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"The minute I saw the faces of the agents, I knew I was in trouble. The first page of the Unthinkable
script mentioned 9/11, terror plots, and the fact that the (fictional)
world had become a police state. The TSA agents then proceeded to
interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book
could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone
actually wrote scripts for comics.
Max Keiser explains how Goldman Sachs is behind the largest theft in world history.
But credit cards can also be a slippery slope. One misstep and you’ll tumble into the abyss of credit card debt hell, a mounting spiral of missed payments, fees, high APRs, and rate increases that will take years to recover from.
Operation Rescue has released a video from their security cameras showing the attacker who attempted to disable the security system at OR’s national headquarters yesterday. The suspect in the attack remains at large.The video shows the suspect lurking about before the incident.
The unprecedented decline in room revenues combined with the jump in cap rates has resulted in a massive loss in values. We estimate that values are currently 50-80% lower than at the market’s peak in 2006-2007.
Homeowners start to default once their negative equity passes 10% of the home’s value. After that, they “walk away massively” after decreases of 15%. About 17% of households would default — even if they could pay the mortgage...
My analysis of Bernanke's statement: “My concern about the legislation is that if the GAO (Government Accountability Office) is auditing not only the operational aspects of the programs and the details of the programs but is making judgments about our policy decisions, that it would effectively be a takeover of monetary policy by the Congress and a repudiation of the independence of the Federal Reserve which would be highly destructive to the stability of the financial system, the Dollar and our national economic situation.”
Friday afternoon a man on a bicycle attacked Operation Rescue’s national headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, and attempted to disable the security system. There were four people working in the office at the time.
...tyranny, crime, corruption, and any number of other examples....combine all that with the personal struggles each of us uniquely are experiencing in our own lives, you come up with a pretty hard pill to swallow each day.
Mike Masnick on techdirt points us to some dangerous and incomplete thinking from Judge Richard Posner on his blog. At the bottom, Posner writes: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.
The purpose of all, or nearly all, functions of the modern state is
to facilitate and maximize the transfer of wealth from the pockets of
the productive class to the bank accounts of the political class.
Given the recent announcement that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was AWOL in Argentina with his lover, and given that I laugh at the double-standards of both Republicans and Democrats, I wasn’t shocked with all the sanctimonious moralism being espoused
The White House dismissed reports that it has drafted an executive order allowing indefinite detention in the United States of some of the top terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that
could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are
crafting language for an executive order that would reassert
presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely,
according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White
House deliberations.
Right on the heels of a successful state-by-state nullification of the 2005 Real ID act, the State of Arizona is out in the forefront of a growing resistance to proposed federal health care legislation.
This past Monday, the Arizona State Senate voted 18-11 to concur with the House and approve the Health Care Freedom Act (HCR2014). This will put a proposal on the 2010 ballot which would constitutionally override any law, rule or regulation that requires individuals or employers to participate in any particular health care system.
A team of MIT scientists recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide increase in methane levels -the first increase in ten years. What baffles the team is that this data contradicts theories stating humans are the primary source of increase in greenhouse gas. It takes about one full year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern hemisphere to cycle through and reach the southern hemisphere.
[beggin for it] The Harrisburg Chapter of the NAACP is calling on Pennsylvania Gov. Ed
Rendell to suspend some civil liberties and impose martial law in the
city to halt the wave of recent lawlessness.
And the South Carolina governor started out by using an interesting
comparison to respond to calls for his resignation. King David didn't
back down after his own sex scandal, he told his colleagues, and
neither will I.
The House narrowly passed an ambitious climate bill that
would establish national limits on greenhouse gases, create a complex
trading system for emission permits and provide incentives to alter how
individuals and corporations use energy.
Five U.S. banks with total assets of about $1.04 billion were seized by regulators, pushing this year’s tally of failures to 45 as a recession drives up unemployment and home foreclosures.
Since this is such a high priority issue for the Obama administration,
it's amazing that the margin was this thin. Incredibly, 44 Democrats
voted against the legislation. That would not have happened without
your efforts.
[a little late] A day after President Obama threw his support
behind the American Clean Energy and Security Act, one of the world’s
most prominent environmental advocacy organizations has come out in
strong opposition to the bill, which is set to go to a full vote on the
House floor as early as Friday.
In the long and seemingly futile quest to build a better roach trap,
researchers have finally identified the come-hither chemical of the
female German cockroach and produced a synthetic version that makes
males come running in less than nine seconds.
A woman is suing the city of Woodstock and a narcotics officer she said raped her at a police station. She said the incident happened after she agreed to work as a confidential informant after a drug arrest.
A police officer was indicted on federal civil rights charges over a fatal confrontation with a developmentally disabled man who was struck and Tasered in 2006 at a Spokane, Wash., convenience store.
Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods...
There have been bad housing markets before, but never in post-World War II history has the market for new homes suffered as badly as it has in this decline.
A declaration by the representatives of the united colonies of North America, now met in Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms.
Only a world-class narcissistic lunatic could take credit for the sun and empty your wallet for the privilege of being slapped silly.
"We are setting the stage for big pressures for states to restrict eligibility and benefit levels," McHugh said. "Those type of restrictive actions undercut the (Depression-era program's) economic and social stability purposes."
