Category Archives: Politics

Banco Santander: The Epitome of Bankster Evil

I'd thought Citibank, Wells Fargo, US Bank and others had rightly deserved reputations as near (or fully) criminal enterprises, the mutant bastard offspring of what used to be the banking industry, but apparently there's at least one international banking corporation … Continue reading

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Call & Response

Pretty much any critique or complaint from the radical right and neocons about a certain recent event can be answered with, "We thought you guys said you actually wanted Osama Bin Laden dead.  Or were you lying about that all … Continue reading

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You can’t stop the signal

Once information is out there, trying to suppress it is a thuggish fool's errand. http://213.251.145.96/ If the Powers That Be shut that down, it'll just pop up somewhere else.  The data has already been mirrored and copied to hundreds of … Continue reading

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Mission Accomplished: The Legacy-enning

The new Bush Library is deciding whether or not the president's notorious "Mission Accomplished" banner will be one of the 43,000 artifacts in its collection put on display when the library opens in 2013 via Mission Accomplished | Talking Points … Continue reading

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The “Foreclosure” crisis explained

Let's pretend mortgages are meat. No, no — bear with me, this will make sense in a moment. In the olden days (circa 1990s), banks and other financial institutions would write mortgages, which were backed by the asset — known … Continue reading

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Commitments

Posted by frizbeesf over on Americablog: I WILL WORK JUST AS HARD… I will work as hard for Barack Obama as he has worked for me.. In the weeks ahead when I encounter insane lies and distortions about the President’s … Continue reading

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Not one of us

Anticipated reaction of the Teabagger fundamentalist contingent upon learning of Christine O'Donnell's admission  she'd "dabbled into (sic) witchcraft" while in college: Eleven years ago a boisterous Christine O'Donnell confessed to Bill Maher and his ABC audience that she'd dated a … Continue reading

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Political commentary for our times

Funniest damned thing I've seen in a very, very long time.

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All talk, no walk – again

When people want to know why I’m down on the Obama Administration, it’s because stuff like this is just part of a pattern — whatever they promised, we get the opposite and a whole lot of happy talk about how … Continue reading

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Cool science tricks

Anthrax detector can spot H1N1 virus | KRQE News 13 New Mexico A device developed during post-9/11 anthrax scares can quickly and simply detect the H1N1 swine flu virus, according to University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories scientists. … Continue reading

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