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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)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.
Category Archives: financial meltdown
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
Bank Of America Enters The Bunker
After the Forbes Assange interview, Bank Of America set out to prepare for the damage. NYT: Since then, a team of 15 to 20 top Bank of America officials, led by the chief risk officer, Bruce R. Thompson, has been … 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
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
