Supreme court still for sale

In Feb of this year we posted Supreme court, going once, twice SOLD...... which for us anyway, shed a little light on how it was that Citizens’ United v Federal Election Commission, got passed. It would appear that this wasn't just your normal going once, going twice, sold K-mart blue light special as Antonio Scalia and Clarence Thomas prove that lack of ethics and law can be quite profitable. And yes most articles use the word "justices" in front of their names.  However we will  only do so when they finally get it. Justice that is. From Politics now:

By James Oliphant

November 14, 2011, 3:50 p.m.

The day the Supreme Court gathered behind closed doors to consider the politically divisive question of whether it would hear a challenge to President Obama’s healthcare law, two of its justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, were feted at a dinner sponsored by the law firm that will argue the case before the high court.

The occasion was last Thursday, when all nine justices met for a conference to pore over the petitions for review. One of the cases at issue was a suit brought by 26 states challenging the sweeping healthcare overhaul passed by Congress last year, a law that has been a rallying cry for conservative activists nationwide.

The justices agreed to hear the suit; indeed, a landmark 5 1/2-hour argument is expected in March, and the outcome is likely to further roil the 2012 presidential race, which will be in full swing by the time the court’s decision is released.
The lawyer who will stand before the court and argue that the law should be thrown out is likely to be Paul Clement, who served as U.S. solicitor general during the George W. Bushadministration. 

Clement’s law firm, Bancroft PLLC, was one of almost two dozen firms that helped sponsor the annual dinner of the Federalist Society, a longstanding group dedicated to advocating conservative legal principles. Another firm that sponsored the dinner, Jones Day, represents one of the trade associations that challenged the law, the National Federation of Independent Business.

Another sponsor was pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc, which has an enormous financial stake in the outcome of the litigation. The dinner was held at a Washington hotel hours after the court's conference over the case. In attendance was, among others, Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican and an avowed opponent of the healthcare law.
The featured guests at the dinner? Scalia and Thomas.

Don't ya just love it.  Makes that pubic hair gig look a bit more reasonable doesn't it. the article goes on to say:

Scalia and Thomas have shown little regard for critics who say they too readily mix the business of the court with agenda-driven groups such as the Federalist Society. And Thomas’ wife, Ginni, is a high-profile conservative activist.

And why should they???  After all they are amongst the chosen ones. The ones who have been sent by God to judge us, and make law for us, and interpret right and wrong for us and to sprinkle pubic hairs wherever they  might! Yeah, well we got a pubic hair for them!Add to Technorati Favorites

Rep Bachus makes Boehner and Pelosi look like probies

If you did not catch 60 minutes Sunday night or our post,60 minutes on congressional insider trading, the cesspool of traitors then we suggest you check it out immediately if not like yesterday. Because the level of corruption that infests the halls of congress like bedbugs in a motel 6 is unfreaking believable. So we just add to it. From the Business Insider: 


Washington is buzzing about last night's 60 Minutes report that revealed the startling frequency with which members of Congress financially benefit from inside information they get as legislators.

Most of the focus has been on the ethically questionable trading of House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the two highest-ranking and most-visible members of the House.

But the most shocking revelation actually concerns a lesser-known Congressman, Rep. Spencer Bachus, who shorted the market as the economy collapsed in 2008, at the same time that he was the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee. 

The 60 Minutes report just touched on the Bachus trades. Luckily, the new book on which the broadcast was based has more details.

Slate's Dave Weigel got an early copy of the book, Throw Them All Out by Hoover Institute fellow Peter Schweizer, and the evidence is pretty damning. According to Schweizer, Bachus and Pelosi got secret briefings from Fed Chair Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who basically told the legislators that it was "a matter of days before there is a meltdown in the global financial system.”

From the book, via Weigel:

The next day, September 19, Congressman Bachus bought contract options on Proshares Ultra-Short QQQ, an index fund that seeks results that are 200% of the inverse of the Nasdaq 100 index. In other words, he was shorting the market. It was an inexpensive way to bet that the market would fall. He bought options for $7,846 on a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened at 8,604. A few days later, on September 23, after the market had indeed fallen, he sold the options for over $13,000 and nearly doubled his money.

And that's only the beginning. After Paulson got a tip from General Electric about slow bond sales, Bachus shorted GE four times — in all, Weigel reports that Schweizer found "no less than forty options trades" in Bachus's records between July 2008 and November 2008.

Damn PEOPLE! How long do WE allow this to go on??? Because it is we that are allowing it you know? Hey, here's an idea. Lets hold a gun to our head and mail them all our money.Add to Technorati Favorites nbsp;

Occupy Tallahassee, real or not? We shall see....

 As promised in our post of Sunday, Nov 13, 2011 which was a post without comment from Tallahassee.com wherein we referred to the article as a fluff piece, we address why we feel that way. In doing so we will reposting our original post adding our comments in bold parenthesis as quotes:

The article:

We are slam posting an article fromTallahassee com. on the question as to whether or not Occupy Tallahassee is diminishing or not. Leave it to Tallahassee.com to do a fluff piece with no freaking critical or analytical thinking at all. Leaving us to believe they now believe journalism is acting like a freaking flock of parrots. We shall remedy such as we have time. We just posted this to remind us to do so.

The Occupy Tallahassee movement is still alive and shouting from the Capitol, but the weekly participants are noticing a drop-off in attendance.

Lauren McCoy, a 20-year-old employee at CosmoProf, said the slow decrease in numbers is a product of a late start to the movement along with some disorganization within the group.

"I have been to every rally since we started," she said. "I've noticed the numbers have been dwindling. We're trying to figure out what each person can do and what they can do efficiently."

We noticed the lack of enthusiasm from the first General Assembly and posted on it. We will include links to our posts on Occupy Tallahassee below.

McCoy said her faith in the movement is in no way shaken and with another protest at the Capitol today at noon, Occupy Tallahassee is still going strong. She said those who doubt the movement should wait and see what comes next.

"Just because there are not a whole lot of people out there doing it doesn't mean you can't be a part of something and make your voice heard," she said.

This is true, but then the question would be is that voice out there affiliated with Occupy Tallahassee or not?

Nationally coordinated strike against the Occupy movement-Police state

The words "Police State" and "Nationalism" scare me.  Maybe because I think of the rise Hitler and Nazi Germany when I hear them.  Unlike others who bristle at the words socialism and communism, fascism is the one that most scares me. Do not get me wrong totalitarian governments by any name I find distasteful.  But when I read of a nationwide coordinated police crackdown on constitutionally legal protest, it is the Nazi Police state that comes to mind.  In fact, if this is the case, the "we the people," and this country may have just been "Occupied"!

In our previous post:Occupy wall street, Mayor Bloomberg, court orders, who rules? We asked the question, were the actions against protestors around the country last night co-ordinated?  It would appear we have our answer. From the International Business Times:

By Joseph Orovic | November 15, 2011 2:00 PM EST

Police in riot gear have become seemingly ubiquitous at Occupy Wall Street protests nationwide. Many are starting to feel it isn't a coincidence.

The numerous crackdowns on Occupy protests from coast to coast have many wondering if the moves by several U.S. cities were coordinated. A BBC interview with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has added to speculation that U.S. mayors worked together in organizing against the two-month old movement

18 Mayors on Conference Call

"I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation where what had started as a political movement and a political encampment ended up being an encampment that was no longer in control of the people who started them,"she said (audio starts at 5:30).

Quan's statement comes on the heels of a string of crackdowns and growing tensions between protestors and localities, most recently embodied in the eviction of Zuccotti Park's denizens.

According to Occupy Wall Street spokesman Patrick Bruner, there were suspicions that the evictions were coordinated.

"I think you just confirmed it," he said after hearing of Quan's comments. "This is obviously a concerted attempt to shut down our movement."

Sequential Shutdowns?

Occupy wall street, Mayor Bloomberg, court orders, who rules?

As is being currently reported on CNN and various other news sources, NYPD has continued to kick and keep Occupy Wall Street protestors Zuccotti park.  This despite a court order that prohibits them from doing so. From CNN:

A New York state judge this morning temporarilly enjoined the city from keeping the protesters out of Zuccotti Park, but Mayor Bloomberg is simply ignoring the Order and deliberately breaking the law by refusing to allow them back in. Put another way, Bloomberg this morning has broken more laws than the hundreds of protesters who were arrested. But as we know,the law does not apply to the Michael Bloombergs of the nation; the law, instead, has simply been exploited into a weapon used by the politically and financially powerful to prevent challenges to their standing.

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