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raven333 commented on the blog post Happy Talk on Housing and Mortgages Masks Dangers
One wonders what these firms will be like as landlords.
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raven333 commented on the diary post Taibbi takes a shot at Operation Clean Halls by tambershall.
I think it would be really interesting to make the stop-and-frisk policy truly random: use an electronic device to make the decision about who to stop.
Then we could place bets on how long it would last.
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raven333 commented on the blog post North Korean Rocket Launch Fails in Humiliating Display
This is pretty typical stuff for engineers learning how to make rockets work–there’s plenty of examples from aerospace history in other places, including the USA. I think the Korean rocket scientists are going to get it eventually. You hominids would do well to prepare for that possibility.
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raven333 wrote a new diary post: Looking at the Oakland Police Department
Part of a series based on digitized stills from the Occupy Oakland Livestream. By theatrical lighting designer Lukas Krech.
(Image redacted by FDL image-linking policies.)
See them here instead.
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raven333 commented on the blog post “Civil War” in Wisconsin Could Also Be Among Democrats
I can’t see how the unions can win. Is this going to be a replay of the 2008 Presidential election, where we replaced a radical-right President with a centrist?
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raven333 commented on the blog post Supreme Court Rules for Strip Searches for Even Those Arrested for Minor Offenses
In its continuing quest to become the worst Supreme Court since the Taney Court…
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raven333 commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Katherine Porter, Broke: How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class
I will briefly add that tools for filing a bankruptcy are available from Nolo Press, link. While it is a complicating procedure, this is available to literate non-lawyers.
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raven333 commented on the blog post This American Life Retracts Part of Mike Daisey’s Report on Apple and China
At the same time, without Daisey raising the issue, would we even know about it?
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raven333 commented on the blog post An Open Letter to Rufus Gifford
As to the rest, I do intended to vote in the Senate and House elections, and the state and local elections. But I don’t have the heart to vote for a conservative President, and I won’t.
Hey, maybe the Green Presidential candidate will take Washington this year.
…long as it’s not Nader.
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raven333 commented on the blog post An Open Letter to Rufus Gifford
I’m not even voting for Obama for this year. I figure that the financial industry bought him, they can buy him the election.
And they will.
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raven333 commented on the blog post Late Night: Isla Waters
Wave
Well, electric car prices could drop faster than currently expected, and there’s plenty of rails to use. There are even proposals to install photovoltaic panels along railroad right-of-ways. Right now it’s hard, but I think eventually the costs will push the decision.
But, alas, not tomorrow.
I think I will cross back across the river and get some sleep.
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raven333 commented on the diary post Obama’s Guiding Principle: Leave No One Accountable by Scarecrow.
Personally, I am not voting for Obama. The banks bought him, they can buy the election for him, and after this settlement the SuperPAC money will flow.
Time for the Revolution, Maw.
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raven333 commented on the blog post Schneiderman’s Last-Minute Cancellation Spells Trouble for Foreclosure Fraud Settlement
It looks very much like Schneiderman realized he was being played and decided to call a halt. Perhaps, even, the administration reneged on its promises and he saw no reason to keep his.
Going to be interesting to see where this goes from here. Does Schneiderman get back on board after concessions? Or…?
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raven333 commented on the blog post I’m Looking At The Boy In The Bubble
What the country needs is not an even larger federal government but a kind of civic Great Awakening–a return to the republic’s original foundations of family, vocation, community, and faith.
“Kinder, Küche, Kirche?” But this is pure fascism.
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raven333 commented on the blog post Palin: Newt’s Open Marriage Ask Is a Winning Strategy
Personally, I think the word might have been “sore.”
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raven333 commented on the blog post Late, Late Night FDL: Spirits in The Material World
In 55 minutes, it will be my birthday.
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raven333 wrote a new diary post: Occupy the Ballot Box?
Yesterday, in Balloon Juice comments, I wrote:
There are factions of Occupy that are quite radical; it is an anarchist movement, after all. Rather like a US political party internally, come to think of it. ( Link.)
Could it be? Could Occupy be the seed of the next major US political party? Let’s see: young people, check. [...]
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raven333 commented on the blog post Obama’s Advantage: People Like Him, Unlike the GOP Candidates
Barack Obama, teflon president II
Croak!
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raven333 commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: Occupy Wall Street and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio
I wrote about barter as a response to a corrupt financial system nearly a year ago:
The great value of a neutral medium of exchange—money—is that there is no problem trading machine tools for money, and then buying food with the money. This is much harder in a barter-and-gift economy: a series of trades must be arranged, and there are no banks to buffer breaks in the chains of trade and gift, or lend money short-term, to tide a trader over delays in exchange. Computer brokerages perhaps can help, but one then depends on the honesty of the brokers and the design of the system, and there is no law, yet, that acts to protect participants: caveat emptor, caveat vendor, caveat argentarior.
Maybe, just maybe, new technology can overcome these difficulties, but it does not seem to me likely. The lack of law is especially troublesome: we have all seen how easy it is to corrupt a financial system.
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raven333 commented on the blog post Answers To Your Questions…Before You Ask Them!
If you think this is bad, wait until the anti-immigrant guys get going.
Bah, er, croak!
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