August 25, 2012

Nation Celebrates Full Week Without Deadly Mass Shooting!

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NEW YORK—Cheers filled the streets and American flags waved triumphantly through the air today as the nation turned out in full force to celebrate an entire week having passed since the last time a madman opened fire on innocent civilians in some kind of fatal mass shooting. “We did it, folks! We banded together and managed to go seven whole days without killing our fellow Americans in a senseless murdering spree!” Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said in a speech to jubilant throngs gathered in Times Square. “Yes, some people were shot this week, but not in a random, highly public, viscerally disturbing way and—most importantly—not all in one place, by one psychopath. Maybe one day we can live in a society where abominable large-scale gun violence stays out of the national headlines for a whole month even!” At press time, federal authorities had issued a reminder to all Americans that a lot can happen in 24 hours, “so let’s not get too excited yet.”

Of course it's the Onion... What isn't the onion lately, eh? Oh, and... TOO BAD THEY GOT IT WRONG!

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-celebrates-full-week-without-deadly-mass-sh,29293/

August 11, 2012

Did anyone get the latest "Capitol Update" from king of franking, Tim Murphy?

If so, I need to talk about the article in it titled, "Energy Overregulations Weakening Job Growth.

I went to lengths today to find out where they got their statistics when seeing it was according to a consulting group who calls itself "NERA Economic Consulting".

Long story short, I want to find out who funds this international economy based "writers of papers"... stinks to high heaven, which is right in line with Timmy, as you may know.

July 20, 2012

May I complain about Food and Wine?

No, not really good food or wine, such as described in C&B, an oasis of my DU posting...

The magazine, IMO (not so humble) is something I subscribed to from around 2003 to 2006. I still have those issues for good reason, because the recipes and some articles, wine listings were all really, really good.

My grandson's school recently wanted to raise money, and since I'm not physically close to just handing him over the money, I said, "I'll contribute and choose one of your magazines", and the only one tempting me was F&W.

It's so awful. I can sum my extreme displeasure this way... For one thing, it's now put out by American Express Publishing Corporations thought it has the same executive editor. For every 5 or 6 pages of glossy advertisements that somehow tie into the travel adventures a la American Express, there are a few appealing recipes, but mostly things that grill cucumbers, make "cocktails out of things the average cook would raise an interested eyebrow to, and so much other eye candy crap ads! By the time you find any usable recipes or stories worth reading, you're almost to the back of the issue, which is smaller and thinner, but same price.

It's just crap, and I wanted to say that here and now.

Glad I saved the older issues and called them personally to take me off the lists they admit that they sell to for being a "subscriber", which I will be no more!

July 13, 2012

Geithner drawn into Libor scandal

Source: Washington Post

Documents obtained by The Washington Post show that Timothy F. Geithner, in an e-mail dated June 1, 2008, made six recommendations to the head of the Bank of England to reform the London interbank offered rate, known as Libor, while he was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/geithner-drawn-into-libor-scandal/2012/07/12/gJQArDhbgW_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboNE

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As if this really surprises anyone, right?

June 16, 2012

DO A FAVOR FOR OBAMA - House a summer Fellow ...

... To work in your area of the country.

Contact your local democratic committee to see if you can offer your home to someone who will be involved at your level (I'm assuming from the nation headquarters.)

House a Summer Fellow!

P.S. Not that I did not do this myself... however, my sister is visiting me and SHE wanted me to say this as I show her around DU!

April 14, 2012

It's a distraction from a BIGGER ISSUE when we get caught up in this Ann Romney bullshit.

Please... and I'm not the first to say this.. my comment has also been posted in response to this Ann Romney crap where people find themselves caught up in a new argument about stay at home moms, or how she chose this/that...

IT'S DISTRACTING AN EVEN BIGGER ISSUE!

What we should be pointing to in particular are how all the fringe groups would-be Romney voters feel about women. They have nothing but distain and an agenda to savaging feminists and women in general. Just look at the internet and follow what the Southern Poverty Law Center is (as part of the ongoing track on hate groups in general) have to say about the war on women.

Listen to some of these group's organizational names:

Boycott American Women
The Counter Feminist (boycottamericanwomen.blogspot.com)
The False Rape Society (falserapesociety.blogspot.com)
In Mala Fide (www.inmalafide.com)
MarkyMark's Thoughts (markymarksthoughts.blogspot.com)

I'm also gonna post a website that makes fun of the so-called "manosphere" (http://manboobz.com/)

Meanwhile, the Rom-bots get in the news with something that isn't even news. I mean, come on... how long have we understood that the well-off, rich, and very rich can claim to "choose" to be stay-at-home moms, thus THINKING they can level the playing field on what is fair among the 99% of us?

Let's get to the real issue and not be distracted by the one's the Rom-bots want us to talk up.

April 10, 2012

I HATE saying this about OLBERMANN after Letterman, but I'm gonna...

I couldn't have been more disappointed when Keith Olberman left Current TV because I was so elate when he moved there. This was only enhanced when The Young Turks and the War Room joined the line up.

I loved Olbermann for what he did for politics and his dedication to the monstrous Bush administration and Occupy Wall Street. Also, for those he helped along (Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show, Cenk Ugar's "TYT", Gov. Jennifer Granholm's "The War Room&quot . If anyone helped bring progressive news into the cable mainstream (Current is main enough for me, anyway), it was him. Disclaimer: exception to a Current TV show would be "Viewpoint" with Eliot Spitzer, which is bland and has way too many conservatives for what reason, I can't figure.

So then, why I'm pissed... the other night Keith describes Current TV with a feigned embarrassment to David Letterman. They laugh... Keith gets in an apology for make the wrong choice. He says, "I messed up" I am not sure what he was going for, but I lost a lot of respect from that. Keith did so much for the Occupy Wall Street movement on Current TV. And now, because Current isn't the thing it could be, he left. Everything he featured lost a rightful place because he left for reasons I can't respect. Now, I have fucking Viewpoint with a growing list of ho-hum centrists featured with a boring host.

There's no fire at the center of what wasn't a great beginning network, but certainly NOTHING that is as bad as was explained to David Letterman. Meanwhile, a bloated, and strange person fades away. So much for the Occupy Wall Street movement and the momentum KO would have given so many, many things, had might have worked out after some pains in the ass. Big deal... Many people have to work under poor conditions, but they PRESS ON, because it's important, this thing that they do.

If what Olbermann said was true - that Current doesn't pay its bills, they probably couldn't keep the lights on his show's backdrop, the teleprompters didn't operate most of the time, people were fired who never should have been, and he wasn't sure why Current couldn't have paid for the travel Olbermann had to and from the shows (apparently in his contract), then I say... insist that it's fixed up, don't do what you did. Too late. He did it, and whatever sympathy I have, has faded.

Shouldn't this mean that TYT and The War Room are ALSO poorly produced and carried off? Well, they aren't. They are damned good.

I'm not sure, when so many things are hanging in the balance, why Olbermann is bigger than the movement. Truth is, he ISN'T.

January 2, 2012

Republicans are Assholes, Aren't they?

Here's something I read on a blogspot with the same name, "Republican's are Assholes". I could NEVER say this better than...

Sunday, December 4, 2011
A message to Republican and Tea Party Assholes (repost from Nov 2010)
From HB&HM

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate Energy policy and push us to invade Iraq .

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us. You didn't get mad when we spent over 800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn't get mad when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars in cash just disappeared in Iraq .

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country.

You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.

You didn't get mad when Bush rang up 10 trillion dollars in combined budget and current account deficits.

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans drown.

You didn't get mad when we gave people who had more money than they could spend, the filthy rich, over a trillion dollars in taxbreaks. You didn't get mad with the worst 8 years of job creations in several decades.

You didn't get mad when over 200,000 US Citizens lost their lives because they had no health insurance.

You didn't get mad when lack of oversight and regulations from the Bush Administration caused US Citizens to lose 12 trillion dollars in investments, retirement, and home values.

No.....You finally got mad

When a black man was elected President and decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.

Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, job losses by the millions, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, and the worst economic disaster since 1929 are all okay with you, but helping fellow Americans who are sick...Oh, Hell No!!