July 2009
62 posts
FuckYeahDarkKnight
[while cross-examining one of Maroni’s thugs on the witness stand, the thug pulls a gun and fires it at Harvey Dent; it mis-fires, and Harvey decks the thug with a right cross, and takes the gun away] Harvey Dent: Carbon fiber, .28 Caliber, made in China. [puts it on the table in front of Maroni] Harvey Dent: If you want to kill a public servant, Mr. Maroni, I recommend you buy American....
Krugman July 31st NYT
July 31, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist
Health Care Realities
By PAUL KRUGMAN
At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.” The congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, tried to explain that Medicare is already a government program — but the voter, Mr. Inglis said, “wasn’t having any of it.”
It’s a funny story — but...
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China sees returns to rapid growth because of...
July 17, 2009
Economy in China Regains Robust Pace of Growth
By DAVID BARBOZA
SHANGHAI — Fueled by a massive economic stimulus package and aggressive bank lending, China’s economy grew by 7.9 percent in the second quarter of this year, the government said Thursday, a surprisingly strong showing during the global economic downturn.
The gross domestic product figures, released Thursday by the...
White Man’s Last Stand
By MAUREEN DOWD
Washington
You can’t judge a judge by her cover.
Despite the best efforts of Republicans to root out any sign that Sonia Sotomayor has emotions that color her views on the law, the Bronx Bomber kept a robotic mask in place.
A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not know that a gaggle of white Republican men afraid of extinction are out...
Goodbye Iraq, and Good Luck
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Kirkuk, Iraq
I’m in the provincial headquarters building in downtown Kirkuk — the oil-rich district of northern Iraq that is the most disputed corner of this country. The provincial leaders — Sunnis, Kurds, Turkmen and Christians — have come to meet America’s top military officer, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with whom I am tagging along. All...
She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It:...
By FRANK RICH
SARAH PALIN and Al Sharpton don’t ordinarily have much in common, but they achieved a rare harmonic convergence at Michael Jackson’s memorial service. When Sharpton told the singer’s children it was their daddy’s adversaries, not their daddy, who were “strange,” he was channeling the pugnacious argument the Alaska governor had made the week before. There was nothing strange about...
Key Reason Palin Gave For Quitting May Be False
Greg Sargent | 07/08/2009, 04:16 PM EST
The Plum Line
Greg Sargent’s blog
Key Reason Palin Gave For Quitting May Be False
One of the chief reasons Sarah Palin has given for resigning as Governor of Alaska is that her state’s taxpayers are being forced to spend money defending her government against ethics complaints that would otherwise fund teachers, cops, and road repair.
But in...
Bob Herbert on McNamara's Death
July 7, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist
After the War Was Over
By BOB HERBERT
Robert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson’s icy-veined, cold-visaged and rigidly intellectual point man for a war that sent thousands upon thousands of people (most of them young) to their utterly pointless deaths, has died at the ripe old age of 93.
Long after the horror of Vietnam was over, McNamara would concede, in remarks that were...
Bahahaha. What is it about this lady that attracts... →
i feel stupid
i tried to read a college level political economy textbook today. i couldn’t do it. i coudn’t understand it. i was so discouraged that i just went back onto the computer to do stupid shit like read the newspaper and post things to tumblr.
blast it classical economics by samuel hollander!
Clinton's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Gays in the Military: Let the Evidence Speak
By John M. Shalikashvili Friday, June 19, 2009
The Supreme Court announced last week that it would not review a lawsuit challenging the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy forbidding homosexuals from serving openly. The Obama administration had asked the court not to take the case as the president considers ending...
North American US Military Installations Map Zoom... →
DeMint announces his approach to foreign policy...
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has come out in support of the military coup in Honduras, chastising President Obama in a statement for what he calls “a slap in the face to the people” of that country.
From his statement:
“The people of Honduras have struggled too long to have their hard-won democracy stolen from them by a Chavez-style dictator. The Honduran Congress, the Honduran...
Been sayin' it since the election
Where are the jobs? By: Victoria McGrane July 2, 2009 05:09 PM EST
The depressing job numbers released Thursday provided Democrats with a painful reminder that the economy is floundering on their watch now. The 9.5 percent unemployment rate and the loss of 467,000 jobs gave Republicans plenty of fodder to blame President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress for failing to...
Brief Krugman on Unmistakable Rising Average...
June 27, 2009, 10:13 am
Temperature trends
One of the favorite arguments of climate-change deniers is “but it was warmer in the late 90s.” In fact, the odds are good that I’ll get that argument from George Will on This Weak tomorrow. I basically know the answer: temperature is a noisy time series, so if you pick and choose your dates over a short time span you can usually make whatever case...
