NSA secretly vacuumed up Verizon phone records | Politics and Law - CNET News
Topic: Miscellaneous
3:14 am EDT, Jun 6, 2013
The National Security Agency is vacuuming up records of millions of phone calls made inside the United States, a top secret court order reveals.
A top secret order that was leaked this afternoon requires Verizon to hand over to the NSA "on an ongoing daily basis" information about all domestic and overseas calls -- "including local telephone calls."
The Absolute Worst States for Job Hunting Law School Grads - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic
Topic: Miscellaneous
5:29 am EDT, Jun 4, 2013
Nationwide in 2011, Leichter finds that law schools graduated roughly two students for every one estimated job opening. But there were some enormous variations. In Mississippi, the ratio was 10.53 to 1. In Michigan, it was 6.48 to 1. In New Jersey, by comparison, it was just 1.04 to 1.
Meanwhile, Big Investors Quietly Slip Out The Back Door On Housing As "Stupid Money" Jumps In | Zero Hedge
Topic: Miscellaneous
8:20 am EDT, May 30, 2013
According to the CEO Bruce Rose of Carrington, one of the first investors to use deep institutional pockets (in this case a $450 million investment from OakTree) and BTFHousingD.
Rose's assessment of the market? "There’s a lot of -- bluntly -- stupid money that jumped into the trade without any infrastructure, without any real capabilities and a kind of build-it-as-you-go mentality that we think is somewhat irresponsible."
"I hate the practical world. I hate the way things work. But I don't want to just sit around and be a vegetable. Doing SRL is the best solution I've been able to find because it relieves the pain without causing death."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Fan Club: Boston Bombing Suspect Gets Support From Girls,
Topic: Miscellaneous
7:53 am EDT, May 20, 2013
As 19-year-old Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev awaits trial, a legion of Americans -- often teenage girls -- has been furiously filling the Internet with fan club sites and support groups.
1. Conservatives now have a reason to rationalize that the 2012 election was stolen - that had tea party activist groups been able to form up and operate their advocacy would have changed the outcome, but because they were illegally suppressed by the left, Obama was re-elected.
2. Any chance of credibly engaging with the right about the way that their partisanship has alienated too many people is now shot. Every died in the wool conservative will now go back to thinking that most Americans think just like him with the exception of a handful of communists in San Francisco.
3. Its a bonanza for big political donors - after firings and hearings and threats of imprisonment, scrutinizing political non-profits will be the third rail at the IRS. 501(c)4 groups will able to operate with impunity.
