New economic Perspectives has the article We Now Know what Form of Bank Fraud at JPMorgan it Takes to Alarm President Obama by William K. Black.  Here is the key.

So, repeat after me, Jamie Dimon is an FSB agent secretly working for Putin.

Black forgot to add, “and he has Ebola.”

New Economic Perspectives has the article Beware of Policies and Legislation Based on the Generational Accounting Scam.

…the US has policy space to cope with recessions and depressions that many nations, including the nations of the Eurozone don’t have. Passing generational accounting-based legislation will only hamstring the US in using the policy space given us by the Constitution and the Founding Fathers to rebuild a rapidly declining America.

There is so much to do! We must not be prevented from doing it by a network of deficit terrorist fiscal legislation.
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In short, the w of generational accounting-based legislation supporters is not about sweetness, and light, and reasonableness and harmony, and the American people coming together to act “responsibly.” Instead, it is about the kind of noxious bipartisanship that aligns a group of high-placed elites in a conspiracy against what the American people have repeatedly said they really want: full employment and strengthened social safety net programs.
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Real Fiscal Responsibility can only be achieved if we defeat any and all generational accounting-based legislation. We must do that to safeguard the Federal Government fiscal policy space we will need if we’re going to recapture America for the 99% and reduce the growing inequality that austerity in Government spending has created among us.

Please do not foster “bipartisanship” that promotes the agenda of the network of deficit terrorists. This kind of terrorism is much more threatening than anything ISIS can throw our way.

Now for something completely different … (Where have I heard that before?)

If you like the video below, you have a chance to financially support Rick Weiland running to be the U.S. Senator from South Dakota.

Naked Capitalism has the post A Picture Worth 1000 Words: A Sighting from the McJobs Market.

…employers are following the lead of Obama, who last year touted Amazon warehouse jobs that paid below living wage levels as “middle class jobs.” With the President subtly jawboning wage expectations down, why shouldn’t employers see how far they can get with bottom fishing?

….The message from Obama is clear: Americans are now expected to celebrate when companies are willing to pay at or not much above a living wage [for a single person]. As long as you pay enough that the workers don’t wind up having to seek public assistance in the form of food stamps or emergency rooms for medical care, you’ll now be promoted as creating better conditions for Americans. That’s true as long as you remember that the Americans that benefit from this grinding down of ordinary citizens are Obama’s backers and other members of the elite.

So the questions I ask again,

Should we be looking for someone to run for the nomination for President in 2016 from the Democratic party who is  further  to the political right than President Obama?  Are we looking for a next President who will coddle the very oligarchs who want to grind us into the ground?

If you don’t think our next President should be the one I described above, what are you doing to make sure an unreformed Hillary Clinton does not get the nomination?  Do you think you should even bother to tell Hillary that the direction she is going in is not the one we need to be following?

Do you think there will be much middle class left if you wait until 2024 to fight for the type of President that we desperately need?

I’d truly like to get a sense of what progressive people are thinking if they favor Hillary Clinton over Elizabeth Warren.

Salon Magazine has the interview they headline as EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over”

Nancy Weinberg posted a link to this article on her Facebook page. One comment on her post was as follows:

Heidi Fox I don’t want her to run for president. We need her in the Senate!

This is the kind of response that drives me up a tree. Here is my response in turn.

Steve Greenberg

According to Elizabeth Warren:
> “We have the opportunity. The moment is upon us.”
> We push back hard enough, we’re pushing for
> America’s agenda. Not an agenda to help a small
> group of people, an agenda to build a future for this
> country. And I believe we win. I believe it.

I sure would like to believe this, but at the moment I am still an agnostic. I am still fighting though.

However, I feel that people who do not want her to challenge Hillary Clinton for the nomination are giving Hillary a free pass to triangulate with the Republicans.

If you just give the nomination away to the Wall Street choice for President, what do you think you will gain from that? Is the fight just over? Or do you think we can start to fight some other time? How bad does it have to get, before you decide it is time to fight?

Do you think we should put any pressure on the Democratic Party to nominate for President someone on the people’s side instead of Wall Street’s side? If you think we should, how exactly do you propose to put on that pressure?

From The Boston Globe comes This Stuff’s in you land.

I don’t know why the people are so easily fooled by industry. Perhaps people are so used to seeing trash in the street they never notice that there are far more non-returnable containers lying around than their are returnable ones.

Do you know what class you are in in the class war currently being waged by the top 1% against the 99%?

You can go to the MoveOn.org page for Robert Reich: A Republican Senate would wage war on working families to sign up for various volunteer activities.

If you had troubles with the first question I posed above, just ask yourself if you think your family is in the working class as opposed to the leisure class.

The Daily Kos has the article Wendy Davis delivers address on Austin’s culture of corruption and Abbott’s role in TEF scandal which features the video below.

Sharon no longer wants to admit that she is from Texas. I feel like I rescued her from the state over 40 years ago. It would be nice if the voters of Texas gave her back the pride of birthplace that everyone would like to have.

Robert Reich has posted the video Lost in the Fine Print on his Facebook page.

This is tort reform on steroids.  If you have friends that think they want to vote for Republicans who favor tort reform, make sure they see this video.  However, I think this video shows that the push for tort reform is moot.  The Supreme Court has already granted protection from law suits. Let me clarify. You don’t get protection from law suits by the rich. The rich get protection from law suits by you.

This is another example of how the wonderful “job creators” who get tax breaks from us create their wealth. They steal it from us. Makes you want to vote Republican doesn’t it?

For a long time it has annoyed me that the events that I put into my calendar on my Android Tablet do not get synced up with the online Google calendar.  When I am sitting at my computer and get notice of a new event, I have to find my tablet to even see if the event conflicts with my schedule.

So today, I decided I was going to solve the problem.  All the settings on the tablet were already set to sync up calendars.  In fact events that I scheduled online, do appear in my tablet’s calendar.  It just does not seem to work the other way.

I searched the internet for a hint.  I found the article Calendar entries sync only one way! With 162 posts by 139 authors, I found a trail that led me to the solution.  However, I  did not find an answer that told you what the simple problem was and what was the easiest way to  fix it.  So I added what I discovered.  I don’t know if people will find the answer buried among all the other answers.

The problem is that by default on the calendar app on my tablet (the app that came with the tablet, I think), you schedule events in “My Calendar”.  If you want them to appear in the online calendar, you have to put them into the calendar that you have set yourself up to sync with.  Once you have made this discovery, this calendar app allows you to edit existing events and change the calendar that they are in from “My Calendar” to your online calendar.  The app itself is set up by default (I think) to display the events in all the calendars that it knows about.

Since it all seems to work by default locally on the app from the start, you may never have thought to look in the drop-down menu of all the calendars that you could schedule the event in.  Certainly none of the documentation I found about syncing ever mentioned that you have to put the events in the right calendar.  It is so obvious, that I guess nobody thought to mention it.  Note that none of the 138 authors that contributed to this thread in the online forum mentioned above seemed to be aware of the simplest reason why syncing seemed to be one-way.

Oh, by the way, the official Google Calendar app that was recommended in the above thread does not allow you to change existing events from “My Calendar” to the online one.  After I discovered that the old calendar app did allow such changes, I uninstalled the official Google Calendar app and put the old  one back on the home page of my tablet.

October 11, 2014

I found that sync had stopped working. I reinstalled the official Google Calendar app. It did the sync ok. Looking at the calendar with either app, after the sync showed all the events that it should have.

I am hoping that the official calendar app will continue to automatically sync the calendar, but I am going to continue to use the other calendar app to view and create events.