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While Wronged Homeowners Got $300 Apiece in Foreclosure Settlement, Consultants Who Helped Protect Banks Got $2 Billion
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/while-wronged-homeowners-got-300-apiece-in-foreclosure-settlement-consultants-who-helped-protect-banks-got-2-billion-20130426
This an interesting article and I recommend reading it to understand how corrupt our government is, but it is more or less …
The progressive case against Obama
Bottom line: The president is complicit in creating an increasingly unequal — and unjust — society
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/27/the_progressive_case_against_obama/
I am not totally sold on the author’s case for the third party. There is the plausible case …
For a reasonably balanced view on why Romney is a better choice (or perhaps a less bad choice) than Obama, I offer this interesting post from Scott Adams…
Interesting Day
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/interesting_day/
For me my ‘support’ of Obama (since I live …
CEO emails 7,000 employees: Defeat Obama or else
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/09/news/economy/siegel-email-employees/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
One more case of biting the hand that feeds you: genius CEO David Siegel, whose company, btw, seems to have grown under our current President’s economic policies (it always flabbergasts me …
The closing of American academia
The plight of adjunct professors highlights the end of higher education as a means to prosperity.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/08/2012820102749246453.html
Just like there is the GOP complaint toward the Democrats (and Beatles refrain) “tax the rich until there …
Goldman Non-Prosecution: AG Eric Holder Has No Balls
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/ag-eric-holder-has-no-balls-20120815
I was hardly shocked either when I read about this before I got to Matt’s page. Indeed, I would have been shocked if it were otherwise.
…Holder’s non-decision on Goldman is
Class decides everything
Income increasingly dictates every aspect of our lives, from our politics to our health to our happiness
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/24/class_decides_everything/
What is really interesting to me is the realization (duh!) that I am in an upper class. Though I …
I have been thinking about this for quite a while (and mentioned it in a few posts), but this article has prompted me to finally write a post that focuses on it:
Welcome to the 1 percent recovery
That elite …
For those of you not yet tired of me babbling on and on and on an on about our police state here is another fascinating look at it:
ACLU sues Obama administration over assassination secrecy
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/aclu_sues_obama_administration_over_assassination_secrecy/singleton/
I like Glenn, but …