Obese blamed for the world’s ills

This totally ignores factors such as the Free Marketeering economy, a societal structure based on promoting excessive consumption, the Military Industrial Complex, politics, religion, struggles for power over natural resources. The list goes on and on.

No, it is all the fault of those terrible fatties.

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“They have destroyed these elections.”

Massive fraud in Afghan elections shows U.S. policy is a farce.

Polizeros contributor Josh Mull is in Kabul now as an election observer. We plan to interview him when he gets back.

He just did a quick update to Newshoggers on The “Anti-War Left” And The Afghanistan Study Group.

The Left is not anti-war. Most [...]

Wall Street has poisoned their own well

Volume is way down, and that’s because the individual investor is no longer in the market. With it now being clear that the market is routinely manipulated and gamed by a few elites as the government does little to stop it, the small investor has said, why bother.

Open Your Eyes – Lords of the New Church

Spain, 1983. Still true all these years later

Video games train the kids for war. Army chic in high-fashion stores. Law and order’s done their job. Prisons filled while the rich still rob. Assassination politics. Violence rules within’ our nation’s midst. Well ignorance is their power tool. You’ll only know what they want you [...]

Emanations from Planet Christine

Dabbling in witchcraft is o-kay but masturbation is just so wrong.

Cedar City half-marathon

I just finished the Cedar City half marathon. It began at 8,200 ft. in Cedar Canyon and ended 13.1 thigh-pounding, knee-crunching miles later at 5,800 ft. in Cedar City. Given all the traveling I’ve been doing, I barely trained and inexplicably finished 166 out of 500. And my legs feel it.

I’ve done ten full [...]

Jerry Brown’s baffling campaign and the do-nothing governor’s race

The California gubernatorial race has been a real snoozer so far, with little if anything to engage voters. Well, except for Brown bad-mouthing Bill Clinton because of that Whitman ad, that is. After a bit of a kerfuffle, Clinton is still endorsing Brown. But that’s a long ways from actively campaigning for him, which is [...]

Six banks failed on Friday

The FDIC must be getting even busier

The Price of Weed. As real-time as it gets

Buyers submit prices which appear instantly on the mash-up map at The Price of Weed.

L.A. Comptroller: $111 Million in stimulus created 55 jobs

Yes, 55. That’s over $2 million per job. Where did the money go?

Methinks it’s time to call in the forensic accountants.

Wikipedia

Forensic accounting is the specialty practice area of accountancy that describes engagements that result from actual or anticipated disputes or litigation. “Forensic” means “suitable for use in a court of law”

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