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Archive for October 24th, 2008

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Obvious-UPDATED

By Thoreau
Hey, remember Congress decided to borrow $700 billion (a debt that we will all have to repay) so that a former Wall Street executive could give it all to Wall Street firms and thereby protect the common man from ruin? Well, who could have possibly predicted that he might not let us in [...]

Friday, October 24th, 2008

I’m thoreau, and I largely approve this platform

By Thoreau
The ACLU has a platform for the next President.  I approve of all the day 1 items and basically all of the first 100 day suggestions.  A lot of the longer-term stuff is narrower in scope, and sounds good on the surface but I’m uncomfortable endorsing a long list of narrow items because devils [...]