2012 archive
All the News that Fits 2
Left Blogistan has been having a lot of fun celebrating the ignorance:
But there’s a larger point that is being missed amongst the snark.
This was not a mistake. It was strategy–a strategy to which research and facts are irrelevant.
Republican don’t care about truth. They are willing to say anything that they think will help their cause, hoping that the lies will have enough truthiness to live until election day.
I will not be surprised when I listen to a radio show about foreign policy to hear someone call in with a comment about how President Obama lost Czechoslovakia.
Dustbiters 0
More masters of the universe are out of their jobs–so routine I don’t even check for the list on Friday evening any more:
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HarVest Bank of Maryland, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Inter Savings Bank, fsb D/B/A Interbank, fsb, Maple Grove, Minnesota
The first two on the list deserved punishment for crimes against spelling, regardless of their fiduciary behaviour.
In related news, some of our local masters of the universe are facing time. I suspect that they are not so special as to be the only ones deserving of that privilege.
The Adventure of the Empty Houses 0
Jim Galloway went to check out a neighborhood where his daughter was working; he found it to be an unfinshed subdivision with a streets, vacant lots all prepared for construction with pipes and conduits already in place, a couple of houses, and “mortgage rage.”
This road was private, he roared. (Not true — street had been deeded to the county years earlier.) He ordered us to leave. When we demurred, he pulled out a cell phone and feigned a phone call to the sheriff’s office.
The man was not armed. But had we kept going, that condition might have changed by the time we made the return trip past his house – and so we retreated.
Follow the link to learn why he dubbed it “mortgage rage.”
Driving while Brown 0
The merchants of hate.
Justice Delayed . . . 0
. . . may still be justice.
“I feel like this is a good day for the First Amendment and for the right of people to speak out against economic injustice,” Dustin Slaughter, 32, said after leaving the courtroom the Criminal Justice Center.
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The lone prosecution witness, police Capt. William Fisher, who was head of the Civil Affairs Unit at the time, described the ensuing 3 1/2-hour protest as “a mob scene” of 300 to 400 people exhibiting an “air of animosity.”
“Air of animosity” my anatomy.
They were arrested for being.
WMD 0
Unlock the magic now (warning: NSFW).
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
The Republican voter suppression campaign begins to take its toll.
Glomarization reports on a woman who has voted for 70 years, but who no longer can because she doesn’t have the right papers.
What Would Jesus Cut? 0
Making somebody more hungry . . . is not a way to end their poverty.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Once again, no change for all practical purposes. Also, they still need new “experts” to make their predictions (follow the link for the expertitude).
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The four-week moving average, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figures, climbed to 381,750 last week, the highest since Jan. 7, from 375,500.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits rose to 3.32 million in the week ended April 14 from 3.31 million.
The continuing claims figure does not include the number of Americans receiving extended benefits under federal programs.
I wish I could get a gig as one of their “experts.” Expertise seemingly is not a qualification.