All peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are not created equal.
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May 21st, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Chips Ahoy With Reese’s Now Available In 3 Different Varieties
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May 21st, 2013 at 6:55 am
NYPD Stop-And-Frisk Trial Ends As Judge Peppers City With Questions
NEW YORK — The trial of the New York City Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk practice ended on Monday as lawyers defending the city were peppered with sharp questions from the federal judge hearing the case.
But whether U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin will declare stop-and-frisk unconstitutional — and whether she will impose changes on NYPD procedures — were questions that lingered over the closing arguments in her Manhattan courtroom. Civil rights attorneys led by the non-profit Center for Constitutional Rights are suing the city on behalf of black and Latino residents.
The lawsuit, filed in January 2008, draws to a close in the waning months of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s three terms in office. It centers on one of his defining legacies: the massive expansion of reported stop-and-frisk searches, which last year resulted in 533,042 stops, 87 percent of them on blacks and Latinos.
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May 20th, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Steven Cohen: The Science and Politics of Preserving Our Beach Communities
Climate change requires that we transition to a fossil fuel free economy: But at what pace? How will we fund this transition? Who will pay the costs? What technologies will be used? If the transition takes place too slowly, we bear the risks of climate change.
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May 20th, 2013 at 2:17 pm
Al Sharpton Pat Buchanan on Rush Limbaugh Hardball Chris Mathews Part2 2/2
Al Sharpton Pat Buchanan on Rush Limbaugh Hardball Chris Mathews Part2 2/2.
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May 20th, 2013 at 6:55 am
Bacon Bacon On ‘SNL’: ‘Weekend Update’ Parodies San Francisco Controversy (VIDEO)
As you may recall, Cole Valley residents were part relieved, part enraged when the cult-followed Bacon Bacon restaurant was forced to shut down Friday after complaints about its potent smell.
Turns out it isn’t just fanatic locals who care. The news made it all the way to SNL, with Amy Poehler making a crack about pork and police during her surprise “Weekend Update” appearance.
Watch the clip above, and learn more about Bacon Bacon’s plight here.
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May 20th, 2013 at 6:55 am
Bay To Breakers Photo Contest: Upload Your Best Pictures Below
Now that you’ve shaken the glitter out of your clothes and sufficiently nursed your hangover, it’s time to bask in the revelry that was Bay to Breakers 2k13.
What better way to relive your glory than by joining in our photo contest?
We want to see the most creative costumes, the most stunning shots from your proudest moments, anything that captures the essence of our city’s biggest festival. All you have to do is upload your favorite images from the Big Race below. Your HuffPost SF editors will choose their favorite at the end of the week, and the winner will get an amazing prize. (We can’t tell you what it is yet, but we promise it’ll be worth it).
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May 20th, 2013 at 6:55 am
Open thread for night owls: Austerity and debt wreck lives of working American families
The following excerpt, via Alternet, comes from Robert Kuttner’s new book, Debtors’ Prison, titled Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families:
| “Living within one’s means” is an appealing but oversimplified metaphor. Before the crisis, some families and nations did borrow to finance consumption—a good definition of living beyond one’s means. But this borrowing was not the prime cause of the crisis. Today, far larger numbers of entirely prudent people find themselves with diminished means as a result of broader circumstances beyond their control, and bad policies compound the problem.
After a general collapse, one’s means are influenced by whether the economy is growing or shrinking. If I am out of work, with depleted income, almost any normal expenditure is beyond my means. If my lack of a job throws you out of work, soon you are living beyond your means, too, and the whole economy cascades downward. In an already depressed economy, demanding that we all live within our (depleted) means can further reduce everyone’s means. If you put an entire nation under a rigid austerity regime, its capacity for economic growth is crippled. Even creditors will eventually suffer from the distress and social chaos that follow. Take a closer look at moral hazard ex ante from ex post and you will find that blame is widely attributed to the wrong immoralists. Governments and families are being asked to accept austerity for the common good. Yet the prime movers of the crisis were bankers who incurred massive debts in order to pursue speculative activities. The weak reforms to date have not changed the incentives for excessively risky banker behaviors, which persist. The best cure for moral hazard is the proverbial ounce of prevention. Moral hazard was rampant in the run-up to the crash because the financial industry was allowed to make wildly speculative bets and to pass along risks to the rest of the society. Yet in its aftermath, this financial crisis is being treated more as an object lesson in personal improvidence than as a case for drastic financial reform. The last great financial collapse, by contrast, transformed America’s economics. First, however, the Roosevelt administration needed to transform politics. FDR’s reforms during the Great Depression constrained both the financial abuses that caused the crash of 1929 and the political power of Wall Street. Deficit-financed public spending under the New Deal restored growth rates but did not eliminate joblessness. The much larger spending of World War II—with deficits averaging 26 percent of gross domestic product for each of the four war years—finally brought the economy back to full employment, setting the stage for the postwar recovery. By the war’s end, the U.S. government’s public debt exceeded 120 per- cent of GDP, almost twice today’s ratio. America worked off that debt not by tightening its belt but by liberating the economy’s potential. In 1945, there was no panel like President Obama’s Bowles-Simpson commission targeting the debt ratio a decade into the future and commending ten years of budget cuts. Rather, the greater worry was that absent the stimulus of war and with twelve million newly jobless GIs returning home, the civilian economy would revert to depression. So America doubled down on its public investments with programs like the GI Bill and the Marshall Plan. For three decades, the economy grew faster than the debt, and the debt dwindled to less than 30 percent of GDP. Finance was well regulated so that there was no speculation in the public debt. |
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2009—Gallup: Moderates, liberals flee GOP:
| Gallup is out with an interesting new survey showing where the Republican Party has lost the most ground over the past eight years, and conservatives aren’t going to like what it reveals.
The narrative spun by the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys and Dick Cheneys of the world is that the GOP’s problem is that it hasn’t been conservative enough, and that rather than moderate its policies, the GOP should focus its rebuilding efforts on the party’s conservative base. |
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May 19th, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Carmenlita Stevens, Quavon Foster Funeral: Ceremony Held For Mother, Son Slain In New Jersey Home
TRENTON, N.J. — Funeral services have been held for the New Jersey woman and boy whose bodies were found in their home after a 37-hour hostage standoff last weekend.
The Times of Trenton (http://bit.ly/113Q2dJ) reports Carmenlita Stevens’ four surviving children were among those attending Saturday’s service for the 44-year-old woman and her 12-year-old son, Quavon Foster. Stevens’ boyfriend had held three of the surviving children hostage during the standoff.
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May 19th, 2013 at 10:41 am
Sunday Talk: You read it here first
When Bob Woodward publishes the definitive history of Barack Obama’s second term (maybe sooner rather than later), this will be presented as the week that Politico pwned the news cycle—and the president lost the village.
I mean that both literally and literarily.
A reliable source of mine deep inside the industry (codename: Imaginary Friend) leaked me the outline of a book proposal that Woodward is shopping around.
Below are Bob’s unedited notes (talking points, if you will) covering this week:
First They Came for the "Patriots"
Utilizing research conducted by Harvard Ph.D. candidates, in this chapter I will compare the IRS' scrutiny of "non-profit" Tea Party groups (among others) to the Nazis' persecution of Jews and homosexuals. SPOILER: This doesn't end well, but it isn't Watergate.Then They Came for Me
This chapter will focus on the DOJ's decision to secretly subpoena the AP's phone records. For context, I will again recount the harrowing details of the time that White House economic adviser Gene Sperling threatened to kill me. SPOILER: I'm still alive; just like Watergate.Watergate 2: Electric Benghaziloo
These chapters (plural) will consist of nothing but the redacted transcript of a conversation between myself, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Alberto Gonzales. The four of us will meet at an undisclosed location for a freewheeling discussion about the numerous crimes that President Obama committed in Benghazi, and where in the world he should be tried for them. I will be played by Matthew McConaughey, or a Matthew McConaughey type. SPOILER: ██████ █████████, █████'█ ███████ ██ ███ ████.Watergate 3: Watergate Harder
In what is certain to be the final chapter of Barack Obama's presidency, I will reveal the sinister connection between "Umbrella-gate" and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. SPOILER: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the brain.
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May 19th, 2013 at 3:42 am
Rachel Maddow – Right-wing truthers lead Romney to debate disaster
Oct 17, 2012.
In Part 5 of Hubris: Selling the Iraq War, Rachel Maddow shows how Secretary of State Colin Powell was given flawed evidence to make the case for war with Ir…
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