87 votes

Papers Please! Part II

After my first Papers Please post, a friend of mine called me up and shared this video with me.

http://youtu.be/0zQQCSwZwcA

Note this is inside the United States, between Arizona and California.

50 votes

Am I Crazy ?

Let's compare Obama's and Romney's stances on the issues:

Mitt Romney Barack Obama
Pro NDAA Pro NDAA
Pro Patriot Act Pro Patriot Act
Pro Agenda 21 Pro Agenda 21
Pro TSA Pro TSA
Pro Carbon tax Pro Carbon tax
Pro Individual Mandate Pro Individual Mandate
47 votes

Veterans Groups Urge Soldiers To Refuse Anymore Deployments To Afghanistan...

Veterans groups are urging soldiers to refuse combat (in this case specifically JBLM’s 4th Brigade - Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State)

This group of anti-war veterans are using leaflets to try to put an end to the re-re-re-deployment of soldiers from JBLM to Afghanistan.

Without a draft, the only way the war-mongering polticians can keep their little war-profiteering charade going is to deploy the same soldiers over and over - sometimes up to 5 times.

So in an attempt to end the madness, this group of veterans is suggesting soldiers go to any length (including going AWOL), to interrupt this process.

20 votes

New Reverse Mortgage Abuses Pushing Seniors Out of their Homes

NY Times: The very loans that are supposed to help seniors stay in their homes are in many cases pushing them out.

Reverse mortgages, which allow homeowners 62 and older to borrow money against the value of their homes and not pay it back until they move out or die, have long been fraught with problems. But federal and state regulators are documenting new instances of abuse as smaller mortgage brokers, including former subprime lenders, flood the market after the recent exit of big banks and as defaults on the loans hit record rates.

28 votes

"We don't owe, we won't pay!" Thousands protest in Spain's capital over government austerity measures

MADRID — Several thousand anti-austerity protesters in Spain marched down a major street in the capital banging pots and pans Saturday.

Many protesters also blew whistles as they blocked part of the Castellana boulevard Saturday carrying placards saying “We don’t owe, we won’t pay.”

“None of us pushed the banks to lend huge sums of money to greedy property speculators, yet we are being asked to pay for other’s mistakes,” 34-year-old civil servant Maria Costa, who was banging an old pot along with her two children, said.

17 votes

CNN's Candy Crowley Challenges Rules Set by Commission on Presidential Debates

In a rare example of political unity, both the Romney and the Obama campaigns have expressed concern to the Commission on Presidential Debates about how the moderator of the Tuesday town hall has publicly described her role, TIME has learned.

While an early October memorandum of understanding between the Obama and Romney campaigns and the bipartisan commission sponsoring the debates suggests CNN‘s Candy Crowley would play a limited role in the Tuesday night session, Crowley, who is not a party to that agreement, has done a series of interviews on her network in which she has suggested she will assume a broader set of responsibilities. As Crowley put it last week, “Once the table is kind of set by the town hall questioner, there is then time for me to say, ‘Hey, wait a second, what about x, y, z?’”

16 votes

Social Security increase for 2013 could be lowest since 1975

Social Security recipients shouldn't expect a big increase in monthly benefits come January.

Preliminary figures show the annual benefit boost will be between 1 percent and 2 percent, which would be among the lowest since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975.

Monthly benefits for retired workers now average $1,237, meaning the typical retiree can expect a raise of between $12 and $24 a month.

103 votes

Help End the Fraud of The Commission on Presidential Debates!

"The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) began in 1987 by the Democratic and Republican parties to establish the way that presidential election debates are run between candidates for President of the United States.

"Prior to this, the League of Women Voters moderated the 1976, 1980, 1984 debates before it withdrew from the position as debate moderator with this statement after the 1988 Presidential debates:

"the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Presidential_Debates

So how do we end the fraud? We have our own debate, and we do our best to let the entire nation know about the debate and the CPD's fraud. But we need Your help!

The debate will take place in Chicago on the 23rd @ 8pm Central Time at the University Club of Chicago

Hosted by the Free & Equal Elections Foundation.

49 votes

Best Doug Casey Speech Ever! An Anarchist, Economic Collapse & 7 Billion Chimpanzees

This is Doug Casey at Libertopia, this is without a doubt his best speech ever. He holds no punches amongst fellow libertarians and anarchists. This is informative and excellent!

Video:

http://youtu.be/ryD5lqRM-Tw

31 votes

Child Suspended From School For Kombucha In Lunchbox

by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

The lunch police have struck again.

First, there was the story of a preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School in North Carolina who was given a highly processed, cafeteria lunch containing pink slime chicken nuggets on January 30, 2012 because the school decided that the turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice her mother packed was not nutritious enough.

Now comes the story of an elementary school boy from Newport Beach, California who was suspended from school this week for the kombucha in his lunchbox that school administration said violated the school district’s drug and alcohol policy.

The boy’s mother contacted me 2 days ago the very afternoon her son was suspended in a plea to help her resolve the situation.

56 votes

Selling cars for silver coins on Craigslist

I saw an F-250 for sale on Craiglist, asking either $35000 in cash, or something like $1500 face value in pre-1965 silver coins.

That was the first time I've seen something with a specific silver coin asking price. Craigslist really is the perfect venue to start a parallel silver standard, so next time I'm selling on Craiglist I'll definitely put a silver price, too.

Have any of you posted an ad with a silver price, or even paid for something in silver lately? I think it is a great thing to get hard money back in circulation, beginning with private purchases. Trading worthless paper dollars for hard currency, even on a small scale, will help insulate us from currency manipulation.

89 votes

What one Veteran wishes the American people knew about "Supporting the Troops"

What one Veteran wishes the American people knew about "Supporting the Troops"

http://youtu.be/DzKw9FeyRew

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