Mike's Blog Round Up
James Wolcott's Blog: It is a measure of Petraeus's obliging pliancy that he would even accede to testifying on the anniversary of 9/11, thus ensuring that his report would function as a 'tie-in' product.
Beggars Can Be Choosers: Hillary has returned the Hsu money. When will George W. Bush return the $1.4 million his campaign received from Enron?
Consortiumblog: When former CIA officer Ray McGovern made the vocal suggestion -- during a technical delay to fix Gen. David Petraeus' microphone -- that the witness be sworn in, McGovern was forced to leave the hearing room.
Robert Reich's Blog: The way to prevent the looming recession
10 Zen Monkeys: In one corner, we have a disheveled , sickly looking maniac who can barely move and appears to be in some kind of drug-enduced stupor while babbling messages of madness.
And in the other corner, we have Osama bin Laden
Media Bloodhound: Quality reporting demands accuracy, honesty, context and a willingness to report the hard truths. We Want News
from ray mcgovern's blog entry on getting the boot:
"“At the outset, I would like to note that this is my testimony. Although I have briefed my assessment and recommendations to my chain of command, I wrote this testimony myself. It has not been cleared by, nor shared with, anyone in the Pentagon, the White House, or Congress.”
Is not the Commander-in-Chief in Petraeus’s chain of command?"
when I heard that, this was the first thing that I thought as well.
Almost seven years of decline and decay and still no end in site.
Ray McGovern is the coolest. I wish he'd run for president.
Any news on Rev. Yearwood?
Well, maybe you should add this little bit of tid to your round-up, folks ...
WTF?
Chertoff: We're Preparing for Nuclear Attack
Associated Press – September 10, 2007
Re Consortiumblog:
2008 there needs to be a major revolution in the voting booths. Every incumbant, regardless the party needs to be put on the street. Government by, of and for the People is no longer working with this current crew. It has no hope of being resurrected so long as they are in office.
Paul @ 6:
Might need to start offering live bands, free beer, free I voted t-shirts, free money at the polls to get people there.
I have a great post up about how Bank of America in Delaware makes women use a breast pump in an old closet.
Russia reveals new superbomb
Wednesday, 12 Sep 2007
Russia has acquired what it is calling the "father of all bombs".
A military spokesperson said yesterday that it had developed a vacuum bomb which creates a pressure wave, temperature and blast area comparable to that of a nuclear weapon.
Officials are insisting that the bomb does not break any existing weapons treaties and say its lack of environmental contamination when compared with the residual radioactivity after a nuclear bomb makes it a greener type of explosion.
They claim the bomb is not intended to trigger a new arms race, despite pointing out that the bomb is four times more powerful than the US' 'mother of all bombs' device.
Israel makes a bombing run in Syria...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gD-E7E_IrcMkCLx2Ouqu6IY9f-DA
"Quality reporting demands ... a willingness to report the hard truths." This is what a new film which opens this weekend attempts to do. The movie, entitled "In the Valley of Elah", centers upon a father attempting to find out how and why his son, a soldier who has just returned from Iraq, was killed. Tommy Lee Jones plays the father, Susan Sarandon his wife, and Charlize Theron a police detective who initially has her doubts about Jones' attempt to find out the truth but realizes that the military may be covering up the soldiers' death. This film, which is based upon a true story, was helped in getting made by the assistance of Clint Eastwood and has already been slammed as being unpatriotic by conservatives and pundits even though it has not been released yet. As Tommy Lee Jones says in an interview in today's USA Today, people should question things not only from the heart but also from the head.
Weaseldog @ 10:
That was last week. Not many people noticed.
Hypocrites are everywhere...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180156692383
Erroll @ 11:
I love it when conservatives bash conservatives for not toeing the party line.
Blue Buddha @ 14:
Why does the truth hate America?
Dollar Sinks to New Low By Geir Moulson, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday September 12, 12:00 pm ET
Dollar Hits New All-Time Lows Against Euro on Talk of Rate Cuts
BERLIN (AP) -- The dollar fell to a new all-time low Wednesday in late European trading amid speculation that the Federal Reserve will soon cut interest rates and on a warning from the U.S. treasury secretary that turbulence in financial markets may linger.
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The 13-nation euro rose as high as $1.3901 in late afternoon European trading -- topping its previous record of $1.3852, reached on July 24. It almost immediately fell back to $1.3889, compared with the $1.3832 it bought in New York late Tuesday.
The sudden surge came after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, speaking to officials from some of the biggest financial firms in the U.S., said that volatility in financial markets will take some time to be resolved, particularly in the area of subprime mortgages.
"We have been experiencing market turbulence and as I have said for awhile, it is going to take some time to work its way out," Paulson said at a meeting at the Treasury Department. "We are going to work our way through this, in some markets more quickly than others."
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so the market gets some tiny relief and the dollar drops. great repug economic strategy.
Beggars Can Be Choosers: Hillary has returned the Hsu money. When will George W. Bush return the $1.4 million his campaign received from Enron?
And when will Bush give back all of the money he got from Alan Fabian, the Maryland CPA and Bush fundraiser recently indicted on 23 counts of fraud? Oh, that's right, that story got buried by the MSM!
Oil prices hit record: http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/12/markets/oil_eia/index.htm?postversion=20...
This is not good, high oil prices and an economic slump remind me of the 70's.
You do have to wonder about this paragraph. Perhaps it is too much to expect journalists to be good at math?
George @ 18:
"Math is hard. Meet me at the mall." -- Barbie
The math tests that Chinese students take to be accepted into an engineering college are far more advanced than the math we teach regular undergraduate engineering students at a typical college.
Yep... we're fucked.
Blue Buddha @ 19:
But not Barbie?
Turning Up The Heat On Bush
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