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masaccio commented on the blog post The never ending walking tour of cemeteries to whistle through
I’m just sure some enterprising capitalist will figure out a way to sell water to those people. And Jim Imhofe will be thrilled at the success of the free market in survival.
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masaccio commented on the blog post Study Indicates Marijuana Could Help Treat Crohn’s Disease
I wonder what the mechanism is.
Unfortunately we can’t read the paper for free because it is owned by Elsevier, and costs $30.
I can’t find it through my library either.
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masaccio commented on the blog post C. Wright Mills Explains the End of Liberalism
I urge you to read this essay. I’ll send you a copy if you write to me at masaccio68 at gmail
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masaccio commented on the blog post C. Wright Mills Explains the End of Liberalism
I hope everyone will check in with Gar Alperovitz to see what he thinks. He is one of the few people trying to come up with something new, and Dave Dayen is the best.
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masaccio commented on the blog post Caring for the Poor Is Up for Debate in the Catholic Church?
Those are fascinating and revealing quotes from the Rule of St. Benedictine. The level of practice of the Rule seems to have deteriorated over the centuries.
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masaccio wrote a new diary post: Larry Summers: The Intellectual as Courtier
Larry Summers sauntered out from his sinecure at Harvard to defend his friends Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart in a perfect demonstration of the courtier culture of the intellectual in this country. We know Summers’ history , the Harvard President who caused the loss of $1.8 billion in the Harvard Endowment cash management fund; whose disrespect for smart women [...] -
masaccio commented on the blog post So how’d that thing go last night?
This is officially proof that SC-01 is truly and fully hypocritical. It’s Family Values are those of Ashley Madison.
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masaccio commented on the blog post Why I Kind of Respect Sen. Ted Cruz
Cruz is a perfect illustration of the massive success of minority rule in America. It would be hard to imagine a system that would permit one idiot to wreck the country, but we have a system that allows any combination of 100 Senators to do it.
Screw the filibuster. We need to get rid of the Senate.
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masaccio commented on the blog post America’s Concern Troll
Maybe we could ask Cohen how many of his children he wants to sacrifice in this hostility (as you know we don’t have wars any more).
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masaccio commented on the blog post Politicians and Oligarchs Love the Banks and Despise People
There is no credit problem at present. The giant banks are at their lowest loans to deposit ratio in decades. That’s just a stupid lie from the banksters, easily refuted with the google.
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masaccio commented on the blog post Politicians and Oligarchs Love the Banks and Despise People
Well, less leverage wouldn’t, but the banks would have to spin off some of their businesses, and those new businesses would have to hire people. At least, that’s my guess.
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masaccio commented on the blog post Politicians and Oligarchs Love the Banks and Despise People
I think the point of Brown-Vitter is that a 15% capital requirement for the six largest banks and lower rates for the rest is designed to force the worst offenders to slim down. I think $500 billion in assets should be enough to satisfy Lloyd Blankfein’s ego. There are a number of good possibilities from that kind of divestiture, not least of which is that it may lead to more jobs that pay reasonably well, and fewer that pay outlandish amounts.
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masaccio commented on the blog post Politicians and Oligarchs Love the Banks and Despise People
People pay their debts because they are conditioned to pay their debts. I bet 90% of the people I represented in bankruptcy were ashamed that they couldn’t pay. It ruined marriages, family relationships and long-term friendships. I even know one person who was told to take the issue to the elders of the church to see if she shouldn’t pay them; she left that church.
I often thought that my primary role was to give people permission to file bankruptcy.
I have written a number of posts encouraging people to consider carefully their own needs before beggaring themselves to pay some thug bank.
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masaccio commented on the blog post Sunday Talking Heads: May 5, 2013
Before we are crushed by the Emirs of the American Oligarchy, we could use some of that radicalization here.
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masaccio commented on the blog post First They Came for the Tomato Growers . . .
It would be great if people would ask how the police got these warrants. What kind of idiot magistrate would issue a warrant on this kind of stupid evidence: Mr. Magistrate, they went to a hydroponic store and they had “tea”.
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masaccio commented on the diary post Financial Sadism by masaccio.
That’s stupid and irritating. People vote for one of two jerks or they don’t vote. It’s not like there was a candidate who was the Almighty’s gift to the planet. People do the best they can given the alternatives, including voting for certified losers and not voting at all. It isn’t my fault, or anyone [...]
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masaccio wrote a new diary post: Financial Sadism
The financial sector, led by the banks, has always held the whip hand over its human customers. For example, in Virginia and other states, a creditor can insert a clause in a contract allowing it to get a judgment against the debtor from a court clerk, without bothering a judge with the need for a hearing. And [...] -
masaccio commented on the diary post Rant 1: Greed Is Good (For Absolutely Nothing) by rosalind.
This is great, needs a bit more profanity, maybe a Deranged Society Sister to deliver on video.
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masaccio commented on the blog post What, evidence required?
I’d love to see the Bill “Littleprick” Kristol and Charles “Wienie” Krauthammer volunteer to be in the first wave into Syria, along with the rest of the fake warriors. It would be worth it to see both Syrian sides join to fight off the US invaders. it might even lead to unification talks.
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masaccio commented on the blog post The Rise of the Corporate State
You and bailey and Solomon71 are welcome to kvetch about this blog. But not on my Posts. Fair warning.
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