Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Tuesday Jun 16, 2009 7:00amLegal Schnauzer: The criminal prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman is perhaps the best known case that apparently was infected with judicial bias. But recent news about cases that orginated in West Virginia and Georgia indicate the problem is widespread and difficult to combat.
Wonk Room: McCain reminds us of the bullet we...kinda dodged last November, and Obama takes Dennis Ross out of the diplomatic kitchen
The Baseline Scenario: The Geithner/Summers proposals for financial regulation lay the foundation for another financial crisis
Nashville Is Talking: GOP state senator's aide circulates racist image of Obama
Mad Kane: Don't Ask, Don't Tell...Just Sign!
Collateral News: Medical Marijuana
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Also at the Baseline Scenario from Simon Johnson
President Obama’s Regulatory Reforms Announcement: A Viewer’s Guide
here
Break the banks up. Send the crooks to the hoosegow.
Too big to fail is too big to exist.
Too big to jail is too much to tolerate.
Alice,
Thanks for all your links to the financial crisis. I followed it very closely for the last year and a half, and I have been aware of the crookedness of large banks since I opened my first account in the 80's.
However, I became so sick of what I was reading, how bad the problem is and how very far we are from any real solutions (ie recent BS credit card reform), I had to stop. I already have major issues with the workplace and discovering the monetary system is so f*cked up as well really takes away one's incentive to participate.
“The chickens are coming home to roost.”
Like Bush, Obama fights to keep White House visitor logs secret
To the dismay of many liberal activists, President Barack Obama appears to be siding with former President George W. Bush again. This time, he's calling on a federal judge to prevent the disclosure of Secret Service logs which detail visitors' treks to the White House.
Party's over.
He needs his war called “Overseas Contingency Operations,” which should cause the Bush spin-meisters to blush with envy.
No shortage of laughs observing the MSM shills still trying to bamboozle people into thinking . . .
Everything is Great Again! Gas up ur' car for some Happy Motoring!
Where is Dinah Shore singing?
"See the USA, in your Chevrolet"
catch ya later
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/0...
McCain needs to seriously STFU. We all know well he thinks things out before reacting. Not. What does he want the President to do now, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran?
..when talking about the possibility that McCain might have been the POTUS, is a highly accurate statement.
You can say that again....not only about McCain, but also about Palin. If that woman ever were to get elected to POTUS, I'd seriously think about renouncing my citizenship and leaving the country!
These asshats were callin for the destruction of Iran mere months ago...now they're all "concerned" about the Iranian citizens.
Total hypocrites, every last one.
Since my edit button left me when there was a reply to my comment, I shall edit it here. The second sentence should read, We all know how well he thinks things out before reacting.
Somewhere in cyberspace my "how" fell off.
If you are getting a little pissy with President Obama, just remember how you felt about even the prospects of McCain and Palin getting the keys to the white house. That thought is still a nightmare to me.
I hear you Patricia, but sometimes I try to imagine what McCain and Palin would have done differently than Obama?
This is not meant to be a snarky remark, nor am I implying they would have been "better". But I still wonder, what would be the key decision and policy differences between those two?
curtilingus...we'd now be at war with Iran, and possibly North Korea...
And if those two had won..we'd be in a theocracy now.
I don't see too much evidence for the wars. McCain hasn't had rhetoric that was anymore heated than Obama, and if his position was not to negotiate with Ahmadinejad, he could have been right with a wait and see approach.
Almost forgot about the re-embracing of evangelicals by the repubs though. I just look at the two parties as increasingly indiscernible and both of them damaging to our country.
Does Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran sound familiar?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg
Obama is sworn to defend Israel as well. I think you and I agree we shouldn't be in the middle east. My belief is either candidate is just as capable of getting us into a war there or continuing a commitment which we should not have. Whether that commitment is keeping the region stable so our gas can stay low (excuse me while I gag) or defending another nation which is perfectly capable of defending themselves.
Q: How many nukes does it take to turn the middle east into a piece of glass?
A: As many as Israel has.
Also, remember:
1. In response to American cigarettes being a top export to Iran, McCain "joked", well, that's one way of killing them.
2. McCain had Randy Scheunemann as a foreign policy advisor. Scheunemann is a neocon, former member of PNAC. In short, he is a war monger. In an editorial, even Pat Buchanan severely criticized McCain for employing this neocon, asking if what McCain wanted was "never ending war."
3. McCain said he did not want to talk with our enemies....big mistake. Even if Obama's outreaches to the likes of Iran fail, at least that shows the rest of the world that we tried.
I'm sure I could find other examples.
we'd have quite a few more oil rigs fouling up the ocean in the gulf and off the coast of florida.
Environmental regulations would be stripped back so far they'd make bushies attempt at repealing them look like childs play.
My governor Arnie was talking about drilling off the California coast anyway, to bring in revenues for the state. Not sure what Obama will do, or can do to stop that. More evidence that there doesn't seem to be a difference who is in power.
But I think you're right.
The Ds and Rs are just two fangs from the mouth of the same serpent.
The challenge before us is breaking the stranglehold of the corporations.
This is an excellent piece
By Tom Engelhardt
here
read the entire thing
we have the same CIA
the same national security state, even more so
the same Military Industrial Complex
the same pernicious for profit insurance health and drug INDUSTRY
the same financial Oligarchs
the same 'ole same 'ole
the same converging catastrophes of climate change and peak oil. here
but BO does give good speeches
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Here is a good essay by Chris Hedges from Nov 3 2008
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Who will be our future champion?
The Greens? here
the greens may be the future but obama is the transition. BO gives good speeches is an underestimated virtue. i do believe the green revolution is upon us as i'm a believer that
that we are going to see some serious lifestyle changes sooner than later. the system doesn't
allow drastic change without drastic/catastrophic events. people with criticism of obama have some justification but i still believe some think in ideal terms. there is and has been too much money in washington. these special interests groups are two to three steps ahead of everyone as a strategy like a game of chess. i also have concerns as i read that projects like high speed trains may not have the proper funding so they could fail. of course that has been the strategy by corporations/capitalist for years make government projects fail/inefficient especially to the everyday public. maybe i need to consider the glass half empty instead but this seems to be transition time. i understand the urgency but i also understand the behavior of sheep when you yell fire in the theatre.
See my comment here
Especially good is the Henry Blodget piece (it takes a thief to know one)
for me this is much bigger than obama. the u.s. government/others haved ruled by an ochlocracy for many many years. greed and corruption is very sophisticated and has global interconnectedness ie. IMF,world bank and wallStreet. i was disappointed with the MTM ruling(mark to market) but wasn't surprised. the oligarchs/financial elites weren't going to
take full full risk/consequences. the timing of this was uncanny to some.to me it was a strategy to take "we the people" even more out of the system. the financial elite have us on the ropes. they have/are constructing a co-dependency on foreign markets by weakening the u.s. middleclass. all for profit margin. they knew this "housing bubble" was coming they prolonged it. the empire can't be stopped by it's own people. even if obama is too aggressive it could be trouble.
expecting a politician to live up to his promises and words is being pissy?
you are right though, obama is far better than a mccain/palin administration would be. also, being smacked is better than being punched.
Repo PAC
The best the republican party can do? Why are our Congressmen and women yeilding ground to these fools?
Instead of commenting on the Medical marijuana link, which is quite good, I will instead smoke some of my own medical marijuana.
My doctor says I have to smoke pot in order to get high.
is withholding info from you...you can also ingest it and get high.
I do that from time to time. And I also have a vaporizer. But nothing beats a smoking good joint.
And nuthin beats a two joint high.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQBU8HC8PWM&fe...
what does everybody think about a country that is constantly described as being undemocratic and having it's citizens being controlled by tyrants exhibiting more examples of democracy than america?
it would appear that the people being controlled by tyrants are better at expressing democratic ideals and practicing it than in our own supposedly democratic country.
you gotta wonder when more people show up to protest in a country controlled by despots than in one owns country.
does anybody really wonder why our democracy is failing and if so why? and does anybody care?
Good piece on Amos Elon.
I went to the THC convention in Los Angeles this weekend and wow what a booming business the marijuana industry is. It could have the same effect as the dot.com industry on our economy. P.S. the women there weren't too bad either wow.
n/t
http://www.thcexpo.com/
warning high volume on video in link.
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