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TAX AND SPEND:

Banks pay off TARP loans by borrowing from another government program. Just watch the right hand. Don't watch the left.

Boehner accuses Obama of creating a crisis atmosphere. It's about time Republicans stood up to that creep. I'm no fan of Republicans, but the way the media, Democrats and even Republicans have played nicey-nice with him disgusts me. It looks like CBS is doing a hit piece on Boehner, trying to make him look like a wimp. I don't believe it. He's a weasel, always trying to compromise his way to greater wealth and power, but I don't think he's intimidated by Obama for a second.

REGULATION:

Quotas on the number of women in the board room will ruin the status of women, relegating them to affirmative action status.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The problem with government gold standards summed up: they lie. The people should determine what is money, not the government.

A decade or so ago, I wrote a cyber-punk story that featured the all-seeing eye of law enforcement. Nobdoy was interested. Today we have the hive-mind of facial recognition.

"As The Boston Globe reports, Massachussetts resident John H. Gass had his license revoked after the facial recognition Hive Mind deemed him an un-Person. Glass had done nothing, though – other than being tardy opening his mail, including a threatening letter from the Massachussetts Registry of Motor Vehicles demanding that he prove the guy pictured on his DL was, in fact, him.

Here’s where it gets interesting – and depressing.

Gass had already established his identity – apparently, to the satisfaction of the state motor vehicle authorities – at the time his license was originally issued. Just like everyone else who applies for a DL.

Now it – well, a computer – demanded he prove it again. On his nickel. On his own time."

Maybe my story was too mundane. Or maybe it sucked.

WAR:

Apparently the home-grown Norwegian terrorist was rabidly anti-Muslim.

"The children he massacred had held a pro-Palestinian rally the day before, and the Norwegian government planned to recognize Palestine and get out of Libya, both acts eliciting the hatred of neocons."

Everybody's got a nut. This guy just gave government the excuse it needed to treat all of us as criminals, which it was doing without an excuse before. All we're going to hear about for the next year and a half is right-wing extremism.

POLITICS:

Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell are proposing a super-congress: a committee of the top dogs of both parties in both chambers so they can fast track legislation past those pesky tea partiers throwing a wrench in the big government machine. I don't buy the propaganda about cutting entitlements. Boehner's on board too.

Another example showing politicians are freaks.

MEDIA:

Glenn Beck compares the teens killed in the Norway terrorist attack to the Hitler youth.

"There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler youth. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."

Wow.

LOCAL:

Obama's fear-mongering about him cutting off funds to seniors is scaring local seniors.

MISC:

It turns out bitcoin is not anonymous. Oops.

Remember when scientists told us definitively that the moon was volcanically dead? I hope so, because that was just yesterday. Today they've discovered volcanoes. Next to meteorologists and economists, scientists the experts who never have to say they're sorry for being wrong. I bet the experts who claimed the world is flat never ate crow either. What a crock.