Wikileaks Striking Again?

AMERICAblog News: WikiLeaks to publish leaked details of 'a big US bank'

Judges Not Even Looking at Foreclosure Cases

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell

LOL

Priceless

Comcast to put Tolls on Netflix

I don't much care for Comcast, but don't have the joy to be a customer. But if we don't get Net Neutrality, we'll putting up with this shit for a long time (til there's a revolt like we got in the phone biz in the 80s). Look at your home phone bill or your mobile bill and ask yourself if you want that kind of nickel and dime shit on a wide variety of the sites you visit.

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I just love the title of this DailyKos post

Daily Kos: Conservative war on twentieth century continues apace

Repugs Block Unemployment Extension

Fuck them all, and the tax cuts they all worship. Unemployment payments are about the most stimulative expenditure the govt makes (food stamps are the most) and tax cuts are the least (see GAO and CBO for data) The Republicans drove us into this ditch and wont get us out by balancing the fucking budget, no matter what their little ignorant pea-brains think.

Scary New Repugs

A couple are well known (Tim Griffin, Allen West), the rest are unknown (at least to me!) They all are scary.

Federal Wage Freeze (How'd that work out the last time?)

This may be the dumbest idea in two years of dumb ideas. One, it is anti-stimulative in an economy that needs more stim not less. Two, it will move the deficit meter about and angstrom closer to balanced, but won't have any real effect at all (except on the government employees it screws.) I guess it was the one of the... few things Obama could just 'do' so he did it, whether it was effective or not; had to get into the optics game, I guess. Where's John Edwards when we need him?

See also Jed @ dKos

Christie is a Moron and a Blowhard

APNewsBreak: NJ must pay $271M for killing tunnel | AP | 11/29/2010

Holder Announces Criminal Investigation of Wall Street

I know it won't amount to much of anything (how can you seriously investigate your 'employers'?), but it's a good sign, on a symbolic level, if nothing else.

Oy! Once more, the Mormon strain goes viral in the body politic.

Meet Our Newest Theocrat: Christian Fundamentalist Senator Mike Lee Goes to Washington

Wikileaks

A variety of links to various impressions on the WikiLeaks dump. The one that strikes me as the most interesting is the near unanimity of Middle East countries that wanted or urged the US to do 'something' about Iran. Wow.

Try not to strangle anything after reading this

The war in Afghanistan enters Joseph Heller territory

Rule #1

Don't get Krugman riled up. Paul Ryan is an idiot, but you knew that already :)

Brilliant!

London defense specialist takes on over-reaction and our current approach to the WoT. Key bit:

The world may be chaotic. But we are part of that chaos. Except in atypical circumstances, the military is not a surgical tool of political engineering, but a bludgeon wielded by specialists in violence. We therefore don't have the power to alter the political condition of others at our own timetable.
If we want to contain own worst enemy, it is time to look in the mirror.

Wish I'd had this for yesterday

Crazy Time!

Matt Taibbi does what he does best- provoke interesting thoughts. Gergen and Hart? Not so much.

US in Afghanistan longer than Soviets

War in Afghanistan destroyed the Soviet Empire and nearly did in the British Empire (we'll leave out the Roman and Persian Empires....) Let's not let it do the same to the American Republic.

Take THAT, Tony Perkins

FRC is now officially a hate group.

Scowcroft Mystified

Well, frustrated is more like. He seems to nail the reason for Repug intransigence pretty well:

"It's not clear to me what it is," said Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush who noted that this START treaty is not very different from previous ones negotiated and ratified under Republican presidents. "I've got to think that it's the increasingly partisan nature and the desire for the president not to have a foreign policy victory."

Sums it up. Fuck the country or, in this case, the world, we want Obama to fail.