Bond King to Congress: Get Real! from Talking Points Memo This is really a must-read piece. Not because of the message but the messenger. The hyper attention to the country’s debt is supposed to be in reaction to the bond market, the people who buy our debt. But the biggest bond guy in the cou[...]
Archive for June 22nd, 2011
June 22nd, 2011 - 10:09 pm § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Initiatives, More Initiatives
Tim Eyman at Sound Politics STATUS REPORT ON INITIATIVES — THERE ARE 4 IN THE RUNNING FOR 2011 There are 25 days left until the July 8th signature turn-in deadline and here’s how the various 2011 initiative campaigns are doing (includes most up-to-date campaign reporting): * Initiative 1[...]
June 22nd, 2011 - 10:01 pm § in Uncategorized
Virtual star to be unleashed on US
from The Independent Hatsune Miku sings, dances, has blue hair and is such a huge hit in Japan that Toyota Motor Corp. has decided to launch her presence internationally in a major sales campaign in the United States. Unusually, for an idol promoting a product, Hatsune Miku is not a living, breathin[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Ai WeiWei released!
(AP) BEIJING – Renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei was released on bail Wednesday after confessing to tax evasion following more than three months in detention, official media said. Ai’s poor health was also a factor in his release, the Xinhua News Agency reported. It said Ai [...]
June 22nd, 2011 - 8:11 am § in America
BREAKING NEWS: I Am An Undocumented Immigrant (VIDEO)
from the Huff Post: Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former senior contributing editor for The Huffington Post, has revealed that he is an undocumented immigrant. In an article in the New York Times Magazine and an interview with ABC News, Vargas says that his mother sent[...]