SAR #14178

If God made the world, how did Wall Street get possession?

Par For The Course: John Boehner is relentlessly attacking Obama for assuming dictatorial powers through his abuse of Executive Orders. Never mind that Boehner's claim that “President Obama is issuing more than his predecessors” is not true,” truth has had little to do with the ongoing GOP attacks against Obama.

Publicity Health: The government of Sierra Leone, acting in concert with it's tourist industry, has – overnight – drastically lowered the number of Ebola deaths in the country. By redefining “Ebola deaths” to include only those cases where there have been actual laboratory tests done on the dead to prove it was Ebola that killed them. Just as many people will die of Ebola, but the government will look better.

Different Strokes: A GOP candidate for MI state legislature say his “stool of conservatism” is held up by “faith, family and freedom,” and that voters should overlook his many convictions for masturbating on other people's cars. After all, he has “dreams.”

Volunteers: Some 600,000 Facebook dweebs were unwittingly the subject of experiments by Facebook in which the content of the news feeds appearing on the website was manipulated to see if there was “experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks.” In essence, Mark wanted to see if he could play with your emotions. 
 
Phraseology: The United States says it will phase out its immense stockpiles of landmines designed specifically to target people. The move is designed to divert attention from the fact that the country has no intention of giving up landmines in general, even though they kill over 15,000 people a year, nearly all of them civilians. Hmm, “phase out”. Does that mean 'use up' or give them to various client regimes?

Victory Lap: The free, open-source operating system Linux is used on 94% of the world's 500 top supercomputers. It has many technical advantages that other (here to be nameless) operating systems cannot match. (Full disclosure: This blog is written on computers running Linux Mint 16 with the Cinnamon desktop, Firefox open source browser, Open Office word processing and Linux-based GIMP graphics. And in all probability, the webserver you are using to access this is also running Linux. Go Teams.)
Down The Drain: President Obama is seeking another $58.6 billion to piss away on our endless wars on top of the $500 billion already allocated for causing trouble wherever we can.

Dear Sir: Ms. Coulter thinks claims that the growing popularity of soccer in the United States is a “sign of the nation's moral decay. … If more “Americans” are watching soccer,” she claims, “it’s only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer.”

In Another Country: Three out of four American conservatives think that poor people in the US “have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything." While bankers have to ruin the economy and foreclose on millions of homeowners to earn their handouts. 
 
Test Tube: Kansas' experiment with lower taxes on businesses in order to spur job creation has resulted in a lower rate of job creation and a lot less income for the state. It's a lose-lose.

Obamacare Works! Profits in the healthcare sector of the economy are looking up as 8 million more people are paying for health insurance (greatly subsidized by the government) and are now beginning to take pills like Real Americans. 
 
The Parting Shot: