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By Mike Finnigan Monday Aug 11, 2008 10:00amMediaBloodhound: The Ivins anthrax case is yet another black eye for Network News
Martini Revolution: I wonder if all the rightwigers who give sole credit to Ronald Reagan with winning the Cold War will blame Bush and his epic failure of leadership in losing the post-Cold War? Now, John McCain wants to compound the blunder! If McCain's speech had been part of a college term paper, he'd have flunked.
EconoSpeak: Who are the Ossetians?
Corrente: We need Health Care, not Health Insurance
The Pump Handle: Anthrax is in the news but which bacteria should we fear?
How Appealing: Juror: "Hamdan didn't seem like an Al Qaida warrior."
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Money for nothing and your chicks for free.
I wonder what the reservation percentage for hotel rooms the Republican Convention is?
Last night Keith O. said they were $10,000,000 short on funds for the convention, (I'm sure the Bush's could get the Saudis to pony up for it). I wonder if they'll have a full house.
No wonder they're praying it rains in Denver.
Insurance is the problem - not the solution.
Over 100 anthrax samples have the same DNA as Ivins type.
Russia orders halt to military action.
What? You mean Russia isn't going to turn this into a Bush style quagmire "war that won't end in our lifetimes" scam so everyone in it's military industrial complex can get rich off the backs of their citizens?
Hamdan probably didn't seem like a terrorist, because he probably wasn't and has never been one. Not many drivers know their boss' personal and private business.
The Ivins anthrax case is yet another black eye for Network News
black eye? only wussies stop when they have given a shiner.
ya see, the right is willing to push the msm to the point where their pain is equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.
so, black eyes are acceptable in the push for the "truth"*
*sponsored by: coca cola
Hey, does Georgia have a McDonald's? if so, then Thomas Friedman's assertion that countries that have McDonalds never attack each other has been disproven.
Ivins, Hamdan -- patsies all over the place.
U.S. of A. -- RIP.
Mike! thanks for the link to my Corrente post!
Krugman is a great guy, but he could not be more wrong about this.
It isn't just the antibiotics that cows get at feedlots, it is the growth hormones, too. Because of this our family rarely eats beef and then only organic. And we never, never eat hamburg. I personally would rather play Russian roulet a la Deer Hunter</em than eat the carcasses of a thousand cows thrown together into the grinder.
i found this yesterday in a thinkprogress comment thread. thought it might give some of you a mordant laugh.
it's just too bad that reagan's opinion of junior couldn't have been known and exploited in 1999.
Corrente: We need Health Care, not Health Insurance
Obama's "plan" is MORE insurance, innit?
Obama's just as sold out to the insurance industry as any other National pol. He cannot and will not offend them and their money...Nagahapun, and it doesn't matter the Congressional make-up if there aren't sufficient Dims to balance the Bush/Blue-dawgs...To install a USer "National Health Service" would require that a deadly blight afflict and wipe out all, but only, the insurance company execs, lobbyists, sycophants, and their hangers-on...
Mukasey: No prosecutions in Justice hiring scandal
Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Tuesday said former Justice Department officials will not face prosecution for letting improper political considerations drive hirings of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2008-08-12_D92GQN6O0&show_articl...
Unsalted @ 8:
Actually, there's about a thousand McDonalds in Russia, probably a lot fewer in Georgia...
harley @ 14:
Of COURSE not. What on earth did you expect?
Fuckin' terminal naivete to believe otherwise.
The same kind of naivete that imagines Obama will gain the ShiteHouse: The Bosses feel good enough that Obama, a Kneegrow, has got the nomination. That alone is enough to obtain a PR break from the rest of the world. To actually install him in the SHiteHouse?
Wouldn't be prudent...
McCain Health Care Plan
http://tinyurl.com/6jh2xq
woody, tokin librul @ 16:
The democrats approved/rubber stamped Mukasey's nomination.
Feinstein and Schumer were cheerleaders for him.
Unsalted@8
yeah that one was obliterated in kosovo
friedman has been proven wrong enough times that it is actually easier to point out where he has been right.
another oldie but goody--
F.U. (friedman unit): time equal to 6 months in the future
MediaBloodhound: The Ivins anthrax case is yet another black eye for Network News
This was an excellent piece!
Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/11/up_to_2_000_killed_as from 08/11/2008:
Up to 2,000 Killed as Russia-Georgia Fighting Enters Fourth Day [Excerpt]
AMY GOODMAN: And the significance of the pipeline that is there?
COL. SAM GARDINER: Well, the United States, beginning about ten years ago, obviously saw the vulnerability of the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf. So the United States pushed very hard to set up a pipeline that went from Baku in Azerbaijan, taking out the Caspian Sea oil, to a port in Turkey, Ceyhan. That oil pipeline carries about one percent of the world’s oil supply.
Two weeks ago, that pipeline was blown up in a Turkish area by the Kurdish rebels that the Turks are fighting. There were reports that the Russians had bombed this over the weekend. Reports this morning, however, say—suggest that there hasn’t been an interruption, except that Azerbaijan has shut off flow in the pipeline. So this interferes with a major flow of oil to the economies of the West. It’s an important source of the oil flow.
As I wrote over Corrente, that's some selective reading of Krugman. Krugman's other pieces on health care and The Conscience of a Liberal show that of course he knows the difference betweeen health care and health insurance. Krugman's been one of the most prominent voices pointing out, for just one example, that the British system was rated better than the American one by the U.N. and cost 40% less. He's essentially arguing for Edwards' approach as a political strategy. It's fair to say that this specific column doesn't explain all of that, and doesn't highlight the difference between health care and health coverage, but the author seems to ignore that even in this column, Krugman extols the virtues of universal health care, and writes that "single-payer would be more efficient than a system that preserves a role for private insurance companies." Krugman's talking about a political strategy in our current political climate, as he often has in the past. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with him on strategy, of course, but it'd be nice if the poster took the time to consider Krugman's other writings and addressed them, or at least addressed all of what he says in this one column. Calling him a "defeatist" is pretty weak, especially given apparent agreement with Krugman on other key points.
In contrast, the Elizabeth Warren piece is fantastic.
<blockquote>There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with him on strategy, of course, but it'd be nice if the poster took the time to consider Krugman's other writings and addressed them, or at least addressed all of what he says in this one column. Calling him a "defeatist" is pretty weak, especially given apparent agreement with Krugman on other key points.
I don't think it's a requirement to consider a writer's entire body of work before being critical of them. I like Krugman, too. I also like giving some space to a variety of of liberal opinion.
Mickey Finn @ 24L: You're right, and I'm not arguing that the poster needs to read all of Krugman, but the poster selectively excerpted that specific Krugman piece. As I wrote in my comment, it's fine to disagree with Krugman, of course - but misrepresenting him and calling him a "defeatist" is weak (as several commenters over there took issue with that charge, actually).
BTW, the poster, DCblogger, has an interesting followup linked in the comments about states trying out single-payer systems.
This is a long forgotten angle on the Anthrax mystery from 2002
Puzzle; supposedly the bio weapons experts coundnt replicate the exact 'beyond military grade' coated anthrax.
Solution; It was done with a $100,000 industrial production line food mixer, a machine that makes pancake mixes and similar coated mix powders.
liquids go in one side and the machine drys, grinds down to 1 micron and coats the resulting powder mix.
two page article from 2002
this also means there could be a large batch of Anthrax sitting around somewhere, and or a very evidence rich machine awaiting collection by the feds.
Blame Bush for losing the post-cold-war? Bull. Na. Gah. Happen. Everyone knows CLINTON lost it.
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