Sheriff Dart: 5% of Chicago's Foreclosures DON'T Have Problems
The WaPo has a story on the growing realization that the banksters have been engaging in massive fraud to keep churning out foreclosures. It includes a detail about Chicago Sheriff Thomas Dart's refusal to enforce foreclosures I did not know:…
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Forever War
There are a lot of things wrong with Obama's apparently imminent decision to just let Khalid Sheikh Mohammed rot in jail without a formal trial.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, will probably…
Trash Talk: Last Call For The F1 Circus, Crunch Time in NCAA Football
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bmazA little late to the post with Trash this weekend, had an issue crop up last night after a long week. But we are getting down to crunch time in both Formula One, last race of the season and it will decide the Drivers' Crown, and it is now down…
It's Safer When You Don't Let the President Reflect for Himself
I am very very grateful that Ryan Grim exposed Bush as a plagiarist on Thursday.
When Crown Publishing inked a deal with George W. Bush for his memoirs, the publisher knew it wasn't getting Faulkner. But the book, at least, promises "gripping,…
Are Obama and Congress Set To Screw American Counties, Homeowners and Give Wall Street Mortgage Banksters a Retroactive Immunity Bailout?
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bmazThere are rapidly emerging signs the Obama Administration is actively, quickly and covertly working furiously on a plan to retroactively legitimize and ratify the shoddy, fraudulent and non-conforming conduct by MERS on literally millions of mortgages. they are again going to give a bailout and retroactive immunity to craven banks and financial institutions that have wrecked the economy
Richard Shelby's Selective Investigation
Let me make a rare statement: I agree with just about everything Richard Shelby said in his call for an investigation of mortgage servicers.
The Federal Banking Regulators should immediately review the mortgage servicing and foreclosure activities…
"The President Ultimately Made the Call"
GQ has another of those articles describing Eric Holder's failed efforts to restore DOJ's independence and sustain rule of law as Attorney General. There are a few new details in there -- such as details of what torture was described in the…
The Obama Disconnect: Arlington, Korea and Catfood
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bmazBarack Obama is in Korea lecturing Americans to suck it up and embrace the catfood at the same time Biden was left to represent the WH at the Arlington National Cemetery ceremony to honor America's Veterans; all so Obama could sell out American labor via a Korean free trade agreement. Dumbest politics ever.
David Axelrod's Quaint Idea of Middle Class "Security"
There's a lot to despise about David Axelrod's announcement of Obama's capitulation to the oligarchs on tax cuts, not least that he made this announcement on the same day Obama's Catfood Commission Chairs started the process of stealing from…
The Privatization of Citizen Informant Networks
Remember the former JSOC guy in charge of Homeland Security for PA who hired an Israeli-connected private intelligence company to collect information on environmentalists and peace activists? Well, it will surprise none of you that they were…
Torture? Check. Covering Up Torture? Check. Rule of Law? Nope.
I think it was the timing of the end of the torture investigation that hurts most of all. Just days ago, Harold Koh was boasting of the Durham investigation to the UN. Then Bush started his dog and pony show, including his proud admission to…
Government Trying to Fudge on Its Claim to Absolute Power
I'm working on a post on the news that DOJ will not charge Jose Rodriguez for destroying the torture tapes. But that's going to take a while (read the NYT on the news in the meantime).
In the meantime, though, I wanted to point to Adam Serwer's…
Darrell Issa Needs a New Baby-Sitter
If the Democratic Party wants to survive the next two years, it needs to find a new baby-sitter for Darrell Issa.
After all, no one was more gleefully prepared after the shellacking last Tuesday to take over and cause trouble for Democrats…
Mark Warner's Chocolate Fountain Remorse
Once upon a time in 2006, a dirty fucking hippie blogger had an opportunity to ask aspiring presidential candidate Mark Warner a few questions. Mark Warner had just dedicated part of a speech to talking about how Iran was the biggest WMD threat.…
Durham Torture Tape Case Dies, US Duplicity in Geneva & The Press Snoozes
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bmazJust how inattentive and asleep at the wheel does the government think the American media and citizenry are, to brazenly engage in the simultaneous duplicity of relying on the Durham investigation in Geneva for the UN UPR On Human Rights at the same moment it was using the Durham investigation to bleed out the statute of limitation on the primary jurisdiction of the investigation at home? Well, they think the media and people are completely asleep and, sadly, they are quite correct.
The War on Efficient Trash Collection
Normally, I wouldn't get into a shouting match between John Cole and his poster ED Kain. John started it when he objected to a revolt against a city council decision to contract with just one trash collector.
Our entire nation has collectively…
Cheney Pissed at Bush: Distraction with the Wrong Cover-Up
Today's news will be dominated with Bush's admission that Cheney was mad at him for not pardoning Libby.
Bush, in an interview aired Monday on TODAY, said Cheney was angry that Bush only commuted the sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, convicted…
Chris Christie Was Worst US Attorney for Big Spending on Travel
DOJ's Inspector General just released a report on whether or not US Attorneys were living it up on the government dime. It finds that five of the US Attorneys studied were the worst offenders for staying at luxury hotels and billing the government.…
Russia Pressures Us to Investigate Our Torture--Some of It
On Friday, Russia joined the growing list of country telling us to investigate our torture chambers. It may be more noteworthy coming from Russia given the turnabout: back in the day, of course, dissidents and the US pressured the Soviet Union…
Zenyatta! An LA Woman Runs For The Roses & History
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bmazThis weeks sports trash talk is dominated by a grand lady, Zenyatta. Win, lose or draw, she has earned the attention.