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Daily Newsline

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Day's Theme: The more things change; you get more of the same.

First thing: Not much to celebrate, there's still a drug war.

And a war on freedom: Headline: FBI access to data may expand

The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. (WashPost)

My take: What change?  Stand up for the little guy - then go beg "fat cats" for cash...No change here.

More 'JournoList' - more awful 'revelations' about so-called mainstream media.

Most ridiculous quote:

"My point was that fascists had the wherewithal to be truly popular - they offered (racially vetted) people material benefits, that was one of the things Germans and italians liked about them. I don't see american reactionaries making the same offer. that is (one reason) why I don't see them as today's equivalent to the Nazis and Italian fascists. Who were, I guess i need to say this, incomparably evil." [emphasis added for obvious reasons] (Good grief!)

Oh my, spoke too soon again:

"I'd also say that the fascist and National Socialist right had an intellectual heft that the contemporary American right lacks. I'd much rather read Heidegger, Junger, Schmitt, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound etc. than Limbaugh, Coulter, Beck, Mark Steyn, etc."

These folks have serious issues.

Headline: Job Subsidies Also Provide Help to Private Sector

States are putting hundreds of thousands of people directly into jobs through programs reminiscent of the more ambitious work projects of the Great Depression.

But the new efforts have a twist: While the wages are being paid by the government, most of the participants are working for private companies. (NY Times)

My take: If it's paid for by government, it's just a welfare program not a job.

More of the same corruption: OMB nominee got $900,000 after Citigroup bailout

Headline: Court ruling unlikely to change politics of immigration (FYI: Partisan article)

A federal judge's rejection of the most controversial elements of Arizona's immigration law is unlikely to change the entrenched immigration politics in Washington, where not a single Republican senator supports the overhaul that many experts say is needed to fix what President Obama calls a "fundamentally broken" system. (LA Times)

My take: All sides love to keep a 'political football' in play. (No change)

Last thing: Admit it, you thought this already: One In Five Californians Say They Need Mental Health Care (Score!)