 As I have mentioned here before, the hoophole is America's greatest invention, and no one knows that better than the big banks, the ones that relied on taxpayer money to stay afloat. They are out again, sticking it to the average taxpayer with trickery and down-right dishonest marketing because they created a loophole for the new credit card act, with the amazing title of Credit Card Accountability and Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. Their practices are anything but that. It turns out that if you call a credit card a "professional card" it is not covered under the new credit card act. This is nothing but a scam. Once reserved for small-businesses, the banks have started to use this professional card, to rape ...
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Today is the 47th Anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s enduring "I had a dream" speech. Beck and the Palin brigade do a disservice to his memory by choosing the same date and the same location, the Lincoln Memorial, for their "we have a nightmare" speeches. Match this Beck. ...
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The nut job "pastor", Terry Jones, who has called for and scheduled a burning of the Muslim Holy Book, the Quran, on September 11 this year, has generated this response from an Islamic group based in England. It is what anyone would expect: a recruitment video for terrorist to continue their jihads. It matters not that Jones, another Jones pastor with a kool-aid religion, has a puny congregation of 50 "Christian" lemmings. This story was posted on these pages a week ago by Ted McLaughlin. Jones has already done the damage. Let's hope the local fire department takes preemptive action and puts out the fire before it starts. Of course, the flames of Jones' hate will burn on forever. p>
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Billy Graham's preacher son, Franklin, pictured above, will say on ABC News tonight, that Obama is a Muslim. This, on the heals of a new Pew Research Center poll finding that practically one in five Americans believe this same crap. This, coming from a guy who believes that the grape juice they take on sacrament Sundays, is really the blood of Christ. An update later tonight, if I'm not drunk by then. Update: After seeing the report, here is the nonsense. Graham (Cracker) is saying that since Obama's father was a Muslim, he was, is and forever shall be a Muslim. Not Kenyan, his father's nationality, but Muslim, his father's religion. Now my father was an extreme fundamentalist: that does not make me a fundamentalist. I am not a ...
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There is a close resemblance between an Escher painting, as picture above, and the organization and functioning of the federal government's behemoth archipelago security and anti-terrorism structure, wrought by Bush and fed by the Obama gang: It is there and you can see it, but you can't make any sense out of it. If I asked you how many people have a top-secret security clearance and you guessed 100,000 or 250,000 or 500,000 you would be way off base. Within the government, and outsourced to the private sector, there are almost one million, 845,000 to be exact. They work for 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in about 10,000 different locations across the country. In the Washington beltway area alone, there are ...
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Just as Ronald Reagan famously took his Budget Director to the "woodshed" for his trickle down remarks about Reagan's budget of tax cuts, so now, a little late, David Stockman takes today's entire GOP to the woodshed for a whuppin' over their reckless tax policies and failure to reign in Bush's equally reckless management of the economy. In a scathing op-ed in the New York Times, in the link above, Stockman identifies four "deformations", his word, for the destruction of the US economy. He calls the remarks of Mitch, The Mouth, McConnell about the need to extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich, "unseemly" and says that extending them would amount to a bankruptcy filing for the federal government, if there were such a thing as Chapter 11 . ...
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Catching up on my summer fun reading, I came across a great political thriller, The Ghost Writer, by British author, Robert Harris. The book is now also a good Roman Polanski movie by the same title that will be available on Netflix August 3. My guess the reason it didn't last long in the movie houses is because of the ruckus about Polanski in media this past year and the US effort to get him back to stand trial for past sins. But Polanski is a good filmmaker.(Remember the classic, Chinatown, another political thriller, with Jack Nicholson?) Truth is stranger than fiction. While this is a work of fiction, it doesn't take too much googling to discover there are a lot of factual stories backing Harris' thesis up that Adam Lang, the ...
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I put Obama critics in seven groups: Demented, Divisive, Dutiful, Discerning, Disillusioned, Disappointed, and Dedicated. (Of course it had to be an alliteration.) Note: The links are representative statements within each group, not a profile of the people themselves. While I am satisfied with the broad categories here, I didn't want to slice the political bologna too thin. The examples are intended to be representative, not inclusive. So hopefully you will add to the examples and possibly suggest other groups. The Demented are a large chunk of the Teabaggers, all the birthers, anyone who equates Obama with Hitler, all those who accuse him of hating America and being a racist, and so on.They are the newest and noisiest group that ...
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 If the folks over at thirtyfiveeight, the best predictors of who wins elections, are right, Democrats could lose nine Senate seats creating a 50-50 split. If that happens, then Joe Lieberman may get the last laugh and caucus with the Republicans and marble-mouth Mitch McConnell would be majority leader: that would be a real political bomb, hence the picture with Lieberman reprising the role of Slim Pickens, Major 'King' Kong, in the classic Stanley Kubrick movie, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb. (Photo by zulch.) Here are their predictions, about less than 100 days from becoming reality? 
They have the Governor Charlie Crist winning in Florida as an Independent, but remember he is a ...
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 Only 18 months into his first term, Barack Obama is already in the pantheon of the American presidents who have accomplished the most for the benefit of most of the American people. FDR had 12 years to achieve his accomplishments, LBJ had five years, and Obama is only 18 months into his presidency and already in their class. One big difference between the three is that Obama had more shit on his desk when taking office than either FDR or LBJ. Sure, the economic mess FDR inherited from a Republican was greater and deeper than the mess Obama inherited from a Republican, but FDR was able to focus on that singular issue, a "luxury" not afforded to Obama who had two visible wars, one invisible war, and a tattered American image to deal ...
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