The
First Cut Is The Deepest:
Joe Biden says that if he doesn't run for President “I'll
be demoted to Secretary of State or something like that.”
Truly
True Truthiness:
The CEO of Volkswagon USA [who admits knowing about the deceit for
over a year] is sure that the decade long successful effort by
the company to circumvent emissions regulations was “
a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason.”
Dealerships in the US
are
running out of cars to sell and may
not even get next year's diesel models.
Asylum:
After Dick Cheney gave him the
kiss of death, Kevin McCarthy withdrew his name for consideration
to become the next Speaker of the House, throwing House Republicans
into an uproar and the rest of us into a panic. All we know for sure
is that it will be someone worse
than Paul Ryan.
Secret
Recipe:
Verizon has
improved its cellphone tracking Zombie
Cookie by merging it
with AOL's ad tracking network to match the ads you see to your
offline life, the better to fleece you.
First
Crack: Deutsche
Bank warns that their
3Q results will show a $7 billion loss. It also hinted you could kiss
its annual dividend goodbye this year. It also said it needed to
raise more cash to strengthen its balance sheet.
Place
Your Bets: How
long before a group of US Special Forces runs afoul of Russian troops
on the ground in Syria?
Clarification,
Please: Marco
Rubio says that “there is sea level rise” in Florida, and that
some short-term preventive measures should be taken against flooding.
But there is no need to do anything about global climate change
because The Market will take care of the long range problem and
“numerous pieces of
legislation that sought to regulate the matter” were
not needed.
A
Man Of Principle:
When Ben Carson, who wants the rest of us to stand up to nuts with
guns, was held up at gunpoint, he told the robber to rob the employee
at the register.
Whether
Report: A
study by the Fed that attempted to replicate previously published
economic research was unable to replicate most of the papers, even
with help from the original authors, leading to the unstartling
conclusion that economics is not a science but
a form of political posturing.
Dreamland:
Israel has
resolved to give full access to and all rights over the “enormous
oil deposit” it has discovered in the illegally occupied Golan
Heights. Not.
Point/Counterpoint:
China is not going
to sit by and let the US-led TPP push it out of the Pacific
marketplace. Negotiations on its Regional Comprehensive Economic
Partnership will be concluded by the end of the year, and will
include many of the same countries as the TPP, including the ones
with the largest economies - Australia, India, Japan, South Korea and
New Zealand. Economic warfare, gloves off.
Whose
Ox? South
Carolina's own Senator Lindsey Graham
– famous for strongly
condemning federal relief for the victims of hurricane Sandy has seen
the light – or in this case the rain – and wants all the federal
funds possible to be sent to South Carolina.
Simplicity:
All the drama
about Hillary's erased and missing emails could be ended if someone
would just ask the NSA for copies. They've got them.
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