Bill Looman, Georgia Business Owner, Draws Fire For ‘Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone’

A west Georgia business owner has been deluged with calls and emails after posting signs on his company’s trucks that say he’s not hiring anyone until President Barack Obama leaves office.

A redneck small business owner in the deep south, who could  have imagined that? He draped himself in the flag with his non subject related mention of military service, but failed to thump the bible while he was at it. What kind of Neoliberal Reactionary is he?  [MSH]

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America’s Problem with Sex Education

[T]he Obama administration and Congress in 2010 eliminated two thirds of federal funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage education, and, in a historic shift, allocated close to $190m for comprehensive sex education. . . [The Republican presidential candidates] . . . are stalwart critics of science-based and medically accurate sex education, and frequently demonstrate that they never received it. . . The South, beacon of Christian virtue, has, according to the [Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States], the highest concentration of abstinence-only education and also the riskiest teen sexual behavior.
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