Author Archives: Dposorio

Declaring war on the military contractors’ invasion of Washington

By Dposorio | Published: September 15, 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/13/us-military-congress

Posted in Links, money in politics | Tagged budget super committee, campaign contributions, contractors, lobbying, lobbyists, military | Leave a comment

The (Money in) Politics of Ozone Regulation

By Dposorio | Published: September 10, 2011

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/09/the-politics-of-ozone-regulation.html

Posted in Links, money in politics | Tagged 527s, American Chemistry Council, American Petroleum Institute, Business Roundtable, Center for Responsive Politics, Chamber of Commerce, energy sector, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, environmentalists, EPA, independent expenditures, lobbying, lobbyists, National Association of Manufacturers, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, oil and gas industry, opensecrets.org, outside spending, ozone, PACs, regulations, revolving door, rule-making process, Sierra Club, super PAC, US Chamber of Commerce | Leave a comment

After 9/11, A New Era In The Business Of Detaining Immigrants

By Dposorio | Published: September 9, 2011

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/09/911-immigrant-detention-business-for-profit-prison_n_951639.html

Posted in Links, money in politics | Tagged detentions, immigration, lobbying, prisons | Leave a comment

Creating custom RSS feeds in WordPress

By Dposorio | Published: September 9, 2011

http://digwp.com/2009/09/easy-custom-feeds-in-wordpress/

Posted in Links, web design and development | Tagged RSS feeds, tutorial, WordPress | Leave a comment

Legislative Committee Analysis Tool

By Dposorio | Published: September 8, 2011

http://www.followthemoney.org/blog/2011/09/spotlight-l-cat/ State level resource: Who sits on what legislative committee, and who donated to each of them.

Posted in Links, money in politics | Tagged legislative committees, legislators, resource, state legislatures | Leave a comment

Investor protections imperiled by Wall Street, GOP assault on financial reform

By Dposorio | Published: September 8, 2011

http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/09/07/6142/investor-protections-imperiled-wall-street-gop-assault-financial-reform/

Posted in Links, money in politics | Tagged campaign contributions, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Dodd-Frank, financial reform, financial services industry, SEC, Wall St | Leave a comment

Fundraisers for or hosted by Super Committee members

By Dposorio | Published: September 6, 2011

http://politicalpartytime.org/supercommittee/

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The super committee’s K Street connections

By Dposorio | Published: September 6, 2011

Washington Post article here.

Posted in Links, money in politics | Tagged budget cuts, lobbying, lobbyists, revolving door, super committee | Leave a comment

4AllMemory.com

By Dposorio | Published: August 18, 2011

http://www.4allmemory.com/

Posted in Links | Tagged computer, hard drive, hardware, memory, ram, shopping | Leave a comment

Munchies for your love

By Dposorio | Published: December 22, 2010

When I think of Bootsy Collins and his alter-egomaniacal self, I normally think of songs from the P-funk canon like “Be My Beach” or what I imagine to be the “wrongness” of him playing for James Brown.

Posted in music | Tagged bass, Be My Beach, Bootsy Collins, funk, Munchies For Your Love, p-funk, space bass | Leave a comment