Headlines

Some days the steam just builds up in my craw to the point that I can't stand the lunacy of the way the world works. Posting some headlines from other blogs helps let me vent just a little bit...

Sen. Harkin “we’ve been told that endless tax breaks for corporations & the wealthy would result in millions jobs & a booming economy... For most Americans the only thing that has trickled down are wage cuts, upside-down mortgages, mass unemployment, personal bankruptcies & disappearing pensions

FLASHBACK: Corporations Used 2004 Tax Holiday To Repatriate Billions, Then Laid Off Thousands Of Workers - corporations used 92 percent of the money they brought back under the tax holiday to enrich their executives and buy back their own shares, not to invest in job creation 

Obama in 2008: "What I'm not going to be doing is using Justice Department resources to circumvent state laws[regarding medical marijuana]" Obama 2011: Federal prosecutors have launched a crackdown on some pot dispensaries in California 

Feds give California medicinal cannabis providers 45 days to shut down or face charges  (Did we not learn that you can't effectively legislate morality during Prohibition? What a bunch of ultra-maroons. And THAT'S why I won't donate to Obama's reelection campaign - fuck him!)

The hypocrisy is glaring: if a twenty-something educated person has colored hair and piercings, the media can dismiss the whole movement. But if a 60 year old woman from Georgia wears a 3 pointed patriot's hat with tea bags dangling everywhere, she's part of a serious political movement.

ACLU files a friend-of-the-court brief: We are asking the Supreme Court to hold that the government needs to establish probable cause and obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS device to a person's car and tracking their every move (I'm a member of the \ACLU - how about you, dear reader?)

The cops in NYC need to chill out - the crowds represent values that they (the cops) should care about themselves. Journalist at Occupy Wall Street is beaten by NYPD cops, takes a night stick to the gut. "I'm a fucking journalist, you mother fucker."

Maybe we need some new videos on the store shelves called "Cops Gone Wild."

If Top 1% Hadn't Ripped Off Trillions, You'd Likely Be Making Thousands of Dollars More Right Now: The Occupy Wall Street movement is out to focus the nation's attention on decades of increasing inequality.

I hate what Justice Scalia represents, but even a broken clock is right twice a day...

Scalia: Federal Drug Laws Were a Mistake

There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that is angry at the right people" - Paul Krugman on NYTimes 

Why #OccupyWallStreet Doesn’t Support Obama: His “Nothing to See Here” Stance on Bank Looting 

Wall Street protestors speak out
(What they stand for)

Based on declarations of donations filed by members of Congress to the Federal Election Commission, 10 super-committee members have received $83,000 from the 19 biggest political donors in the country.