A run is quite catching you see, like a cough. One little bank run could set other runs off:zite.to/Z6zSiR
— katewerk (@katewerk) March 17, 2013
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2013 Bloggies: Last Call
Voting closes at 10pm ET today.
This is a one person – one vote contest. Further details here.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer: Santa Monica City Council passes ‘Sustainability Bill of Rights’
h/t Black Mamba
This Is Awkward
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
h/t Mike from Montreal
The Sound Of Settled Science
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
26 Things You’ll See On Public Transportation (h/t vanderleun)
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
At precisely one second after midnight, on March 1, Woonsocket would experience its monthly financial windfall — nearly $2 million from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. Federal money would be electronically transferred to the broke residents of a nearly bankrupt town, where it would flow first into grocery stores and then on to food companies, employees and banks, beginning the monthly cycle that has helped Woonsocket survive.
Reader Tips
It’s Saturday night, so we’re going to pull out all the stops and turn up the heat with a full-on dance, choreography, and special-effects Euro-extravaganza called The Bike.
Please remain calm, and stay in your assigned seats.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
The Bloomberg report makes it clear that Obama’s order opens the way for further litigation and substantial delays on Keystone, whether the federal government officially blocks construction or not. That’s because NEPA allows citizens and environmental groups to file claims against projects even after they win government approval.
So the Obama administration could green-light the pipeline, file a report that stops short of calling Keystone a major global-warming hazard, and still find the project delayed for years by environmental groups bringing court challenges under the new NEPA guidelines.
Because delaying Keystone until after 2012 made no sense politically – unless he was determined to stop it all along.
The Tolerant Left
Dr Ben Carson: Libs Called Me ‘N-Word’ After Criticizing Obama
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Eurozone Saves Cyprus, By Grabbing 10% Of Bank Depositors Money bit.ly/ZZGwvP
— AoSHQ (@AoSHQ) March 16, 2013
Full story at Business Insider, but go here for the fallout.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Chinese signs in Richmond ‘way out of hand’: Delegation will appeal to city for more English.
h/t peterj
Benghazi Survivors Still Secret
Via Breitbart;
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, in an extensive interview with Fox News, alleged that the injured survivors of the Benghazi terror attack have been “told to be quiet” and feel they can’t come forward to tell their stories — as he urged the House to subpoena the administration for details if necessary. The South Carolina senator said he’s “had contact” with some of the survivors, calling their story “chilling.” He told Fox News that “the bottom line is they feel that they can’t come forth, they’ve been told to be quiet.”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
h/t Kevin B.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s tips music, from the 1972 album National Lampoon Radio Dinner, a sanctimonious San Francisco liberal folksinger who sounds suspiciously like Joan Baez encourages her negro brothers and sisters across the bay in Oakland to inflict serious harm on their white oppressors..
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
A Demonstration Of The Inner Workings Of The International Monetary Fund, Made Out Of Wood (h/t Stradavarius)
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The WaPo story had a giant pile of journalistic flaws. They had the wrong hooker: the person they talked to had never talked to the Caller. Worse, the paper stealth-corrected that mistake without acknowledging error. Even worse, the paper had claimed to contact Tucker Carlson before publication, but he says they lied.
All bad enough! But the potentially Rathergate-ish aspect of the story emerged when a Twitter user said he had found the curious affidavit that the paper had apparently used as a linchpin of their story.