Month: January 2010
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Moment of Zen – Glenn Beck Doesn't Know What That Means
A lifelong commitment to not caring about details. Moment of Zen – Glenn Beck Doesn't Know What That Means Glenn Beck doesn't understand the names on Iran's rocket and telecommunications satellite. Airdate – 12/08/2009
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Michael Chertoff's Greedy Fearmongering
My buddy Alan was right: The body scanner is sure to get a go-ahead because of the illustrious personages hawking them. Chief among them is former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff, who now heads the Chertoff Group, which represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines, Rapiscan Systems. For days after the attack, Chertoff made […]
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The Daily Show Makes Fun Of FOX's Hannity- Beck And O'Reilly Saying America Used To Be…
John Oliver tears into the nostalgia for a time that never was. The Daily Show Makes Fun Of FOX's Hannity- Beck And O'Reilly Saying America Used To Be… Related From The Same Episode: Jon Stewart And Aasif Mandvi Make Fun Of Brit Hume's Tiger Woods/Christianity Comment.
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If the Fed Missed That Bubble, How Will It See a New One?
New York Times: So let’s consider what an empowered Fed might have done during the housing bubble, based on the words of the people who were running it. In 2004, Alan Greenspan, then the chairman, said the rise in home values was “not enough in our judgment to raise major concerns.” In 2005, Mr. Bernanke […]
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Startling Graphic (The Lost Decade)
The lost decade for the economy – washingtonpost.com.
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The Incredibles is Not About Ayn Rand Nor Objectivism
From a Metafilter commenter: The “message” of [The Incredibles] was completely counter to objectivist thought. The whole idea of Objectivism is that those who are smarter should only work for themselves and keep all the wealth and ideas to themselves. But in the Incredibles the “good guys” are driven by altruistic desires, to help people. […]
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Where Have All the G Spots Gone?
Sexual Behavior Psychologist Dr. Petra Boynton unwraps the latest g-spot news: The media have played no small role within this story, in particular women’s magazines keen to talk about sex but without being too raunchy. It’s no coincidence the g spot has had so much media coverage. As any journalist will tell you it’s much […]
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I Know How to Save $30 Billion
I’ve never really understood why Israel can’t fund their own military: As the single largest expense of the 2010 foreign aid budget, President Obama approved $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel, the first payment in a decade-long commitment that will reach at least $30 billion. Last year, Israel’s military budget amounted to $13.3 billion, […]
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Don McLeroy Wants Your Children to Be Stupid
Texas is the country’s largest textbook market and sets the national standards for content. A group of ultra-conservatives are revising history to be sure it meets their needs: The margins were littered with stars, exclamation points, and hundreds of yellow Post-its that were brimming with notes scrawled in a microscopic hand. With childlike glee, McLeroy […]
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HOWTO: Save the Economy
A complete plan from a Reddit commenter: -CCC/WPA 2.0: Direct federal job projects to build infrastructure through out the US. Roads, bridges, schools, libraries, police stations, firehouses, and big project like dredging and harbor construction. The jobs are organized using labor pools and working with unions. Young semi-skilled and unskilled labors can move from project […]