Archive for September 28th, 2009

Greenspan is in favor of regulation = me being skeptical

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Whatever… F-you is what I have to say to that guy. He was all about Freemarket and deregulation…until the economy collapsed and bankrupted Iceland and a few other countries then sent our country to the brink of ruin and aided a housing bubble that has essentially screwed millions of people out of their jobs and […]

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Late Night Video — What Global Warming Looks Like

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This is one of the great TED talks, this one accompanied by time lapse imagery by James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey. This is remarkable imagery from a remarkable project. Worth all 19 minutes of this video.

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QotD

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Who are some of the unbiased reporters you read? Nationally and/or Locally.

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Ho hum, destroyed CIA documents…no crime, just protecting Merika

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I can’t even imagine what this would be like under a Democrat. The screaming that was done when they found somebody was sneaking out stuff in their socks was un real. But nothing, NOTHING when we learn that the CIA destroyed evidence. How can you even get angry anymore? Our legal systems and the fuktards […]

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Monday Open Thread

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OK admit it – how many people’s brains are still working in weekend mode? Chat away. Here’s something that caught my attention: A new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll was released late yesterday, with a variety of quirky questions. CBS News described the poll as intended to be “topical, fun, amusing, illuminating and most importantly, interesting.” […]

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Clean and Sober day one

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Clean and Sober day one

If you didn’t know or care, I was recently in Amsterdam for work and for pleasure.  In my mind this was going to be the end of my drinking and what not for at least 6 months.  I planned on getting it out of my system while I resided in Utopia for 6 nights and 7 glorious […]

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What Will Tom Carper Do to Protect Drug or Insurance Companies This Week?

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What Will Tom Carper Do to Protect Drug or Insurance Companies This Week?

This is Week 2 of the Finance Committee amending the Chairman’s Mark of the health insurance reform bill, and I wanted to start this week by reminding everyone of Carper’s rather complete abandonment of the voters in Delaware to clearly sit at the table negotiating for and protecting the drug companies and the insurance companies […]

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These Laws Only Apply To The Little People

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I don’t know how many people have been following the Roman Polanski case this weekend. Roman Polanski, who has been a fugitive from the U.S. for 30 years, was arrested in Switzerland this weekend. The U.S. and Switzerland have an extradition agreement. I find this case particularly infuriating because not only has the media shown […]

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ACORN Filmmaker O’Keefe’s Other Videos

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The Village Voice did some investigation of supposedly independent filmmaker James O’Keefe (of ACORN pimp and prostitute fame) and found that contrary to what O’Keefe has said that he is a wingnut welfare recipient. James O’Keefe, the activist filmmaker who achieved sudden fame for a series of undercover videos recording ACORN workers, has repeatedly said […]

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