March 17, 2008 10:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
Brad DeLong: A century ago we had banks. They created systemic risk. We decided to regulate them in order to limit the systemic risk they could create. That was wise. Now we have non-banks. They create systemic risk...
bustardblog: Dick Cheney is a war criminal and a lying sack of sh*t
Sadly, No! The heart knoweth its own Vitterness
Words of Power: How about making hypocrisy an Olympic competition?
Facing South: Black America is in a permanent recession.
skippy the bush kangaroo: Who knew? Turns out there are bloggers who can respectfully disagree about the Democratic presidential primaries.
"....Hate Radio has had copies of these sermons for months. I believe that they have been chortling together as they viewed the videos. They may have even photoshopped Obama into the front row at these sermons. And, like President Truman at the Yalta Conventions (just after we perfected the atom bomb), I feel that Hate Radio felt that they had "the video bomb" that would destroy Obama's chances....."
http://www.bartcop.com/obama-toast.htm
History repeats it’s self.
March 17, 2008 General William Odom: Stop The Bush Administration Now
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/31886
In 1934, General Smedley Butler informed the United States Congress that a group of
wealthy industrialists had plotted a military coup known as the Business Plot.
General Smedley Butler was awarded two Medals of Honor for two different acts of heroism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
Research - Bush Signing Statement:
President Signs Export-Import Bank Act
[2002-08] -- 38 WCPD 1014 (June 17, 2002)
http://www.coherentbabble.com/signingstatements/SSann2002.htm#2002-08
Research - Bush Signing Statements: 2001-2008
http://www.coherentbabble.com/signingstatements/signstateann.htm
The trick is to take the items that are coming out in the headlines and sort through all the meaningless crap to nail down what the long range consequences of current policies will be.
I'm all for letting the fat cats who brought us the Bear Stearns debacle (let's call it BS) stand out on the corner with a tin cup. That's where they belong.
5 years George
http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier
PHILADELPHIA — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to stem damage from divisive comments delivered by his pastor, while bluntly addressing anger between blacks and whites in the most racially pointed speech yet of his presidential campaign.
I believe in reality it is a very small percentage of blacks and whites in this country who are pissed off at each other.
The rest of us get along just fine.
L.A. Confidential @ 6:
Seriously blacks and whites would be at war with each other in the streets if it was bad as the lame stream media idiots makes it out to be.
When will Amato, et. al., denounce Nicole's invention and promotion of violence?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/03/17/what-is-broder-suggesting-will-...
A GREAT SPEECH!
those arguing that they know what is best for business (the "free" market advocates, the market fundamentalists, the neoliberals, the supply-siders, etc.) have adopted an ideological position that actually will end up destroying the economy.
maybe those that profess their belief in the omnipotence of a "free" and unregulated market are actually communist infiltrators, because their prescription for a sound capitalist economy, adhered to by both dems and reps, is proving to be an abject failure.
Coherence @ 8:
John handcuffed and chained her to the radiator in the basement last night as punishment and discipline.
I think she has two more hours down there then she can come upstairs for breakfast.
Haven't seen video yet, but this is a GREAT speech by Obama:
"A More Perfect Union"
"The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright’s sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday morning. That anger is not always productive; indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition, and prevents the African-American community from forging the alliances it needs to bring about real change. But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races."
L.A. Confidential @ 6:
Right next to these headlines we're now seeing the full-on atomic meltdown of our nation's financial system, something aided, abetted, initiated, fomented, and lovingly churned to a fine curdle by the Bush Administration and their free-market-droid capitalists. Obama's pastor issues are going to be completely forgotten in a week as American scramble to keep afloat.
I'm not exactly gleeful about this, mind you. I'm just as likely to get sunk as the next poor slob. But it is worth noting that this election will be about BIG FUCKING ISSUES, and not likely to be distracted by yammering idiots trying to drag our candidates down with character assassination. Which means Clinton and McSplain got some, 'Splainin to do. Since they've both been a big help to the head-crushingly stupid elite who brought us to this pass.
March 17
Diesel prices statewide have risen to $4.07 per gallon, the second consecutive record-setting day.
The $4.08 per-gallon average in Indianapolis was also an all-time high, according to AAA, which tracks prices nationwide. Truckers and others stopping in Fort Wayne will pay even more - an average of $4.17.
Indiana is one of 21 states where the price is at least $4.
"Across this country, the more that Iraqis have gotten to know the Americans — the nature of our intentions and the character of our soldiers — the better they have felt about the United States of America," Dick of all Dicks Cheney.
No. 44 @ 12:
Contrary to the assertions of a certain back-stabbing Democratic Presidential candidate, one of the jobs of the President, or in fact of any leader, is to articulate a shared vision for those whom they purport to lead. Obama is excellent at doing this which is why he's getting such a good response. Americans have listened for seven years to a drooling imbecile yammer on incoherently about issues of which he is entirely ignorant. It's a breath of fresh air to listen to someone who actually is saying something, making sense, and saying something that needs to be said.
L.A. Confidential @ 14:
With less than a year left in Shrub's presidency, it isn't an economic meltdown, it's an economic shakedown, where the corporate jackasses are trying to steal as much from the taxpayer as possible, before the next Prez has no choice but to halt the corporate welfare a bit. Greedy crooks to the end.
Watching Wall Street rally above 250 makes me sick. What about the millions who will lose their homes? My mother had the balls to say people are getting what they deserve. Really? In my mothers day We didn't have comglomerates that controled everything. You didn't need a lawyer to spell out the fine print in your credit card application. It pisses me off when I hear the older generations blaming little ole us.
OT (If the war is OT)
www.democracynow.org
is doing a full hour of Testimony from WinterSoldier.
People really, really have to listen to this.
Ron @ 9:
One of the most amazing speeches I have ever heard. I found myself crying at one point. He opened up the subject of race and spoke of it as I have never heard anyone else speak.
If he isn't our next president, we have lost a great opportunity in this country.
Crooks and Liars not only dropped the ball but missed a wide open pass by not having a blog post up about this historical speech. Wow. I am amazed.
Site Monitor: Did it occur to you that it takes time to make videos, convert them into different formats, track down transcripts, write a post and then get it published? Sheesh. We'll get it up, we're working on it. Try a little patience and a little less nastiness.
pissed off patricia @ 20:
I almost teared up myself. Reminded me of MLK.
P.D. @ 18:
I look around where I live, and guess what? They do deserve to be going bankrupt. Whether the banks are stupid enough to loan the money or not, just who did Joe Blow think the government was going to bail out when push came to shove? Of course the banks and investors. They matter to the government, not Joe Blow. And what kind of idiot thinks they can afford a half million dollar home, when they earn squat for income? It was only a matter of time before this deck of cards crashed. Too many lower middle class wage earners wanted to look rich, driving the brand new SUV and living in the big mansions. It's a sad reality.
steambomb @ 21:
Maybe they will put up one about it a little later. I'm so overwhelmed by the speech that I'm giddy.
steambomb @ 21:
They will. Patience.
pissed off patricia @ 20:
It was one of the best. If nothing else, he has a powerful speech writer. Methinks it isn't David Frum.
RE: P.D.
"My mother had the balls to say people are getting what they deserve. Really? In my mothers day We didn’t have comglomerates that controled everything. You didn’t need a lawyer to spell out the fine print in your credit card application. It pisses me off when I hear the older generations blaming little ole us."
WHAT ELSE DO YOU EXPECT?
FROM AMERICA'S GREEDIEST GENERATION?
Actually Concerned ,you are right in a way. Those McMansions are nothing but a symbol of greed. But the area I live in is much more, shall we say, lower middle class. And many of the people can't even sell their home. The trickle down econonmics are a smashing success!
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 26:
You got that right.
Can't believe he's having to go out and lecture this country about race relations.
Of course since the Right Wing has been using the media to bring up race as a division tool to wipe out the Dems chances this year thats about all you can do.
Right Wing two prong attack. Get both Obama and Clinton in one shot..
This just in....
http://tinyurl.com/2zlw2z
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 26:
They made it clear that he wrote the speech himself. They said he worked late into the night for the past too nights writing this speech.
YouTube snippet.
P.D. @ 28:
A lot of those McMansions are also cheap pieces of crap also.
Horrible craftsmanship. Cheap 5th rate materials. Lots of them start falling apart within a year. Cracks in foundation pours, all kinds of nasty stuff.
L.A. Confidential @ 6:
Do you live in a majority black neighborhood?
Mine is 50/50 within one mile. Within two miles the black concentration increases.
We get along well but the area is the poorest in our Michigan county which is one of the most affluent.
As a country, we do not have anything approaching uniform integration.
There has been progress and you would be right to point to it but race still predicts economic status too much.
I feel personally that affirmative action needs to be class based rather than race based.
If Obama comes out with that, and probably only an African American could do it, he will be a person of astonishing courage.
P.D. @ 28:
I would wager they can't sell them for many reasons. I know where I live, people are so far in debt, they need more for their homes than what they are worth on the market realistically, because they paid too much, and could never afford it in the first place. A guy on my block bought himself a 250,000 dollar home. He works for $14/hour and his wife does not work. They drive a brand new SUV. How long before he has to sell? Probably not long.
Rusty Take the Fork Out He's Not Done Yet Shackleford @ 29:
I wish I could hear it...I'll have to wait for the transcript I guess :(
And I agree...if he doesn't get elected...then this country will prove to the entire world that it's chock full or racist morons.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 31:
Is the fix in? How is this remotely possible? The repugs are being outvoted in the primaries by 2 or 3 to 1. Is this one of those "If you repeat it often enough it's true" type things? McCains rise from last to nominee in 2 months is already suspect to me. Republicans don't even want him.
pissed off patricia @ 32:
That in itself would be downright amazing. Everything major politicians say is scripted. That is why the debates come off as "terrible".
Right on LA! My husband is a contractor. The crap they use to build those bohemoths is criminal. I still with my little rancher. At least I know it will stand after another freaky wind storm. ( We been having a lot of them lately. Global Warming perhaps?)
L.A. Confidential @ 14:
Time to use vegetable oil from the grocery store for diesel fuel... at this point it's cheaper.
L.A. Confidential @ 34:
I know, I used to subcontract as a pianter for one of those cookie-cutter home builders...if a flatulent bird flies by and lets one loose, the whole house shakes.
Obama again delivers a great flowery speech. Big deal.
Anyone can read a teleprompter.
He is still not qualified to be president. Move on back to your day job, you know the one you barely held and ignore most of the time.
pissed off patricia @ 32:
What will America do? A leader who speaks for himself!
Better yet, a leader who actually FUCKING THINKS about things.
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 42:
I think they were preparing for the fact that they will become tomorrow's slums.
Thank goodness I moved out of the suburbs and into the inner city.
Janet Hussein @ 38:
The amount of voting in the primaries isn't really relevant IMO. The R's have one candidate left so a lot of them probably stay home on primary day.
DemocratLoyalist @ 43:
Huh. So he writes it himself (which just about nobody does in politics these days) and delivers it well? And if anyone could do it, then why isn't anyone else doing it?
Yer an idiot.
Alice Hussein @ 35:
No I don't. But judging people on skin color? Thats so Neanderthalic it's ludicrous.
After the 60's and MLK 47 years later we are back to this bullshit again?
Man what a disappointment, let down.
the comments/forum/community i thought on the Internet are rather fringe, that is there is something out there for everyone to chat up about, its really not indicative of much. viewership = important. comment battles = people with too much time on their hands (i include myself in that!)
Janet Hussein @ 38:
I think you hit it on the head.
This whole election cycle stinks to high heaven...
Janet Hussein @ 38:
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." George W. Bush
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 15:
That's why Cheney had to fly into Iraq secretly. Too bad Iraqis couldn't shower him with flowers.
Full Obama speech
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/64224.html
Why does Obama's preacher receive all this attention, while Falwell, Robertson, Hagee, et al, hardly receive any media attention at all?
As Glenn Greenwald points out today:
L.A. Confidential @ 51:
Ah Sundays Bushism....I hate that man.
Leslie @ 54:
i would call it racism.
Samson- @ 56:
Yeah, really.
Cheney, banks, and DKos, oh my!
Coherence @ 8:
She appears, according to your link, to have posed a somewhat charged rhetorical question. Nowhere does she promote violence. Skip trying to read between the lines and try just reading.
Re the so-called blog wars: I just want to take this chance to ardently THANK C&L for not plopping their asses down in the camp of one Dem candidate or the other. It's why I'm still coming here every day. I am actively boycotting any and all political blogs who've decided to choose a candidate this early in the game, including MoveOn. What makes the hateful infighting particularly ridiculous to me is that neither candidate is a thoroughbred progressive -- they're both hawkish, taking money from the power elite, and not promoting from the ground up reform. They're moderates, at best. I'll vote for them, of course, but they are not Dr. King, Barbara Jordan, Cesar Chaves or Susan B. Anthony.
Thanks for the breathing room around here.
Well we have heard from all the bigots and their feelings about what Senator Obama is about. Not that they did not all have their fun and games in the days leading up to this event.
Never the less, I am so very proud of Senator Obama for having the audacity to stand tall and do something that very few has ever done for this country and it is clear that many of the people his sentiments were directed at, continue to be in denial and sad as it may be, would like to continue to attempt to lead others down the deep dark path, that many have diligently been trying to break out of, for the betterment of this country and needless to say that many of us are rooting for these good people, whom there are many.
They realize there counter parts are liars, cheats and are people that are willing to do anything for the enrichment of themselves and be dame with others, who only seek to have a fair opportunity. They repeatedly want to continue down the low road of division and hate based rhetoric, instead of the high road.
When anybody would think about whom the people I make reference to are. Just get a big bottle of Pepito bismo and tune into any TV or Radio station in this country, with the exception of a few and you can find these people, running from station to station, with news, views and information that just does not connect with anybody or anything. Many of these people have no shame at all and it is so very sad to see that the only people allowed as regular guest on these political talk shows, blacks included, are people who will agree with the warped philosophy, they generate.
We consistently here these people all day as they attempt to get the opinion of their guest of why race is such an issue in this presidential race and not any of these people have the guts and the courage to get up and in the faces of these people and say, it is you folks that continue this monologue of race baiting every issue about Obama. They know this folks, yet they dare anyone who wants to be regular guest, to tell it like it is and if they do. You wont be seeing them around any more.
There is no open dialog to be found in our national media, these days, It is their way or the high way, never mind that American people are the real owners of the air waves. Rupert Murdock has purchased it from us, without consent and that is the end of that.
On a brighter note, it has been so very refreshing to hear that the majority of views, from most all well thinking Americans who really want change, are giving Senator Obama an A+ and these are people of all walks of life, that are simply so tired of the same old crap these same old people have shoved at us for so long.
The real question now is what is Hillary Clinton going to do now that her latest scheme has not worked and never believe that she was not the culprit, behind this mess, that has actually turned out for the betterment of not just Obama, but America who for the first time in a very long time has the opportunity to really discuss the race issue, up front and out in the open as we honor and respect the views of all.
Senator Obama picked up a truck load of Delegates, all through the week end and this polling data giving Hillary this so call unreachable lead is just what all of the leads have been for her as she bounces from state to state, only to be kicked in the ass and sent on her way. We may not have much of a voice in national media, but we continue to have the best hand, with our votes and never doubt they don't know this, which is why they have again resorted to dirty tricks as they use republicans to vote in the primary for Hillary, just to bloody Obama.
We are not so stupid to not realize that these people are not going to be voting for Queen Hillary in the national, which will automatically cost the democrats the office of the President if we allow this.
We understand that Obama is the only candidate that will send McCain, back to the Senate or Retire him for good.
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