December 04, 2009 05:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
Calculated Risk: Fed Chairmen never learn. Meanwhile, in the UK the gubmint is trying to rein in the bankers...
Little Green Footballs: Has seen the light!
Pulp Friction: America has become one big, crappy reality show
Pressing Issues: No terrorist angle, not news
Legal Schnauzer: A "Deep Throat" emerges in the Mike Connell plane crash
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: Journalism 2009...Dana Milbank is an ass...Politico reports wingnut talking points as news...Cato rips Fox...Politico deep in the tank..."Bold Strategy"...Moonie Times to lay off 40% of 'staff'...WH Mainstream hacks object to bloggers...Watching America...Steyn/Beck's Fakes of Wrath...Celebrity Nonsense...Don't think, kill!...Ask This
TGIF!
Now I'm packed and off to follow the links in the roundup. Hopefully I won't run into Tiger Woods on those links.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh6sSExynS4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRssIkxO-AY
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I got the whole story in 1:42 watching Taiwanese animation. That was enough for me. :/
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
It will take some work to sort out the points made at the links from Calculated Risk, Digby and the link to Ryan Grim at Huffpo there-at.
They are not exactly consistent.
What is consistent is the determination of the Plutocrats to the ending of all social programs.
Social Security and Medicare are pay through programs that are funded as we go. The taxes are flat and thus regressive. With a cap.
Normally Plutocrats, if they will suffer any tax, will suffer a flat tax. They still want to do away with the programs. Better yet is to plunder the tax.
They are rich but that is not enough. They want yours and mine too.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Something Ed Schultz said yesterday caused me to find this, and I'm not seeing it anywhere.
Michelle Bachmann’s District Leads Minnesota In Foreclosures
Seems Ed is being criticized for the data used in the reporting.
Schultz Uses Questionable Foreclosure Data to Blast Bachmann Voting Record
I see nothing wrong with the methodology used by Mr. Birkey, while the source cited by Jeff Poor of the Business and Media Institute leaves me with questions. He cites a study done by Hotpads.com in October 2008 to refute data from third quarter 2009.
Until you respect the citizenship of those with which you disagree, you're not a true American.
For a second there, I thought this would be another thread about rupert murdoch
The anals of journalism.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
unhappy with the way things are without all the hero worship bullshit that seems prevalent on left leaning blogs. don't get me wrong, I like Obama, and i like this site, I just don't like some of the things he's doing and/or not doing.
an unvarnished middle ground with teabaggers is inevitable anyway.
embrace it.
To the anals of journalism?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Besides Beck, war, and all the rest of the daily diet of lies?
http://evilbeetgossip.film.com/wp-content/upl...
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/ima...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
strikes again. LOL . . ha ha ha . . ya ya ya
Viva Las Vegas!
Well, Palin went all Birther on the radio. She likes to show off how insane she is. Fancy pageant talkin'
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
. . those under the age of 30 seem far more inclined to accept things as they are as long as they personally benefit.
That website and light do not go in the same sentence Mike!
They make the Freepers look like Mother Theresa...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
Prophetic: Aged Obama Poster Says "I´m Sorry" For Not Doing More in Copenhagen - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/aged-...
Senate Climate Bill Progress Report: "Definite Republican Votes," Dems Have New Demands - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/senat...
Well that means that we've caved to Big Nuke and their unimaginably expensive & dangerous demands...
Profiles in con-servative stupidity: The oily echo machine behind "climategate" - http://www.desmogblog.com/oily-echo-machine-b...
A short and important listing PR fronts responsible for selling stupidity in this nation and pumping up Cluster Fox Noise & the other abysses of the right wingnut noise machine... It truly is reality vs stupidity...in the 21st century...you have to choose a side and fight for it...
More Evil Empire propaganda: Group promoting climate skepticism has extensive ties to Exxon-Mobil - http://rawstory.com/2009/12/climate-skeptic-g...
The organization is called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), apparently named after the UN coalition International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). An investigation into the group reveals its numerous links to Exxon-Mobil, a vehement opponent of climate legislation and notorious among scientists for funding global warming skeptics.
"Exxon-Mobil essentially funds people to lie," Joseph Romm, lauded climate expert and author of the blog Climate Progress, told Raw Story. "It's important for people to understand that they pay off the overwhelming majority of groups in the area of junk science."
'Titans' of Economic treason: Wal-Mart will pay $40m to workers - The Boston Globe - http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has agreed to pay $40 million to as many as 87,500 current and former employees in Massachusetts, the largest wage-and-hour class-action settlement in the state’s history. The class-action lawsuit, filed in 2001, accused the retailer of denying workers rest and meal breaks, refusing to pay overtime, and manipulating time cards to lower employees’ pay. Under terms of the agreement, which was filed in Middlesex Superior Court yesterday by the employees’ attorneys, any person who worked for Wal-Mart between August 1995 and the settlement date will receive a payment of between $400 and $2,500, depending on the number of years worked, with the average worker receiving a check for $734.
If you shop at Wal-mart you are committing economic treason...there are always other ways...
Rise of the New McCarthyism - http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename...
How Right Wing Extremists Try to Paralyze Government Through Ideological Smears and Baseless Attacks.
There's only one way to fight stupid...make sure your kid, kids, or friend's kids know reality from fantasy, or liberal from con-servative...
Bhopal Disaster's 25th Anniversary: Another Act of Corporate Terrorism That Time Forgot - http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/950
Dow released a statement coinciding with the 25-year anniversary of Bhopal insisting that the 1989 settlement releases them of all responsibility. Dow may not have committed the atrocities in Bhopal, but they are harboring a fugitive of justice on American soil, according to the Indian government. Cases holding Dow responsible are also pending in the U.S. Furthermore, "polluter pays" laws in both the U.S. and India mandate that Dow is responsible for the disaster and continuing pollution.
A shameless and horrible system of 'healthcare': Drug-Makers Paying Off Competitors To Keep Cheap Generics Off Market - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/200...
Republicans and their allies in the business community talk a good game about the virtues of free-market competition. But, as we've seen in the debate over the public option, that stance often goes out the window when corporate profits are at stake. And now we've got another example -- one of the sleaziest and most blatantly self-serving yet.
Report Examines Civil Rights During Bush Years - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/us/politics...
"When the Bush administration ran the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, career lawyers wanted to look into accusations that officials in one state had illegally intimidated blacks during a voter-fraud investigation. But division supervisors refused to “approve further contact with state authorities on this matter,” according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office auditing the activities of the division from 2001 to 2007.
Congress is set to release that report, which did not identify the state in question, on Thursday as the House of Representatives takes up its first oversight hearing of the Civil Rights Division under the Obama administration. The 180-page report, obtained by The New York Times, is densely packed with statistics about civil rights enforcement by the division’s sections.
The accountability office also examined a sampling of matters that were closed without further action, finding several cases — including the curtailed voter intimidation inquiry — in which supervisors rejected the recommendations of career lawyers to go forward."
From the very recent archives: MSNBC News Junkies Beware: Comcast's Likely Acquisition of NBC May Threaten Your Access to Independent Media -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/943
Comcast is a con-servative monopoly....everything that is wrong with democracy...they advocate for monetary system 'capitalism' to become the 'government system' of this country in direct violation of the constitution & DEMOCRACY which IS OUR GOVERNMENT SYSTEM...a fact that 'selectively' stupid con-servatives 'feign' ignorance of...at least the cons that get paid a lot to BS their moronic minions...
Turn Off FOX Campaign Supporters Share Tips on OutFOXing FOX -- BuzzFlash News Alert - http://blog.buzzflash.com/alerts/722
Blackwater founder says he aided secret programs - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
Here is a horrifying fact about the human cost of the costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: The suicide rate among active duty soldiers has doubled since 2001.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/opinion/03t...
So the next time some con-servative flaunts their macho bravado...through this in their face...and tell them to STFU...
THE END OF DEMOCRACY....Elizabeth Warren: America Without a Middle Class - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warre...
America's Senator: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Blocks Ben Bernanke Confirmation -- BuzzFlash News Alert - http://blog.buzzflash.com/alerts/719
Always try to catch brunch with Bernie on the Thom Hartmann show...
Grayson Responds To Coburn's 'Die Soon' Claim: 'The Basis For What He's Saying Is Delusion' - http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/03/grayson-c...
If you don't know who either are....very simple: Coburn (R-Banks/Oklahoma branch) = schmuck corporatist tool of the lowest order... Grayson = Dem with balls
Senate votes 58-42 to defeat a bid by Republicans to undo more than $400 billion worth of Medicare cuts over 10 years. - http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/s...
Hey Obama....please leave the fantasyland BS of Milton Friedman/University of Chicago con-servative fairytale economics back in Chicago: At jobs summit, President Obama asks private sector to create more jobs; Hasn't worked so far
- http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dcnow/2009/12...
Seriously...I'm still waiting for one con-servative to PROVE that a 'tax cut' HAS EVER created a job...please I'm begging you...even Arthur Laffer caved on Bill Maher's show...its BS, always has been, always will be...
NASA Climate Change Scientist to Boycott Copenhagen Climate Summit - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/nasa-...
I understand and agree with James Hansen...this 'careful' approach is BS...
Denmark <3 Electric Cars: $40k Tax Break, Free Parking, Charging Stations, Etc - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/denma...
Lithium-Ion Batteries for EVs to Grow from $878 Million Market in 2010 to $8 Billion in 2015 - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/lithi...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
Nukes is that each one will take about 5-10 years to build, put all kinds of construction workers back to work and by the time they're built they will be obsolete. Consider it as a job creator. If I could still work I would consider it as a huge bank deposit slip.
LGF, Sullivan ...
Methinks it's too late.
"You killed him. You took his castle. You slept with his wife. Now, no one trusts you. You're not the one, Uther."
-- Merlin, "Excalibur"
Is LGF going lefty now?
Can that be the last time LGF gets linked from this blog?
So they finally admit to sort of being delusional for the last eight years. Do they deserve a medal or something?
Thanks for that link. I had depleted my tinfoil supply wrapping Thanbksgiving leftovers. There were rolls and rolls of the stuff there free for the asking.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Pulp Friction: America has become one big, crappy reality show
This was a good read. As I'm overseas, and not linked to the machine nearly as much (but still linked), I don't know who most of these people are. I see them all over the internet, but just keep scrolling.
Who the F*ck are Kate and Jon, and why are they everywhere??
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
I doubt you'll be seeing much of LGF here. Johnson has been edging away from Teh Crazy for a few months. Then, a few days ago he had a post explaining why he could no longer be part of the rightie blogistan circle jerk. I checked him out yesterday and was amazed to read his Palin smackdown. He doesn't deserve a medal, I simply find it fascinating that some people are able, for years, to believe and propagate an ideology, and then - apparently - come to, and reject it all!
Bernake should have been reminded after his threat that the Fed can make social Security and Medicare go away that Congress, in its turn, can make the Fed go away. I think they should...the Fed serves no one but itself and the banksters who all but control the government.
Kudos to Bernie Sanders for putting a hold on this douchebag's re-nomination.
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/12/s...
Another nail in the 4th Ammendment's coffin.
Of course, that does not include AT&T or Verizon, whom own 75% of the cellphone market and are wholly in bed with LE.
Folks, I suggest discontinuing your cellphone service as soon as possible.
Good Nieman Watchdog piece.
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