Politics Stuff

[skywaterblue]

Still continuing: Maureen Dowd still thinks Barack Obama could be 'Sorkinier'.

Charlie Stross thinks the USA's future is too unstable to predict.

Over in the Guardian:
A new world is coming into being almost unnoticed, where America is only one of several great powers, facing an uncertain future it can no longer shape.

More or less.

The Barack Obama plan for science.

Comments

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

The problem isn't the "minority" part but the "unqualified" part. The excuse for relaxing the requirements for the loans was to "help minority borrowers."

I actually don't know much about ACORN, so I wasn't going to mention it. I have my own experiences of the hell that working for supposedly "enlightened" organizations can become. And I don't mean FoFo (which was actually a fairly nice place).

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

FoFo is one of the best places I've worked; they seem to care a lot about the canvassers there, actually. One of the few places that walks the walk.

The problem isn't the "minority" part but the "unqualified" part. The excuse for relaxing the requirements for the loans was to "help minority borrowers."

Yeah, and while minorities constitute an important section of why we did it, it doesn't change the fact that the people who ended up abusing and ultimately breaking the system were housing speculators.