As The Angry Bear Points out:
You can’t play Three-Card Monte without a mark, a patsy, a sucker. Guess who’s playing the sucker in Greenspan’s shell game?
And, it is you and me folks who are playing that roll. Read the rest here and here.
Shouldn’t we be getting just a little bit angry about getting robbed every day? If our government will not protect us perhaps it is time for a change…and not just presidents.
This just in from Doug at georgemustgo:
Shorter Richard Perle*: “I just wrote a book that says we should invade Syria, Iran, and Libya, and given that the unadulterated 100-percent bat-shit-craziness of these ideas may hurt the President’s re-election campaign by association, it’s probably best if I hang back for a while.”
Richard Perle, stepping into the strike zone and taking one for the team. A prince among men.
Hmmm, is perle more dangerous inside or outside the administration?
Via Sadly, No!.
Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Danial Moore’s place. Plenty of good reading here for those interested in in issues related to business and economics.
Hat tip to Catallarchy for the reminder.
Update (3/2): Post date corrected, it is no longer April Fools day. Thanks, Tom.
Micah, at Catallarchy, has figured out how the US can avoid bankruptcy.
Ok, I almost titled this: Today’s Chuckle but the problem is real and the solution speaks volumes about why we have the problem in the first place.
Head over to Mike harris’ place and read Very Scary Shit About John Ashcroft from the February 2004 Vanity Fair.
Via Teresa Nielsen Hayden who also quotes a jiucy bit of the article and worries that Harris may have quoted too much (read ‘all’) of the original article.