Inside Job. How the banksters looted the country

From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews [...]

‘Epidemic of thrift’ hits US. Analysts horrified

I am the US economy. I need your debt

Dang it folks, just what is your problem? Apparently you’ve all been saving and being thrifty rather than taking on more debt and buying stuff you don’t need. This is just so wrong. And it’s hurting the economy.

“There is an epidemic of thrift,” [...]

Vigilantism is not Anarchism

Anarchism is not vigilantism. Seems that this would be a fairly easy concept to grasp and yet we have anarchists from all over celebrating vigilantism against an alleged perpetrator of sexual violence. This from the Twin Cities Indy Media:

We rolled in with a baseball bat. we pulled his books off his shelves: he admitted [...]

Convicted arms dealer faces new charges

Mr. Diveroli was barely old enough to legally drink in 2007 when the Pentagon entered a huge contract [$300 million contract] with him to buy munitions from former Eastern Bloc depots and ship them to Kabul, Afghanistan.

Then he tried to sell more weaponry, as a convicted felon, and got arrested again.

Why was [...]

i-house 2. Green prefab homes

Jetson Greene profiles the new iHouse

The new i-house features the same butterfly roof as the first version only it runs the width of two modules, instead of running the length of one module. The new design also features the flex indoor-outdoor spaces so that the home lives bigger than its footprint.

The [...]

Vallejo could be a harbinger of more California city bankruptcies

In 2008, the California city of Vallejo took the unprecedented step of filing for bankruptcy. A combination of falling revenues caused by the collapse of the real estate bubble and rising public pension costs cratered their finances. Other California cities and counties are watching how Vallejo manages, and may well follow suit.

Indeed, former [...]

Liberal anguish over Obama’s self-fulfilling prophecy

This is a duck

Jon Perr has a thoughtful but misguided piece at Crooks and Liars pondering why Obama’s popularity is sagging so precipitously. Is the problem that Obama is “hostage to his own fetish of bipartisanship.” Was he too timid in trying to get his version of health care and an economic stimulus [...]

So that’s what happened

Cartoon from The Independent

The problem isn’t just anti-mosque forces on the right

It is also the gutless, complicit Democratic “leadership” like Harry Reid and Howard Dean and, yes, President Obama who do nothing to support religious freedom but instead meekly side with those attacking it.

“You are either hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you out of his mouth.” — Jerry Lee [...]

I really hope this is just saber-rattling

Ahmadinejad: Israel ‘too weak face up to Iran’

Israel Knesset member: “We are preparing for war”

If not, then the lunatics have taken over their respective asylums