Alex Jones is having a bad day

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Tuesday September 20, 2022 · 11:56 PM PDT

2022/09/20 · 23:56

According to Elizabeth Williamson on Twitter:

BREAKING: BIG setback for Alex Jones in his bankruptcy case--federal bk Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston has tossed out both Jones's lawyer AND his chief restructuring officer.

Apparently the judge has problems with Alex Jones’ transparency, “a lack of candor”, and sketchy personal expenses, and has appointed a DOJ trustee to supervise.

Romney/Ryan plan to balance the budget... and why Romney is against it.

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Wednesday October 17, 2012 · 10:49 PM PDT

2012/10/17 · 22:49

Not that there was ever any doubt in my mind that deficit spending is only bad when Democrats do it, but William K. Black put up an interesting essay on Monday. As an economist (both practical and academic), he points out:

There is, of course, no Ryan plan. There cannot be a Ryan plan because mathematicians are not like historians. The cruel joke about historians is that while God himself cannot change history; historians can. It is perhaps because they can be useful to God in this regard that he tolerates their continued existence and frequent errors. Mathematicians are useless to God, at least in the non-exotic realms of mathematics relevant to budgets, because they are so good at exposing errors and when they do so the error is beyond dispute. (Econometricians are God’s favorites among the quants.) No budget plan could meet all (or even most) of the policy constraints Ryan and Romney have promised they would obey. It is mathematically impossible. Romney and Ryan’s primary lie is that they have a secret plan to cut taxes, cut the deficit, and increase military spending.

He then lists some of the lies made in service of their secret plan to balance the budget and simultaneously heal the economy, and why they clearly don't believe them. But then he comes up with a quote from Governor Romney, made within a few days of the famous "47% video", showing the full extent of Romney's duplicity:

But the ultimate kicker is that if Ryan actually had a plan to cut substantially the budget deficit Romney would oppose it. Romney explained why in his May 23, 2012 interview with Mark Halperin in Time magazine.
“Halperin: Why not in the first year, if you’re elected — why not in 2013, go all the way and propose the kind of budget with spending restraints, that you’d like to see after four years in office? Why not do it more quickly?

Romney: Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5%. That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course.”

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MoT on the Tube

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Tuesday March 27, 2012 · 2:57 PM PDT

2012/03/27 · 14:57

Sorry about the length, but this is all the info I've been able to find. No doubt MoT will be here shortly to update this (if he finds a chance to breathe).

From 4closurefraud.org, it looks like Jesse LaGreca (Ministry of Truth here at DKos), Matt Taibbi, Eliot Spitzer and others will be on the tube today.

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Tuesday October 28, 2008 · 2:42 PM PDT

2008/10/28 · 14:42

I few weeks ago, I saw a quote from Obama that I liked:

"And I firmly believe that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, or oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. A polarized electorate that is turned off of politics, and easily dismisses both parties because of the nasty, dishonest tone of the debate, works perfectly well for those who seek to chip away at the very idea of government because, in the end, a cynical electorate is a selfish electorate."

No doubt this doesn't play well with the Randian crowd. But I wound up writing the rant below, mostly in response to various anti-Obama rants I've seen and heard, comparing just the styles of the two major presidential candidates.

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Tuesday October 07, 2008 · 8:22 PM PDT

2008/10/07 · 20:22

The next to last question of the debate tonight was the "Zen" question, to the effect of "What don't you know, and what will you do to learn it". I thought this was a very good opportunity for Obama to hit this out of the park, but Obama bunted it.

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Romney/Ryan plan to balance the budget... and why Romney is against it.

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