Submitted by lambert on Wed, 01/16/2013 - 2:34pm
Bangor Daily News:
Former Maine Gov. John Baldacci said Tuesday that politicians need to collaborate and cooperate to put America on a solid fiscal path before the nation’s $16 trillion debt gets further out of hand. Baldacci also said he might consider running again for political office.
“I’m looking at it,” [the oleaginous] Baldacci said. The focus of Baldacci’s speech was the national debt, which is more than $16 trillion, and the importance of parties working together to put America on a better fiscal path.
Baldacci, who today [via the revolving door] is senior advisor for economic development and government relations at the Pierce Atwood law firm [of sleazy backscratching fixers] in Portland, is also co-chairing Maine’s Fix the Debt campaign with a former adversary, Rick Bennett.
To be fair, tag teaming with Republicans to force austerity down our throats should go over big with the national Democrats, and hey, maybe Fix The Debt's funders will cough up some dough for the campaign! Woo hoo! Read below the fold...
Submitted by twig on Wed, 01/16/2013 - 7:27am
Submitted by DCblogger on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 10:52pm
I have discovered that I have mice in my apartment.
My collie dog does not consider mice to be his department and I am very allergic to cats.
I don't like the idea of poison because they will die in the walls and not smell nice.
I don't like the idea of traps because dealing with dead mice in a trap does not appeal.
Any other ideas? Read below the fold...
Submitted by letsgetitdone on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 3:50pm
Submitted by lambert on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 3:34pm
Submitted by lambert on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 2:49pm
These are, as I began, cumbersome ways to kill a man.
Simpler, direct, and much more neat is to see
that he is living somewhere in the middle
of the twentieth century, and leave him there. --Edwin Brock
Twenty-first century. As Matt Stoller shows, Aaron Swartz was killed by corruption. His destroyers were placeholders in a weak, vicious, and corrupt rentier state.
Immanuel Wallerstein describes such a state in World-Systems Analysis: Read below the fold...
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Submitted by libbyliberal on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 8:51pm
I wonder if Obama’s face will be carved into Mount Rushmore. Has the universe seriously become that cruelly surreal and Orwellian?
I think so.
A few days ago when I saw Obama’s likeness photoshopped onto Mount Rushmore on Al Sharpton’s show it made bitter bile burn my throat and choke me.
I then managed to scream and announce to a brother and nephew that if or when Obama ended up memorialized in such a way that would be the day I moved to another country.
“Where will you move to?” my nephew asked. Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 7:59pm
Submitted by lambert on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 4:15pm
Look for some gibberish ending in ".js". I want to improve the site by making some scripts appear only in the exact context they are needed, but I need to know which scripts are causing the problem before investing too much time. Read below the fold...
Submitted by DCblogger on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 4:00pm
Press Release: People Power
Under the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) currently being negotiated, foreign investors in partially privatised energy companies would be able to seek damages against the Government for implementing any law or regulation that was claimed by foreign investors to be detrimental to their interests.
Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 2:45pm
USA Today:
Sixty-five is the normal retirement age, but many Americans are working much later in life, and it's not just because they need the money.
The number of workers who are 75 and older has skyrocketed by 76.7% in the past two decades, according to research by the AARP Public Policy Institute. "We[*] are living longer, healthier lives," says Kerry Hannon, author of Great Jobs for Everyone 50+. "And the types of work that people do is not as labor intensive as it was in our parents' generation." ...
While the 75-plus group of workers has jumped, it's still a small percentage of the American labor force. It represented 7.6% last year, up from 4.3% in 1990.
But there might be more 75-plus workers if it were easier for them to keep their jobs. "I really love my work, and I feel quite useful," says Judge John J. Driscoll, a juvenile court judge in Westmoreland County, Pa. But because he turned 70 last year, he now faces mandatory retirement. Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 2:10pm
CNN on the upcooming PBS special, "The Abolitionists." Good summary, and this caught my eye:
Want to know why slavery lasted so long? The simplistic answer: racism. Another huge factor: greed, according to "The Abolitionists."
But the spread of Christianity [in the Great Awakening] did little to stop the spread of slavery because too many Americans made money off slavery, the documentary shows. The wealth produced by slavery transformed the United States from an economic backwater into an economic and military dynamo, says Gilpin, also author of "John Brown Still Lives!: America's Long Reckoning With Violence, Equality, and Change."
"All the combined economic value of industry, land and banking did not equal the value of humans held as property in the South," Gilpin says.
Many Americans hated abolitionists because they saw them as a threat to prosperity, says David Blight, a Yale University historian featured in "The Abolitionists." Read below the fold...
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