by Carl Matthes
There’s been another informed and intelligent decision by the Obama administration.
In August, 2008, in an LA Progressive article entitled “Census Nonsense,” which decried the Bush administration’s move to exclude legally married same-sex couples from being counted as married couples during the upcoming 2010 census, I wrote, “…to capsulize the situation, as it stands [...]
No Nonsense Census
Posted on 30 June 2009 by Carl Matthes | Comments (0)
Bernie and Ruth Have Not-so-Good Weekend
Posted on 28 June 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0)
By Denis Campbell
No take out the media trash this Friday. Bernie Madoof knows how much it will cost and now wonders how big a book will be thrown at him Monday. Those swindled by the confessed Ponzi Scheme creator got some measure of revenge or half their pound of flesh yesterday when US District judge [...]
Yet Again, The Right Is Wrong
Posted on 24 June 2009 by Charley James | Comments (0)
This Time About Cap-And-Trade Costs
by Charley James
Don’t conservatives, ConservaDems, the Republican Party and the rest of the “climate change is a hoax” crowd ever get tired of being wrong?
For several years, business lobbyists along with GOP and other right wing mouthpieces in Congress and on the air have been yowling that the US cannot afford [...]
The Italian Job: Border Police Seize $134-Billion In US Government Securities
Posted on 21 June 2009 by Charley James | Comments (0)
by Charley James
Although the story is being widely reported across Europe and Asia, it’s received scant media coverage in the US.
AsiaNews along with other major media outlets outside the US are reporting that Italy’s financial police, the Guardia Italiana di Finanza, seized US government bonds worth US$134.5-billion from two Japanese nationals at Chiasso, located less [...]
Joan Walsh Is Right: Bill O’Reilly Is Vile
Posted on 16 June 2009 by Charley James | Comments (0)
by Charley James
The good news about Fox News blubber mouth Bill O’Reilly is that he speaks to only a teeny, tiny percentage of the country; the bad news is part of that small and dwindling group actually thinks he makes sense and then goes out and kills people because they believe his vile, hate-filled rhetoric.
Much [...]
How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option
Posted on 06 June 2009 by Robert Reich | Comments (0)
And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do
by Robert Reich
I’ved poked around Washington today, talking with friends on the Hill who confirm the worst: Big Pharma and Big Insurance are gaining ground in their campaign to kill the public option in the emerging health care bill.
You know why, of course. They don’t want [...]
UA Transatlantic, Pass then Fail!
Posted on 31 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (5)
by Denis Campbell
United Airlines flight 921 was the outbound on 21 May. The crew was London-based, cheerful, helpful and the flight comfortably uneventful. UA 922 on 29 May was the return leg led by a US-based crew: surly, arrogant, griping, worrying aloud about job losses, lacking in decorum, full of silly and rigid rules, ridiculously [...]
Facebook and Stacey vs. Nathaniel’s Restaurant
Posted on 24 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (3)
Reprise from June, 2008 on The power of Facebook, Twitter and Social Media
My Toronto friend Lisa sent one of many Facebook invitations that cross my desk to a group called Re-instate Stacey Fearnall Now!! I normally bin them because I learn too much about my Facebook “friends” – Do You have a Higher Movie IQ than Dave? Noooo… I don’t care to know that and [...]
Budweiser, Leuven Belgium
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0)
Reprise from spring 2008 - When The King of Beers became Belgian owned, we all paused…
Like Labatts and Brahma Beer before her, Stellaaaa’s! (Artois that is) parent company In-Bev got thirsty and gulped down St. Louis, Missouri based Budweiser Beer in one chug for a cool $52 billion dollars. Ouch.
Long the butt of Dutch jokes [...]
Putting a Smiley Face on the Job Picture Can’t Evade the Growing Tragedy
Posted on 15 May 2009 by admin | Comments (0)
by Carl Bloice
Michael T. Darda, chief economist at the research and trading firm MKM Partners, probably summed up last week’s message from Washington best, telling the New York Times, “Less bad is always a prelude to good.”
The things one learns.
We are being asked to believe that the results of the “stress tests” were “not as bad as [...]

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