That’s what anti-regulation Republicans — the folks who gave you the 2008 financial meltdown — claim. But the reality is something different. Yes, small banks are disappearing. But it’s due to market forces, not the heavy hand of government. As this chart shows, small banks h[...]
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July 3rd, 2015 - 11:51 am § in Uncategorized
Is Lindsay Graham the class act of the GOP’s 2016 field?
South Carolina has its shtick(s), but in some ways the Palmetto State isn’t all that bad; it’s virtually the only state that regularly prosecutes killer cops, its legislature is actually talking about taking down the Confederate flag on the capitol grounds, and it sent Lindsay Graham to [...]
June 11th, 2015 - 11:40 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
How the boycott movement and religious fanatics collaborate to promote Armageddon
So sad. The religious fanatics on the West Bank, the Christian fanatics in the US, arrogant white Europeans, and the Hamasniks and boycotters all want war. WE, the semites, Arabs and Jews, are their victims. Here are a few selected comments from the FACEBOOK thread: [...]
June 4th, 2015 - 6:38 pm § in The Ave Scene
Sawantism: The नेता* Explains Her Stand on Hamas Vs Israel
David Goldstein, a friend and fellow Jew, has castigated me for criticizing Kshama Sawant’s support for the Boycott Israel “Peace” Movement. (नेता* is leader in Hindi) He challenged me to react to the motion she unsuccessfully tried to get the Seattle City Council to pass c[...]
May 6th, 2015 - 9:15 am § in America
BLACK RACISM .. on FACEBOOK
Anyone who thinks that only “white” folks are racists should spend a bit of time on Facebook. Here is a post that just appeared. The thread began with my (apparently) irritating post of a picture of the remarkable Miss Israel from 2013. This lady is an officer in the Israeli Defe[...]
Does GOP Support a Saudi Led Crusade: Who is Mohammed bin Salman ?
While the Republicans are hysterically denigrating* the Lausanne agreement with Iran, the GOP seems all to happy about the war like actions of Saudi Arabia. The GOP perhaps does not remember the 1950s when Standard Oil (or was if Gulf?) ran commercials on TV showing how American oil companies were [...]
THE UGLY CHINAMAN
BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — Barack Obama has thrown a damp towel over warming relations between China and its neighbors with a funny theory about China being a bully in the South China Sea. Visiting Jamaica, the U.S. president said Washington is “concerned” China is using i[...]
March 22nd, 2015 - 10:12 am § in Misc.
Russia moves to stop same-sex spouses receiving UN staff benefits. Vote due Tuesday.
Russia asks UN to put recognition of same-sex marriage for 43,000 staff worldwide to a vote this Tuesday Current policy is to recognize same-sex marriages among its staff, Previously UN workers’ personal status was determined by the laws of their country of nationality. Russia wants the g[...]
March 3rd, 2015 - 3:24 pm § in Misc.
California lawyer files initiative to have “Sodomites” put to death
A California lawyer has filed an initiative, called the “Sodomite Suppression Act,” requiring that ‘any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method”[...]
March 2nd, 2015 - 12:47 pm § in Misc.
CNN tape debunks O’Reilly lie
If Fox News is nothing more than the propaganda arm of America’s political right, they’ll ignore the furor over Bill O’Reilly’s serial lies and continue employing him as their chief propagandist. After all, Hitler didn’t fire Goebbels for lying. And while a real journal[...]