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In genuine patriotic spirit, I tuned into four AM talk shows today, but in banal conservative rhetoric, I heard the same Obamacare paranoia script from each show.  The order of memorization by repetition was:

• Glenn Beck
• Rush Limbaugh
• Mark Levin
• Janet Parshall

By the time Mark's show aired, there were odd 'deja vu' phrases coming out of the radio.  Now ( Read more... )

More hypocritical and redundant "democracy", this time from Facebook.  A vote is up for a "governing" document, called Rights and Responsibilities, that includes the following two rules:

3.8 You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
4.4 You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.

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There was this ethics lesson in Intro to Computing that has been weighing on my mind ever since posting a private entry that would seriously make people question my morals.  ... people are highly motivated to do typically unethical things when members of their "fellow" society regurgitate things like "credit checks are fair" in the context of food ( Read more... )

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Deloitte & Touche and the Tax Policy Center -- non-partison -- made a case comparison between taxes under McCain and Obama.  Find your income (AIG) and see the difference.  :)


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Brooksley Born, chairperson of the "Commission" during the Clinton administration, forewarned us about the financial tools (ab)used when businesses are left to govern themselves.  Here are the best quotes from her remarks to committee after the LTCM bailout in 1998:

LTCM managed to borrow $125 billion, approximately 100 times its capital, ( Read more... )

"If [any company] is too big to fail, then it is too big to exist."

Sen. Bernie Sanders

John Lewin, CEO of the American College of Cardiology, predicted that the federal government could not afford subsidizing a comprehensive, national healthcare plan (such as expanding SCHIP and "fixing" Medicare/Medicaid) because it would essentially be ( Read more... )

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