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marym in IL commented on the blog post White House Benghazi Emails Have Different Quotes Than GOP Version
Yup. The D’s won’t fight for anything.
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marym in IL commented on the diary post LIVE: Protests Mark 100 Days of Guantanamo Hunger Strike by Kit OConnell.
Thanks for reporting this.
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marym in IL commented on the blog post Republicans Go All In on Obamacare Repeal in 2014 Election
Everything people don’t like about their healthcare – the cost, the bureaucracy, the care – will be blamed on Obamacare. Whether that’s technically accurate in each particular case, in a larger sense it will be an accurate charge. Given a chance to do something really good for the people, the D’s chose every step of the way, to do something for corporate wealth and power instead. And in the nearly 5 years it will be since the bill originally passed, they won’t have suggested a single addition to the “starter house” – only things to make it worse, like raising the Medicare eligibility age, more privatizing of Medicaid, or Rahm’s new proposal to replace retiree healthcare benefits with Obamacare.
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marym in IL commented on the blog post White House Benghazi Emails Have Different Quotes Than GOP Version
While Darrell the Car Thief Issa was beating his scrawny chest in triumph over taking another scalp from Obama’s administration, Bloomberg News was reporting that Democratic, progressive and other leftyish groups were getting the same IRS letters and scrutiny (if not more of it) than were the Little Red Victim Hoods of the Tea Party:
Were any Democrats beating their chests about this? Or just letting Issa hold the stage? I’m not following this too closely, but it sounds as though to at least some extent the IRS was doing its job here. Be nice if the D’s would point that out, speak out for the value of certain types of IRS scrutiny and regulation, etc. Seems to me Obama just said Oh yeah, you’re right and fired someone. Now the IRS will have less leverage to do a valid part of its job.
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marym in IL commented on the diary post Latest Leak: Tsarnaev Supposedly Confessed Before Arrest by E. F. Beall.
Yes, struck not killed, by friendly fire. It was the MIT cop that was killed, though no one has yet been charged with that. Thank you.
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marym in IL commented on the blog post CFTC Caves To Wall Street, Will Continue To Allow Cartel To Control Derivatives Market
It’s wrong to call this a “cave.” It’s a feature of a system wholly owned by the .1% and designed to operate for their benefit.
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marym in IL commented on the diary post Latest Leak: Tsarnaev Supposedly Confessed Before Arrest by E. F. Beall.
The MBTA cop was killed by friendly fire, at a point in the confrontation when the Tsarnaev’s no longer had a weapon. No charges have been filed so far for the MIT cop. “Danny’s” credibility hasn’t yet been tested in front of a jury. There,s an apparent gap between the possibility that some words (ABC [...]
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marym in IL commented on the diary post Latest Leak: Tsarnaev Supposedly Confessed Before Arrest by E. F. Beall.
These “scrawls” don’t exactly sound like the coherent confession implied by the CBS story. Interesting that the police won’t turn over their cell phones without a warrant. Police are the 99% if they’d only realize it. (Your link gives me a page that only shows part of the story. Here’s another link which appears to be the [...]
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marym in IL commented on the diary post Wednesday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.
Thanks again. Now that you’ve liberated my comment, maybe if this subject comes up again, I’ll just link back to it. Save us all a few clicks!
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marym in IL commented on the blog post More Signs Obama Will Likely Approve Keystone XL
Not too many jobs.
pp 15-16
Including direct, indirect, and induced effects, the proposed Project would potentially support approximately 42,100 average annual jobs across the United States over a 1-to 2year construction period (of which, approximately 3,900 would be directly employed in construction activities)….Generally, the largest economic impacts of pipelines occur during construction rather than operations. Once in place, the labor requirements for pipeline operations are relatively minor. Operation of the proposed Project would generate 35 permanent and 15 temporary jobs, primarily for routine inspections, maintenance, and repairs.
LINK (PDF – this quote is on pp.15=16)
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marym in IL commented on the diary post Latest Leak: Tsarnaev Supposedly Confessed Before Arrest by E. F. Beall.
The only statement from Ortiz’s office I’ve found after Dzhokhar was read his rights is a no comment from a spokesperson. LINK
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marym in IL commented on the diary post Latest Leak: Tsarnaev Supposedly Confessed Before Arrest by E. F. Beall.
Are you saying the judge would not have done this if the prosecutors didn’t agree? How would we know that? Maybe the judge just believes in prompt Mirandizing.
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marym in IL commented on the diary post Latest Leak: Tsarnaev Supposedly Confessed Before Arrest by E. F. Beall.
The prosecutors didn’t cavalierly Mirandize him. A
federal judge made the call to advise the Boston bombing suspect of his Miranda rights, even though investigators apparently still wanted to question him further under a public-safety exception… The FBI was aware Judge Bowler was planning to go to the hospital Monday and was “not happy about [...]
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marym in IL commented on the diary post Latest Leak: Tsarnaev Supposedly Confessed Before Arrest by E. F. Beall.
“scrawled with a marker” (CBS link) on the bullet-ridden wall of a boat seems to strike the perfect balance between forensically ambiguous and totally unbelievable – as opposed to, say, “nicely written with a ball point pen on lined notepaper.”
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marym in IL commented on the diary post Wednesday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.
Thanks Kit. It’s a good filter to have. I’ll try not to jam it up too often!
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marym in IL commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 15, 2013
It will also be interesting to see whether Obama now appoints an actual (not acting) head of the IRS, whose nomination will magically turn out to be acceptable to Republicans. Let no crisis go to waste and all.
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marym in IL commented on the diary post Wednesday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.
Hi. I commented at today’s (Thurs) Over Easy, and my comment is stuck in moderation. It’s a response to a discussion about buying stuff made in USA – a lot of links to websites. I posted a similar comment recently with fewer links that went through ok. Did I overstep some boundary? Please let me [...]
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marym in IL commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 15, 2013
Here’s more “who knew what when” stuff to be sorted out on the IRS firing.
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marym in IL commented on the blog post Let the stomping begin
Looks like it’s getting into “who knew what and when did they know it.” territory.
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marym in IL commented on the blog post Let the stomping begin
h/t fatster
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/15/pity_steve_miller/
But Miller is a scapegoat in the most pure and classic sense. The acting commissioner was not running the IRS at the time employees improperly targeted Tea Party groups — that would be Bush-appointee Doug Shulman, who resigned as commissioner last year — and Miller’s name isn’t mentioned a single time in the Treasury Department inspector general’s report. Indeed, there is no evidence that Miller was in any way responsible, involved or even aware of the inappropriate targeting of conservative groups by underlings. He is falling on his sword for something he did not do.
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