One more time all together, anyone saying Social Security is broken is selling you a special kind of deficit hawk nonsense: The most important take-away points from the 2012 Trustees Report will be that Social Security has a large and growing surplus; that without any Congressional action, Social Security will continue to pay benefits to...
Read more →I didn’t see this until the gym this morning. It’s weird how the announcer, before Metta World Peace’s elbow to Harden’s head, called him “Ron Artest” and not “Metta World Peace”. I have no clue what will happen going forward, but I imagine a souped up suspension. Everyone has to remember, Rudy Tomjanovich almost...
Read more →Aw, you know it’s Both! Worst first, best for last! Mittens In Paris ft. Annie Dressage in “Mitt’s Time!” Big Tymers – “Still Fly” : “It’s our turn”
Read more →Sigh…more revisionist history about closing Gitmo… More than two years after President Barack Obama blew his self-imposed deadline to shut down the extrajudicial prison at Guantanamo Bay, close observers and defense lawyers with clients making their way through the reformed military tribunal system say the public isn’t paying attention. “I think what you’ll find is the...
Read more →Dick Clark Passes away. Pat Summitt steps aside as coach of Lady Vols.
Read more →Today I went to sync my ipod touch. Songs I had on my previous 3 or 4 ipods cannot sync to this one. even with useless conversion. When one of these cannot sync, it stops syncing the other GBs of songs that I want on my ipod. Somehow, this also means the 20+ GBs...
Read more →The true believer bows out… Rick Santorum ends bid for GOP nomination – Political Hotsheet – CBS News: “We made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race for us is over for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting,” Santorum said at a press...
Read more →A right wing hack website decided that this was an important story: Chris Rock makes jokes about black people. Chris Rock held a fundraiser for Obama. Obama may have a problem with black support was worth a story. Except switch out “Chris Rock” for “DNC Jewish Liason” and ”black” for “Jewish”. Add lazy main stream...
Read more →Joe Sexton should be “spoken to”.
Read more →Krugman: But the continuing defense of Paul Ryan is a remarkable phenomenon. He’s still being treated by many pundits as a man deeply concerned about deficits, when the fact is that his policy proposals are all about redistributing income upward, and make no serious effort to curb debt. He’s even given credit for advocating higher...
Read more →No surprise coming from the author of The Bell Curve.
Read more →From the New York Times… Ex-New Orleans Officers Sentenced in Post-Katrina Shootings: Five former police officers were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for the shooting of six unarmed civilians, two of whom died, in the days after Hurricane Katrina and for orchestrating a wide-ranging cover-up afterward.
Read more →“What’s 50 grand to a muthaf*%ka like me, can you please remind me? (Ball so hard)”: A day after being labelled “out of touch” for casually offering a $10,000 bet to a rival candidate, Mr Romney told supporters he had experienced austerity as a missionary in France, using a bucket for a lavatory and a hose for...
Read more →‘I really misspoke’.
Read more →“you slip burritos to kids, don’t you?” Video from Daily Show with Jon Stewart via Digby
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