tired today

that is all, carry on

Undercover Police Stings Target Front Lines Of Stolen iPhone Market

Boy am I grateful for my pos phone. NObody is going to steal it, lol.
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Greed kills

Scores dead in Bangladesh building collapse
Government announces a national day of mourning as rescue workers continue search for survivors trapped under rubble.
Last Modified: 24 Apr 2013 18:25
AlJazeera


After the Texas Explosion: A Firestorm of Lawsuits?
By Hilary Hylton
April 22, 2013


Over 26,000 annual deaths for uninsured: report

By David Morgan
WASHINGTON | Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:02pm EDT
(Reuters) - More than 26,000 working-age adults die prematurely in the United States each year because they lack health insurance, according to a study published ahead of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law.



Greed kills

scanning the headlines this morning

over at HuffPo and it's Boston Boston Boston.

I found this over there too: 



(Credit: Facebook/America Loves Iraq)

The two boys in the photo "understand far too well what it is like in the immediate aftermath of a terror attack," Gosztola wrote. "The boys not only stand in solidarity with the victims of the Boston explosions, but they also empathize because this is what they’ve experienced. Part of this message is being shared with Americans because they want them to know they understand the pain Americans are going through."

At least 33 people were killed and more than 160 were injured after a "wave of bombings" struck the Iraqi cities of Baghdad, Fallujah and Kirkuk on the same day as the Boston Marathon tragedy.

West Fertilizer Co. Failed To Disclose It Had Unsafe Stores Of Explosive Substance

"...The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating part of a small Texas town and killing at least 14 people, had last year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger safety oversight by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...."



What good are regulations if the regulatory agencies are grossly underfunded?
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Boston bombing

So.  My thoughts just in case you're interested.  If you're reading this it's possible you are so I will continue. 

My thoughts before I read the HuffPost article  were quite cynical.  I wondered about the huge base called Camp Bondsteel  in Kosovo and how close it was to Chechnya where the suspects are from and, once I placed the geography, whether or not it has an airfield and who controls the airspace over the Black Sea.  And whether or not the geniuses at the Pentagon were cooking up more shit that will make the whole damn planet hate US foreign policy even more than they already do. 

From the Wikipedia photo it doesn't look like it has an airfield, and I hope that with one suspect dead and the other soon to be caught, that this remains a police matter, and those investigations do not lead outside the US. 

Although I am disappointed that Obama has continued US military (and international mercenary) involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan I believe he is much more level headed than Bush was and won't turn this into another international clusterfuck.

the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

reading now

Sequestration Hits Blind Workers, With Group For The Visually Impaired Forced To Cut Staff

What are we waiting for? There are a few hundred of the 1% and millions of us 99%ers.
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Ex-FDIC Chair Sheila Bair: Too Big To Fail May Be Over

So far I see a bunch of entitled rich dudes being bailed out of their criminal behavior's consequences by little people who actually do pay taxes.
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High Student Debt Poses Risk To Growth, Federal Reserve Says

Wow. These jokers need to talk to Greenspan.
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Earl Klugh

Earl Klugh (pronounced "Clue", born September 16, 1953,^[1] Detroit, Michigan^[4]) is an American smooth jazz^[2]/crossover jazz/jazz fusion^[3] guitarist and composer. In 2006 Modern Guitar magazine wrote that Klugh "is considered by many to be one of the finest acoustic guitar players today."^[5]

Heh.  I knew that in 1986.  Soda Fountain Shuffle is my all-time favorite CD.



Watching this

It Can Happen Here: The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors

This is frightening information. It's good to be aware of it, though, thank you for that Ms. Brown.
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Judge Dismisses Most Claims In Libor Lawsuits, Ruling In Favor Of Big Banks

Why are the banksters allowed to even use the court systems? Not only do they not pay taxes, but they screw up and the taxpayers cover their gambling losses.



Until one of the grossly overpaid criminal CEOs of these banks gets the guillotine, there is no justice in this country. NONE.
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We're Not Broke

I'm watching now, it's streaming on Netflix.

Who Opted to Take Gay Marriage Case? Ask Justice Scalia

hmmmmm
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Wayne LaPierre: Michael Bloomberg 'Insane' On Guns

"Yes, we were right. And we're right that the mental health system needs to be fixed," he said of the NRA. "We want to do the real things that make people safe. What's appalled me about this whole debate is about how little it has to do with making people safe."



"... I suggest the gun advocate proactively re-direct a big chunk of its lobbying budget to support mental health outreach projects..".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2012/12/19/what-if-gunmakers-paid-for-mental-health-care/
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One Nation Under The Gun: Thousands Of Gun Deaths Since Newtown

I'm a bit stunned.
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Synthetic CDOs Return To Wall Street, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

"...These have absolutely no economic value, aside from enriching the bankers that sell them and maybe giving investors a way to make an extra buck..."



Banksters never learn.
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damn spammers

I dislike it immensley when spammers hack my account and I have to change my password. What a nusiance.

10 Companies Whose Offshore Profits Are Exploding: Study

Lemme guess. Some of these companies are hollering about the national debt?
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General Electric Avoids Taxes By Keeping $108 Billion Overseas

Why does this not surprise me?
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Tomgram: Jeremiah Goulka, C-130 Math and a Cargo of Pork

Lockheed Martin's Herculean Efforts to Profit From Defense Spending 
The Epic Story of the C-130 
By Jeremiah Goulka

"...To be fair, the Air Force did request some C-130s.  Thanks to Senator John McCain, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) did a study of how many more C-130s the Air Force requested between 1978 and 1998.  The answer: Five.

How many did Congress add on?  Two hundred and fifty-six...."

read the whole thing

Obama Administration To Back Gay Marriage In Prop. 8 Case: Report

No more prop h8, pleeeeeease!
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reading now -Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
(c) 2013 by Nick Turse

Two people that were close to me were directly affected by the Vietnam War. A Vietnamese refugee and a US Marine who fought over there then.

Update 8:13 pm. I'm pretty sure after reading 4 chapters tonight that I'm going to have nightmares. I'm also pretty sure that the Laotian kid that was so full of hatred that I met at Job Corps in the 80's may have had a reason for that if he ever experienced anything lke I'm reading now.

It's fair, though, and doesn't throw scorn at the people caught up in the war on either side. That is reserved for the dingle-berries who thought the war was a good idea, and those who ordered stupid things from air-conditioned offices in Vietnam and D.C.

David Brooks, Obama Plan Birther -- Daily Intelligencer

What's mind-blowing about Bobo making an incorrect claim?
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Bob Goodlatte: Immigration Reform Doesn't Need Path To Citizenship

Can we just cut to the chase here? Those business interests with a need for cheap, disposable labor will always be against that labor becoming US citizens with rights.
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Explosion In Kansas City: Blast Causes Massive Fire At JJ's Restaurant (VIDEO)

"...Missouri Gas Energy, which supplies the area, said in a statement that "early indications are that a contractor doing underground work struck a natural gas line..."



Gee, what a familiar story.
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Dunkin' Brands Lobbying Against Key Obamacare Provision: Report

What? A company that profits mightily by selling a "food" that is incredibly unhealthy doesn't want to pay for healthcare benefits? Well, will wonders never cease! roflamo
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Meteor Streaks Across Russian Urals, Leaves Nearly 1000 Injured (VIDEO, LIVE UPDATES)

"...One of the most popular jokes was that the meteorite was supposed to fall on Dec. 21 last year – when many believed the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world – but was delivered late by Russia's notoriously inefficient postal service.."



lol
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Gun laws may be different in CA than where you'e from, so pay attention

Gun Seizures on Rise in San Diego County
Inside the Sheriff's Crime Lab, there are more than 1300 firearms collected by the department
By Diana Guevara and R. Stickney | Thursday, Feb 14, 2013 | Updated 9:53 AM PST


"...A lot of our cases in the last couple of years have been college students and military personnel from out of state who just didn't know. They're legal in their state but they're not in California..."

It took me less than ten seconds of using teh Google to find this:

FAQ - Firearms - Attorney General CA.


I don't care if you want to be in CA or not, if you are here and you own a gun legally, find out what the laws are here.