one of those ten dollar words like “nonce” that you can only buy from Canadians in Canadia

My theory is that most of those wacky socialist Canadians are actually wasting all the free time they have left over due to their freedom-hating 40-hour work weeks drinking beer, but unfortunately I cannot prove it due to their fiendishly clever single-use-only pseudo-random encryption protocols, eh!

Nader was right.

The Pinto *was* unsafe at any speed! If only he had been right once again since that day… sigh.

Circular firing squad, Present! Arms! Ready… Aim…

a stunning new GAO report unearthed by Bernie Sanders

To give credit where due, David, Sen. Sanders did a bit more than unearth this GAO report:

“The most powerful entity in the United States is riddled with conflicts of interest,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said after reviewing the Government Accountability Office report. The study required by a Sanders Amendment to last year’s Wall Street reform law examined Fed practices never before subjected to such independent, expert scrutiny.

Saying half of all Americans “don’t pay any taxes” is exactly like saying vegetarians “don’t eat any food”.

But they’d have to be at least as smart as a 6-year-old to understand the equivalence.

Amusing! Useful tools like the troll “ecahhnomics” who scramble desperately to paint Alan Grayson as “irrelevant” and “unelectable” are just parroting the tired TeaGOP talking point that any government action is “incompetent” and “corrupt” while at the same time working desperately to personally make it as corrupt and incompetent as they possibly can.

Don’t believe your eyes and ears, people, listen to “ecahhnomics” — surely someone who inspires such throaty spontaneous cheers of agreement from the audience must be irrelevant and unelectable… What a chucklehead tool.

Tell those 99ers to get a freaking job.

Hahaha! You could wow ‘em with that comedy routine in my town.

Wait, I got one… “Tell those damn 99ers to come buy more of my freaking merchandise!” Wooh! I’m gonna bust a gut.

It was a comedy routine right? You weren’t actually dropped on your head when you were little or something?

Your flag deal won’t get you into heaven anymore nowadays, we’ll have to wait for the Groupon.

Seriously, this is why funding for critical national infrastructure must include investment in medical research. We simply have to discover a cure for gibbering lunacy like this before the infection destroys our country.

We have to be fair, since they’re asking to limit any payments to only “distressed” borrowers I propose that indemnity against fraud prosecution be limited to “distressed” bank executive criminals. Say, only those looking to spend 25% or more of their remaining lifespan in prison under mandatory sentencing guidelines on other criminal charges, and 25% or more of their net worth subject to forfeiture under civil statutes.
Sounds fair to me.

It depends what on the meaning of the word “is” is in the phrase, “is a right-wing psycho murderer for Jeezus”.

I just don’t see what the holdup here is. Surely both men are aware of the tried and true method that their Serious Predecessors have always used to prevent this sort of embarrassing snafu. Why aren’t they simply scheduling another 9 holes of for Boner and the President to sort this whole thing out, and tell us what they decided. They can still easily make cocktail hour.

Best comment at WaPo:

Do NOT let these Freedom-hating religious extremist murders build yet ANOTHER “victory” church in Oslo!!

NO CHURCH HERE. NEVER FORGET.

For some odd reason, this story reminds me of an unrelated statistic cited by Chris Hedges recently on msnbc. If the top 25 (that’s twenty-five, just over two dozen individuals) hedge fund traders in the US were to have their 15% capital gains tax break changed so as to equal the current top marginal rate of 35%, the savings to the US would be $44 billion (that’s billion-with-a-bee) over 10 years.

Would that be the same Scott Horton who thought Michael Mukasey was a solid citizen?

Indeed it is, and also the same one who a few months later called him “an embarrassment to those who have known and worked with him over the last twenty years, and who mistakenly touted his independence and commitment to do the right thing, come what may.”

Sure is a pretty state. From that photo you can’t even hardly see that it’s being ground into shutdown under cover of “bankruptcy” by the GOP.

Here in Texas, they’re cutting the school budget, closing libraries, and raising class sizes to 42 kids, and they’re doing it… “For The Sake Of The Children.”

its database contains potentially market-moving information. It also includes communications with national leaders as they negotiate, often behind the scenes, on the terms of international bailouts.

Oh noes! So scary to think that the rabble might also profit from the insider information that Serious Important Well Connected People use to illegally enrich themselves by speculating right before a big announcement.

Wouldn’t that be a tragedy for everyone, if you define everyone as the Serious Important Well Connected People who have never actually worked a day in their lives!