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Golden Daily Digest (February 9, 2012)

john@lowgenius.com — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:39:00 -0700

Hey Sean Hannity! QUIT TRYING SO HARD WILL YA? LOL!!! Anyway... President Obama is set to announce a more viable plan by 2014 for states he is set to free from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind Law. Meanwhile, his administration has expressed its support for a new bipartisan bill from Congress, giving the executive branch leeway in vetoing certain provisions in future spending bills, a move by Congress that stands not without some level controversy among critics, as the legislative branch is still mired in worsening approval ratings. Congress is also setting up for a new vote with more restricitive (or maybe not?) measures to the STOCK Act after Rep. Chuck Grassley and the White House came after Congress for removing a provision in the bill that requires political intelligence firms to register as lobbyists. In other Congressional news, House Representative John Culberson (R-TX) found a new target to criticize the Obama administration with, in the recent release of some new...

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Golden Daily Digest (February 8, 2012)

john@lowgenius.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:13:00 -0700

Aside from all the conservative drivel directed toward President Obama, the President managed to have a little fun this week hosting a White House Science Fair, while strategically balancing himself and his administration between progress in mortgage refinancing (with a dip in foreclosures to help), stagnant Republicans on the payroll tax cut for the middle class, mild optimism for Europe's current crisis management efforts (where Greece is on alert and austerity is not an option), health insurance for families, CIA operations in Afghanistan & Iraq (foreign policy support notwithstanding), fundraising for an upcoming Presidential election, maintaining in the polls, courting the zombie vote, the return of Republican moron birthers and the key issue of a new mandate for workplace healthcare to cover contraception for women (a move already endorsed and supported by a new womens' rights campaign this week, as well as DePaul University and more than half the country) against disingenuous...

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Worldwide Poltroonery News Digest

john@lowgenius.com — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:28:00 -0700

Hail Eris! Big news today: New Hampshire legislators won't even be considering whether to overturn same-sex marriage. Barack Obama continues the "proud" US tradition of having a foreign policy that sucks really hard; but, to be fair, it's a tradition which has remained unbroken for over two centuries, so who is he to blaze new trails, on that frontier? OTOH, more domestically speaking, he does great, though he's finally giving in on the "Super PAC" issue. The last British WWI veteran dead at 110. Repercussions of that war (and of the Treaty of Versailles) continue to rage on into a new century. Truck crashes into van carrying migrant workers in Ontario, Canada; kills 11. WaPo commenter asks: "Were they illegals?" My PM wants to disentangle Canada from its mess of connections to the US, in favour of a bigger and even nastier tyranny. Then again, maybe he's just more comfortable with tyrants he can rely on to remain...

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Golden Daily Digest (February 6, 2012)

john@lowgenius.com — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:33:00 -0700

With the polls in his favor over Republican presidential candidate, Governor Mormon Romney, INC. as the race heads to Colorado, and just hours before the Giants big win on Superbowl Sunday, NBC reporter Matt Lauer sat down with President Obama for a brief pre-game interview in which the President shared his views on the game's outcome, the status of Afghanistan, the tension between Israel and Iran, and explained the details of last week's jobs report (which Right-wing media is still trying to undermine with constant efforts to twist the facts) citing his continued focus on economic growth to push for a second term (in spite of the challenges race may still play in this election year), which AP reports would also give him a great chance to replace Republican appeals court judges with Democrats. The continued religion-baiting tactics of Right-wing media, including Red State writer and CNN contributor Erick Erickson and Fox Newsishness contributor Steven Crowder are in the...

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Matt Desmond Harassing And Stalking Me Via Facebook’s Broken Reporting System

john@lowgenius.com — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:20:31 -0700

The drama continues, on and on. It seems that Mr. Desmond loves free expression, except when it’s criticizing him. This is a liberal? Filing an “abuse” report about…this? Oh my stars and garters, I called him unethical! SOMEONE BRING IN THE POLICE! But that’s not the kicker. Anyone with a lick of sense knows Desmond is a douchebag with all the redeeming value of fresh dog vomit. Any other time I’d laugh at the irony of a guy who has set up dozens of groups (in violation of FB policy) and dozens of sockpuppets (in violation of FB policy) complaining about abuse on FB, but take a closer look at that image. See where it says “If you don’t think the content violates our policies, please uncheck the box before continuing?” Do you see a box? Yeah, me neither. That’s because there is no box to un-check. So two short messages here: first to Matthew Desmond, or whatever his name actually is: I will NOT be bullied, sunshine, and I’m...

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Golden Daily Digest (February 3, 2012)

john@lowgenius.com — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:46:00 -0700

PRIOR to the Susan G. Komen Foundation's decision reversal (or so it seemed at the time), the recent major public backlash from dissenting voices across the country, including the entertainment industry, continued amidst the fallout over the foundation's premeditated decision to gut that same funding (whih would have casualtized stem-cell research in the process), as the facts started to arise over the politically motivated nature of their initial decision, their hypocrisy, who the new acting SGK-VP of public policy Karen Handel really is, her anti-gay views against same-sex families and households (debunked HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE) and new evidence further revealing Handel's political history of electoral fraud and unethical political ties as Georgia's Secretary Of State, catering to the GOP's voter disenfranchisement efforts then dating back to 2002. Liberal activist, author and MAD MIKE'S AMERICA senior editor Erin Nanasi tells the brief story of Charlotte Haley in light...

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Golden Daily Digest (February 2, 2012)

john@lowgenius.com — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:09:00 -0700

President Obama, who discussed his agenda in attendance at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday, still proves that his Christianity is still a problem for Right-wing media's take on Obama's war on religion. Speaking of Right-wing media... SHE'S still talking... more on her later. ;-) WaPo Wonkbook columnist Ezra Klein tackles the latest criticism of President Obama's jobs initiatives from House Speaker "Jobs-Jobs-Jobs", who is currently expressing his own level of frustration with the Tea Party, the subject of a new article at NATIONAL MEMO on the passage of healthcare law as their first defeat. MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell's REWRITE segment of his show features what he lists as "Reason #279 why voting this year is more important than ever, citing the recent decision by American Airlines' decision to gut 13,000 jobs from its staff to stave off bankruptcy as the key for voters to understanding if they would choose the President, or the Bain guy still having...

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Golden Daily Digest (February 1, 2012)

john@lowgenius.com — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:57:00 -0700

In a week of continued fundraising, President Obama's cabinet meeting on Tuesday included a dialogue outlining his agenda for the 2013 budget which included tax breaks and start-up capital for small businesses. The President is also on taking on mortgage refinancing, job creation and tax fairness, the latter being a key issue with her opponent Senator Scott Brown over the Buffet Rule. Warren also took to the airwaves over the the issue of insider trading in a week where the STOCK act is currently finding its way to its passage. Two new articles from Andrew Sullivan (THE DAILY BEAST) and Suzy Khimm (WaPo) reveal how the housing bubble did not do much for home sales in the last 20 years, and a look into how private equity firms are looking to purchase foreclosed homes and what this could mean for the housing market. Ilan Berman has a new article available at THE DAILY BEAST that delves into the issue of how President Obama can further aid the uprising in Syria, where Russia is also...

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Golden Daily Digest (January 31, 2012)

john@lowgenius.com — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:10:00 -0700

Alrighty, let's get to it! President Obama continues to tackle jobs, college affordability and continued Republican bureacracy on his green jobs initiatives; Earlier on, the contentious debate between Democrats and Republicans about details surrounding Right-wing corporate, political involvement with the Keystone XL Pipeline project revealed the true nature of the GOP and House Speaker John Boehner, even as he continues use every opportunity to go on GOP-friendly Fox News, lie to the public about the Republican agenda over the past three years (which is STILL in development) and disingenuously attack the President, and Republican Indiana (pro-poverty) Governor Mitch Daniels' getting on the bandwagon. Having said that, I guess we can count the WALL STREET JOURNAL out? Geez, talk about ethics...*smdh New reports are out this week, discussing how jobs are faring in the country (including several key swing states), and the steady maintenance of union membership. Other reports are...

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Rick Santorum's Youngest Daughter: Yeah...About That...

john@lowgenius.com — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:01:00 -0700

(Editor's note: Your writer here is Lee Golden, who handles the Golden Daily Digests at LowGenius.Net. My apologies for any confusion; I need to change a couple of things on this site now that it's more than just me writing, so you can see a lead line and byline. With all that said, I wholeheartedly agree with Lee's point and message here. It's hard sometimes, to avoid being angry...but there's also a difference between being angry and just being a petty jerk. There's plenty to be angry about, including with the idea that anyone, anywhere, ever thought of Rick Santorum as qualified for public office. However, dragging his kid into it is being a petty jerk. I think there are some observations that could be made - for instance, that Mr. Santorum might take a moment to consider his many constituents who, faced with a similar situation, would have no access to necessary medical care or a huge debt burden that would follow them the rest of...

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