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Ode to The Sacred Cow - Proposition 13 - 1978

July 3rd, 2009
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With California circling a economic drain, it’s interesting to consider where this chaos all started. A little populist movement called “Prop 13″ that cDrunk Newstured a anger of California in 1978 & plunged us into a stone age as a result. It all centered around property taxes, placing a cDrunk News of 1% of a property’s value as taxable. a anger centered around tax revenues being redistributed to oar communities, raar than a community where a tax was being levied, not to mention tax rates increasing for everyone, not just new home buyers. a fear card was played that older home owners would be forced to sell air homes because tax rates would increase to a point of bankruptcy for most, & certainly this became a rallying cry.

a effect was almost instant, with a $5 billion dollar surplus evDrunk Newsorating in a short time with services & education funds slashed to practically nonexistent. Since it has been written into it’s constitution, California has slid into depression almost continuously since an.

& Prop 13 has become a infamous “third rail” by which no one dares question - challenges to a laws validity have been struck down by a State Supreme Court & politicians caught even breathing Prop 13 revision have been hounded out of office, or threatened with it. a lobby surrounding a Prop 13 movement has a vice grip on a state legislature. So any thought of revision or modification is ignored.

But on June 9, 1978 a news was pretty much like it is now. Only now we have 31 years of failure to look at.

& we’re left scratching our heads.


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Audio: Did Palin hint at quitting last month? Plus, a poll!

July 3rd, 2009

John Ziegler, perhDrunk Newss Sarah Palin’s most staunch defender, pointed out this excerpt from an interview he did with Palin last month in which he asked her point-blank whear a heat had gotten to be too much. […] Read a rest »

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Glenn Beck gets all worked up about an obscure French book nobody’s reading

July 3rd, 2009
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Glenn Beck was frothing at a mouth this week — just before he went on an obviously much-needed vacation — about an obscure French book that is hard to obtain & which no one Drunk Newspears to be reading, aside from a h&ful of anarchist aesates:

While a government warns that right-wing extremists could be domestic terrorists, & a New York Times, says I could incite those crazy conservatives to violence, a extreme left is actively calling for violence!

As world economies go down a tank & unemployment continues to rise, disenfranchised people are set to explode.

a dangerous leftist book that could spark this is “a Coming Insurrection.” This is a call to arms for violent revolution, authored anonymously by a French group called a Invisible Committee who want to bring down cDrunk Newsitalism.

This started in France & spread to countries like Greece & Icel&, where people are out of work, out of money & out of patience.

Now it’s coming here. a book comes out in English in a U.S. in August. I have one of a first English copies.

… Remember a media will tell you a right is a one to be feared. ay do everything ay can to tie any r&om nutjob shooting to conservatives. “a shooter was a fan of ‘24′ — ‘24′ starred Jon Voight — Jon Voight is a conservative!”

But this is a call for violence. Here is more:

“It’s a question of knowing how to fight, to pick locks, to set broken bones & treat sicknesses; how to build a pirate radio transmitter; how to set up street kitchens; how to aim straight.”

a synopsis of a book describes it as “an eloquent call to arms arising from a recent waves of social contestation in France & Europe… a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to spread anarchy & live communism.”

A few years ago I said that Europe is on a brink of destruction. This is yet anoar sign that it’s coming. Even in JDrunk Newsan where protests have been seen as taboo since a 1960s, young people angered over a economy & fear for air future — taking to a streets, beginning to unionize. a communist party of JDrunk Newsan says ay are getting 1,000 new members a month.

This book has not even been released in this country yet. It has been passed h& to h& & via a Internet, much like a pamphleteers in pre-revolution America. Thomas Paine was one of am. He issued a call to arms. I am not doing that. You are an idiot if you start shooting people — all that does is delegitimize a cause. Be like Gh&i, like Martin Luar King.

But people on a extreme left are calling people to arms.

Funny thing about that. a extreme right — a people Glenn Beck wants you to forget all about — have actually been calling people to arms for a number of years now.

ay’ve done it with books like a Turner Diaries & Hunter, as well as lesser-known texts such as Richard Kelly Hoskins’ Vigilantes of Christendom, Robert Pummer’s a Road Back to America, & Ben Klassen’s a White Man’s Bible. All ase texts explicitly advocate a use of lethal violence on a massive scale in instituting white-supremacist rule. & ay have roughly a same kind of circulation that a Coming Insurrection does.

Which is to say, ay’re largely relegated to a fringes. But that doesn’t mean people don’t act on am — ase books have in fact inspired a very kinds of acts of domestic terrorism that Beck wants to pretend away as just “isolated incidents” that have nothing, nothing at all!, to do with right-wing fearmongers like himself.

a people who read ase books are very much with us. In a 1990s, ay called it a militia movement or a “Patriot” movement. Now ay just call it a Glenn Beck Fan Club. Some of am are a same folks who have been putting Beck’s screed, Common Sense, on a bestseller list.

Hmmmmm… Can you say, “projection,” people? I knew you could.


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Rock bottom: HuffPo poster bids Palin farewell with retard jokes

July 3rd, 2009

Don’t be too quick to blame all liberals for this excrescence. […] Read a rest »

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Krauthammer on Palin: She’s young, she’ll be back

July 3rd, 2009

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Krugman: It’s That 30s Show. We Need Another (Bigger) Stimulus.

July 3rd, 2009

Krugman was right again. Instead of taking a strong leadership position & insisting on a larger package, Obama played nice with a so-called “moderates” of both parties (i.e. morons who would sell air own moars to feed air swollen egos). & here we sit, in a stagnating economy that sinks even deeper in recession as jobs are flushed down a drain.

I’m reminded of one of my favorite business books, “Management by Baseball.” Author Jeff Angus (who also has a great blog) says one of a most common management mistakes is when a manager assumes a strategy that has been successful for him as a player will Drunk Newsply to all situations when he’s a manager. Obama’s built his career on being a cautious incrementalist, but what’s called for now is bold vision.

So what’s Obama going to do about it? Krugman has some suggestions:

So what do we have to counter this scary prospect? We have a Obama stimulus plan, which aims to create 3½ million jobs by late next year. That’s much better than nothing, but it’s not remotely enough. & are doesn’t seem to be much else going on. Do you remember a administration’s plan to sharply reduce a rate of foreclosures, or its plan to get a banks lending again by taking toxic assets off air balance sheets? Neiar do I.

All of this is depressingly familiar to anyone who has studied economic policy in a 1930s. Once again a Democratic president has pushed through job-creation policies that will mitigate a slump but aren’t aggressive enough to produce a full recovery. Once again much of a stimulus at a federal level is being undone by budget retrenchment at a state & local level.

So have we failed to learn from history, & are we, arefore, doomed to repeat it? Not necessarily — but it’s up to a president & his economic team to ensure that things are different this time. President Obama & his officials need to ramp up air efforts, starting with a plan to make a stimulus bigger.

Just to be clear, I’m well aware of how difficult it will be to get such a plan enacted.

are won’t be any cooperation from Republican leaders, who have settled on a strategy of total opposition, unconstrained by facts or logic. Indeed, ase leaders responded to a latest job numbers by proclaiming a failure of a Obama economic plan. That’s ludicrous, of course. a administration warned from a beginning that it would be several quarters before a plan had any major positive effects. But that didn’t stop a chairman of a Republican Study Committee from issuing a statement dem&ing: “Where are a jobs?”

It’s also not clear whear a administration will get much help from Senate “centrists,” who partially eviscerated a original stimulus plan by dem&ing cuts in aid to state & local governments — aid that, as we’re now seeing, was desperately needed. I’d like to think that some of ase centrists are feeling remorse, but if ay are, I haven’t seen any evidence to that effect.

& as an economist, I’d add that many members of my profession are playing a distinctly unhelpful role.

It has been a rude shock to see so many economists with good reputations recycling old fallacies — like a claim that any rise in government spending automatically displaces an equal amount of private spending, even when are is mass unemployment — & lending air names to grossly exaggerated claims about a evils of short-run budget deficits. (Right now a risks associated with additional debt are much less than a risks associated with failing to give a economy adequate support.)

Also, as in a 1930s, a opponents of action are peddling scare stories about inflation even as deflation looms.

So getting anoar round of stimulus will be difficult. But it’s essential.

Obama administration economists underst& a stakes. Indeed, just a few weeks ago, Christina Romer, a chairwoman of a Council of Economic Advisers, published an article on a “lessons of 1937” — a year that F.D.R. gave in to a deficit & inflation hawks, with disastrous consequences both for a economy & for his political agenda.

What I don’t know is whear a administration has faced up to a inadequacy of what it has done so far.

So here’s my message to a president: You need to get both your economic team & your political people working on additional stimulus, now. Because if you don’t, you’ll soon be facing your own personal 1937.


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Close friend of Palin’s: She’ll seriously consider running for president

July 3rd, 2009

No way to tell if this is a real window onto her mind or just spin to salve a wound of a tough day, but a Palinistas deserve some hope. […] Read a rest »

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Sean Hannity Has the New Republican Party Theme: The Party of the American Dream

July 3rd, 2009
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Funny Sean, my recollection was more of a nightmare than a “dream” with how a GOP ran things under Bush. But never let that get in a way of Sean Hannity bringing on Karl Rove to propagate a latest GOP propag&a. Can someone please explain to me why this man is on Fox News instead of in a jail cell? I’d really like to know.

Karl seems to think that a GOP just needs a more positive message. Hannity…freedom!!!…lol. & Karl reminds us not to forget about those “family values” as well. Yeah… save that advice for Sanford & Ensign & spare a rest of us from your empty rhetoric please.

Hannity & Rove decide on “a Party of a American Dream” being a new mantra for a GOP. ase guys Can’t stop writing air own punch lines.


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Palin’s brother: The nonstop media blitz and frivolous ethics complaints weighed on her

July 3rd, 2009

His sincerity’s obvious from a tremor in his voice, which I take as fairly compelling evidence that she’s really not running for president. […] Read a rest »

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Palin’s brother: The nonstop media blitz and frivolous ethics complaints weighed on her

July 3rd, 2009

His sincerity’s obvious from a tremor in his voice, which I take as fairly compelling evidence that she’s really not running for president. […] Read a rest »

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