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- Tell Me Once Again We're Not Taxed Enough
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- Biden: The Two-Faced "Prince?"
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- Paul Krugman Is Such An A--hole
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370053/TUC-anti-cuts-demo-At-HALF-A-MILLION-peaceful-protesters-march-London.html
* THE HEADLINE:
The battle of Trafalgar Square: Police struggle to control rioters after 500,000-strong London march against cuts ends in violence
* SO... YOU THINK IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE...?
Riot police fought activists in Trafalgar Square...
* NOT GOOD, PEOPLE; NOT GOOD.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said between 200 and 300 people had gathered at the landmark location late this evening.
He said, "A large number from the crowd are throwing missiles and have attempted to damage the Olympic clock within the square. Officers have come under sustained attack as they deal with the disorder and attempted criminal damage."
(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*) YEP. NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT, RIGHT? JUST THE LEFT BLOWING OFF A BIT OF STEAM, RIGHT?
Officers were attacked as they tried to stop demonstrators smashing their way into banks and shops. The protesters surged along Piccadilly, Regent Street and Oxford Street, chanting 'welfare not warfare' as they blocked traffic and forced shops to close. Paint, fireworks and flares were thrown at buildings, while the outnumbered police were attacked with large pieces of wood. Branches of HSBC, RBS, Santander and Topshop were among those to have their windows smashed.
(*SIGH*)
Scotland Yard said lightbulbs filled with ammonia were also thrown at their officers.
* THINK THIS IS A FUCKING JOKE...?!?!
The police often had to step aside as the activists continued their destruction late into the evening.
(*SHAKING MY HEAD IN DISGUST*)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/weekinreview/27dao.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
* YOU WANNA SEE WHERE YOUR TAX MONEY IS BEING SPENT, FOLKS?
* YOU WANNA SEE WHAT THE CREAM OF THE AMERICAN CROP IS UP TO...?
* I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO EXCERPT. EITHER YOU READ THE ARTICLE OR YOU DON'T.
(*SHRUG*)
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/263110/art-inconclusive-war-mark-steyn?page=1
* AGAIN, FOLKS, I'M NOT GONNA EVEN BOTHER TO "BARKERIZE" (CUT EXCERPTS FROM) THIS PIECE.
* I SUGGEST YOU FOLLOW THE LINK AND READ THE PIECE FOR YOURSELVES.
* HEY... EITHER YOU TRUST MY JUDGEMENT ON WHAT'S WORTH READING OR YOU DON'T.
(*SHRUG*)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704474804576222731452558322.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced [eight days ago] that she had accepted the resignation of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual.
It [had taken] Mexican President Felipe Calderón more than three months, but on March 19 he finally got his man.
Mr. Pascual had earned the ire of Mr. Calderón for his critical accounts of Mexico's prosecution of the war on drugs, sent to Washington in 2009 and 2010.
Those dispatches were supposed to be confidential.
When they were made public by Wikileaks in December, they infuriated the Mexican president, who reportedly requested that Mr. Pascual be removed.
* AND THANK GOD FOR WIKILEAKS OR ELSE CLINTON AND CALDERON WOULD STILL BE LYING WITH NO OFFICIAL CONTRADICTION!
The ambassador's analyses - and those of his colleagues in the embassy who also wrote a number of the leaked cables - may have been too frank for public viewing, but they were hardly controversial. Indeed, it seems more likely that the cables hit a nerve because they were all too accurate.
* "TOO FRANK" FOR VIEWING...?!?! (*SNORT*) YEAH... GOD FORBID THE AMERICAN PEOPLE KNOW THE TRUTH! (*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
The bigger problem for both Mr. Calderón and the U.S. is that the cables reveal how ineffective the lumbering government bureaucracies on both sides of the border are against ruthless drug-trafficking entrepreneurs. The gangsters run circles around the drug warriors while bureaucrats record the carnage.
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/152065-watchdog-knocks-obama-administration-on-transparency
Sunlight Foundation Executive Director Ellen Miller called 2010 "tremendously disappointing" for open government advocates and said little has happened in 2011 to change her view that the Obama administration has failed to deliver on transparency.
(*SNORT*)
"It seems like there's been more promises made than reality delivered and we're disappointed," Miller told The Hill this week.
* MY GOD! NEXT THING THEY'LL BE TELLING US THAT THERE'S GAMBLING TAKING PLACE AT RICK'S CAFÉ!
Miller joined several experts in recent months in questioning the quality of the data sets published on federal transparency websites like Data.gov and the IT Dashboard, arguing the data on the sites is often inaccurate and not as useful as advertised.
"Data.gov is really cool except that when you really dig into it, there aren't as many data sets as it looks," she said, adding that much of the data is only useful for building maps and little else. "There's general diappointment with the speed at which agencies have put data online."
Miller said the White House has failed to compel agenices to overcome their cultural resistance to releasing information on their operations. She said without a real push from the White House some agencies would be unwilling to turn over meaningful data, though she praised NASA and the Department of Health and Human Services for publishing interesting data sets.
Miller noted that President Obama was scheduled to receive an award for his commitment to transparency earlier this month from a group of transparency advocates to commemorate Sunshine Week. [Sunlight Foundation's Executive Director] called the award a "notion foolishly conceived" and said Sunlight didn't take part because Obama's commitment alone wasn't sufficient to merit an award.
(*CHUCKLE*)
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