GOP, AIG, and Falling Chips

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 5:32 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 17:32

If you owe the bank $10,000 that's your problem (so goes the joke), but if you owe the bank $10,000,000 it's the bank's problem.

And if you ad a few more zeros it becomes the government's problem.

And make no mistake, this bailout was necessary, given the current circumstances.

And yet one wonders, need it have been?

More on the flip

[x-posted at CaliBlogger]

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 7:34 PM PDT

2008/09/11 · 19:34

Sarah Palin's biggest claim to national security experience is her supposed knowledge of the energy industry.

I guess it would be problematic then if she, for example, couldn't get her figures straight on, say Alaskan oil production, wouldn't it?

Lies, damn lies and a few statistics after the jump.

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Saturday March 31, 2007 · 9:19 PM PDT

2007/03/31 · 21:19

In my post, American Stasi, I noted the case of an ISP owner who the FBI attempted to force to spy on one of his customers using one of those National Security Letters whose abuse by the FBI has recently come under fire.

At the time I noted how very much this resembled the behavior of the dreaded East German secret police, the Stasi, which enlisted hundreds of thousands of citizen spies during its reign of terror.

More skullduggery after the jump.

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Monday March 26, 2007 · 12:41 AM PDT

2007/03/26 · 00:41

[x-posted at CaliBlogger]

In his 2006 State of the Union address, President Bush made a rather mystyfying reference, when he called for legislation to prohibit "human-animal hybrids".

At the time the comment left me and quite a few others curious as to why someone had slipped such an odd reference into the SOTU.

But with all due apologies, it turns out the president's worst nightmares have become reality. Run for your lives it's...

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Saturday March 17, 2007 · 5:29 PM PDT

2007/03/17 · 17:29

I know the story is a couple of days old, as well as the subject of a major diary by Buffalo Girl, but it seems to me that the Waas story is potentially not only damaging for Gonzales, but for the Bushmeister himself.

Therefore, in order to keep the big mo' going here's my take.

(below the fold of course)

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Tuesday March 06, 2007 · 12:51 AM PST

2007/03/06 · 00:51

Ha ha, gotcha t' click the link didn't I?

Sorry.

Anyway.

I am, shall we say, no fan of Ann Coulter's.

But the uproar about her latest vile screed at the CPAC convention has got me t' thinkin'.

Mixed with the well deserved criticism resounding around both left and right blogistan have been calls for the various networks and newspapers who spread her poisonous views to shun our darling Ann.

And while I can viscerally agree with this stance, and as disagreable as the thought of further success for her continuing efforts at self-promotion is to me, still I have to wonder, aren't we on left really better off having her as the face of the Republican party?

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Monday March 05, 2007 · 2:25 AM PST

2007/03/05 · 02:25

[x-posted at CaliBlogger.com]

Some thoughts on the much anticipated (for the last week anyway) documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus.

Am I the only one who thinks that someone attempting to debunk essential Christian mythology shouldn't be pretending that he's not doing just that?

I mean buddy, I've lived the past 6 years under George Bush, I know disingenuous when I see it.

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Saturday February 24, 2007 · 1:04 PM PST

2007/02/24 · 13:04

If the United States chose its presidents based on resumé alone, Bill Richardson would be the clear front-runner for 2008.

But Richardson, who is notably lacking in Obama's charisma, Hillary's name recognition and organization, or even Edward's boyish charm, is currently firmly ensconced in the dwindling (farewell Tom Vilsack, we hardly knew ye) second tier of potential Democratic nominees.

But regardless of his poll standings, I have no doubt that the New Mexican Governor, former UN ambassador, and Energy Secretary (see, I told you he has a great resumé) would may an excellent president.

One reason I believe that is his clear vision of America's place in the world and what needs to be done to improve that place.

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Charisma aside, Richardson would make a fine president.

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Charisma aside, Richardson would make a fine president.

Yes

79 votes

6 votes

Why bother, he has as much a chance as Vilsack

5 votes

A simple, wonderful idea

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Thursday January 18, 2007 · 8:29 PM PST

2007/01/18 · 20:29

Incredible, a public servant, a senator no less, who actually seems to think that the people really are his bosses and feels obliged to let them know what he's up to.

From kencamp at Western Democrat (a great site for Dems to keep an eye on for news about the increasingly important mountain states):

In what has to be a first, Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) has posted his daily schedule online.

Now if we could get presidential candidates to do the same I suspect we'd learn more about where they really stand than from all other sources combined.

Time is a precious commodity. I imagine a look at who gets face time and how much would be quite revealing indeed.

[x-posted at CaliBlogger.com]

Silence of the Wingnuts

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Friday December 22, 2006 · 10:36 AM PST

2006/12/22 · 10:36

I remarked yesterday on the deafening silence with which the anti-American letter from congressman Virgil H. Goode Jr. (R-Dark Ages) was greeted.

So before I go about the rest of the day, a round of golf, a little shopping, a little tree trimming, I thought I'd spend some time poking around the blogosphere checking out how the major conservative blogs were reacting to this outrage against the American way of life.

Here goes.

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Saturday September 02, 2006 · 12:29 PM PDT

2006/09/02 · 12:29

[Cross-posted at CaliBlogger.com]

I've an admission to make: Ashamed as I am, I sometimes read blogs other than DailyKos.

I know, I know.

Anyway.

I've been following a very interesting thread prompted by a post by sideways over at Donklephant (h/t to The Moderate Voice though I can't find a link to the original post).

The gist of the question posed was this, given the enormous cost to civilians in WWII, were US actions moral?

And if so, or if not, what implications does this have for our current situation?

My thoughts and a question below the fold. Read More

CRIMINAL!

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Friday August 18, 2006 · 1:37 PM PDT

2006/08/18 · 13:37

[x-posted at CaliBlogger.com]

Yesterday's ruling (text here) that BushCorp^TM's warrantless wire tap schemes violate both the FISA statute, as well as the constitution comes as no surprise to anybody passingly familiar with the aforementioned legal documents. But that been Bush's worst crime?

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A simple, wonderful idea

Silence of the Wingnuts

The Morality of Total War

CRIMINAL!