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Because of the ridiculous 2/3rds budget rule — the super-majority required to pass a budget in the California state legislature — and Arnold’s failure to deliver even one vote from a small cabal of obstructionist Republicans, Californians may be getting IOUs in the mail next month instead of financial aid checks or tax refunds. [...] Obama speaking today: “You cannot have a strong middle class without a strong labor movement.” Zimbabwe currency in happier days Eventually, you can’t just keep adding zeros to your currency. Zimbabwe, whose central banker recently defended the company’s currency actions, will let its citizens use currency from other countries. Inside a Failed State – Zimbabwe, YouTube video from 2007. The country was in dire condition then, empty stores, no [...] The UK is studying the feasibility of a massive tidal power project at the Severin Estuary and have all the info online. Nice. Photo: “Capitalist Pig” by planetgordon on Flickr President Obama today said it was “the height of irresponsibility” for financial corporations to have doled out $18 billion in bonuses to their employees in a year when many banks shed jobs and turned to the government for funds. What a change from the previous administration. Obama [...] I’m not saying Blago’s recent unhinged blatherings were symptomatic of someone with a drug problem, only that I hope they were. Asymptotic Life has been documenting what others have discovered too, that there is no discernable correlation between gun ownership and murder rates. Not by percentage of gun owners, not by population density, not by income level, not by anything anyone can find – and that’s from pro- and anti- gun folks alike. DC has [...] Schwarzenegger warns of layoffs if unions reject furloughs. Yup, they’re still paying chicken. LA County officials describe potential ‘doomsday scenario,’ something that will happen if the state defers payments to the county California says no income tax refunds, we’re broke. In what is likely the last step before officially declaring insolvency, California has halted [...] Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles is under federal investigation for fraud concerning pedophile priests. I lived in Los Angeles then and watched Mahony lie, evade, slime pedophile victims, stonewall, and do everything he could to avoid having the Catholic Church accept any responsibility for their pedophile priests. The probe, in which U.S. Atty. Thomas P. [...] |  | ||||
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