Capitalism captures the 99 percent on mugs, T-shirts
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 7th, 2011 5:35 am by HL
Capitalism captures the 99 percent on mugs, T-shirts
SAN FRANCISCO — The revolution will be trademarked and put on T-shirts if an increasing number of entrepreneurs succeed in their attempts to profit from the Occupy demonstrations.
A few T-shirts began to appear several days after the first protest began on Sept. 17 with a march through the streets of Lower Manhattan.
Finding more flaws in HUD’s accounting of HOME program
The calls started in mid-May, two weeks before a looming congressional hearing.
Staff members across the vast U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development were racing to check in with hundreds of local agencies to determine the status of housing construction projects for the poor.
Within days, the massive scramble came to a conclusion: HUD told Congress that its $32 billion HOME Investment Partnerships Program was doing just fine.
Virginia election forecast: High stakes, low turnout
What if Virginia held an election and nobody came?
The outlook for Tuesday isn’t quite that stark. But owing to the quirks of the state’s calendar — which produces a ballot every four years featuring no federal or statewide races to drive turnout — there is a good chance that fewer than one-third of Virginia’s voters will show up at the polls.
On electoral map, Obama still has routes to victory in 2012, despite low ratings
There’s no question that President Obama faces one of the most challenging political environments in modern memory as he prepares to try to win a second term next November.
But with one year to go before the 2012 election, a state-by-state examination of the battleground map suggests that the president still retains several plausible pathways to the 270 electoral votes he needs.
‘SNL’ takes on Rick Perry’s viral speech
When an edited video of an unusually animated speech Texas Gov. Rick Perry gave last month in New Hampshire went viral on YouTube, the smart money said “Saturday Night Live” would have a field day with it. Well, the smart money was right.
During Perry’s Oct. 28 speech at Cornerstone Action’s Fundraising Dinner and Awards Gala in Manchester, N.H., the governor appeared much looser than in other recent campaign appearances, waving his arms and making frequent jokes. The governor’s playful demeanor caused many on the Web and in the media to speculate that he was possibly intoxicated during the speech — a charge Perry and his supporters adamantly deny.
