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By bluegal Thursday Nov 19, 2009 8:30pm
Dean Broder: "Get off my lawn!" by Tengrain at Mock, Paper, Scissors. Open thread below...
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Wave of anti-gay mailers attack Parker in Houston mayoral race
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Father forces son into field, kills him for allegedly raping 3-year-old girl
Just makes ya proud to be an American, don't it?
is the father's little daughter with his current wife. What a horrible psychological situation that must have been for him...
Not that he should have shot his son, but, well, you know what I mean...
my dad might have done something similar, esp if he'd been drinking. At least I could out run him.
Not trying to defend the dad's quick justice nor the kid's (alleged) crime, but if the kid had done it, dad's actions might well have been less cruel than what the kid faced behind bars. Just sayin...
know who staring back at him from the Open Thread again tonight. ;)
you said it so I don't have to. I'm almost dancing on the keyboard.
tonight. You have had a stress from that, haven't you! ;)
of stress.
tonight, since I may be going to bed in a while. :)
I have never understood the reverence by which Broder is held by the Beltway. He hasn't written or uttered anything relevant in about 35 years. He may have been a playa back in Nixon's day, but since then, he seriously does sound like your cranky neighbor down the block. He is incredibly predictable - you can always tell what he will write about two days before he actually does. And then he gets "OOOOOHHH, he's the DEAN of Washington Journalists!" by the Beltway hacks.
Don't get all wierd. Gran Torino is one of my favorite recent movies, and of course that "Get off my lawn!" statement was made by the sexiest old guy out there, Clint Eastwood. My own mother has The Crush.
in committee hearing:
http://www.truthout.org/11190910
the kind of bipartisanship we need! Doing something that actually represents the rights and interests of We the People against the international financial cabal.
:)
...I had to get them from somewhere..?
;)
have said a lot of nasty things about Ron Paul over the years, and he is a little kooky in a 'libertarian' sorta' way. But, I've always thought his views about the Federal Reserve - how it was formed, who is involved in it, the lack of oversight and control, the whole system of fiat money, etc. - have been interesting and worthy of consideration.
Hell, most Americans think the Federal Reserve is just a big bank down in Wash, DC, that runs the Mint or something. They have no idea that the entire US monetary/financial system, and therefore most of our economy, is controlled, in fact owned, by about a dozen or so humongous private banks. And, these same banks with their involvement in the World bank, IMF and BIS, pretty much own the world. Some call it a 'conspiracy theory'
lol
This audit is long overdue and could be a first step in helping us to take back our economy.
I don't think the paulists know either how the economy works either.
The FRB mostly tweaks the system by setting reserve rates, buying and selling the dollar to manage inflation, amd set the prime lending rare.
We've had a debate since the beginning of American history on whether to have a strong national bank, or regional ones; a similar controversy to a strong federal power vs state. The regional ones essentially failed leading to the panics of 1819, 1857, 1873, 1893, 1910 and the Great Depression of 1929.
Supposedly capitalists would not destroy their sector of the capitalist system they depend on to make money, but the boosh years dissproved that.
But maybe because I'm half asleep I'm seeing a connection between bank loans, of those controlling private banks, and military contractors, to go with the MICC to keep us in what often seems to be a permanent state of war.
The worst was in the years following the revolution when the private local banks controlled the price of federal script which caused stronger federal government involvement by re making of our constitution.
Of course, after the people took up arms.
Naomi Klein & Ryan Grim on FDL Action With Trumka, Stern & Auditing the Fed
Bipartisan GrassRoots Action from the Left and the Right against the Corporations
About f'n Time!
The job market sucks in 2010, too. Speaking of Texas dumbassery, a school bans girls from wearing skinny pants. FOX admits it wasn't fair and balanced when it came to Palindrone, and was forced to apologize. The part of the country most against Obamacare is also the most out of shape. The KBR rape victim's forced to settle for three mil. Students protest the UC tuition tax. Afghanistan's killing Barry's popularity. People eager to pass the Katrina buck on Blanco and Nagin have just been served by a ruling which blames the Army Corps for not updating the drainage system. Goldman's forced to apologize for its theft and donates half a billion to charity. Despite that Weird Al parody, Ahnie hates librarians. Adm. Tim Keating backs up Obama's bow. Apparently, fascism's expanded to not tipping shitty service. Sanford's ethics will be questioned. Dobbs hopes to be the anti-Latino version of Strom Thurmond. Another soldier's family wants answers to a Tillman-like death. This just in; Americans are still ignorant. Good job saving our state from an evil bong of mass destruction. Jimmy Galbraith calls our economic situation a truly extraordinary slump. Cali lawmakers can dish paycuts for the unemployed middle-class and the disabled, but they sure can't take 'em themselves. China's holding one of our geologists hostage. Plus, the country's increasing its CO2 output. At least H1N1 vaccine is not linked to recent deaths. NY recognizes same-sex marriage benefits for out-of-state couples. The CIA can't make up its mind. First it likes to torture Arabs; now it wants to hire 'em. Anyone want more toys with lead this year? Oh, and we suck, compared to the rest of the world, on sick days and benefits. The U.S. continues to be China's bitch. Probably just coincidence, but Oprah announces she's ending her show right after she hosts Palin.
Good for Brown. Largely symbolic, but I really want to hear civil servants who make over $100K annually cry. F'em.
"make over 100k annually" and vote Rape-publican besides.
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anybody besides me enjoy the amc remake of "the prisoner"?
it's not as good as the original but taken on its ow merits, i found it intriguing. and of course you can't beat sir ian mckellan!
This is what i miss by not having cable tv. This is something I'd like to see, if only on principle...That principle being that anyone who has the balls to remake The Prisoner deserves at least one view.
Thanks for the heads-up, skippy!
that's why God invented bit torrents.
In a report entitled "Worst-case debt scenario", the bank's asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.
Overall debt is still far too high in almost all rich economies as a share of GDP (350pc in the US), whether public or private. It must be reduced by the hard slog of "deleveraging", for years.
"As yet, nobody can say with any certainty whether we have in fact escaped the prospect of a global economic collapse," said the 68-page report, headed by asset chief Daniel Fermon. It is an exploration of the dangers, not a forecast.
Under the French bank's "Bear Case" scenario (the gloomiest of three possible outcomes), the dollar would slide further and global equities would retest the March lows. Property prices would tumble again. Oil would fall back to $50 in 2010.
Governments have already shot their fiscal bolts. Even without fresh spending, public debt would explode within two years to 105pc of GDP in the UK, 125pc in the US and the eurozone, and 270pc in Japan. Worldwide state debt would reach $45 trillion, up two-and-a-half times in a decade.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/...
We obviously need to cut taxes on the richest 2%. Outsource millions of middle class jobs, and privatize everything, so that all public employees make no more than their working counterparts at Wal Mart.
Then everything will be just like so totally awesome!
might be a bit too harsh to say, but this shows what happens when politics trumps science in the field of science.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/19/breakin...
Much information too read trough, will let the raw data be analysed by the able, which should be a top story in the coming day or two.
Update:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/837...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss02sfQinxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-rUgHtJ2Yk
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19/pali...
call the tutu de la exorcist or whatever the hell his name is to help.
Old political hacks like David Broder simply need to STFU and retire.
Bitter old men like Broder had to suffer through the civil rights movment as progressives moved the country forward and away from the backwoods attitudes of the world of Broder's youth.
He's not living some resurgence, he is living through the last death throes of the revisionism, white country clubbism and plain old backwoods racism that he grew up in.
Do the world a favor, David. Retire. Quietly.
It's amusing, isn't it, that when Repubs and far right wing nutjobs want to cite to a "liberal" pundit, they mention David Broder? He is about as liberal as Bill Kristol.
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