Mike's Blog Roundup
Talk To Action: McSame-backer John Hagee lies to Jewish bloggers on his motives for supporting Israel. Meanwhile, the wandering maverick discovered New Orleans!
David Sirota: Congressional Democrats are now saying they will effectively thwart any effort to create a national health care program.
Threat Level: A federal court in Illinois has ruled that citizens will be able to learn if they are on the government's sprawling and error-prone terrorist watch list.
The Pump Handle: The Union of Concerned Scientists surveyed 1,586 scientists at the EPA. Unsurprisingly--if you've been paying attention-- they found that 889 of those scientists (60%) personally experienced at least one incident of political interference during the past five years
Thought Theater: Yes to tax cuts and loopholes - No to Fair Pay legislation
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: RaceWire. happening-here?, Bad Attitudes, Senate Guru
Murdoch "Lackey" suggest Americans should start stockpiling food.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120881517227532621.html
I know this is off topic, but please--do we have to get Arianna in the face when we visit? I'm a dem, and I think she's just as ridiculous now as when she was a republican-beard wife. Her website is the new yellow journalism. How 'bout ditching her ad off to the side, or off the page-even better. Just a comment.
Stocks decline as consumer confidence falls to 26-year low.
AP - 51 minutes ago
But we're winning over there! The Surge is working! And we will wallow in it all for the same reason a hog spends most of its life knee deep in shit. It believes it has no other choice, it has plenty of company, and doesn't know any other way of life.
pickles @ 2:
I don't even believe she's involved with day to day operations anymore since a former AOL exec (partner) is basically calling all the shots and running the show.
While I was watching this YouTube clip from a Bill Moyers program on John Hagee, I was stunned to see John McCain refer to our nation's capital as "Satan's City"
Wow. These are not words from a nut job pastor, these are words from the mouth of a possible future president. Satan's City. That sound remarkably like something the Iranians might say. How can a U.S. Senator refer to Washington D.C. as Satan's City? Does he hate America?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaXs8MdmXWY&feature=related McCain's comment appears at 5:08 in the clip
L.A. Confidential @ 1:
Yeah, a food panic just what the companies would love. While food is at an all time high in cost, get everyone to go out and pay those highest prices on as much of it as they can afford and haul home. Then the msm will say see, we have a food shortage.
L.A. Confidential @ 1:
That's a good idea at anytime.
But as the quantity of food per capita seems to be in a long term decline, this will only buy you a little time.
But I can see from the tone, that he is making his appeal from an investment perspective.
The alternative I recommend, doesn't have the same numbers pizazz. And that is to start a victory garden. And if you calculate hours worked in a home garden against food values, then your hourly rate probably falls far short of your normal workday income.
Maybe though, next year I can trade 3 lbs of tomatoes for five gallons of gasoline?
pissed off patricia @ 5:
That aspect of the piece, occurred to me also PoP. :)
On another blog, I read the story of a day trader that brags he bought 500lbs of rice.
Why? How many hungry mouths is he feeding? Does he really like rice? Does he intend to resell it during a food shortage? How long does he think it'll last before his place is crawling with little black beetles?
pissed off patricia @ 5:
John Stewart put it best: "People are limited to buying only 80 pounds of rice, which is 60 pounds more than what they needed."
Of course I'll plead cultural ignorance on this. I do eat rice one or twice a week, but I can't imagine for those that consider rice a staple to their diet how much they need in a week. Of course I'll be singing a different tune if there was ever a shortage of Cinnamon Frosted Pop Tarts.
pickles @ 2:
The way that guy in the Homeland Security ad keeps staring at me... and me without my passport!
Weaseldog @ 7:
I either read or heard about that too. It's insane. Does he plan to scalp rice to his friends and neighbors? Nice guy, huh? We eat rice about once ever other week. I could live without it.
As for growing my own vegetables, the last time I grew tomatoes, I figured out they cost me about three bucks per tomato. With all the organic bug spray, fertilizer, mulch and water plus my own time. I can grow plants, flowers and herbs like crazy, but vegetables not so much.
This stocking up food reminds me of when we get hurricane warnings down here. Everyone rushes out and buys up loads of bread. Don't they realize all that bread is going to be stale in just a few days? And it will all expire at the same time.
Oil prices jump on report US ship fired on Iranian vessel.
12 minutes ago
No! You don't say!!!!
Off we go into the wild blue yonder profits high into the sky!
Bush says rebates going out Monday should help economy
AP - 46 minutes ago
Oh wow Mr. Bush thank you so much guy!!!! I see you had to wait till after every one paid their tax bills so you had the cash to keep ur promise what a GUY!!!!
Scarlet here again, cruising around southern california:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2008/04/recent-works.html
the first one's been seen close to a million times by now... cost me a dime.
L.A. Confidential @ 11:
AAaaah!!!1
Bad news overload!
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
You can pretty much rest assured that Wal-mart will see an increase in business over the next two months. Some or maybe a lot of people will take that check and head out to Wal-mart to buy some new crap that was made in China. In that case, the big financial winner will be China.
Those checks aren't going to go as far now as when he first announced them. Everything has gotten much more expensive over that time.
pissed off patricia @ 10:
I grow mine with no bug spray, I fertilize with some chicken poop that my hens graciously provide. I mulch with partially composted leaves and grass that my neighbors leave on the curb for me. The only real pests i have to deal with is tobacco hornworms and squash bugs. My chickens go ape over a hand full of those big green monsters. This year I'm getting a shop vac, to vacuum the squash bugs up with, so I don't wipe out my spiders and lizards.
I found that planting a variety of plants close together, slightly reduces the yield per plant, but the yield per square foot is still good. And the close planting gives shelter to predators.
My garden will soon be a thicket, full of toads, mantids, spiders and several species of lizards.
The current organic craze, is just as consumeristic as any other modern craze. For tens of thousands of years, people gardened organically without bottles of fish emulsion, garlic pepper juice or any other expensive commercial solutions.
And you got off cheap, I've had people tell me they spent $50 each for the few tomatoes they grew. :)
Would cashing my rebate check and placing the dough under my mattress be considered an "economic stimulus"?
I know it's not the best way to invest dollars, but it would help my sagging mattress.
re David Sirota:
Oh, right, things will be MUCH better when the DEMOCRATS run everything. Facing the prospect of ACTUALLY gaining the presidency and congress, the Democrats are now telegraphing how they will maintain the status quo: capitulate to the minority...some more.
"Oh, well, of course YOU AND I know that a national health care system is what we need, but there's some Republican dog catcher in some district somewhere that will call me gay if I say that in mixed company, so, we're just going to give a few billion to the insurance companies and see what they come up with instead! And remember: we are the party of the people!"
And here come DNC apologists to explain why the people's agenda is never quite compelling enough to actually implement but how we have to keep supporting these clowns because of caucus caucus caucus blockus in three...two...one...
WTF is it going to TAKE to wake people up?
Do we have to seriously endure a collapse of our "just in the nick of time" production and distribution system?
Wasn't Katrina enough proof of Bush Co's commitment?
JasonS @ 17:
That rose is losing it's bloom JasonS. I think the people are becoming disgusted with the Democratic Party leadership.
I can't even seem to bait anyone anymore, into arguing that a Republican running as a Democrat is better than a Republican running as a Republican. Most are feeling burned by the leadership that has changed sides after running on a platform as the party of change. They didn't tell us that the change we would see, is their transformation into Republican lap dogs.
Even the die hard Nancy Pelosi fan, 'Paul in LA' seems to have lost his zeal.
Nobody can fix this. It will have to burn itself out. Just try to stay away from the flames.
We will hit Iran, then Syria, bring back the draft and plunge into the nightmare of a Greater Depression. Our course is set. Are you ready for Perestroika on steroids?
Nobody Asked Me, But...
OT: Limbaugh "Dreams" of Riots in Denver
This fat bag of shit needs to be taken off the air.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15980105/detail.html
Weaseldog @ 20:
I sometimes wonder if Pelosi wasn't invited to a political retreat which ended up actually being an MK Ultra facility where she was give a lobotomy.
"Congressional Democrats are now saying they will effectively thwart any effort to create a national health care program."
A bunch of us have been saying for some time now that it's past time to clean House and the Senate of these career politicians who take and take and take and take etc..............................................
British singer Amy Winehouse has been arrested in London on suspicion of assault.
When are people going to admit this poor girl is one seriously fu*ked up person and shouldn't be rewarded let alone encouraged to continue on her path of self destruction.
Does her label and management even give a sh*t? Or are they just going to milk her for everything they can until she drops dead?
The systematic assault of the Bushies on basic governmental competence sometimes gets lost in the shuffle due to their more egregious crimes.
Hagee lied? I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. If I were him I certainly wouldn't be trying to hasten the last days. I don't think he would fare as well as he seems to think. That jackass is going straight down.
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