Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments True AdLib, and one of their first mergers was with NCNB which had spread throughout the South gobbling up local banks. That’s why I think of them as NCNB. The merger with BoA made them a nationwide bank. » Posted By bito On September 30, 2011 @ 1:14 pm I saw someone on the tube saying “well you can switch banks or try a smaller one that didn’t get involved in the mortgage mes……” Not once did he say those dreaded words- Credit Union! » Posted By bito On September 30, 2011 @ 12:29 pm Three? Is that all? 😉 Bolton supported the Vietnam War and enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard, but did not serve in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.”[14] In an interview, Bolton discussed his comment in the reunion book, explaining that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because “by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton » Posted By bito On September 30, 2011 @ 12:16 pm This is the headline: and she doesn’t sound like she belongs on the bench to me. But this background on her decisions was hard to believe! CHIEF JUDGE JONES: Judge Dennis! JUDGE DENNIS: Can I, can I, can I ask a question? CHIEF JUDGE JONES: You have monopolized, uh, uh, seven minutes…. JUDGE DENNIS: Well, I’m way behind on asking questions in this court. I have been quiet a lot of times, and I am involved in this case…. CHIEF JUDGE JONES slams her hand down on the table (loudly), stands halfway up out of her chair, and points toward the door. CHIEF JUDGE JONES: Would you like to leave? JUDGE DENNIS: Pardon? What did you say? CHIEF JUDGE JONES: I want you to shut up long enough for me to suggest that perhaps…. JUDGE DENNIS: Don’t tell me to shut up…. CHIEF JUDGE JONES: … you should give some other judge a chance to ask a question … The fact that Jones cut off one of her progressive colleagues is a minor issue, but arises against a background of mean-spirited and ideological decisions. Jones once wrote a dissenting opinion claiming that a female worker who “was repeatedly propositioned, was groped and grabbed, [had] pornography [] placed in her locker, and [had] other employees broadcast[] obscene comments about her over the company’s public address system” did not experience sexual harassment. At oral argument, she even suggested the woman would need to be raped to claim such harassment. In other dissent, Jones wrote that a 15-year-old student who was molested by her high school teacher for over a year could not sue the school district because there is “no broad constitutional purpose to be served by recognizing for [a victim’s] benefit a constitutional right not to have her bodily integrity compromised by a teacher’s sexual abuse.” http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/09/23/326699/jones-to-dennis-shut-up/ » Posted By bito On September 30, 2011 @ 12:08 pm John Bolton Does His Best To Downplay Obama’s Killing Of Awlaki But as NBC News’ First Read noted this morning, “no president” in over 20 years “has had more foreign-policy successes happen under his watch than President Obama.” Yet, he’s “getting almost no credit from the American public.” Despite the killing of Osama Bin Laden and nearly two dozen other top terrorist, the dismantling of Al Qaeda, and the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi polls show the public still gives Republicans the edge on combating terrorism. That after President Bush failed to capture Bin Laden or even pursue him with much alacrity. This is likely because conservative media personalities and Republican lawmakers consistently mislead the public on Obama’s foreign policy, suggesting he is weak on terror and maligning his stance as “leading from behind.” There has never been any basis in reality to their attacks, and even less so after the killing of Al-Awlaki. But Bolton’s performance on Fox this morning suggests that even this latest incident won’t make conservatives acknowledge reality. http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/09/30/332999/john-bolton-downplays-awlaki/ Meanwhile Wanna-Be-Pres Paul said that PBO assassinated an American citizen without any proof of wrong doing. » Posted By bito On September 30, 2011 @ 11:29 am Here’s hoping that they shrink back to their Charlotte NC home and once again become NCNB and let the locally owned banks once again flourish. Still ticked off at the repeal of Glass-Steagall. » Posted By bito On September 30, 2011 @ 10:34 am Is Bank of America trying to shed customers, swell the membership of credit unions? Seems so and what timing with all the #occupy protests forming. Bank Of America To Charge New $5/Month Fee For Debit Card Holders Who Make Purchases Or with is it that without any more bailouts in the near future, are they in need of cash because of this little lawsuit? Details Show $50 Billion Shareholder Lawsuit Against Bank Of America Is A Huge Liability Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-america-50-billion-lawsuit-2011#ixzz1ZSQai5z5 » Posted By bito On September 30, 2011 @ 10:22 am As Deaniac points out this graph says a lot: » Posted By bito On September 30, 2011 @ 9:11 am k’es next Econ 101 lesson is the “pie chart” on making employees pay more into the same pie. It doesn’t make the pie smaller, it just reduces their disposable income to spend on “buying the baby new shoes,” slowing down the economy further, meanwhile the same roads need patched and plowed. Same size pie, HC corporations profits go up while baby goes shoe-less and the shoe store closes. » Posted By bito On September 29, 2011 @ 9:58 pm Duh,K-Sick (that is great 🙂 ), “they”? (state workers) do pay for their pensions and health care, it’s called deferred wages and benefits, an investment and not a cent comes from the general fund. Going back to your image you posted, public employees, via the state comptrollers, invested in the stock market, they didn’t cause it to crash! (I didn’t like my little Econ.101 course, but these R’s are making me feel like an Econ major with a masters) » Posted By bito On September 29, 2011 @ 9:06 pm I’ll swap you k’es with another good one. http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/187860_269897553033825_685305448_n.jpg » Posted By bito On September 29, 2011 @ 7:59 pm Thanks Khirad there are some good articles there ad Mr.Cole’s point is well taken, these should be reported but ya know we have to speculate about Christie all day, no time for these. I liked this one: A More Progressive Tax System Makes People Happier, 54-Nation Study Finds The results: On average, residents of the nations with the most progressive taxation evaluated their own lives as closer to “the best possible.” They also reported having more satisfying experiences and fewer discomfiting ones than respondents living in nations with less progressive taxes. That happiness, Oishi says, was “explained by a greater degree of satisfaction with the public goods, such as housing, education, and public transportation.” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110906152459.htm » Posted By bito On September 29, 2011 @ 12:43 pm I tweeted that article after a quick glance Sabreen, Now I better read it. 😉 » Posted By bito On September 29, 2011 @ 12:03 pm A bit more on the student/SAT bust. Seems that they weren’t some poor inter-city students cheating on the tests using some crib notes. More like poor little rich kids to lazy to study to me. 1,500 to 2,500 disposable from a H.S. student to take a test? Hmmm. NY Prosecutors Uncover Alleged SAT Cheating Ring » Posted By bito On September 28, 2011 @ 7:11 pm He’s lost his caucus, his cause and his purpose in life. » Posted By bito On September 28, 2011 @ 6:36 pm Their cutting of programs like FDA, NIH and CDC is beyond stupidity. They have made many advancements in clinical drugs and trials (kudos to those that took/take part in those trials.) There are many drugs, vaccines, that have saved or extended many lives. » Posted By bito On September 28, 2011 @ 4:55 pm Bachmann, Palin, Perry….and a vast group of those in the RRR, find it so easy to find it a “God Caused” thing because of our wrongs. Well, hmmmm, with the House R’s wanting to cut various agencies like FDA, FEMA and EPA and with the cantaloupes killing people yesterday, earthquakes in Eric Can’ters district and now a ground beef recall in Speaker Boehner’s district, what is God saying? Wake Up! Knock off the cuts that help/protect people? DELAURO: FOOD SAFETY RECALL IN SPEAKER BOEHNER’S DISTRICT SHOULD SERVE AS A WAKE UP CALL FOR CONGRESS http://delauro.house.gov/release.cfm?id=3198 (her all-caps, not mine) » Posted By bito On September 28, 2011 @ 3:35 pm Same guy, another incident caught on video. NYPD Now Has Two Pepper Spray Incidents to Investigate-video A new video showing Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna in a second pepper-spraying incident during the weekend’s Occupy Wall Street protest came out overnight, a few hours before the New York Police Department announced it would investigate Bologna’s use of the spray, which it had previously defended. The original video of Bologna spraying four women detained behind netting has been pretty well parsed by folks who say it goes against the department’s guidelines. The new one also seems to show a violation of the department guidelines as Bologna sprays what appears to be a photographer who wasn’t being detained. [img]http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2011/09/pepperspray209282011/large.jpg[/img] I wonder how many more incidences there were not caught on video? See the videos and read more>>> http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/09/nypd-now-has-two-pepper-spray-incidents-to-investigate/43076/ » Posted By bito On September 28, 2011 @ 1:49 pm VIDEO: Subway shop patrons react to poor GOP Rep. Fleming who barely gets by on $400,000
H/T @GottaLaff Yes, 80,000 footlongs! But he could wait until they went on sale and use coupons, like many people if he needed to stretch out that four hundred thousand. 😉 Edit: oops, *“Local taxes my apply” » Posted By bito On September 28, 2011 @ 12:11 pm What timing! Next up on their agenda will be PBO’s “back to school” speech today. I wonder what they will have to say this year. » Posted By bito On September 28, 2011 @ 10:06 am Em, I was thinking of you when I read it. The related posts are also worth reading. » Posted By bito On September 27, 2011 @ 8:11 pm It’s a relatively light plane, Sue. It is the first plane to use carbon fiber and is expected to save a ton of fuel or so they say. » Posted By bito On September 27, 2011 @ 8:07 pm This is funny. Bad Lip Reading: “Rick Perry” — A BLR Soundbite http://www.youtube.com/user/BadLipReading » Posted By bito On September 27, 2011 @ 8:01 pm Check out Les Riley, tractor salesman. The Most Radical Anti-Abortion Measure in America http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/abortion-mississippi-les-riley The idea behind the amendment is simple: If by law life begins at fertilization, then abortion (and human cloning) would become legally impossible. In an interview with the AFA this summer, Riley asserted that his amendment would have “international implications” and could become “the biggest news in the pro-life movement in 20 years.” If all goes as planned, it will launch a court challenge that will end with Roe v. Wade itself being overturned. As radical and grandiose as that may sound, it fits with fringe views from Riley’s past. A neo-secessionist, Riley once supported an effort to form an independent theocratic republic in South Carolina, and he belonged to an organization—the League of the South—dedicated to forming a “free Southern Republic” built on biblical law. There are 5 other articles on the assault on womens rights at the bottom of the page. » Posted By bito On September 27, 2011 @ 7:39 pm “Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term,” Freeman said. “What underlines that? ‘Screw the country. We’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.'” » Posted By bito On September 27, 2011 @ 7:23 pm Sue I’ll swap you posts from them: David Sirota and the white Leftist version of racism Deaniac83 rips him point by point! H/T Sabreen via Twitter. » Posted By bito On September 27, 2011 @ 6:58 pm Fox News Compares Helping Battered Women To Getting a Manicure From Family PAC Federal Vice President Sandy Rios on Fox: “Is the White House out of their mind? Does the West Wing not know what the left wing is doing? We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, counseling for abuse? Are we going to do pedicures and manicures as well?” What other lines are there from Family Pac? If she would have had my dinner made when I walked in the door, I wouldn’t have battered her. She knew she was supposed to ask me before she bought new shoes! I don’t care if the baby was sick, she could have washed my work clothes! Damn it! » Posted By bito On September 27, 2011 @ 6:27 pm “Supercommittee” Should Develop Balanced Package of Tax Increases and Spending Cuts http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3591 The new congressional committee on deficit reduction (the so-called “supercommittee”) not only can consider revenue increases, but must consider them — as well as spending cuts — if it’s going to produce a balanced plan: 1. Spending cuts alone can’t do the job. 2. The 2001-2003 tax cuts are a significant contributor to projected deficits. 3. Higher-income people can and should share in the sacrifices needed to reduce long-term deficits. Four (my number key doesn’t work) 5. Higher taxes are not an inherent barrier to economic growth. [img]http://www.cbpp.org/images/cms//9-27-11tax-f3.jpg[/img] » Posted By bito On September 27, 2011 @ 5:45 pm Good post from GottaLaff at The Political Carnival. VIDEO: The tale of the underreported union uprising Disturbing video shows car plowing into ILWU workers at Port of Longview’s EGT facility Much More at http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/09/27/video-the-tale-of-the-underreported-union-uprising/ http://tdn.com/special-section/grain_terminal/ » Posted By bito On September 27, 2011 @ 5:09 pm Cantor is THE Hippo-Critter! He just spent the week fighting the funding for FEMA or funding it from a jobs program in the auto industry (not in his district) and then goes begging for FEMA’s help. » Posted By bito On September 27, 2011 @ 4:10 pmComments Posted By bito
During Court Hearing, Conservative Fifth Circuit Chief Judge Shouts Down Progressive Colleague, Telling Him To ‘Shut Up’
and says other stupid things
[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XXH684UVUs4/ToOFSafvH9I/AAAAAAAACdQ/sXAXTP7rmn0/s1600/pew+poll+sept+2011+-+Obama+holds+confidence+advantage+on+deficit.png[/img]
A bit of Orwell’s doublespeak: Investing in the stock market causes it to crash. 
Teens at a top high school are accused of paying a college student to take their exams for them.
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/09
The FDA right now, has only enough food inspectors to check a minimal amount foodstuffs both those coming from Mexico and those in the US.
They shouldn’t be trying to decrease those agencies, they should be upping their budgets.
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/09/28/video-subway-shop-patrons-react-to-poor-gop-rep-fleming-who-barely-gets-by-on-400000/
You can watch it at 1:30 EST @ http://www.whitehouse.gov/live#
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2011/09/david-sirota-and-white-leftist-version.html
And if that young woman hadn’t dressed so “sexy,” she wouldn’t have been raped.
Taxes are low both in historical terms and in comparison with other countries.
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