Violating privacy of private citizen Michael Hayden totally cool because the NSA sucks, or something; http://t.co/aDdnFOjZLM — Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) October 24, 2013 @delong @speechboy71 @michaelhayden "If you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about." — billmon (@billmon1) October 24, 2013 . Apparently Murphy, the Trickster, was the god in charge …
Open Thread: The First Teahadist?
Nice catch by Corey (The Reactionary Mind) Robin: Throughout his career, [Edmund] Burke’s financial state had been precarious. Much to his embarrassment, he was periodically forced to rely upon well timed gifts and loans from his wealthier friends and patrons… Thanks to the interventions of his well connected friends, Burke secured from Pitt in August …
Obamacare for the Small Businessman
(Matt Davies via GoComics.com) . Nice little forwarding-friendly argument from Jame Surowiecki, in the New Yorker, on “The Business End of Obamacare“: …[T]he overwhelming majority of American businesses—ninety-six per cent—have fewer than fifty employees. The employer mandate doesn’t touch them. And more than ninety per cent of the companies above that threshold already offer health …
Thursday Evening Open Thread: The Scarlet Pimpernel, in 140 Characters
The Washington Post, paper of record in the company town where politics is the monopoly industry, breathlessly recounts the saga of the Beltway’s latest masked marauder: Inside the National Security Council, most officials aren’t allowed to use or even look at Twitter, the popular social-networking service. But that didn’t stop some of President Obama’s top …
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Open Thread: They Want to Watch It Burn
(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com) . Simon Johnson, “former chief economist of the IMF… Professor of Entrepreneurship at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management”, in the NYTimes Economix blog, on “A Very Expensive Tea Party“: The recent government shutdown and confrontation over the federal debt ceiling gained the Republicans nothing, at best – and may have …
More Like This, Please: Dems Blast “the Welfare Kings of Wal-Mart”
Via Paul Constant, Josh Eidelson reports in Salon: A slide from Wal-Mart’s U.S. CEO’s presentation to Goldman Sachs’ retail conference boasts that “Over 475K” U.S. employees earned more than $25,000 last year. Activist workers and members of Congress seized on that statistic at a Wednesday press event, arguing it amounts to an admission that annual …
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Open Thread: Remember the Alamo, Teabaggers!
Nutpicking, yes, but such nuts. Billmon, after a spate of ‘how can you equate the Tea Party with terrible people like the KKK?’ twit-saults, linked to this article from the Texas Observer, dated last Saturday: … There were hundreds of Second Amendment enthusiasts gathered at San Antonio’s Alamo Plaza, many carrying loaded rifles and assault …
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