… and the beat goes on… 17 February 2009
Posted by marisacat in DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Italy.trackback
A man wears a mask depicting US President Barack Obama during the Carnival of Viareggio in Italy [EPA]
Whew… what a dumb 7 days… mouseless. Catching up, I dropped in at the main page of RCP… for today. What a circus! More floats than Carnevale!
Stu Rothenburg says the the only optimism about Obama IS the optimism. Marie Cocco says workers still need a Pay Day Break (she is right!, the Stumble Bill allocates a tax cut to workers, from what I read, of about 13.00 per week. A rebate check would be better, imo, and in CA that $25 or so every two weeks will be eaten up in tax raises…)
Shrum says the Stumble bill is “just right”. Or that Ob played it just right. Well…. that is Shrum, let’s remember. Even when he wins (8 successful senate campaigns vs his losses for pretzeldent) we lose.
Meanwhile, we are dead or dying in Cali. As I leaf thru the hyperbole over the past months… what I read in the tea leaves (aside from decades of idiocy) is a massive prick vs prick battle between Andy Stern (SEIU and enrolled state government workers) and Arnold. Where is Lorena Bobbit when you need her.
Reading in the Wapo (they say the speech was bad as he retooled the night before!), is it too late to put Geithner in prison for unpaid taxes? Or something?
Here is a sad little tidbit… I heard this week that 40,000 have applied for Section 8 Housing in Contra Costa Co… which is a pretty big county over in the East Bay, with quite a few communities hard hit by foreclosure… There are 325 spaces available. Amazed there are any… tho nowhere near enough.
NONE of us knew this.
merry xmas!!
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
Dow Closes at 7,552; Lowest Point Since the Recession Began [4:18 p.m. ET]
So why did Obama sign this thing in Denver? I don’t get it. Has Denver been hard hit by foreclosures or something? (I don’t think so)
LOL sounds like the definition of “shovel ready” … !!
LAT:
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my guess is [fake] solidarity with the little people, “out there, in the dark”… to steal from Sunset Boulevard.
Also during his bad week, I guess last week sometime, I read that his advisors decided he was best used to rally the troops. Endless campaigner.
Good luck, is all I can say.
oh well… considering it was a con of sorts from the get go. The joke senate that just keeps on giving… and giving. And giving.
A few hours ago the “breaking news” on Chrysler was 5 billion. And 3K in jobs. Rolling right along….
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
General Motors to Ask for $16.6B in Govt. Aid; to Slash 47,000 Jobs, AP Reports [6:15 p.m. ET]
7. They are so dead. The corpse is starting to stink. (and my dad worked for the auto industry, so I don’t envy the workers at all.)
5. But why DENVER?
In the absence of any other logical connection, I can only think it’s because he feels all warm and fuzzy when he’s there because it’s where he was nominated. If that’s his effort at stirring symbolism, it’s a nonstarter…
Oh, and PS about Denver… if that is really why he did it there, that means he feels the need to play to his own base… which would be “wow, just wow.”
Denver.. well the Democrats have had a highly publicised (among political readers) love affair with the Inner Mountain West. Like they think it luvs them back, big kiss and smooch, etc., in particular.
He outraised Hillary in that region, and esp CO, early on.
Or as Gibbs says, he is a “restless soul”.
LOL SF and near Bay Area was the No 2 fundraising area for him after Chicago and environs. But I doubt we will be locale for any big signing whoo hooo.
There is a very cynical take on why it was outside DC (but not specific to Denver) over at the schnauzers’ Corner. That he wanted to show he did it all by himself. No parade of congress critters.
Play to teh base? Yes I buy that. And how weak it shows this game to be. Think they did cut out the drawn from the streets Revival Tent ambiance of Fort Myers of last week, however…
Air kisses, mcat!!
(The wonders of modern technology never cease to fail.)
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Anyway, over at the Big O war factory, the FP touts shiny new CIC Obama ordering more troops to Afghanistan while linking to a rec list diary with a reaction From Vote Vets about how splenderific that is.
Meanwhile, way down there on the recent diary list and sinking like a lead balloon is this little bit of treason: Veterans call for end to the occupation of Afghanistan. (IVAW)
The update is kind of humorous:
Oh dear. Even CIC Obama can’t fix that!
Or can he?
Stay tuned.
And…
send money now!
But why DENVER?
Maybe the economy looks better in thinner air?
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McCain saluted him on sending in the reinforcements. Good Luck!, is all I can say. And wee loons thought when he hsitated the past couple of days that He, The Great Communicator, The Great Law Prof, The Great Lover of History might get it that Afghanistan, whether alone or with Pakistan, will sink whatever is left of us.
Onward! Mind the upcoming cliff… rev up and do not brake! It would be UN AMERICAN to avoid the cliff!
Care for some xanax in your (the collective “your”) tea? It was served to the CT chimp not long before he bit the woman’s face off. So perfect a tale for us…
Ugh. Supposedly Fred Phelps and Co. are planning on picketing the funerals for Flight 3407, for some reason I can’t fathom (guess they’re feeling the need for some attention, what with everyone upset about the economy and all). (mentioned here).
If there’s any place these satanic troglodytes will finally get the shit physically kicked out of them, it’s good old Buffalo. That town has fucking had enough over the years.
They’re such puppets over there.
From the VoteVets diary:
Fools.
re: 3. NYCO
they were selling Denver on NPR as a place leading the way on green tech. The museum where he signed it apparently has a solar power facility on the roof.
oh, and I wanted to welcome our hostess back. Thankfully, rumors of your demise (or ill-advised trysts with troglodytes) were greatly exaggerated.
LOL
The museum where he signed it apparently has a solar power facility on the roof.
I would bet we can give them a run for their money! … not that Golden Man would come here to Great Gay Way to sign a bill.
AND we are planning to install a system of electric “gas stations” too! We were very shocked when Detroit sent their Volt model to the LA car show… rather than to us here… when look at us! We are so green!
I tell yu, we are it!
Obama’s Elf
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I should have selected a faster shipping … gah. The days just rolled by, slowly. I am so used to reading all night, online. And even tho I get a couple of publications, mostly so I can read their sites, fully, online, I just cannto hold even a light weight mag, and angle my head and neck right… ugh.
Loooong week…
Publicists for octuplets’ mother quit over death threats
heaven forfend that people get worked up over real problems.
Good god. That refugee from Ebay… Meg something or other, running for governor… says we must not let California fail!!… and it needs the same good ol’ USA! USA! effort that we brought to our wars and to the moon.
She did say that…
The future does nto look bright nor long. If I go by that crumble bumble. She did lose about 70 lbs for the run, I notice.
In other news, Arnold refuses to say what the Stim money from DC will be used for… as projects all over the state grind to a halt.
We are so blessed!
This made me laugh… and the sucker who wrote it voted for Arnold. One born every minute. Maybe TWO born every minute…
hmm I can think of other things to do to him.
What does it all mean. Starbucks is going to sell instant coffee.
. So, will it be less bad ?????????????????????
I’m going down clutching my Melitta!
…jeez it’s good to see you back with your pink Melitta Marisa!
The next time a mouse goes out on you, using the “tab” key along with the arrow keys can be helpful, though tedious, you need to watch for the dashed lines which will encircle the current option icon…..
thanks diane… I tried everything BUT the tab key… LOL
Can these guys cope with ANYHTING?
Just hearing a news update that Newsom, that would be Gavin, our very own boychick mayor, has sent out a PRess Release that we are NOT in trouble. We just think we are.
Apparently smarter people in town are cringing.
No One is driving the bus. NO ONE.
Handy keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. Bookmark that!
No. Print that out!
If you bookmark it and don’t know how to check your bookmarks if your mouse dies…well…you’re SOL, aren’t you?
There’s no doubt they can be quite entertaining in the little freespeechiness zone at times.
thereisnoclue shows what a blithering idiot he is again:
On dkos? You probably helped kill it by banning the dirty fucking hippies who expressed it.
Or maybe you accused them of being Ron Paulites like you’re doing in this diary.
Or maybe you were so busy wetting your pants a la:
…that you just never fucking noticed that it’s the US government that’s really the most dangerous entity – Dems included.
He’s such a hero, isn’t he? I’ll bet he runs right out and signs up for military service tomorrow!
It is curious to me that all those who are so vehemently opposed to Obama’s plans in Afghanistan today were so silent during the campaign, but we couldn’t hear the end of opposition to Obama’s stance on FISA. Where was the outrage?
LOL I certainly was not silent. Then or now. His war mongering was awful. So was hers. Both products of the party IMO. As was Edwards. The fake poor carer. That was ahoot. Lousy Southern White Boy.
No One is driving the bus. NO ONE.
Not even a mouse.
know the feeling. knoooow the feeling. LOL.
Speaking of all the frat(elli) on Dkos, yes they all should run out and sign up. Young and fit as they are. I am serious.
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My Household for a MOUSE!
I saw in the now famous D-tale thread over at FSZ, that Ender bitched I should Go Get a Mouse. LOL.. he should sign up for the snowy heights of ObRama’s Afghan war.
Ender luvs you. He’s just afraid to admit it.
For those who are interested, Obamalama did his first Canadian interview with the CBC today. Watch/read here.
(I had trouble paying attention. Bad me! I’m pretty sure I didn’t miss anything earth shattering however.)
(We have pucks – frozen ones. Just in case he declared war on us while I wasn’t listening.)
This, ahead of his 5 hr drive by on Thursday. He should just stay on the plane and wave. Really.
Oh that’s a match made in heaven. LOL.
LOL you could always send that deputised fleet of Canadian Geese to greet AF1.
Considering all the incidents of “bird strike” we now have had happen.
Hey bird strike AND ice on the wings. (not a great period for aviation, post Sully)….
Well I certainly wouldn’t want to live under Taliban rule. But I wouldn’t want to live in a religious commune either. Maybe it’s a matter of opinion who’s more dangerous, whether Mullah Omar or Ratzinger. I vote for the latter and can provide good reasons for my choice. But seriously, if one used reasonable quantitative measures of “dangerous” (which included potential negative effects on personal livelihood and health) I think citigroup is probably more dangerous. Certain Lehman brothers has already had a more likely negative effect.
The entire Cabinet could be sucked through the engines of AF1 and not bring it down. In aeronautical engineering terms its technically known as the “Bunch a Fuckin Nuthin Factor”.
Marisa (28)
……speaking of the golden state of the Golden State, was amused to find that the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) had invested $180 million in one of Dianne’s hubby Blum’s Newbridge Financial entities (1), which invests heavily in Asia.…Tried to verify if they were still invested, but alas, CALPERS’ 2008 annual report appears to be a tad late…….
I kind of analogize a Senator’s (which Senator is paid by the public and further has been given a great deal of power in world affairs) common law investments, by virtue of marriage, being heavily directed outside of the Senator’s ‘neighborhood’ while that neighborhood is in shambles, the same way I would if say a family abandoned their child at someone’s door, then flew off to another country to adopt another one…and care for it…….or hooked up a visa to hire someone (much, much cheaper) from another country, when their well skilled neighbor, who qualified for the job, was unemployed and verging on homelessness………reminds be of building a neighborhood on quicksand…………….. but then perhaps I’m just a simpleton………….
Besides, shame on me! perhaps the Newbridge Groups Real Estate entities invest heavily in the US:
Newbridge Mortgage Corp. (now just might be the time to refinance!)
Newbridge Realty…..
(…ahhhh well…oopsie, and sorry…. must contact webmaster about Newbridge Realty)
(1) Newbridge Capital
Overview: An investment firm dedicated to making direct investments in Asia. Established in 1994 by the Texas Pacific Group and Blum Capital Partners (formerly Richard C Blum and Associates) of the United States, Newbridge Capital manages more than USD 1.7 billion of capital, and operates out of offices in Hong Kong, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, and Mumbai. As a strategic investor, Newbridge focuses on investing in companies that have a sustainable long-term advantage over their competitors and are seeking a partner who can provide financial capital and make significant contributions to operating businesses in order to help them grow and to increase shareholder value.
ugh.. She and Blum invest plenty at home as well. Smart Carts at the SFO airport are hers… among other things. They also invest heavily outside the state, in adjacent states (or did) to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
42. The entire Cabinet could be sucked through the engines of AF1 and not bring it down. In aeronautical engineering terms its technically known as the “Bunch a Fuckin Nuthin Factor”.
rofl
As for the geese in Ottawa, I’m sure they’ve all been rendered to Florida for the week.
…I’ll never in my lifetime understand those who just can’t own enough, and have a real aversion to them being in such positions of power…..or placed upon a pedestal of Philanthropy………
Geese gone? Sent to Disneyland for the day? LOL
Turkey vultures brought down a helicopter (grisly picture was on view earlier today).
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so wealthy. Pelosi too.
Marisa (48)
yeah…and somehow, I seriously doubt that people like that are really content, worse.they have the power to do an incredible amount of damage, I could care less about their wealth (who wants a drafty mansion to be alone in, because those people must be lonely), if they weren’t in the postition of bringing such misery into the lives of millions by virtue of their hubris, greed, and desire to control………..sigh……
on a far better note, so glad you’re back!
gnight all……….sweet dreams!
A few The Canadian Geese – at least here where they fly over – are real assholes. One Jerk and and his honking buddy were just laughing their geese ass off during the flyby: HaHa! Stuck in Jersey! Loser!
It really pissed me off , frankly.
but before….I go off to bed..just have to say BooHooHooMan, that at least..they didn’t have to use the bathroom on the flyover…I was bewildered for along time as to why I human would get up on a carport roof to go the bathroom…..when I finally realized that geese must take in a hell of a lot of fiber……hmmmmm…you were kind of lucky I’d say…..
gnight again…..
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hmmmm
not why I human…should be why a human
jeez…(gnight!)
It’s hard when the worm turns.
A trail of ministers met with him. They seem to meet with anybody and absolve anybody.
It is all so threadbare. As a congress full of scoundrels just keeps on keeping on.
Yeh, well ,
then the motherfuckers dropped a monument on my house
The Roland Burris Mausoleum as it were.
LOL Illinois politics is like what the geese left on that roof in Jersey. But! Not to worry! Obama is from Hawai’i. Never been to Chicago. Ever.
Threadbare. Exactly. Ministers gathering round… all this bullshit ritual where Pols expect some type of Pavlovian conditioned reprieve and in many cases , its an even bet they get it..
LOL I made note of the ministers that trailed into the Governor’s mansion to see Blago. Long line of tubby collection plate scammers. Looked up their online church sites. It was PATHETIC. The only more pathetic were the pols, from JJjr to Blogo.
One church site had a “ministry” of “Warriors” whose job it was to
“respond to” and “protect” the Pastor and his family.
WTFUCKING FUCK?
Gosh I can even see why people voted for Blago after Ryan. But then he screwed teh deal. Really did.
Via Politico-
Of course, Rahm and the D Triple C and that moneygrubber Schumer via the DSCC and into his own camp.. Repubs got a cut too, same old same old M.O.
All the same old shits.
mcat, I sent something via a new addy.
wonder if ol’ harry reid’s resigned himself to that burris under his saddle yet?
BHHM
got the Stanford comment out of Mod.
BTW, that film of Lord LOL Stanford that is being shown a lot, of him in London… wellllllllllll my take, he is wearing some heavy make-up. Prolly a few stories about all of this not being told.
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Harry could send him to Disneyland via Amtrak out of Vegas.
Long line of tubby collection plate scammers. No question.
Hand in hand with the Pols and the sheeple’s money. The reprieve I find astounding is not the one sold via the Bible bearing ass peddlers and their Indulgence racket, it’s from the sheeple who go along.
People might as well forget notions of “secular” or “tolerant” democracy.
This Faith Outreach and the Values pander to cover militarist exploitation is the death warrant to democracy itself. I mean it’s one of the fundamental lessons of History, yet we somehow think we are NOT going to engender devastating blowback despite the fact that Christians and Jews represent a distinct minority of persons on the planet.
I was in Ohio recently and its like nuclear winter there.
People so shell shocked, I can’t imagine them rallying to oppose anything. It seems like everyone is hanging on, waiting, the ones with jobs able to cobble a grocery order together thiss week but not next for the firend or family member who’s adrift, grateful the marginal assistance will come in for so and so when check day is just around the corner. In Pa, that shite Rendell is blabbering about increasing relief – a good thing – but of course Rendell is a crook. ‘In these trying times” he’s trying to ram in video poker machines for his thug buddies to suck the money right back. They view people as consumptive tubes. To bloodsuck from cradle to grave.
They are going to do the same shit via Rahms “BioEthicist” / Physician brother on healthcare. Increase money for the “Healthcare needs” of ‘The People” and suck it back out again for Elites…
Maybe they can just combine the Blessing Service. The Catholics will arrive with buttoned lips over Rendell’s Gambling scam (not wanting to ruin their own Church Hall rackets) They’ll all praise Rendell for relief and fawn over Block Grants for Seniors and Healthcare.
They all oughta be shot.
Well Played, Bayprairie! Well Played.
LOL.
Increase money for the “Healthcare needs” of ‘The People” and suck it back out again for Elites…
hmmm the plan for all of it… but what falls from the table. Just read the new Micheal Hudson at CPunch tonight.
How Obama’s sentence-structure works
There’s a huge Obama changeyhopeyness tulip on the FP of the Ottawa Citizen.
The caption:
Which sums up his whole trip here.
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I liked the thread to the post at Boing Boing…
LOL Chicago Trib calls for Burris to resign.
Pope lectures Pelosi on abortion stance
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well reid might as well get resigned. i bet burris won’t be.
71 Catnip Re somebody’s comments above quoted from another blog
Now tell me, what is the “most dangerous entity in the world”.
Re the monkey cartoon: Honestly its biggest crime is simply being obtuse and not funny. My guess is that this was supposed to be something about “1000 monkeys typing will come up with Shakespeare” and not about calling Obama a monkey, but honestly… it’s such an obtuse joke that no wonder everyone’s thinking it has racist intent. Dumb cartoonist.
Not to mention it’s just really unfunny to see an animal being shot by cops.
And oh my God… cops. Well no wonder it has people’s hackles raised over possible racism.
Cartoonist needs to be fired for being unfunny.
I haven’t seen the “monkey cartoon”… where is it published???
75. it can be seen here.
73. Now tell me, what is the “most dangerous entity in the world”.
As I wrote above, afaic it’s the US government – Dems included.
No words really. Beyond ugly and racist.
74. My guess is that this was supposed to be something about “1000 monkeys typing will come up with Shakespeare”
My reaction exactly.
Crazed kossacks don’t only see it as being racist they see it as a depiction of Obama being assassinated. Mon dieu. Get them fainting couches.
It’s a volatile and violent country. Jimmy Carter, out of office for almost 30 years apparently had unprecedented security when he was here in SF/Bay Area for two days last week.
My guess, as he has a new book on IP/Middle East/Israel, is fears and threats from orgs like JDL. And others.
Not to worry! Wapo is on top of things. They say:
Swift, Steep Downturn Crosses Globe
Economists See Hope Dry Up
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Someone popped it to me, for the headline. No chance ot read the article yet.
Some of this ties in with a blip from yesterday, and how Markos is floundering of late to to have his brand taken seriously, pushing his new “serious” site and Front Pager’s sans pseudonyms, etc…Time just slapped the fuck out of him, among The 5 Most Overated Blogs in the blogosphere. “Rudderless” “posts read like talking points from the Democratic National Committee.”
Which brings me to the cartoon.
One thing’s for sure. The outrage on DK, just like the media in general, their “nemesis” they envy ….that monkey cartoon will provoke more “outrage” and coverage than the very real murder by cop of 22 year old Oscar Grant in an Oakland subway station on New Years Day.
The cartoon is is typical of the Post, gratuitously base, for vulgar base sake. Definitely a hook, mission accomplished, but without congruence or relevence to the jump. As is the read equating it to Ob.
that monkey cartoon will provoke more “outrage” and coverage than the very real murder by cop of 22 year old Oscar Grant in an Oakland subway station on New Years Day.
Oh its been ugly out here. A few days ago a plan to boycott BART was repeated, and the BART board, fully mixed race but with only a couple who admit the whole thing has been mishandled from minute one, declared itself to be “threatened” (by the idea of a boycott itself!, nto anything else). I think a boycott of BART is an excellent response.
God knows the black mayor or Oakland is a royal mess. I am guessing with less and less liklihood of a “rescue” to a DC job.
But then again, the only issues of racism that matter, REALLY matter in this country, pertain to Ob. Which I have said before.
82. The fact that Kos is even still around at his own blog to get annoyed at being named one of Time’s “Most Overrated Blogs” is just about all the evidence you need that it’s jumped. I mean, shouldn’t he (professionally) be beyond any concern with that sandbox now?
However, regarding the Post cartoon, I don’t care what the cartoonist’s intent was. It’s going to be fun watching the mobs descending on that fishwrap. What do they think this is, 1909?
hmmm just saw this in the dn email…. and arpaio in az is under a federal probe…
oh noes…. gm now wants 39 billion. up 9 billion overnight. saab and saturn to go…. maybe hummer too.
Cheese for the mouse.
Welcome back!
its been ugly out here
Good. People with a pulse. If dissidence in California goes under, we can IMMEDIATELY kiss our ass goodbye. Seriously. Just very weak here in the East is my take. Chicago, its a wash given rising stock of PTB there…Maybe it’s my limited perspective, but I just had a dismal trip through the rust belt. Shell shocked on the cots, most folks.
David Swanson had a piece he recently posted around about the collapse of UFPJ. He didn’t use “collapse” but that is what’s up, a dropping of the push for prosecutions from the agenda…
from yesterday’s Hudson piece, quoted above (#66):
He fleshed out the homeowner’s rescue in a useful way last week:
NYCO 84, 85 …Kos sinking in his own sandbox and the Post cartoon
It’s going to be fun watching the mobs descending on that fishwrap. What do they think this is, 1909?
I’m with ya on both counts.
heard an interview yesterday w/ an Az activist – her group has some Arpaio videos up @
http://puenteaz.org/index.html
from mcat’s 86 The group is taking matters into its own hands and finding housing for homeless people in foreclosed and vacant homes.
Yeh, Minnesota Activists!
New ad at the Big O’Israel:
haha
Troll rate that, losers.
Greenwald: Charlie Savage on Obama’s embrace of Bush/Cheney “terrorism policies”
(embedded links but here’s the one to Savage’s piece if you want to skip Greenwald.
Handy to have a cartoon to talk about instead though, isn’t it?
Wow… I slip away from the blogoshere for 5 days and all hell breaks loose… fancy that.
Glad you remedied the mouse situation mcat.
Class War Photography
Octo-Mom Parody Hits YouTube
Rules of War Weren’t Made for Only One People
lucid, are you familiar with the book The Autoimmune Epidemic? Someone recommended it to me today so I requested it from the local library.
Okay. Yikes. Reading at Amazon, I see it has reviews by John Kerry and “Congressman Fortney H. “Pete” Stark (California) “.
Fortney? No wonder he calls himself Pete.
Sorry! Arcturus out of Moderation, Micheal Hudson up thread…
and
catnip out of moderation, Greenwald link and cnip upthread…
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Thanks IB!
… mouse in hand!
Consider the source that Hedges is talking about, but this is still scarily possible: Bad News From America’s Top Spy
NYPD’s enforcement of non-existent subway photo-ban costing taxpayers a fortune in lawsuits
Hedges in moderation.
Israel assassinating Iran’s nuclear scientists.
Worst. Investigation. Ever.
Sorry! madman… Hedges 0ut… I left to go do dishes and avoid Summers on TNH. BTW, I come back he is still on, doing REALLY BADLY.
Last week Christina Romer was on for Obster, and did REALLY BADLY.
Have to wonder. Some pundit shrew of a land animal.. think it was Eugene Robinson, claimed this week Ob Admin is one on steroids. Don’t think so. Not if batting averages mean anything.
Thanks!
Summers is horrible. One thing about our “best in brightest” is how they are almost all completely unremarkable when you actually listen to them, or read what they write.
Green Cities, Brown Suburbs
snip
He leads into an interesting conclusion:
Got the City Journal link out now. AND HOlbrooke up now at TNH.
Really he picked SHITTY retreads. Awful people. All I need is for Rahm to show up now.
oops… not looking good for Burris. via Tapper:
Catching up on Frontline from last night: Inside the Meltdown.
Scary how out of it the so-called “leaders” in this country are. Scary to see this whole past couple of months of the economy boiled down in that stentorian-voiced Frontline style.
Major cache of fossils unearthed in Los Angeles
hmm Frontline.. I saw most of it… fell asleep toward the end.. but I had caught the Frontline guy on with Charlie a couple days ago. Really bad. Basically just a another Woodward, Barton Gellman type: let me craft a cosy history. A version that goes down well with progressives. Etc.
I was disgusted.
Frontline manages to make Paulson and the rest look kind of powerless and driven by events, instead of really driving home the idea that they were clueless idealogues interested mostly in helping friends and cronies.
No corporatist should be allowed to say the words “moral hazard”, ever. The entire system they support is structured to shield people doing irresponsible things from their moral responsibilities to others.
Found this over at Perrin: Mass Graves For Change
Oh, and this: His Truth Keeps Plodding On
The Beat Goes On: Torture, Tasers and American Tradition
Make The Bank Prove It Really Owns Your Mortgage Before You Let Them Toss You Out
In San Jose the other day, several cops were caught in film beating an old homeless man. Who was down on teh ground, one arm behind him.
AND just the other day, an SF MUNI bus driver got into a verbal altercation wtih an older man, who likely was homeless… the passenger got off the bus and the driver STILL got off the bus and was captured on film punching the old man to th ground. A passenger who regularly travels with his video camera caught it, from the point where the old man was off the bus.. along with film of two people on the street who intervened to stop the beating and an grandmother on the bus who sought to calm the children… it was the school going home hour.
And the beat goes on………….
119 – there were two men arguing on the bus here in Milwaukee yesterday. When one got off the other followed and shot him. I read later that the shooting victim was going to be okay.
People are seemingly unraveling.
113. The La Brea tar pits are so cool; especially that they’re right in L.A.
a chain email going around: New Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Flavors Cream Bush
Blue Dogs: The Democrats Who Love Big Business
the la Brea tar pits are totally fascinating.. with some new thoughts and discoveries in recent years as to what happened.. (they have determind that although some tiny fragile bones are in the pits, skin is not.. so a disaster that tore their skins off as they were whooshed along is a speculation)… it is so emblematic of the state that I have tried at times to pull some sort of post together about it… that whole area there, on Wilshire and so on, has the feel of some great dry arroyo. It esp did when I was visiting in ’91 and LA was hard hard hit by the recession. Much of it unreported outside the area.
So many shops from Rodeo to Beverly Wilshire to Wilshire boarded up, gone, moved… and so on. The museum, LACMA, which I had so loved over the decades, right next to the LBTP, had become a gargantuan “thing”, a mess of different plans, no plans, massive mindless international corporate money… and so on. I went down to see a big Francis Bacon retrospective.
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I am for Impeach Mint!
Neue thread…
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Madman, moved the Blooooooooo Dog link/snip forward to the new …
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……just a thought re Cali’s woes…..it’s easy to ignore (likely deliberately) the woes – job loss, impossible rents, pitiful health care, foreclosures, poverty crime – of millions ……which surely foretell a coming collapse, when the extreme economic and physical wellbeing of an obscenely wealthy handful is the denominator, and the masses are the numerator, in determining per capita well being….likely it’s so in all of the highest Gross Domestic Product states……I try to check out the Sly Con Valley Murky Biz news from time to time, since Cali is so powerful..and it was vomit worthy that not long ago at all…..all was well for anyone not a slacker….even while one of their…long time reporters committed suicide by stabbing himself in the gut…yes,…his job,……most certainly did seem a factor….from what I read………Things have been seriously fucked up across the US since before the dot com boom…but one certainly don’t see much of that around the net since so many “big time” bloggers are not in the economic class that has been loosing their fucking shirts for so long…most folks cannot blog while they’re at work…unlike so many upper management types, say at places like huffpo and the citrus factory…
Not to worry, IT will save the day at the Singularity Institute…….we can just see all the jobs created…yes we can………………