First, there’s the new Medal of Freedom recipient, Oprah Winfrey, whose courage in the face of liking cake and learning to love herself for the billionnairess that she is has provided feminists everywhere with a playbook for turning public insecurity into its own form of empowerment. As you know doubt heard, Oprah was wrongly racially profiled by racist Swiss sales clerk in a degrading Pretty Women moment, told she couldn’t
August 16, 2013
August 16, 2013
A Tale of Two Reactions: Oprah, Jase Robertson, and the liberal media outrage machine
August 16, 2013
Question: could this be a sign the NSA is listening in on my actual phone calls…
…and maybe even has me under direct surveillance? I don’t want to come across as paranoid, or be accused of being part of the black helicopter crowd, who we know believe that the Jews, in league with extraterrestrials, are using advanced joint Israeli/otherworldly technologies to keep the Palestinians in poverty, run the world banks, control the world media, and corner the global markets on gold, precious metals, and Avril Lavigne
August 16, 2013
“Fed admits QE does almost nothing”
Well, not really “nothing.” I mean, it’s actually been quite effective as a scheme to enrich cronies in exchange for a later collapse in the currency and inflation that will essentially end the US economy. Which is a tradeoff their willing to make. So let’s not be too quick to judge. NetRightDaily: [my emphasis] “[W]e estimate that the second LSAP program, known as QE2, added about 0.13 percentage point to
August 16, 2013
“Stunning new study dismantles Obama’s ‘1% vs. 99%’ inequality argument”
Wait. There was an argument attached to that propagandist catch phrase? And here I thought it was all about selling bumper stickers to clueless morons who like to wear the trappings of political activism without having to do the difficult work of knowing what the fuck it is they’re talking about. Guess I have egg on my face! Pethokoukis: “This growing inequality,” President Obama said during his recent Knox College
August 16, 2013
Climate change and human exhalation pollution: is there anything it can’t do?
Latest study says climate change — the warming part of it, though, not the cooling part, which is caused by the warming part, or else vice versa (please, stop getting caught up in the details, anti-science denialists; it’s very technical and you, with your god and your guns and your racism wouldn’t understand the nuances of the calculations involved) — can cause wars. — Which, if you think about it,
August 16, 2013
When seconds count, make sure your wife is licensed to carry … [Darleen Click]
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Houston At around 4 a.m. Thursday, a man who does not want to be identified, said his brother was robbed by six men with guns at a Denny’s off the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston. “I don’t know if it was random or someone set him up. Because he got his own label,” said the victim’s brother. His brother’s wife was in the restroom at
August 16, 2013
“NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year.” [Darleen Click]
… but it’s a phony scandal! Do read the whole article. Much of it confirms what has already been suspected by the revelation of the vast hoovering of American citizen communications. Yet, what comes through here is the cavalier attitude of those connected with NSA towards the data gathered and the equivocations used to deflect concern. The documents, provided earlier this summer to The Washington Post by former NSA contractor