Everything you need to know about 9/11 and conspiracies in 5 minutes.
Raises lots of interesting questions where there is lots of vested interest in never finding answers.
For decades, America’s economic policies have been based on the notion that catering to corporations and the wealthy is the way to stimulate the economy. Republicans routinely insist that we need to bail them out, lower their taxes, allow them to repatriate hundreds of billions in overseas profits, and free them from annoying government meddling. If we don’t, the “job creators” will stay in a funk, and the economy will stay in a rut.
But here’s a pesky fact neither corporate America nor the GOP establishment is trumpeting: After-tax corporate profits are currently at an all-time high. The problem businesses face isn’t lack of cash but rather a lack of confidence that consumer demand will pick up in the future. So they’re not expanding or hiring at the rate they should be.
Rich people don’t create jobs when we hand them big windfalls. They create jobs when the economy is growing and they have customers for their businesses.
Joy and disappointment.
I’ve put together a little quiz that may be of interest to Boing Boingers. The idea is to illustrate just how hard it can be distinguish police from military. Which is a problem, given that they have two very different jobs.
It is a tough quiz! And, of course, it should not be.
Tom the Dancing Bug summarizes the NDAA’s indefinite detention clause.
Behold! What the Stop SOPA blackout managed to accomplish in 24 hours.
High five, internet.
Beautiful.
Shortly after gaining the House of Representatives in 2010 the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner, made the welcome claim that the primary goal of the Republican Party was to increase employment. His exact words were:
“We’re going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs.”
The following, therefore, is a chronological list of legislative activities by the GOP beginning 2-10-2011. I’m sorry to report that none, so far, have resulted in a single new job being created in America.
Note: I began this list as sort of a joke. That it has reached its currently imposing length without one anecdotal citation of new employment is simply astonishing, though not surprising as the GOP’s plan is to keep the economy languishing and blame it all on Mr. Obama. The House, after all, enacts legislation and controls the governmental purse-strings, not the President.
Funny list of all the non-job-creating accomplishments of the House for the past year. ”Keeping millions unemployed to put one man [Obama] out of work”
Another fantastic Colbert/Stewart SuperPAC ad about SuperPACs.
Colbert ad: if corporations are people, then Mitt’s corporate raiding makes him a serial killer
Via BoingBoing.
