So Lou Reed and Metallica have teamed up to create an album. Wait, it gets weirder. The artists have recorded a series of songs that Reed wrote for a German theater group’s production of 19th century playwright Frank Wedekind’s so-called Lulu plays. The first single off the resulting album, Lulu, features meandering lyrics set over
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Bravo reality star Patti Stanger makes waves while promoting her ‘Millionaire Matchmaker’ show – with her comments about gays, jews and NY women. Here’s what she recently said to The AP. (Sept. 26)
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A Chicago woman has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in Indiana seeking damages for the death of her same-sex partner in a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair last month. (Sept. 26)
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One of two police officers charged with killing a mentally ill, homeless man in Southern California pleaded not guilty Monday to second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. (Sept. 26
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A Republican group at the University of California, Berkeley has cooked up controversy with a plan to hold an “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” as a way to oppose legislation that would allow public colleges to consider race in student admissions. (Sept. 26)
Continue reading …Bloomberg Blames Lack of Confidence on the Threat of Bankers Going to Prison
September 26, 2011 No Comment
Click here to view this media (h/t Heather at VideoCafe) Can I just state for the record that I’m sick and tired of this oligarchal fetish of the establishment media to ask people to opine on the economy simply because they’re wealthy. Seriously. Does anyone think that Michael Bloomberg (the 12th most wealthy American according to Forbes) really feels the pinch of the economy? Hell no, his standing has gone up a notch from the Forbes 400 in 2010. So where is Bloomberg’s priority, improving the economy for the little guys or protecting the status quo? If you haven’t guessed the answer by now, Bloomberg’s rationalization for the fact that bankers–despite getting bailed out by U.S. taxpayers AND offering record bonuses to executives–aren’t loaning money should clue you in: Well, nobody has any confidence. If you’re a bank and you have money, would you make a loan when people are talking about putting you in jail for what happened in the mortgage crisis three, four years ago? You hunker down. Wait….who is talking about putting bankers in jail–other than the protestors of OccupyWallStreet, who the media studiously ignores? And I love the dismissive way that Bloomberg refers to that silly little mortgage crisis three, four years ago….like it didn’t bring the entire world to the brink of financial collapse. How nitpicky to want anyone to be held accountable. If you’re a business, would you go take a loan and expand and hire more people when every day there’s talk about different regulation, different tax policy? Business has to know what it’s going to be in the future to plan because hiring people is a long-term commitment. Damnit, now I KNOW Bloomberg is full of crap. Repeat after me: businesses are not hiring because there’s not enough demand. It has NOTHING to do with regulations (help me, which regulations are these–the ones that limit your ability to sell off portions of mortgages as credit default swaps or the ones that try to protect the fragile ecosystem of the Gulf from another oil spill? Oh wait….) or taxes, which haven’t been raised on anyone. This shows how blind to the demand side Bloomberg and the elite class are in their continual grasping of even more of the nation’s wealth. If you’re an individual, would you go take that extra vacation, buy a new house and that sort of thing when you’re not sure whether Washington is going to do what’s right to keep job creation going in America? That’s the–in the end, it is confidence, confidence, confidence. Extra vacation? New house? Dude, those 50 percent of Americans who are not paying federal income taxes don’t know if they can pay rent AND buy groceries. There’s no confidence that the uber-wealthy won’t make things even more unequal, because without those regulations you fear-monger, there’s little stopping them. That’s where the lack of confidence comes from. But hey, let’s get another billionaire on television to grouse about the uncertainty of regulations and taxes being the cause of problems. I’m sure that’s EXACTLY what the corporate media wants you to believe.
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Click here to view this media Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Monday that it would be “foolish” to normalize trade with Cuba because Hezbollah could soon have “missile sites” there. “Why would you normalize trade with a country that sponsors terror?” the candidate asked a crowd of supporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “There is reports that have come out that Cuba has been working with another terrorist organization called Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran and, of course, when you are 90 miles offshore from Florida, you don’t want to entertain the prospect of hosting bases or sites where Hezbollah could have training camps or perhaps have missile sites or weapons sites in Cuba. ” Bachmann was most likely basing her fear on an unsubstantiated report from the Italian publican Corriere della Sera , which was picked up by numerous conservative websites earlier this month (see here , here , here and here .) Even if that report were true, it makes absolutely no mention of “missile sites.” Bachmann then pivoted to explain that Republicans didn’t need to worry about picking the most electable nominee because the country had already decided not to re-elect President Barack Obama. “I’m just here to tell you, Barack Obama will be a one-term president,” she said. “The country has already made up it’s decision. I am convinced of it. The issue is who will be our nominee? Will it be someone who understands these issues so they will go and fight for them or will we have a compromise candidate?” “Because we have candidates that have said that when it comes to Obamacare that their plan is to issue an executive order or to issue a waiver. I’m here to tell you, I get this bill. I fought it. I am the chief author against it. I was called Barack Obama’s chief critic. That’s my badge of honor, to be his chief critic. Because I understand what some of the other candidates do not… We can’t settle, and 2012 is it. We will have socialized medicine for ever and ever and ever in this country unless we get it out in 2012.”
Continue reading …Sinead O’Connor Suggests She’d Cause ‘F—in Bloodbath’ If Pope Comes to Ireland
September 26, 2011 No Comment
One-hit pop singer Sinead O'Connor has been treated like a dignitary on MSNBC by Rachel Maddow and promoted as a moralist by The Huffington Post in her recent and vicious attacks on the Catholic Church. Now, she's not saying she's holier than the Pope. She's saying she'll shoot him in a “f***in bloodbath.” Let's hope Sinead hasn't made any anti-bullying videos. Irish Central reports her latest ouburst came on Twitter after a poll was carried out on whether Pope Benedict should visit Ireland. She warned that there would be a “f **kin bloodbath”. She tweeted “'Young people of Ireland I love u' said Sinead as she pulled the f ***ing trigger.” `Young People of Ireland I love You” is the phrase made famous by Pope John Paul II when he came to Ireland in 1979. Sinead also wrote; “There'd be a f**kin bloodbath. Me meet the f **ker off the plane myself,” she added. On her own website , the singer said these profane death threats were a misconstrued attempt at humor: A newspaper in Ireland chose to report on saturday, as being serious, jocular remarks I made regarding shooting the pope if he comes to Ireland, when that paper knew very well these remarks were in jest. In the course of a conversation as to whether or not the Irish people would accept a visit from the pope… Which frankly, no. They fucking wouldn't. In case of any concern. I have no interest in shooting anyone whatsoever and I consider it naughty of the said paper to have put the slant they did on my remarks. I accept my remarks were public, but the context in which they were made was knowingly twisted by the paper to continue the 'crazy Sinead' business. Rest assured.. Neither the pope will come to Ireland nor I will ever contemplate murdering anyone. God will take care of the pope. There was more blather about how it's “blasphemous” for the Church to claim to be Christ's representatives on earth, and then some ridiculous language about how the church should be about love, not mockery. This, just after she hatefully wrote about causing a bloodbath, and then claiming it was only mockery? The idea was (according to gospels) we're supposed to love each other and treat people as we want to be treated. One could write volumes on examples of Bishops and or popes behaving in anti-christian fashion, such as the blessing of Mussolini's bombs in the planes on the runway before they took off to blow up Ethiopia. I have a foto of the pope blessing the planes. Hello? Let me repeat. Christ never did, doesn't, and never will, need 'representatives'. They know very well Christ is the representative. And well they know who He represents. Yet they mock him with their claimings to represent him. While spreading not love but mockery, in so many ways.
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Men who remain childless throughout their lives may be more likely to die from heart disease and stroke than men who become fathers, a new study suggests.
Continue reading …President Obama is tackling the economy, jobs, education, and more at today’s LinkedIn townhall meeting, and the Washington Post is among those live-blogging. Of note: A audience member, who told Obama he had no job by choice after his search-engine startup did well, asked Obama, “Can you please raise my…
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