It’s official 28 February 2010
Posted by marisacat in Chile - Bachelet, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
People look at destroyed cars by a collapsed bridge over the Biobio rive linking Concepcion and San Pedro de la Paz
Photograph: Francesco Degasperi/AFP/Getty Images
Chileans are “looters”… The first three pics in this gallery are of “looters”… the fourth is of people crowded and pressed, trying to enter a grocery to BUY food and being held back by the police.
It is inevitable, what are people going to be doing a day or two after disaster? Trying to get food, water and supplies, however they can.
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I thought you were snowed under!
From the paper of record.
“The police fired water cannons and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who forced their way into shuttered shops in the southern city of Concepción, which was devastated. But law enforcement authorities, heeding the cries of residents that they lacked food and water, eventually settled on a system that allowed staples to be taken but not televisions and other electronic goods.”
Plus I think in anywhere that is organised, such as cities… grocers and suppliers and the Wal Marts ot he earth write off, for insurance purposes, the contents of the whole store, when ti comes time to settle up. They make sure they make money…
I am nto saying that applies to the littlest stores, kiosks, tht sort of thing.
The police fired water cannons and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who forced their way
one of the photographs in the gallery is of a “looter” fleeing from tear gas….
Personally, I think as long as there’s a system to get recompensed by the government, all stores large or small should be able to empty out the shelves, take notes and get reimbursed. Give some basic guidelines on distribution and it goes much quicker and faster than the state getting around to it.
Compared to the cost of rebuilding, it’s such a tiny thing. But then, of course it would restrict the state’s power to tell people what to do…
I absolutely agree… there should be in disaster a system of compensation… people need what they need.
But we can see what happens….
One segment I saw on NO was in … ooo think it was Lakeland or Lake Village .. forget the exact name, an area adjacent to the Garden Distict… there are (or were) older homes, sort of genteel decay.. but like the French Quarter the land rises a bit there, so it did not have the deep stagnant stuck water… some of the big homes made into apartmetns in the 50s and so on… lots of elderly. Whole Foods just left their store there open and did not remove stock nor do much but remove the registers iirc. The elderly avoided expensive wines and took what they needed.
I am nto complimenting WF, but that should be the model.
And Bachelet’s government is certainly taking the standard hardline. I jsut saw tape of ridiculous woman official with the last nam of Van Rysselberghe (no really) bitching about there is “no reason for looting”. That she “understands as they are all living thru it”.
Well Bachelet is another, got into office and went weak – or went back to what she really was…… by now I doubt the all too convenient stories of having been held and tortured under the junta….
hmm SC takes up a gun control case tomorrow…
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Pelosi “will put a bullet in the head of anyone she needs to,” said a Democratic insider. “Rangel, any incumbent that looks like he’s going to lose. She’ll do anything it takes to keep her majority, anything.”
Read more: Politico link
With any luck, it’ll be murder / suicide!
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Oh I know, poor form of me, using the word “it’ll”. LOL.
Speaking of ”government”. LOL
Rush is quite excited as the Guardian has a lien in their report on the pretzel health exam… that does nto appear in US reports… that it was recommended he “moderate his alcohol intake”.
Chortle… snort … wheeze… yawn.
What a hoot.
5,200 Australians bare all in Sydney photo shoot
Difficult? I find that odd.
The Fed bought roughly a trillion and a half dollars worth of Treasury securities during the past year, financing almost the whole of the Federal deficit.
…is this like the snake eating it’s own head. Just how long do we have?
http://blog.atimes.net/?p=1365
“past year”… hpefully people can figure out that is Obama, Geithner, Summers, et al. ”Et al” being WALL ST.
Meanwhile they have been shoving Geithner out to popularity photo ops. Latest with MO for obese kids in Philly… I noticed he needs the botox between the eyebrows again. They are doing the crawl, meet and battle again. Like two warring centipedes.
Goldman is debating who they should send out on their Image Tour.
Blank-fien not looking so good after his God’s Work comment.
thanks for posting that… I did not realise that A Times had a blog, of sorts… Must poke around more………..
I had heard rumors of the fed buy, but could not find the figures till now.
I am listening to the financial news now, and it’s all about the senate being unable to protect consumers and regulate Wall Street.
So if the senate can’t do it, who can?
They can technically do this forever. It doesn’t do any good. But rather than have a failed auction, the Fed steps in and buys out the balance. Or they have GS buy out the balance, hold it a few days, and sell it to the Fed. Or they use the foreign money in reserves to buy treasuries.
One reason there are so many “excess reserves” in the banking system is not that the banks aren’t lending, but that they’ve been getting reserves in the process of the Fed buying up any excess Treasury paper.
Hey I heard they might put the consumer protection agency in the Fed.
The fed is so concerned about consumers….
Well like Rove immediately took all things related to workplace ergonomics and moved it to the West Wing. Why do I doubt that HHS ever got any of that back? (Or Dept of Labor, where ever it had been… )
Awww. too bad… I was hoping to get to hear him call Gillibrand “endearing”, the way he did Pelosi. Patronising little putz.
Read more: LINK
Gawker’s response to the news.
my favorite comment from the thread:
oh I loved that! Esp 2, 5, 6 and 10.
If he never brought much into Merrill they will be thrilled to cut him off. Buh bye!
But Ford came under intense pressure from Democratic Party leaders, particularly New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, to abandon his bid. Party officials, who last year underwent a concerted campaign to discourage Long Island Rep. Steve Israel from waging a campaign against Gillibrand,…
LOL. Enter Mort Zuckerman…
Fuck it, I couldn’t resist the Politico:::
Wow . Ford drops out . Jeebs, A Shame. If there’s one thing Congress needed was more entitled second and third generation buck toothed brats in it like Ford. Good to know tho, that the Wall Street Jews will finally have a voice in DC. LOL. ( It’s a joke. Seriously. Lighten up people, Lord knows your wallets are.)
I loved the way the Politico told the story of the “baby”.
Nice guy.
and of course both of them are regularly on Morning Joe to push their “centrism”. Ford was on this morning in full-out scorched Earth attacks on the donks in NYC, on top of repeatedly insisting he would have won.
As Cali continues to suicide…
As the article points out, when the lege severely cut the UC budget, UC pretzel Udof was accorded emergency powers… and raised student fees (LOL we don’t hve “tuition”) by 32%. Now we see why…
Article ahs more on Richard Blum – LOL DiFi consort – and the UC system
Jon Stewart did hilarious bits about Jim Bunning and Rick Sanchez tonite. Well worth checking out.
There is new film of Jonathan Karl chasing him to the “senators only” elevator. Gee myabe with Bunning retiring and nto running again (thougth I read that a few months ago) do ya htink by now the Dems could win the seat?
I just saw Terminator Salvation and it wasn’t very good.
it was very disappointing
HA! Paterson says he is the “victim” of an “hysteric” something or other.
But somehow or other Mr Johnson’s women, more than one, has needed to be “counseled”. And somehow, both, that we know of, got counseled either by state police detailed to Paterson or by an aide…
Sometimes you get taken down (and he is getting taken down) but sometimes just too much dumb thuggery about.
And the wimmens, why, they jsut need so much counseling. Over and over.
Oh
fer
fuck’s
sake.
Might as well be Vladimir Horowitz the way they’re playin this tune.
LOL. For all the Chop Stick motherfucker’s consumption out there.
The deent deent deent da deent deent deent on one hand of Rahm, with the bold Deent deent Dee painfully played to suggest Obama is his own Maestro on the other…
Speaking of the coven… I caught Bayh last night on with Charlie… His weak ”support” ofr Ob in 2012 was a hoot! I heard wafts of what will be “the story”, I think… esp the sideswipes that it helps to have had executive experience… then Bayh lauded Corker, based on his having been in business and a stint as mayor…
[snicker]
I see that is page A1 on the Wapo. gah. Myself, I think Rahm just sounds like one more manic asshole atthe ob WH… and again do they need initialed baby bibs to know who they are? this crew is addicted to cartouches.
That’s the second column in a week at WaPo talking about how poor Rahm is getting the shaft. Poor Rahm and his own little DC press machine, that is.
He seems to be staging a mini-coup.
Baby bibs for everyone! Initialed! Like sleep away camp, get your name inside everything you own! You might get lost over the summer, but your undies won’t……..
Welp. They have this guy.
Clearly a reversal in the National Trend.
And Written like a true… ~35 year old~… ASTROTURFER.
Kids don’t use “Way” and “No way” anymore.. Even fifty-ish keen observers know that went out with Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
And they sure as hell don’t write this operative crap in the wake of Tiller’s murder.
This is comedy.. we must thank Novern.
Oh gawd…
Coffee Party, With a Taste for Civic Participation, Is Added to the Political Menu
By KATE ZERNIKE
Fed up with government gridlock, but put off by the flavor of the Tea Party, people in cities across the country are offering an alternative: the Coffee Party.
Growing through a Facebook page, the party pledges to “support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.”
My coffee is offended.
it reminds me of a day when I was in line in the morning behind a woman who ordered Nonfat Decaff Latte with No Foam. When I got to the point of ordering I did mention I wanted the opposite of Nothing with Nothing with Nothing on Top.
Too Funny – Hold the nothin’ !
Well absolutely! As the cofee party gets attention that should go to the fucked up policies.. I found them pretty lame frankly, but keeps silly people off he street. I guess.
tiny revolution’s take.
verry funny!
Jonathan Schwarz says people did not get the joke. Nor did I, ’til I read his post at TR, tho he does nto give away the connection. I managed to scramble it up frm the deep hole known as my brain.
I thought that was the Latte Party.
LAT SCOTUS heard the arguments today in the local gun rights case, rising from Chicago.
Sounds like most local restrictions will fall… tho not for conceal carry.
Frotunately I don’t wrong my hands anymore…. and I am pretty well convinced that white liberals and their ilk WANT to take guns from the poor and POC. Most and foremost.
oliver schwarzwald: breakfast
I liked the French one.
speaking of France and breakfast: France Recoils in Horror at McDonald’s Approximation of Fancy Pastry
the thread is a scream!
pretty funny, a lot of them.
ooo thank you for this… I so wish I could wake to the smells of the French street, breakfast perfums of the various breads, butter, milk, cream…
Off to enjoy.
well yu can only have the cigarette in France if yuo are at home…
The breakfast for USA looks a lot better than what most hve…………
I liked that the arrangement of the foods in the photos were more about the idea of breakfast in that country than the real thing.
Gawker: Harold Ford Slinks Back Home to Morning Joe
I think over all we are seeing the rise of the ‘third party’ that will be allowed.
Mort, wealthy tho less mega mega wealthy than Bloomie, if he and his mamaless baby enter the race, wll be described as a “Republican Independent” (tho the NYs Independence Party has been in contact with him) and low ball low life pink Everlast-wearing baby shit kickers like Ford are “Independent Democrats”.
And then of course there is Lieberman, tossed to hapless rank and file as an outsider – fake food for them to play with… when he is a core party reality.
YUM gotta love USA!!! USA!!! democratischer non realities.
the aristocracy will ALWAYS have a party to represent them.
yeah… ain’t it the trut.
As we limp on:
pathetic
Bipartisanship….limp wrist.
Just thought I’d let ya’ll know that despite Bunning and the do-less-than-nothing Congress, I still got my whopping $304 (that’s for 2 weeks, mind) UI monies from the Texas Workforce Commish…..color me surprised!
The kids and I can EAT for the next week or so! WhooHoooo!
time for a celebratory DOUBLE portion of mac-n-cheese!
Breakfast tacos for dinner! (That was last night….)
We’re in such trouble …
SCOTUSBlog: Analysis: 2d Amendment extension likely
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Madman: I will move the SCOTUSBlog post forward…