Break in the weather
It’s “only” 74 degrees right now. I actually turned off the AC and opened a window this morning. What a pleasure.
It’s “only” 74 degrees right now. I actually turned off the AC and opened a window this morning. What a pleasure.
And this is what happens because Obama refused to clean house of right-wing Bush appointees: A crusading GOP critic of the Obama Justice Department’s Voting Section, Hans von Spakovsky, has admitted to having Department sources that are leaking apparently confidential and highly personal information that he is using to viciously attack Voting Section staff and to smear the Department at large. Leaking such information—including details from ongoing Inspector General inquiries into a previous media leak and detailing the behavior of [...]
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For no discernible reason. A little “selective enforcement,” perhaps? Earlier this morning, Global Revolution Studios was ordered to vacate from their building by the NYPD in conjunction with the building department. It took three separate departments visiting 13 Thames to finally come up with a reason to remove the Global Revolution team with a posted notice despite having all applicable paperwork for the department of buildings in order. The reason given to me by the Global Revolution team is “A [...]
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“Yes, I’m in a can.” Go read Russ Baker. Bookmark It
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Seriously, how frustrating (and silly) is this, that the DEA is keeping people from getting needed medication? Medicines to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are in such short supply that hundreds of patients complain daily to the Food and Drug Administration that they are unable to find a pharmacy with enough pills to fill their prescriptions. The shortages are a result of a troubled partnership between drug manufacturers and the Drug Enforcement Administration, with companies trying to maximize their profits [...]
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Choosing a person to support for president is what it must be like in a women’s prison, and you’re trying to decide which guard to let fuck you — on the off chance that he might throw you the occasional contraband goodie. But you should never, ever forget that all the guards are on the same team. Bookmark It
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Hmm. We already know austerity is the right thing to do, but What do you suppose will happen? Oh, I don’t know, you don’t suppose they’ll have a housing crash, do you? Nearly seven million Britons are risking a “spiral of debt” through using credit cards, overdrafts and payday loans to pay off their rent or mortgage, a major housing charity has warned. Of those almost one million have taken out high interest payday loans to meet housing costs, in [...]
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Jay Rosen nails it: But that’s part of the ritual: Yeah, we created this thing but we bring it to you as if it would happen without us. Bookmark It
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Bad things seem to happen when voters put social-engineering wingnuts in charge. Maybe they should think about that: A study by the Georgia Agriculture Department of the state farm workforce shows that finding legal employees with the skill and desire to do labor-intensive harvesting is extremely difficult. The reasons, says a report released Tuesday of the study’s findings, include the complexity and expense of government programs intended to help farmers employ guest workers, and the physically demanding nature of many [...]
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6:23 pm
Ahhh!