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REWIND - A Weekof Quotes and Cartoons

SUNDAY

Quote of the Day
December 1, 2013

'We know even though pundits and big corporate lobbyists
in Washington might need to be dragged kicking and
screaming, we know America agrees with us. We believe
Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher
enforcement. And you know what? So do more than 80
percent of people. Wall Street will fight us, but the
American people are on our side.'

Senator Elizabeth Warren
New York Times
December 1, 2013
 

Toon of the Day

Impractical
Tom Toles
Washington Post
 

MONDAY

Quote of the Day
December 2, 2013

'Current economic dynamics make clear that it is time to
stop waiting for market forces to create a jobs
recovery. We need a real jobs program, one that will
not just generate jobs, but living wage jobs that
involve the production of needed goods and services.
That, not deficit reduction, is what should be at the
top of our political agenda.'

Marty Hart-Landsberg
Report from the Economic Front
November 9, 2013
 

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day
December 3, 2013

'I can easily picture a scenario where drones deliver
things to upscale tech-savvy customers. But note the
implication, whether intended or not, that working-class
truck drivers will no longer transgress geographic class
lines. It's also hard to imagine delivery drones flying
unmolested in restive working-class or poor areas.
They'd become skeet or be `occupied,' depending on the
nature of the neighborhood.'

Jaron Lanier, a technology skeptic
who wrote 'You Are Not a Gadget,'on
the claim by Jeff Bezos, Amazon's
chief executive, that unmanned drones
will soon be delivering packages
to people's houses.

New York Times
December 3, 20313

Toon of the Day

Disasters
Tim Eagan
 

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day
December 4, 2013

'The impact of this is going to be catastrophic on
families like mine on fixed income. Retirees are
going to be put out of house and home. They’re not
going to be able to afford a car, food or medicine.'

Brendan Milewski, 34, a Detroit
firefighter who was seriously
injured in an arson in 2010 and
receives a pension of  $2,800 a
month from the city, response
to a court ruling Tuesday that
public employee pensions are
were not protected in a federal
Chapter 9 bankruptcy, even
though the Michigan Constitution
expressly protects them

New York Times
December 4, 2013
 

Toon of the Day

Warmakers
David Horsey
Los Angeles Times

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day
December 5, 2013

'I think there’s growing recognition that a nerve has
been touched. The industry had better start to take
this seriously, because this isn’t going to blow over.'

Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU),
concerning the ongoing fast-food strikes
around the country that began a year ago,
saying it is only a matter of time before the
worker protests became so great that McDonald’s,
Burger King and other companies agreed to
negotiate

New York Times
December 5, 2013
 

Toon of the Day

Help
Tom Toles - Washington Post
 

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day
December 6, 2013

'He had been scrupulous to ensure that he
demonstrated a profound respect for all the faiths to
be found in our country. After he was elected by
Parliament as our first democratically elected
President on 9May 1994, on the Friday he went to a
mosque and on the following day he attended a
synagogue and on the Sunday attended a larger
inter-denominational service at the FNB Stadium in
Soweto. At his inauguration, prayers were offered by
Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Christian ministers.

'The spirit of tolerance is now enshrined in the
custom that Parliament starts each day with a
period of quiet to allow each person to use as is
consistent with his or her faith, or lack of it. It
replaces the way things were done in the old, all-
white Parliament when Christian prayers were the
order of the day, despite the fact that a few members
were Jewish.

'The respect for the things others hold dear is a
precious part of the legacy that this great man
leaves us and is a tremendous contribution to the
kind of future we want to see, particularly at a time
when religious fundamentalism of all kinds
threatens global peace.'

Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Nelson Mandela

The Independent (UK)
December 6, 2013
 

Toon of the Day

MANDELA
Signe Wilkinson
 

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day
December 7, 2013

'As South Africa's first elected black president, he
led the people of his country toward reconciliation
and forgiveness. Under his leadership, the new
constitution of South Africa included explicit
prohibitions against discrimination on the basis of
sexual orientation - a degree of legal protection that
LGBT people still do not have in the United States.

'Every one of us who continues the fight for equality
and civil rights in our own communities labors in
the shadows of this man who withstood
imprisonment as a consequence of his courageous
leadership and grew only stronger, more resolute
and more dignified.'

Kevin Cathcart, executive director
of Lambda Legal

BuzzFeed
December 5, 2013
 

Toonof the Day

Cell, Cell
Jan Sorensen