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Tuesday Mar 24, 2009 Vol 2308 - Stiff Jack & a Cracker
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Meria Heller shoots
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Asking the tough questions
and seeking solutions.
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Quotes
"You're sitting here. And you are laughing.
You are laughing about some of these problems.
How do you deal with, I mean, explain
the...mood and your laughter?...Are you punch drunk?"
-- Steve Kroft, acting like a major dick in the Obama interview,
Link
"Did any mainstream, corporate-paid, "serious"
journalist ever ask Bush that kind of insolent question?
Not that we ever heard of. Only rarely
did any journalist even come back at Bush with a challenging follow-up
question, and only the bravest comic
in the land (Stephen Colbert)
dared to insult the grudge-holding Bush to his face."
-- Christine Bowman, Link
It's the media's job to attack Democrats while covering up for
the Bush bastards.
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AIG is Chump
Change
Let's find corporate America's hidden billions
by Joe Conason
Excerpt:
The popular urge to claw back the bogus bonuses
paid by AIG is irresistible and fully justified, but should the Treasury
someday retrieve every single bonus dollar, that
total of $165 million will make no difference to anyone except a few
disgruntled traders. From the jaded perspective
of the financiers, the uproar over the AIG bonuses may provide a welcome
distraction from far more important (and lucrative)
abuses in the world's offshore tax havens.
So rather than continue arguing over chump change,
it is long past time for us to demand accountability from the long list
of tiny countries and principalities, from Andorra
and the Cayman Islands to Singapore and Switzerland, where corporations,
wealthy clients and unrepentant evildoers hide
their assets.
The big claw-back will reach into quaint islands
and mountainous principalities, because the same banks, hedge funds and
private equity firms responsible for the world
financial meltdown keep their profits in those "secrecy spaces" -- alongside
the
ill-gotten gains of numerous drug dealers, dictators
and delinquents of every description.
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NRCC calls
it "The Pelosi Recession"
...because the Democrats refused to call it "The Bush's recession"
Excerpt:
If you've been hurt at all by the country's economic
woes, the National Republican Congressional Committee wants you to blame
Pelosi.
Monday morning, the NRCC sent out a fundraising
e-mail to supporters from Michigan Rep. Dave Camp. The subject line of
the e-mail
reads, "End the Pelosi Recession," and much of
the message is an attack on the speaker.
"Pelosi and her cronies know how they are going
to continue to bail out big businesses, pay for their pet projects and
spend billions of
government dollars this year: massive tax hikes,"
Camp writes. 'To put it simply, the Democrats’ Budget spends too much,
taxes too much
and borrows too much. We must work together to
end the 'Pelosi Recession,' and start to rebuild our economy with sound
and fair principles.'"
...and that charge would've been a lot harder to make if Pelosi
and Reid hadn't loaded up
the stimulus bill with tons and tons of pork - pork that
Obama promised would stop on his watch.
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Quotes
"The facts don’t bear him out. That attitude,
that philosophy has done incredible damage – to our image
and position in the world. I mean,
the fact of the matter is after all these years how many convictions
actually came out of Guantanamo? How
many terrorists have actually been brought to justice under
the philosophy that is being promoted
by Vice President Cheney?"
-- Obama, Link
Why do people say, "the fact of the matter is...?"
It means nothing - it's just a time waster for the speaker to
think of something that does mean something.
People say it in debates all the time - as though it's time somebody
stated an actual fact.
I'll bet if you turn on CNN or FOX News right now, if the talker
isn't reading from a script
somebody will say that in the next 5 minutes and it means nothing!.
Oh, and to answer Obama's question, I think they got Osama's driver - that's it.
After 6+ years of torturing some innocent goat herders, they got
one
low-level handjob.
Either torture doesn't work or nobody in Gitmo knew anything
which means Bush had
those hundreds of people tortured for no reason other than his
personal entertainment.
I'll bet he's watching one of the torture tapes right now.
I'll bet he's got a "Stay Out!" room in his house in Dallas that
Pickles is never allowed to enter.
That's where George masturbates to his torture videos.
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Possible New Feature - Old e-mails
I get a lot of mail.
Not as much as I'd like, but more than we can handle.
I have 8080 unread e-mails in the current account.
I also have 22,000 unread "older" e-mails, which I can't hardly ever
get to
until I get to the Old Bloggers Home and then the senders might all
be dead..
I stumbled onto this while searching for something else.
Subject: Sept 3, 2008
Well my friend its all over but the crying, the
Republicans have done it again.
Sarah Palin is a masterful stoke as Im sure you
are aware though you cant say so on your blog.
The dims have blown yet another opptunity by
screwing Hill for the negro.
Doesnt it make you proud, dosent it send a tingle
up your leg.
I lmao at you bud, you know the truth but
you cant speak it,
cause you're a wormy coward like most dems.
Ill write you a note just to rub the shit on
your nose in November.
Thank God for libs, if not for them we would
fail. LMAO
...jest one more time. BTW you cant play cards
worth a shit,
e-mail me if you want to loose some money.
Johnny Heathrow in Louisville, KY
Johhny, you should be a professional gambler.
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Shredding
the Constitution, Again
by Garland Nixon
Excerpt:
The term "shredding the constitution" became
popular when it became clear that the Bush Administration was deliberately
taking unconstitutional actions, hiding them
from the public and Congress, and showing utter contempt for those who
dared
to question their actions. The legal decisions
on which they based their actions were generally hidden, and most have
been
labeled as absurd once reviewed by competent
legal experts.
It seems that the "ends justifying the means"
attitude in Washington did not leave when the Bush Family moved to Dallas.
Congress has decided to take a page from the
Bush Administration's play book and deliberately violate the Constitution
to
achieve what they believe are honorable goals.
In the political pandemonium that followed the revelations that AIG executives
were taking huge lumps of taxpayer dollars in
the form of bonuses in return for destroying the Company, Congress played
the Bush card. They passed a law which retroactively
taxes the unconscionable bonuses out of existence. Denying those who
were either incompetent, unethical, or a combination
of both the opportunity to fleece the US taxpayers is an honorable goal.
If congress is going to illegally pass retroactive laws, why don't they
pass one that makes it a crime to lie us
into a war that kills 4200 soldiers and a million Iraqis and then go
arrest those murdering Bush bastards?
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TEA Parties...What
the frak?
by Cynthia Boaz
Excerpt:
I'm all for people power, but this is coming
one president too late. The neocons are trying to start a *movement*? Seriously?
Let's take a look and correct the "principles"
upon which these TEA (Tax Enough Already) parties are based.
And allow me to ask the obvious question: are
we really STILL this amenable to fear-mongering and blatant propaganda?
Have we learned nothing?? The TEA website points
are preceded with hyphens. My comments follow each one.
From the TEA party website:
Are you fed up with a Congress and a president who:
- vote for a $500 billion tax bill without even reading it?
Okay, 1) It's not a tax bill,
2) Where do you think government revenue comes
from?,
3) Just because YOU don't like the bill doesn't
mean Congress didn't *read* it.
3, part 2) I think you are mistaking the stimulus
bill for the authorization of the
use of force bill that Bush
shoved down everyone's throats after 9/11.
- are spending trillions of borrowed dollars, leaving a debt our great-grandchildren will be paying?
You can't be serious. The biggest spenders in
HISTORY were Reagan and George W. Bush, and thanks to their reckless
and immoral spending, we've found ourselves in
this recession. The debt our great-grandchildren will be paying is thanks
to them, not Obama or Congressional Democrats.
I'm going to make up t-shirts that say "Bush spent my grandkids' money
on a PR campaign for Al Qaeda", and then use
the profit to buy stock in AIG.
It's hard to argue with Cynthia - because she lists the facts.
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Subject: Constitutional crisis
The freepers are still beating the birthplace issue, ignoring McCain's birth outside the country.
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/the-constitutional-crisis-is-already-here-by-lynn-stuter/
Funny, but I remember their guy being APPOINTED
by the Supreme Court.
Was that Constitutional?
Steve in Montana
Before that, it was unconstitutional for Monkey and Cheney to both be
from Texas.
As always, the sacless Dems said, "Anything
you want to do is OK with us," so they did.
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He owns weeknights.
Live streaming facts & outrage
The Mike
Malloy Show
Quotes
"I've never been to a Gridiron dinner, which
is where the skits take place. I've only attended the others
a couple of times. I know the dinners
may project an image that we're all just a bunch of cozy Washington insiders,
but I don't think they're that big
a deal. There's such a built-in adversarial relationship between the press
and
the pols that spending a couple of
evenings in a kind of light-hearted cease-fire doesn't strike me as a terrible
thing."
-- Howie Kurtz, CNN's "media watchdog," Link
Right, there's no harm in a little dinner...
Just because NBC's top political whore does
a rap-dance number with with Karl Rove doesn't mean
he can't be a fierce pitt bull the next
morning, grilling his dancing partner with "tough questions," right?
The
Rap Brothers, Gregory and Rove
NBC, thy name is whore.
You claim to have a News Division, but that's all a sham to boost
GE's war stock.
David Gregory, you're a slimy, paid-for whore but you're not as bad as Russert was
- but that's because Russert had more years in the whore business than
you.
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Quotes
"To that I say that the challenges we face
are too large to ignore. I didn’t come here to pass on our problems
to the next president or the next generation
– I came here to solve them. The American people sent us here
to get things done, and at this moment
of great challenge, they are watching and waiting for us to lead.
Let’s show them that we are equal to
the task before us, and let’s pass a budget that puts this nation
on the road to lasting prosperity."
-- Obama, making sense to those of us who use logic,
Link
Note to Barack:
Please don't make the mistake of thinking the snarling, growling
dogs are going to listen to logic
and agree with you sometimes because that's not going to happen
- do you get that?
Mitch
the Bitch
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Subject: NY Times and banks
Bart,
Yes, it's strange that the NYTimes, which virtually
cheered the Bush Monster along (esp. Friedman, the man's
"international" experience is in the business
section of airplanes), should now be giving Obama such a hard time.
But alas, I fear that Krugman at least is on the
money with his views. I'm in touch with partners at some very reputable
foreign private banks, and they are saying the
same thing. 50% of banks could fail, and throwing money at them is a total
waste.
On top of it, the money being thrown is essentially
borrowed.... It does indeed look as if the administration is trying to
restore
the precrash situation, only without the toxic
assets.
Catspaw
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Marty's Entertainment Page
Marty always has good stuff.
A Weimar
Moment?
by Greg in Cheeseland
Excerpt:
Mike Malloy read this on his show on March 18th
and I agree with Malloy that it may be one of the most
important essays written in recent history.
On a related topic, I think I may be getting to
an answer to the rhetorical question about why Dems are sacless weenies.
The recurring themes seem to be the banking,
insurance, health care, and media industries, the military-industrial complex…
and (tin foil hat on) Bilderberg. My suggestion
is to take a closer look at the new administration, the organizations that
they
have worked for in the past… and as Palast says,
follow the money. When I get the facts and the answers that I am looking
for,
I will post something on that subject. Any thoughts
or ideas on that topic would be appreciated.
For now, the following essay is a great read and
frames what is going on in the U.S. today in a historical perspective.
It is somewhat lengthy, but it is well-worth
the time reading. I would appreciate any thoughts and comments on this
article as well.
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INVISIBLE HANDS shines a
spotlight on a largely unknown chapter in American history.
It digs beneath the fame
of Goldwater, Helms, Falwell, and Reagan to explore the political
network that made each of
these men the public face of the conservative movement.
INVISIBLE HANDS offers a
new way of thinking about the power of business in politics.
As free-market faith starts
to crumble, INVISIBLE HANDS tells the true story about its birth.
Quotes
"It is as if you were flying an airplane and
the gas light came on and it said 'you 15 minutes of gas left'
and the pilot said 'we’re not going
to worry about that, we’re going to fly for another two hours.'
Well, the plane crashes and our country
will crash..."
-- Judd Gregg, who thinks Bush's disaster is too big to fix,
Link
"I'm crazier
n' dog shit."
BTW, Judd?
That might be the worst analogy I've ever read.
Running out of gas is a finite, math-friendly, measureable thing.
The ecenomy doesn't do that - what are you, like ...stupid?
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Go back into hiding, GOP begs Dick Cheney
Excerpt:
Congressional mad dogs are telling Cheney to
go away and leave them alone
to rebuild the Republican Party without his input.
Displeased with the Dick's media appearances,
Fascist say he's hurting GOP efforts
to reinvent itself in Rush's image after back-to-back
electoral drubbings.
The Dick has done media interviews to defend the
Bush-Cheney record while
suggesting that the country is not as safe under
President Obama.
Rep. John Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.) said, “He became
so unpopular while he was in
the White House that it would probably be better
for us politically if he wouldn’t
be so public...But he has the right to speak
out since he’s a private citizen.”
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PayPal to Bruce directly at
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Be sure to include your size and address
Quotes
"This first major Obama blunder has consequences.
First, it undermines the president's credibility with
his own party on Capitol Hill. Democrats
voted almost unanimously for the stimulus package and now
Republicans have a weapon to use against
them with this Treasury-inspired provision that benefits AIG.
Second, the controversy undermines
the trust that the American people have in government at a time
when it is spending billions upon billions.
Obama promises transparency, but the layers of bureaucratic
double-talk look like business as usual."
-- Eleanor Clift, Link
She's right about Obama's first BIG blunder.
Do you think we'll ever get the truth about the AIG bonuses?
Obama is betting that the press is going to forget and this issue
will fade away.
I wish Obama had some more experienced staffers to give him better
advice.
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Rev Jim's SXSW 2009 review
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Subject: those AIG bonuses
Bart, if your company/corporation needs to be
bailed out with public assets.....the contracts are null and void.
No company...no bonus. If there is no consequence
for incompetance, etc., why would anyone loan anyone anything?
JB
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Tough Week
This is the week they're selling Mrs. Bart's heirlooms.
We're new to this strain of tragedy.
Strangers pawing thru the stuff she grew up with, offering $3 for the
marshmellow roaster
they used at Christmas, or $20 for the couch they sat on when they
opened birthday presents.
I wonder - is that better or worse than losing it in a tornadoe*?
The way the law works, we have to sell her inheritance.
If he had died or remained in good health, it would eventually be left
to her.
But because he's sick, because his body outlasted his brain,
the daily nut comes in at $145
and assets and memories must be sold.
Here's a sample of what is in this WONDERFUL
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Stylized Bronze Statue (male), Lots of Vintage
Art & Prints, Collection of Clear Miss America
Glassware, Lots of Vintage Fiesta, Fostoria
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Caffieri Bust, Large Collection of Silver
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<Mrs Bart does a shot>
When this is over she wants me to take her far, far away, somewhere
where there's no people.
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Subject: that 90% tax bracket
Hey Bart,
When my step-dad was starring in the "My Friend
Flicka"series in the 50s he was in the 90% tax bracket.
When I asked him how he could survive at that
rate, as a true Democrat, he said that what was left was still pretty good
for that day.
I'd love to see anybody making over two million
a year in a 90% bracket and over, let's say, half a million to keep
paying into Social Security.
Happy Trails until ...
Kevin K.
Shouldn't we be means-testing Social Security?
Meaning, why do millioniares get $1500 a month from the government?
In 1992, Ross Perot said he got a monthly SS check and he was a multi-billionaire.
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They read it in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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Why sell just to America when you can sell to the whole world?
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Subject: Donation
Hey BC,
Here's a donation for your current fund drive.
Happy to help,
How much does it take to move the mercury in
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Maybe one of your richer subscribers can make
it move all by himself.
NEVER QUIT!!
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Ray, the thermometer moves in $500 chunks.
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