As a reminder to everyone, thanks to the magic of corporate capitalism, bankruptcy does not mean out of business.

AFA Foods will still continue to make & sell this swill, so be forewarned.

TARP and a governor’s race:

“David Spence, Repug, wants to be governor or MO. He was on the board of Reliance Bancshares, Inc., “a holding company that accepted a $40 million” loan from TARP. Spence said he didn’t vote to delay payment, but turns out he did. Moreover, he “took out at least $9 million in mortgage loans for his business and a vacation home” and on and on.

LINK.

Oh, how the mighty are falling.

James Murdoch resigns as BSkyB chairman LINK.

Anybody know if such things actually work?

How to hide emails from government snooping

LINK.

Re Curveball: But how do we know when he’s not lying?

Something weird and wild for your amazement.

Uh-oh.

Appeals court fires back at Obama’s comments on health care case

“In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president’s bluff — ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the courts have the right to strike down a federal law, according to a lawyer who was in the courtroom.

“The order, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, appears to be in direct response to the president’s comments yesterday about the Supreme Court’s review of the health care law. ”

LINK

• Curveball admits he lied.

har.

I seem to recall that the German intelligence agency told the American one that “curveball” was a liar and untrustworthy. no matter.

Also, the nephew of the dictator (of Iraq), the guy that was in charge of weapons programs said there were no “mass destruction”weapons or programs. they were all destroyed.

funny, how the guy telling the truth was ignored, and the liar was believed.

anyone want some yellowcake? I hear it’s easy to get in Niger.

every day on the radio I hear pitiful pleas from American veterans who have had parts blown off their body, or their brains destroyed, asking for help.

I guess those soldiers, and the iraq citizens, should just look forward and be thankful.

thuggery, criminality, grossest greed, and depravity.

also,

fifteen million people demonstrated against the invasion of Iraq. How could they know, and the American system of government couldn’t figure it out?

What this war proved to me, above all else, was that once those in the mighty United States of America who have the power to start a war decide to do so, nothing can stop them.

and here we are, not even out of the bush wars, with Obama, clinton and friends eager to start their second major war. along with all of their other adventures around the world.

The world isn’t even finished four years with these war lovers.

Without the slightest doubt, war is the greatest evil perpetuated by mankind.

Twenty some years ago or whenever it was that george started the War On Drugs, someone on KPFK radio smirked, “Why not? We do everything else on drugs…”

Regarding the pink slime. . .

I just bought a 4 pound chuck roast which I’ll grind into hamburger at home. Price is the same, no slime.

We should hear more about how this story got out. Pink slime has been in our food for a long time, no? Why now? Whoever blew the whistle deserves a medal.

That’s an hilarious quote. Here’s a brief history.

I can think of people much more deserving of the Hillman prize than Coates: Glenn Greenwald and anyone from FDL. Coates has one foot in liberalism and one foot in the Democratic Party, which seems to be what Hillmann likes.

Bank of NY Mellon must face lawsuit on Countrywide LINK.

As the day draws to a close and night descends across the US of A:

Kasich signs HB 275 – Ohio’s consumer law now among nation’s worst: Plain Dealer
“With the scratch of a pen, Kasich granted companies that cheat Ohioans a “right to cure,” which lets wayward businesses dodge consequences for using deception as a sales tool.
“Supporters of the change clung to the rationalization that it would speed up resolution of court cases. It hastens the disposition of cases, all right, but it does nothing to speed justice.”
LINK.

Health Care Benefits On The Line As States Struggle With Medicaid Costs
“In Pennsylvania, the struggle to keep up with the demand for health care among the state’s poor residents means that nearly 90,000 children are losing access to Medicaid benefits.
“The administration of Gov. Tom Corbett (R) says it’s just cleaning house and striking people from the program whose paperwork isn’t in order, but critics see the move as an underhanded effort to reduce state spending by dumping needy children, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. Those 89,000 children all lost Medicaid benefits just in the five months between August 2011 and January 2012, the newspaper reports, citing data from the state agency that runs Medicaid.” LINK.

And in a major assault on logic and women, AZ legislators are working to define pregnancy as beginning two weeks prior to conception.
LINK.

Van Jones puts a little too much emphasis on “outsiders” in this critique of the demobilization of the grassroots.
Let me guess before I look: He’s taken a page out of the ME playbook: Iranians?

The International Criminal Court just denied Palestine the same thing. On recognition: that is one reason why Israel is so dead set against them gaining recognition, they can’t bring cases against israel. IIRC, they can only use the UN Human Rights Court. Ban has stripped any investigative bodies there of anyone who does meaningful work.

There was no problem with the Arab League Observers, except that they didn’t report what they were told to report. They reported on both sides, and said that the rebels were also killing the minorities and engaging in terrorism. Not helpful for political purposes.

he he.. me too.
I’m grinding it in my food processor. Even the grassfed beef hamburger I bought had an ammonia smell to it.

So, then, exactly when does premature ejaculation occur? So confusing.

Think Nixon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEA

And in a major assault on logic and women, AZ legislators are working to define pregnancy as beginning two weeks prior to conception.
LINK.

Thanks….meanwhile Penn kicks the kids off Medicaid. Back we go to the 12th century. pretty soon we’ll have to wear Chainses ( with hole at groin) to make sure nobody actually ENJOYS sex

We also have Stand your Ground, (stalking a prey is considered a form of “stand) The Voter ID electronic poll tax, which when Attorney General, corbett didn’t prosecute any voter fraud cases and the usual Grover Norquest disciples.

Perhaps if the advocates of single-payer health care had found a way to be louder and had been allowed more space by the D.C. insiders to be louder, the public option would have looked more like the moderate compromise that it was. Instead, since progressive voices were muted, the public option began to look unacceptably progressive.

Boy, that’s rich given that the Administration co-opted MoveOn and union leaders, many of whose members initially supported single-payer, maneuvered those organizations into dropping single payer demands in favor of a public option, and finally got them to trade in their public option signs for the simple demand that the ACA be passed. If the groups flattered into impotence by D.C. insiders had instead joined forces with HealthcareNow (Physicians for a National Health Program, CA nurses unions), single payer advocates would have been a lot louder. Jones doesn’t get across the fact that the MoveOn et al crowd wasn’t so much timid as easily suckered.

And yet Michael Wolff seems (justifiably) perplexed about something which, frankly, worries me a bit also:

Here’s the thing: Murdoch’s empire may be under siege in one of the most riveting business tales of our time – featuring wounded celebrities, a dynastic family drama, and toadying at the highest levels of government – but American journalism has been mostly absent from the story. At best, it has been a sidelined presence, late to the game, and generally confused about how to get ahead of events happening in another country. This is, arguably, the best thing Murdoch has going for him: in the US, the seat of his company and the main motor of his fortunes, he has been able to hide in plain sight.