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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: financial crisis
Ron Paul Triangulates Shelby
This ad has started showing up all over Huffington Post lately. Click it and you’ll visit Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty, otherwise known as C4L, where a set of Frank Luntz and Paulite talking points contains the following call to … Continue reading
A Thank You Note To Mitch McConnell
Senator, Thank you so much for achieving your 41-vote filibustering minority. You have reminded all of America which side you are on at the very instant the Obama administration has begun an offensive against Wall Street — starting with Goldman … Continue reading
Trembling Titans Of Wall Street?
It seems the banks are suddenly rethinking their approach to the mortgage crisis. BOA and Citigroup now agree that judges should be able to fix a mortgage in bankruptcy court. Nasiripour reports: In December, the House failed to pass an … Continue reading
Now Would Be A Good Moment For Tim Geithner to Crave More Time With His Family
The attempted rescue of Lehman Bros. apparently amounted to the Fed buying shit securities: “The Fed legally is forbidden from taking such assets. There’s a legal requirement that the Fed’s assets be investment grade,” Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) told HuffPost. … Continue reading
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Yes, firebaggers, Dodd has killed the CFPA after all…and replaced it with a CFPB that has authority to rewrite all lending rules. Elizabeth Warren loves it, but I’m sure someone can explain to me how it’s still a sellout because … Continue reading
Failure to Disclose
Via Shahien Nasiripour at HuffPo: The examiner in charge of investigating the bankruptcy of venerable Wall Street investment house Lehman Brothers, the most expensive bankruptcy in U.S. history, said in a report publicly released Thursday that senior officials failed to … Continue reading
Blame The Geeks
Blame it on the math geniuses with the fancy computers. You know those fancy computer models! I mean, Al Gore and his climate “scientists” use computer models too, and that should tell you how awful they are. That’s my summation … Continue reading
CIT Didn’t Lend TARP Money
The taxpayer is out $2.3 billion with the failure of CIT. Huffington Post notes that CIT didn’t even lend the TARP money: In the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30, CIT made just 142 loans backed by the Small Business … Continue reading
Sachs Socialism, Mind Bullets
Compelled by a headline about Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein saying that he does “God’s work,” I pored through this article from UK TimesOnline and discovered a scheme to horrify the Ayn Rand set: collective rewards! The idea of teamwork … Continue reading
Show Me The Paperwork
The homeowner tactic of fighting foreclosure by requiring banks to present mortgage documents to a court is gaining traction. The New York Times reports that a $461,263 mortgage debt has been wiped out by a judge. But why are the … Continue reading
Economy, Prosperity Divorce
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 10,000 yesterday even as unemployment closed on ten percent. Countless economists have explained why jobs will lag the economy as a whole.
