July 2011
74 posts
Democratic politics in a nutshell - Glenn... →
Vonnegut's Blues for America →
“So if you care more about sound quality than features, look around for a great...”
– How can 30-year-old receivers sound better than new ones? | The Audiophiliac - CNET News
“You have flung away Adam’s phrase—you should take it up and examine...”
– http://web.mit.edu/norvin/www/somethingelse/twain.html
Just 47% of Working Age Americans Have Full... →
“Everyone involved in Troll 2 was worse at their job than Casey Anthony’s...”
– 8 Hilarious Moments (From Otherwise Terrible Movies) | Cracked.com
Feds silence scientist over salmon study →
OpEdNews - Article: Was Norway Massacre a reaction... →
New York - Empire of Evolution - NYTimes.com →
“HTC vowed to fight on and claimed that it has “alternate solutions”....”
– FOSS Patents: These tables show HOW Android infringes Apple’s two HTC-beater patents
Hotel clerk kills Orangeburg robber - Breaking... →
“Around 89 per cent of operators now charge a premium for excessive data...”
– Dongling P2P downloaders 2nd-biggest mobe data users • The Register
“I just felt myself flying across the room. I thought I was going to die,” Robin...”
– TSA Police Beat Unsuspecting Girl At Airport Causing Brain Damage At Reagan National Airport
“Mr. Breivik frequently cited another blog, Atlas Shrugs, and recommended the...”
– Norwegian killer heavily influenced by American right wing anti-Muslim thought, blogs : politics
“This national myth is my all time favorite. Not only is Social Security NOT...”
– OpEdNews - Article: Lies Linking Social Security to the National Debt
“Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more...”
– The Craigslist Reverse Programmer Troll
“A worker from Albuquerque, New Mexico calling himself NMVeteran describes...”
– The Unemployed Aren’t Invisible: Washington and the Media Just Aren’t Paying Attention | | AlterNet
“In Greek medicine around 2,500 years ago it was believed that in order to...”
– personality styles, types, theories and psychometrics models, personality tests and quizzes theory
A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall"... →
Blueberry: I... see... the kid... I was. Share this quote
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Prosit: I promised you gold, I give you mountains of gold! Share this quote
Runi: [In Chiricahua] I've been all over the entire universe to find you. Share this quote
Wallace Sebastian Blount: Animals are beasts, but men are monsters. Share this quote
“…”When you come before us and tell us that we are about to disturb...”
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The Free Press -- Independent News Media from... →
“Today, Contessa “educated” a conservative Representative that...”
– MSNBC To GOP Congressman: | RealClearPolitics
“Five Supreme Court Justices—Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito and Kennedy are...”
– OpEdNews - Article: The Corporate Supreme Court; Time For Impeachment
Sorry MMTers, the Economy Doesn't Exist and GDP is... →
Dr. David Kelley, expert whistleblower on the British government's Iraq war efforts, also listed as death by suicide:
"Dr. Kelly had been singled out by the government as the likely source for a BBC report in late May that Downing Street inserted a claim exaggerating the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons "
http: //www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/world/after-the-war-london-blair-calls-weapons-expert-s-suicide-a-tragedy.html
Dr. Bruce Ivins, expert whistleblower on the US government's Iraq war efforts, also listed as suicide. The death happened just before the trial.
http: //www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/scientist_suspected_of_2001_an.html
Margie Schoedinger, had filed a lawsuit for rape against US President George W Bush. Would have known details about sexual affair with the president. http: //www.opednews.com/thoreau1103bush_rape_suicide.htm
"The D.C. Madam" (Deborah Jean Palfrey): Blew the whistle on DC prostitution ring which serviced numerous high ranking government officials. Was asked point blank by Alex Jones if she was "considering suicide" since the info she was still holding could get her killed (she affirmed she had no intention of killing herself). She was found dead a couple weeks later from an alleged suicide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey
Gary Webb, a Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist, and at the time of his death an employee of the State of California's legislature. Investigated drug smuggling and the 1980s crack epidemic, in relationship to the CIA and the Contras in Nicaragua. Webb documented that the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and large shipments of cocaine into the U.S. by the Contra personnel. http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
Police are listed as believing there was no foul play in these cases.
allAfrica.com: Gambia: Youths' Inactive Role in... →
Confessions of an inbox obsessive - The Globe and... →
The Definitive S&P-IG-VIX Time Series, Cross Asset... →
OpEdNews - Article: The Ultimate Goal of the... →
“Look, Obama’s goal is the same as the Republicans, to slash public...”
– OpEdNews - Article: Debt Ceiling Kabuki; Wall Street is “Out on a Limb” Again
Cyprus Zygi naval base explosion hi-res before and... →
“David Kravets writes that Barry Ardolf, a Minnesota hacker prosecutors described...”
– 11 Popular Slashdot Submissions
Five economic lessons from Sweden, the rock star... →
The Middle Class Has Been Decimated | Articles |... →
“SEWELL, New Jersey (Reuters) - Mary Kay Coyne has just filed what she says is...”
– For America’s “99ers,” jobs crisis is hard to escape - Yahoo! Finance
Somehow I missed the BEA’s very useful page tracking the Recovery Act and how it is translated into taxes and spending. (Thanks to the commenter who mentioned it). It’s especially useful for thinking about what the Obama stimulus really involved — and what it didn’t. Look at the peak quarter of stimulus (pdf), which was the first quarter of 2010. I’m going to rearrange the categories a bit. Here’s how I read it: at annual rates (in other words, actual numbers in the quarter were only 1/4 as large), the total budget impact was $357 billion. Of that, we had: Tax cuts and refundable tax credits: $151 billion
Aid to individuals (mainly unemployment insurance and food stamps): $70 billion
Aid to state and local governments: $103 billion
Everything else: $33 billion Note that the aid to individuals was basically safety net, and the aid to state and local was about mitigating spending cuts rather than spending expansion. Basically, this was at best an attempt to beef up automatic stabilizers. So much for “we tried Keynesian policies and they didn’t work.”
