Nothing Sunday

  Due to problems with my diabetes, and the fact that I am tired of hearing/writing about the debt ceiling battle between our political parties, I’m taking a day off to do nothing but chill and enjoy the air conditioner.

  Good day all.

Technorati Tags: Politics,An American Gothic,Current Events

Republicans Are Communists, Period!

  Corporate Communists, that is.

  Do you dumb Republican supporters need any more proof than this that the Republican>Conservative>Tea Party is only out to help their corporate masters on Wall Street to fuck you over once again?

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officially opened its doors Thursday, the House was considering legislation that could restrict its authority to act against abuses of the financial system.

Republican sponsors of the bill say they are simply trying to promote transparency and accountability in the agency that was created a year ago as part of President Barack Obama's overhaul of the rules governing financial markets.

But the White House has threatened to veto the legislation, saying it would expose consumers to the same risks that led to the 2008 financial meltdown. The Democratic-controlled Senate is unlikely to take it up.

"The Republican majority," said Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., at the opening of the debate, would like the American people to believe that a near-financial collapse never happened."

  The Republicans want to create a 5 member bipartisan panel and the bill would basically make it easier for other financial regulators to block the agency from issuing new regulations which would help you from getting screwed over by the titans of Wall Street and the big banks.

   Maybe I should consider a switch over to Republicanism as it seems to pay very well while you screw over your next door neighbor.

Technorati Tags: Republicans,Tea Party,Politics,Wall Street,Big Banks,Consumer Protections,Financial Regulation,Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

 

Friday Funnies: Murdoch Edition

  The hell with the debt ceiling debates. Obama is going to end up screwing us just like his Republican friends and he have been doing since 2008. One more time: EraseYourDebt.com  Problem solved!

Conan O'Brien: "While testifying in parliament, Rupert Murdoch was attacked by a man who threw a pie and yelled insulting names. Murdoch immediately gave the man a show on Fox News."

Jay Leno: "Rupert Murdoch said yesterday at the House of Commons that he was shocked, appalled, and ashamed. So apparently he watches Fox News, too."

"Rupert Murdoch testified today before the House of Commons. He said he was not responsible for the phone hacking scandal. Did you hear his defense? He said he's got AT&T so he can barely listen to anybody."

"A Harvard University ethics student was caught hacking into MIT's computer network. When he heard about it, Rupert Murdoch said, 'Hire that kid on the spot.'"

Craig Ferguson: "The Murdochs testified before parliament and did something that not many powerful people would have the courage to do: They blamed others."

"I think it's cowardly to attack an 80–year–old man with a pie. If the attacker had any courage, he'd go after Murdoch like I do: in the middle of the night from 5,000 miles away."

Jimmy Fallon: Rupert Murdoch was testifying in his phone hacking case today, and a man attacked him with a pie. Fortunately, Murdoch knew to move out of the way, because he heard about the plan on the guy's voicemail."

Jimmy Kimmel:"I don't think Rupert Murdoch's guilty of phone hacking. He paid $580 million for Myspace. Obviously he knows nothing about technology."

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Forget The Debt Ceiling, ALEC Is What You Should Worry About

  ALEC is the enemy within, make no mistake about that. Go Here to see why this group should be prosecuted in the United States.

   ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. We agree. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door.    Source

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