SUNDAY

Quote of the Day
May 8, 2011

'With the final results tallied, according to the BBC,
the Scottish National Party had won 69 of the 129 seats
in Scotland's regional Parliament. The result gave the
nationalists a majority there for the first time since
the assembly was created in 1999 - a triumph that
resounded loudly some 77 years after the party was
founded as a minority group promising to reverse the
three-centuries-old Act of Union between England and
Scotland.

'The nationalists' victory was seen by analysts partly
as a reward for its track record in a regional
government that, in marked contrast to the English
authorities, maintained Scots' free access to
university education and to broad social benefits, even
in hard economic times.'

New York Times
May 7, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/4265fh9

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/3jj8stg
Integrity
Mike Luckovich

MONDAY

Quote of the Day
May 9, 2011

'News out from the real estate site, Zillow is grim.
The housing market in the first quarter of this year
experienced a big drop, falling by 3 percent. This is
the biggest decline the housing market has seen since
the worst days in 2008. Two other records were made in
March - the most amount of homes were sold for a loss
(37.7% of all homes sold) and the number of foreclosure
resales (23% of all sales).

San Francisco Chronicle
May 9, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3budw8p

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/3ovjn3j
TNT Party
Jim Morin - Miami Herald

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day
May 10, 2011

'Instead of acting on our bill to extend aid to
unemployed workers who have exhausted their benefits,
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Camp wants to gut
unemployment benefits and deny millions of jobless
workers the means to help make ends meet. As we face an
unemployment rate of 9 percent nationwide, an
unemployment rate for teenagers three times as high as
the national average, and an economy where there are
4.4 unemployed workers for every available job opening,
it is simply wrong to propose a bill that would further
penalize unemployed workers across the country.'

Reps. Barbara (D-Ca) Lee and Bobby (D-Va)
letter to Scott to Rep. Camp (R-Mi) who
has introduced legislation that would gut
unemployment benefits for
millions of displaced workers.

Crew of 42
May 10, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/43rngd4

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/3kbcdp6
Oil Execs
Ben Sargent

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day
May 12, 2011

'One threshold really needs to be both stated and
restated as we consider the options, and
that is that it is fundamentally unsustainable to
continue spending $10 billion a month on a massive
military operation with no end in sight.'

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) at
a Tuesday hearing of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee he
chairs, Kerry said he did not
advocate a 'unilateral, precipitous
withdrawal' of U.S. forces. But,
he said, I do think that we ought
to be working towards achieving the
smallest footprint possible.'

Washington Post
May 11, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3vogfhg

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/3s7ugoe
Canary in the Kitchen
Tony Auth - Philadelphia Inquirer

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day
May 12, 2011

'One threshold really needs to be both stated and
restated as we consider the options, and
that is that it is fundamentally unsustainable to
continue spending $10 billion a month on a massive
military operation with no end in sight.'

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) at
a Tuesday hearing of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee he
chairs, Kerry said he did not
advocate a 'unilateral, precipitous
withdrawal' of U.S. forces. But,
he said, I do think that we ought
to be working towards achieving the
smallest footprint possible.'

Washington Post
May 11, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3vogfhg

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/44xewnp
Same Tank
Joel Pitt

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day
May 13, 2011

'Working in different occupations made women less
vulnerable to job losses during the crash, but it now
threatens to penalize them as the economy recovers.
Since the expansion began, men gained back 263,000 jobs
in manufacturing, and are beginning to gain jobs in
construction. Women, in contrast, continue to lose jobs
in both sectors. In private education and health
services, expansion of women's jobs has slowed. Men
held 23 percent of jobs in this sector when the
recession began, but gained 37 percent of the
additional jobs created. The bigger story, however, is
playing out in the public sector. After holding up well
during the economic contraction, employment in the
public sector has defied the recovery and declined by
284,000 jobs through April, all of them at state and
local levels. Three quarters of the public sector job
decline was due to jobs lost by women, mostly in K-12
education and other local government jobs. The news for
women is likely to get even worse as the school year
ends and pink slips go out.'

Eileen Appelbaum
'For Women, the Jobs Crisis Is Only
Going to Get Worse'
AlterNet
May 10, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3nu64qa

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/3e66zcb
Big & Fat
Jeff Danziger

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day
May 14, 2011

'The CBC* met with President Obama yesterday. The
primary focus of the meeting was jobs and unemployment.
Last year the CBC pushed the President on the same
issue.  American Urban Radio Networks White House
correspondent April Ryan asks "what will it take to
move this President" on the issue of 44% unemployment
among black teens.  During the summer of 2010, the CBC
pushed for a summer jobs program.  President Obama
never spoke out in favor of the idea. With 44% black
teen unemployment and 16.1% black unemployment overall
- will he get behind pushing a policy or funding that
might help with teen unemployment?'

Crew of 42
May 14, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/4xospyk

*Congressional Black Caucus

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/3pumsn3
Preexisting Condition
Ed Stein

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