The bill is coming due--Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Palin, Fox, Giffords, Twitter subpoena, Business Obama, suicide

Finally somebody who says it the way it is--and the way it is ain’t close to pretty

By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press
WASHINGTON
"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," said Pima County, Ariz., Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. "And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."

"We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list," Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said last March. "The way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize there are consequences to that action."

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How the screw turns and who will be on the end of it next?

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press
LONDON – U.S. officials have issued a subpoena to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to court documents obtained Saturday. WikiLeaks says other American Internet companies may also have been ordered to hand over information about its activities.
Assange blasted the order, saying ,"If the Iranian government was to attempt to coercively obtain this information from journalists and activists of foreign nations, human rights groups around the world would speak out."

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Backbone of American economy proves to be spineless, feels rejected, is pouting....
That great bastion of risk takers won’t grow business to make money because Business feels uncertain, unloved.

Washington – President Obama is making a full-court press to patch up his relations with the business community.
“We keep hearing that the corporate world not only feels disconnnected from the White House, but also has a sense that there’s not the level of predictability they need to start making investments,” says Matt Bennett, vice president for public affairs at Third Way, a moderate Democratic think tank. The appointment of Daley is “a signal that predictability is on its way.”

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Say what you want about Europe and Japan, they value their workers’ rights and are still competitive with the U.S.

Will Our Economy Ever Recover From the "Greatest Recovery"?
Mark Provost, Truthout: "For the past two years, American workers submitted to the president's appeal - taking steep paycuts despite hectic productivity growth. By contrast, corporate executives have extracted record profits by sabotaging the recovery on every front - eliminating employees, repressing wages, withholding investment and shirking federal taxes.... The global recession increased unemployment in every country, but the American experience is unparalleled.... Washington's embrace of labor market flexibility ensured companies encountered little resistance when they launched their brutal recovery plans. Leading into the recession, the US had the weakest worker protections against individual and collective dismissals in the world."

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Forecast of coming events?

Protest by Suicide Highlights Economic and Political Oppression in Tunisia
Basel Saleh, Truthout: "Bouazizi's attempted suicide, which comes hard on the heels of police humiliation and confiscation of his only source of income, reveals the utter despair prevalent today among Tunisia's population, especially college graduates. Twenty-four years of ruthless corruption, dictatorship and neoliberal economic policies led to a concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few people.... The miserable economic conditions in the interior of the country and the lack of employment opportunities and political freedoms pushed Bouazizi, like thousands of other young men and women in the Maghreb countries, to the margins of society."
Rioting to protest joblessness and other social ills has scarred numerous cities across this tiny country since Dec. 17, after a 26-year-old man with a university degree set himself on fire when police confiscated his fruits and vegetables for selling without a permit

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Sounds like something McCain or the governor or any other number of public figures have been heard driving home for the past couple of years. Why is anybody surprised at the result?

By Zachary Roth
It is not yet known whether or not the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and as many as a dozen other people at a public event in Tucson, was an act of political violence.
The AP has reported that the gunman has been identified as Jared Loughner. There's still uncertainty about Loughner's motives and politics. But a Youtube video posted under the name Jared Lee Loughner of Tucson proposes creating a "new currency," and rails against non-English speakers "in District 8" -- Giffords's congressional district.
But it's worth noting that Giffords -- who in 2006 became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, at 36 -- has, for more than a year, been the target of violence-tinged rhetoric from political opponents and of threats that appear to have come from right-wing activists.
Asked by the New York Post whether his daughter had any enemies, Giffords's father replied: "The whole tea party."
In August 2009, an attendee at a Giffords town-hall meeting dropped a handgun, leading Giffords's staff to call the police. "We have never felt the need before to notify law enforcement when we hold these events," her spokesman said at the time.
That same month, Sarah Palin's political action committee posted a map of the US, showing the locations of the 20 Democratic members of Congress, including Giffords, it was targeting for defeat. Each location was marked by an image of a gun crosshairs.
The AP has reported that the gunman has been identified as Jared Loughner. There's still uncertainty about Loughner's motives and politics. But a Youtube video posted under the name Jared Lee Loughner of Tucson proposes creating a "new currency," and rails against non-English speakers "in District 8" -- Giffords's congressional district.

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