hmmm 15 January 2009
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, 2010 Mid Terms, DC Politics, Democrats, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Lie Down Fall Down Dems.trackback
Really. As long as the important stuff is taken care of, I guess…. and all of that is under control… Right? hmmm
Full text via Ben Smith…
Do you need Obama coverage 24 hours a day? In several markets, Comcast cable is launching an all-Obama, On Demand channel. (In D.C., it’s channel 963).
Leading up to Inauguration, the channel will offer a number of Obama-related programs, according to a release:
“Barack Obama’s most famous speeches to date, from his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 through his election night victory speech in Grant Park; Barack Obama biography; Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention speech; a tour of the White House; and the history of Air Force One.”
Dish Network launched an all-Obama channel during the campaign.
And I love the first comment:
Is BO a discovery or an invention?
Posted By: Nowintheknow | January 13, 2009 at 04:22 PM
Up up and away! I know Martin and Abe, JFK, RFK, Mandela (who else is he the reincarnation of?) Moses AND Joshua are feeling they missed something.
They missed the Big Picture.
Will it hawk Obamaware?
Marisacat 
I don’t even know what time the inauguration is on. I have an appt that day anyway so I guess I can catch one of the 3 million reruns.
Most.commercialized.presidency.ever.
Imagine where your economy would actually be without all of this Obama-related monetary activity.
Geithner… this is so reassuring!
2. I saw a snippet somewhere yesterday about Geithner being “too big too fail”. There you go.
As Colbert put it: “I don’t pay my taxes. Can I be treasury secretary too?”
apparently account run blogs are having fun that for years he did his own taxes. It jsut means when they audit you they are in YOUR home or YOUR office. At least if a firm or tax accountant, tax atty firm, etc., does it the IRS sits in THEIR office. As a friend pointed out to me when she was [brutally] audited.
SF Gate:
hmm the conflab of pro Israel shape shifters and MSOC enablers gather tighter round the manic depressive … I gather much drahma and “gottlieb” removed himself from the joint.
Who will stop us?
It ended peacefully but Jewish Anti Zionists chained themselves to the Israeli Consulate in LA…
That link also has a good fact check on Israel, US support and related issues. And this:
ISRAELI APARTHEID: Former South African President Hendrick Verwoerd observed as far back as 1961 that “Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.”
5 – and none of that would have happened if the cops had been able to confiscate all the cameras.
The cops have released none of the ones they DID get.. nor have they commented on any of the content in the ones they have.
One thing, people are asking, what is their legal right in a situation like that, CAN the cops confiscate your phone or camera. I LIKE what is happening.
To continue from last thread….I too think we are in a catch 22 on oil wu. And it’s going to be a long one…
Bad news on Mex for me as I wanted to move there with some family, my family lives in a very nice area, but if Mex turns into a narco state, no amount of walls will protect people from the hungry. It’s a scary thought.
IMO… I think many unlikely people are behind OB because I am sure there is much worse news that we don’t get and our overlords are scared big time.
I really try to see things from multiple sides…and they just all look scary to me. And I am not healthy enough to just up an move on a moment’s notice….I see tent cities and migrations. And we haven’t even added in the weather.
Please tell me there is light somewhere.
And what does our congress think important….Israel’s latest war.. ugh.
Well sweetie.. you supported him. Katrina van den Heuval
…one more thing, there is another large wave of exotic mortgages that are going to be coming due shortly…we are not done there.
They said a few months ago, for CA, we have least two more big waves of risky mortgages due for “adjustment”.
“”Senator Bernie Sanders told me, “It’s time for the new administration to reexamine our Afghanistan policies. I certainly don’t want to see Barack Obama caught in the kind of morass we experienced in Iraq under Bush.” “”
from your link….obama is going to have to back down on that one. lose lose. And Pakistan can easily fall into anarchy.
I don’t think he will be backing down.
And Juan Cole is just like KvdH… he has several entries today, all about the horror of the assault on Gaza, but also one fully embracing Hillary. There was pushback in the comments I noticed (and K got some as well).
Geesh. Get real. But the Katrinas and Juans are tied to the party. By cash, in his case overt, he is paid to consult.. in hers, paid in kind imo to keep The Nation useless.
and after the home mortgages have gone thoroughly bust, we’ll see commercial real estate go bust as well. according to calculated risk, residential housing hit the big banks, but smaller banks weren’t really all that exposed to it; they are, however, much deeper in commercial real estate, which is about to go pear-shaped.
one bright side to this mess is that all the condos that are being converted to apartment rental units means that rents are falling even as rental demand increases. so perhaps slightly less blood from the turnip from that direction; earlier, i was afraid that people fleeing underwater mortgages and foreclosures would bid up rental rates at the worst possible moment.
as for mexico, i think the narco stuff is a distraction from the general RW paramilitaries+neolib columbia model that caldaron’s following. it’s not the drugs, it’s the guns. but that’s a rather old story, esp. in northern mexico.
if the oil taps out, things get freaky, since the welfare state (what trickled down, anyways) has been funded from oil nationalized i the 30s. without the revenue, things get hairy, and i don;t even want to think about american reactions to a flood of actual refugees and not just migrant laborers.
Re 7. I doubt it was a mistake. For once Tom Friedman may have said something true in his NYT OpEd piece yesterday:
That has a name: collective punishment. It’s even worse, collective retaliation. In whose name and with whose support?
Americans would be strongly advised to reject collective punishment or retaliation. What goes around comes around.
6.
Some things never change…
No doubt Obamalama will use his trip to Canada to talk All Afghanistan War, All the Time.
Just saw this Ms magazine cover on CNN where Kyra Philips was interviewing Naomi Wolf who made the point that Bushco subverted feminist ideals by latching onto the idea that the war in Afghanistan was saving women. But Obama…? Well, he’s bringing change. He’d never use that tactic, would he? I’m sure I could find just such a quote but was reminded of this one when I was searching which, I think, shows what a damn hypocrite he is about the I/P situation:
Rice:
That would be SUSAN Rice… Ben Smith links to the full text of her remarks, her prepared statement to the Foreign Affairs comitte… …
6. the GBCWist departure from myIDFwing could be explained…
…if his position was outbid by another.
22. Could have sworn that was Condi. As long as the US keeps pretending that it isn’t actually a member state of the UN – that the UN is some sort of evil entity unto itself – I guess people will use those types of Who, me? criticisms.
Lordy. From a comment at Lenin, Mark Regev the Israeli spokesman says the phosphorus that hit the UNRWA is from hamas.. and that hamas has used phosphorus agaisnt Israel before.
Unfuckingbelievable.
23. myIDFwing
lol
quote du jour:
25. Alrighty then. Well, let’s say that’s true. If it’s okay for the IDF to use white phosophorus, it would logically follow that it’s okay for Hamas to use it too. So, what’s Regev’s point?
BTW, some other Israeli spokespuppet is claiming on BBC that Hamas “militants” were firing on IDF troops in the area so that justified the UN facility attack. They really need to get their stories straight.
More than 300 children have been killed and hundreds more wounded in Israel’s aerial and ground assault, Ann Veneman, Unicef’s executive director, said in a statement released on Wedneday.[sic]
No doubt they were all Hamas members, right Israel?
catch 22 (re oil markets)
The compounded in sanity of burning shit for some purported sustenance then deep-breathing the soot while the fire burns a hole inyour roof aside….
other than THAT , LOL, re the Market…
…the problem IMO is who knows what a “genuine” struck-to-market price is for the goop? ..given the scale and opacity of the financial instruments derived from it.?…for example, 20, 30, 40 derivations beyond (millions and millions of contract is more accurate).. but with derivative bets tied to currency A, B,C,fuerther entwined to Country D,E,or F Treasury Instrument L, M, N, O, and so forth —Who’s to say through the looking glass that the cost might just as well be x times what is reflected on “the market”…
“Deregulation” doesn’t BEGIN to describe the ‘Shock and Awe” chaos that was encouraged in all global markets- not just oil But the lack of transparency (opacity).. the Shadows in Fog aspect to forces in the market leaves one to guess who the Winners and Losers are.
Whether gas at 5 bucks a gallon was cheaper before global implosion than 2 Dollar gas afterwards.. Who knows? Who knows anything amidst Financial Shrapnel flying through smoke screens?
Moreover – with both literal and figurative / Financial and ballistic shrapnel still flying, smoke screens still quite thick…it leaves ALL would be Kings Men in the insane position of putting Hump and Dumpty Markets back together again..ESPECIALLY the allegedly ‘seasoned” hands still married to their “reputations” and irrational. ideologies.. What responsible actor with real resources will be encouraged to participate further in such folly? And at what price?
There’s a reason the Fed is making money available so cheap now to banks. Its a last gasp effort for elites to get hyper liquid, and temporarily stave off hyper inflation from the American doorstep.
But it ain’t gonna work, the last part at least…
All we have left are our “guns”, our military.
It’s the last, hallmark sign – of Dying Empire.
Also from Lenin
The IDF and snipers have surrounded Al Quds Hospital.. and shooting at families trying to get inside. Nor can personnel get out to go to people in trouble.
And as far as Regeve goes, may he rot in whatever kind of hell he believes in:
The difference, you fool, is that Palestinians in Gaza cannot leave. Which part of the fact that you treat them like cattle penned into a crammed stockyard don’t you get?
Al Jazeera is reporting that 3 Gaza hospitals are under attack by the IDF.
Six wise men from Israel:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3656970,00.html
5,000 people hurt and counting, they can’t even dig the bodies out, and PaulMYIDFWING, says it’s NOT a massacre.
Jay never admitted any IDF act was a massacre either. These people have no souls.
HillaryObamaRama considering mil intervention in the Sudan. (she promised just htat in the debate at Howard Univ… one of the HBC. Said she’d blast the Sudanese pilots out of the air! Hooray for War! People applauded… the press neglected to report there were also boos, which I did hear… but way too much applause)…
Ob and his drunken promises (from the Guardian link):
he promised everything for first day, first week, first hundred days. Everything was priority One.
Sorry!
BHHM just out of moderation.. a reply to oil markets comments..
😳
“You have a whole generation of Israeli children who unfortunately suffering similar trauma.”
How many years have they been spreading lies. If it were not for phones and internet, it would continue under a veil of censorship.
Richard Hass: and it will continue till we have a partner for peace!!
BHHM, did you see the video in my I/P diary, oh and cspan said they will not be offering the full hearings. So they were blacked out for the public:
$1.2 Trillion Slush Fund: Congressman Alan Grayson Grills Fed Vice Chair Donald Kohn
http://www.freespeechzoneblog.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2351
Tarp going to foreign central banks…
apparently everyone got out OK. amazing!
A US Airways Airbus A320 plane has come down in the Hudson River in New York and rescue ships are at the scene.
Dominos:
Florida promises an outside review after a run on a fund for local governments
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/23/bloomberg/bxflorida.php
SEC provides window on executive pay
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/23/bloomberg/bxpay.php
Birds bring down Airbus in Hudson River? Rescue crews on scene, passengers in rubber dinghies.
40 – Amazing indeed – especially in this weather! It’s about 27F in the city right now, 14F with windchill.
Mattes thanks for the diary and saw the clip.
It is quite appropos to be outraged at the ourageous.
All very sedate tho- in Barney’s Dog and Pony show
Stollers guy Grayson did a journeyman’s job:
to wit: Where did the money Go? Won’t you tell us? Please?
But I’m sure Stoller will market the cartoon as some seriously tough ‘action’ ,Grayson pushed
as the new collectible doll.
Ironic. Action figures yet no Happy Meal.
Concealing “the List” of where the money went
HAD TO spawn all sorts of insider trading in the meantime.
—–> The most critical, consequently concealed, and larger part of the Neocon ZOG War of Terror is the Financial Warfare, the Occupation of Markets and points of Exchange.
This is what’s going on, despite the inconvenience that it rings of Hitlers lies before , or contemporary Neo Nazis preferred “solution’ now…
It is no wonder then, how the US and Israel alike STILL use their ‘Hero” and “Victim” status emerging from World War ll. It is the only thing that prevents a clear eyed assessment of their own deadly Supremacist bent.
Thanks IB… I just heard – radio – it may have been geese.
Agree:
Like you said so far the winners are a big “secret”.
Guess, we have to wait to see ‘who is buying’ after the dust dies down.
Airbus…Everyone got out okay
Nonetheless, Chertoff of DHS “won’t comment” on reports that a suspicious flock of sparrows was turned over to the CIA for interrogation techniques said to involve ‘basting” and “roasting”……. Hmmm. 😉
hmmm Angry Arab embeds a link to Jpost.
47 – Yes, no doubt they’re grilling suspected co-conspirators now. . . .
About this “V” formation – where did you learn this terror technique? And what was the meaning of the so-called “honking” ?
Watching some rescue clips on the tube – brrr!
LOL BBC uses the phrase “bird strike”.
They struck, they did not fly and run amiss. They STRUCK.
Plus no doubt they at least crossed state lines to “strike” … and may have infiltrated from Canada.
UN worker on BBC saying they lost all the food in the warehouse that went up when UNRWA was hit… she said, “one by one all the ware houses are going up”. BBC again reports they used phosphorus on the UN… another worker says Gaza City is being hit hard with phosphorus.
BTW Angry Arab has a post up that the ISraelis are rolling out a PR offenisve “next week” to the ocuntries that unfairly blamed them. He embeds a link to Ynet News:
Give that pilot a reward of some sort.. tho. Maybe it was luck.. but …
Interesting number.. bet that holds as teh break line on votes, via The Page.
Votes 52-42 to allow Obama to use the leftover $350 billion to stabilize the U.S. financial system.
Permits the release of funds within days of the president-elect’s inauguration.
Watching the Bloomberg/Paterson presser on the Airbus.
Wonder if any passersby got hurt in the stampede of metro-area politicians eager to appear in the camera frame, on the occasion of a rare Happily Ended Disaster?
51 – and may have infiltrated from Canada.
Good point!
Head for the bunkers, catnip! Prepare for Operation Iceshack and Auk!
Yeah, sounds like good (and speedy) work by the pilot and crew, and quick response by the floating harbor folk. The pictures of passengers standing on the wing of the plane as it was slowly sinking in the river were mind-blowing.
To the Rescue!
Just hearing a report from Dean Meminger of NY1 to TNH… that people simply passed from the wings to the ferries.. not all but some.
Absolutely amazing.
The birds were def terrorist trained. They hit both engines. Bi lateral strike force.
Via The Page
“Day One”
Hopefully, for a change,
someone will have the audacity to Hunt Down
whoever came up with Day One.
and Kill Him.
Jesusing…
LMAO!
ugh – I of course am with BofA.
ugh – I of course am with BofA
.Yeh but your bank won’t matter. You’ll be okay after we just credit default swap Cali to China. LOL. Here we’re likely to meld New York, PA, and Jersey into New Zio Bubbania.
LOL… they say Cali is “too big ot fail”… I STILL say we, SF, should declare ourselves to be a City-State and apply for appendage formalities with Hong Kong or Shang Hai… take us in! If Sacramento wishes to join us, the capital of Cali can be ………Fresno. Or Modesto. LOL… just move it deepr into the Central Valley and the ag biz…
Just swinging by with a consolation drink for IB,and anyone else who needs one.
We’ve been having internet issues here lately, so it’s kind of cramping my style.
Oh, and two weeks of Unemployment left ! Wheee ! Let the grovelling for an extension begin !
Do you think threatening to commit suicide if I have to snore through one one accounting tutorial might melt the County’s heart ? Nah. I didn’t think so, either. I think I’ll just take the last twenty bucks off the last check and buy some peppermint schnapps. Mmmm… hot chocolat + peppermint schnapps… 😉
yuup…. from IOZ
ms xeno!
Oh, and I looked at some moronic discussion on Orangland that guess-who left open yesterday. About… guess-which assault/invasion du jour. Hell, if ignorance was gold I’d never need to work again a day in my life. Just put a bucket where the keyboard usually is and let it alllllll pour out.
Same as it ever was.
John Caruso of Distant Ocean has a post up at Tiny Revolution… he quoted a “leak” to Ha’aretz that militants were hiding under Shifa hostpial… I had caught that days ago… it was only a matter of time.
Part of an update to his post:
There were unconfirmed reports that Shifa, Gaza City’s biggest hospital, was on fire after being struck by Israeli shells.
I have a sense in this waiting around during this diplomatic void on Gaza, that it’s terribly wrong in the assumption that the Israelis will relent…I think it was Bob Simon who peddled this in the Charlie Rose interview that Israel will puul out of Gaza by Ob’s Inaug. Jan 20th the termination date…Some sort of notion “out of respect” to the Obster.
What kind of people shell hospitals?
Some Very-Intent-on–War motherfuckers to be sure.
And as the circulating life of a whole globefull of money is flatlined stiff on the gurney….
China has its Navy headed to the Gulf and are running support ops inthe Indian Ocean. Russia has pulled an aircraft carrier in the Med.
So back to the question of Israel withdrawing of their own accord..
Predictably, they already have both houses of Congress and Obama slobberring over a Support Resolution and the non negotiablity of Defending℠ Israel. What’s to stop them from doing as they wish? What’s to stop them any more than it stops domestic pols here from taking true believing saps for a ride?
Big BIG Mistake this recent Congressional Resolution.
Israel is going to use it to hammer Gazans to death.
Israel is going to use it to hammer Gazans to death.
well I think that is happening to day.. 4 hosptials hit and the UNRWA AS Ban Ki Moon is in Israel. And as Angry Arab said, Ban just apologised FOR the Israelis, so they did nto have to bother.
Geesh.
Martin Fletcher part of a small group of foreign journalists brought a little way into Gaza… Times Online:
uh oh. NBC saying “Canada Goose”… find the bomb shelter catnip. We’ll be invading.
#65. Sorry. Should be “one MORE” not “one one.”
I need a job spinning hospital bombings as self-defense. That’s gotta’ be where the prestige is. And with prestige, who needs money ?
73. uh oh. NBC saying “Canada Goose”… find the bomb shelter catnip. We’ll be invading.
Just as I suspected. Good thing I stocked up for nuclear winter.
ms x! **air kisses**
Flipping thru a gallery of photos at Times Online.. this is the caption to one..
January 15, 2009
War in Gaza
Palestinian TV journalist Khader Shahin, left, walks handcuffed into an Israeli courtroom in Jerusalem, after his arrest for ’infringing new legal measures’ to restrict reporting of Israel’s Gaza offensive
(Ahmed Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
75
knowing us we will say, Invade Due North… find ourselves in Mexico City and say, This is Canada. Death to anyone who disagrees!
Obama today said next up: Entitlement reform. Chuck Todd says that means he will lift his mighty sword and touch the third rail. Social Security.
77. find ourselves in Mexico City and say, This is Canada. Death to anyone who disagrees!
lol!
Do you think that’ll be happening on Day One too?
Cheers and slainte, ms_xeno! Surely Obster’s Transformational Inauguration will wave away the need for such things as groveling, extensions, and snoozeworthy tutorials?! Your peppermint schnapps will be hand-delivered by an Up with People-style Yes We Can-Can song-and-dance team on Wednesday morning!
Going with iced green tea at the moment, to keep wits together for last day of (thankfully, in wrap-up, telecommutable) official employment tomorrow, and then I’ll be shoulder to shoulder with ya as we witness the dawning of the Ob-fresh Economy!
Thanks to bay, too – a couple threads back – for warm wishes. (Oddly enough, 2003 was the last time I found myself in this spot, also, and the downtime then led to, gasp, starting to comment on blogs. Maybe this time, I’ll try crack!)
Yeah, I noticed when they floated the concept of a Hamas headquarters under the hospital several days ago, too. No doubt that was a “humanitarian warning,” too.
Those journos calling the plane crash a “miracle” on the Hudson are insulting the pilot’s capacity to handle the situation. Miracle, my ass. Try “skill”.
I see Larry King has “MIRACLE” as a headline. Sheesh.
75, 77 – I’m telling ya, the code name will be Iceshack and Auk!
Big BIG Mistake this recent Congressional Resolution.
Strength in numb-ers is the way they like to roll.
Here’s the hospital reference I remembered, from a Jan 11 NYT Article called A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery, but I see now that unconfirmed assertion (of Hamas leadership in underground housing) was about Shifa Hospital, not Al Quds.
82. We have frozen pucks. Stockpiles of them.
gnu post
LINK
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85 – Insurgents! Over there, with the high-powered curling stones!
And look, there are more scary geese headed south to cleverly infiltrate our aircraft engines! You and your hockey pucks must pay!
(Reminds me of an old joke about a Scottish pilot landing in Nova Scotia . . . having been warned by air traffic control to avoid an animal on the runway, he exclaimed upon touchdown, “If that’s yer moose, I’d hate to see your cats!”)
Curling stones in the mod bunker?
Thanks.
(BTW, as a triple-agent for the upstate NY/Vermont/Quebec/Outer Hebridean Truth and Beauty Coalition, I am naturally in the pocket of the Goose Lobby.)