Category: Old Stuff

Army combat unit to deploy within U.S. – CNN.com “We need a lot more in our toolbox in order to deal with angry people on the street,” said Col. Barry Johnson of U.S. Army North.

BART debates allowing drinks on trains Added Director Tom Radulovich, “If somebody wants to break the law and bring flammable liquids on, they can. It’s not like al Qaeda is waiting in their caves for us to have a sippy-cup rule.” Directing his comments to BART administrators, he said, “You know, it’s just fearmongering and…

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Looking Backward – Google Book Search http://books.google.com/books?id=ShMmUPayhDQC&dq=looking backward&pg=PP1&ots=QT31coJf4V&sig=bAst6jvjIRSFy7yXBZixLQA4HKg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result The hero is anyone who has ever longed for escape to a better life. The time is tomorrow. The place is a Utopian America. This is the backdrop for Edward Bellamy’s prophetic novel about a young Boston gentleman who is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the…

Looking Backward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Backward The third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.[1] It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day. “It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately…

John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com? http://www.govgap.com/2008/09/28/john-mccain-own-voteforthemilfcom/ GOP domain squats… sheesh.

Talks Implode During a Day of Chaos; Fate of Bailout Plan Remains Unresolved – NYTimes.com In the Roosevelt Room after the session, the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., literally bent down on one knee as he pleaded with Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, not to “blow it up” by withdrawing her party’s support for…

Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality They’re going crazy about outrageously high rewards for poorly performing CEOs. They’re missing the real driver behind our current economic meltdown: the notion that outrageously high rewards, in a modern economy, play a perfectly legitimate role. Such rewards, we’ve been assured over recent decades, give top corporate…