A Walker win is the fault of those multidimensional chess players congregating @ 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

I guess SocNet web campaigns are so “4 years ago”.

Or maybe the “yout’s” aew pissed that “the rent’s too damn high! And the wage is too damn low, if you can get a wage.”

Even the young and idealistic need to eat.

I suspect that had we political and social leadership that took accountability to be as crucial to cultural sanity as those we have believe in “looking forward not back”, the forfeiture of liberty (a.k.a. jailtime) on the part of banksters would forestall such brazen amorality as that that’s being brought to bear on Ms. Szymoniak.

Is America on its way to becoming Somalia – with an army (be it the U.S. Army or “Bloomberg’s Army”)?

Dave, like a well slung stone skipping across only the tallest of waves on an otherwise placid lake your summary reads.

The only data point I’d add is that with 75% or more of the 99% earning a wage or salary that’s tunneling it’s own downward course across economists’ x/y limited landscape, housing as a market is as captive to this and the trends you identified as is a banking regulator to the Khans of lower Manhattan.

indeed, with Beethoven’s Pastorale playing in the background and a tranquil IMAX quality display of a field of daffodils fluttering in the summer’s breeze swaddling your dimming vision.

This message of serenity was brought to you by the Soylent family of “organic” biscuits and other fine “foods”.

The key sentence (IMO) in your essay, masaccio, reads:

“So, why is the Fed pursuing policies that push people into the arms of these wolverines?”

The question may seem to be begging for an answer, but in truth none is necessary. The fact that such policies are in force and are broadened or expanded daily is answer enough. In fact, I’d suggest that asking the question creates the opportunity for the thievery to continue while the “muppets [and marks]” distract themselves (ourselves?) trying to first divine the intentions of those whose hands are in our pockets.

And if you think it’s bad now, just wait until bankers and Villagers launch into a fauxtrage over being bested by Sweden in the race to become a “cashless” society. I’ve called out “cashless” because it’s a rhetorical wedge. As a wedge, it deliberately inverts the “burden/benefit” relationship that results when a multi-trillion dollar economy is – by policy – forced to adopt banker-owned, banker-operated credit and debit facilities for every single legitimate (and illegitimate) transaction. Once inverted, “cashless” policy “advocates” can exploit the very real fear that cash-holding intransigents will be electronically and mechanically prohibited from “participating” in the economy. Witness the effectiveness of the international banker/bureaucrat termination of credit/debit facilities to Wikileaks.

And if you are addicted to social “media”, be sure to “friend” your bankers, mortgage lenders, loan officers and many other such agencies because failing to do so is, not will be, is being captured and tallied in databases across the intertubes. Failure to do so may make you (your family, your business, …) vulnerable to a financial “DOS” assault or other less obvious and hostile tactic. In this case, witness the “terms of service” attached to payment cards that, in almost all cases, reserve the right for the issuer to “reclaim” unspent nickels, dimes, quarters and larger sums on cards unused for ill-defined durations or that fail to meet minimum balance requirements. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had a Treasury agent stop by to “reclaim” the coins in my loose change jar.

it seems that Obama and the Dems cannot contain their jealousy over the gop’s most recent exercises to retain its title as the stupidest motherfuckers in the world – living or dead.

I guess the dems will declare victory when they dumb-it-down to the point where they overcome the autonomic protections of respiration and then forget to breath.

Nah. It means that Holder’s not unlike a young, insecure, under-experienced actor whose addicted to the reviews of his/her work.

Given the DoJ’s propensity for prosecuting whistle-blowers, “leakers” and other vocal critics of the Obama Administration, I’d say it’s fair to assume Holder’s reaction is – at best – hostile and vengeful.

Hopefully, the fact of an active prosecution will cause some, if not most, of the reportedly “40 states’ AGs” to rethink their decision to join the White House sanctioned white-wash of the disaster they made of the nation’s fiscal standing and the lives of tens if not more than a hundred million Americans.

Breath not held….

Jack Nicholson’s on the line for Ms Brinker. He wants his Joker’s smile back.

Maddow, as usual, is well out of her element when waxing “professorially” on matters fiscal and economic.

That said, I’m delighted to see that Schneiderman will continue to focus on banks most serious crimes, the “murders” that were covered over by “arson”.

I’d bet even money that if such an investigation is followed through aggressively and thoroughly that the investigators will find fraudulent origination documentation created out of whole cloth that – a fews years after they were manufactured – were used by the banks/servicers to “justify” foreclosing on homes that had no liens.

These days, anyone servicing a mortgage is not paying interest, they’re (you’re) paying a “vig”.

…someone who has the oppressor/victim relationship absolutely backwards.

According to several analyses penned by Kevin Phillips, himself a conservative, the conservative movement as-a-whole and the christian zealots therein particularly have created an entire in-group mythology that is built on this “absolutely backwards” inversion of power relationships. It’s also the source of Leo Strauss’s bizarre and violent anti-historical ideology – which both steals from and sullies the brilliant insights of Nietzsche.

Phillips’ most concise expression of his power-mad victim (my words) thesis can be found in his book “American Theocracy”.

With so much to fear, so much to hate and so many paranoid delusions to nurture, how do rightards get anything done during the day?

SO, it is official.

We can say hello to 2012 and “Unitary Executive” Obama and goodbye to the foundation of our legal heritage, Common Law and the Constitution.

I wonder if future historians will consider the nearly 800 year history of Common Law and habeas corpus too short or too long. Conversely, I suspect the fraternal members of the Federalist Society (a membership list that includes Justices Alito, Scalia & Thomas and Chief Justice Roberts) will spare no expense in celebrating the new year and the jurisprudential version of Nixon going to China.

PS – the Magna Carta was issued 796 years, 6 months, 17 days ago. Today, the new framework’s clock stands at <1 day.

Obama is to accountability as “7-Up” is to cola.

Or better, “The Flaw” which, unfortunately, never found a distributor and as a result was only screened in limited venues mainly film festivals.

So much for the President’s acclaimed ability to master the political landscape via his “11th dimension” purview.

Validating the “Big Lie” is tantamount to political suicide.

I find I’m reminded of the infamous episode of “The Simpsons” where Springfield is threatened with destruction from a meteor. The residents of Springfield descend into “Lord of the Flies” mania only to be saved by the accident of selfishness. In response to the “threat” of meteoric annihilation, the citizen mob rushes off to destroy Springfield’s observatory to protect themselves from the future threat of meteors.

As for Obama, his citizenry is still bereft of ~$14 trillion in home asset value destroyed – a sum known to many individual home-owners as their retirement nest egg.

As the axiom instructs, “when a conservative or corporation accuses an individual or group of indulging in offensive or illegal behavior, you can be certain that the accuser is and has been ‘indulging’ in the same immoral and/or illegal act for years prior to conjuring a complaint to issue.”

If SOPA is made law, which would be very bad, expect nothing less than aggressive and highly selective enforcement. “Generous” campaign financiers can’t be “perp-walked” or embarrassed in court – just as Wall Streeters.