March 13, 2008 11:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
The Pump Handle: It seems that the EPA has failed to fulfill its mandate under the Clean Air Act. So they decided to change the Act, magically transforming a failure into "success."
Majikthise: Feds probe Spitzer's records back to 1999. I'm thinking Spitzer was probably avoiding a reporting requirement to his wife and daughters, not the IRS.
James Wolcott: Beware of white men bearing gifts
HyerStandard and Cajun boy in the City look at local politics. Average Bro chimes in...
Blender: 20 biggest record company screwups of all time
Blue Gal: Little help...
Just few moments ago some big hitters on Wall Street simply are able to belly up to the Federal Reserve window to cash in on some low cost loan money. Hey wouldn’t it be neat if John Doe common American could just belly up the same window to get the low cost loan. Say hey there fellow, I got this here 23% credit card loan and I would like to reduce it to the new federal Reserve rate, ah I think its 3.75 % yah that sounds like a good deal. O.K. Thanks!
For the little guy not going to happen. You know what would be cool!!
Where as we the people authorize any tavern or gin mill, or night club lounge to be able to grant Federal Reserve loans instantaneously after you belly up to the bar. All loans guaranteed against default, you only have to be a citizen in good standing that pay your taxes and stay out of jail or forfeit this privilege. Proof of citizenship required holy cow is this where the illegal alien gap is they really don’t want you to know.!!!
Hey, vote for me and this will be law. Sure the whole banking industry would go bonkers, but isn’t there now.
So they decided to change the Act, magically transforming a failure into “success.”
Hey, that reminds me. Speaking of the word "success". What ever happened to the Iraqi Occupation PR slogan "Return On Success", that lasted about one news cycle. Losers.
GOP Group: Ex-Treasurer Diverted Up To $1M Washington Post March 13, 2008 10:26 PM
The former treasurer for the National Republican Congressional Committee diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars -- and possibly as much as $1 million -- of the organization's funds into his personal accounts, GOP officials said yesterday, describing an alleged scheme...
Hahahaha.........the bastards even steal from each other!!
Chimpy only has 9 more months to wreck the last shreds of governmental oversight, destroy the few remaining reasonable standards, and politicize the final untouched departments. I think he can do it!
Happy Pi Day everybody!
Don't forget to celebrate at 1:59PM
Blue Buddha @ 4:
I thought it was National Potato Chip Day?
Don't you mean, Happy π Day!
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 2:
Does that surprise you? Just business as usual.
Capt. Bat Guano @ 1:
The EPA was going to continue its previous standard, just written in a different language, but not surprisingly, it was the Bush administration which forced them to lower the standard, and turn failure into "success".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080314/ap_on_go_pr_wh/dirty_air
Okay let's get to some SERIOUS NEW REPORTING
Keith Olbermann is a lousy lay
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm
L.A. Confidential @ 9:
Huh... does anyone else find it odd that the article was written by
DickRichard Johnson? That in itself is a joke.Blue Lensmadinejad @ 3:
And Joe-Jane average is going to have a hell of a time trying to keep his-her head above water.
AP - 23 minutes ago
NEW YORK - The rally in energy prices gained momentum Friday, with retail gas prices rising further into record territory and diesel and heating oil futures setting records of their own amid concerns about strong global demand and tight supplies.
Think I'll go out and buy 200 Cases of Penzoil 10-40 to hedge my dollar this afternoon.
Military Fatalities: By Time Period
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
6 901 45 9 955 2.35 407
5 933 32 20 985 2.39 412
4 715 13 18 746 2.35 318
3 580 25 27 632 2.93 216
2 718 27 59 804 1.9 424
1 140 33 173 4.02 43
Total 3987 175 133 4295 2.36 1820
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
Okay everyone go out and clean off the shelves of motor oil 10-40, 10-30, don't matter and HORDE IT.
Okay you freaking Con bastards!
Bring it on!
Coverage of Spitzer's hookergate 24/7 .
Coverage of FISA immunity secret closed door congressional meeting ----- hello ? Hello ?
Blue Buddha @ 10:
quite appropo!
Developing . . . . . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://tinyurl.com/33mhv3
I'm watching Bush right now. He just said that Americans aren't taking advantage of the of the programs that the government is offering to help them hold on to their homes. What is he talking about? Americans have suffered greatly because of his policies. This adminastraion had dismanteled everything. From environmental to the Banking industry. What a joke!
iraqhusseinconcilable @ 15:
Rumors are starting that "The Sheriff of Wallstreet" may have had his food doped w/ super aphrodesiacs, all these years–or sprayed often w/ it, then tempted by pimps for the elite…as the “plot” by unhappy speculators.
Coalition Military Fatalities By Year: News
Period US Other Total
+ 2008 11 15 26
+ 2007 117 115 232
+ 2006 98 93 191
+ 2005 99 31 130
+ 2004 52 6 58
+ 2003 48 9 57
+ 2002 49 20 69
+ 2001 12 0 12
Total 486 289 775
P.D. @ 18:
http://tinyurl.com/ypwcls
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
At this point it's cheaper to buy gallons of vegetable oil from the grocery store instead of diesel at the pump... and better for the environment as well. Just replace all the rubber hoses in the fuel line of your diesel car/truck with plastic lines (vegetable oil slowly dissolves rubber), and you're all set!
Blue Buddha @ 10:
So what if he is a bad lay. I am one of the best in my area at what I do for a living. On the other hand it is possible that I may be the worst fuck in town. So what, it has no influence or bearing on how I do my job. Let's say that all the neocons are gods in the sack, now let's look at how they have performed their jobs out of the sack. Nuff' said.
NEW YORK - Bear Stearns Cos., one of Wall Street's venerable investment banks, received a bailout Friday by the federal government and JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a surprise, last-ditch effort to save the 86-year old institution.
Let the Tax Payer Bailout Begin!
L.A. Confidential @ 24:
I was RIGHT. I said a month ago one of the Big Banks would go under.
And of course we taxpayers would be left holding the bag.
Any questions?
Interesting take by James Wolcott, although I wonder if he gives the wingut pundits too much credit.
L.A. Confidential @ 24:
Since we are such a generous lot, let's bail out private equity firms and hedge funds too.
I have a neat quiz. Who's more dumbed down.
Us, or them . . .
http://tinyurl.com/2ym5k5
Boy, the economic outlook just keeps getting worse and worse by the day. Just look at these headlines:
Economy hit on multiple fronts-Boston Globe
Dollar Squeezed From all Sides-Washington Post
Dollar Losing Clout Around the World-MSNBC
With gold touching a high of $1,009 and most other commodities rising at fast clips and all other currencies getting stronger against the Dollar the world is saying something to the United States and its currency.
Radically Moderate @ 27:
Everything is going as planned man!
Joe O. @ 29:
Bush Co is desperate to keep this thing afloat until they ride off into the sunset next Jan.
Then watch out. I get the feeling whats coming isn't going to be pretty.
Walcott got it.
Wolcott.
L.A. Confidential @ 30:
Not to sound insensitive but I'm getting a general feeling of what date rape must feel like.
Radically Moderate @ 34:
I'm beginning to feel like we are in Edward Gibbon's book "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" more and more. That is what I feel like.
L.A. Confidential @ 17:
Next she'll be in Playboy.
you should hear chimpy's speech
David Petraeus: Iraqis Not Making "Sufficient Progress"
Washington Post | Cameron Barr | March 14, 2008 08:18 AM
With a Senate appearance looming to explain the success of President Bush's surge in Iraq, Gen. David Petreaus has offered his starkest commentary yet on the state of Iraq reconciliation, reports the Washington Post:
Petraeus, who is preparing to testify to Congress next month on the Iraq war, said in an interview that "no one" in the U.S. and Iraqi governments "feels that there has been sufficient progress by any means in the area of national reconciliation," or in the provision of basic public services.
The general's comments appeared to be his sternest to date on Iraqis' failure to achieve political reconciliation. In February, following the passage of laws on the budget, provincial elections and an amnesty for certain detainees, Petraeus was more encouraging. "The passage of the three laws today showed that the Iraqi leaders are now taking advantage of the opportunity that coalition and Iraqi troopers fought so hard to provide," he said at the time.
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
Don't make it sound like a bad thing. Extremely high oil prices are the best thing that can happen to us right now if you're in this for the long run (which the Paraguayan crooks aren't).
iraqhusseinconcilable @ 15:
As usual the only place to hear about anything is
democracynow.org
Amy had Kuch on this morning, he boycotted the session ...
(wait a minute ...mmmm tatooed hookers.... )
sorry where was I?
L.A. Confidential @ 21:
his one strength is his ability to spout an endless stream of bullshit as if he believes.
the msm strength is to pretend to believe in that endless stream of bullshit.
CoIntelPro - against Divisive Democrats @ 42:
War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength
Spending is patriotic
Wolcott is right that the right-wing is duplicitous, but I'm tired of doing things based on reacting to them. I don't care what they think they can do. I'm voting for Obama when the primaries come 'round in Oregon, but I'm working my ass off for the Dem candidate this fall, no matter who it is.
Y'all send some love to Blue Gal.
German police kill U.S. soldierStory Highlights
BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- German police in a Bavarian town shot and killed a U.S. soldier overnight after what appeared to be a violent domestic incident, local police said.
Police said the man was armed with a military-style M4 rifle, took his girlfriend hostage in her house and tied her up.
The woman fled and called police, who launched a search for the man.
Using night vision cameras from a helicopter, police were able to find the soldier, who was shot in Koenigsberg after he threatened the officers when they attempted to arrest him.
Military police from the nearby U.S. Army base in Schweinfurt, where the soldier was stationed, are investigating the incident with German police.
The U.S. military said the soldier was from the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division "Dagger Brigade."
The soldier died at Leopoldina Hospital in Schweinfurt from a gunshot wound "received in a confrontation with local German and U.S. military authorities late last night," the military said.
"The Dagger Brigade chain of command is cooperating fully with the investigation being conducted jointly by U.S. Army and German authorities," the military said.
The soldier's name was being withheld pending notification of next of kin. E-mail to a friend
CNN's Frederik Pleitgen contributed to this report.
L.A. Confidential @ 43:
The falling GDP is showing improvement
The falling dollar is good
...
Wolcott is wrong. Beyond that, I don't give a damn what the big bad minds of the GOP do or don't think about their opposition. What I care about is how that opposition intends to destroy the bastard's agenda. Or if they intend to, at all.
Thank you, Mike honey. I love you.
bluegal @ 49:
We love you, Blue Gal. Sorry I couldn't give more.
A list of the 20 biggest record company screw-ups of all time that doesn't place at #1 (times 1,000) Sun Records selling Elvis Presley's recording contract to RCA Victor for $35,000?
Doesn't even include it on the list at all?
Ridiculous.
Old Billy Hussein @ 45:
WORD!
bluegal @ 49:
I just sent yas some caaaaash moneys!
Old Billy Hussein @ 45:
I like the way you think, OBH.
Rusty Scary Black Church Shackleford @ 54:
Yeah...he's a smarty.
No Pollution Not Left Behind?
"Beware of white men" is normally good advice...
Cash for Blue Gal and her panties!
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