estimate that 73% of visitors to the site come from the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 220,372. Rightardia can be found in the “Blogger” category of internet sites.


The Alexa graphic indicates that more of our viewers are mature males with graduate school. 




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