If waterboarding is okay, why dont we let our police do it to suspects to learn what they know?
If waterboarding is okay, why didnt we waterboard [Timothy] McVeigh and [Terry] Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombers, to find out if there were more people involved? Whats your answer to that? he asked. We only seem to waterboard Muslims.
They want her out because she (Pelosi) lied? asked Ventura. Why didnt they ask for Bush and Cheney to go out when they lied about why we went into Iraq.
“You Give Me a Water Board, Dick Cheney and One Hour”
After Madison increased bus fares 50 cents to $2 last month, Metro Transit is now proposing to use some of that new revenue to boost service.
Metro wants to restore Route 10, which would link the Near East Side and UW Hospital and create 15-minute service between the UW-Madison campus and the hospital.via WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL.
Screw Metro. This is class warfare at its worst. Come on, it costs over $400 a year to send 1 child to school on a bus, and that’s if you buy the passes.
Today, I find out the working poor were required to pay 50 cents more a ride to subsidize Madison’s newly emerging gentry class.
University employees and students both get their passes in bulk (at a much cheaper rate). Since the city is incapable of bartering a better deal with the university, it raises bus taxes on citizens with limited income and the worst bus service in the city.
It is one thing to have a screwed up bus system, but quite another to be forced to pay for improvements on a gentry line I’ll never use. I’ll bet you another thing, these gentrified busses are not whored like the busses that go past my house.
Liberals wonder why there is so much angst at the notion of an RTA. We get enough class warfare from Madison Metro, we certainly do not need it from a RTA.
Screw Metro, Take a Cab, now that’s a bumper stick I’d buy.
It seems one thing the left (not liberal) and right (Ron Paul variety) can agree on are these bank bailouts are misplaced priorities. The bailouts are full of incentives and rewards to those that got us into this mess. In addition, bailouts propped up large banks who took way too many risks with taxpayer money , while the government simultaneously shut down median and small banks who were not “too big to fail”.
Tasini is the latest on the left to question Obama’s wisdom, or lack thereof, in continuing to bailout the banks.
I understand why the Administration had been working overtime to try to prop up major banks–but understanding does not mean agreement with the long-term strategy. In fact, the question worth asking today is not whether the stress tests are accurate or whether more taxpayer money will be needed to shore up the major banks. It is actually this: why are we not using this crisis to create a new banking system? via Let Insolvent Banks Fail To Make Way For A New System – Working Life.
As I mentioned yesterday the reason those hedge funds did not want to play ball with Chrysler was because of the belief they could be bailed out with Tarp funds. The Chrysler bankruptsy is the perfect example of moral hazzard. The hedge fund managers could avoid the economic consequences of the free market because of a goverment policy of bailing out the wrong doers.
What Tansini is hinting at is these bailouts are doing exactly the oppossite of what we should be doing policy wise. We should be propping up a system where banks are smaller, local, and accountable. These bailouts are doing the exact oppossite. Bank of America and these other banks today are much larger, global, and less accountable than before the bailouts.
It isn't hard to pick out the Obama supporters. They're the charter-school entrepreneurs as opposed to the public-school teachers. The management consultants rather than the government lawyers. The hot-shot hedge-fund managers, not the blue-collars.
