Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Monday Jan 26, 2009 8:00amPERRspectives: Internet non-savant McCain now opposes broadband expansion
Market Movers: About those Credit-Default Swaps
Corrente: Dems pull the Healthcare football again
d r i f t g l a s s: Kristol out on his ass?
The Grey Matter: John Thain, stimulus package, global warming, more
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Private Buffoon, American Nihilist, Democurmudgeon, illiterate Electorate
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I guess you presume Clyburn speaks for the whole Party? He himself says he doesn't know what Obama plans to present this year.
they should have did HR 676 right away before the K streeters got their talking points and ads ramped up
I wouldn't be surprised if this is true. But it may be a blessing in disguise. Of course, the insurance companies are going to do their utmost to game the system, corrupt as many more politicians as they possibly can and use the time to weaken any accountability measures that might appear in the intended corporate welfare system they are planning on arranging for themselves....but, it also gives us more time to build support for HR 676, to gain more co-sponsors for the bill and more time to raise awareness about the Bill. If the intervening time is used wisely, HR-676 may have more of a chance of passing, or of building a bloc of politicians and popular coalition that won't accept the same old same old. It could be a grace period useful for building momentum.
mcgramps probably thinks a broadband is the Andrews Sisters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfCFU3Mqww
He still doesn't get it - about technology and the future economy, I mean. Of course, during his campaign, when he said those things about the importance of the Internet/broadband access, etc., he had no idea what he was saying - just readin' some words printed on a page for him. Now, he's just trying to fit in again with his GOP buds. Too bad he didn't win >>>>>right?!!!
Or maybe it's that the GOPers realized that the only reason the MSM monopoly failed to deliver the election to McCain is because the intertubes diminished their monopoly powerand otherwise unchallenged control over all mass-consumed information. I expect that there will be sustained efforts at destroying internet neutrality in the coming few years, spearheaded by the GOP, in coalition with Bluedog and Corporatist Prostitute/Fascism Sympathizer "Democrats", also in collusion with not only the handful of corporations that control the MSM but with the handful of anti-liberty/democracy telecommunications companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast. Resistance to expanding broadband is a good opening move for that campaign. destroying all vestiges off public free speech and all remnant of function legitimate journalism is a must-achieve goal of the self-designated elites; so long as any avenue into the public's mind and opinions that they don't control exists, they have no hope of achieving their final objectives. Expect relentless attacks upon net neutrality, and expect many of them to be disguised as something oother than what they are.
...I don't trust any of the "politicians" on either end of the spectrum. No question there will continue to be attacks on our civil liberties, and limiting access to the Internet, particularly
for people who post on sites like C&L, is still way up on their to-do list. (I'm one of those "conspiracy theorists" dontcha' know?)
I was actually surprised that Cheney and Bush left quietly, and I wouldn't be surprised if Obama is somehow "forced" (maybe this
"economic downturn" will provide the excuse) to utilize some of those lovely unitary executive powers left behind.
the dems didn't pull the "healthcare football again", they never really put it out there to be kicked in the first place. it was a more in-depth arranging of the deck chairs on the titantic, but still just a shift of the deck chairs.
how many of those folks saying 'yes, we can' will remember when it should be clear to even they that: no you can't.
It is bait and switch, again and again.
I wasn't on that bus, or boat if you prefer.
Bandwagon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ySL71rxziE
from the NYT article here from your link here.
Too bad our corrupt congress didn't think of that before they shelled out $700 billion.
The NYT article states there is $30 trillion outstanding in the CDS market. $15 trillion is off setting, $15 trillion is not.
That means with the bail or bust (the US taypayer) mentality of the Fed and Treasury that they will try to pay off the entire $15 trillion. They have already committed over $8.5 trillion.
This $15 trillion is entirely consistent with what I have said all along.
The Times article is good but the horses are out of the barn.
This is a swindle of vast proportions.
paul craig roberts writes:
The trillions of dollars in credit default swaps (CDS) should be declared null and void. These “swaps” are simply bets that financial instruments and companies will fail, and the bulk of the bets are made by people and institutions that do not hold the financial instruments or shares in the companies. The ideology that financial markets were self-regulating allowed illegal gambling free rein. There is no reason under the sun for taxpayers to bail out gamblers.
help homeowners, not the gamblers.
...is the answer.
to run it into the ground fellas, never fear.
And we're going to be the ones in the soup lines, not them
One more argument about why all banks plus the "Federal" Reserve should be nationalized. they serve nobody but themselves, and they have the cash to corrupt the overwhelming majority of our politicians. They are anti-social parasites.
Thingys wat goes BOOM!
Helthkare not so much.
Get band ade or maybe kis it...
Criminal slut still walks, Moo!
Who's he being replace by, jonah snotbooger?
Still licks immoral AWOL's nuts ...
The Doughy Pantload?
It's the nepotism slot, stupid.
Kristol could fall into a barrel of titties
and come out sucking his thumb.
I dunno shite either, but I need the money more than Wee Willie Wanker
Where's these barrels o' titties you speak of?
Kristol out on his ass?
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I hope so.
That's odd
I heard krystol liked it in his ass.
http://www.uclick.com/client/nyt/ta/
from BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD65UKgB6hU&fe...
The Greg Palast piece on why John Thain should be Treasury Secretary is a riot.
But not to be outdone is the Nihilist's American Anthem Song of Blagojevich.
Is there any such thing as a conservative pundit who doesn't insult our intelligence?
As I wrote over at driftglass' place, Kristol will continue to inflict his blithe, violent mediocrity somewhere.
"Dems pull the Healthcare football again ..."
http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/wp-content/u...
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