Geoff Morrell, press secretary for the Pentagon, on Wikileaks: Public disclosure of additional Defense Department classified information can only make the damage worse [. . .] We are asking them to do the right thing. We hope they will honor our demands and comply with our demands. mad libertarian guy’s translation: Public disclosure of additional […]
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The terminally libertarded and their press hacks have a serious disconnect with reality. They see the lack of tax revenue as a great injustice, and write about the poor souls who are suffering due to our unwillingness to pay their way through life. The length of the downturn means that many places have used up […]
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Goddammit.
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How is it that you help write what amounts to partisanship horseshit, then turn around and write something of actual value on the exact same issue? This is the difference between “move along, nothing to see here” and a scathing account of just how allegedly corrupt Waters has been acting.
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Nice whitewash job, New York Times. Way to put partisan politics over doing actual journalism.
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Get a fucking warrant. With the way the system is set up in your favor, if you can’t get a warrant, you don’t have any reason whatsofuckingever to get access to my online history.
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Not only do we have ridiculous laws prohibiting marijuana use, the system is stacked against us by the use of shitty-fuck field tests which are iffy at best. The Duquenois test was developed in the late 1930s by a French pharmacist, Pierre Duquénois, while he was working for the United Nations division of narcotics. In […]
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The day the new financial sector overhaul passed, I wrote Though one should notice that they didn’t figure a way to deal with government excesses “that tipped the nation into the worst recession since the Great Depression.” And it appears that I was right. Via Minyanville: The financial services reforms of the Dodd-Frank Act were […]
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When talking about energy policy and fossil fuels, one of the many things that the libertarded like to throw about is the idea of externalities in the cost of fossil fuels. The things which can’t always be quantified, like environmental costs. They talk of the evils of fossil fuels and the wonders of renewable energies, […]
Two things about President Obama’s appearance in Detroit today touting the success of the government bail out and takeover of Government General Motors: 1) What the fuck is an auto czar, and why the fuck do we need one? 2) It’s mighty rich of Obama telling Detroit how well his economic policies are working when […]
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