Doc 40
Spend some time at Doc 40, Mick Farren’s blog, you’ll enjoy it. Great graphics (like the one above), trenchant political commentary, all mixed in with an insiders view of rock and roll and sf. He was in the Deviants, Pink…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month August 2008
The dogs begin to bark, the hounds begin to howl
Countrywide dogs howling over bare bones Just when BofA maybe thought all was well with their purchase of Countrywide, suddenly a pack of dogs wants to (and may well) force Countrywide into bankruptcy to grab assets. Why? Because Countrywide didn’t…
Calif payroll system so antiquated pay cuts may not be possible
So claims California State Controller John Chiang who says he will refuse to implement temporary pay cuts ordered by Gov. Schwarzenegger, but that he couldn’t do them anyway because the payroll system is a 70’s fossil written in COBOL and…
Connecticut sues Countrywide
“Countrywide conned customers into loans that were clearly unaffordable and unsustainable, turning the American dream of homeownership into a nightmare,” said Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut’s attorney general, in a statement on Wednesday. He also called Countrywide “an insolvency enabler.” Connecticut Man1…
Obama dumps Muslim advisor
From Steve Clemons at Washington Note. Will anyone notice? Barack Obama’s team just threw its key Muslim advisor under the bus. Is this because, as Clemons points out, Obama has been giving speeches running to the right of Bush on…