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Quote of the Day – Pam Bondi

Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence.  I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.


“You don’t tell me anything, you washed-up, loser lawyer.” ~~ Pam Bondi, Attorney General of the United States in a recent Congressional hearing.

I don’t really know, but I would imagine that Robert’s Rule of Order, used by many deliberative bodies, would frown upon such ad hominem  attacks.  Not to mention the sheer unprofessionalism it displays.  But then again, I am not seeing any other members of this malAdministration showing any semblance of professionalism.

I gleaned this from Paul Krugman’s newsletter on SubStack.  He went on:

“Yet what truly amazed me was her demand that Democrats stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein because the Dow was above 50,000. This plumbed new depths of moral bankruptcy, effectively saying: ‘How dare you complain about child rape when the stock market is up?’”

Oh the times we live in, when this passes for a government in a free democracy.

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Bob Dylan Say Hello to Paul Krugman

Normally, I do not put out two postings in one day, but today I could not resist. The video of Bob Dylan at the end of this posting was the coda to Paul Krugman‘s newsletter today.

On the off chance you are not familiar with Krugman, he is a Nobel Laureate in Economics, the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and was a columnist with the New York Times for nearly 30 years until the newspaper made a sharp turn to the right and more or less ran him off.  I suppose he is considered a Liberal, I find him to be a little left of center and one of the sanest voices currently in American politics. I used to read him regularly before the newspaper went behind a paywall.  A friend recently gifted me a free subscription to his newsletter on SubStack, which is where he went with his heavily factual opinion pieces after his stint at the New York Times.

Listening to Dylan started me thinking of other times.  I graduated high school in North Kingstown, RI,  in 1970.  For many of us of Continue reading “Bob Dylan Say Hello to Paul Krugman”

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Paul Krugman: 9/11…an occasion for shame

Read Mr. Krugman’s full blog posting below. IMHO he is one of the clearest of the pundits around.

The Years of Shame

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The Economy Explained in 135 Seconds

This is video from MoveOn.org. It features former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who IMHO is one best economists we have in the public forum. The other one I like is Paul Krugman. Both are so dead on that it is scary. Unfortunately, money speaks louder than common sense.

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Obama, The Messiah, I don’t think so

I’ve never voted for a Republican, and I am having a hard time getting excited about Obama.  The media is fueling some of that lack of excitement.  They love to show Obama with some sort of halo around his head.  I do not believe him to be the Messiah or a saint.

I also got so tired of the depiction of Hillary as a bumpkin from Arkansas.  She is not a bumpkin nor is she from Arkansas.  If they were not doing that, they were painting her as a shrewish old woman.

Obviously, he has managed to woo the media and Clinton has managed to alienate them.  Or maybe it is as Paul Krugman suggests, racism is declining, but not misogyny.

I really wonder if having news 24×7 on multiple medias is really doing us a service.   Especially when they use such broad strokes.

Number 5 has been used in a multitude of news stories.

And now Michelle…

 

And the broad strokes to paint the Clintons as hillbillies. Well I know hillbillies and they are not hillbillies…to paraphrase someone.

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Credit: Pat Oliphant

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Quote for the Day – Paul Krugman

“It’s quite a comedown for Mr. Putin. And his swaggering strongman act helped set the stage for the disaster. A more open, accountable regime — one that wouldn’t have impressed Mr. Giuliani so much — would have been less corrupt, would probably have run up less debt, and would have been better placed to ride out falling oil prices. Macho posturing, it turns out, makes for bad economies.”  ~~ Paul Krugman

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