Too Big To Jail: Wall Street Executives Unlikely To Face Criminal Charges, Source Says

And some of these guys know full well that their banks are laundering drug money.

Justice?

Bwwwwaaaahahahahahaha
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Maher nails it!

Bill Maher: Liberals Don’t Envy Rich, ‘They Just Wish Rich Would Admit They Were Just Lucky’
VIDEO
by Laura Donovan | 12:25 pm, September 8th, 2012

Elizabeth Warren: 'Americans Are Fighters'

Go ahead and read this critical article from the Christian Science Monitor.

Elizabeth Warren speech: Stirring, or a stretch of the facts?
The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

I did and found myself very critical of it's criticism. I read the links to FactCheck.Org backed up a few steps and thought "omfg, they're trying to fact check candidate's RHETORIC?" Might that be because the politicians that I think actually care about the majority of the people they are supposed to represent I can count on my digits and Warren is one of them? Yeah, could be.

Might also be that I consider the CS Monitor msm and I get bloody sick of their attempts to look like they are representing the Dems and Rethugs as equals.  You know, like a choice between chicken or fish for dinner.

 As long as we are visiting FactCheck.org how about a search on rhetoric spewed at the RNC 2012.

Exposed: Undercover Agents at Occupy Austin Entrapped Protesters, Endangered Activists

AlterNet / By Jen Waller, Tom Hintze
How far should the police go for a conviction?
September 3, 2012 |
"...The Houston case is not the first time police entrapment has led to felony charges being levied against Occupy protesters..."

John Cusack Interviews Law Professor Jonathan Turley About Obama Administration’s War On The Constitution

Dude Cusack,



Love your work, thought I loved your politics, but I'm baffled as to why you would get on THIS idealistic high horse 8 weeks before THIS election? You TRYING to get liberals to stay home and not vote? Let's face it, the cranky old uniformed and misinformed Faux NewZ watchers are going to reach over and check their mail-n ballot box for whoever Angry ol Billy frightens them into checking it for. They vote, which is the only reason they ever win elections because there are a heck of a lot more of us.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Pentagon's Bases of Confusion

"...In February of this year, Lieutenant Lauren Rago of ISAF public affairs told me that there were only 451 ISAF bases in Afghanistan.  In July, the ISAF Joint Command Press Desk informed me that the number of bases was now 550, 750, or 1,500, depending on what facilities you chose to count, while NATO’s Olson and the Associated Press put the number back down at the January 2010 figure of around 400.  TomDispatch did not receive a response to a request for further clarification from a spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan before this article went to press..."
Nick Turse at TomDispatch
September 4, 2012.

Labor Day 2102

The weather is nice, gonna BBQ with friends.

"For many Americans, Labor Day is merely the symbolic end-of-summer, the last chance to sleep in late, clean the storm drains, take the children to a parade or park, perhaps unearth the barbecue from the garage for an impromptu cookout. However, contrary to its present day manifestation, Labor Day was a hard-won holiday, born out of a tense struggle between labor rights groups, exploitative corporations, and the federal government to achieve livable wages for railroad factory workers... Labor day and the American worker

If Mitt Romney gets in because the voter turnout is low we are screwed. So screwed.

Mexico Drug War: Tens Of Thousands Dead As Battle Rages On (PHOTOS)

47,000? I've seen numbers estimating the dead from this stupid, unwinnable war on drugs as high as 60,000. The deaths are so pointless. :(
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Conventions" A great learning opportunity for voters

Brendan Nyhan at Columbia Journalism Review
Aug 28, 2012

Because I'm sick of hearing about Romney and Ryan's nonsense

I give you The 10 Most Stolen Cars in America

Go ahead and look, it's a much less sexier list than you would imagine.

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

I've been looking all day for somthing worth re-posting.

That whole Akin political theatre crapola has become beyond tedious to me.

Chris Hedges nails it again:

The War in the Shadows.
Truthdig OpEd
Published: Tuesday 21 August 2012

"...They were all the same. Gangsters.

All states and armed groups recruit and use members of this underclass...."


"...The multitudes of crimes these killers, torturers, kidnappers, propagandists, special operations units and spies have carried out in our name are well known to those outside our gates. There are hundreds of millions of people who have a tragic intimacy with the twisted and brutal soul of American imperialism. Okinawans. Guatemalans. Cubans. Congolese. Brazilians. Argentines. Indonesians. Iranians. Palestinians. Panamanians. Vietnamese. Cambodians. Filipinos. South Koreans. Taiwanese. Nicaraguans. Salvadorans. Afghans. Iraqis. Yemenis. Somalis. They can all tell us who we are, if we can listen. But we do not. We are as ignorant, gullible and naive as children..."


Hmmm. Yes, Mr. Hedges some of us were ignorant, gullible and naive. I am not any longer, but I do not feel that Americans who are behind clandestine operations reflect the wishes of the American people overall. I also wonder how many other nations (or their elites anyway) would engage in those activities given the wealth, power, and goodwill afforded the nation as a whole after WWII. After all, people are people, as Jared Diamond proves in "The Third Chimpanzee." Americans aren't the only humans to shit in their nest.

Best of TomDispatch: Rebecca Solnit, The Archipelago of Arrogance

Best of TomDispatch: Rebecca Solnit, The Archipelago of Arrogance

Sunday must read

Published on Monday, August 13, 2012 by TomDispatch.com (←this link)

The World (Still) Too Big to Fail

by Tom Engelhardt and Noam Chomsky

In Noam Chomsky’s “Who Owns the World?” -- the most popular TomDispatch post of all time (which means the last 10 years) -- he wrote of one key imperial principle: “The U.S. cannot tolerate ‘any exercise of sovereignty’ that interferes with its global designs.”  Hence, the under-reported but staggering U.S. build-up in the Persian Gulf.

Yes, this is hard to digest, especially if you are unfamiliar with the real history of the US.

Paul Ryan Will Talk About Tax Policy 'In The Light Of Day' -- After The Election

"Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced Wednesday that all 88 boards of election in the state must restrict early voting hours to weekdays. The uniform hours were decided in the wake of outcry over the disparity between restricted hours in Democratic-leaning counties and expanded hours in Republican-leaning counties..."

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/16/699321/ohio-secretary-of-state-restricts-voting-hours-in-all-counties/
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

The United States and Its Comrade-in-Arms, Al Qaeda.

AUGUST 13, 2012
The United States and Its Comrade-in-Arms, Al Qaeda.
Tales of an Empire Gone Mad
by WILLIAM BLUM

I keep William Blum's "Killing Hope" close for referral purposes, and I've read "Legacy of Ashes". I've read "The Third Chimpanzee" so I certainly don't believe that any nation state or ethnic group is going to do any better with the amount of power that the US has wielded for the last 60 years.

I'm with Batty. Or I am batty. Or something.

Jack Johnson - Flake

This is why the politickybitch is disinterested in politicky stuff lately

I am also rolling onf the floor laughing my ass off that you have to sit through a Romney/Ryan ad in order to watch a Noam Chomsky video clip:
ENLIGHTENMENT MINUTES - with Noam Chomsky

Darrel Issa is a fucktard

Rep. Issa Brings His Anti-Holder Witchhunt To The Courts

Academi: Company previously known as Blackwater agrees to $7.5 million fine in arms smuggling case

Academi: Company previously known as Blackwater agrees to $7.5 million fine in arms smuggling case
August 10, 2012

Jebus. I've been bitching about this pos company for 5 fucking years and the fuckers just keep getting govt contracts. Erik Prince may have bailed out and left the company to clean up the mess, but the idiot still thinks his right wing xian bullshit can save the world and he can get rich doing it.

It's kind of funny that I just read this article within 3 days of watching "Lord of War" with Nicholas Cage.

'Attitude toward Occupy journalists filled with contempt'

Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:16PM GMT


The United States has fallen to 47th in press freedom rankings “In part because of the crackdown on journalists as well as activists in the Occupy movement.”

“The attitude towards people covering the Occupy movement was filled with contempt in the same way that the attitude towards occupiers was driven by contempt,” Danny Schechter, editor of Mediachannel.org, told Press TV's U.S. Desk on Saturday.

The crackdown “has become a national story because the same pattern seems to have taken place in many places.”

The annual report by Reporters Without Borders was released on Wednesday, showing the United States fell 27 points on the Press Freedom index.

HJ/DB

WWIII: Great commodities war to end all wars

WWIII: Great commodities war to end all wars

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) —

Yes, WWIII: The Great Commodities War to End All Wars. We’ve heard that before. Remember WWI, known as The War to End All Wars, 37 million casualties. WWII was bigger, 60 million. Will WWIII finally end all wars? Or end the world, civilization, planet?

Massive Fire at Chevron Refinery May Cause Gas Prices to Spike to $4

The incident is also likely to have some pretty immediate impacts on the state's economy—seeing as how the plant refines 16% of the West Coast's gasoline, analysts are expecting prices at the pump to rise. Maybe even above $4 a gallon.

nifty

Michael Phelps

Amazing career.

"...He has won a total of 71 medals in major international long-course competition, 57 gold, 11 silver, and three bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Phelps's international titles and record-breaking performances have earned him the World Swimmer of the Year Award six times and American Swimmer of the Year Award eight times. His unprecedented Olympic success in 2008 earned Phelps Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year award..."


His final Olympic swim (video) and a gold for USA in the 400 Medley .
Phelps retires with 18 gold medals and 22 overall, more than any other Olympian in the history of the Games.

America is a Democracy? Really?

Published: Saturday 4 August 2012
“Forget that the government is increasingly trampling on the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, with a burgeoning surveillance program and a growing militarization of the police.”

America is a Democracy? Really?

ABOUT DAVE LINDORFF
Dave Lindorff is an investigative reporter, a columnist for CounterPunch, and a contributor to Businessweek, The Nation, Extra! and Salon.com. He received a Project Censored award in 2004. Dave is also a founding member of the online newspaper ThisCantBeHappening! at www.thiscantbehappening.net

USA Swimming Performs 'Call Me Maybe'

These kids are so cute!

Highlights: Phelps Beats Lochte For Gold In 200m IM


Michael Phelps Medal Count: Predicting Olympic Great's London Totals
By Scott Carasik (Featured Columnist) on August 3, 2012

Michael Phelps is truly a freak of nature. Dude practically has gills.

yer congress workin fer you!

July 30, 2012
In this MegaVote for California's 50th Congressional District:

Recent Congressional Votes
Senate: Tax Cut Extension – Republican Substitute
Senate: Tax Cut Extension – Passage
Senate: Cybersecurity – Cloture
House: Tribal Land Leases – Suspension
House: Levee Construction – Suspension
House: Oil and Gas Drilling – Passage
House: Federal Reserve Audit – Suspension
House: Regulatory Overhaul


pfffft. Pfffft.   PFFFFFFFTTTT.


hat tip to skippy
14 reasons why this is the worst Congress ever
Posted by Ezra Klein on July 13, 2012 at 8:00 am

Bankers or Banksters?

Bankers or Banksters?

Inter Press Service Op-Ed via
Nation of Change
Published: Sunday 29 July 2012

Anybody who's read the books by Greider or Brown or even Griffin's books on the Federal Reserve wouldn't ask this question.


Survey says?


Banksters.


Just for clarification's sake I am not a socialist or communist. I believe in capitalism. I also believe in regulations and these fuckers either don't think the rules apply to them, or they try to get the rules changed to suit them.

Too busy to care

WTH is going on with politics. Romney is an assclown and Obama is stuck inside a system that is broken beyond belief with big money in fucking charge of everything.


I'm trying to unpack my shit, go through my shit, weed out the real shit from the shit I need to keep and trying to motivate my doofy husband to do the same.  Damn he keeps some stupid shit.  And he could care less about anything but the stupid YouTube videos he's glued to all the time, especially our shitty little yard that I'm trying to make look less shitty.


Shit.  


Back to work.

Titanic Banks Hit LIBOR Iceberg: Will Lawsuits Sink the ship?

Published: Sunday 22 July 2012
“Billions of dollars were skimmed from cities all across America by colluding to rig the public bids on municipal bonds, a business worth $3.7 trillion.”

Titanic Banks Hit LIBOR Iceberg: Will Lawsuits Sink the ship?

. . . Finance has usurped democracy.

Gee, ya think?


I'm still unpacking, sorting, shredding, donating and pushing him to do the same...

*sigh*