The NY Times continues to encroach on the intellectual space occupied by The Onion.
First, economics columnist David Leonhardt writes about wage stagnation in the US. We have a no-prize for guessing what he does not mention:
After almost 15 years of a disappointing economy, it’s easy to get pessimistic. Incomes for the middle class and poor have now been stagnating over a two-term Republican presidency and well into a two-term Democratic one. Thegreat wage slowdown of the 21st century has frustrated Americans, polls show, and raised serious questions about what kind of policies, if any, might change the situation.
Yet if you look around the world, you can find reasons for hope.
While wages and incomes have stagnated in the United States (as well as in Japan and large parts of Europe), they have not done so everywhere. In Canada, a broad measure of incomes has risen about 10 percent since 2000, even as it’s fallen here. In Australia, it’s up 30 percent.
These aren’t just any countries, either. They’re among those most similar to the United States: far-flung, once ruled by Britain, with a frontier culture and a commitment to capitalism. Though Australia and Canada obviously are not identical to the United States, it certainly seems worth asking what they’re doing differently.
It may be worth asking, but it won't be worth answering if the answer includes "restricted, skill-based immigration".
And for more grins, Margaret Sanger-Katz has good news on ObamaCare!
Financial Distress Connected to Medical Bills Shows a Decline, the First in Years
Whee hee! And a big "Told ya so!" to the haters out there!
Left unmentioned by Ms. Sanger-Katz is the self-declared mission of the Commonwealth Fund behind this study:
The mission of The Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.
So ACA cheerleaders are cheering for the ACA - did anyone see that coming?
Fortunately this is not a pro-pharma study funded by Big Pharma or a global-warming skepticism piece funded by Big Oil or libs would be leaping from window ledges.
I will leave it to the pros to pick apart this study. My quick thought is that the data surveys are from 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2012, and 2014, with a lot of "Peak Bad" occurring in 2010 and 2012, as we emerged from the recession.
I am also intrigued by the news that among those earning over $200,000 with insurance coverage, 25% skipped a prescription or treatment becausee of cost (high earners without insurance skipped at a 55% rate.) That makes me think it ain't all about the money.
As to the Times headline, the brief includes this:
Fewer Americans reported medically related financial difficulties in 2014. The number of adults who said they had problems paying their medical bills in the past 12 months or were paying off medical debt declined from 75 million people in 2012, or 41 percent, to 64 million, or 35 percent, in 2014 (Exhibit 7, Table 3). This is the first time since The Commonwealth Fund began asking these questions in 2005 that these numbers have dropped. The 2014 rates were similar to those reported by adults in 2005.
Again, was 2005 a halcyon year for health insurance or just a better economic year than 2010-2012?
And the link between medical bills, health insurance and bankruptcy has been and continues to be phony. The loss of income and lack of disability insurance are surely bigger drivers of an eventual bankruptcy than the actual medical bills. And in any case, if bankruptcy was the problem, catastrophic coverage would be the solution, not the free annual physicals touted by the ACA.
SOME RECENT FLAVOR: A couple of days back the Commonwealth Fund explained why charging smokers higher health insurance premiums is unfair. I'll have more if/when I recover from the eyeburn.
Oh, and a Obummer provides a great set up for Budget cutting. Obummer sez: let's spend even MOAR than I agreed to in 2011! Perfect set up for cuts... will the Repubs use the opportunity? TBD next month. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-15/obama-budget-to-seek-spending-boost-of-nearly-7-percent.html
Posted by: NKvirusedand back | January 15, 2015 at 01:35 PM
MM, I bet you could afford a part time minimum wage high school kid.
Posted by: clarice | January 15, 2015 at 01:37 PM
Quite understandable, OL.
Posted by: lyle | January 15, 2015 at 01:38 PM
Prayer rugs are @ 2' x 3' and have some sort of arrow like motif in order that the user is pointed properly towards Mecca.
Some can be very beautiful but then they all look like "this was to the egress" carpets.
So I guess Pope Francis is not expecting the Spanish Inquisition anytime soon. Seems like a good moment for another cartoon.
Posted by: matt | January 15, 2015 at 01:41 PM
Dave,
I'm shocked there is any ramification for saying anything bad about a republican. I'd actually expect a raise, particularly at the Globe.
Posted by: Jane | January 15, 2015 at 01:44 PM
UK Daily Mail has a story about the 1M Pakistanis taking to the streets demanding that the Charlie H people should be hanged for running their cartoons. I guess they are all harsh art critics, since Obummer tells us this isn't about Islam. Must be the Methodist Pakistanis.
Posted by: NKvirusedand back | January 15, 2015 at 01:44 PM
CH, Giuliani entrapped Jeffreys.
Posted by: Early SDNY misbehaviour. | January 15, 2015 at 01:47 PM
Unless somebody thinks I have it wrong...
I think you have it right about Giuliani's excess. But I think the junk bond market is still very active.
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 01:50 PM
Another for the "Satire is Dead" file:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/heres-the-reason-this-all-womens-college-cancelled-its-yearly-vagina-monologues/article/2558710
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 01:53 PM
RickB,
You do realize the people of York have NEVER believed that Richard III killed those princes, don't you?
When his body was found a couple of years ago, they actively campaigned to have it buried in York Cathedral. (I think they lost, though.)
Posted by: Miss Marple | January 15, 2015 at 01:53 PM
I've read that Richard III is regarded as a pretty enlightened king. Of course Billy S. forever besmirched his reputation.
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 01:56 PM
'In Dog We Trust' accidentally printed on sheriff's rugs
Posted by: Extraneus | January 15, 2015 at 02:00 PM
Film actor makes millions with a movie plus two sequels in which he plays a retired CIA operative who goes onto foreign soil and shoots and kills foreigners because they kidnapped his daughter, ex-wife, and who-knows-what the latest plot line holds has this to say about us wingnut gun owners:
Posted by: lyle | January 15, 2015 at 02:01 PM
Miss Marple,
Elizabeth I (actually II) claimed to have recalled the death warrant she signed for Mary, Queen of Scots, as well. Both claims are possible, neither are particularly plausible. Edward V entered the Tower of London under the protection of Richard. He was last seen by his murderers.
If Richard didn't order the murders, he was somewhat lacking in his standard of care.
Posted by: RickB | January 15, 2015 at 02:02 PM
Lyle, he should stick to talking about horse carriages in Central Park.
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 02:04 PM
@lyle: I was trolling 'Miss Maple' about that topic. I thought it was Ben. Although I didn't use the terms moron or idiot...
Posted by: Beasts of England | January 15, 2015 at 02:06 PM
good afternoon everyone ...
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 02:15 PM
My history, as a Jew of France, is over.
Posted by: Extraneus | January 15, 2015 at 02:17 PM
I don't know, are you for real or a sock puppet right...now, BoE? :-)
Posted by: lyle | January 15, 2015 at 02:19 PM
But I think the junk bond market is still very active.
Good to read. I just remember all the MFM blah blah about how absolutely terrrrrrrible junk bonds were and thinking "another example of a little information in the otherwise empty minds of dumbasses not necessarily being a good thing".
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 02:20 PM
When his body was found a couple of years ago
Was that the body they found under a parking lot?
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 02:22 PM
"Substance":
From PJM. There's no effing "substance." Precious didn't give a shit and The Ferret didn't want to confront the Islam = Terrorism angle.
Posted by: lyle | January 15, 2015 at 02:24 PM
nd everyone of the participants in that "vrty important meeting" SAVE KERRY attended the march.
Posted by: clarice | January 15, 2015 at 02:27 PM
The fate of the little princes had much to do with Edward IV eloping with a commoner and the Widville's wanting to use those boys to rule through them.
The worst of the Wars of the Roses were over by that time but child rulers had always been a problem.
Everyone does realize the mother turned them over to Richard after a year in sanctuary at Westminster Abbey and that their sister Elizabeth married Henry VII and was Arthur and Henry VIII's mother.
Posted by: rse | January 15, 2015 at 02:28 PM
Massachusetts State Police confirm that a woman with life-threatening injuries was delayed getting to Level 1 Trauma due to the protestors.
Posted by: Beasts of England | January 15, 2015 at 02:29 PM
Substance Abuse
Posted by: Threadkiller | January 15, 2015 at 02:30 PM
Lyle, this is a much better explanation:
http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/why-obama-did-not-march/
Posted by: Threadkiller | January 15, 2015 at 02:32 PM
Massachusetts State Police confirm that a woman with life-threatening injuries was delayed getting to Level 1 Trauma due to the protestors.
Don't expect that to get any mention by the MFM.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 02:35 PM
You mean Holder?
Posted by: Extraneus | January 15, 2015 at 02:36 PM
Tammy Bruce: People who claim that 404 was impacted by attendance in Jeremiah Wright's church can't ignore the influence of Luap Nor on Rand.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 02:39 PM
TK, that is a great link.
Posted by: lyle | January 15, 2015 at 02:42 PM
Miles behind.
Last month you will recall there were a number of stories about how some college students were so traumatized from watching the protests in Ferguson and New York City, that they would be excused from taking College Exams.
So when is someone going to propose that the UVA Frat boys are excused from their college exams? They have been put on actual probation, smeared, kicked around, had their Houses vandalized, been publicly called racists by major newspapers, and treated dictatorially by their College President. So where's their "Get Out Of Class Free" card?
Apparently fake traumatizations are more equal than real ones?
Posted by: daddy | January 15, 2015 at 02:45 PM
I guess we better look at Zurc Leafar as well.
Posted by: Threadkiller | January 15, 2015 at 02:47 PM
Stolen from www.bostonherald.com
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 15, 2015 at 02:48 PM
Captain Hate,
Yes, the body found under a parking lot.
Posted by: Miss Marple | January 15, 2015 at 02:50 PM
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 02:39 PM -
ain't that the truth ... something nutty under dad's banner is flagged up at memorandum.
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 02:52 PM
Not sure this is the best idea:
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/iowas-joni-ernst-deliver-gop-response-state-union-n286976
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 02:53 PM
An interesting site that allows you to measure each candidate against other candidates for both Dem and Rep POTUS nomination in 2016.
This is the matchup of Scott Walker against Jeb Bush.
https://www.crowdpac.com/elections/2016-presidential-election/?l=9999837&r=9999823
Posted by: Buster McCloud | January 15, 2015 at 02:54 PM
whoa, that dude could use a haircut ... bet he is a stranger to water and soap too.
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 02:55 PM
Speaking of memeorandum, it looks like Politico has figured out that Fat RINO Bastard will be competing for the same squish donors as Jeb and Romney. Mutually Assured Destruction and throwing money away FTW!
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 02:58 PM
Captain Hate, Went looking and it looks like Leicester will get the burial; they made it a condition of allowing the exhumation.
The ceremony will take place on March 25. I hope I can find television coverage.
Posted by: Miss Marple | January 15, 2015 at 03:00 PM
Not sure this is the best idea
The usual suspects will ridicule whoever gives it so I don't think there's a perfect choice. She might pleasantly surprise us.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 03:00 PM
Who'd you have do it, jimmyk?
Now, if she comes on in a leather apron, a sterilized 16 inch bowie knife.....
Posted by: Buster McCloud | January 15, 2015 at 03:00 PM
Hopefully she talks about pig castration.
Posted by: Threadkiller | January 15, 2015 at 03:01 PM
Did anyone answer the captain's question about Ted Cruz? A quick Google says nothing about his running for President. I hope he doesn't, as I prefer Walker and he might split the conservative (i.e. non-squish) vote.
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 03:01 PM
Our firm represented Drexel in the Milken era, so although I was not in the corporate department I was pretty well informed about Giulianu's crusade, which disgusted me. Most vitally, Rudy set his sights on the target--Milken--without knowing that any crime had been committed. It was just a matter of Milken being wildly successful and making tons of money through junk bonds. (CH is right: junk bonds were an enormously useful product; CNN, among others, was initially financed that way.)
I don't remember exactly what they got Milken on, but I do recall that it was something relatively minor, and was not harmful to the public but instead was some sort of maneuver to stick a knife in a rival. They got him to plead not on the strength of wharever case they had. They threatened to indict his family, particularly including his brother Lowell, if he refused. Definitely not Rudy's finest hour.
Posted by: Danube on iPad | January 15, 2015 at 03:02 PM
Good job, Buster!
Posted by: Threadkiller | January 15, 2015 at 03:02 PM
Pictures of the morons in Boston:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/01/15/protesters-block-traffic-southeast-express-northbound/G3aLvpDWRixI2I6SVyaErM/picture.html?p1=Article_Gallery
I note that every single one of them is white and poorly groomed, both male and female.
Posted by: Miss Marple | January 15, 2015 at 03:03 PM
Thank you for those details, DoT.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 03:05 PM
I haven't seen a lot of the newly elected Senators speak, so I'm not sure, but I think Tim Scott or Tillis would probably be better. I'd be happy to have Cruz give it as well. There's nothing wrong with Ernst, but I think she has the potential to be SNL spoof material, as unfair as it is.
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 03:06 PM
good grief ... what was the point in jamming up traffic in Boston of all places.
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 03:06 PM
Apparently the [Vagina Monologues] is no longer feminist enough and actually hurts women because it doesn’t include monologues from trans-women.
The Cis-terhood of the Traveling Pantless.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | January 15, 2015 at 03:06 PM
Who in their right mind would want those deadbeats annoying people purportedly on their behalf? It's a huge disconnect between what the stated purpose is (and that the MFM promotes) and how it exists in Realityville.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 03:07 PM
Jim Messina @Messina2012 10m10 minutes ago
The Messina Group is looking for spring interns. Enthusiastic & politically savvy students: email your resumes to info@themessinagroup.com
Who does this creepy guy do business for?
Posted by: Miss Marple | January 15, 2015 at 03:11 PM
junk bonds were an enormously useful product; CNN, among others, was initially financed that way.
Hmmm....
I believe they got Milken on "parking," which is a rather technical violation involving temporarily holding assets for someone else to help them meet some kind of regulatory requirement. In Milken's case the "someone else" was Boesky, though I don't know whether Milken was actually guilty, or how serious the crime really was.
Mrs K, who works in the industry and was not far from Milken in the early days, thinks he was not innocent, but would probably concede that he did not deserve to have his career ended.
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 03:11 PM
Since Boston didn’t take my suggestion to let the protesters wallow in their 24 degree pee, perhaps their punishment upon conviction should be to recycle their barrels:
-- pulverizing the concrete to gravel with sledge hammers, picking out the metal shards for the recycling bin, and then shoveling the remaining hard fill into a construction site some miles away.
Posted by: sbw | January 15, 2015 at 03:13 PM
CH-
indeed. I recall they also had an equally goofy "black brunch" protest ... what a brilliant idea, attack the whites that are a part of your political collation. moving urban whites from the
don't give a shit category
to
Actively voting (and working) against you category
doesn't seem like the smartest of strategies.
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 03:13 PM
I want Walker to get the nomination but I'm happy to see Cruz and Rubio both run. First I don't think they will stab each other in the back and secondly they will be great at articulating our position.
Where is JIB to tell us what is going on in Belgium?
Posted by: Jane | January 15, 2015 at 03:14 PM
The whole Milken thing was bizarre. The one count he pled guilty to had the weakest evidence, and it seemed to be just a pretext for a guilty plea. If I recall the WSJ editorializing about Milken, they claim that Judge Kimba Wood said that the one count he pled to couldn't even be proven by the gov't, but she sent him away for 3 years because the rest of the counts which he pled not guilty 'looked bad'. Of course, the worst thing Giuliani did was to make Milken take off his toupe for his arraignment photo.
Posted by: NKvirusedand back | January 15, 2015 at 03:16 PM
rich,
In my opinion this isn't about votes. These are people who don't really care about the political process.
What they want to do is bully people, make them suffer, exact revenge.
That is all this stuff is. If you gave them what they wanted, they would be back tomorrow with more demands and more bullying behavior.
Posted by: Miss Marple | January 15, 2015 at 03:16 PM
I'm listening to Howie Carr,his reaction to the I-93 protest is LOL funny.He is going to talk to the Herald photographer who took the pictures. (Dave's 2:48) Howie said these guys are right out of central casting.They were also wearing adult diapers. He's waiting for the list of names and is curious to see how many live in Cambridge or Brookline. Ha.
Posted by: Marlene | January 15, 2015 at 03:17 PM
MM:
What they want to do is bully people, make them suffer, exact revenge.
Their released statement says they want to end capitalism, so they got that going for them.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | January 15, 2015 at 03:19 PM
Marlene, I swear I recognized 2 of them - where from I have no idea. I'd like to know how they get those barrels on the highway.
Posted by: Jane | January 15, 2015 at 03:19 PM
I honestly don't see the point in the R's having a formal, televised response to the SOTU in the first place.
There's really no upside. Very few voters (and no LIVs) will be watching. For those who do, it can't help but look small and pitiful in a theatrical way compared to the SOTU. Even if it's the best speech since the Gettysburg Address, nobody will ever know it from the MSM coverage. And if the responder messes up in any way, or even if they don't, but something they say or do can be spun that way, they individually and the R's generally will spend weeks living it down (if they're lucky).
Posted by: James D. | January 15, 2015 at 03:19 PM
Posted by: Miss Marple | January 15, 2015 at 03:16 PM -
seems bizarre and pointless.
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 03:20 PM
I agree with James. Nothing to gain; lots to lose.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 15, 2015 at 03:21 PM
jimmyK -- Milken-- it's 25 plus years ago, but the plea I don't think was for fraudulently parking for Boesky, I recall he pled to doing trades for which he didn't have a license. Did Milken defraud the marketplace? perhaps, but the whole thing seemed like a pretext to nail a big fish, for something, anything.
Posted by: NKvirusedand back | January 15, 2015 at 03:22 PM
Marlene-- adult diapers? too funny. These Soros punks are clever, can't they do something productive with their lives? Rhetorical question, I know.
Posted by: NKvirusedand back | January 15, 2015 at 03:24 PM
Jane: While I believe Cruz and Rubio may be articulate I think backstabbing is part of most politicians DNA.
Posted by: Mad Jack | January 15, 2015 at 03:25 PM
James, I'd prefer they ignore the whole thing.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 03:26 PM
Everything the Left does seems bizarre and pointless to me, rich.
Posted by: Miss Marple | January 15, 2015 at 03:27 PM
how about not invite him ...
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 03:27 PM
Rich, yes. just request a written report.
Posted by: henry | January 15, 2015 at 03:32 PM
Not invite, send us a memo instead. Unfortunately, that would have been counterproductive, because the meme the LiV would have heard is that evil conserv/repubs won't have the black man in their house, blah blah blah, instead of EO open borders, no jobs, and he want higher gas taxes.
Posted by: NKvirusedand back | January 15, 2015 at 03:34 PM
the GOPe want higher gas taxes and open boarders too so they have that going for them
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 03:35 PM
how about not invite him
That's what I'd prefer. The televised thing is just an unnecessary high colonic that most people ignore. All that's required is that he sends a letter to Congress so they should say that's all they want. 404 would never stand for that so if the Rs boycotted it we might have a major prime time meltdown in front of an over half empty building.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 03:35 PM
Howie's favorite photo is the dreadlocks dude. Howie is mocking him...Dude! I have a right to free speech by sticking my arm in wet cement and blocking traffic. By the way,firemen had to use hacksaws to remove cement from the arms of the protesters.
Posted by: Marlene | January 15, 2015 at 03:38 PM
"By the way,firemen had to use hacksaws to remove cement from the arms of the protesters."
Why?
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 15, 2015 at 03:39 PM
Woulda been quicker to remove the arms. Needs of the many and whatnot.
Posted by: henry | January 15, 2015 at 03:39 PM
Via Howie (and Dave)
PRESS RELEASE: Activists Shut Down Interstate Highway 93 North and South During Morning Rush Hour Traffic into Boston
January 15, 2015
Contact Megan Collins at (617) 942-1867 or email january15action@gmail.com for more information, interviews, and photographs.
Somerville/Milton/Boston Massachusetts -- Activists have shut down Interstate 93 Southbound and Northbound during morning rush hour commute into Boston to “disrupt business as usual” and protest police and state violence against Black people.
Two different groups of activists linked their bodies together across the highway in coordinated actions north and south of Boston. This action was in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. This diverse non-Black group of Pan-Asians, Latinos, and white people, some of whom are queer and transgender, took this action to confront white complacency in the systemic oppression of Black people in Boston.
“Today, our nonviolent direct action is meant to expose the reality that Boston is a city where white commuters and students use the city and leave, while Black and Brown communities are targeted by police, exploited, and displaced,” said Korean-American activist Katie Seitz.
In the past 15 years, law enforcement officers in Boston have killed Remis M. Andrews, Darryl Dookhran, Denis Reynoso, Ross Baptista, Burrell “Bo” Ramsey-White, Mark Joseph McMullen, Manuel “Junior” DaVeiga, Marquis Barker, Stanley Seney, Luis Gonzalez, Bert W. Bowen, Eveline Barros-Cepeda, Daniel Furtado, LaVeta Jackson, Nelson Santiago, Willie L. Murray Jr., Rene Romain, Jose Pineda, Ricky Bodden, Carlos M. Garcia, and many more people of color. We mourn and honor all these lives.
“We must remember, Ferguson is not a faraway Southern city. Black men, women, and gender-nonconforming people face disproportionately higher risk of profiling, unjust incarceration, and death. Police violence is everywhere in the United States,” said another protester Nguyen Thi Minh Thu.
The two groups of activists organized these actions to use their collective voices to resist and disrupt the overarching system that oppresses Black people and to expressly accept the responsibility of white and non-Black people of color to organize and act to end racial profiling, unjust incarceration, and murder of Black people in the United States and beyond. Black lives matter, today and always.
***See below for more quotes from organizers and participants in the action.***
Quotes from Participants in the Action
"As an Afro-Indigenous woman I feel the affects of white supremacy on my people. Being involved in this action has shown me where the participant's hearts are at in the movement. Without collaboration of all people, no one can be free." - Camille
“As Pan-Asian people in the United States, we refuse to perpetuate anti-Black racism. We will not allow our communities to serve as a wedge to divide us and jeopardize our struggle to end racism and achieve our collective liberation,” said Nguyen Thi Minh Thu.
“As non-Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people in the United States, we refuse to allow increasing acceptance of our sexuality and several marriage equality victories to end our commitment to advancing social justice. We recognize that this movement has been spearheaded by Black queer women and gender-nonconforming people.” said Monica Majewski.
“As white people in the United States, we refuse to align ourselves with a state that carries out violence against Black people. We are taking direct action to challenge white complicity and amplify the demands for an end to the war on Black communities,” said Katie Martin Selcraig.
"As a white person, my only options are to act against white supremacy or to be complicit in it. I'm here today because I refuse to be complicit" said Emily O.
"As a white man, I know I benefit and am protected by a racist society. I am participating today because it is necessary for those who are the least vulnerable to step up and put our bodies on the line if we ever want to build a just world," said Eli C.
"As a white feminist, I take part in this action because anyone who claims commitment to equality must take action to dismantle intersectional oppression. Idling is a privilege afforded only to those who genuinely do not care," said Nelli.
“As non-Black undocumented immigrants in the United States, we refuse to perpetuate the erroneous idea of earned citizenship. We honor the path set before us by Harriet Tubman by advancing civil and human rights for everyone regardless of legal status,” said a protester involved in the action.
“As non-Black women, including transgender and gender-nonconforming folks in the United States, we refuse to allow our commitment to gender justice to distract us from racial justice. We understand that gender and racial justice are intertwined,” said one of the organizers of the action.
Posted by: Jane | January 15, 2015 at 03:40 PM
According to wiki, "On April 24, 1990, Milken pleaded guilty to six counts of securities and tax violations. Three of them involved dealings with Ivan Boesky to conceal the real owner of a stock."
But another thing that's left out: The main reason Milken copped the plea was because the feds were also threatening his innocent kid brother, arguably just to get Milken to fold. Milken pled guilty to some charges in exchange for getting all charges against his brother dropped.
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-21/business/fi-1282_1_michael-milken
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 03:41 PM
Mad Jack,
You are probably right. I just keep hoping it's a new breed.
The press release is a joke. These people do themselves no favors.
Posted by: Jane | January 15, 2015 at 03:41 PM
apparently the things he has been deploying the last few days: free (?) community college {isn't it mostly free already}; paid sick leave {yeah, anything to make it harder to find a decent job}; taxes on the oil and gas industry {a 6 year theme of the administration's actually} &c &c &c ... the bear is pivoting to the economy. YIKES!
if I play my cards right I'll be back in food service making less than min wage ...
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 03:42 PM
and I missed my own point ... the things he's been featuring the last few days are going to be the state of the union ...
anyway.
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 03:43 PM
Did Jane and daddy again draw the short straws to simulcast the Obomination? God knows how they can endure it.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 03:50 PM
Giuliani was an outrageous prosecutor who invented some of the SDNY tricks copied by Fitz. Spitzer and others but he was a dynamite mayor. Not a nice guy.
Posted by: clarice | January 15, 2015 at 03:51 PM
A white dreadlocked social justice defecator protesting treatment of black people by cops getting hauled in by a black cop. You can't make this stuff up.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 15, 2015 at 03:52 PM
The female protesters in Boston all look like crazy Rosie O'Donnell.
Posted by: clarice | January 15, 2015 at 03:52 PM
Posted by: Jane | January 15, 2015 at 03:40 PM-
yikes ...
Posted by: rich@gmu | January 15, 2015 at 03:53 PM
Hey Dave,did you just call Howie? A caller named Dave made a good point.
Posted by: Marlene | January 15, 2015 at 03:56 PM
Marlene, no. I've never called a talk show.
Jane, they used a U-Haul. I just read that two more moonbats were arrested when they went back to return the truck.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 15, 2015 at 03:58 PM
Tried to return the U-Haul? Those who refuse to learn from Salameh are doomed to repeat him as a farce.
Or something.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | January 15, 2015 at 03:59 PM
The female protesters in Boston all look like crazy Rosie O'Donnell.
Not a good look; no wonder they're so angry.
Posted by: Captain Hate | January 15, 2015 at 04:02 PM
Someone tweet that the narcissistic I-93 protesters own adult diapers but no mirrors.
Posted by: sbw | January 15, 2015 at 04:03 PM
Not a good look; no wonder they're so angry.
Cause-effect, who knows?
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 04:04 PM
Milken-- I'll have to look up the WSJ editorials, they vetted the Giuliani indictment and proclaimed it a witchhunt.
Posted by: NKvirusedand back | January 15, 2015 at 04:04 PM
Dave,do you mean you aren't the only Dave in Mass.? :) Are the U-Haul dummies included in the 29 total arrested?
A listener texted Howie earlier in the hour and said it is a darn good thing the state troopers were there,because who knows what irate commuters would have done.
Posted by: Marlene | January 15, 2015 at 04:07 PM
IBD on the Gallup start up numbers. This is really a disaster: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/011415-734766-businesses-dying-faster-than-theyre-being-created.htm
Posted by: NKvirusedand back | January 15, 2015 at 04:07 PM
Nothing to gain; lots to lose.
Since when has that ever stopped our GOP geniuses?
Posted by: jimmyk | January 15, 2015 at 04:09 PM
I'll bet Aqualung Jr. wasn't easy on the nose even before he filled his Pampers.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 15, 2015 at 04:10 PM