Beware those unelected, power-crazy Czars. Larger version here.
In related news, an Australian news executive has publicly called out Murdoch's News Corporation as a "diminishing empire." (h/t Ken W.)
Open thread below....
Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist's ties to Shawna Forde were close right up to her arrest for murders
Church Cheers as 4-Year-Old Sings 'Ain't No Homos Gonna Make It to Heaven' 
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Alan Simpson Still Pounding His Fist on the Table for a Grand Bargain |
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the pic is so grainey.
Insurance company cancels policy
Oct. 15: Worst Persons in the World, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, cancelled an entire line of coverage for people suffering from diseases such as muscular dystrophy in New York.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/333364...
Some stuff you can't make up!
Why the fuck do we have to pay into insurance when there's no guarantee that we can get covered when we need it? Might as well just play the goddamn lottery.
God, I hate these people!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Death Care Lottery.
Sounds like a title for a Roger Corman movie. Or a good name for a Metallica opening act...
That is why I believe we need to put the insurance companies out of business through boycott. At the rate things are going it will be the same as if people just dumped gasoline on their money and lite a match.
c/o Zero Masters here
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Tiffany Plate c/o CJR here
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William K. Black here
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William K Black again c/o Democracy Now here
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Michael McKee and Scott Lanman c/o Bloomberg here
I wonder if he said that with a straight face. This is the guy that oversaw the dismantling of regulations practiced for 60 years. And initiated the super bubble, the bubble to end all bubbles.
This is the firebug who poured the gasoline, lit the fire and now shows up with a firemen's helmet. Actually it is good advise, too big to fail is to big to jail and is to big to exist. Break them up, do meticulous audits and march the crooks off to the hoosegow.
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Speaking of the crooks:
here
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And even more on the crooks, in chorus, some of my favorites, William K Black, Dean Baker, Thomas Palley, James Galbraith, Janet Tavakoli and Pam Martens about the coverup underway.
George Washington of Washington’s Blog c/o Naked Capitalism here
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Lastly, as the crooks with their massive bonuses (of our money) ride off into the sunset, the world burns.
The dollar is tanking, gold and oil are up and away and who knows what will come of it.
Edward Harrison of Credit Writedowns c/o Naked Capitalism here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Doesn't the notion of "too big to fail" describe that the public interest in something is so great that it should/must be under public stewardship? These companies' losses have already been socialized. If the societal impact of their failure is so catastrophic, then why not pull the rest of the entire enterprise into the public domain along with the losses?
Yeah, I know. That will happen real soon. Holding breath starting.......now "ah-humph!"
he was the first person I heard utter the word FRAUD in connection with the 2008 'banking crisis' - I think on Moyers show back at the beginning of the year.
And, Elizabeth Warren is cool, too. Each of them is a truth-teller and does so in plain, easy to understand English. More Americans should listen to them. Problem is, neither has any power to put their ideas about regulations and systemic changes to the banking/finance wing of the Corpora-fascists into effect.
Unfortunately, the people with the power to change things - the Congress critters - are all wholly-owned subsidiaries of the banksters and their Fed friends. We are so-o-o-oooo screwed!!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Why do they think that $250 is going to be of any benefit to seniors when they won't give Cost of living? It's obvious that they aren't down here in the trenches. Everyday I see expense going up and I don't get raisess.
Jindal Booed Loudly At Obama Town Hall (VIDEO)
Some stuff you can't make up!
Here's a song for the poor old chap. I'm guessing he remembers these good ol' days...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2GHlcwlT1Y
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
What year is this? This shit just isn't supposed to happen anymore!!
somewhere's about 1932 in places like this
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
He'll lose the lion's share of his exposure...it's not like his shit is golden, or actually worth payment.
me-oww!
has news? You could have fooled me.
Fox News is the official propaganda arm of the GOP. Fox News is the official propoganda arm of the GOP. Fox News is the official propaganda arm of the GOP.
I thought you was repeating after me. I've been saying it for a long time.
you do not have to repeat it. It's a known fact!
(and also fucking nuts)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
supposed to be regulating the content of these stations that are using the "People's airwaves"???
I haven't read every rule of the FCC but I would think that somewhere in there ALL these "news" stations would be obligated to tell the TRUTH and to present BOTH SIDES OF ANY ISSUE FAIRLY....
Call me crazy?
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Murdoch needs to be educated about teh internets and teh google.
I've heard it's just a series of tubes or something.
Not sure tho :s
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Yeah, right. We're joyriding on the back of Murdoch. Umm-hmm.
far left loon >.<
As a progressive I am of course dead set against the definition of the corporation under law, which says that the interests of stockholders MUST come above all else, including any vestiges of moral or ethical standards. Which is why Joel Bakan's excellent documentary The Corporation concludes that if the idea that a corporation as a person is to be accepted, that person would be an unprincipled sociopath.
But this definition could really bite Murdoch on the ass. It's quite clear that he has been running his empire counter to his fiduciary responsibilities -- the dispensing of propaganda has been elevated above the bottom line as a priority.
If a block of stockholders were to launch a class action suit, he could conceivably lose it all. What poetic justice there would be in that. Oh, the irony!
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
Vogue France doesn't care about black people. A Louisiana justice of the peace thinks he's doing interracial couples a favor by refusing to marry them. Brazilians and Lithuanians have more vacation days than Americans. Housing insurers are dropping policies of home-owners screwed over by toxic Chinese drywall. Kate Hutchinson's only concern about Perry fucking up an execution is it gives ammo to anti-death penalty advocates. No bonus for Ken Lewis, for some reason. Foreclosures went up 5% in September. One billion people around the world are hungry. Economists lack confidence in the "rebound" and are even speculating that it's another bubble. You might want to go easy on the Tylenol for your baby(ies). Obama forced to defend his record on New Orleans. At least children's dental needs are covered in health care. Jeb's doing a heckuva job on education. Insurers are lying and Geithner is incompetent. The Senate is all that's left in protecting gays from hate crimes. Goodbye, Arctic ice.
Paragraphing? Ever heard of it?
It's just a bloody wall of text.
Just saying!
Pffft :s
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Vacation? Most Americans feel lucky to have a job. Talk about slave labor.
You are up late tonight. How are things?
It's just early in the morning. i just scratched my eye balls.
Good morning sunshine!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
Where the heck are you? Good morning before I even go to bed. That's got to be a new one for me.
Old yurp of course. I have to go to work soon. Have a nice sleep and pleasant dreams m8 ;)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyTdtf0LFMk
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
for the text and the links.
Why doesn't George Soros BUY Fox "News"?
If you were a billionaire...had the cash...hated everything they've done to America...
Just a few days ago...Oct. 14th (from CleanTechnica):
Just imagine if you could turn Fox "News" into a 24-hour a day channel devoted to fighting global warming...isn't that worth a few bucks?
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"Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?" - General Jack D. Ripper
...News stories. Gee, the only FAUX links I see are stories in which their errors are pointed out.
Fox (news?): Where rightwing nutjobs who barely graduated from high school spew their hatred and ignorant opinions 24/7.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
After the Italian secret service hushed up bribes to the Taliban:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/A...
Who is funding the Afghan Taliban??? You DO want to know:
http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/08/13/wh...
Swine flu vaccine has not been properly tested? So says New York lawsuit by medical workers:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/...
New word: DEMOCRISY:
http://www.legitgov.org/mdr_word_of_day_16100...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
(although personally I don't watch any of this crap), but isn't this government interference in the content of teevee shows a tad OTT????:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/20...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
to prevent carriers from blocking/slowing content. 18 thug senators and 44 corporate carriers cry government regulation is communism.
Sound off to Chairman Genachowski with your feedback.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
- Adolf Hitler (R)
Short, but, er, salty?
http://www.colbertnation.com/home
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
last night, TOTALLY handed that teabaggin astroturfin schmuck his own ass!
HA!!!
if you're fortunate enough to have hbo on demand be sure to watch the story on Helen Thomas. It's a winner. Remember, she was the lone journalist who dared to ask questions of the last administration. A great lady and a great journalist.
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