September 2008
54 posts
Heck of a Job, Condie.
“The solidarity of the international community fostered on the wave of struggle against terrorism turned out to be somehow `privatized’,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the U.N. General Assembly’s annual ministerial meeting. He cited the U.S. invasion of Iraq “under the false pretext of fight on terror and nuclear arms proliferation” and questions...
No Future for You.
by Thomas Frank
A seven-hundred-billion-dollar bailout plan? Weren’t Republicans supposed to be opposed to deficit spending? Weren’t they the party that was all about balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility?
That’s what Republicans say, of course. And now they tell us they wish they didn’t have to take this course; that the bailout violates their own first...
“Ideology is a set of ideas about how the world does and should work —...”
– huffpo
“House Loans Automakers $25 Billion”
– ft
“FDIC May Need $150 Billion As More Banks Fail”
– bloomberg
Government Seizes Washington Mutual
In the largest bank seizure in U.S. history, pieces of Washington Mutual were sold to J.P. Morgan Chase.
-nytimes
“I don’t know if you’ve paid much attention to the past eight years,...”
– Colbert on The Last 8 years
http://tinyurl.com/4v3rmz - Rachel Maddow: The new Tim…
“It’s embarrassing to look at this, and I think it’s embarrassing to...”
– CNN - Paulson
BA cancels flights to Pakistan indefinitely →
“Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are...”
– huffpo
Oversight and regulations of public contracts are...
Put differently, the Administration wants the Secretary to take over a sizable chunk of the nation’s capital and insurance markets, and run them as a firm. It is a merger of public power and private capital that would have made a 1930s advocate of state corporatism proud. And because the Secretary’s power is effectively unreviewable, he can make sweetheart deals with any or all of the...
“In stubbornly independent Alaska, the sudden intrusion of a political campaign...”
– latimes
Army Alters Photographs, Issues Them To AP
By Megan McGinley Fri 19 Sep 2008 02:16 PM
The Associated Press retracted two government-issued photographs last night after a photographer in Texas alerted the agency that the photos in question appeared to be doctored.
Bob Owen, chief photographer of the San Antonio Express-News, notified the AP that the photos of two deceased soldiers, who died in Iraq on Sept. 14, were nearly...
“we’re literally maybe days away from a complete meltdown of our financial...”
– -nytimes
Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee
Watch-236 - Get Your War On: Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits
Watchon ending war
“With an overwhelming police force ready to crush dissent at a moment’s...”
– huffpo
“Frankly, I don’t like him.”
– Lassie Lynn de von Forester d’el der McRothschild von de Beers VIII on Barack Obama..
-huffpo
Note the following numbers from the Bureau of...
09/30/2007 $9,007,653,372,262.48
09/30/2006 $8,506,973,899,215.23
09/30/2005 $7,932,709,661,723.50
09/30/2004 $7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003 $6,783,231,062,743.62
09/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06
09/30/2000 $5,674,178,209,886.86
Currently the total outstanding debt = $9,634,090,464,815.55
-huffpo
“Carly will now disappear,” this source said. “Senator McCain was...”
– huffpo Fiorina was booked for several TV interviews over the next few days, including one on CNN. Those interviews have been canceled.
“Americans are not addicted to oil. Americans are addicted to freedom — the...”
– George Allen on ‘mobility’ - 9/15/08 -huffpo
“Government Bails Out Insurance Giant AIG…Barclays To Buy Lehman Banking...”
– who’s for smaller government?
“The zealots of unfettered “free markets” cast aside the critical...”
– huffpo
“If Bush were impeached, convicted in the Senate, and removed from office,...”
– huffpo
“The events of last weekend will forever be seared in Wall Street history: To...”
– Republican Ideology
-theBigMoney
“In fact, the son of the “Bridge to Nowhere” is still alive and...”
– huffpo
““Do you think [Sarah Palin] has the experience to run a major company,...”
– huffpo
“What we’ve seen the last few days ,” Mr. Obama said, “is nothing less than the...”
– nytimes
“The GOP is working to keep eligible African-Americans from voting in several...”
– newsweek > Johnathan Alter > ‘Jim Crawford’ Republicans
“The prospect of major damage sent gasoline futures surging by 11 cents a gallon...”
– msnbc
Watchchange we can belive in
Watchmatthews unplugged
“The day after Sarah Palin’s historically overrated Edie McClurg With Lying...”
– huffpo
“On the morning of the 9/11, just moments after the World Trade Center collapsed...”
– tp
http://action.aclu.org/savetroy →
"strategic assets"
Instead a more complex model has emerged which still has a place for entirely home-grown groups but where a resurgent al-Qaeda leadership has also regrouped and is now able to once again offer local jihadists training and direction.
-bbc
“If we know this much about torture, rendition, secret prisons and warrantless...”
– salon
“the institutions in the United States are used to spy on their friends and their...”
– Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh
“We just did some benchmark runs today, Bak says a couple of weeks before the...”
– wired
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