So, let’s see what’s up today. On Press the Meat, Henry Paulson is on to tell us what bailing out rich people is a good thing, but bailing out the po’ folks is a bad thing. Mike Bloomberg will be on to represent the rich folks. There’ll also be some financial “experts” around the roundtable; the only one worth mentioning is Erin Burnett, because she’s pretty cute.
Paulson continues his billion dollar bailout sales job on Faze the Nation, with smarmy Alabama cracker Dick Shelby. Thankfully, Barney Frank will be on, too, so there’ll be at least one worthwhile guest.
The Paulson show continues on Fux News Sunday, as Weaselface Wallace also has Krazy Jon Kyl and Chucky Schumer along with the usual fuxheads and this week’s “power player” Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, chairman of the American Red Cross.
Guess who’s on the Goebbels network “This Weak?” If you guessed Henry Paulson, you’d be correct. George Snufalufagus also pulls a Boehner, and Chris Dodd will drop by as well. Plus, the Axis of Drivel is together again as Sam :omg: Donaldson, Cokie “the hag” Roberts, and George :jerk: Will join political mastermind Donna Brazile around the roundtable.
CNN’s Late Emission has Doug Holtz-Eakin (some fucking economic “expert” and McCain adviser) and cupie doll James Carville. Don’t be surprised if Henry Paulson stops by, too.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft interviews Barack Obama and Scott Pelley interviews John McCain.
Have a good one.
I’m only first because I’ve got a wicked cold and couldn’t sleep all night….again. Thank goodness I have to go to work, it’ll take my mind of my misery.
In other news the activist I worked with when we were chasing Curt Weldon liaround the county has been mistakenly sent an offer for an invitation to the Palin/McInane rally here in Media tomorrow. This presents an interesting opportunity for some
mischiefer political dialog, I wonder if I can sneak out of work early tomorrow and I wonder if they’ll shut down the town. Media’s pretty small and there’s not many places to keepprotestorspatriots out of sight.I hope you feel better, Andy. There’s a cold going around. I had it for 2 weeks and am just getting over it. KP, was recently in search of chicken soup for hers. I don’t think it worked, though. Personally, aspirin, antihistamine, nose drops, cough medicine and anything else I can find at least relieve the symptoms while I call in sick.
Hopefully there will be plenty of chicken soup at work for aaA.
I just watched Real Time with Naomi Klein and was a little disappointed. Andrew Sullivan is too much of a “diva” to let anyone else talk. I am getting tired of the phony ‘indignation’ about being interrupted by people who proceed to interrupt or rail on endlessly.
I am also getting tired of cons (or anyone) who laugh derisively as other people are making a point to ridicule, usually an argument they can’t win.
Finally, is there a panel show any worse than “To the Contrary”? What a waste of time and space under the guise of a platform for women. Hosted by Bonnie Erbe, the first person I ever saw take phony umbrage to O’Bama calling someone “Sweetie”. I am not sure if she even weighed in on mccain calling his wife a trollop and a
C 😮 :smack: :omg: ?
:no:
University of Oregon archaeologist Dennis Jenkins and his students started digging where no one had dug before. What the team discovered in an alcove used as a latrine and trash dump has elevated the caves to the site of the oldest radiocarbon dated human remains in North America.
Coprolites – ancient feces – were found to contain human DNA linked directly to modern-day Native Americans with Asian roots and radiocarbon dated to 14,300 years ago. That’s 1,000 years before the oldest stone points of the Clovis culture, which for much of the 20th century was believed to represent the first people in North America.
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The findings kill the suggestion some of the earliest Americans came from Europe.
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2008/09/21/dna_indicates_humans_in_n_america_14300_years_ago/
Yeah, I’m fighting something. It hasn’t blossomed yet and I’ve been eating tons of vitamin c and made chili rellenos last night and left the seeds in the chilis :hot: Haven’t been able to sleep well at all. It doesn’t seem like a cold though, I don’t have a sore throat or runny nose or any of that. I just feel light headed and buzzy. Never had anything like this. I was gonna see if I’m running a temperature but I can’t find my thermometer anywhere. I shouldn’t have gone out yesterday afternoon, the heat really took it outa me.
I tried to email Marc last night and it bounced back. I’ve never had that problem. WTF.
PBS online survey: Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States?
Right now, it’s 52% – 46% YES (which, incidentally, I find odd, since the choices are yes/no/not sure, and not sure is at 0%, so I think Diebold must make their survey tabulator or something).
K-pea
One of his addies does not seem to work anymore. I had one bounce back a while ago.
I think marc (at) marmaron (dot) com does work though.
Al Franken helped write this.
You know, we watched SNL last night for the first time in ages, and I’ll be damned – it was actually funny. I was shocked. Of course, I was also wasted, so that may have influenced my opinion.
That’s the one I tried, PJ. I just had another email bounce to someone else. What’s going on, here. :tap:
PJ, the link to the PBS poll doesn’t work. Just as I was about to post this I got an email about the poll which, although it brought me to PBS, didn’t have a poll about Palin.
I had the wrong link initially. Try it again.
I can see Al Franken’s mark all over that one. In fact, didn’t he do that joke on his radio show? Over and over and over and over………… :nod:
What’s the bounce message say, KP?
But I have to say that there’s hardly any exaggeration in that skit.
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 554 554 The message was rejected because it contains prohibited virus or spam content (state 18).
I’m gonna try my yahoo account.
I got that message on another email I just sent. Both emails were sent to a web site. The yahoo one hasn’t bounced back yet.
Hmm. Probably an AOL thing, I bet. Could be they’re rejecting mail from gmail for some reason. I’ve read that aol rejects mail with a “return-path” in the header.
I’ve been using my gmail account to email Marc the whole time. I wonder why it would suddenly not work.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Sunday that foreign banks will be able to unload bad financial assets under a $700 billion U.S. proposal aimed at restoring order during a devastating financial crisis.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2148303920080921?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Aren’t we generous!
Matt Stoller published this. He say it’s from a member of congress who wishes to be anonymous:
Paulsen and congressional Republicans, or the few that will actually vote for this (most will be unwilling to take responsibility for the consequences of their policies), have said that there can’t be any “add ons,” or addition provisions. Fuck that. I don’t really want to trigger a world wide depression (that’s not hyperbole, that’s a distinct possibility), but I’m not voting for a blank check for $700 billion for those mother fuckers.
Nancy said she wanted to include the second “stimulus” package that the Bush Administration and congressional Republicans have blocked. I don’t want to trade a $700 billion dollar giveaway to the most unsympathetic human beings on the planet for a few fucking bridges. I want reforms of the industry, and I want it to be as punitive as possible.
Henry Waxman has suggested corporate government reforms, including CEO compensation, as the price for this. Some members have publicly suggested allowing modification of mortgages in bankruptcy, and the House Judiciary Committee staff is also very interested in that. That’s a real possibility.
We may strip out all the gives to industry in the predatory mortgage lending bill that the House passed last November, which hasn’t budged in the Senate, and include that in the bill. There are other ideas on the table but they are going to be tough to work out before next week.
I also find myself drawn to provisions that would serve no useful purpose except to insult the industry, like requiring the CEOs, CFOs and the chair of the board of any entity that sells mortgage related securities to the Treasury Department to certify that they have completed an approved course in credit counseling. That is now required of consumers filing bankruptcy to make sure they feel properly humiliated for being head over heels in debt, although most lost control of their finances because of a serious illness in the family. That would just be petty and childish, and completely in character for me.
I’m open to other ideas, and I am looking for volunteers who want to hold the sons of bitches so I can beat the crap out of them.
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8374
Top executives at Lehman Brothers’ New York office, who were at the helm during history’s largest corporate bankruptcy, have been guaranteed the lion’s share of a $2.5 billion bonus pot.
Lehman had “walled off” the fund, telling buyer Barclays Capital that it couldn’t use the money for anything but severance payments or bonuses.
In bankruptcy court, British-based Barclays said it will use the cash to retain Lehman’s most valued employees – particularly eight key directors.
Those “elite eight” also have been guaranteed $10 million to $25 million salaries for two years
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09212008/news/regionalnews/execs_crash__earn_130099.htm
You know, I hope all these financial institutions crumble into oblivion. I’m stuck with a student loan that keeps growing and can’t find a job that even pays enough to cover my rent and utilities and these assholes greed is rewarded over and over. I’m so incredibly disgusted. I used to want to pay that thing off but now I just wanna leave it lay and become a feral mountain woman. This country just disgusts me to no end. :yuck: :barf:
Well, it’s not like they’re getting much in taxes from me anyways, I can barely afford food and gas and I’m sure there’s millions of people just like me right now. Go ahead rich people, keep the money amoungst yourselves see where that gets you. :growl: :fu:
From Sam Seder:
Here is the current draft for the latest plan. It’s elegantly simple. The three key provisions: (1) The Treasury Secretary is authorized to buy up to $700 billion
of any mortgage-related assets (so he can just transfer that amount to
any corporations in exchange for their worthless or severely crippled
“assets”) [Sec. 6]; (2) The ceiling on the national debt is raised to
$11.3 trillion to accommodate this scheme [Sec. 10]; and (3) best of
all: “Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act
are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be
reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency” [Sec. 8].
Put another way, this authorizes Hank Paulson to transfer $700 billion
of taxpayer money to private industry in his sole discretion, and
nobody has the right or ability to review or challenge any decision he
makes.
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3816
It’s time for revolution. Where’s Pendejo? :fist:
I think it’s my disgust and anger that’s making me light headed and buzzy. Unfortunately it’s not a pleasant buzz like :bong:
I think King Crimson describes McInsane the best with 21st Century Schizoid Man
I didn’t know they’d been around so long, I always thought they were a late 70’s/80’s band. :smack:
Such a child!
Fripp’s sister Patricia used to live around the corner from me. Something about the Fripp plates on her car that gave it away. She was cutting hair at the time. She has moved on.
Me? 12 Blocks.
Well how would I know, they were ahead of their time. And I always saw that record in the places I shopped.
We just wanna get loaded
And I think they were on that SNL copy cat show Fridays, once.
Vernon,
“To The Contrary” sounds like something that comes out of Harry Shearer’s fictional CPR (Continental Public Radio) Network
whatever happened to Frippertronics?
I am listening to the marathon “All Tomorrow’s Parties” concert on wfmu.org right now. Bob Mould was just on, and now Dinosaur Jr.
Way to go Bernie!
hey its 5:16 and no new blog?
hey its 5:16 and no new blog?
:yippee: i double posted!!!!!