The government computes two measures of "poverty" for various purposes.  The main one is the "poverty threshold" which is the measure to which we refer when we talk about whether more or less people are in pverty today than at some prior time.

Cute and snarky all at the same time, but what else does one expect from the crime family, of course? Former Prez Bush, the Chimpster's papa recently lashed out at we bloggers...

The "Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction" has uncovered several instances of fraud, embezzlement, and other efforts to redirect money from Iraq reconstruction projects to the pockets of a passel of sleazos.

For all those who say, "what's it hurt to bring religious beliefs into the realm of government?"

What does a powerful group of corporate interests do when they see their interests threatened?  You really need to ask?

They come up with their own rather questionable "solution" to the problem that has caused the threat to them, one which guaranties that they will remain powerful, successful, and rolling in profit.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.  Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.  They use every opportunity to impugn democracy....They claim to be super-patriots but would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.  They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

In what may well be the first benefit to be seen from the Democratic victory in last week's elections, the AP reported over the weekend that:

President Bush's once-secret program for wiretapping U.S.-foreign phone calls and computer traffic of suspected terrorists without warrants shows all the signs of not moving ahead, notwithstanding President Bush's request this week that a lame-duck Congress give it to him.

Unnecessary and excessive packaging and waste contribute to dangerous climate change. It also adds to the cost to local authorities and the public managing waste. Until supermarkets demonstrate clearly that they are willing to lead by example we cannot expect consumers to get fully engaged with reducing their own waste.

It's turning into a pretty good month for honesty, common sense, and the public interest:
Tom Noe may have found God, but justice has found Tom Noe.

You've probably seen them, like this one at NewsMax: Lieberman Won't Rule Out GOP Change

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