New Shanty Towns

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Wednesday March 25, 2009 · 10:12 PM PDT

2009/03/25 · 22:12

The Bushtowns, Summervilles' or as I personally prefer, Trickle Down Towns are continuing to expand, according to today's NYT.

“They just popped up about 18 months ago,” Mr. Stack said. “One day it was empty. The next day, there were people living there.”

Daniel Kent, a clean-shaven 27-year-old from Oregon, has been living in Taco Flats for three months after running out of money on a planned hitchhiking trip to Florida. He did manage to earn $35 a day holding up a going-out-of-business sign for Mervyn’s until the department store actually went of out business.

NYT

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Sunday March 15, 2009 · 9:51 AM PDT

2009/03/15 · 09:51

According to the NYT Wall Street excesses continue in a big way:

A 29-year-old man who works for a large investment management firm and was at Bagatelle’s brunch one recent Saturday and at Merkato 55’s the next, put it another way: “If you’d asked me in October, I’d say it’d be a different situation, and I don’t think I’d be here. Then the government gave us $10 billion.”

http://www.nytimes.com/...

If you click on the photos in the link you'll see more women with plastic surgery than on 'Sex in the City,' more bald guys from Wall Street blowing our nation's cash on $500 (or much much more) bottles of Champaign.

Wilberforce

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Wednesday February 18, 2009 · 10:27 AM PST

2009/02/18 · 10:27

Companies are not required to keep any records of jobs outsourced. None. And what's really amazing is that most of the very few statistics that are available are from the outsourcing firms themselves.

But, we know that there were more than 2 million manufacturing jobs lost -- and that's prior to 2004.

And in the service industry alone,

with jobs leaving at a rate of 12,000 to 15,000 per month, says John McCarthy, the company's director of research. Other estimates say up to 20,000 jobs a month may be moving overseas.

CFR

India expects to create 2 million jobs in the next decade in offshore BPO. Guess where those jobs are going to be coming from.

That's just India, just "BPO" (business process outsourcing, not manufacturing or other sectors--in other words, just directly moving a job there) and that estimate was 2004 --how about China or Vietnam or Thailand? We simply don't know.

Wilberforce

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Saturday January 17, 2009 · 10:07 AM PST

2009/01/17 · 10:07

The issue of our times is not that Obama cares about :

Reaffirming Our Love of Country and Democracy

What do you expect him to say?

Nor is it about "Inaugural Fever"

Fascinating though this is, it's not about methane on mars either, or (I'm sure this is coming soon) what Michelle is gonna wear to a party.

There's a major act of terrorism going on, and we as a nation are paying for it.

We are culpable.

And it's our American made F-16s and Apache helicopters and on and on that are causing this suffering.

Wilberforce

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Saturday December 20, 2008 · 10:11 PM PST

2008/12/20 · 22:11

I didn't know much about her at all, yet I feel very --almost personally-- saddened by this as I respect her husband so much.

Carol Chomsky was perhaps best known for her book, “The Acquisition of Syntax in Children From 5 to 10” (M.I.T. Press), which was considered a landmark study in the field when it appeared in 1969. In it, she investigated children’s tacit, developing awareness of the grammatical structure of their native language, and their ability to use that awareness to extract meaning from increasingly complex sentences over time.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Wilberforce

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Tuesday November 18, 2008 · 7:24 PM PST

2008/11/18 · 19:24

"They'd send a limousine anyway." - The Clash

Holy Crap!

Or is that-- Holy Joe!! (?)

How can anyone here actually defend the latest act of treachery by the Democratic Senate?

How can any reasonable person try to spin this as being about "reconciliation?" Some of the justifications here are just ludicrous.

It isn't.

Wilberforce

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Sunday November 16, 2008 · 10:35 AM PST

2008/11/16 · 10:35

By proving they really finally understand what America needs, Detroit is about to rise from the ashes.

Great news:

The 2009 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid is here

And, it's only 75,000 !

And not only that but:

The total as-tested tab was $75,330, although you get a $2,200 federal hybrid tax credit unavailable to the wastrel who instead buys, for instance, a Honda Fit.

(nytimes)

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How Will Escalade Hybrids Save Detriot?

Snail Trains--How Many Can you Tow?

3 votes

Bumper to Bumper Protection for the Green Zone

11 votes

Portable Homeless Shelters

28 votes

Honda Fit Toters

4 votes

Lemon-Ade

9 votes

I'll buy three, so I can save $2200/each

14 votes

NYT: Georgia Lied about Russia.

Wilberforce

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 10:42 PM PST

2008/11/06 · 22:42

What a surprise. Two days after the election, the NYT admits that (I guess 'we are all Georgians' no longer) Georgia lied about everything.

NYT

TBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.

Georgia moved forces toward the border of the breakaway region of South Ossetia on Aug. 7, at the start of what it called a defensive war with separatists there and with Russian forces.
Instead, the accounts suggest that Georgia’s inexperienced military attacked the isolated separatist capital of Tskhinvali on Aug. 7 with indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire, exposing civilians, Russian peacekeepers and unarmed monitors to harm.

Wilberforce

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Monday October 20, 2008 · 3:08 PM PDT

2008/10/20 · 15:08

I know I know it's supposed to be a surprise.

And yes yes, I know I know, candidates surprises are traditionally in October.

But, not this one and I just had to let the cat out of the bag a little early.

Turns out, the kid that hacked Palin's computer also hacked this letter, but didn't want to admit it for fear of doing another 20 hard.

Anyway, here's the letter she's dictated:

Wilberforce

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Saturday October 11, 2008 · 2:17 PM PDT

2008/10/11 · 14:17

How about Afghanistan? Iran?

Or on the coming lines to the soup kitchen, right here in America. Will they show it there?

Will the relatives of the 1 million dead Iraqi civilians care if Bush snorted Coke in College? Will they care if he was a drunken frat boy? Will they care what Daddy though of him? Do they wish to know more about the real person, that is Bush ?

Will they find photos of him smirking with his feet on his desk, or sitting on a toilet amusing?

Cute?

Irrelevant?

Wilberforce

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 10:03 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 10:03

From the voting rolls in "6 swing states

Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.

NYT Link

This truly is breaking news, and there's lots lot's more at the link.

Commenters here have suggested that this is no big deal, but clearly this is serious stuff. This also appears to validate the charges leveled by Greg Palast

About Colorado

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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 9:00 PM PDT

2008/10/01 · 21:00

First off there is no more Main Street.

Main Street went shopping at the mall and was never heard from again.

Then the Mall went shopping at Ebay & Amazon.Com, and the Mall disappeared too, and when the Mall's mortgage was foreclosed, they put an orange ribbon just like they do at crime scenes around the whole darn place, let the weeds grow over, and called it a day. The taxpayers paid the mortgage.

Wall Street OTOH.

Wall Street has these little bloodlettings every once in a while: Black Monday, Black Friday, and the Savings & Loan scandal that the Bushes were involved in. Puce Thursday, too. We payed for that one too.

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