Bobby's midweek buffet

Did any of you see the great article on General Electric in In these Times last week? The company has initiated an unprecedented propaganda campaign in the midst of reports that against a 14 billion dollar backdrop of record profits last year they also managed to cut thirty thousand jobs. And not only did they pay no taxes on the gelt, they also got a $3.2 billion dollar tax credit. Really worth a read.

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The House has just passesd a budget to effectively kill Medicare as we know it. More tax cuts for the wealthy, more coal for the poor. Not to be outdone the Senate today voted not to touch the fat subsidies we are doling out to the oil companies.

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Canada killed its penny today. We should too. As someone said at coffee, we can't even put them in fuses anymore.

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BigD sends this tasteless cartoon over.

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Brett was responsible for a pic of the uniquely shaped shoo shoo fruit from Brazil.

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Harwood sends this lovely. I agree. Have you noticed how bad the spelling, punctuation and syntax is getting on the web? Big time newspapers included. Just because everybody is now a writer doesn't mean that everybody is also an editor. Obviously.

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LeMasters offered this great clip from Obama's recent trip to Denmark. Can't call him much of an orator. Bit of a bore, actually.

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Millard sends over this note from across the pond. Apparently the hippies are heading off to Noah's Ark. Great comments. 

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Rupert Murdoch has pledged to get tough with his enemies today. No more Mr. Nice Guy. It seems he already has, his competitors claiming to have evidence that he leaked their secret codes. It is alleged that News Corp's pay-TV smartcard security unit, NDS, had promoted piracy attacks on rivals, including in the United States.

I am frankly amazed that this guy is not in jail. With several News Corp subsidiaries in clear violation of the American Foreign Corrupt Practices act outlawing bribery in a foreign country, particularly Russia and England in this instance, I don't know how this guy still has a shingle. Except that the Democrats in this country are a bunch of big pussies afraid to take him and by association Fox News on, fearing the political cries and repercussions. Damn them all.