Sink your collective teeths into this: “Time Bomb? Banks Pressured to Buy Government Debt”. CNBC: US and European regulators are essentially forcing banks to buy up their own government’s debt—a move that could end up making the debt crisis even worse, a Citigroup analysis says. Regulators are allowing banks to escape counting their country’s debt against capital requirements and loosening other rules to create a steady market for government bonds,

And the only compassionate course of action is more Obama cowbell. Naturally. Re-elect Obama 2012:  I Promise Not To Fuck It Up Twice! (h/t Derek S)

After you give to the Aaron Walker/Stacy McCain “Anti-Molestation of Free Speech / Anti-Fluff the Domestic Terrorist” Defense fund, please consider throwing a bit of seasonal cabbage my way.  Last month’s fundraiser fell a bit short I’m afraid, and I’m really beginning to feel like I’m just not cutting it any more in the eyes of my readers. I have self-esteem issues, you see. So.  Whaddya say?  Help heal me?

Just to gloss a bit on this particular leftwing meme, I’d like to note the following: 1) CNS: “The number of American women who are unemployed was 766,000 individuals greater in May 2012 than in January 2009, when President Barack Obama took office, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.” and… 2) “Obama opposes ban on sex-selective abortions“; “Over 200 Million Girls ‘Aborted for the Sole

So argues Jim Pethokoukis.  With charts and the like. Me, I’m a bit of a skeptic when it comes to all things Obama / Progressive.  Even something of a newly-minted conspiracy theorist these days, in fact.  Which is why what others are touting as yet another negative jobs report I suspect is just more statistical massaging by the Obama administration, a narrative nodal point in the run-up to the big

From the assault on Bin Laden’s hideout to, today, Stuxnet, there’s no success in the War on Terror the Obama administration won’t take public credit for — even if doing so means leaking what should be classified information to its media allies in order to help them frame the narratives. Notes Wiliam Jacobson: I guess you could say this is just good investigative journalism … if you just landed here

Reading the good Professor Reynolds today I’m noticing the theme that Romney is a better candidate than McCain ever was.  Here.  Here.  Here. You know what?  I agree.  It wasn’t expected but here it is.  It needs to be acknowledged.  That very low bar has been passed.  Yet, here I am, still wondering if that’s going to result in any policy we desire being implemented after Obama’s very bad November.

You mean if King Bloomberg decrees that one can’t purchase a bottle of single Coke larger than 16 oz., the masses might figure that two, three, or even four 16 oz bottles will do the trick — and screw the King? Astounding! I should add:  thanks to King Bloomberg’s arbitrary dictates, a slew of extra plastic bottles will make their way into society, where they’ll get all tatted up, huff