“You don’t need a TV. You don’t need a radio. You don’t even need a newspaper,” says Mr. Pitts, an aspiring poet in a purple cap and yellow fleece jacket, who says he has been homeless for two years. “But you need the Internet…”
And for the record, she (Trudeau) has two points wrong, first, they were money changers, not money lenders (their’s a huge difference that is only clear when you understand the system) and second, the whole wrathful/loving gawd stereotype is blatantly simplistic.
Isn”t America great! If you”re rich, that is. Ask the Randy Lerner family. Happy billionaires. Our welfare burden.
Here”s a case where Cleveland people subsidize one of its wealthiest families. The reverse philanthropy has gone over the $100 million so far. And yet, so long a way to go.
I asked the City of Cleveland for an accounting of how much the city has paid to bondholders for the Browns Stadium since 1997. The total came to $102,823,948.58, according to the Finance Dept. documents.
The city faces financing costs of another $160,367,109.48 in bond payments to be made until November 15, 2027, according to a refinancing done in 2007.
The Browns Stadium – a property tax free facility – is used almost exclusively used by the team owner. That means Randy Lerner and his family. Randy – worth a billion and a half dollars – is the son of Al Lerner. Al ironically was the principal person who helped Art Modell move the team to Baltimore. Not only will the stadium never pay property taxes but the lakefront land was donated free by the city. Continue Reading »
And now you want me to be a good girl and not make any trouble by demanding some answers on basic questions of vital importance to women? Sotomayor was first nominated to the federal bench by G.H.W. Bush. What did he see in her that made her an acceptable choice?
Don”t tell me that her gender means she”ll support women”s issues. Sarah Palin is also female. Don”t tell me her race means she”ll be receptive to cases of discrimination. Clarence Thomas is also a person of color. I want to know about the judge inside the breasts and brown skin. Tell me about her convictions and her deeply held beliefs on human dignity and bodily sovereignty.
I”m very afraid that in an effort to win a gold star for non-partisanship he”ll sell out the Left the same way his predecessors have. To hell with all the patter; I want a litmus test and I deserve to know if she”s pink or blue.
Color Coughlin screwed. Elected officials do this all the time – threaten lawsuits for plainly protected speech. Other people do it, too, knowing they have no leg to stand on, and betting their target backs down. If Renner prevails against Coughlin, and his story is declared by a court to be lawful, it will set a precedent that others will follow, and will make it harder for intimidation tactics like lawsuit threats to work.
Liberal Tolerance is the long war, it’s the long game. It’s Barack Obama, at his core. Liberal tolerance–not Jesse Helms–argued for interracial unions. Liberal tolerance is what allowed Obama to neutralize Rev. Wright, and make his race speech. Liberal tolerance is what allowed him to go to Notre Dame and talk with empathy about abortion. Liberal tolerance bets on the future. It presages that world (the world of today) that the GOP has spent very little time preparing for.
And no, I’m not talking about the money flowing among the players in this civil cluster fuck.
From an environmental point of view the best choice is to not build a un-needed and guaranteed to be as under utilized as the Brown’s stadium convention center at all, but if there’s no way to stop the pigs slurping at the public trough from building yet another mistake on the lake, then David Beach at least makes the case that it ought to be:
[A]n opportunity to stretch the imagination about what buildings are and how they can perform. And they can become visible icons for a new kind of green city.
Good luck with that David.
From Foreign Policy:
Many miners, just as this one on May 24, also have sores on their upper backs and shoulders due to carrying so many heavy loads. Many don’t mind the health hazards, however, because money is priority No. 1.
“[H]ealth is number 10. What matters is to earn money and be working,” one miner told the Jakarta Post. Meanwhile, a 2007 study found that acidic water from the lake had contaminated nearby rivers and wells in an area where 50,000 people lived. Locals were suffering from tooth decay and bone degeneration. Agricultural production was also adversely affected.
But I’d never be able to spell it either.
That said, it’s interesting to note the difference in tone between GOP figures with something at stake (people who have to win elections) and those who have nothing at stake. Newt has a megaphone, but he has no real responsibility. He can yell whatever he wants. He’s got books to hustle, dog—not Senators to elect.
A reader’s comment to the Wassila, Alaska Frontiersman:”
After months of Sarah Palin and Levi Johnson, Ron Hamman has accomplished what we thought was impossible: made Alaska and Wasilla look even stupider.
So either Coughlin confirms under oath that he is a serial philanderer and election law violator, or Coughlin has to perjure himself. And given the number of sources in Renner”s initial story who confirm it, and will be forced to do so under oath, with Coughlin the only one denying it, I suspect Coughlin will tell the truth. Or perhaps Coughlin can continue to lie and be subject to perjury. Fun!
Talk about an epic FAIL. This whole thing would have been avoided if Kevin Coughlin just let a story run in a minor alt weekly. Had it run, the story would have been litigated in the court of public opinion, not a court of law. Coughlin could have simply dismissed it as some random tabloid thingy, thumbing his nose all the way. But now, Coughlin”s gonna be under oath about every woman-not-his-wife he”s canoodled with, and all the threats he issued to potential witnesses to cover it up. Not to mention the election law violations, which are under investigation already.
Don”t know if you noticed but in articles about the Chinese investors taking a minority share in the Cavaliers it is always mentioned that the stake is in the team AND THE ARENA.
As a matter of fact, Dan Gilbert, owner of Quicken Loans and the Cavs, doesn”t own Quicken Arena. Therefore it would be rather difficult for him to sell a share or the Chinese investors to buy a share.
It”s not his to give; not theirs to take.
The New York Times wrote recently that “The deal that may give a group of Chinese investors a minority stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers and its arena signals the first significant investment in a major American sports franchise by investors from China.”
The Q, as it is known, is owned by the Gateway Economic Development Corp., a non-profit organization set up to operate both the arena and Progressive Field. Continue Reading »
Why do we believe and cling to these seemingly unimportant nuggets of information? Why is it so difficult for us to accept that reading in poor light won’t ruin our eyesight and we don’t actually need to drink eight glasses of water each day? Turns out, we’re pretty likely to side with the things our doctors and parents have told us, myths we’ve seen reinforced with our own eyes, even when research tells us to believe otherwise.
“People often take rumors or anecdotes as fact,” says Vreeman. “We tend to give those things as much weight as we would a scientific study because they’re connected to people in charge. We sometimes reason things out after the fact, come up with patterns to explain what we saw happen.”
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