Category: Current AffairsBy Steve_in_KC on May 16, 2012 in Current Affairs | 83 Comments
OK, everybody! Put on your Snark Goggles! There’s plenty of sarcasm for everybody, so please, no shoving or pushing. Anybody who did not fall in love with the Historic first “black” presidential candidate, who just happens to be half white, has to be a racist. It’s true!! If you don’t like Barack Obama’s personality or [...]
By Larry Johnson on May 16, 2012 in Current Affairs | 45 Comments
It has started. The panic is full blown in Greece and the contagion will spread to Italy, Spain and Portugal. This is turning ugly and will infect the United States. Initially, for the United States, things will appear swell. Why? We will be the safehaven for those pulling their money out of Greece. Out dollar [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on May 16, 2012 in Current Affairs | 5 Comments
[Formerly "Update: F--k Congress," appended to "You Think Congress Can't Get Anything Done?"] Even that wispy-waspy left loon, Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, talks as if the use of drones for domestic surveillance could be alright with regulations imposed by Congress — oh those’ll keep the snoops in check. But NOT Charles Krauthammer (who unlike [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on May 15, 2012 in Current Affairs | 33 Comments
[NQers: The updates are now in their own post, above.] Imagine that you’re running for president, labeled a moderate, probably because you oppose “the expansion of slavery,” not the stamping out of slavery everywhere. Somehow you win the presidency but, before you’ve been inaugurated, seven states secede from the Union and form the Confederacy. To [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on May 15, 2012 in Current Affairs | 58 Comments
From the top: “Some bad polls stack up, back to back … Welcome to America Live, everybody. I am Megyn Kelly. A live look at the White House where a media briefing is just underway … The FIRST BRIEFING in a week, and the White House is sure to get questions about two big political [...]
By John Batchelor on May 15, 2012 in Current Affairs | 66 Comments
Team Obama attacks Mitt Romney by illustrating how Bain private equity capitalism took over and closed a Kansas City steel mill between 1994 and 2001. Team Romney counter attacks with an ad that illustrates the Romney (Bain) creation of a steel mill in Indiana. Dueling steel mills. This suggests that the Romney camp is well [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on May 15, 2012 in Current Affairs | 21 Comments
Today I experienced a capitalist venture’s delicate dance between offering top-rate customer service and making a profit. I also experienced government systems’ non-apologetic mistreatment of its customers and its prioritization of bureaucracy’s blind rules over common sense coupled with true customer service. But I was saved by strangers, every-day Americans, who went above and beyond [...]
By Larry Johnson on May 14, 2012 in Current Affairs | 78 Comments
Important, watershed events are unfolding in Europe and the United States media is obsessing about whether or not Mitt Romney was an asshole in high school fifty years ago. The combination of economic and political events that are shaking Europe include the rejection of austerity politicians in France, Germany and Greece, the emergence of political [...]
By Larry Johnson on May 13, 2012 in Current Affairs | 83 Comments
Watching the United States and the political theater from afar is quite instructive. For starters, you quickly realize how much bullshit and fluff dominate the U.S. airwaves. Consider, for example, the bullshit, bogus story that Mitt Romney is a gay bully. The foreign coverage of this is correctly puzzled by the fact that a story [...]
By John Batchelor on May 13, 2012 in Current Affairs | 35 Comments
A wag calls this the low point of the campaign (so far); however there may be utility to Romney’s campaign’s eagerness to have the candidate apologize for bad behavior when the candidate was a teenager in Michigan. The positive is that the enterprising political reporters have completely run out of material on Mitt Romney. This [...]
By Bronwyn's Harbor on May 12, 2012 in Current Affairs | 195 Comments
* UPDATED & Bumped Up May 12 (for Open Thread) * New Posts Will Follow Shortly * Beth Topinka and Karen Blutcher look just like the women who delivered poached salmon and organic salads to those brave OWS protestors. Who would have thought that a “random” sweepstakes would come up with such perfect winners, purely [...]
By Larry Johnson on May 12, 2012 in Current Affairs | 58 Comments
* BUMPED UP * from May 9, 16:29. Bronwyn here: Odd, isn’t it, that this story faded after Obama confessed his “for me personally” views on gay marriage. Larry’s post tells us why the intel mole story is critically important, incalculably more than ineffectual musings on gay marriage. Media rationales: (concluded at end) News media [...]
By KenoshaMarge on May 11, 2012 in Current Affairs | 39 Comments
The job of a country’s media is to inform the citizens of things that they cannot know, or discover, for themselves. If the people in the “news” business don’t do that, honestly, completely and without bias, they are not only not doing their job, they are subverting their occupation and their country. The people cannot “know” what [...]
By Larry Johnson on May 11, 2012 in Current Affairs | 32 Comments
How in the hell is Barack Obama supposed to remember there is a recession on and that millions of Americans are without jobs? He’s got a lot on his mind. Playing golf: Sending the family on pricey vacations:
By Matthew Weaver on May 11, 2012 in Current Affairs | 54 Comments
Michelle Bachmann has made a such a spectacle during the past year as a wanna be presidential candidate that one would have thought she’d now quietly retire to Minnesota. Nope, no chance. She spectacularly claimed another 15 minutes of infamy this week with multiple declarations of becoming, has been, and now wants to be former [...]
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