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 | I thought at the time there was something hinky going on, but I didn’t know the specifics about this until Mike Malloy mentioned it last night: The exposure of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer’s tryst with a luxury call girl had little to do with the Bush administration’s high moral standards for public servants… Timing suggests that Spitzer was likely a target [...] Unfuckingbelievable. Under Mayor Palin, Wasilla, Alaska charged rape victims for the forensic tests known as “rape kits,” which are necessary to successful prosecution of rapists and which almost every other town in Alaska (and I assume in the country) pays for out of municipal funds. But Mayor Palin’s police chief didn’t want to burden taxpayers with $5,000 to $14,000 a year for the forensic [...] the next time McCain brings up his P.O.W. experience (as he did to justify his ignorance of the number of houses his wife owns), would someone please ask him whether his detainment was any different from our imprisonment, interrogation and torture of hundreds of uncharged men, women and children at Guantanamo and black sites around the globe? And if he says the U.S. [...] From our international banker this morning: The U.S. economy may yet slip into recession, but inflation is an even bigger risk given the “exceptionally” stimulative stance of monetary policy, Richmond Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker said on Tuesday. Lacker pointed out that when adjusted for inflation, the federal funds rate for overnight lending, currently at 2%, is at its lowest level in post-war [...] |      | ||||
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