More economic fallout in the news, via the NY Times: “The auto industry is getting sideswiped by the housing crisis.” Auto lenders and banks, closing their wallets, have prevented hundreds of thousands of consumers from obtaining the financing for a car. Home equity loans, which had been used in at least one of every nine deals, when lenders were more generous, are no longer a source of easy money for many prospective buyers. And used-car prices have fallen nearly...
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RIP – Sidney Pollack
Via the BBC , “US film director and producer Sydney Pollack has died of cancer, aged 73. He won producing and directing Oscars for the epic romance Out of Africa, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, in 1985. He also directed Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, and The Way We Were, in which Redford partnered Barbra Streisand. He died on Monday, surrounded by family members, at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles. He had been diagnosed with cancer...
Global Food Crisis – More Updates
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog. I have posted extensively on the global food prices crisis (the latest post is here) but the crisis is not over and there are still many stories to be told regarding the causes and consequences of this global disaster. first, let’s start with this Guardian handy summary of the 5 causes of the rise in the price of food: The oil dependency factor : Soaring oil and energy prices have pushed up the...
A Simple and Fair Solution For FL & MI
Nothing anyone says to me will convince me that the fight to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan (my home state) is nothing less than a fight for the voting rights of the 2.3 million people who turned out for their state primaries in January. The voters did not set the dates – and major efforts have been made to set things right when the states, the DNC and Hillary’s campaign tried to work out some sort of...
21st Century Liberalism 101
Voters should never be disenfranchised because their legislators wanted to play games. That’s what this comes down to. That’s why this borderline Dem is ticked off. Rules should never be written to take away the franchise from innocent voters. Is that such a hard concept for people to understand? Discuss. Sphere: Related Content
Working The Rope Line
On Saturday, the NY Times had an interesting story comparing the differences between Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain on the rope line at campaign events. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to be up at the front at a rally and been one of the brave souls who jostles for the opportunity to shake the candidate’s hand or try and get a picture taken with the candidate, you know the excitement of moment when you the candidate...
Mistaken
“When the violence causes silence we must be mistaken”: Many Hillary supporters see this election as social justice issue. Obama has worked hand in hand with the media in branding the Clintons as racists and spreading the gross lie that Hillary was calling for Obama’s assassination. The so-called liberal bloggers have joined in this appalling demonstration. The Democratic Party has remained silent. Now they want us to be silent and give it up. This whole “inevitable” line is a...
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