What's wrong in the US
It's a place to aggregate examples of culture, attitude, excess etc. that has got us to where we are now. If we do not acknowledge the past, we can't make a better future or speak out and speak intelligently about complex issues and out and out dick moves by Americans. I want to do this to show my international friends that not all Americans are cluess consumers that are forever accumulating crap. Sep 20
The Best Reporting on What’s Wrong with Congress
Romney party yacht ‘Cracker Bay’ flies Cayman Islands flag in Tampa
Anonymous hackers to publish U.S. security firm's 2.7m client emails... providing a 'smoking gun for number of crimes'
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Pulls Ad That Blames Women For Getting Date-Raped
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board provoked an enormous backlash by airing ads that tell women who are date-raped that they have only themselves and their friends to blame. The ad was part of a $600,000 campaign aimed at curbing excessive drinking. After hearing from hundreds of rape victims that the ads were extremely upsetting, even traumatizing, the board has decided to pull them :Aida Hillen: Lobbed Christian Pamphlet at Kid She Ran Over, Then Drove Away (Allegedly)
What would Jesus do if he hit a youth with His car, asked the kid if he was okay and got "no" for an answer? If you answered, "Toss him a book about Himself, peel out and haul ass like the Dukes of Hazzard," you are cut from the same religious cloth police say Aida Hillen comes from. According to court documents, the victim, a Milby High School student, told police he was crossing Broadway near the school on October 14 at around 5:15 p.m. when he was struck by the 58-year-old Hillen's 1996 Honda Accord.
Former Chase Banker Admits His Bank Pushed Minorities Into Subprime Mortgage Loans
Rocrast Mack's Murder At Alabama Prison Followed Trail Of Violence By Guards
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Late on the night of August 4, 2010, a badly beaten young man arrived at the trauma ward of Jackson Hospital here. Although the patient was hardly a flight risk, security was tight and prison guards crowded into the emergency room as doctors began treatment. The patient's limp body spoke to the savagery of an assault that had left deep contusions on his legs and torso, and inflamed knots bulging from his head and face.Rich New Yorkers Are Driving Custom-Designed Cargo Vans
Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Martin Brass, 43, said Friday that he was considering buying a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, then adding improvements to the interior. Of course, most vans do not have chauffeurs, as Mr.
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Tim Dickinson: The Tax Policies That Increased Economic Inequality
The eight Republican presidential candidates sitting at the table listen as a video of former President Ronald Reagan is played during a debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., on Oct. 11. Jim Cole / AP The Occupy Wall Street movement continues to protest policies that have made the top 1 percent of income earners richer, while about 14 million Americans are out of work.The Official Website of Michael Crook
This domain previously housed the now permanently defunct (by his choice, not an act of, what is in his opinion, terrorist group "Anonymous") website and blog of Michael Crook , who left the Rome Ward, Utica NY Stake of the Mormon church after members protected a member of the ward arrested for a pedophile act: possessing kiddie porn.Cement plant pollution leads to a fight in Chanute, Kansas
Illustration by Robert Neubecker. Jeff Galemore pointed to house after house as he steered his white pickup through a tree-lined neighborhood in Chanute, Kan., a town of 9,000 on the state's southeastern prairie. " This person right here has cancer," the 53-year-old oil-field worker said with alarm. "His granddaughter has cancer. … This gal has cancer.BP oil cleanup deal worries residents
Mr. Peabody and Sherman Travel WayBack to 1953 - A History of Iraq -
I grew up watching this cartoon. Written by the same sly devils that wrote for Rocky & Bullwinke. This re-write explains the insane US Foreign Policy over the decades that leaves off at the present day Iraq.
As his boy Sherman astutely notes:" We (that is the twisted white men behind to politcal curtain) always seem to be backing the wrong horse." by Oct 30
The American Dream - FULL LENGTH
A good explaination of the debt=money equation and the dirty secret of the Federal Reserve. Also read "It came from Jeckyll Island" by Oct 16
History of Glass-Stegall
IMO, this was the last straw that tipped the economy into a deep dark hole that dragged the world after it. It made those banks "too big to fail" by allowing them to gamble along with the hedgefunds and over-leverage themselves. by Oct 15
The property comes with a full gym including - Media (11 of 21) Limelight Listing - Mark Wahlberg's Beverly
An example of excess. The seeming rewards for being an asshole. by Sep 20
Picking out articles documenting the insideous nature of super rich neo cons etc influencing democracy; twisting legislation to their preferences; circumvention of law and our Constutional rights... by kathologist Oct 16