Foreclosures, fraud, corruption. The news keeps coming

It’s happening: The Right is turning against Wall Street. Specifically Tea Partiers, and in opposition to the Republican Party too. More, please.

Smoking gun: New evidence of How Wall Street shafted pension funds by misrepresenting mortgages; Rep Miller calls for full audit of Fannie Mae

Calculated Risk details how foreclosure mills were pumping out [...]

Easy unsubscribing in GMail

From the GMail Blog.

If you want to unsubscribe…, click “show details” in the top-right corner of the message, then click “Unsubscribe from this sender.”

GMail will then send the unsubscribe request for you. This only works for legitimate listservs. For spammers, do just that. Mark it as spam.

Unsubscribe.com does more that what GMail [...]

Sexual abuse by priests. How long has this been going on?

Sister Mary MacKillop of Australia was canonized by the Vatican. She exposed sexual abuse by priests of minors and in retaliation, the male hierarchy excommunicated her in 1871 and tried to shut down the order she founded. The excommunication was lifted after five months.

While I suppose it’s good the Catholic Church has recognized her, [...]

Nonviolence does not equal complacency

I went to a protest in Philadelphia this past Saturday, and it was more disheartening than anything else.  It was against the wars and various other injustices, with a special focus on he recent FBI raids of peace activists and Pennsylvania Homeland Security spying on innocent civilians and activists.

By the end of it, I [...]

Mumbia attacker’s wife warned Feds he was terrorist, was ignored

Emphasis added

“Get lost” was what the US officials in Islamabad told the young Moroccan wife of [accused 2008 Mumbia attacker] David Headley when she informed them that her husband was planning a terror attack in India

“I told them, he’s either a terrorist, or he’s working for you,” she recalled saying to American officials [...]

Score voting and approval voting. Ways to break the duopoly

Our two-party duopoly is supported and kept in power by a plurality voting system that makes it difficult for third parties to break through. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are other, far more equitable voting methods. Among them are score voting and approval voting. I plan to explore these methods deeper [...]

Signs that you drink too much coffee

From RobinsFYI. Here’s a few.

You answer the door before people knock.

You haven’t blinked since the last lunar eclipse.

Blinking is overated. Besides, you might miss something.

Your T-shirt says, “Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s blend.”

I prefer T-shirts that say “Death before decaf.”

People get dizzy just watching you.

Sue says [...]

Self-balancing electric unicycle

The Self-Balancing Unicycle from Focus Designs has a 1000 watt motor, gyros to monitor pitch, roll, and yaw, regenerative braking, and costs $1,499. Sweet.

Via Inhabitat

Has Obama given up on the mid-terms, asks MyDD

MyDD sums up a NY Times article on Obama and the upcoming midterm elections.

1. The President is resigned to the fact that the Republicans will gain control of Congress. 2. He does not find any mistakes with his legislative method. 3. The problems the Democrats face this season are according to him due [...]

Spare the rod, spoil the Democrats

The Republican Ogres are coming! This election is of colossal importance and is Very Important (see the diagram) and you must send buckets of money to Democrats then vote for them even though they’ve continually back-stabbed you. Remember, the Republican ogres are coming, so be scared, be very scared.

Newshoggers says hooey to all [...]