Yesterday I was out and about, walking to the mailbox, to the bank, and to the corner store. I mailed my vote for Suzanne Bonamici. There is a late breaking story that Newter has released his Freddie Mac contract, but it is so uninformative that the only thing worthy of note that it contains is that Newter was to report to their top lobbyist. That disproves his claim that he was consulting as a historian, and not as a lobbyist. The local NBC affiliate did not air the Republican debate, correctly realizing that sitcoms are more relevant. I hear it was a yawner. I’m current with replies. Today I will be doing volunteer work in prison and will get home late, after missing a sleep cycle. Therefore there may be no articles tomorrow, and, if there are, they will probably be late.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 5:05 (average 5:50). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: SHOCKING: How One Bank Gets Big-Time Profits From Food Stamps
The filthy Banksters have their fingers in EVERYTHING!
From Reuters: Republican Senator Rand Paul was stopped at an airport on Monday for setting off an alarm and refusing a patdown, prompting his father, U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul, to accuse security officials of being part of an "out of control" police state.
In a harshly worded attack on the Transportation Security Administration, which handles security screenings at U.S. airports, Ron Paul, known for his strident libertarian views, said the TSA "gropes and grabs our kids and our seniors and does nothing to keep us safe."
I actually agree that it was inappropriate for the TSA to try to pat down Rand Paul. That extremist should be strip searched instead.
From TPM: A super PAC supporting Paul, Revolution PAC, is selling action figures of the candidate to raise money for their efforts. There are two options seen on the website [InsaniTEA delinked] — the “Commander-in-chief Ron Paul” model, complete with a snug fitting black suit and a rolled up copy of the US Constitution in his hand, and “Super-hero Ron Paul,” in which the congressman wears a blue and red suit like Superman.
Now the acolytes of the Paul cult can have an icon of their deity to put on their dashboards next to their KKK cross and Supply-side Jesus (not the real one).
Cartoon:
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Just to give everyone a headstart on parsing Rmoney’s Income Tax Return, WaPo not only provides some background, but you can download the whole thing [PDF] here (even w/ cable it took a while – it’s 104 pages long!):
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/286401/romney-2011-1040.pdf
ARGH! Not today! 😉
4:02 I got lucky today and found the right piece on my first try a lot.
Slaughtered me!
Food Stamps — “Many of the rich are benefitting off the backs of the poor”. JP Morgan Chase has the contract to provide and operate the food stamp programme for 26 states plus the District of Columbia. In Indiana, the Bank makes $186,000 per month or $2,232,000 per year. Out of that, they have reduced their overhead by taking their Food Stamps call centre to India where they pay $3.50/hour to Indian workers. There is insufficient data here to document their profit, but given that their payment is ‘per recipient’, it is substantial. Add in the remaining users in other more populous states, and there is a huge profit. Why couldn’t the operation be in the US and help put unemployed Americans back to work? Personally, I think it should be a condition of the contract that all administration and operations be conducted within the US, not overseas. This should be an American social assistance programme, not a ‘for profit’ programme. JP Morgan Chase is quite literally “benefitting off the backs of the poor”.
Rand Paul — The stupid little pissant! Obviously he expects preferential treatment over the rest of humanity going through airport security. The arrogance! Given the Republican/Teabagger penchant for violence, lies and deceit of late, I’m amazed that the TSA hasn’t put him on a list of domestic terrorists! And even though he and papa Paul say they are Libertarians, they are still sucking off the Republican/Teabagger teat!
Super heroes — Gag me with a spoon TomCat! Just the thought of that . . . politics is not about doing what is best for the country, it’s nothing more than a “slick” (that’s certainly open to debate) marketing ploy aimed at the juvenile side of non thinking Paul acolytes. You talk about putting a Paul Doll on the dashboard next to their KKK cross and Supply-side Jesus, . . . I remember listening to a tape by Mike Warnkey, a religious comic from the 70’s and 80’s where he talks about driving down the highway near Brownsville, Texas, his statue of the bobble-head purple Jesus keeping time with the windshield wipers and the radio . . .
Cartoon — Which one is Paul?
Exactly!
They claim equality but refuse to live it.
That’s the picture!
LOL!
4:38
It figures that they would find a way to make more money off Food Stamp recipients.
Rand Paul seems to have had a hissy fit at the airport.
Beat me!
Yes.
Yes!