"Do you know how to make God laugh? You tell him your plans." Hari Sheldon – Foudation's Fear
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 2nd, 2010
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money Offshore Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico Explodes – NYTimes.com. Yup, they’re ever so safe. No need for any drilling moratoriums. After all that might cost some money.
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 26th, 2010
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money Paul on the manufactured NY mosque kerfuffle: The justification to ban the mosque is no more rational than banning a soccer field in the same place because all the suicide bombers loved to play soccer. via Ron Paul to Sunshine Patriots: Stop Your Demagogy About The NYC Mosque! | [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 25th, 2010
Unreal Blog Physics, Philosophy and Money Steve Benen points out the obvious: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE STEPS ALL OVER BOEHNER’S MESSAGE…. In his exceedingly silly speech on the economy today, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) proudly proclaimed, “All this ‘stimulus’ spending has gotten us nowhere.” And almost immediately thereafter, the CBO made Boehner look pretty [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 24th, 2010
So what’s the choice now? The Obama administration wants to preserve those parts of the original tax cuts that mainly benefit the middle class — which is an expensive proposition in its own right — but to let those provisions benefiting only people with very high incomes expire on schedule. Republicans, with support from some [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 19th, 2010
Now this would be a change I could believe in: Bill Gross, who runs Pacific Investment Management Co.’s $239 billion Total Return Fund, said that policymakers “should quickly re-engineer” a plan that would refinance all non-delinquent mortgages backed by the federal government. The rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged a record-low 4.44 percent in [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 19th, 2010
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak – 8/16/2010 – Keep Looking Up. I hear the same claptrap from people claiming Obama is a commie, socialist, Muslim who doesn’t have a valid US birth certificate. When in truth they don’t know what the first three words mean and are apparently Google impaired. This [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 6th, 2010
The man was in rare form last night, he and his writers are satirical geniuses: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c How to Ruin Same-Sex Marriages www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 6th, 2010
Life is strange for me just lately, a study in contrasts. In many ways I’ve never been happier. I have a loving wife who’s been a source of joy, my personal fountain of warmth and comfort. I’ve never loved someone as much and had it returned by orders of magnitude, freely and gracefully. I feel [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 4th, 2010
Prop 8 Ruled Unconstitutional – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan. Down in flames, appeals sure to follow. This really will need to go to the Supreme Court. The real fear for me is that the Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Kennedy wing of the court will see nothing wrong with enshrining discrimination in a [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 4th, 2010
They’re Not Embarrassed | Video Cafe. Rachel Maddow points out that the GOP is in strident, table pounding opposition to themselves on cap and trade, the health insurance individual mandate, aid to small businesses, a deficit commission and disclosure of corporate campaign donations. The really astounding part is they seem to get a pass on [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 2nd, 2010
FT.com / Reportage – The crisis of middle-class America. When the Financial Times thinks that income distribution and middle class wage stagnation are a problem, I’d say that means it’s a long standing crisis: The slow economic strangulation of the Freemans and millions of other middle-class Americans started long before the Great Recession, which merely [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 30th, 2010
What he said. Send the Anti-Defamation League back to Hebrew school: Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect. Remarkable. An organization whose stated role is to “counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry” nonetheless opposes people building where they please simply because of the faith they adhere to. Sure “bigotry is unfair and wrong”, the ADL says, [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 29th, 2010
We don’t stand a chance: Just two Chinese ISPs serve 20% of world broadband users If you need a reminder of just how big China is—and just how important the Internet has become there—consider this stat: between them, two Chinese ISPs serve 20 percent of all broadband subscribers in the entire world. Telegeography has updated [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 29th, 2010
The Bush Deficit Bamboozle – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com. OK, even by contemporary standards, this is rich: the official Republican stance is now apparently that Bush left behind a budget that was in pretty good shape. Mitch McConnell: The last year of the Bush administration, the deficit as a percentage of gross domestic product [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 25th, 2010
The NY Times has an article on the pending battle over the expiration of the Bush era tax cuts. Clearly we can no longer afford what we’re currently doing. The quandary is how far to go in reinstating parts of the tax cuts. The Republicans insist that it’s foolish to do anything short of 100% [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 23rd, 2010
Rush Limbaugh said Thursday on his radio show that Fox News and at least one of its anchors “caved” in its coverage of Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA employee who was fired in haste on Monday after an edited clip of her was posted on a conservative website. “I have to go after it … [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 15th, 2010
The GOP really saying what they think is always a bad idea for their electoral chances. As they say “hubris comes before the fall’”. Republicans are feeling good about the midterms — so good that they’ve started saying what they really think. This week the party’s Senate leadership stopped pretending that it cares about deficits, [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 13th, 2010
I know the cops have a hard job, but this was way overdue. Four current and two former New Orleans police officers have been charged in connection with the killing of unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, federal law enforcement officials announced here on Tuesday. via Police Charged [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 13th, 2010
It’s the same answer to every problem: Cut taxes, it’s magic! In exactly the same way leprechauns and unicorns are magic. Tax cuts are the pixie dust of the GOP, just sprinkle them and believe really, really hard and you can fly! It reflects an economic outlook on about the same grade level as Peter [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 9th, 2010
Economist’s View: How Close to Deflation are We?. The gist here is that actual inflation is very near to slightly below zero. Using inflation fears as a reason to avoid further stimulus is simply unfounded. Deflation is a much more pressing concern. A more important question is what can they do, given that interest rates [...]
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