Posted on November 9, 2009 by bostonboomer
Good Morning, Conflucians! This morning more than ever, I’m so grateful for all of you, and so glad we have this blog where we can discuss, argue and rant about politics and news events. I can’t begin to imagine what I would have done with out TC and all of you Conflucians over [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Cost of Sexism, Failbots, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gender Equity, Health Care Reform, abortion, broken promises | Tagged: broken promises, DINOs, Fort Hood massacre, Health Care Reform, Morning News Links, women's rights are human rights | 116 Comments »
Posted on November 5, 2009 by dakinikat
And it wasn’t Lassie that got the phone call.
I’m reading what is undoubtedly the most odd set of posts in the finance/econ blogs that I’ve read in some time. Frankly, I’m not sure what to make of it so I’ll just turn to one of the participants Yves Smith in a thread called “Curious Meeting [...]
Filed under: Blogosphere | Tagged: Timothy Geithner, treasury blogger meeting, Treasury Department | 31 Comments »
Posted on October 30, 2009 by bostonboomer
Good Morning Conflucians!!! It’s Friday and on top of that it’s Halloween Eve! And I’m looking forward to the TC Halloween party tonight, hosted by Stateofdisbelief! I hope to see you all there. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Rico, the bartender. Perhaps he’ll put in an appearance at the [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Politics, broken promises | Tagged: al Quaeda, banksters, David Plouffe, Halloween, Hillary Clinton, Honduras, Morning News Links, Pakistan, rape, violence against Women | 49 Comments »
Posted on October 20, 2009 by bostonboomer
The Obama administration’s betrayals of liberalism are ubiquitous. Has he ever kept a single one of his campaign promises? They could hardly be called promises anyway, since Obama had such a long history of voting “present” before he ran for President. Way back in January, 2008, I was asking Obama supporters to [...]
Filed under: Al Franken, Barack Obama, Blogosphere, broken promises, we told you so | Tagged: Barack Obama, Al Franken, Obama supporters, Sam Stein, violence against Women, suckers, Goldman Sachs, Huffington Post, Public Option, betrayal of liberalism, Bob Herbert, rape supporters | 86 Comments »
Posted on October 13, 2009 by bostonboomer
This morning at The Nation John Nichols sternly reprimands the Obama administration for its attempts to control “left of left” bloggers with humiliating “off the record” remarks from anonymous administration sources, as well as its childish “war” with Fox News Network
Nichols writes:
…before the president and his inner circle go all Spiro Agnew on us, they [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Dick Cheney, Media, Politics | Tagged: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Fox News, John Nichols, Media, The New Republic | 41 Comments »
Posted on October 7, 2009 by riverdaughter
Ruh-Roh, we’ve been caught. The FTC recently passed new regulations on bloggers. From now on, if someone gives us something to review or asks for our endorsement of a product for some kind of renumeration, we have to admit it up front. I know, I know, you’re probably wondering why the FTC wasn’t on top [...]
Filed under: Blogosphere | Tagged: advertisment, Apple, Bloggers, disclosure, free stuff, FTC, Macbook Pro 15 inch | 52 Comments »
Posted on September 27, 2009 by dakinikat
I was going to do a nice staid article about the Fed and regulation but frankly it’s a nice sunny, tropical Sunday down here and it just doesn’t seem kind to overwhelm my brain or yours with Barky Frankisms and tales from the crypt of A(ll)yn Greenspan. I scoured my usual sites for inspiration over [...]
Filed under: Blogosphere, Conflucians Say | Tagged: Blogosphere, echo chambers | 42 Comments »
Posted on September 21, 2009 by Steven Mather
Gay-Lussac
The pressure of a fixed mass and fixed volume of a gas is directly proportional to the gas’s temperature.
This relationship is known as the Gay-Lussac’s Law and a pressure cooker is an example of the law in practice. Cooking under pressure creates the possibility of cooking with high temperature liquids because the boiling point of [...]
Filed under: Bad Bank, Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Campaign Finance Reform, Clinton Derangement Syndrome, Cost of Sexism, Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, Economy, FISA, Financial Meltdown of 2008, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gender Equity, General, Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Justice, LGBT rights, Liberalism, Politics, Recession/Depression 2008, Single Payer, Social Media, astroturf, big pharma, broken promises, choice, collective action, corruption, culture, feminism, financial bailout, foreign policy, government, racism | Tagged: bailout, civic virtue, civil liberties, civility, ethics, Health Care Reform, moral hazard, morality, Politics, recession, Single Payer, TARP | 18 Comments »
Posted on September 18, 2009 by bostonboomer
Good morning everyone! These are the news stories that caught my eye this morning. Be sure to add your own links in the comments.
The All-Encompassing Health Care Nightmare
Boston Globe: Democrats oppose tax in health bill
To pay for the 10-year, $856 billion bill Baucus wants to tax high-value insurance plans, those worth $21,000 for [...]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Clowns, Health Care Reform, Morning News edition, Politics | Tagged: Afghanistan, Crime, Health Care Reform, Iran, Max Baucus, missle defense, Morning News Links, NATO, Poland, Russia, torture | 47 Comments »
Posted on September 6, 2009 by littleisis
If only he was! We might be getting real Health Care Reform right now. Google defines a Socialism as follows
socialism (uncountable)
Any of various political philosophies that support social and economic equality, collective decision-making, and public control of productive capital and natural resources, as advocated by socialists.
The socialist political philosophies as a group, including Marxism, [...]
Filed under: Blogosphere | Tagged: Politics | 54 Comments »
