On calling Republican members of Congress “sons of b*tches” in a speech on Monday, Teamsters President James Hoffa tells TPM he would say it all over again.
We’ll be coming back to this story often during the course of the 2012 elections, but if you’ve only caught bits and pieces of the new, concerted, coordinated Republican attack on voting rights at the state level here’s a good rundown to get up to speed with.
Earlier we brought you the news that a group of Apple ‘investigators’ apparently posing as San Francisco PD officers had tossed a young San Franciscan’s house looking for a missing or purloined prototype of the next iPhone. But now after initially denying involvement, the SFPD has admitted that they were involved in the search, now saying that SFPD officers stood outside the man’s house as Apple ‘investigators’ riffled through the house looking for the fugitive iPhone.
So it seems the charge of impersonating police officers may have been wrong. But it opens the door on what strikes me as an even more disturbing story of collusion between actual police and Apple’s ersatz hardware police is searching someone’s home — apparently without any legal rationale.
The fugitive iPhone prototype was reportedly lost last month by an Apple employee at a bar in San Francisco.
Fresh off of downgraded US debt, S&P is back to giving a AAA rating to subprime mortgages!
That’s enough awesome to last me through the long weekend.
I confess. I love Apple computers. I’m totally devoted, a member of the cult and so forth. But I can’t help but react with a mix of stupefaction and hilarity at science fiction-y overreaching nonsense like this. It seems like a guy who claimed to have found a prototype of the next iPhone apparently got his home tossed by Apple “investigators” impersonating the San Francisco PD.
It’s like something out of a Philip K. Dick like Total Recall or Minority Report.
From a just-issued Justice Department press release (the kicker is the second paragraph):
The Justice Department today announced that brothers Brian Wallis, 21, and James Lee Wallis Jr., 25, pleaded guilty to committing a hate crime by intentionally attempting to intimidate African-American students who were attending Beekman Junior High School in Beekman, Morehouse Parish, La. Tony L. Johnson, 30, previously pleaded guilty to the same offense.
During their respective plea hearings, each of the three defendants admitted that they hung a dead raccoon in a noose from a flagpole located in front of Beekman Junior High School. They each further admitted that they were angered by the school’s new busing policy, which had increased the number of African-American children attending the school, and that they wanted to scare the children into leaving the school.
Here’s the latest on Fight Club, Wisconsin Supreme Court edition: Libs on the court say conservative Justice’s claim that female Justice hit him isn’t true.
Bad sign for Obama that Rove group gets one of his former bundlers who was actually a bundler for McCain.
MIT is creating a new R&D lab to speed development of graphene for industrial uses. Graphene is an ultra-thin nano-material that scientists and technologists believe will revolutionize everything some computers to internet speeds to solar energy.
Back in June we reported on an international team of researchers who had developed so-called artificial graphene to accelerate research into the material.