The Coming Electoral Debacle Is a Self-Inflicted Wound, Barack
Obama’s hectoring the Real Democrats — the base — is a bound-to-fail enterprise. We Real Democrats told him time and again how and where he was losing us and he ignored us. That bill is coming due.
It’s not just “the economy”, Obama. It’s kids starving.
Kids are starving in Maine. What is Obama doing about it?
Presented with a nice, steaming side of schadenfreude.
They say no good deed goes unpunished. I suspect that, in wingnut world, that’s the way they’re feeling today.
I’m not.
Sinclair Broadcasting, that home of wingnut propaganda TV and Swift-boating, is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
Pixie Dust Works on Statutes, Too
Early in 2002, before the earliest incidences of torture (at least those we know of), Gonzo went further than any of the pixie dust we’ve seen so far. He told Bushie that Bush could pixie dust the War Crimes Act out of the way.
No Limiting Principle
With a little application of logic, we find that under the praxis Deadeye and the Torture 13 applied to justify it, torture is universally available.
The Pictures Won’t Lie, Which is Why We Can’t See Them
Ah, yes. The torture pictures. Anything to keep them from being seen. Even though the Government settled the case the ACLU had brought, seeking those pictures, Obama now wants to welsh on his deal.
Don’t You People Have Real Jobs?
Emptywheel and I were having this discussion earlier. The economy sucks, job listings go nowhere, and here we are blogging rather than earning.
Datamining Finances, the Prosecutor’s Power and the FISA Cases
We’ve been having a good discussion over at Emptywheel’s place about al-Haramin, what the Bushies left out of (or had to “correct”) in their classified submissions to the judge in that and the FISA cases, and then the discussion turned to datamining financial information. One of the commenters asked:
Datamining financial data. Could this be how they got Spitzer?
And it went from there.
How to End the Foreclosure Crisis Now
WE can end the foreclosure crisis now. But we have to work together, and we have to do it from the bottom up. It’s time for us to go on a mortgage strike, like a rent strike, until we get the changes we want.