Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Friday Dec 12, 2008 8:00amvanityfair: Behind the debate over remaking U.S. financial policy will be a debate over who’s to blame. It’s crucial to get the history right, writes Nobel-laureate economist, Joseph Stigletz, identifying five key mistakes—under Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II—and one national delusion.
Firedoglake: Hysterical Rethuglican Demint predicts there will be 'riots' if the auto bailout passes
Whiskey Fire: Weasels
The Progressive Puppy: Fewer US executions - and a brief history of Capital Punishment
The Pump Handle: More delays on OSHA's long overdue crane rule, Hasn’t there been enough death and destruction from ill-sited, ill-constructed, ill-maintained and ill-operated cranes?
HOLY CRAP: It just gets better and better...Christians stole their holidays from pagans...Israeli conscientious objectors...Putting a cross into orbit...Obama should 86 this Christianist from the Pentagon...Gimme that Old-Time Religion... 'Chuckles' Colson...Kosher collapse...How would Jesus drive?...Pastor endorses warmongering...More on faith-based terror fightin'...Who will lead the GOP's religious wing?...The racist behind Bill O'Reilly's 'War on Christmas' bullsh*t...The FundamentaList...Richard Dawkins interviews Father George Coyne...Bringing automobiles to the alter...
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Once when I was at my wife's fundamentalist church (don't ask, and don't get me started) I almost died laughing when the preacher stared into his sermon on how "everyone wants to get in on Christmas" and he reached the part about how "Now the atheists have invented this secular holiday called the Winter Solstice." And I'm thinking (with apologies to David Vitter) "Dude, you've got it back asswards. Humans have been celebrating the Winter Solstice since the neolithic and the dawn of agriculture. Christmas is a syncretic appropriation of the winter solstice, not the other way around." But then that's pretty typical Bible scholarship for one of these churches.
it's called the "BuyBull."
Pre - xtian Germanic tribes brought a living tree into houses to give the tree spirits a warm place to stay for the winter solstice.
They hung treats from the branches for the spirits to eat.
Joseph Stiglitz in Vanity Fair:
The great fleecing of America.
Update:
Federal Reserve denies Bloomberg FOIA.
The Fed which has swapped CDOs and other liabilities onto to its balance sheet for massive loans, the original intent of the TARP and a function that is hard to see as its legal provence won't say where the $2 Trillion plus they have spent has gone.
There may well riots, but it will not be due to a bailout of the automakers.
Once the full force of the calamity that is heading our way is felt, the natives will be very restless.
With the help of CIA spotters, the Peruvian air force shot down 15 small civilian aircraft suspected of carrying drugs, in many cases without warning and within two to three minutes of being sighted, a U.S. lawmaker said Thursday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/11/wor...
but your CIA reference reminded me that i heard an ad very similar to this, on the XM LEFT/AirAmericaRadio channel the other day:
CIA Clandestine Service Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ThJ0wxKZnI
well, ok...
Christians also stole their day of worship from the Pagans. God commanded his followers to worship on the Sabbath, which is Saturday. Sunday was a pagan day of worship. In 300-something AD, Roman Emperor Constantine ruled that the Christian day of worship would also be on Sunday, to try and drive the Pagans out of their worship day. Thus, instead of worshipping on the day that God commanded, Christians worship on the day that Roman Emperor Constantine commanded them to worship on.
And no one thinks that Rahm Emmanuel has never played "Pay to Play" Hooey
http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/12/rahm-talked...
I read the Stigletz piece yesterday - great article, well worth checking out. Right on Iraq, right on this...
Demint was on NPR spewing some crazy crap, too, but not as wacky as his riot talk.
Bush just gave Colson a medal. The guy deserves some credit for his prison ministries, I suppose, but he was also spewing BS about gay marriage in support of Prop. 8, has written some pretty objectionable op-eds, and history should never forget his central role in the Watergate coverup.
Stiglitz also used to be the chief economic for the WB. he broke with those bastards and wrote the very interesing globalization and its discontents
obama should have tapped stiglitz for the treasury (no more rubiniacs)... imo
Is it just me, or does the "cross in the sky" thing sound very Tower-of-Babylonish? And will their "god" strike it down as idolatry (i.e. a failed launch, a poorly chosen orbit)?
Of course, those who advocate a "cross in the sky" are probably the same morons who have never travelled outside the US's borders (except for viagra trips to the Dominican Republic, child sex capital of the western hemisphere).
There already is a cross in the sky - the Southern Cross - but seeing it requires those morons go south of the Equator. They don't go south because "there be dragons...." or "they might fall off the edge of the Earth".
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