{"id":7550,"date":"2012-05-08T00:17:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T04:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2012-05-08T00:17:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T04:17:50","slug":"hotfoot-powder-all-around-my-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/05\/08\/hotfoot-powder-all-around-my-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotfoot powder all around my door"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u201cMaterial things kill painlessly, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2012\/05\/material-things-kill-us-painlessly-but-love-revives-through-torments-kahlil-gibran-poster.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">love revives us through torments<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fine for wage theft was so light and the protections for workers were so weak, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/13084\/new_york_wage_theft_labor_progressive_states_network_make_the_road\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">it just made sense to violate the law<\/a>.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indignantdesertbirds.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>via<\/em> Punning Pundit<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpriorities.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/pie-week-discretionary-budget\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7552\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2012\/05\/discretionary1-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\"><\/a>\u201cWhich federal program took in more than it spent last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/david-cay-johnston\/2012\/05\/04\/social-security-is-not-going-broke\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty?<\/a>\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/azspot.net\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>via<\/em> AZspot<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Congress returns from recess this week, House Republicans are set to advance <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/05\/gop-defense-cuts-poverty-poor.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">legislation to replace automatic defense spending cuts they agreed to last year with cuts to programs for the poor and working class<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen conservatives begin arguing that we don\u2019t want equality of outcome, just equality of opportunity, <a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/opportunity-society\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">look closely at what it is they\u2019re arguing against<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/05\/07\/11579033-moving-the-economic-goalposts\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bush\u2019s pre-crash average was roughly half of last month\u2019s job totals<\/a> \u2014 totals Romney described as \u2018terrible.'\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll told, <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsofjustice.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/07\/unprecedented-flowers-case-highlighted-by-reason-magazine\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Flowers has stood trial six times<\/a> \u2014 a record in the history of American capital murder cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2012\/05\/07\/right-and-good\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Being right is not right if it is not also good<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorryingly, there are even signs that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-passivity-of-the-catholic-church\/2012\/05\/06\/gIQAJgAU6T_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the church\u2019s passivity has morphed into hostility toward its accusers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is plenty of reason to suspect ulterior motives\u2013up to an including simple opposition to the Obama Administration \u2014 on the anti-mandate side. That\u2019s why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/blogs\/mark-silk\/getgetreligion\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">taking the opponents at their word gives readers neither a fair nor accurate account of what\u2019s going on<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy job as finance director was to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/05\/us\/tbn-fight-offers-glimpse-inside-lavish-tv-ministry.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">find ways to label extravagant personal spending as ministry expenses<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/paulbibeau.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/message-from-john-divine-author-of-book.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nero, Nero, Bo-Bero, Banana, Fanna, Fo-Fero<\/a> \u2026 Mee, Mi, Mo-Mero, <em>NERO!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubsidy Tracker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodjobsfirst.org\/subsidy-tracker\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Discover Where Corporations Are Getting Taxpayer Handouts<\/a> Across the United States\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Today is the 101st anniversary of the birth of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3UVgH9JqSnQ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Johnson<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMaterial things kill painlessly, but love revives us through torments.\u201d \u201cThe fine for wage theft was so light and the protections for workers were so weak, that it just made sense to violate the law.\u201d (via Punning Pundit) \u201cWhich federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hotfoot powder all around my door<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Material things kill painlessly, but love revives us through torments.&quot; 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