He earns three Pinocchios, actually, as even the Washington Post calls His Obamaness a liar. The fact-check covers the president's recent oral fantasy about what a good job he personally did in saving the American auto industry.
Virtually every claim by the president regarding the auto industry needs an asterisk, just like the fine print in that too-good-to-be-true car loan.
The news you can use from this is that Chrysler and GM have not and probably never will return all of the money they extorted from you.
Jun 8, 2011
Stunned
It is absolutely stunning in the literal sense of the term.
Tam ferrets out a SWAT raid on the erstwhile home of a woman who hasn't repaid her student loan.
The jack-booted perp of the 6 a.m. raid? The United States Department of Education. Its agents manhandled and imprisoned the man of the house in a patrol car for six hours even though he wasn't who they were looking for. It was his estranged wife. His three kids were also tossed into the hot car.
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I have always tried to squelch hot-headed cries to water the tree of liberty, post haste. The Stockton travesty makes such advice decidedly questionable.
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UPDATE, thanks to our friend DirtCrashr: A DOE flack says the raid was not related to a defaulted student loan, but to some unspecified criminal investigation. This doesn't change much. It remains a botched, violent home invasion where a father and his three kids were terrorized because some entirely different person was suspected of some unspecified crime, almost certainly a nonviolent one.
Tam ferrets out a SWAT raid on the erstwhile home of a woman who hasn't repaid her student loan.
The jack-booted perp of the 6 a.m. raid? The United States Department of Education. Its agents manhandled and imprisoned the man of the house in a patrol car for six hours even though he wasn't who they were looking for. It was his estranged wife. His three kids were also tossed into the hot car.
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I have always tried to squelch hot-headed cries to water the tree of liberty, post haste. The Stockton travesty makes such advice decidedly questionable.
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UPDATE, thanks to our friend DirtCrashr: A DOE flack says the raid was not related to a defaulted student loan, but to some unspecified criminal investigation. This doesn't change much. It remains a botched, violent home invasion where a father and his three kids were terrorized because some entirely different person was suspected of some unspecified crime, almost certainly a nonviolent one.
A Litte VVSOP at the Tea Party
Seems that some of our new small-government Tea Partiers have discovered the joy of the good life on your dime.
There are numerous candidates for a Golden Fleece award, but I like:
Texas Rep. Francisco Canseco spent $75,000 on a one-year contract with CampaignGrid LLC, a company that describes itself as “the online advertising platform for candidates and causes" ....to advertise town halls and telephone town halls and has served to publicize the congressional art competition for the West Texas lawmaker.
There are numerous candidates for a Golden Fleece award, but I like:
Texas Rep. Francisco Canseco spent $75,000 on a one-year contract with CampaignGrid LLC, a company that describes itself as “the online advertising platform for candidates and causes" ....to advertise town halls and telephone town halls and has served to publicize the congressional art competition for the West Texas lawmaker.
(I doubt Rep. Weiner's contribution to the photographic arts was part of the official congressional art competition, but you never know.)
Otherwise, the laundry list of happily spent tax money on personal promotion and perks is pretty much business as usual, such as early campaign mailings magically tabbed "policy" or "constituent services"pieces so they than be franked. There are some pricey car leases, also for constituent service, you bet.
Paraphrasing Leona Helmsley, frugality is for little people.
Of COURSE I feel a certain amount of vindication.
Paraphrasing Leona Helmsley, frugality is for little people.
Of COURSE I feel a certain amount of vindication.
Jun 6, 2011
A small part of the American legacy; may we deserve it
I like to think it was taken by a U.S. PFC from the remains of a particularly brutal SS officer on this date 67 years ago.
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Serial on the PPk indicates April, 1940, manufacture, putting it very near the end of the so-called "high-polish" era. The holster is 1936, from Kern Klager & CIe., Berlin.
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Serial on the PPk indicates April, 1940, manufacture, putting it very near the end of the so-called "high-polish" era. The holster is 1936, from Kern Klager & CIe., Berlin.
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