Member of European Parliament, David Campbell Bannerman reveals his prediction of an ugly fate for Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, and Spain — all heavily debt laden EU members. I say, these MEPers are starting to sound like Meppers.
From Droogie at Daily Kos comes a new and exciting competition (we here at The Mep Report take no obvious position on the content herein. You’ll all just have to read between the lines for yourselves…):
The Out-Dick Jim Bunning Contest!
So, here’s a few of the things I’ve done over the past few days to prove my dick credentials, in my ongoing efforts to out-dick Jim Bunning.
While American citizens are demonstrating their good will, as they do, on cue, whenever informed of a disaster of the magnitude of the Haitian earthquake, we largely remain oblivious of their own government’s direct role in the plight of one of the poorest nations on Earth.
Last week, an upstart, unknown, non-publicly traded corporation decided to forego all of that pulling-congressional-strings-behind-closed-doors business and take the reins themselves. And so, Murray Hill Incorporated has filed to run as a Rebublican candidate in Maryland’s eigth Congressional District.
I, for one, would like to welcome our new Corporate Overlords and offer them any help my flawed human faculties can offer.
Here’s a little ditty that perfectly encapsulates this last week — whether one is referencing the markets, the economy at large, the craptastic weather, the Activist Supreme Court trying to bring about the Corpapocalypse, or the tragic conclusion to the football career of Brett Fav-Re. Good times.
This week, England’s Telegraph UK, featured the SarcMark, a purportedly new innovation for warning others of your not so sincere tone. A life-long ironical satirist myself, the SarcMark seemed to offer the prospect of more directly insulting the oblivious. Unfortunately the SarcMark isn’t a novel idea — at all…
This morning, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and respected rationalist, Chris Hedges, levied a brutal assault against the corporate citizen’s moral code (or frightening lack thereof) that seems set on consuming every decent and egalitarian institution this country has left.