Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Body Electric, The Regime on May 12th, 2008
Feeling safer yet?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.
The government seeks to reverse a lower court ruling that allowed Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef to conduct […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on May 9th, 2008
I’m hoping things get to the point where my boss allows us to work from home, because even my relatively short commute is becoming very expensive:
As prices near — or in some places top — $4 a gallon, most Americans say they are cutting back on other household spending, seriously considering buying more fuel-efficient cars […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on May 8th, 2008
As rumored for years, yes, cheerful war criminal Donald Rumsfeld was pushing Bush for “regime change” in Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Lebanon:
Rumsfeld’s proposal called explicitly for postponing indefinitely U.S. airstrikes and the use of ground forces in support of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in order to try to catch bin Laden. Instead the […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Recession Depression, Republicans Are Good With Money on May 8th, 2008
If not your own town:
A major Wall Street firm agreed to return $37 million to 17 cities and towns in the state, as well as to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, after it allegedly misled them into buying investments they thought were as safe as cash.
UBS Financial Services Inc. reached an agreement with Attorney General Martha […]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Customer Service Hell, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on May 7th, 2008
When even Republican evangelicals get it, why don’t our politicians?
This especially resonates with me today because I have to go to battle with my insurance company. I need an MRI on my ankle, which most likely has a protruding bone chip from when I sprained it in September. (It’s gotten to the point where I […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on May 5th, 2008
Krugman:
Is Obama misrepresenting what I said?
I don’t have a link to the ad itself, but apparently there’s an Obama ad citing something I said about McCain’s gas tax holiday as a way to attack Hillary Clinton.
I did not say that the Clinton proposal would increase oil industry profits. If the ad implies that I did, […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Impeach This, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Paranoia Strikes Deep, Politics As Usual, The Regime on May 5th, 2008
“Oh, they’re not as bad as Nixon.”
Actually, yes they are - and so far, they’re getting away with it. Thanks, librul media!
You really need to read this.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on May 5th, 2008
And yet, people wonder why I don’t trust pharmaceutical companies:
Misleading research is often published in major medical journals and doctors are lending their names to it, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association said on Tuesday.
Doctors, regulators, publishers and others are all taking money, information and small presents from pharmaceutical companies and […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on May 3rd, 2008
A MyDD post is tracking Ground Zero for the fake Kantor video (h/t Naz in comments).
Posted in Blogosphere, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on May 3rd, 2008
Via comments, this from The Trail blog at WashPo:
A provocative video clip alleging to show a longtime friend of Hillary Clinton using a racial slur to describe the citizens of Indiana was sent to political reporters this morning by an independent public relations consultant who favors Barack Obama. Both the filmmaker and the subject of […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Media, Politics As Usual on May 2nd, 2008
Let Lambert explain it. The whole thing makes my head hurt.
Posted in Blogosphere, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on May 1st, 2008
Why, it was just two years ago that a prominent Daily Kos poster was defending WVWV from attacks by Rush Limbaugh:
But what’s really disturbing is Rush’s veiled threat, implying that WVWV’s tax status will be challenged. He is trying to undermine this nonpartisan effort and suppress women’s votes. He also focuses heavily on the […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on May 1st, 2008
Can we have some in congressional offices?
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Recession Depression on May 1st, 2008
Of course, we always knew what humanitarians they are:
At a time when parts of the world are facing food riots, Big Agriculture is dealing with a different sort of challenge: huge profits.
On Tuesday, grain-processing giant Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. said its fiscal third-quarter profits jumped 42%, including a sevenfold increase in net income in its unit that […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on May 1st, 2008
Don Siegelman being treated like a dangerous criminal - and what it means.
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 30th, 2008
A reader sent me this forwarded email just as I was reading this story. She’s finally gone:
Subject: Leaving GSA
Dear Friends and Colleagues at GSA,
Early this evening I was asked to submit my resignation, and I have just done so. It has been a great privilege to serve with all of you and to […]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Disastrous, Fuck the Poor on Apr 30th, 2008
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
John Maxwell from the Jamaica Observer on where the world financial system has now focused their “expertise”:
The food supplies of […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 28th, 2008
Not too many bloggers have been writing about this, which is a shame. This is an absolutely shameless partisan ruling, and if I believed in hell, I would think that Tony Scalia and his little SCOTUS friends will burn there for eternity:
The Supreme Court’s decision upholding Indiana’s vote ID law was unable to secure 5 […]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Apr 28th, 2008
Industry analysts predict it in a few years:
“Get ready for another economic shock of major proportions — a virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon.
That’s the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based on the surging oil prices, see considerably more […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 28th, 2008
Daniel Pipes.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression on Apr 28th, 2008
They just can’t seem to help themselves:
WASHINGTON — The mortgage industry, facing the prospect of tougher regulations for its central role in the housing crisis, has begun an intensive campaign to fight back.
As the Federal Reserve completes work on rules to root out abuses by lenders, its plan has run into a buzz saw of […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 28th, 2008
Here we go again:
Eight years after the debacle of “hanging chads,” Florida once again seems to be courting electoral trouble. A handful of laws have been passed since the 2000 presidential recount, with state officials saying they bring order to a chaotic system.
“Some say we err on the side of caution,” said Joe Pickens, a […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Apr 27th, 2008
Unbelievable. So what did we get for our money? Billions and billions of dollars spent on this war, big political contributors fattening their bank accounts and this is how we ask returning soldiers to live?
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, Republicans Are Good With Money, The Regime on Apr 25th, 2008
I’m sorry to be inappropriate, but I find it hard not to laugh when someone uses the words “Bush” and “efficiency” in the same sentence:
Joseph Wassmann thought he had a secure position producing videos for the U.S. Military Academy, but not long ago he found his job on the line because of a Bush administration […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 24th, 2008
Rush Limbaugh:
“We do, hopefully, the right thing for the sake of this country. We’re the only one in charge of our affairs. We don’t farm out our defense if we elect Democrats … and riots in Denver, at the Democratic Convention will see to it we don’t elect Democrats. And that’s the best damn thing […]
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