The Hitler gun control lie: Gun rights activists who cite the dictator as a reason against gun control have their history dangerously wrong As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler’s, actually had tougher gun laws than the Nazi regime. … The 1938 law signed by Hitler that LaPierre…
The musical “The Book of Mormon” is showing currently in Seattle. Its entire run is sold-out. It makes fun of Mormons. Why can the producers get away with ridiculing Mormons? They wouldn’t be able to make a musical that ridiculed Jews or Muslims, or blacks or women. Jews like Mel Brooks lampoon Jews. Gays make…
Name Photo Position Annual Salary Net worth Approximate percent of income paid in Washington state taxes Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO $1.3 million about $15.7 billion Mark Ritz Restaurant cook $25,500 about $3000 Sources Microsoft CEO Ballmer pay slips 4 pct to $1.3M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer Washington: Who Pays? Fact sheet Cook $13 – $15/HR ($26,000 – $30,000/yr),…
Senator Rodney Tom serves the 48th Legislative District in Bellevue.  He has recently come under criticism for helping Republicans take control of the state senate. (See Democrats Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon hand control of State Senate to Republicans.) The resolution below, by the 48th LD, falls short of condemning or censuring Senator Tom, although…
Click here to sign a petition ask the WA State legislature to help overturn the Supreme Court Citizens United equating money with speech and treating corporations as persons. Get the Washington State Legislature to pass a resolution during the 2013 session calling on the U.S. Congress to pass a constitutional amendment that in effect reverses…
Charter School Moguls Scam State Out of Millions In the latest incident of charter school fraud, the state of Oregon is going after a pair of charter school con men who reportedly scammed the state out of $17 million. The Oregonian is reporting that Tim King and Norm Donohoe, who ran a chain of taxpayer-funded…
From Rolling Stone’s Secret and Lies of the Bailout: Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, remembers a call with Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. “We need $700 billion,” they told Brown, “and we need it in three days.” What’s more, the plan stipulated, Paulson could spend the money however he pleased, without…
Whereas Senator Rodney Tom ran as a Democrat in 2010 in the 48th Legislative District; and Whereas Senator Tom received over $25,000 from the State Democratic Party and $44,000 in in-kind donations from the Senate Democratic Caucus in 2010, and additional support and resources from the 48th District Democrats; and Whereas Senator Tim Sheldon ran…
Rep. Adam Smith voted against the budget deal, saying, it make “getting to a reasonable ten-year plan far more difficult by making permanent 90 percent of the Bush Tax Cuts. By not allowing those tax cuts to expire, and then making them permanent, we took $3.5 Trillion of revenue off the table. This will lead…
The Wall Street Journal points out that by retaining tax cuts for incomes up to $400,000, “Democrats aren’t just accepting, but embracing and extending, at least 98% of the 2001 Bush tax cuts.” Throughout the run-up to the budget deal, I received emails from the White House emphasizing the reasons why the President would have…