I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think It Means...
Richard Murphy thinks June 12, 2015 qualifies as a historic day. But when you follow his link to the details of that specific day, what you find is that Richard Murphy's definition of what constitutes...
View ArticleSo Much For The Whole "Fair Tax" Thingy...
One of Richard Murphy's great strengths in maintaining his status as a world-class dimwit is his ability to adopt two completely contradictory positions on economics, finance and/or taxation without...
View ArticleHad This Shown Up Anywhere Other Than HuffPo...
Had the following article been published anywhere other than Huffington Post, I'd have taken it as a really brilliant bit of social satire:From Queer to Cis: My Story of Privilege and GuiltBut then...
View ArticleMeanwhile, Cleveland Giggles...
Growing up in Cleveland, you come to understand certain things.The first thing you come to understand is the you will never see a Cleveland-based sports franchise win a championship in anything during...
View ArticleThe Noble Greeks
While Richard Murphy clutches is pearls about how the meanies that are the Trioka are causing such massive suffering amongst the Greeks, let's note that the Greeks are entirely responsible for whatever...
View ArticleAs Foreseen...
Today the New York Times informs its readers of what many of us already knew (and had long predicted): Obamacare is coming apart at the seams:Health insurance companies around the country are seeking...
View ArticleThe Noble Greeks, Part 2
Many Greeks, their cluelesss Prime Minister, and various silly old commies (read: Joe Stiglitz and his lot) would love for you to believe the current crisis in Greece is due to the heartlessness of the...
View ArticleThe Noble Greeks, Part 3
Want to ensure you never seen meaningful investment by any business, ever, in the area you live? There's one sure way: Tolerate government corruption.I happen to live in Ohio, and of all the economic...
View ArticleExit, Stage Left... The Noble Greek Edition
Well, well, well. Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has shown Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis the door. Evidently Greece's vote isn't going to keep Tsipras from doing a quick crawl back to his EU...
View ArticleSocial Justice Warriors, Gender Edition
You know, the first thing that came to my mind when I heard that Reddit had chosen Ellen Pao to be their new CEO was "Damn, I wish Reddit was a pure play public company!"That's because I'd have started...
View ArticleTotalitarian Musings...
There are few folks on the planet I despise more than Richard Murphy, Chartered Accountant. The man's a moron. But that isn't what grates upon me. What grates upon me is that he's a totalitarian moron....
View ArticleStill Not Getting It...
As much as I like Rand Paul, it's real clear he has yet to graspwhat the rise of The Donald is actually all about:Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) is attributing GOP rival Donald Trump's rise in the polls to a...
View ArticleYet Another Obamacare Triumph...
I'm just betting you won't see much (if any) discussion of this on either DailyKOS or Huffington Post. Fox News is reporting that the Obamacare co-ops many of us said wouldn't work, well, aren't...
View ArticleOf Tax Havens And Twits
Richard Murphy went on the BBC to talk tax havens and it seems he was off his meds when he did so. Here's some of his musings:“Regulation is still stacking up in favour of large companies hiding away...
View ArticleWhy Trump Is Where He Is, Part 2...
This headline says it all:Hillary, Jeb to Woo Same CrowdWhat makes it genuinely pathetic is that the "same crowd" is the National Urban League... An organization fully vested in the status quo. For Jeb...
View ArticleMissing The Point About Walter Palmer
Of course the Huffington Post gets it wrong... that's what they do. But they aren't in the minority when it comes to the killing of Cecil the Lion by one Walter Palmer.Back when I was a teen, Papa...
View ArticleYet Another Obamacare Triumph...
Louisiana's ACA Co-Op, the Louisiana Heath Cooperative, bites the Big One:The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced today that the Louisiana Health Cooperative, Inc. (Co-Op), a health insurer...
View ArticleWhat DailyKOS Carefully Avoids Mentioning...
Here's the DailyKOS header on officer Raymond Tensing's attempt to have his termination by the U.C. police department overturned:How to be filmed murdering a man, cover it up, be free on bail, and ask...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Was Unavailable For Comment...
Gee, you run your company for self-aggrandizement rather than for profit and things start going South. Who coulda seen that coming? From Fox News:The Seattle CEO who reaped a publicity bonanza when he...
View ArticleEvidently Being "Broke" Is Relative...
Remember when Hillary (Hatshepsut) said she and William Jeffereson (Thutmose II) were broke? Well it turns out that being "broke" is a relative term when it comes to American Royalty. Although...
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