Jul
30
Open Thread
ByCrack them knuckles. Hunch over the keys. Get your eyes wide. Fire freely away, and let the others know what gallops across your neurons.
Crack them knuckles. Hunch over the keys. Get your eyes wide. Fire freely away, and let the others know what gallops across your neurons.
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July 30th, 2010 at 10:10 am
How about something completely stupid? (For a change)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSG2pD-2O2g
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July 31st, 2010 at 1:13 am
Obama’s brownshirts, Ministry of Propaganda, and sticky fingered kleptocrats, yet congress to throw $37 billion more in addition to $130 billion already wasted into a financial black hole, while ignoring this, this,and this.
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July 31st, 2010 at 9:02 am
Paul Krugman gets it.
Mr. Obama rode into office on a vast wave of progressive enthusiasm. This enthusiasm was bound to be followed by disappointment, and not just because the president was always more centrist and conventional than his fervent supporters imagined. Given the facts of politics, and above all the difficulty of getting anything done in the face of lock step Republican opposition, he wasn’t going to be the transformational figure some envisioned [...]
But progressive disillusionment isn’t just a matter of sky-high expectations meeting prosaic reality. Threatened filibusters didn’t force Mr. Obama to waffle on torture; to escalate in Afghanistan; to choose, with exquisitely bad timing, to loosen the rules on offshore drilling early this year.
Then there are the appointments. Yes, the administration needed experienced hands. But did all the senior members of the economics team have to be protégés of Robert Rubin, the apostle of financial deregulation? Was it necessary to install Ken Salazar at the Interior Department over the objections of environmentalists who feared, rightly, that his ties to extractive industries would make him slow to clean up a corrupt agency?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/opinion/30krugman.html?_r=1.
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July 31st, 2010 at 9:26 am
It’s simple enough, Obama had neither the experience nor talent to be president.
We should get our money back.
July 31st, 2010 at 9:33 am
“It’s simple enough, Obama had neither the experience nor talent to be president.”
Neither did Bush!
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July 31st, 2010 at 10:52 am
ACLU: worst Bush era abuses becoming the new normal under Obama administration
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July 31st, 2010 at 11:07 am
Duquenois-Levine, or D-L test;turning police into “expert witnesses” in court based on faulty testing revealing false positives http://www.alternet.org/story/147613/has_the_most_common_marijuana_test_resulted_in_tens_of_thousands_of_wrongful_convictions?page=entire
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July 31st, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Another reason to hate Apple
Sorry Puerto Ricans, even though you bought your iPhone 4s with U.S. dollars, endure AT&T’s shoddy “national” coverage, and are United States citizens, Apple doesn’t think you’re entitled to a free case like real Americans. Apple originally told Puerto Ricans that they would qualify for free apology cases, but decided to cancel all orders being shipped to Puerto Rico after claiming that they were “unable to ship to an international address.”
http://consumerist.com/2010/07/apple-puerto-ricans-arent-americans-and-cant-have-free-iphone-4-cases.html
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August 4th, 2010 at 10:08 am
Gordon, do you have any knowledge of how it came to be that people who live here for 6 months, then return to the warmer climates in the winter don’t pay taxes? I think it’s just income, but still, I think that needs looking at. Thoughts?
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