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Guide to Ethical Purchasing

This website rates companies and/or CEOs based on where they made political contributions, mostly in the 2016 election.

Data gathered from the Center for Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets.org), www.campaignmoney.com, and the Federal Election Commission (www.fec.gov). 

Sometimes it’s difficult to gauge where PAC money is going and who is contributing, and this list may not be completely accurate (or inclusive) so feel free to contact admin@ethicalpurchasing.info if you have additional information.

Red: Companies that contributed to Trump/Pence campaign (or Ted Cruz), whose CEO’s publicly endorsed Trump, and/or who support more extremist right-wing policies/organizations

Yellow: Companies who have contributed to both GOP/Democrat candidates. Those closer to the red zone favor GOP candidates.

Green: Companies who contributed to HRC and/or other Democrat candidates, and/or whose CEOs who have publicly supported HRC and/or liberal causes.

Presented Without Comment | Wind And Wankpuffins

xkcd

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Edgar Mitchell, 1930-2016

from a fifth grader | via FB

Bad Reception | The New Yorker | Feb 2016

Wankpuffin is my new favorite word.

Any Purebreeds Left?

Ms. Pierson is Donald Trump's spokesperson.

If Only ...

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Tears Of Joy

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iSideWith | How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

From the website:

iSideWith.com was started in March 2012 by two friends with two very different views of politics. Our goal is to save users time by providing an accurate and updated breakdown of which candidates they side with on the issues. We aim to educate voters and to boost voter turnout this election season.

Taylor Peck runs the editorial, research, and promotional aspects of the site. He is a marketing consultant and self described politics "crackhead" who needs political news to sustain daily life. Nick Boutelier is the web designer and programmer. A lifelong undecided voter, he was searching for an easier way to stay updated on the issues and candidates he sides with.

That’s it! We are not affiliated with any investors, shareholders, advertisers, political party or interest group. If you share our passion for this project and would like to support it, please help us out with a PayPal donation so we can educate more voters about your local and state representatives by Election Day (November 4th, 2014).

Via Dangerous Minds

Secret Plea From National Weather Service Employees

Like prisoners speaking in code, the National Weather Service hid a plea in one of their routine reports.

Atlantic Wire

'Chicks On The Right' Discuss 'Real' Feminism

"Daisy" and "Mockarena"

From their debut blog post in the Indianapolis Star:

... Real feminism is defined by women who can, and do, take care of themselves. Real feminists don’t look for a Prince Charming to rescue them, and they don’t look for a handout. That sort of entitlement mentality hurls women back several decades, when it was expected that someone else (a man) would pay their way. Liberal feminism has morphed into a laughable movement filled with harpies who hold up signs saying, “Hoes before embryos” while defining themselves entirely by their “lady parts.” We, on the other hand, define ourselves by our character, our passions, our loves, our strengths, our abilities and our successes.

Today’s Democratic platform has centered its messaging on a manufactured “War on Women,” which is simply a flimsy facade for the entitlement machine that feeds women a false sense of security. Well, NOTHING is free. And relying on taxpayers to pay for your “reproductive choices” isn’t strength. If you think that government should and will take care of you from cradle to grave, you’re no different than the chick who hopes to land an old, rich dude with a weak heart and flexible will. 

In other words, you’re not a feminist — you’re just pathetic. Rather than fall for the manufactured war-on-women nonsense that helped hand President Obama a second term, women need to know the truth — that they’ll fare far better in life by taking responsibility for themselves. 

Does this mean women can’t choose to be stay-at-home moms as their husbands serve as the primary breadwinners? Of course not. That’s a family’s personal choice to make. We’re simply saying that before a woman relies on a man to “win the bread” she should have a way of providing for herself should that man cease to be in her life for whatever reason. Life can be unpredictable, and women would do well to be prepared for any possibility. 

Ironically, conservative “feminists” like us are accused of being the ones trying to set women back. But we know any government (or man) powerful enough to give us something is powerful enough to take it away. Just remember that as you make your demands on taxpayers, liberal feminists. You’re the ones handing over women’s power. Not conservative women like us. 

Now if someone would please pass us our stilettos. We’ve got to get back to work.

Lost Ms. Lanny-yap at "Chicks."

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Mitt Rubio

#GOPResponse #SOTU #gop #tcot twitter.com/marcorubio/sta…
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 13, 2013

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Borowitz | Fox News To Shut Down Monday Morning For Routine Maintenance

New Yorker

Thanks, Rick

Monday 21 January, 11:40 a.m.
The local FoxNews affiliate is airing a Jerry Springer repeat titled "Lesbian Stripper Threesome."

Four More Years

Source: Barack Obama | Twitter

Also a classy speech, but message was clear: little girls with leukemia die under Repub.s, so its a good thing I pulled it out. Kinda true.
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) November 7, 2012

We're watching a black, pro-gay, pro-woman man reaccept the presidency. That's the future of this gnarly old country.
— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) November 7, 2012

No jokes I'm just happy my girls get to grow up in a better world than I did. .
— Chris Rock (@chrisrock) November 7, 2012

Eighty percent of the non-white vote goes to Obama. [Insert your Republican prognostications here]
— Alex Wagner (@alexwagner) November 7, 2012

Don't feel bad for Mitt Romney. He can always go back to being the guy kayaking in any Lipitor commercial.
— Damien Fahey (@DamienFahey) November 7, 2012

Such a stunning across-the-board repudiation of shitbirds.
— Andy Richter (@Andy_Richter) November 7, 2012

Too nervous to watch election coverage earlier in the evening, I couldn't sleep and turned the TV on around midnight. Now my face hurts from crying happy tears. The rape-y guys lost, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin, and Claire McCaskill won, gay people can legally get married in Maryland and Maine, Coloradans can buy pot legally, and Barack Obama is still my president. A big night for the left. No tweets tonight from Limbaugh or Hannity, but Donald Trump and Karl Rove had meltdowns and it seems other conservatives are finally ready to shut down these divisive polemicists.

I'm feeling hopeful and grateful. And ... no more nasty political ads or intrusive robocalls! YAY!

Twttr | Voldemort Is Next

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Death Penalty For Rebellious Children

Charlie Fuqua, the Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives who called for expelling Muslims from the United States in his book, also wrote in support for instituting the death penalty for "rebellious children."

In "God's Law," Fuqua's 2012 book, the candidate wrote that while parents love their children, a process could be set up to allow for the institution of the death penalty for "rebellious children," according to the Arkansas Times. Fuqua, who is anti-abortion, points out that the course of action involved in sentencing a child to death is described in the Bible and would involve judicial approval. While it is unlikely that many parents would seek to have their children killed by the government, Fuqua wrote, such power would serve as a way to stop rebellious children.

In the same book, Fuqua advocated for expelling Muslims from the U.S., saying it would solve what he described as the "Muslim problem." Fuqua, who has been backed by the state GOP and is seeking a comeback, has found himself under attack by Republicans since his comments surfaced at the same time it was reported that state Rep. Jon Hubbard (R-Jonesboro) endorsed slavery in his book. Fuqua told the Associated Press that he was surprised by the reaction to his writings on Muslims. "I think my views are fairly well-accepted by most people," Fuqua said to AP.

More at the Huffington Post

Dear Mitt Romney | 'Find Something Else To Cut Off'

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Eight-year-old Alabama resident Cecelia Crawford wasn't happy during the debate on Wednesday night when Mitt Romney said he would stop government funding for PBS. On Thursday morning, she was still angry, so she wrote Romney a letter, sent along to The Huffington Post by her mother.

Crawford wrote that she is a fan of "Sesame Street" and that it was her "favorite show on earth" when she was younger. "When I grow up I'm going to get married and I want my kids to watch it so do not cut it off," Crawford wrote. "You find something else to cut off!"

Romney told PBS host Jim Lehrer, who moderated the presidential debate, that he would stop the subsidy to Lehrer's network. "I’m sorry, Jim, I’m gonna stop the subsidy to PBS ... I like PBS, I love Big Bird -- I actually like you, too -- but I am not going to keep spending money on things [we have] to borrow money from China to pay for," Romney said.

Crawford's mother mailed the letter on Thursday to Romney's campaign headquarters.

Huffington Post

Salon

Politics | Glen Beck Says That God Put Romney Behind In Polls To Prove It’s A Miracle When He Wins

YouTube

Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck says that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s poll numbers have fallen as a part of a plan from God to make it obvious to the American people that divine intervention was responsible when Republicans take the White House in November. “I know Mitt Romney wasn’t your first choice, nor was he mine,” Beck recently told controversial “historian” David Barton in a video clip highlighted by Right Wing Watch on Monday. “I am to the point that God is trying to make this so clear to us that if it happens, it’s his finger. Because nothing looks good ... And yet, everybody I know who I consider a spiritual giant feels good,” he continued. “And it bothers me that I feel good because, I’m like, there’s no reason that I should feel good on this.”

Just too goofy not to post.

Via The Raw Story | Dangerous Minds

Politics | New Independent Christian Party

The New Independent Christian Party (NICP) is the Party of “No Compromise.” We are committed to addressing the multiple issues and concerns that exist among Americans in a way that will benefit and enhance each of their lives overall.

Together we will make a difference in America and throughout the world. NICP’s goal is to position the Christian base for maximum influence in America, impact the world and increase the kingdom. It is an independent political Party which seeks to:

• Influence the selection, nomination, election or appointment of individuals to a federal, state, local and/or government public office, etc. 
• Promote Christian values and address the issues and concerns in the forefront of American lives 
• Nominate and support the election of Christians to all levels of public office 
• Advocate for the Christian agenda and rights, Endorse candidates and raise money for political campaigns and related activities 
• Organize Nationwide to work on campaigns and recruit volunteers 
• Establish phone banks and conduct voter education and registration drives, and support candidates who take uncompromising stands on Christian issues. 

We have so much to do for the cause of Christ!

From today's press release:

There does not exist a reliable political party that purely represents the overall Christian agenda in America. We can neither ignore the overwhelming contrast to our Godly principles of the marriage equality and abortion rights agendas, which the Democrats strongly support, nor can we be oblivious to the arrogant, greedy, unsympathetic Pharisaic practices of the Republicans ... The November election is poised to leave the Christian base with an extremely bitter taste of misrepresentation and miscalculation of our position and priorities concerning many of the issues in the forefront of American lives today ... The misrepresentation of the biblical teachings and principles to which we profess as Christians, prevent us from continuing to support either the Democratic or the Republican Party candidates.

Via Dangerous Minds

A Vote Against A Library Is Like A Vote To Burn Books

Vimeo

The Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide agency has won a gold prize in the Effie awards for their hoax "Book Burning Party" campaign, which is credited with saving the public library in Troy, MI. Michigan's extreme austerity measures and collapsing economy had put the library under threat, and the town proposed a 0.7% tax raise to keep it open. The local Tea Party spent a large sum of money opposing the measure on the grounds that all taxes are bad, so the Burnett campaign reframed the issue by creating a hoax campaign to celebrate the library's closure with a Book Burning Party a few days after the vote.

The outrage generated by this campaign was sufficient to win the day for the library, as Troy's residents made the connection between closing libraries and burning books, focusing their minds on literacy and shared community, rather than taxation.

BoingBoing

Thanks, Phyl

Invisible Obama

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Happy Place

Ad Hawk | Who's Behind That Political Ad?

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Ad Hawk is a free mobile app that allows you to identify political ads as they air and immediately learn about who is behind them. Want to know who is spending money to influence your vote? The app provides valuable contextual information about the candidate, super PAC, and issues ads airing on TV and radio this election year.

Also available for Apple and Android mobile devices.

Via Big Think