June 2011
An unyielding track record of failure →
by Steve Benen, The Washington Monthly
—via stfuconservatives:
In 1982, Reagan raised taxes and the right assured Americans this would be a disaster. The right was wrong, and the economy boomed.
In 1993, Clinton raised taxes and the right was even more certain this would be a disaster. The right was wrong again, and we instead saw the longest and strongest sustained recovery in recent...
Watch“Governor” Palin “book” “signing”.
—via goodreasonnews sez:
hahaha, Palin’s celebrity dies. Only 300 appear to get autographs from this empty headed nitwit and her daughter. The women left half an hour early.
vruz: I’m still shocked there are human beings out there willing to give them money.
It's Official: China Is The "Mystery" Daily Buyer... →
—via crazynutjob
This is rather significant. Tracking China’s FX flows has been used to help explain the position that the increase in London purchases that coincide with decreases in Chinese purchases have historically just been Chinese purchases in disguise (TIC data lags a bit, but offers no reason for concern). With China actively selling the dollar and buying Euros, we could be...
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Editorial: Eight myths to chill an old-school... →
—via cognitivedissonance:
It’s sad to see what has happened to the Party of Lincoln, and for that matter, the party of lesser mortals like George H.W. Bush of Texas, Bob Dole of Kansas and Jack Danforth of Missouri. No one ever would mistake them for liberals, but they were statesmen who put country before party.
Today we have the spectacle of smart, patriotic men and women putting their...
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Obama 'Internet kill switch' plan approved by US...
—via endwhitegenocide:
What Could possibly Go Wrong
Obama ‘Internet kill switch’ plan approved by US Senate panel
This is Obama’s Democracy.
Internet Off Switch: Should the President Have the Power?
U.S. government building global “shadow internet” to undermine web
Apple’s infrared ‘camera kill switch’ patent application hits a nerve
Katrina and the Waves Join Tom Petty's Fight... →
vruz: at this rate, bachmann’s is going to be the most musicless campaign ever. well, nothing to be worried about dear michele… there’s always songs in the public domain you can use anyway.
—via sojewtastic:
Katrina & The Waves – whose 1985 song “Walking On Sunshine” was played by Michele Bachmann at a South Carolina campaign rally on Tuesday – have issued a statement on...
U.S. Senate passes resolution threatening to... →
Haaretz
—via maliksquared:
“The United States Senate has passed a resolution threatening to suspend financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority if its leaders “persist in efforts to circumvent direct negotiations by turning to the United Nations or other international bodies,” and called on U.S. President Barack Obama to veto a UN vote on unilateral recognition of a Palestinian...
“It’s not that students don’t “get” Kafka’s humor but that we’ve taught them to...”
– David Foster Wallace (Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays)
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Gaza flotilla ship 'sabotaged by divers' →
A Swedish ship due to join an upcoming Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been sabotaged in the Greek port of Piraeus, organisers say.
In a statement, they said “hostile divers had destroyed the propeller house and cut the propeller shaft” of the vesselJuliano on Monday.
The ship is part of the 10-vessel Freedom Flotilla II that is expected to set sail from Greece and elsewhere for the Gaza Strip...
LulzSec releases law enforcement intelligence... →
vruz: who would have thought they were tracked?
Transgender People Are the Least Protected, Most... →
Cuomo's Big Problem in 2016: Democrats →
by Ari Melber, The Nation
[…] Put aside the historical significance of the gay marriage vote, and anyone who follows New York politics knows the prospect of Cuomo as a popular Democratic primary candidate in 2016 is a joke.
This boomlet is a drastic illustration of the gap between DC political reporters imagining what the Democratic base wants and what the Democratic base actually says...
“For her, America was born in freedom for all and Fundamentalist Christianity. It...”
– Andrew Sullivan, on Pat Robertson’s disciple Michele Bachmann
“We are dealing with the last modernist utopia left, and yet we live in an age of...”
– Gerry Hassan
vruz: the whole spectrum of authentic liberation fronts is being co-opted, from feminism to progressivism, pacifism to grassroots democracy, all imploding into themselves. pseudomodernism won, a meaningless soup of disinformation is all that’s left. authenticity will only...
Mud, mud, glorious Glastonbury mud →
—via socialisimo:
I’m not bothered if he doesn’t pay his tax, but i do mind him being the spokesman for all things good and clean. I can’t stand him or his bland music.
By the time you read this, I will be up to my navel in slurry. When I was first offered a pass to the Glastonbury Festival, I hesitated. I am not one of nature’s happy campers. My idea of fun does not involve standing...
“Every time the mainstream media jumps all over her for saying something...”
– Michele Bachmann sets record straight: ‘I’m a substantive, serious person’ (via ryking)
