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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: financial crisis
Morning Awful: Freddie Mac
Privatized in 1968, Freddie Mac was late to the subprime game. Its status as a “government sponsored entity” gave it a certain chip on the shoulder about profitability — so it bought in big, and got stuck with lots of … Continue reading
Bank of America Forgot to Bribe Obama
Bank of America has agreed to a $335 million settlement over charges of racial bias. Two memes can be put to rest: one, minorities did not cause the meltdown — they were its foremost victims. Two, the president isn’t holding … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Paulson’s Goldman Sacking
Before Mayor Bloomberg defends Wall Street again, he should read his own media organization’s reportage about Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson blabbing insider tips during the market meltdown: At the time Paulson privately addressed the fund managers at Eton Park, … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Predatory Lending
Remember when the mortgage meltdown was blamed on ACORN and minorities taking out bad loans? This is why we need a Consumer Finance Protection Bureau: Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), the biggest U.S. home lender, is negotiating with the Justice … Continue reading
The Culture Of Criminal Capital
Much to everyone’s surprise, HuffPo’s Shahien Nasiripour reports, the Financial Crisis Commission has ended its work by referring Wall Street malfeasance to prosecutors: Richard Bowen, former chief underwriter for Citigroup’s consumer-lending unit, testified that, in the middle of 2006, he … Continue reading
Paving A Highway To Mogadishu
Bad enough that continuing foreclosure turmoil is dragging the housing sector down; now we’re facing a municipal debt crisis: As cities across the nation face increasing budget strains, the vocal group of experts warning about municipal defaults has gained a … Continue reading
Wiki Cables Were Chaff; Target BOA; Is MERS On Deck?
I was right, the US diplomatic cables were timed to the Forbes article — and Assange has Bank of America in his sights. Wikileaks often runs into problems concerning how to present material and how to make it easier to … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Who Owns My Mortgage?
In order to create the 2008 financial crisis and credit meltdown, a gigantic machine for making money out of money out of money first had to be invented and constructed, invisible to the naked eyes of media and government. That … Continue reading
Where Bloggers Go Wrong, I Think
David Axelrod has been floating the idea that banks just need a little more time, is all, after banks spent the last 27 months avoiding responsibility for mortgage fraud, therefore a national foreclosure moratorium is not needed. See how that … Continue reading
Foreclosure Fever
The president used his “pocket veto” last Friday to strike down an ugly bill that would have let banks foreclose on homes with out-of-state notaries. This was the banks’ way of trying to deal with all the bad paperwork from … Continue reading
The Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Firebreak
Can we just review one important fact about these two institutions before we have a Senate debate on them? They were both privatized in 1968 — a fact central to the story of the meltdown: In the schizoid reality of … Continue reading
