December 19, 2009 05:00 AM
Mike's Blog Round Up
Zina Saunders: Kicked to death
Pushing Rope: Florida GOP appointed officials use "pancake and waffles" code in emails to avoid Sunshine Laws? Were the pancakes served with carbon dioxide? Yum.
Wait. Is Bill Kristol getting his column ideas from Wonkette? I guess they're Not Part of the Problem.
It's been a rough year for Tiger Woods, but he's still bringing home at least one more trophy. Congrats!
And speaking of awards, Susie Bright is a Golden Dukes judge this year: "the Dukes honor excellence in public corruption, betrayals of the public trust, and generally shameless behavior." You can nominate your favorites at her comment thread here.
Mike's away this weekend. Round up by Blue Gal.
G.I.'s in Iraq Hope to Heal Sacred Walls
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
The United States Army hopes to restore St. Elijah's Monastery, an ancient site of Christian worship stuck in the middle of a base in northern Iraq.
Some stuff you can't make up!
I wonder how many Mosques the U.S. Army was ordered to rebuild?
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
that they destroyed or defaced be on that list?
Some stuff you can't make up!
Dems pressing hard for health reform passage
Dec 18: Rachel Maddow is joined by Sen. Mark Begich to talk about whether the Democrats can unite to overcome the Republican obstruction of the health reform bill.
[They are showing a spine(?) so they can pass a corporatist/fascist your-fucking-is-mandatory bill, all the while telling the left to shutthefuckupandtakeit because wedon'tgiveashitthatyouelectedus]
Some stuff you can't make up!
Senator Reports Progress in Talks on Health Bill
By ROBERT PEAR and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Senator Ben Nelson said that he and Democratic leaders had made "real progress" in negotiations on abortion, but there was no final agreement.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Olbermann goes to town.
and funny to boot!
Some stuff you can't make up!
Executive at Barclays Defends Pay
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
Robert E. Diamond Jr. said that high performance, not greed, was behind his big paydays.
Some stuff you can't make up!
From your link:
He [Diamond] reminded the crowd that Barclays solved its financing problems by reaching out to private investors and not the government, and also referred to two deals that he was largely responsible for.
“We are a stronger bank today than we were,” he continued. “We are more valuable to the U.K. today than we were, and we didn’t take any direct government money and we weren’t a burden to the taxpayers.”--in other words, "If we weren't to big to fail before, we are now"
OH REALLLLLY?
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc has filed a lawsuit against Barclays Capital Inc alleging the British bank took control of excess assets in collusion with Lehman executives when it bought its U.S. brokerage business a year ago, court documents show.
Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Inte...
So,,, Mr Diamond's purchase of Lehmann's brokerage business last year is now the subject of a lawsuit this year--a lawsuit which is now effectively financed by the US taxpayer bailout of Lehmann's.
Mr. Diamond thinks he deserves a bonus for that?
and the kicker is this: “We are more valuable to the U.K. today than we were".
In other words, "If we weren't to big to fail then, we are now"
The New Perils of Pauline
By GAIL COLLINS
Has the health care bill been so abused by the various politicians who've held its fate in their hands that it's time to put it out of its misery?
Some stuff you can't make up!
"Finally we sealed a deal," Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said. "The 'Copenhagen Accord' may not be everything everyone had hoped for, but this decision ... is an important beginning."
Yesssireebob.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
the deal is nothing! no one actually agreed to it. Obama had to barge into a meeting uninvited because all the other countries knew he is a corporatist shill and not a leader. Andrea(below) says they all lied to the american staff and told our people that their people had already left. Obama had to chase them down. So much for the more articulate version of Bush.
Chavez ain't a friend no more
Lobbyists try to get a slice, too!
Dec. 18: Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent, describes President Obama's wild diplomatic wrangling in Copenhagen at the close of the climate conference.
Some stuff you can't make up!
There isn't an agreement there or a deal.
Well, there's an agreement to make another agreement,which, will lead to another agreement to make another agreement.
There is no deal. I realize that.
But the remark than Ban Ki Moon made sounds, like something I heard yesterday about HCR.
It's ok, it's a start. No really, it's a start. We'll come back and visit this down the road and improve on it.
I think it was Axlerod who said something like it.
I have to be honest, I said something very similar about the public option when it became obvious that single payer was out the window.
Now, the "strong" in public option has gone out the window .
Then the whole public option has gone out the window.
Then the mandate came in the window.
Fuck those people. This is bullshit. They won't get a dime out of me. I'd rather go to jail than give them the money they demand from me.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
the govt-corp duopoly has done a masterful job of luring the gullible, sheepish (present company excluded) electorate into a highly profitable corporate killing field.
I guess they could call this Kyoto 2.0 minus 1.
Though the consequences of climate-change obviously need to be mitigated with a coordinated global effort everyone is apparently demanding that someone "go first".
As pathetic ( and essentially criminal) as this state of affairs is, some countries have been making independent efforts, however small, to address the issue 'locally'--notably European countries whose governments still have some sense of collective social responsibility.
The US meanwhile has been kept behind thanks to the Bush years (which owes much to the Reagan years) and is STILL being kept behind by an insanely obstructionist GOP abetted by Blue Dogs and a weirdly sanguine President who is also horribly hamstrung by a political system largely controlled by lunatics (the GOP),unconscionable bastards (the corporatists), and pettifoggers (the Blue Dog Democrats)AND the exigent need to clean up the all the turds the Elephant Party has deposited on every surface in every room in the 'national house' before it can create the room and cleanliness needed to refurbish and rebuild.
WITHOUT global action, everyone is going to suffer, but IMHO some nations are going to suffer less than others because they have already been making an effort, however slight, and will continue to do so.
snow. Snow. SNOW. SNOW!
not sure where everyone is, but here in philly we are getting hosed with the death flakes. this is going to take a chunk out of our xmas-consuming-dependent economy.
send it on over (to NJ), Samson. It will pretty-up my ugly neighborhood for a while. :D
surprised y'all haven't been blasted yet. i've already had to go out 2xs already to clear the sidewalk/car (i think there is some sort of city ordinance about keeping one's sidewalks clear). the one time of year i am glad i don't have a driveway. i would hate to have to shovel such a beast.
Right now the snow appears to be lurking on the horizon (about 5 miles at my elevation).
I lived out in Morris County back in 93-94 when we got hit with 22 snow storms overall. I had a 50 foot driveway then which opened straight onto Highway 46.
The average depth of snow on my double-lot was 2--1/2 feet for about a month. After shoveling the driveway the snow where it joined the road was over 4 feet--then the plows would come by, and knock the piles back down into the driveway.
My neighbor opposite had a heart attack from shoveling snow like a maniac ( he survived it though). Though I was ten years younger I took my time--shovel half an hour, break for 15 minutes, shovel again and always maintained a consistent maximum load on the shovel.
Back in a city apartment I don't have to worry about that now, but it was a real education at the time. The Inuit describe "snow" about 33 ways--I think I learned on my own about 6 distinct types of snow from shoveling every other day for two months.
As pretty as snow is, the best place for it is still on mountains where it can be admired from a distance, skied-upon, and relied upon to melt slowly and gradually refresh rivers in the spring. I fear such pleasant aspects of winter weather may be a thing of the past now.
hm, is kristol really a 'human dildo'? i'm not totally sure he is human...
He's not a dildo either--he gives no private pleasure to either sex, he's not hilarious when appearing in public, his existence doesn't provide jobs, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't even threaten anyone's manhood.
Christmas week legislation like...oh, just for example...The Federal Reserve Act which was passed on December 23, 1913.
We're shocked, **SHOCKED** I tell you, that the golf-playing rake (whose handlers have spent more than 10 years leaning on the press to hide his raking) has been exposed as a rake! ***SHOCKED***!!!!!!
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