US Economy Hits Baleful New Milestone on Road to Hell.

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 10:28 AM PDT

2008/10/26 · 10:28

A significant new milestone has finally been reached in US economy after decades of effort: Spending Stalls and Businesses Slash U.S. Jobs. After decades of increasing profits by liquidating labor corporate management wizards have begun the final liquidation of their customer base.

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 7:55 AM PST

2008/03/08 · 07:55

This is the most amazing news I've seen in some time. From The Guardian:

Yale, the Ivy League alma mater of his good friend George Bush, confirmed yesterday that the former prime minister is to join the schools of management and divinity at the campus in New Haven, Connecticut, in the autumn. He will teach a course on faith and globalisation, looking at religion in the modern world.

Gobsmacked, I don't have much to say...

Although its safe to suppose that the seven deadly sins will be off the agenda, what is he going to go on about? Is he adding Gott mit uns! to the global class war? Will he finally reveal the Christian principles behind misleading and bullying people into waging brutal imperial wars for oil and Jesus? Perhaps a post-modern deconstruction of the moral imperative of increasing wealth disparities, unemployment, social instability and lower wages around the world?

The funny thing is, he's having trouble finding the time to enlighten young and impressionable minds given his prior commitments to JP Morgan and Zurich Financial Services Group Insurance.

Forgetting the unforgettable

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Monday December 19, 2005 · 10:53 AM PST

2005/12/19 · 10:53

Today at TomDispatch ( link ) Tom Engelhardt discusses the disproportionately strong response to the 9/11 attacks as opposed to the equally threatening anthrax attacks that soon followed. A $6 billion per week war launched on the flimsiest of connections to 9/11 still rages on while the response to the anthrax attack goes nowhere and its unresolved menace has all but vanished from our national consciousness.

While we consider that, let's not forget the 2003 cyanide bomb plot that never "grew legs" and now lives at the bottom of our media's memory hole.

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Friday November 18, 2005 · 9:57 AM PST

2005/11/18 · 09:57

Two things strike me about Bob Woodward's recent revelation that he had known about Wilson's wife being a CIA employee before Novak's column was published.

First, as others have said, the business about Libby being exonerated because he was not the first leaker is a red herring. Even if Libby never leaked anything to anyone he could still be guilty of obstruction and perjury. That much is obvious and I'm surprised that anyone still disputes this.

Second, there is nothing that I have heard or read that precludes there having been more than one leak. We don't see this being brought up much in the talk about Woodward's story.

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Wednesday November 09, 2005 · 5:56 AM PST

2005/11/09 · 05:56

I came across this exchange in yesterday's (Nov 8) press gaggle, just above the question about Libby's possible pardon:

MR. McCLELLAN: In terms of our members -- like I said, there are already laws on the books that we have to adhere to and abide by, and we do. And we believe that those laws and those obligations address these issues.

Q So then why is the Vice President continuing to lobby on this issue? If you're very happy with the laws on the books, what needs change?

MR. McCLELLAN: Again, you asked me -- you want to ask questions of the Vice President's office, feel free to do that. We've made our position very clear, and it's spelled out on our website for everybody to see.

Q We don't need a website, we need you from the podium.

MR. McCLELLAN: And what I just told you is what our view is.

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Thursday September 15, 2005 · 11:44 PM PDT

2005/09/15 · 23:44

One of the things that impressed me about the 2000 Gore-Bush debate was how shallow and cartoonish Bush's answers were. I was struck in particular by how especially bad his response was to this question:

MODERATOR: New question. We've been talking about a lot of specific issues. It's often said that in the final analysis about 90% of being the President of the United States is dealing with the unexpected, not with issues that came up in the campaign. Vice President Gore, can you point to a decision, an action you have taken, that illustrates your ability to handle the unexpected, the crisis under fire?

Gore's answer was responsive but unremarkable. Bush's answers, as lame as they were, were predictive of how he has responded to the devastation wrought by Katrina.

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Friday July 15, 2005 · 1:40 AM PDT

2005/07/15 · 01:40

An aspect of "Rovegate" has been bothering me for a little while now that I don't see anyone else talking about. Maybe its just me, but it strikes me as very odd.

Rove claims that he first heard of the Wilson-Plame-CIA story from Novak. Then he gives it to Cooper and, perhaps, to other journalists as well. He doesn't tell Cooper he's passing on a rumor from Novak, instead he passes it off as if it was authoritative government information. Is this normal behavior in the White House? Is this proper? It doesn't sound right to me. Its either plagiarism or else the press gets to write the White House press releases it reports. Read More

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