Monday, April 25, 2016
american democracy is conspicuously rigged...,
By CNu at April 25, 2016 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology , professional and managerial frauds , What IT DO Shawty...
tard-whisperer freely mixes truth and lies into an indigestible political stew...,
By CNu at April 25, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , identity politics , political theatre , professional and managerial frauds
in an age of privilege, not everyone is on the same boat...,
By CNu at April 25, 2016 0 comments
Labels: conspicuous consumption , global system of 1% supremacy , musical chairs
Sunday, April 24, 2016
is the university of wisconsin-madison the next mizzou?
As it relates to the recent arrest of the student, it is my belief that UW–Madison has taken appropriate steps to respond to our community’s concerns.
Chief Sue Riseling has apologized for UWPD entering the student’s classroom, commenced a review of departmental procedures and shared available footage of the incident to ensure transparency. The results of the investigation will be shared, when available.
Embedded in the student demands are requests for actions that I do not believe are reasonable, or even lawful, for me to take. In fact, several of the demands seek to apply authority that the university does not have under state law or UW System policies and procedures.
I intend to continue to address campus climate and race issues through the series ofconcrete steps that I outlined earlier this semester. We have not sat idly by as these problems have grown more difficult.
By CNu at April 24, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Cathedral , Collapse Casualties , doesn't end well , identity politics
Hon.Bro.Preznit tells BLM to sit down, assimilate, cooperate...,
By CNu at April 24, 2016 0 comments
Labels: assimilate , Cathedral , Obamamandian Imperative
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Granny Goodness a capo de tutti capi in that war-criminal life...,
By CNu at April 23, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Granny Goodness , unspeakable
Friday, April 22, 2016
why the sudden scrum around the 28 pages and document 17?
By CNu at April 22, 2016 0 comments
Labels: The Great Game , tricknology , What Now?
see, not awkward at all....,
By CNu at April 22, 2016 0 comments
Labels: not a good look , Obamamandian Imperative , The Great Game
money can't solve stupid, incompetent, self-serving, and mismanaged...,
By CNu at April 22, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , food-powered , make-work , unspeakable
u.s. military spending vs the world is crazy
By CNu at April 22, 2016 0 comments
Labels: doesn't end well , not a good look , unspeakable
Thursday, April 21, 2016
"If we let Americans sue Saudis for 9/11, foreigners will begin suing US non-stop"
By CNu at April 21, 2016 0 comments
Labels: American Original , corporatism , individual sovereignty , niggerization , Obamamandian Imperative , Rule of Law
oil, mining, and the state department created liberia and panama for tax evasion...,
By CNu at April 21, 2016 0 comments
Labels: American Original , Deep State , History's Mysteries , professional and managerial frauds , unspeakable , What IT DO Shawty...
military spending is the capitalist world's fuel...,
By CNu at April 21, 2016 0 comments
Labels: American Original , unspeakable , warsocialism
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
out of touch, losing control, and facing an imminent discontinuity...,
By CNu at April 20, 2016 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology , austerity , Collapse Casualties , doesn't end well , What Now?
the secret shame of middle-class americans...,
I don’t ask for or expect any sympathy. I am responsible for my quagmire—no one else. I didn’t get gulled into overextending myself by unscrupulous credit merchants. Basically, I screwed up, royally. I lived beyond my means, primarily because my means kept dwindling. I didn’t take the actions I should have taken, like selling my house and downsizing, though selling might not have covered what I owed on my mortgage. And let me be clear that I am not crying over my plight. I have it a lot better than many, probably most, Americans—which is my point. Maybe we all screwed up. Maybe the 47 percent of American adults who would have trouble with a $400 emergency should have done things differently and more rationally. Maybe we all lived more grandly than we should have. But I doubt that brushstroke should be applied so broadly. Many middle-class wage earners are victims of the economy, and, perhaps, of that great, glowing, irresistible American promise that has been drummed into our heads since birth: Just work hard and you can have it all.
If there is any good news, it is that even as wages have stagnated, a lot of things, especially durable goods like TVs and computers, have been getting steadily cheaper. So, by and large, has clothing (though prices have risen modestly in recent years). Housing costs, as measured by the price per square foot of a median-priced and median-sized home, have been stable, even accounting for huge variations from one real-estate market to another. But some things, like health care and higher education, cost more—a lot more. And, of course, these are hardly trivial items. Life happens, and it happens to cost a lot—sometimes more than we can pay.
Yet even that is not the whole story. Life happens, yes, but shit happens, too—those unexpected expenses that are an unavoidable feature of life. Four-hundred-dollar emergencies are not mere hypotheticals, nor are $2,000 emergencies, nor are … well, pick a number. The fact is that emergencies always arise; they are an intrinsic part of our existence. Financial advisers suggest that we save at least 10 to 15 percent of our income for retirement and against such eventualities. But the primary reason many of us can’t save for a rainy day is that we live in an ongoing storm. Every day, it seems, there is some new, unanticipated expense—a stove that won’t light, a car that won’t start, a dog that limps, a faucet that leaks. And those are only the small things. In a survey of American finances published last year by Pew, 60 percent of respondents said they had suffered some sort of “economic shock” in the past 12 months—a drop in income, a hospital visit, the loss of a spouse, a major repair. More than half struggled to make ends meet after their most expensive economic emergency. Even 34 percent of the respondents who made more than $100,000 a year said they felt strain as a result of an economic shock. Again, I know. After the job loss, the co‑op board’s rejections, the tax penalties, there was one more wallop: A publisher with whom I had signed a book contract, and from whom I had received an advance, sued me to have the advance returned after I missed a deadline. (Book deadlines are commonly missed and routinely extended.)
In effect, economics comes down to a great Bruce Eric Kaplan New Yorker cartoon that was captioned: “We thought it was a rough patch, but it turned out to be our life.”
By CNu at April 20, 2016 0 comments
Labels: austerity , Collapse Casualties , contraction
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
this let them eat cake brookings bat's vote is worth millions of you filthy peasants votes....,
By CNu at April 19, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , Livestock Management , Pimphand Strong , What IT DO Shawty...
State Power, or something else? (quote starts at 6:00 in:)
By CNu at April 19, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Open Thread
cities
By CNu at April 19, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Open Thread
Monday, April 18, 2016
u.s. elections are rigged and voting goes on just to pacify the peasants...,
By CNu at April 18, 2016 0 comments
Labels: People Centric Leadership , The Hardline , truth
to protect Granny Goodness, democrats wage war on their own core Citizens United argument...,
For the reasons explained above, we now conclude that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.
By CNu at April 18, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Clintonian Imperative , corporatism , Granny Goodness , psychopathocracy
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