Thanks Obama.For Nothin'
by Robert Sproul
on 16 Jan 2014
110 comments, latest 10 years ago
So, I signed up for Obama(doesn't)Care via the CoveredCal website. I am in the position of having a home and liquid assets but no income. This has been the ...
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Wall Street Is Gobbling Up Two-Thirds of Your 401(k)
by Robert Sproul on 28 Jan 2015 39 comments, latest 9 years ago
"If you work for 50 years and receive the typical long-term return of 7 percent on your 401(k) plan and your fees are 2 percent, almost two-thirds of your ...
by Robert Sproul on 28 Jan 2015 39 comments, latest 9 years ago
"If you work for 50 years and receive the typical long-term return of 7 percent on your 401(k) plan and your fees are 2 percent, almost two-thirds of your ...
2013's Most Depressing Event?
by Robert Sproul on 29 Dec 2013 57 comments, latest 10 years ago
Some may choose Miley Cyrus twerkng Duck Dynasty (?) or Diane Frankenstein's wanton pandering to the Security/Industrial Complex. My nomination of the most disgusting spectacle of 2013 is Eric ...
by Robert Sproul on 29 Dec 2013 57 comments, latest 10 years ago
Some may choose Miley Cyrus twerkng Duck Dynasty (?) or Diane Frankenstein's wanton pandering to the Security/Industrial Complex. My nomination of the most disgusting spectacle of 2013 is Eric ...
Saturated Fat Does Not Cause Heart Disease
by Robert Sproul on 12 Dec 2014 23 comments, latest 9 years ago
—"or so concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. How could this be? The very cornerstone of dietary advice for generations has ...
by Robert Sproul on 12 Dec 2014 23 comments, latest 9 years ago
—"or so concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. How could this be? The very cornerstone of dietary advice for generations has ...
If only the Republicans would get out of the way
by Robert Sproul on 15 Jun 2015 15 comments, latest 9 years ago
…..and let responsible governance happen. "AP: Obama administration ‘sets new record’ for denying records" "Leak investigations, seizing phone records, using FOIA-dodging private e-mail addresses: The Obama administration routinely makes ...
by Robert Sproul on 15 Jun 2015 15 comments, latest 9 years ago
…..and let responsible governance happen. "AP: Obama administration ‘sets new record’ for denying records" "Leak investigations, seizing phone records, using FOIA-dodging private e-mail addresses: The Obama administration routinely makes ...
CISA Is The New CISPA
by Robert Sproul on 12 Jul 2014 24 comments, latest 2 months ago
New internet censorship bill, sponsored by Senator Diane Frankenstein, one of the committed, relentless, Authoritarians who are eager to control all information flows that bypass the corporatized media. This ...
by Robert Sproul on 12 Jul 2014 24 comments, latest 2 months ago
New internet censorship bill, sponsored by Senator Diane Frankenstein, one of the committed, relentless, Authoritarians who are eager to control all information flows that bypass the corporatized media. This ...
Student Banned for Resembling Classmates Rapist
by Robert Sproul on 19 Feb 2015 20 comments, latest 9 years ago
A student at a liberal-arts school in Oregon was reportedly banned from going anywhere on campus that a fellow student would be — because he looked like the person ...
by Robert Sproul on 19 Feb 2015 20 comments, latest 9 years ago
A student at a liberal-arts school in Oregon was reportedly banned from going anywhere on campus that a fellow student would be — because he looked like the person ...
America's Ruling Elite Has Failed and Deserves to Be Fired
by Robert Sproul on 7 Nov 2016 22 comments, latest 8 years ago
The estimable Charles Hugh Smith- "America's Ruling Elite is freaking out because a significant percentage of the American public is trying to fire them. The Ruling Elite has failed ...
by Robert Sproul on 7 Nov 2016 22 comments, latest 8 years ago
The estimable Charles Hugh Smith- "America's Ruling Elite is freaking out because a significant percentage of the American public is trying to fire them. The Ruling Elite has failed ...
Now Hiring, Programers in Fremont. $1.21 an Hour!
by Robert Sproul on 31 Oct 2014 24 comments, latest 10 years ago
"Ever heard of Electronics for Imaging? We hadn't either until this morning, but it's apparently a multimillion dollar, multinational, public corporation based out of Fremont, California. And the United ...
by Robert Sproul on 31 Oct 2014 24 comments, latest 10 years ago
"Ever heard of Electronics for Imaging? We hadn't either until this morning, but it's apparently a multimillion dollar, multinational, public corporation based out of Fremont, California. And the United ...
Work in the Age of Anxiety-The 40 Year Slump
by Robert Sproul on 13 Nov 2013 25 comments, latest 10 years ago
Like to blame the boomers for milking off all the prosperity? Here is the other side of the coin. Most of the working folks I know have been swimming ...
by Robert Sproul on 13 Nov 2013 25 comments, latest 10 years ago
Like to blame the boomers for milking off all the prosperity? Here is the other side of the coin. Most of the working folks I know have been swimming ...
Obsolete College Professors Resist Their Fate
by Robert Sproul on 9 Jun 2013 28 comments, latest 11 years ago
Indenturing their students to a crushing indebtedness is preferable to exploring a future of accessible education to the pampered, astonishingly overpaid, profs in this WSJ opinion piece. From the ...
by Robert Sproul on 9 Jun 2013 28 comments, latest 11 years ago
Indenturing their students to a crushing indebtedness is preferable to exploring a future of accessible education to the pampered, astonishingly overpaid, profs in this WSJ opinion piece. From the ...
One More Crisis and the Fuckers Will Have it All.
by Robert Sproul on 29 Oct 2014 19 comments, latest 10 years ago
"The number of billionaires has doubled since the start of the financial crisis, according to a major new report from anti-poverty campaigners. According to Oxfam, the world’s rich are ...
by Robert Sproul on 29 Oct 2014 19 comments, latest 10 years ago
"The number of billionaires has doubled since the start of the financial crisis, according to a major new report from anti-poverty campaigners. According to Oxfam, the world’s rich are ...
by Robert Sproul on 16 Nov 2013 12 comments, latest 10 years ago
50,000 SWAT Raids a Year, Here is One of Them
by Robert Sproul on 18 Dec 2014 25 comments, latest 9 years ago
"It started when a friend concerned for Chadwick's emotional well-being called Missouri City police to Chad's Sienna apartment where he'd been distraught, drinking and unknown to anyone, had gone ...
by Robert Sproul on 18 Dec 2014 25 comments, latest 9 years ago
"It started when a friend concerned for Chadwick's emotional well-being called Missouri City police to Chad's Sienna apartment where he'd been distraught, drinking and unknown to anyone, had gone ...
by Robert Sproul on 4 May 2015 9 comments, latest 9 years ago
"More than 30 percent of renters in California, Florida, New Jersey and New York state devote at least half their incomes to housing and utilities, according to the analysis. ...
Asset Forfeiture: They Even Took Her Vibrator
by Robert Sproul on 1 Jun 2015 14 comments, latest 9 years ago
This is an interesting tutorial, for the compliant statist, that the Leviathan continues to exercise its ability to take all your shit at its whim. "When the cops raided ...
by Robert Sproul on 1 Jun 2015 14 comments, latest 9 years ago
This is an interesting tutorial, for the compliant statist, that the Leviathan continues to exercise its ability to take all your shit at its whim. "When the cops raided ...
Peter Thiel Cogently Explains Trump's Appeal and Support
by Robert Sproul on 1 Nov 2016 14 comments, latest 8 years ago
www.youtube.com/embed/AfYLEPRi
by Robert Sproul on 1 Nov 2016 14 comments, latest 8 years ago
www.youtube.com/embed/AfYLEPRi
Are You a Deplorable? Take This Quiz to Find Out
by Robert Sproul on 19 Dec 2016 12 comments, latest 7 years ago
"Though it was Hillary Clinton who made "the Deplorables" public, the elites of both parties share the same fear and loathing of anyone who questions or resists their control." ...
by Robert Sproul on 19 Dec 2016 12 comments, latest 7 years ago
"Though it was Hillary Clinton who made "the Deplorables" public, the elites of both parties share the same fear and loathing of anyone who questions or resists their control." ...
Fascist America
by Robert Sproul on 5 May 2014 11 comments, latest 7 years ago
Chris Hedges: "The U.S. Supreme Court decision to refuse to hear our case concerning Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which permits the military to seize ...
by Robert Sproul on 5 May 2014 11 comments, latest 7 years ago
Chris Hedges: "The U.S. Supreme Court decision to refuse to hear our case concerning Section 1021(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which permits the military to seize ...
Get Out The Vote!.............(hahahahahahahahahaha)
by Robert Sproul on 28 Oct 2016 14 comments, latest 8 years ago
A new study, confirming the Princeton study of a few years ago, finds that: "The US government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, ...
by Robert Sproul on 28 Oct 2016 14 comments, latest 8 years ago
A new study, confirming the Princeton study of a few years ago, finds that: "The US government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, ...
Surgical Outcomes
by Robert Sproul on 3 May 2015 10 comments, latest 9 years ago
" For 99 percent of people in America, when they go in to have surgery, the outcome [of that operation] is not measured. Nobody's keeping track. So I'm amazed ...
by Robert Sproul on 3 May 2015 10 comments, latest 9 years ago
" For 99 percent of people in America, when they go in to have surgery, the outcome [of that operation] is not measured. Nobody's keeping track. So I'm amazed ...
Fed Blows (Bubbles)
by Robert Sproul on 11 Feb 2013 15 comments, latest 11 years ago
Interesting discussion of Fed policy, and its effect, by the Bay Area's own, invaluable, Charles Hugh Smith. "The financial media and economists want us to believe that the Fed ...
by Robert Sproul on 11 Feb 2013 15 comments, latest 11 years ago
Interesting discussion of Fed policy, and its effect, by the Bay Area's own, invaluable, Charles Hugh Smith. "The financial media and economists want us to believe that the Fed ...
Warning: Don't Talk to the Cops
by Robert Sproul on 8 Nov 2013 13 comments, latest 10 years ago
A valuable video primer for some of the subservient law enforcement apologists on PatNet that are convinced that the police are their pals. Because of institutional biases, very perverse ...
by Robert Sproul on 8 Nov 2013 13 comments, latest 10 years ago
A valuable video primer for some of the subservient law enforcement apologists on PatNet that are convinced that the police are their pals. Because of institutional biases, very perverse ...
Obama In China: Taking Candy From A Baby
by Robert Sproul on 13 Nov 2014 15 comments, latest 9 years ago
"In proceeding full steam ahead towards national bankruptcy, the United States is world history’s ultimate example of the triumph of ideology over commonsense. Beginning in the Eisenhower era, succeeding ...
by Robert Sproul on 13 Nov 2014 15 comments, latest 9 years ago
"In proceeding full steam ahead towards national bankruptcy, the United States is world history’s ultimate example of the triumph of ideology over commonsense. Beginning in the Eisenhower era, succeeding ...
California's Millionaire Civil Servants
by Robert Sproul on 30 Oct 2014 17 comments, latest 10 years ago
2.5 million dollar coaches, 2 million dollar college professors, half million buck prison shrinks. http://transparentcalifornia.c http://publicpay.ca.gov From the SFGate story on school salaries where I got the links: "Saratoga ...
by Robert Sproul on 30 Oct 2014 17 comments, latest 10 years ago
2.5 million dollar coaches, 2 million dollar college professors, half million buck prison shrinks. http://transparentcalifornia.c http://publicpay.ca.gov From the SFGate story on school salaries where I got the links: "Saratoga ...
by Robert Sproul on 9 Nov 2014 8 comments, latest 9 years ago
This is one thing the parasitical .001% elites do with their ill gotten boodle. Results of a recent art auction: Koons' Balloon Dog, a 10-foot-tall stainless-steel rendition of a ...
Obama's Parting Gift to Blackstone Billionaire Buddy Schwarzman
by Robert Sproul on 29 Jan 2017 6 comments, latest 5 years ago
"Mortgage giant Fannie Mae is getting into the single-family rental business in a big way. The government-backed agency said it is going into business with private equity giant and ...
by Robert Sproul on 29 Jan 2017 6 comments, latest 5 years ago
"Mortgage giant Fannie Mae is getting into the single-family rental business in a big way. The government-backed agency said it is going into business with private equity giant and ...
Fullerton Police Protect and Serve Kelly Thomas to Death
by Robert Sproul on 11 Dec 2013 27 comments, latest 10 years ago
Taxpayer financed, costumed, psychopathic thugs beat a mentally challenged homeless man to death. Some of this is hard to watch but the sadism and brutality exhibited is eye opening ...
by Robert Sproul on 11 Dec 2013 27 comments, latest 10 years ago
Taxpayer financed, costumed, psychopathic thugs beat a mentally challenged homeless man to death. Some of this is hard to watch but the sadism and brutality exhibited is eye opening ...
Republican Goofball Report from Wyoming
by Robert Sproul on 13 Jun 2015 6 comments, latest 9 years ago
Wyoming Senate File 12: "Passed by the Wyoming state government and signed into law by Gov. Matt "Meathead" Mead (R) in March, the law makes it illegal to “collect ...
by Robert Sproul on 13 Jun 2015 6 comments, latest 9 years ago
Wyoming Senate File 12: "Passed by the Wyoming state government and signed into law by Gov. Matt "Meathead" Mead (R) in March, the law makes it illegal to “collect ...
New SF Housing Trend: Flop House 2.0
by Robert Sproul on 20 Apr 2015 Posted 9 years ago
45 years after San Francisco's Limousine Liberals demolished the Yerba Buena skid row flop houses and pretty much created San Francisco's downtown homeless problem we get Flop House 2.0 ...
by Robert Sproul on 20 Apr 2015 Posted 9 years ago
45 years after San Francisco's Limousine Liberals demolished the Yerba Buena skid row flop houses and pretty much created San Francisco's downtown homeless problem we get Flop House 2.0 ...
On Obama's Watch
by Robert Sproul on 15 Apr 2013 20 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04 "I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial. I could have ...
by Robert Sproul on 15 Apr 2013 20 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04 "I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial. I could have ...
Ethanol, A Bad Deal for Everyone (Except Big Ag)
by Robert Sproul on 15 Nov 2013 8 comments, latest 8 years ago
But Obama loves it! CBS and AP finally catch on to what an absurdly bad idea ethanol is. While the minority that is paying any attention at all frets ...
by Robert Sproul on 15 Nov 2013 8 comments, latest 8 years ago
But Obama loves it! CBS and AP finally catch on to what an absurdly bad idea ethanol is. While the minority that is paying any attention at all frets ...
Why Its Impossible to Indict a Cop
by Robert Sproul on 4 Dec 2014 9 comments, latest 9 years ago
"The US Supreme Court ruled that a police officer, henceforth, could use deadly force only if he “has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat ...
by Robert Sproul on 4 Dec 2014 9 comments, latest 9 years ago
"The US Supreme Court ruled that a police officer, henceforth, could use deadly force only if he “has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat ...
End of Days
by Robert Sproul on 27 Oct 2016 4 comments, latest 8 years ago
We have killed 60% of the planet’s vertebrates in the last 40 years. If I still gave a sliver of a fuck, I would wish we had political leadership ...
by Robert Sproul on 27 Oct 2016 4 comments, latest 8 years ago
We have killed 60% of the planet’s vertebrates in the last 40 years. If I still gave a sliver of a fuck, I would wish we had political leadership ...
Republicans Eager to Work with Obama!
by Robert Sproul on 1 Feb 2015 8 comments, latest 9 years ago
At last, bipartisanship! When it comes to fast tracking unimaginably huge corporate giveaways, they can agree to agree. The TPP will be Obama's true legacy and its passage will ...
by Robert Sproul on 1 Feb 2015 8 comments, latest 9 years ago
At last, bipartisanship! When it comes to fast tracking unimaginably huge corporate giveaways, they can agree to agree. The TPP will be Obama's true legacy and its passage will ...
Chico Cop Protects and Serves
by Robert Sproul on 18 Jun 2014 9 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/V I happened to arrive on this accident scene moments after it happened. The more I think about it, the more I feel Officer Bailey was out of line, ...
by Robert Sproul on 18 Jun 2014 9 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/V I happened to arrive on this accident scene moments after it happened. The more I think about it, the more I feel Officer Bailey was out of line, ...
Nassim Taleb on the Ruling Elites
by Robert Sproul on 9 Nov 2016 3 comments, latest 7 years ago
(TL;DR, relevant quote: "When plebeians do something that makes sense to them, but not to him, the IYI uses the term “uneducatedâ€. What we generally call participation in the ...
by Robert Sproul on 9 Nov 2016 3 comments, latest 7 years ago
(TL;DR, relevant quote: "When plebeians do something that makes sense to them, but not to him, the IYI uses the term “uneducatedâ€. What we generally call participation in the ...
GREECE ON SALE!
by Robert Sproul on 15 Jul 2015 3 comments, latest 9 years ago
"Greece May Have to Sell Islands and Ruins Under Its Bailout Deal" "Of all the aspects of Monday’s bailout deal that Greeks found humiliating, nothing drilled into their sense ...
by Robert Sproul on 15 Jul 2015 3 comments, latest 9 years ago
"Greece May Have to Sell Islands and Ruins Under Its Bailout Deal" "Of all the aspects of Monday’s bailout deal that Greeks found humiliating, nothing drilled into their sense ...
How it Works
by Robert Sproul on 21 May 2014 8 comments, latest 10 years ago
The predatory War Machine that is. Joe Biden's son joins the board of Ukraine's largest gas producer: http://burisma.com/hunter-bide The other new board member, Devon Archer, who works with Hunter ...
by Robert Sproul on 21 May 2014 8 comments, latest 10 years ago
The predatory War Machine that is. Joe Biden's son joins the board of Ukraine's largest gas producer: http://burisma.com/hunter-bide The other new board member, Devon Archer, who works with Hunter ...
Study Confirms: People are Stupid
by Robert Sproul on 2 Jun 2014 10 comments, latest 10 years ago
…..and uninformed. And they like it that way. "The less people know about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment, the more they want ...
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by Robert Sproul on 2 Jun 2014 10 comments, latest 10 years ago
…..and uninformed. And they like it that way. "The less people know about important complex issues such as the economy, energy consumption and the environment, the more they want ...
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