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THE INCREDIBLY BRIEF STORY OF HOW WE GOT SCREWED - BY PAUL KRUGMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/krugman-confronting-the-malefactors.html?ref=paulkrugman
In the first act, bankers took advantage of deregulation to run wild (and pay themselves princely sums), inflating huge bubbles through reckless lending. In the second act, the bubbles burst — but bankers were bailed out by taxpayers, with remarkably few strings attached, even as ordinary workers continued to suffer the consequences of the bankers’ sins. And, in the third act, bankers showed their gratitude by turning on the people who had saved them, throwing their support — and the wealth they still possessed thanks to the bailouts — behind politicians who promised to keep their taxes low and dismantle the mild regulations erected in the aftermath of the crisis.
Given this history, how can you not applaud the protesters for finally taking a stand?
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BARACK N' ROLL ME ANOTHER ONE
I don't know if Barack Obama smoked pot. Or maybe I knew and I forgot. But a new book says he did. And the website Buzzfeed.com has ferreted out the hazy details.
BUZZFEED.COM:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama
A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning "to smoke marijuana.
TWO SEX SCANDALS - JOHN EDWARDS - DR. KEN MELANI - CALLING ALL HORNTOADS!
Please enjoy this bit of R rated comedy about two infamous horntoads, one local, one national.
JOHNNY, WE HARDLY KNEW YA - THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS
We do many things well in this country. We pay for bright young men and women to go and kill people in other countries and, despite controversy over whether the various wars are good or bad, we're pretty darn good at it.
We shop. We even had a President who told us that was the thing to do after we were attacked by terrorists. Shop. So, it must be pretty important.
We stare at the Tee-Vee. We watch "reality" Tee-Vee, which often has nothing to do with our individual reality. But of course, you can create your own reality, particularly if you're delusional. See "Neo-con."
And one thing we do, and we're excellent at, is getting all worked up over nothing and, as a result, wasting boatloads of time and money.
Welcome to the John Edwards persecution. Smart people, people who have degrees and important jobs and whose lives could be useful, wasted their time. And our time. And their credibility. And our money.
Why? Political partisanship is a dangerous thing.
ASSOCIATED PRESS:
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Jurors-Evidence-in-John-Edwards-case-fell-short-3601211.php
From the start, lawyers for Edwards painted the prosecution as politically motivated. The investigation was originally spearheaded by George Holding, the then-U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Appointed by President George W. Bush, Holding made a name for himself with criminal probes of high profile Democrats, including the state's former governor. When President Barack Obama came into office, Holding managed to forestall being replaced by a Democrat for years while the Edwards investigation was ongoing. He eventually resigned in 2011 as Edwards was indicted and soon announced his candidacy for Congress, winning in the GOP primary last month.
The final decision to prosecute Edwards was made by the Obama administration and the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section. Once highly admired, the section's reputation suffered after a corruption conviction against former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska was overturned in 2009 after it was found prosecutors knowingly concealed exculpatory evidence and allowed false testimony to be presented at trial.
So it started with an extreme political crazy ax to grind, and continued because Obama's Justice Department was afraid to look like it got rid of this turd on a stick for political reasons.
They're just playing with justice because they're worried about sticking it to the other side, or how they will be perceived. As opposed to, you know, JUSTICE.
The idea that money from rich friends to pay for the living expenses of John Edwards' mistress is a "campaign contribution" is laughable on its face.
The idea that time and money was expended in an attempt to prove this ludicrous premise says a lot about the crazy state of governance and law in the United States of America.
John Edwards is scum. It's an insult to scum to associate it with John Edwards.
I do not judge morally. But when you have that much potential, when you actually appear to give a damn about the issue nobody gives a damn about, poverty, and you could make a real difference in the lives of millions of Americans who are up against it, and then you piss it all away to have sex with a sycophant, well, that just sucks.
The last Democratic President was scandalized and, for a time, marginalized by a sex scandal. So why not just begin this new campaign to recapture the White House by starting an affair? When your wife has cancer?
Nice job, Haircut.
Did you see John Edwards pathetic attempt to relaunch his career?
He praised the jury. Gee, I wonder why he's so fond of them? And he said nice things about his kids. And he said he'd like to help poor kids. What a guy.
Skip the opportunism Breck Girl. You're through. Done. Expired. Public life is over Goober. Just disappear.
Equally disgraceful were the Justice Department lawyers who tried the old Ken Starr trick... if you don't have the evidence, just try to outrage the jury on a moral level, and see if they'll find the guy so disgusting that they'll convict him anyway.
ASSOCIATED PRESS:
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Jurors-Evidence-in-John-Edwards-case-fell-short-3601211.php
"As noted by nearly every campaign finance lawyer who considered the matter, this was a lousy case," said Melanie Sloan, executive director for the campaign finance watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "All the salacious details prosecutors offered up to prove that Edwards is, indeed, despicable, were not enough to persuade the jury to convict him."
Several jurors said there just wasn't enough evidence. On network talk shows Friday, even jurors who thought Edwards was guilty on at least some counts said the prosecution wasn't able to prove it.
So could we please stop trying to convict people of being despicable? Could we perhaps wait until they have actually broken the law?
Could we stop trying people on the basis of moral failure?
Probably not.
We're us.
And we LOVE wasting time and money for petty, personal, silly reasons.
NYDAILYNEWS.COM:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/john-edwards-guilty-a-lowlife-degree-article-1.1087837?localLinksEnabled=false
The prosecution tried to convict Edwards of accepting illegal campaign contributions. The defense was left saying, essentially: This man is not a criminal, this man is simply scum.
“I did an awful, awful lot that was wrong,” Edwards said after the mistrial, unctuously adding, “I don’t think God is through with me.”
God? Who knows? We, the people, were through with him long ago.
Yeah, um, if God's not through with you?
That's not necessarily a good thing.
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INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR OF "GAME OVER" - ALL ABOUT THE PENN STATE SEX SCANDAL
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