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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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Yo WTF'ers!
HOLY CRAP!
OBAMACARE UPHELD!
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS SIDES WITH GOOD GUYS!
HELL FREEZES OVER!
This just in!
Tea Party President Jack Doogie reacts to Supco ObamaCare Ruling:
LET THE GLOATING BEGIN!
Partiers O' Tea! Suck it! Likewise GOP nutbag attorneys general (including Mr. Corbett), Mittens Romney, conservative "think" tanks, Birchers, Birthers, boobs and babblers!
The overwhelmingly conservative YooNited States SooPreem Court has upheld "ObamaCare"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The vote 5-4!
How you say? Does the Constitution's Commerce Clause allow the individual mandate?
Here's my simplistic layman's understanding. No it doesn't, by itself, allow for the individual mandate, says the Chief Justice who wrote this opinion and voted with the good guys (still can't freaking believe it!).
But if you don't buy health insurance the IRS will penalize you. They'll fine you. What is that fine, according to Mr. Roberts? It's a tax.
A TAX!
So what? So the guv-ment is indeed allowed to tax people. Hence this baby is legal!
They didn't throw the baby out with the bathwater!
MSNBC.COM:
http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/28/12457822-supreme-court-upholds-health-care-law?lite
The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who held that the law was a valid exercise of Congress’s power to tax.
Roberts re-framed the debate over health care as a debate over increasing taxes. Congress, he said, is “increasing taxes” on those who choose to go uninsured.
The law, Roberts wrote, “makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earning income. And if the mandate is in effect just a tax hike on certain taxpayers who do not have health insurance, it may be within Congress’s constitutional power to tax.
Predictably, nutbags are already breathing fire. Budding Nutbag In Chief Senator Rand Paul uttered one of the stupidest things a Tea Partier or anyone else has said in a long time.
POLITICO.COM:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/06/rand-paul-obamacare-is-still-unconstitutional-127574.html
“Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so. The whole thing remains unconstitutional,” the freshman lawmaker said in a statement.
He made a statement alright. He may as well have said "I am Ignernt!"
The ONLY thing that defines what is and is not constitutional is the Supreme Court.
I think the Bush v. Gore ruling is a total farce. Because it is.
But there are no appeals once the Supremes issue their ruling.
Speaking of nutbags, let's go live to the nutbaggiest, Rick Santorum.
SANTORUM REAX:
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Santorum-Comments-Obamacare-Ruling/2012/06/28/id/443809
"President Obama believes he is above the law, entitled to abusing his power to get what he wants, and willing to violate the constitution and the oath he was sworn to uphold. He has proven to be a very dangerous person to have this kind of power, and if he is not stopped this November, I am fearful that the make-up of this country as established by our founders will never be the same."
You are correct sir. Well, in that the make-up of the country will never be the same. Turns out we're not all slave owning white guys with powdered wigs. Turns out that even though polls show the main GOP voters are grumpy old white guys, chicks and minorities dig Dems and specifically dig the Kenyan/Muslim dude.
And your statement flies in the face of reality. Though issuing that particular criticism in your direction is probably redundant.
See, he DIDN'T violate the Constitution you idjit! That's the point of the ruling!
WTF'ers if you peruse below you'll see I began the day with a great deal of skepticism. I have to hand it to Johnny Roberts. So far he's been just another right wing ideologue, until today.
Today he actually attempted to be fair and impartial, to interpret the Constitution, not to twist it to fit ideology.
It's really great to be wrong sometimes!
I may even be able to conjure up a thimble full of respect for these jokers.
Well... five of 'em anyway.
WOO FREAKIN HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ATTENTION WTF'ers: The below copy is scintillating and witty beyond your wildest dreams (I'm assuming you don't have wild dreams about alleged witticisms) but some of it is dated - pre ObamaCare vindication! That is all at this time
KRYSTAL VS. CRYSTAL!
What will the Supreme Court do with that dirty little punk called Obamacare?
I'm a paranoid sort, so I'm guessing they gut it like a fish.
Recent surveys show big skepticism toward SupCo as an institution. And with good reason.
There's that whole the one-guy-got-more-votes-but-the-other-guy-got-into-office in 2000. Not naming anything else. That's enough for me.
I was once naive enough to believe the big guys in the big robes at least attempted to put ideology and politics aside to some degree.
But when you stage a coup and make stuff up to put a reckless boob into office when the other guy got more votes, well, that tends to undermine credibility.
So let's list some things that we know, and stuff we don't know.
*We don't know what SupCo will do. Yes the possibility exists that they'll actually uphold the law. But I wouldn't bet the farm. Hold my breath. Bet a paycheck.
*We know that Ann Curry is being shoved out of her Today Show perch, because the numbers are down, and her chemistry with Matt ain't happenin.
USATODAY.COM:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/story/2012-06-28/ann-curry-today-show-exit-exclusive/55878612/1
It's "going to be a bit of a tough day," she told USA TODAY in a 40-minute phone interview Wednesday, sounding as though she were fighting back tears. "I'm going to have to tell our viewers. That's what makes me more emotional than anything. I don't want to leave them. I love them. And I will really miss them."
After a year as co-host, and days of fevered speculation about her future, Curry steps down today from the high-profile post held in the past by the likes of Jane Pauley and Katie Couric.
*Boo freaking hoo. She'll still earn millions. She'll travel the globe as a high falutin' high flyin' big time journalist. We know that we don't have to feel sorry for Ann.
*We know that judgments about chemistry in Tee Vee are harsh and unfair.
Welcome to Tee Vee.
*We don't know if the Mormon or the Black Guy is going to win.
*We know the Mormon is lying when he says he doesn't remember terrorizing a gay guy and snipping off locks of his hair in college. 'Cause you'd never forget that.
*We know some Mormons wear magic underwear.
*We know we gots ta get us some-uh-dat, just in case the magic rubs off.
*We have our doubts as to whether it will work.
*We don't know whether Bill and Hillary still do it.
*We know Bill still does it.
*We know that some sadistic bastards named their kid Krystal Ball and now she's an MSNBC pundit. Why would you do that to someone?
*We don't know why Dylan Ratigan resigned from MSNBC.
*We do know that we're very happy about it, 'cause the guy couldn't stop pontificating for 20 minutes before he'd ask a freaking question.
*We don't know what's inside Justice Anthony Kennedy's head.
*We do know he could be the whole shootin' match, the swing vote.
*Swing battah battah Swing!
*Oh bee-have.
*We don't know why birds suddenly appear, every time, you are near.
*We do know that just like me, they want to be, a Superhero with X ray vision.
*We don't know why people try to put us down.
*Just because we get around.
*We do know that it's too late to die before I get old.
*We don't know whether thousands will line up to see the John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy Talk Show this Saturday night at downtown Pittsburgh's Cabaret Theater.
(See Poster Above).
*We do know it'll be exciting when the secret Kenyan 2 be named later appears on the stage... the mystery guest... what's behind door number three... shhhhhh, damnit... it's a secret!
*We don't know but we've been told, Eskimo girlies is mighty cold.
*We do know that I have tickets to Neil Young, who is not forever young, but is, in fact, forever Neil.
Man.
*We don't know, as a matter of fact, why the chicken crossed the road.
*We just know what he claims to be the reason. And let's face it, you can't trust the other side. Even if you get to it.
*We do know that I got up too early 'cause I'm having trouble sleeping and that's why I'm cranking out a blog about nothing.
*We don't know if anyone will actually deign to read it.
*We do know that I'm done.
*We don't know if I regret the whole thing.
*We do know that it doesn't matter.
"You can really learn a lot that way. It will change you in the middle of the day.
Though your confidence may be shattered... it doesn't matter"
NEIL YOUNG
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BIG SHOW THIS SATURDAY!!!
Dude, dudettes! See poster above for details of big comedy/talk show coming up this Saturday. That mouthy rabble rousing broad Heather Heidelbaugh is generous enough to share her time with us. She's a Republican!
Here she is on Fox News after smokin' a big fattie.
Attention humorless drones: the above is not true.
And get this, we're having TWO Republicans on the panel! What am I thinking? What am I drinking?
Also on the bill, Mark DeSantis, who ran against Lukey for Mayor.
And community activist Khari Mosley. Wow. Almost sounds like "community organizer," doesn't it?
We'll have to keep an eye on him.
Plus a surprise Lefty Kenyan to be named later, a panelist who will be announced live that night!
Be there and be Theater Square!
Man.
10:30 PM Cabaret Theater 655 Penn Ave. Downtown Pittsburgh Saturday June 30
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INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR OF "GAME OVER" - ALL ABOUT THE PENN STATE SEX SCANDAL
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