Michael Franks - One Bad Habit

He was born here in America's Finest City

I own a copy of everything he's released, except for the compilation CDs, 'cuz that would be redundant.

The only other musical artist that I love that much is Rickie Lee Jones.

BPW Approves $3.41M Settlement with Manufacturer Over Voting Machine Security Issues

“The problems with the Diebold machines were clearly evident during the 2006 election,” said Attorney General Gansler. “When I took office, I began to examine ways to hold the company accountable for its shortcomings. Today, I am proud that my office was able to reach this settlement and save the State of Maryland millions of dollars.”

Dear AOL Members: AOL is Censoring YOUR Email

I love the BradBlog .


Since I just had a run-in with an AOL email member, this comment made me laugh out loud:


"AOL is infested with petty little conservative trolls who are constantly sending TOS reports in to AOL trying to get non-conservatives booted from the AOL domain. It's just how they roll. Cowards, and chickenshits, the lot of them."

Is the US Military America's Biggest Security Threat?

Rob Kall OpEd News April 21, 2011
"America's Military has become the biggest THREAT to US security.

...The US Military is a huge cancer on our budget. It weakens our economy, weakens our currency, saps our ability to maintain vital infrastructure. The 700 plus military bases spread throughout the world are supposed to make us more secure. Our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya are supposed to make us more secure. Instead, the wars have raised the levels of hate for the US to unprecedented levels..."

Greenspan Is Back to Lead the Charge Against Responsible Regulation

Alan Greenspan is someone only the banksters can love.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Interview with David Cay Johnston on our rotten tax system

AlterNet / By Terrence McNally

How You Can Have a Billion-Dollar Income in America and Pay No Taxes

Tax journalist David Cay Johnston explains what's so rotten about our taxation system and the distribution of wealth in this country.

"..TM: In the Wall Street Journal March 22nd: "IRS Targets Rich Taxpayers. The rich not only face calls for higher taxes, they also face more audits to make sure they pay." And the article ends with this question: "Do you think the new tax force is welcome tax justice or capricious wealth redistribution?"

DCJ: In the late 1980s if you were a high income tax payer, your odds of being audited were about one in 11. They have been as low in recent years as one in 400. They're currently a little over one in 100, probably about one in 75. If you're in the $10 million-up crowd your odds are much higher, they're more like one in six. But the audit rates are still very low.

From interviews with dozens of IRS agents all over the country who weren't supposed to talk to me, it's clear many of these audits are superficial. They're told not to pursue things...."

Just read it.

The scam behind the rise in oil, food prices

The scam behind the rise in oil, food prices

"...Danger met with silence

What Phil sees is a giant but intricate game of market manipulation and rigging by a cartel – not just an industry – that actually has loaded tankers criss-crossing the oceans but only landing when the price is right...."

America's 10 Most Overpaid CEOs

America's 10 Most Overpaid CEOs

Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones
Wed, Apr. 20, 2011

"..Share in the pain by giving back a week's worth of pay. But he wouldn't return his 80 percent raise, which he'd earned while boosting profits through layoffs and wage cuts..."


You know what words come to mind when I actully think about this stuff and the sickness that pervades our society?

Conscienceless sociopaths. Yes, this country actually rewards the most vain (Hollyweird), selfish and reckless (Wall St. speculators and traders) and sociopathic (CEOs and RepugnanThuglicans) people in it.

It's all about the bottom line, right?
(Yeah, I know conscienceless sociopaths is redundant)

Progressives of the world take note: the US-Saudi counter-revolution against the Great 2011 Arab Revolt is now official.

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Why are the rich always complaining about taxes?

Only Little People Pay Taxes

Nip/Tuck

If watching the surgery scenes don't make you happy to remain fat, wrinkled, and happy with the genitals you were born with you are an idiot. I never watched the show on cable because I never had cable, but it's been fun to watch on Netflix. So ok, maybe Julia and her mother are supposed to get on my last nerve?

They do.

Could any two be more valuable members of the clueless parent's club? Yeah, nevermind, every character on the show belongs to that club.

Vanessa Redgrave reminds me of one of those Joan Crawford types who's elitism may have been justified by the old studio system that enabled and protected them from their own ridiculousness Her daughter reminds me of a chihuahua, trembling and vibrating at the tiniest bit of emotion. and what's with that phony, obnoxious voice affectation? She also has really ugly and scary eyes. She belongs in horror flicks. Her character on the show is much harder to hate than the Christian character. I sincerely hope that he dies a painful, prolonged death before the series ends.

Bilbray cracks me up

Looks like his staff does things that he doesn't know about.

Kinda like his kids.

Tim Geithner Confident Congress Will Raise Debt Ceiling: Not Doing So Would Be 'Catastrophic' (VIDEO)

Metinks Geithner hasn't noticed that catastroph­e has already hit a large percentage of Americans.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Obama and the Budget Civil War

"We have to make agonizing choices."



Who's "we" buddy? Did "we" choose to spend trillions on wars?



Did "we" choose to hand over billions to health insurance companies?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

This is the guy we voted for

Obama to Boehner in Budget Talks: "You think we're stupid?"

Atlas Shrugged, But You Shouldn't

"Who is John Galt?"

Who cares?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

I hate red state morons

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

ps, I have been avoiding the news because every time I read it for more than 5 minutes I end up in tears.

My daughter is graduating from college in June and I want to enjoy her victory over the odds. They told her in 9th grade that her grades were so bad that she wouldn't graduate from high school if she didn't change things. She set her jaw in determination and looked at that counselor like "Yeah? We'll see about that." I am so proud of her. I don't mind tears as long as they are tears of joy. I think I need to invest in some waterproof mascara before June, eh?

The elite and their speculators and traders

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
By Joseph E. Stiglitz May 2011 Vanity Fair


"We've lowered the tax rates on speculators..."



2007–2008 world food price crisis

You think the protests in the middle east are ONLY about repressive governments and the yearning for democracy?

What?

You don't remember this little dickweed Enron trader caught on tape ?

You think that was an anomoly?

Bwhaaahahahahahah...

Uh No.

Commodities rally as dollar slumps
Published on Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 13:44

Global oil market over supplied - Iran OPEC governor
TEHRAN, April 9 | Sat Apr 9, 2011 2:39am EDT

I love Bill Cosby

Donald Trump Gets Weirder
By GAIL COLLINS
Published: April 1, 2011

"...Vote for Donald Trump, the man who can make Bill O’Reilly look like the most sensible guy in the room...."

(just read it, it's funny)

Donald Trump Responds
Published: April 8, 2011

Gee, what's the phrase I'm looking for? Oh, yeah, ad hominem, good job Trump. Jeez, what an ass.

right wing retards on Faux newZ get it wrong again

But Law Prohibits Federal Money From Being Used To Fund Planned Parenthood's Abortions.

Mike Pence R(etard) Indiana

If he really wants to balance the budget he might start by not accepting more in federal money than his state actually pays. My state is breaking even even with a 52% increase in federal funding.

Jesus Christ, this fucktard pisses me off. He's a misogynistic bastard from hell. What? Does he think that because his mommy squirted out six brats that all women live for that shit?

And gee, I wonder why he's against the public option? Could it be that he's owned and operated by the health insurance companies?

Man, this guy is easy to hate.

How Slavery Really Ended in America

by Adam Goodheart NYT Apr 1, 2011


"...As routine as the usage soon became, however, a hint of Butler’s joke remained, a slight edge of nervous laughter. A touch of racist derision, too: William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, carped, justly enough, that it was offensive to speak of human beings that way. Yet in its very absurdity, reflecting the Alice-in-Wonderland legal reasoning behind Butler’s decision, the term also mocked the absurdity of slavery — and the willful stupidity of federal laws that, for nearly a century, had acknowledged no meaningful difference between a bushel of corn and a human being with dark skin. Eventually, even black leaders adopted it..."

GOP Leadership: White House Has Rejected Emergency One-Week Funding Measure

If the GOP's owners would just pay their danged taxes and get a clue, it wouldn't come to this.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

How did I miss this one?

I love Senator Bernie Sanders. Hat tip to OB Rag



Bernie? The rich seem to think their shit smells like roses.

Saudi Arabian women

Page last updated at 10:13 GMT, Monday, 28 March 2011 11:13 UK
The Saudi women taking small steps for change

Before I flew to the Saudi capital Riyadh to make a film about the position of women in the kingdom, I met a Saudi woman studying in the UK who told me, "Saudi Arabia is the biggest women's prison in the world".

They're still going to be stuck in the 7th century after the oil runs out, only nobody will care. The silly primates who dominate this planet will be fighting it out to see which of the 1 billiion lucky ones will survive, provided the natural resources can still support that many.

This one gets covered a lot

And I don't like most of them, but I like this one.

Pearl Jam - Leash

I wish this song was on the playlist way back when when I was clubbing

Afghanistan Quran Protest Leaves Up To 20 Dead, Two U.N. Staffers Reportedly Beheaded

Update Sat Apr 2, 2011
Nine people were killed and 81 injured in the disturbances, all from bullet wounds...

So because a Koran was burned in Florida UN workers were killed in Afghanistan?

I am still trying to wrap my head around this.

Yeah, are the pipelines and mining possibilities worth this?

I don't think so.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Really? Ya think?

Antitrust Institute Says T-Mobile AT&T Merger Appears to Be Anti-Competitive
25 Corporate Crime Reporter 14, April 1, 2011

wonkette cracked me up with this

Jabbering fucktard clownfish Michele Bachmann...