The US Senate, a wholly owned subsidiary of the banking industry: On the same day that the White House announced that overextended Chrysler would go into a “quick” bankruptcy — its loans rewritten by a judge to emerge for life another day — Senators defeated a proposal to allow bankruptcy judges to rewrite home loans. …
Archives for April 2009
Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo
Went out to dinner with my parents, who are in town on their way to Baltimore (pronounced Ballmer, tyvm) for my mother’s 50th High School Reunion, and on the way home heard about this story on NPR about scientists discovering that there are animals besides humans who can dance to a musical beat: Two famous …
Hats ass backwards
Pretty good stuff from Michael Steele toay: “You wear your hat one way. You like to wear it, you know, kind of cocked to the left, you know, because that’s cool out West,” Steele said. “In the Midwest, you guys like to wear it a little bit to the right. In the South, you guys …
Keep looking forward
More rule-breaking that shouldn’t be punished: A former Justice Department grant-making administrator violated federal ethics and procurement rules in awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars in sole source contracts to ideologically favored companies and individuals, the department’s inspector general concluded today. The administrator, J. Robert Flores, was a political appointee during former president George Bush’s …
Please Stop Being So Damned Stupid
If you want to point to a gaffe, look at this: A spokesman for Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said Wednesday night that Franks believes the border should be closed right now except in critical cases or situations involving emergency personnel. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said all options should be considered to end the crisis involving …
Nobody Tell Joe Biden How Twitter Works
I really don’t see how this is terrible advice: Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would not recommend taking any commercial flight or riding in a subway car “at this point” because swine flu virus can spread “in confined places.” A little more than one hour later, Biden rushed out a statement backing …
Excellent Gentlemen
From the artists in our midst open thread, this band: Long time readers will know that this is right in my wheelhouse as far as music goes. As I said in the comments, I haven’t been this excited about a band since Dag. By the way, I’m not feeling the politics thing today, so bear …