In his testimony before the US Senate Budget Committee this week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was asked by our favorite socialist Senator, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders, to identify the recipients of some $2.2 trillion of taxpayer guaranteed dollars to date (an amount that doesn’t include the $700 billion from Treasury’s TARP program). Bernanke refused to provide the names, claiming that would …
Ironic that the national security state infrastructure that Darth Cheney, Alberto Gonzalez, and W put in place might just be used against their ideological ilk.
From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale. In trying to account for the experience of color, neurobiologist Humberto Maturana decided to treat the nervous system as a closed system, depriving it of external sensory inputs. Incidentally, he found that deprived of such inputs, the nervous system can’t …
There is so much to love about this, I don’t know where to start. . .
The final vote was actually 244-188 as one “mean tested” Democratic switched his vote Despite the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Depression, House Rethuglicans voted unanimously late today against an Obama approved fiscal reconstruction plan. This despite O’s efforts to engage them directly, traveling to their turf to answer their questions and otherwise engage them (including inviting them to …
One could almost hear Bush grinding his teeth as he sat in the front row, forced by tradition to listen to Obama’s inaugural speech: On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the …
