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Trump nearly doubling his death toll estimate, continues to urge states to reopen despite official White House guidelines

By Mark | May 4, 2020

On Fox News yesterday, Donald Trump, after making the ridiculous case that he’s been “treated worse” than Abraham Lincoln, said that, in his opinion, it is now safe to re-open society. He then went on to say that, by the time all of this is over, the COVID-19 death toll in the United States could […]

Posted in History, Michigan, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, American individualism, anti-science, assault weapons, Australia, Canada, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contact tracking, coronavirus, Death, Donald Trump, Family Dollar, governors, Lansing, Marcy Wheeler, Marshall plan, masks, media literacy, narcissism, Opening Up America Again, pandemic, Parkland, public health, Sandy Hook, school shooting, Smithsonian Institution, social distancing, suicide, Trumpism, WHO, World Health Organization | 84 Comments

Five things about the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Mark | October 27, 2019

In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, as part of an operation code-named Neptune Spear, entered a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and executed Osama bin Laden, the head of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. In a televised announcement later that day, a sober Barack Obama […]

Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbottabad, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al Qaeda, assassination, Barack Obama, baseball, booing, chants, crying, Donald Trump, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Idlib, ISIS, Kurds, lock him up, Mike Pence, Navy SEALS, Neptune Spear, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Russia, screaming, September 11, Situation Room, Syria, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Washington Nationals, whimpering, William McRaven, World Series | 67 Comments

The unrepentant sons-of-bitches who are fighting banking reform

By Mark | September 14, 2009

It’s been one year since the investment bank Lehman Brothers went belly up, putting into motion a chain of events that would culminate in some $600 billion in American taxpayer money being given away to corporations like AIG, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. To commemorate the day, and breath new life into his stalled […]

Posted in Economics, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged AIG, Andrew Cuomo, bailout, Bank of America, banking reform, Capitalism, Capitalism: A Love Story, Corporate Crime, derivitives, financial reform, gambling, Glass-Steagall Act, Goldman Sachs, investment banking, Lehman Brothers, lending, loans, lobbyists, Michael Moore, Obama, other people's money, reckless behavior, Robert Reich, the short attention spans of Americans, unrepentant sons of bitches, Wall Street | 9 Comments

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