Last night, when the eviction deadline for Occupy Boston arrived, I wasn’t able to make it down to Dewey Square. But I have a good friend who was able to go. Today I received this incredible letter describing what happened. When I told her how much her description had moved me, she agreed to let me post the letter for the FDL community. Here it is…

The vote on the amendment is May 8, 2012, so there is not a lot of time to educate voters around the state about just how extreme this ballot initiative is. Public Policy Polling’s latest data shows just how confused many North Carolinians are about the scope of the effect if this is passed. Most North Carolinians are fair-minded and want legal recognition for same-sex relationships…but some of these voters are still in favor of the amendment.

The 17 countries of the Eurozone formally backed a new deal for fiscal management, one designed to “save the euro” but which can only help if a host of other measures fall into place, including any plan to actually boost growth on the southern periphery.

The poll is especially important because soon voters of Colorado will likely officially decide on the legal status of marijuana because the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol has recently turned in enough signatures to get their initiative qualified for the ballot.

The tribunes of the conservative establishment made pretty clear today that they do not accept Newt Gingrich as the nominee of their party for President next year. In nearly identical op-eds, David Brooks and Michael Gerson criticized Gingrich’s fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants approach to problem solving, and claimed that he would damage conservatism. Other leading pundits had harsh words to say.

Now, the punditocracy is likely to have no effect on the conservative base’s decision-making in the primaries. But it does tell you where the establishment wants the race to go, and that’s certainly not toward Gingrich.

The trade deficit between the United States and the rest of the world was the major imbalance in the global economy in the last decade. It created the gap in demand that was filled by the stock bubble in the 90s and the housing bubble in the last decade. It is striking that the Post’s opinion pages are only open to people who try to conceal this fact rather than economists who try to explain this history to readers.

We have a new deadline for the 50, er, 43-state foreclosure fraud settlement. It’s not July Fourth or Labor Day or Halloween, but now Christmas. More holidays have been selected for the target settlement date than have been selected for vignette-laden films directed by Gary Marshall. But this time, Tom Miller means it!

It’s been unseasonably warm the past few weeks here in western Pennsylvania, but the Pittsburgh skies are too fickle to let that go on for very long. It turned cold a few days ago – temperatures in the 20′s at night and just peaking in the 30′s during the day. Hats, scarves, socks and thermals from Occupy Supply were just the thing and just in time to warm the spirits and bodies of the occupiers who had made the commitment to see the winter out.

These folks are so concerned with demonizing homosexuality that the victims of anti-gay persecution are merely an afterthought to them.

Earlier in the week, I wrote about how David Cameron wanted to use his leverage as a non-Eurozone member of the EU to wring concessions as a condition of signing treaty changes. At the EU summit, he presented his aims: basically, softening a financial transaction tax that the other countries in Europe want, and other policies that protect British banks. Because you need all 27 members of the EU on board with the preferred fiscal policies that really only affect the 17 countries in the Eurozone, Cameron thought he had the power to hold out. So Cameron vetoed the revisions to the Treaty of Lisbon. And then the Eurozone leadership, essentially France and Germany, went around Britain and negotiated a bunch of Eurozone side deals.