Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Wednesday Oct 28, 2009 4:00amd r i f t g l a s s: Nobody left but the crazies (h/t Frank Chow)
Burnt Orange Report: Lawyers speaking out in response to Todd Willingham's "utterly disgraceful" trial attorney
Abu Maqawama: The most important article on Afghanistan you'll read this week
Open Left: A second fire has started on the public option fight, this time in the House.
TPMMuckraker: Pelosi's claim that the CIA misled her is validated by the House Intel Committee
The Satirical Political Report: Bush breaks the mold as a motivational speaker
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Hard to satirize that that satirizes itself...
That is a must read for everyone today....check out the article about Afghan 'president's' brother on CIA payroll...
"The C.I.A.’s practices also suggest that the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade, a major source of revenue for the Taliban."
Ya think? Wouldn't surprise me at all if US agri-chemical interests are supplying fertilizers and pesticides to increase opium yields.
Hey...they have to get that 'extra' funding somewhere...right???
The CIA funds a reputed narco trafficker whose brother happens to be the President of a Country the US has occupied for EIGHT YEARS!?!?
That President who has now recently admitted to election fraud!?!?
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that there is corruption going on here…
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Alfred W McCoy here
Americans will begin to understand that, since it's inception, the CIA has been the instigator and perpetrator of all the wonderful crap that has created the world we currently live in.
From insurrections, to torture, to drug smuggling, money laundering, assassinations, to wars, etc., if one digs deep enough, you'll find CIA operatives involved. And, let us not forget that GHWB was once a participant in and, eventually, Director of this glorious organization.
When the real history of post WWII is written, you will find his fingerprints on everything!!
First day of Senate climate bill hearings: what really happened? - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-27-the-b...
Tuesday's hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- the first of three days of hearings on the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill -- didn't contain any big surprises. Senators generally played their appointed roles. However, David Roberts hashes out the four most notable stories that emerged.
Baucus is a moron, anyone else want to contend that???
USA isn't #1 in anything except stupidity anymore: Deal-Breaker for Climate-Change Treaty May Be U.S. - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206011...
Obama may send empty-handed envoys in December to the table in Copenhagen where 192 countries will try to assign emissions reductions because Congress has given him no mandate. With the 27-nation European Union, Japan and Australia ready to pledge cuts of more than 20 percent only if other nations follow suit, the stage is set for promises to collapse.
“How can we expect other major players to move their position until they know that in the end the U.S. is also going to deliver?” Hedegaard, chairwoman of the UN talks running from Dec. 7-18, said in an interview. The possible domino effect, along with a continuing split between the U.S. and China, erode chances for a strong treaty, negotiators and political scientists say. “It is unlikely that an agreement which would be meaningful is going to be finalized” in the Danish capital, Robert Stavins, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in an interview.
Un-f@#%ing believable.... Greed is god in this 'nation'... And to all the Extinctionist scumbags out there....I'll tell you where to shove your stupidity...and your inevitably moronic 'love it or leave it' BS...Progressives stay in this country because we want it to have a functional brain, and not fall to pieces with your 13th century hocus pocus ideology ruining the show...
The Best Climate Change Articles Written by Sitting US Senators - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/best-...
MORE MONEY PLEASE: Obama's Big Smart Grid Stimulus: $3.4 Billion Going to 100 Projects - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/obama...
60% of Americans Now Support Cap and Trade - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/ameri...
The support of the Independents is important to note--the fact that they're leaning green bodes well for energy policy reform prospects.
As I was saying above: Why Growing Income Inequality Is Bad for America - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/...
"(G)rowing income inequality is a cancer that is attacking both the economy, and the social and political fabric of our society. A look at economic history makes several things clear. ... The creation of a democratic society, built on egalitarian principles, is the only real systematic means of assuring that the interests of the entire society are not sacrificed to those of powerful elites."
See the top 1%ers & 'captains of industry' don't care about the middle class/working class (they could care less if we go bye bye) because they've set up shop overseas...they're trying to wholesale consumerism in other nations to ravage a new 'base'.... Don't ever think for one second that a corporation has your 'best interests' at heart, its all about the bottom line...which is why its absolutely insane to trust them with anything.... merry-go-round boards, executives, etc, etc...
Robert Reich: Too Big to Fail: Why The Big Banks Should Be Broken Up, But Why The White House and Congress Don't Want To
- http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/10/too-b...
They have their $hit together: EU breaking up mega bank to stop 'too big to fail' problem - http://www.americablog.com/2009/10/eu-breakin...
MUST READ: Corporations, government are dehumanizing us - http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2009/10/corpora...
Sibel Edmonds' new blog: Welcome to Boiling Frogs Post - http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/
Research and communications arm: Cluster Fox Noise is home to GOP in exile - http://mediamatters.org/research/200910260005...
Reid’s Opt-Out: The Devil is In the Details - http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/26/r...
State legislature and governor’s approval required for opt-out The following ten state legislatures are fully controlled by Republicans and the state also has a Republican governor: AZ, FL, GA, ID, NE, ND, SC, SD, TX, UT. If the opt out required approval by both the legislature and governor roughly 71 million people (23% of the population) live in state where they would be denied the public option.
More stats at the link above...
Jim Hightower: Investors Get Theirs, Workers Get Stiffed - http://jimhightower.com//node/6964
When you put out con-servative rags: A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades - http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/a-graphic-histo...
Its by design...the people interested in newspapers won't want them anymore...hence the 4th estate becomes even more marginalized and idiocracy takes hold...which is music to the ears of con-servatives & the power republican families...
A small step toward the 21st century: Obama to Sign Hate Crimes Bill Wednesday - http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/...
In Deadliest Month, 53 U.S. Troops Die in Afghanistan - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/...
We need to end this charade....end the geopolitical energy endgame....bring these men & women home....no more blood for corporate profits...
Nancy Pelosi Tries a Little Framing, And It's Good: Call the Public Option the Consumer Option. Smart and True. - http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/10/27/polit...
Secretary Of The Army: Military Ready To Lift Ban On Openly Gay Service - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/secr...
Well why not....we're in the 21st century now...might as well take another step to join it...
Con-servatives say the CIA doesn't lie (except when its about climate change being a national security issue) Update: Brother of Afghan President Is on C.I.A. Payroll, Officials Say. Just Grand, Ain't It? - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/...
Obama was here in FL yesterday to promote FPL's new solar facility in Arcadia--largest in the country.
Conspicuously absent--Gov. Charlie Crist. So much for bipartisanship...
Bipartisanship....its basically the scapegoat of a spineless democratic majority
Crist said he wasn't aware the President was in Fla. That has to be a lie because the state and security must surely be notified when the President visits a state.
Charlie is just pandering to the right wingers now that he's running for Senator.
Looks like he's finally becoming the 'Thug the Party wants him to be.
Bush has always been a motivational speaker - he always motivated me to do and think ugly things about him and his party.
After the 2000 'selection', seriously...how many progressives were absolutely blasted into action after this travesty...
We were already unhappy with Bill Clinton con-servative Wall Street brigade dampening our hopes...this set off the firestorm of political action...
Bush motivated those with functional brains to wake up and fight the con-servative wars on Science, reality, and reason... and ONLY for that...we thank him.
Do NOT support the market based Cap and Trade shenanigans.
This will lead to more market manipulation and skullduggery than it will carbon dioxide reduction.
A carbon tax is the only viable solution.
A list of supporters by group, here
boosh was in Texas the other day for motivational speeches.
Tickets went as low as $4.95.
But I haven't heard how many people even paid that much.
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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/27/bush-3500...
At least for $3.99/minute, most phone sex operators will give you a happy ending...
paid Bush, but they got their money's worth in all the free publicity he generated for them through television news coverage.
If ysbaddaden and fastfeat are right about the comparative price of a ticket and parking, I would say the parking fees were a more useful expenditure compared to the value of listening to Bush at any price.
I have never been a big fan of trying to use derogatory puns with people's names in critiquing them, but Chimpy McMonkeyass,
as used by Col. Kilgore below, is a favorite.
Do you have even the slightest clue about how those motivational seminars operate?
You really think that $4.95 is all that the line-up of Bush, Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Terry Bradshaw and many others could command? Bush and his booking agents have nothing to do with ticket prices. He gets paid for the appearance and a speech at one of these motivational symposiums that's being run by someone he knows very well. You're trying to make him out into the next Tony Robbins, and your cluelessness is humorous.
if tickets were sold at $4.95 per, some entrepreneur must have determined that that's the price the market would bear, no?
Granted, all seats probably weren't sold at $4.95; seats waaay in the back probably commanded top prices...
I think it's the same troupe that comes to my town once a year. I've never gone but I've always wondered why such a big line-up of popular celebrities, politicians and top name motivational speakers only commanded such a low entry fee, but after reading the article in the WaPo about Bush's speaking engagement, the idea is to get as many people as possible and then sell them the motivational materials after that. Sort of like the razor blades and copier business, where the razors and the copiers cost relatively little, but you pay through the nose for the blades and the copier ink. Not exactly the same marketing approach, but you get the idea.
thanks for dropping back in at C&L so we can all become 'enlightened' through your eloquent and very deep explanations about how the marketing universe operates.
"Do you have even the slightest clue....???
She's just a fearful, short-sighted political animal who wasn't willing to uphold our system of government and hold the Bush regime accountable to law.
She better damn well ramrod the wedge of a public option pushing us toward universal health care to atone for her greater sins when impeachment was removed from the table.
and repeatedly drive over him on yesterday's show. I guess Newt is supporting the Conservative Party candidate over the 'Thug Party candidate (or vice-versa? Whatever...) in NY, much to Mikey's chagrin.
The whole dissolution of these a-holes is rather entertaining.
I am truly ashamed that any Canadian would pay to hear Chimpy Mc Monkeyass spew his war criminal lies. Harper would ban his passage here if he wasnt so caught up in trying to be the next Karl Rove. One thing worth noting though is the security in Montreal. They were proportionate in numbers , didnt beat on the protestors or blast them with sonic weapons ala Pittsburgh. I guess first amendment rights aren't completely dead here yet. Stay tuned.
That race is fun to watch. The conservative candidate doesn't seem to know his ass from a hole in the ground, plus Palin supports him. Steele was on tv this morning and he supports the republican candidate. I believe they are testing the theory that a house divided cannot stand.
They quote a Texas Monthly writer:
"Willingham's trial lawyer David Martin is such a caricature of what people think of Texans that I was mortified watching it. Haven't we been the posterior region of enough jokes this year....For one, Martin is wearing a cowboy hat that's about to fall off his head. And two, the guy's drunk as a Honduran skunk."
Leaving aside the fact that Texas Monthly is itself a caricature worthy of an SMU sorority shopping spree, I admire the non-native Texan's writing skills. But, for one, real Texans appreciate the authenticity of the hat Martin was wearing. And two, you'd have to
never set foot out of Nieman Marcus to think someone could tell when a skunk is drunk, no matter where the critter got born.
Jon Daily and Colbert had fun with bush's speaking engagement last night. Plus they gave a little background on the couple who set the whole shindig up.
Lurking thought – “Why isn’t Bush in jail?”
His motivational speech should be written on toilet paper and stuck to the wall of his cell with toothpaste,
Now you will see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb.
-Dark Helmet
The older you get the more greedy and ruthless you become. It becomes easy to "buy" people.
Boy, the CIA sure look good in the roundup, huh?
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