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The Daily F Bomb, Monday 8/26/13

Interrogatories

It’s National Cherry Popsicle Day. What is your favorite popsicle flavor?

Did you ride on the school bus? If so, do you have negative or positive memories? (Conversely, if you didn’t take the bus, did you walk barefoot for 15 miles in the snow, uphill both ways?)

Did your school have a dress code?

Today is Women’s Equality Day. Do you think that women can achieve equality without addressing other issues, such as racism and poverty?

The Twitter Emitter

News and Views: Found on the Internets – Sunday, 08/25



A series of tubes filled with enormous amounts of material

John Lewis At March On Washington: ‘I’m Not Going To Stand By And Let The Supreme Court Take The Right To Vote Away’

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) – who was the youngest speaker during the March on Washington in 1963 – delivered a passionate address about the importance of protecting voting rights at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial fifty years later, as thousands gathered to celebrate the anniversary of the historic event on Saturday.


Read More: WaPo Editorial: Fighting for the Franchise

Read More: DOJ to Texas: Voter Suppression Will Not Stand

Read More: Unfinished Business Marks March On Washington 50th Anniversary

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A Guide To The Nation’s Most Vulnerable Governors

Democrats Jerry Brown and Andrew Cuomo look like safe bets for re-election in California and New York, respectively. And, despite the pending retirement of Rick Perry, Republicans are confident of maintaining their hold on the governor’s mansion in Texas.

But Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois all feature embattled incumbents whose reelection campaigns will easily cost tens of millions of dollars. Michigan GOP Gov. Rick Snyder could also face a real contest.

In all, 36 states will be voting for governor in 2014. All but a handful will feature incumbents favored for re-election.

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OOPS: Obamacare Opponent Is Very Impressed With The Law He Hates So Much

After [Kentucky public health workee Reina] Diaz-Dempsey explained that he will either qualify for tax credits to buy insurance through Kynect (the state’s new insurance marketplace) or an expanded Medicaid pool in October, the man seemed pleased and mused, “This beats Obamacare, I hope.”

Kynect is actually one of the statewide insurance marketplaces at the heart of Obamacare, and the Medicaid expansion is another provision that stems from the health reform law. But Diaz-Dempsey doesn’t tell the man that – figuring the connection to Obamacare might actually dissuade him from pursuing coverage in a state with terrible public health demographics, where one in every five adults is uninsured.

Read More: Parts of ACA More Popular Than The Whole

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Black Lung Has Been On The Rise For Years, But A Long-Delayed Rule Might Finally Stop It

As cases of black lung surge in coal country, the Obama administration may finally be moving forward with a long-delayed rule to protect coal miners from the deadly disease. On Thursday, a notice posted on the administration’s Office of Management and Budget website said a final version of the rule was sent to the White House on Wednesday.

The new rule, first proposed in October 2010, aims to reduce miners’ exposure to coal dust. The dust causes the irreversible and potentially fatal black lung disease, which has been on the rise in recent years. The rule would seek to tighten allowable levels of coal dust exposure, as well as require continuous personal dust monitors for miners and change how companies monitor dust exposure.

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Republicans being Republicans …

New Jersey Senate Candidate To Single Mothers: Stop Relying On Food Stamps And Go To Work!

Six Colorado Counties Will Vote To Secede And Form North Colorado

Senator Claims Pentagon Policy Allowing Gays To Marry Harms Straight Couples

GOP Sen. Coburn: Obama Getting ‘Perilously Close’ To Impeachable Offenses

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“Baby, everything is going to be OK.”

Antoinette Tuff is my hero.

Just watched her interview with Anderson Cooper. Yes, she deserves all the praise she has just begun to get. I can’t imagine it will go to her head, which is something in itself that speaks to who she is.

And while she very much is special, part of it is that she is not. She is very much like many people we all know, just as generally decent as she seems.

She saved every one of those 800 children in that elementary school. It is quite literally almost impossible to top that, ever, as an act of sheer goodness. The trauma she saved their families and community is exponentially broader than even that. But even beyond something of that scale she saved us all – hundreds of millions of us – the pain of something far worse than even what happened in Newtown.

Each level of her accomplishment is so large that it is almost impossible to see the whole picture at once. I think it will take us all a long time to process just what she did and what it means in so many ways.

Each of us personally owes her more than we will ever be able to pay. Supporting her idea for a charity until it is a permanent part of the American experience seems like the least we can do as a start.

Donate to Antoinette’s Charity to Provide Under Priveliged Children the Chance to Travel

The Daily F Bomb, Friday 8/23/13

Interrogatories

Did your school serve lunches, or did you have to bring your own? If they provided lunch, was it good? If you brought your own, what did you usually bring? Did you have a bag or a lunchbox? Did you have a cool lunchbox?

How charitable are you?

Do you think of yourself as brave?

Name one thing that makes you cowardly.

The Twitter Emitter

NY GOP Accuses NY Democrats of Waging ‘War on Women’

This comes in an attempt to raise money for the state Republican Party by using two high profile candidates in this year’s New York City elections.  One of the candidates, Anthony Weiner, is pretty much dead in the water.  He’s lagging well behind in the polls and will not make the Democratic runoff that will follow the primary.  The other is former governor Eliot Spitzer, who is running for comptroller and currently leading in his race.

The mailing’s basic premise is that because these two men did icky things, and because the Democratic Party is considerably stronger than the Republican Party in New York, all Democrats are icky and you, the recipient, should send money to help Republicans.

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