January 2012
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“It is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he should lift himself by his own...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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2012 Movies of the Year: 1-10
#1 Our Idiot Brother - Paul Rudd is 100% lovable and charming, amazing supporting cast, low-stakes enjoyment. 7.5/10
#2 Midnight In Paris - Owen Wilson is mostly a bystander, but the movie wraps you up in the magic of Paris. Great fun. 8.5/10
#3 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck absolutely crush it. Gripping, compelling. 9/10
#4 Tomorrow...
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IOWA PREDICTIONS
The 1st place candidate will declare a major victory, no matter how close the next candidates may be. The 2nd place candidate will say the contest continues and that the primary hasn’t been decided. The 3rd place candidate will say they out-performed expectations and are a competitor in the race, even if they aren’t.
December 2011
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Unemployed protesters stage sit-ins in dozens of lawmaker offices - The Hill
The protests, organized by activist groups including OurDC and Moveon.org, will target 99 lawmakers’ offices by the end of the day, according to event spokesman Mike Uehlein.
“These folks have traveled from across the country,” he told The Hill, noting that many of the protesters were unemployed. “They’re calling...
August 2011
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Half of Republicans, Most Democrats Skipping Town... →
Just under half of House and Senate Republicans are holding town hall meetings this summer, but Democratic jobs activists say it’s not enough. “They’re holding a lot fewer” than in 2009, says Michael Uehlein, spokesman for the American Dream Movement. Progressives are showing up at the offices of lawmakers to demand that Congress focus more on jobs and less on federal...
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Democrats gain partial victory in August town... →
But liberals protested outside of events if they couldn’t get in and ask questions, demanding that Congress focus its attention on the economy and issue legislation focused on jobs.
“I think its been a good month,” said Michael Uehlein, spokesperson for the American Dream Movement, a liberal coalition hoping to rival the tea party. “There were hundreds of protests across the country, more than...
amomentwithtim:
““For the fact is that right now the economy desperately needs a short-run fix. When you’re bleeding profusely from an open wound, you want a doctor who binds that wound up, not a doctor who lectures you on the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle as you get older. When millions of willing and able workers are unemployed, and economic potential is going to waste to the...
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July 2011
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Wisconsin Governor Threatens To Replace Union... →
Union leaders and labor scholars don’t think Walker’s move to crush the union is about the deficit.
“Denying people’s rights has nothing to do with the budget,” said Michael Uehlein [with] the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Uehlein views Walker’s proposal as “an excuse to go after his political...
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Miller-Meeks changes stance on Social Security... →
However, the AFL-CIO isn’t changing its criticism that Miller-Meeks “wants to risk Social Security on the stock market.”
“Miller-Meeks can bob-and-weave around the position all she wants, but Iowans want straight answers,” said AFL-CIO spokesman Michael Uelein. “Dave Loebsack has promised to protect Social Security. Miller-Meeks has changed her position so...
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AFL-CIO sends out more campaign mailers in Iowa -... →
The Iowa mailers are going directly to union members, rather than the general public.
“Reason being that they see it as a communication from a trusted source, their union, that they want to read, rather than random piece of mail like the general public sees it,” said Michael Uehlein, field communications director for the Iowa AFL-CIO. “So union members spend much more time reading pieces, and...
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An interview with WFHB in Bloomington from...
WatchNever laughed so hard at a ‘Mad Men’ episode. This is great.
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June 2011
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Watchthedailywhat:
Tell Us How You Really Feel of the Day: On MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, Time editor-at-large Mark Halperin was asked by Joe Scarborough about the President’s strongly-worded press briefing.
“I thought he was a dick yesterday,” Halperin responded, after an assurance from Scarborough that the show was on tape-delay. “I was joking,” Scarborough exclaimed.
Halperin issued an...
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“[I]n an episode about everybody getting shit-faced, I was the one going, “Let’s...”
– Dan Harmon, putting into words why “Mixology Certification” is one of my favorite episodes of television ever aired.
You know what makes humans different from other animals? We are the only species on the planet that observes Shark Week. Sharks don’t even observe shark week, but we do. For the same reason that I can pick up this pencil, tell you it’s name is Steve and go like this [breaks Steve] and part of you dies a little bit on the inside because people can connect with anything. We can sympathize with a...
Romney 2012: Like John Kerry, but for Republicans
May 2011
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For the past month I’ve been stuck in this weird, transitional rut. My workload has been drastically reduced as I transition out of my job with the AFL-CIO, but I feel like I’ve been squandering the extra free time.
I should be reading, I should be writing, I should be doing arithmetic. Instead, I’ve read books about zombies and ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’....
How To Live In Washington DC →
Get accepted into a “competitive” fellowship or internship or entry level lobbying position, whatever. Think this is it: it’s only a matter of time before you are saving the world (or securing a “real” job). Look on Craigslist for an apartment…see the price of a one bedroom condo by the Capitol is $2700.00. Silently squeal to yourself. Look farther way. Google Shaw-Howard. Look closer....
“We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they...”
– Al Franken (via greaterthanlapsed)
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April 2011
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