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While lately I’m hard on this administration, I’ll give credit where credit is due: AP Report – Government sues to block AT&T, T-Mobile merger WASHINGTON – The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday to block AT&T’s $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA on grounds that it would raise prices for consumers. This is exactly the [...] “When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns, and how guns” I always actually read this backwards, even though it was intended to support gun rights. To me it says, “If we make guns illegal, then anyone we find with a gun we know is a criminal and can arrest them.” In theory that [...] I’m mostly putting this here for a friend of mine who quotes this a lot. Being a geek at heart I tend to be a lot more tolerant of this stuff. From Jurassic Park: “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” - [...] Just a little venting here as I’m getting tired of this latest “fashion” in politics: Personally I’d like to “dope slap” anyone who uses the terms “innovator” or “entrepreneur” in normal conversation. It’s all code for, “I’m selfish, but great, and you’re a lazy worthless asshole”. Problem is, they need all of us “lazy worthless [...] Her name is Irene. UPDATE: For those of you who don’t get the joke. UPDATE 2: Or maybe not. Gawd, when did we become the stupidest f-ing country in the world? From this Bloomberg piece: Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s unprecedented effort to keep the economy from plunging into depression included lending banks and other companies as much as $1.2 trillion of public money… however, don’t dismay, we made money on the deal: The Fed has said it had “no credit losses” on any of the [...] Yeah, you, the rich people – I’m talking to you: Look, I don’t have a problem that you’re rich. Hey, we all want to be rich. How could you not want to be rich in such a shit ass “dog eat dog” world? And hey, who doesn’t want toys, and houses, and nice clothes, and [...] Via Glenn Greenwald from David Bromwich: The usual turn from unsatisfying wars abroad to happier domestic conditions, however, no longer seems tenable. In these August days, Americans are rubbing their eyes, still wondering what has befallen us with the president’s “debt deal” — a shifting of tectonic plates beneath the economy of a sort Dick [...] From a reply I left to a commenter to a Yglesias post: The reason emphasis is put on the President and the Democratic congress, is because they are the ones with the “bully pulpit” (particularly the former). It is unlikely that we can change the minds of the average GOP or the Tea Party member [...] Just because it’s a good one: “By their fruits shall ye know them, not by their roots.” - William James |
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