On top of the horrible jobs report that DougJ just mentioned, Calculated Risk has a slew of horrible awful not good news- sales decreased as compared to last year by 1.2% at GM, the manufacturing index plummeted, mortgage applications are flat and refinancing declined, and so on. And mind you, none of this is in …
Archives for June 2011
Terrible job report
Not that this (via) will get much attention, given all the more important things going on: Private-sector employment growth decelerated sharply in May, according to Automatic Data Processing Inc.’s employment report released Wednesday, in another possible sign of a sputtering U.S. recovery. Employment in the nonfarm private business sector rose a seasonally adjusted 38,000 in …
How the Fabulous Fab Brought Down the World
It’s a mystery, really: How Mr. Tourre alone came to be the face of mortgage-securities fraud has raised questions among former prosecutors and Congressional officials about how aggressive and thorough the government’s investigations have been into Wall Street’s role in the mortgage crisis. Across the industry, “it’s impossible that only one person was involved with …
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Ride the King’s Highway, Baby
For the fourth consecutive day, the top stories at memeorandum and in the media at large are Anthony Weiner’s pecker and Sarah Palin’s magical mystery tour. I’m not sure if this is the end, but it has to be close.
Al Gore is Fat
But Chris Christie is a serious, small government conservative: Gov. Chris Christie arrived at his son’s baseball game this afternoon aboard a State Police helicopter. Right before the lineup cards were being exchanged on the field, a noise from above distracted the spectators as the 55-foot long helicopter buzzed over trees in left field, circled …
Obama Issues Proclamation: June 2011 is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month
That’s so Raven Lincoln Last week, Obama received the endorsement of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest and most successful advocates for LGBT equality. (See Deaniac’s post on the subject — “ZOMG! ‘Homophobic Black President’ Gets Big Gay Endorsement!” over at The People’s View.) President of the Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solmonese, had this …
Late Night Open Thread: Even the NOTLiberal KKK…
… thinks the Phelps WBC Klan are assholes. From Sarah Anne Hughes at the Washington Post blog, “Ku Klux Klan protests Westboro Baptist Church“: As President Obama honored fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, three members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested the ceremony, holding signs that read “Pray for more dead soldiers” …
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