Trump's Birthday Gift to Putin
(If this was posted earlier, let me know in the comments and I’ll delete it.)Enclosed is the link to a NYT story that shows October 7 was the date that Trump handed Putin a Birthday gift by abandoning...
View Article“Netflix - "We don't trickle nuthin' down"
Yeah, we all know how this tax plan would work but lo and behold we had no idea how quickly we would get proof.From Marketwatch“Netflix gives top executives a big raise, citing new tax law “Netflix...
View ArticleWalworth Country Sheriff's Office to get New BearCat Assault Vehicle
That's right: A Brand Spanking new one too...Must be a veritable hot bed of pumpkin festivals just ripe for terrorist attacks. (snarc)How about the stats? Population (2012) 102,851 Land Area: 555...
View ArticleFive Dead Troops and No Death Benefits
Normally when a a soldiers is killed the family receives $100,000 wired into their bank account from the DOD. The DOD says it "legally" can't. Yet acquisition people were put back on the job but can't...
View ArticleCongressional Insider Trading : Repealed
First it was the Insider trading law that was passed and then quietly repealed.Now, Congress is seeking its way out of having to join the Health Care exchanges because it would cost them too much...
View Article"Holder: Big banks' size complicates prosecution efforts"
If anyone thought that Lanny Breuer's resignation would bring about a sea change in attitudes about the ability to bring the Banks and their execs to account for the actions, let Eric Holder tell us...
View ArticleKossack: Small Business Survey
I own a small business. Over the past four years we have seen no recovery. Sales are off 55% from 2007. Sales seemed to have reached a bottom about two years ago . Then in 2012 we slipped another 10%....
View Article"It's Not an Assault Rifle"
One of the main arguments made by the people who want no more regulation, especially with assault rifles that are not assault rifles , is that an "dressed up" rifle with military looking cosmetics is...
View ArticleRate of Fire - Assault Weapons
I'm just checking real facts so we can debate this issue with more clarity. Enclosed are some YouTube examples of not only a 50 round drum firing on semi-auto, but with a still legal slide stock , a...
View ArticleBreaking: Glenn Beck is Back.
Maybe this Headline will work...Out with the old and in with the New As Rush Limbaugh show reloads, Glenn Beck just signed a 100 Million dollar contract with Clear Channel which is an add on to the 40...
View ArticleDec 1941 and the GOP
While reading December 1941; 31 days that changed America and saved the World by Craig Shirley, I got to this quote which sounds like it came right out of a diary here on Daily Kos, but was made by...
View ArticleACTION ALERT: Congress Attempting to Override Obama's veto:
As many people on this site know HR 3808 was attempted before the elections to make the banks whole again from the biggest Fraud yet in this ongoing scandal by allowing MERs and it's sickening owners...
View ArticleForeclosing on Houses the Banks didn't own.
That's a real simple and totally indefensible soundbite . Lets start off with the article lead in : Robo-signers: Mortgage experience not necessary Banks hired hair stylists, teens to process...
View ArticleLatvian Hookers Signal No Recovery
I ran across this at Bloomberg News and I thought it was worth sharing. We have heard about green shoots and a the latest pronouncement by Bonddad today that he now agrees with Krugman even though he...
View ArticleOutrage now and Crickets then
As I sit here in disbelief reading about the OUTRAGE over the 165 Million in bonuses given to people that the taxpayers bailed out , I seem to recall the sound of crickets in the last 8 years over...
View Article"Out of work and challenged on benefits, too"
I go to sleep to one outrage and wake up to another.. But for a growing proportion of U.S. workers, the troubles really set in when they apply for unemployment benefits.More than a quarter of people...
View ArticlePa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
Short diary here to call out attention to an article I tripped over. This is privatization in action and I think this should be thrown into any GOP or DEMs face who help facilitate a transfer of govt...
View ArticleRhyme and Reason may Prevail: Bailing out Banks
If you are like me, when I hear the acronym TARP I can feel my sphincter tighten. I can feel , yes feel, my blood pressure rise. Angry can't possibly do justice to the way I feel about how our...
View ArticleFast foreward- 1980 - Present: A primer for hard recessions
From 1980 to 1986, I was a lowly traveling salesperson. My territory included parts of Indiana, Michigan, North Ohio, Western Pa and West Virginia. It was there I saw and felt the devastation of what...
View ArticlePushing Out a Lone Voice of Reason
Bloomberg is reporting that Timothy Geithner, looks like he is flexing his new found power and "May" be trying to push Sheila Bair out as head of the FDIC.Yes she is a R, but she has been the lone...
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