Archive for the ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ Category
Well we all need someone we can C.R.E.A.M. on
I didn’t vote for Ross Perot, but he was an actual candidate with actual positions and I guess some people liked him and his positions and voted for him. Same with Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan. Likewise, there’s a libertarian candidate who runs every year, and say what you like about the tenets of libertarianism, [...]
February 9, 2012
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DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
82 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
House Of Pain
Foreclosuregate rattles on, and it looks like the banks are going to lose their pound of flesh, in this case, $25-$26 billion over three years, in order to get off the hook for roughly 100 times that in real damage to the economy. The final details of the pact were still being negotiated Wednesday night, [...]
February 9, 2012
· Zandar · 55 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Don't Mourn, Organize, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Jump! You Fuckers!, Nobody could have predicted, Our Awesome Meritocracy, the Great American Bubble Machine, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Occupy the Bedwetters Ball
Our Mission: Occupy CPAC. Create as much non-violent resistance as possible, and make this a conference the attendees will never forget. We will be joining in solidarity with the AFL-CIO, SEIU, National Nurses United, Metro Labor Council, OurDC, and more to make our voices heard in our increasingly top-down, money-corrupted democracy. We will have actions [...]
February 9, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 60 Comments
Posted in: #OWS, Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Open Thread
R-Money’s Attack Dog
In the New Yorker, the invaluable Jane Mayer explains how “the creator of the Willie Horton ad is going all out for Mitt Romney“: Romney, unlike the remaining Republican candidates, has served no time in Washington. Yet he’s relying on a media offensive managed by operatives who have long been at the heart of Washington’s [...]
February 8, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 49 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012, Excellent Links, Republican Venality, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
We are All Chicagoans Now
The Obama campaign is supporting Priorities USA, the Democrats’ Super PAC: With so much at stake, we can’t allow for two sets of rules in this election whereby the Republican nominee is the beneficiary of unlimited spending and Democrats unilaterally disarm. Therefore, the campaign has decided to do what we can, consistent with the law, [...]
February 7, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 28 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M.
Pull Up the Ladder: Tea Partiers {Heart} Willard
This will not shock anyone who’s been paying attention, but here’s a couple of scholars telling the Washington Post that Romney makes the perfect “stealth tea party candidate“: Romney’s decisive victory Tuesday in the Florida primary has increased his chances of locking up the GOP nomination for president. If he does, we will read countless [...]
February 6, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 61 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Greek Fire: Burninating The Countryside
As the EU drops the hammer on Greece this weekend saying that the country has to go along with brutal austerity measures including minimum wage and pension cuts or else no bailout and and a default, Irish economist David McWilliams offers this clever 10-minute explanation of the European debt crisis. Please note that the EU’s [...]
February 5, 2012
· Zandar · 34 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, The Money Party, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Another one bites the dust
Check out the Yoplait Facebook page—it leads with some stuff about breast cancer in pink writing suggesting (obliquely) that they may drop Komen. The comments are unscrubbed and from what I can see they are about 50:1 anti-Komen. I don’t see how Yoplait doesn’t drop Komen within a few weeks. As I’ve said before, I [...]
February 3, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 96 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Hoot-Smalley
Tell me over and over and over again
That Komen’s not a right-wing organization (I’m looking for more sourcing on this article, FYI): In addition to pulling funds from Planned Parenthood for The Susan G. Komen Foundation also decided to stop funding embryonic stem cell research centers making it fully transparent the organization has evolved from non-political non-profit to a partisan advocacy organization. [...]
February 2, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 117 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M.
Komenfraude
Mistermix is right that the pink ribbon branding makes it very, very easy for consumers to avoid products made by companies that continue to sponsor Komen. You can tell Yoplait to drop Komen here on their Facebook page. You can give to Planned Parenthood here. I know not everyone here likes it when I talk [...]
February 2, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 127 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Romney’s People
This morning, Romney told CNN that “I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine“. He has reason to know: Close to 60 corporations and wealthy individuals gave checks of $100,000 or more to a “super PAC” supporting Mitt Romney in the months leading up to the Iowa caucuses, according to documents released [...]
February 1, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 27 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Let Them Eat Safety Net, He Said
Mitt Romney is just really, really awful at being a politician. Every time he opens his mouth, that silver foot keeps getting inserted sideways. Greg Sargent tags this Romney comment from this morning: “I’m not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there,” Romney told CNN. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix [...]
February 1, 2012
· Zandar · 167 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, C.R.E.A.M., Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Late Night Open Thread: Pointing & Laughing
Jonathan Chait, at NYMag’s Daily Intel, on “How Citizens United Created Newt“: ...Money is the primary mechanism that parties use to herd voters toward the choices the elites would prefer them to make. The nomination of George W. Bush offers a classic example. Bush and his network had organized so many Republicans to donate so [...]
January 26, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 60 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012, Open Thread
Tuesday Evening Open Thread
In honor of Romney’s docu-dump (550 pages, more than a ream of paper) of just two years’ worth of tax returns, I give you Doghouse Riley: ... There’s no sacred text of Alexander Hamilton which consecrates what was done at Bain. There’s no shrine to unfettered rapine honored in every American household. What Bain did—what [...]
January 24, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 333 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Excellent Links, Open Thread, Republican Venality, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Debate clip
I was surprised by how badly Romney handled the question about releasing his tax returns, and by what a good job John King did holding Romney’s feet to the fire.
January 19, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 150 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2012
