California. The zombie state

It certainly seems that way sometimes, doesn’t it? The California legislature shambles around, bumping into things, with no apparent sense of direction. Issues that managed to get resolved quickly in other states (like Utah revising their public pension plans in one year flat) take ponderously interminable amounts of time for California to even start [...]

Yemen is bombing its own cities. Syria tortured a 13 yo boy to death

Yet the US only intervened in Libya. Why?

Some speculations as to real reasons for the invasion of Libya (where western troops are now on the ground.) Libya wanted to go off the dollar for oil sales. Desertec wants the land for their massive solar project in Africa for power to EU and Qadaffi was [...]

Obama is 2008 Republican, says James Carville

Carville unloads on Obama

It’s pretty remarkable that the next election is going to boil down to a competition between the 2008 Republican presidential candidate and his vice presidential nominee.

Obama being the 2012 Democrat equivalent of McCain and the Republican challenger being someone like Palin.

It’s not that Obama is a socialist [...]

ECB becomes insolvent to save the bondholders

While Europe is preoccupied with a possible restructuring of Greece’s debt, huge risks lurk elsewhere – in the balance sheet of the European Central Bank. The guardian of the single currency has taken on billions of euros worth of risky securities as collateral for loans to shore up the banks of struggling nations.

The [...]

Zero Hedge gets snarky. Headline of the Day

Time to celebrate the recovery: food stamp usage hits fresh record.

The closely-watched Chicago PMI index just cratered and the Case-Shiller index shows housing is in a double dip.

But don’t you worry, Uncle Ben Bernanke is still funneling as many billions as possible to the banksters via cheap money so – wait for [...]

Floating liquefied natural gas facility

When completed, it will stay moored off Alaska for the next 25 years, liquifying natural gas onsite. It is almost 1/3 of a mile long.

Flag Decal. John Prine

And your flag decal won’t get you into heaven anymore they’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war. Now Jesus don’t like killin’ no matter what the reason’s for, and your flag decal won’t get you in the heaven anymore!

He wrote it during the Vietnam War days. And since we persist in having [...]

Your dream house in San Jose

This gem is from realtor.com. Okay, so it’s not really in San Jose. But it is just 1 mile from the scenic San Andreas fault! Comes with …. uh …. abundant natural light, well air conditioned, lots of wood for your winter heating needs (must chop yourself).

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Honor the fallen

US postal service nears insolvency

With the rise of e-mail and the decline of letters, mail volume is falling at a staggering rate, and the postal service’s survival plan isn’t reassuring. Elsewhere in the world, postal services are grappling with the same dilemma—only most of them, in humbling contrast, are thriving.

On Mar. 2, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe [...]