I wasn’t that surprised to see it in The Columbian, but I was disgusted that even the hosts on KPOJ have been referring to the Earth Liberation Front wackos who torched those McMansions up in Woodinville as terrorists.
E.L.F.’s actions are doomed to failure: burning a few model homes won’t stop sprawl or conspicuous consumption, any [...]
And without much of that home equity liquidity extant in the consumer hive that is the U.S., liquidity and manufacturing are drying up worldwide while inflation rides high on record oil prices. Haven’t we seen this movie before?
From our international banker this morning:
The US Institute for Supply Management said its index of factory activity [our [...]
MOGADISHU, Somalia: U.S. naval forces fired missiles into southern Somalia on Monday, aiming at what the Defense Department called terrorist targets.
Residents and the police in the southern town of Dobley said a home had been destroyed and at least eight people, including four children, seriously injured. The U.S. has carried out strikes in Somalia in [...]
February 29, 2008 – 9:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iUsLoj6B7Q
and inauguration day cannot come soon enough.
February 27, 2008 – 12:55 pm
Noam Chomsky reverses a paradigm:
The more vulgar apologists for U.S. and Israeli crimes solemnly explain that, while Arabs purposely kill people, the U.S. and Israel, being democratic societies, do not intend to do so. Their killings are just accidental ones, hence not at the level of moral depravity of their adversaries. That was, for example, [...]
February 26, 2008 – 9:30 am
The preznit met with the National Governors Association yesterday; many of the governors came to the gathering with the economy, the subprime mess and threats of longterm recession on their minds. Many had hoped Bush would support a second stimulus package, one that would spur the economy while rebuilding the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
In his [...]
February 21, 2008 – 9:17 am
The Commerce Department has been forced by Judicial Watch to turn over records of spring, 2001 meetings held between Dick Cheney and execs from global oil giants, records that suggest that the group decided months before September 11th that the US energy policy would center on taking control of Iraq’s oil:
In [...]
February 20, 2008 – 12:57 pm
Obama campaign urges Clinton to concede
Will not happen yet, but one can wish.
19 Percent Approve of Bush
What took soooooo long? Tis better late than never.
Makes one proud to be an American. A new day is dawning…
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February 19, 2008 – 9:37 am
…it’s time to scare you with trains:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers’ carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.
The initiative, to be announced by the railroad on Tuesday, is a significant shift for Amtrak. Unlike the airlines, [...]
February 13, 2008 – 11:40 am
This morning, the preznit got up in a browbeating mood, and decided to bang the drum for telecom immunity right in the House’s ears.
First, a little fearmongering to break the ice:
At this moment, somewhere in the world, terrorists are planning new attacks on our country. Their goal is to bring destruction to our shores [...]
February 8, 2008 – 10:38 am
The maple leaf rises. From our international banker this morning:
Jobs, jobs, jobs. It has been heartening to follow the employment growth in Canada and Australia over the past few years. If the US overly deteriorates maybe there is still some where we can go. Canada created 46,400 jobs in January after a loss of 2900 [...]
February 4, 2008 – 10:12 am
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration unveiled a massive $3.1-trillion budget Monday with soaring deficits.
Main features of the proposed spending plan call for sizable increases in military spending while protecting President George W. Bush’s signature tax cuts.
It shows the U.S. government spending at $3 trillion in a 12-month period for the first time in history.
Despite the [...]
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