Links for October 3rd

  • Bloomberg: Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales
    The Koch Brothers have secretly, criminally sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, an enemy of the United States with whom it is unquestionably illegal to do business. This is no aberration for these bastards—they're out for a buck, and they don't care how they get it.
  • Commonwealth Data Point: Expenditures by Agency
    Wondering what the state spends its money on? Here's the state's checkbook, by agency, so read to your heart's content. A warning: good luck with the weird menu system. Somebody apparently thought that rather than menu items, it would be fun to just give people a single letter to try to decipher. O? F? S? P? I don't get it.
  • MSNBC: Bachmann condemns Arab Spring, blames it on Obama
    If stupid were bricks, she'd have a lot of bricks.

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3 replies on “Links for October 3rd”

  1. Bachmann is the poster child for the tea party folks. She represents a good number of like-minded Congress… these days.

    re: commonwealth data point – try to find out how much each county generates in gas taxes and gets back in VDOT services.

    and I agree.. CDP is almost inscrutable in how it provides the slice/dice drill downs.. you’d think they could provide a bit of a road map for those categories.

    If that guy Waldo had written CDP:

    1. – it would have been far cheaper
    2. – it would have made good sense to the average user
    3. – that guy Waldo would want to know from people their opinions and how to improve it.
    4. – he would improve it.

    CDP is a bad example of the State saying they want more transparency but done THEIR WAY .. not what citizens want.

  2. You know, lots of people say they revere Reagan, but the Koch brothers demonstrate it by following in his footsteps!

  3. If that guy Waldo had written CDP:

    1. – it would have been far cheaper
    2. – it would have made good sense to the average user
    3. – that guy Waldo would want to know from people their opinions and how to improve it.
    4. – he would improve it.

    Yeah, but that guy Waldo apparently couldn’t have been bothered. What a jerk. ;)

    You know, lots of people say they revere Reagan, but the Koch brothers demonstrate it by following in his footsteps!

    Ha!

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