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Where’s the Beef?
Yup, Clara’s question is still germane. I have a more earthy version of this having do to with lies and morons when I continue to watch the media cover the “fiscal cliff”. The coverage is singularly...
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Tuesday Reads: Daniel Inouye, Richard Engel, and Fiscal Slope Trial Balloons...
Sen. Dan Inouye reads with children Good Morning!! Senator Dan Inouye, who died yesterday at age 88 was a Japanese American who fought for the U.S. in World War II. From Time Magazine: On Dec. 7, 1941,...
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Thursday Reads: Fiscal Cliff Crashes into Debt Ceiling, Villagers Blame Old...
Good Morning!! The storm has moved into New England, but it’s mostly rain up here–very hard, windy, noisy rain. I’m very grateful it isn’t snow, but I feel for all the people down south of me who are...
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New Year’s Day Reads: The Lousy Deal
First Night fireworks against the Boston skyline Good Morning and Happy New Year!!! Sorry to be late with this post. I got so discouraged last night with our dysfunctional government that I went to bed...
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Maybe the deal isn’t as bad as I thought.
Chess Master or Pawn? So I went and watched a silly movie (and thoroughly enjoyed it). I calmed down and decided to get back online for a bit. I read some reactions to the fiscal cliff deal from a...
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Thursday Reads: War on Women, the Fiscal Cliff, and Austerity Arriving in the...
Good Morning!! Brrrrrrrrrr! All of a sudden winter has arrived! Can you believe it’s 4 degrees outside my house? With a wind chill factor of 6 below 0. My furnace can’t keep up in this kind of...
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Reading the Tea Leaves on the Coming Ideological Battle over the Debt Ceiling
I’m getting a sense that the White House has a plan to deal with the GOP hostage takers in the debt ceiling fight. The plan involves eliminating every possible alternative to Congress allowing the...
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Slash and Burn Republicanism is not Good for the Country, our Children, and...
Some time during the Reagan campaign, our government became the enemy of a huge number of people in this country. Paranoia over a democratically elected government enshrined by voters and a...
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Saturday Reads: Austerity, Medicare, and Punishing the Baby Boomers
Good Morning!! Following on Dakinikat’s post last night, The Austerity Plot, here are some more links about Jonathan Chait’s very very bad recommendation that Obama should cave on raising the Medicare...
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Monday Reads: Hidden Loot in today’s Treasure Islands
The Opening up of Pandora’s box, Frederick Stuart Church, 1885 Good Day Sky Dancers! I’m going to go down a rabbit hole today on findings by journalists on a trove of leaked financial information that...
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