June 21, 2012

Thursday TOON Roundup 3- DOJ, Banksters and V...

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June 21, 2012

Thursday TOON Roundup 2- Immigration

June 21, 2012

Thursday TOON Roundup 1 - Rmoney

June 21, 2012

Luckovich Toon- Mitt's Hispanic Outreach

June 21, 2012

Evgeny Morozov ('The Net Delusion') curbs Web enthusiasm

When Iranians rose up and marched against their rulers, people around the world felt they were there. Facebook bristled with video from the streets of Tehran. Revolutionary-green avatars sprouted across the Web. Commentators heralded a coming "Twitter Revolution."

The euphoria was pervasive — until a radical skeptic punctured the conventional wisdom.

Evgeny Morozov, a virtually unknown writer and sometime technology advocate, launched his counteroffensive three years ago at the annual TED ideas conference.

What Morozov told the crowd at Oxford University amounted to heresy in some circles: Beware of "iPod liberalism … the assumption that every Iranian and Chinese person that happens to love their iPod will also love liberal democracy."

Don't forget that the Internet can be used not just to empower freedom fighters but to hunt them down through their online presence.


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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-cyberskeptic-20120621,0,3152746.story

June 21, 2012

Dana Milbank- Republicans’ attempt to hold Holder in contempt is uphill battle

There is something charmingly futile about House Republicans’ move to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.

Even if the full House follows the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s vote Wednesday to hold him in contempt, the decision about whether to prosecute him will be left to a Justice Department run by .?.?. Eric Holder.

In deciding whether to prosecute himself, Holder would have to consider whether there are enough prison cells to incarcerate all the other people who are contemptuous of Congress in a country where only 15 percent of the public has a favorable view of the body. And Wednesday’s contemptible antics won’t help that statistic.

Republicans didn’t have much on Holder — it’s one of those perennial disputes about how much the executive branch needs to divulge to the legislature — so they did what sensible people usually do when they have an honest disagreement: They accused the attorney general of being an accessory to murder.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-congress-blowing-gunsmoke/2012/06/20/gJQA4eULrV_story.html

June 21, 2012

Romney’s Super Fan Loses His Truck in a Fire

Jim Wilson, whose cross-country travels in a GM pickup festooned with giant Romney for President signs and stickers earned the admiration and enmity of strangers, reported that his truck was badly burned on Interstate 70 in Pennsylvania on Wednesday afternoon.

Mr. Wilson, Mitt Romney’s most loyal, visible and assiduous supporter, was not injured in the fire, but his truck was destroyed.

In an e-mail sent around 5 p.m. to friends and Romney campaign officials, Mr. Wilson wrote, with characteristic dryness that “the crusty old ‘That Guy’ Wilson is FINE. Can’t say the same for the Romney truck.”

Mr. Wilson took a photograph of the burning truck, which showed flames engulfing the vehicle, which contained dozens of Romney posters and several American flags.

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/romneys-super-fan-loses-his-truck-in-a-fire/

Perhaps his hero mittens can buy him a new one...

June 21, 2012

Bosses Rein In Banker Who Golfs With Obama

BY SUSANNE CRAIG

One of the biggest banks in the world wants the president’s favorite banker muzzled.

The banker, Robert Wolf, a top UBS executive in New York, is among President Obama’s leading fund-raisers, building more than more than $500,000 for his re-election so far this year.

A regular presence at big campaign fund-raisers, Mr. Wolf, who is 50, golfs and vacations with Mr. Obama and is known for e-mailing friends photos of himself with the president.

While such a close relationship might have been envied by other bankers in 2008, when much of Wall Street was infatuated with Mr. Obama and donated heavily to his presidential bid, it has been making other UBS executives uneasy of late.

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http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/bosses-rein-in-banker-who-golfs-with-obama/?hpw

June 20, 2012

xkcd toon:Exoplanets

mouseover text:"Planets are turning out to be so common that to show all the planets in our galaxy, this chart would have to be nested in itself--with each planet replaced by a copy of the chart--at least three levels deep."

June 20, 2012

TOM THE DANCING BUG: Human-man and God-Man team up!