Nature is majestic, I thought to myself as I dragged the eyeless and mostly-gutted deer corpse from the middle of our front yard this afternoon, stepping carefully to avoid a small pile of unidentifiable muck left by the large coyote who had been snacking on it before I loudly chased it off in order to drag the former deer, front feet first, head splayed stiffly to one side, to a location farther from the house and the road. Above, two turkey vultures passed the time with unsteady sex while balanced on an overhead telephone line; a half dozen others waited impatiently for me to finish my work so they could resume picking at the now almost-but-not-quite-bare ribcage.
Flies had already found the overnight victim and now swarmed around and above the hollow chest like black smoke rising from a fire, and as I watched them move with the corpse as if captured satellites of the larger body I continued to hold my breath, contemplating whether or not I was going to have to burn these goddamn gloves afterwards.
Majestic.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2011—Republican introduces legislation to reopen the bank casino:
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation managed to pass with one piece that forces banks to be somewhat responsible for their lending, a provision that requires lenders to retain five percent of the residential loans that they make. That's supposed to make banks less anxious to secure risky loans, bundling up that risk, and selling it off as securities. You know, the practice that created the whole massive casino that wrecked the global economy.
Unsurprisingly, that requirement has proven too onerous for the banks to be able to live with. So, of course, they've got their Republican lap dogs primed to try to repeal it.
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On
today's Kagro in the Morning show,
Greg Dworkin rounds up the day's ACA implementation news, and whether premiums are headed up or down. Where you stand on the ACA at large has a lot to do with how you'll describe what's happening. Especially if you're Suzanne Somers. Also: the Virginia elections. What does it mean to say you "like your insurance?" Does anyone, really? Or do they just dislike change even more? Next, "Chris Christie: America's most overrated governor." And
Think Progress says the House is prepared to pass a Citigroup-written law "gutting a Dodd-Frank financial reform provision that forced federally-insured banks to cease trading in derivatives."
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