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shakker commented on the diary post Despite New Concerns about Wisconsin’s Economic Development Arm, WEDC Gets Budget Boost by WI Budget Project.
It is working exactly as expected. It is transferring money from the taxpayer to Walker’s campaign contributors and other friends. It is called pay for play. Bad accounting and sloppy oversight is required to achieve the desired goal. It also sounds like a government agency so it further proves government doesn’t work to the lapdog [...]
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shakker commented on the diary post Reinhart and Rogoff Are Not Being Straight by Dean Baker.
Their defense for sending out a report that is carefully sculpted bullshit is that they are incredibly stupid and just lucky that the right wing loves their report. They are not cheap sluts corrupted by small change from billionaire oligarchs who carefully sculpted the data to create bullshit. My question: Why do they still have [...]
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shakker commented on the diary post Exxon’s Skies: Why Is Exxon Controlling the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill? by Steve Horn.
That is why their are laws allowing you not to be told or in the case of Fracking REQUIRING that no one is told what, when, where, how and any other important fact. It is not an accident that the people living here didn’t know about it. Some of the pipe locations have also been [...]
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shakker commented on the blog post Securitization Fraud Task Force Investigators Promise “Significant Action,” Sometime
Here is the significant announcement: We have a solid case against dozens of bank officials and we would be pursuing those charges except, unfortunately, the statute of limitations has expired. We have several other investigations going on and will have another significant announcement very soon. Thank you for your interest in another fine example of American justice.
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shakker commented on the blog post Disgraced Ex-Idaho Senator Larry Craig: my toe-tapping bathroom trip was official gov’t business
This was not a flushing fee for using the toilet. This was a pervert weirding off in the mens room. What would happen to a regular guy trying to solicit sex from women at the door of the women’s restroom? People gay or straight have the right to use the toilet in an airport in peace. This was a fine for illegal activity. This is not an expense that is an unavoidable cost of traveling to work. That this kind of absurd legal claim doesn’t cause a contempt of court charge and a punishment for the lawyer shows you just how corrupt the system has become with every scheme cooked up to help the rich and connected tolerated and innocent people punished for the crime of being poor due to massive job destruction by the same bunch of psychopathic plutocrats and their pet Congress whores.
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shakker commented on the diary post Serious People Do Not Use Wealth of People Under Age 35 as a Measure of Their Well-Being by Dean Baker.
During their working years old people prepaid some of the costs of Medicare – include this among your points. They are called ENTITLEMENTS because you earn them. Moving the payoff back until only people who are very lucky or never do physical work will collect is part of the plan to destroy Social Security and [...]
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shakker commented on the blog post Bradley Manning’s Defense Moves to Temporarily Suspend Court Martial
The way this is being handled it looks like the ‘kangaroo’ court used to ‘convict’ Saddam without exposing the crimes of all the conspirators and associates who are members of the government or protected evil slime that it would be embarrassing to admit association.
It is not that Saddam wasn’t guilty of plenty, but the hurry to knock him off on minor charges was to shut him up.
As soon as the case against Manning has been honed to a sharp point that dooms him with minimal collateral damage he will be sent off to rot in prison or killed without possibility of his making a credible public statement.
If they had a legitimate case, with real evidence there would have been no need to silence him, stuff him in solitary confinement until insanity is normally produced and hamstring his lawyer by withholding evidence, claiming national security, and limiting contact with his client.
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shakker commented on the blog post Liveblog: Jamie Dimon Appears Before Senate Banking Committee
He is being interviewed for Treasury, Federal Reserve Chairman, or the Medal of Freedom – they can’t decide.
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shakker commented on the diary post Call AARP: Stop the E Street Exchange! by Brian Sonenstein.
AARP IS MUCH WORSE THAN YOUR AVERAGE INSURANCE COMPANY. They violate their members trust by betraying them every day. AARP should fight to the death to raise benefits for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the safety net for younger people too. The younger people are the children and grandchildren of their members. Certainly the majority [...]
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shakker commented on the diary post Montana move to recall Congress delegation over NDAA vote by Bobbylon.
Any politician who acts against your interest and is under a recall is a blessing. ANY TIME THEY SPEND FIGHTING RECALL OR RAISING MONEY TO FIGHT ONE IS TIME THEY CAN’T SPEND SCREWING YOU OVER. The big money may tire of wasting cash on a person who can’t serve as a lackey due to the [...]
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shakker commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: Scott Walker, Bill Haslam, and the Cost of the Bullets
The Clash, “You have the right to free speech, as long as you are not dumb enough to actually try it.”
Welcome to FitzWalkerstan – formerly known as Wisconsin. I signed the recall petition. If the voters don’t recall this turd they should give up all pretense and join the Nazi party. The Republicans in this state are already there.
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shakker commented on the blog post Alabama Governor Acknowledges Need to Change Harsh Immigration Law
It is hard to restrain the racists once you have fired them up. I am sure that there are plenty of Klan descendants who are just itching to put all them non Americans back in their place. They will be disappointed when they find out the whole racist law was just to pander to low information voting bigots to get elected and the real beneficiaries will be the 1% or 0.1% of the ruling elite.
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shakker commented on the blog post Alabama Governor Acknowledges Need to Change Harsh Immigration Law
They will need to increase the prison population to provide enough slaves. Perhaps this is why legal Latinos have left the state. Watch for trumped up charges yielding long sentences for young, healthy, people with agricultural experience.
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shakker commented on the blog post Pike’s Pique
Any police who engage in this must be shunned in all social settings. Imagine crossing the street, leaving parties, refusing invitations when these jackbooted thugs are included. Tell the host exactly why you left and that you will not associate with people who assault peaceful people. Do not go to the charity event etc. I would certainly not allow my children to play at the house of known felons, even if they do it in a police uniform.
Do not shun police who behave properly, but ask them why they associate with thugs.
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shakker commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: Day Nine, Pressing On After Mass Arrests Yesterday
Why isn’t it ILLEGAL to hand out FAKE EVICTION NOTICES? Why should any citizen believe the search warrants, arrest warrants, warnings, tickets or subpoenas handed out by the government if these dipshits can run around with papers with ‘NO LEGAL FORCE’?
Is there any wonder that the respect for police is low? Actions like this phony EVICTION NOTICE in retaliation for some people who are not doing anything except embarrassing RICH CROOKS WHO STEAL FROM MOSTLY POOR PEOPLE are not only illegal it’s stupid.
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shakker commented on the diary post Quagmires R Us: Now Adding Libya to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq by Jim White.
I realize the government does do stuff they keep secret for some time, but calling widely reported facts, secret, clandestine or other words to that effect is crazy. Punishing people for further discussion of widely distributed information is even crazier. Finally, military missions involving blowing up stuff and killing lots of people ceases to be [...]
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shakker commented on the diary post Quagmires R Us: Now Adding Libya to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq by Jim White.
I love it that all these ‘CLANDESTINE’ missions are going on. This illustrates why Ben Franklin was right that 3 can keep a secret if 2 of them are dead. The concept of secrets in government is just to increase panic, terror and crony-ism for political gains. Most of these missions will be claimed to [...]
