Displaying 16,021 To 16,050 Of 16,275 Comments Is Grabamop Eric Holder’s screen name? 😉 » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 7:52 am Holder said that some where near 300 similar cases have been tried in criminal court. If I would have known that I would have been a lot more scared for a lot longer. I’m going to go lock my doors and windows. » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 7:36 am And Sessions is a Wussy. » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 7:20 am Judiciary hearing on right now. C-Span 3 Eric Holder and the KSM case. Who will make the biggest fool of themselves? » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 7:07 am Lot of news on the jobs front in my mail box today. “House Democratic leaders are considering imposing a new tax on stock transactions to fund a jobs bill,” The Hill reports. The idea, which has been pushed by Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), “is attractive because it’s very small, likely 0.25 percent of each trade.” Though “Small- and medium-sized investors would hardly notice a transaction tax,” major trading firms “may see it as a significant threat to their profits.” » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 10:45 am Anyone familiar with this “new Stimulus/jobs” bill? I haven’t heard that it was close to a bill? “We say it’s about time, I say you’ve got to be kidding me,” said Cantor. Bet you they (GOP) will find some way to fight it. » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 10:21 am Agreed!! It is at the root of most of the country’s miladies. IMO » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 4:39 pm KQ, was that not part of the last two crashes? There wasn’t enough capital behind those portfolios? Are securities “secure”? » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 4:35 pm Yes. I have about 2 pages of links on this topic and half a post. Not being an accomplished writer its is taking me too much time. You may like this one: http://www.iiipublishing.com/afd/santaclara.html » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 4:17 pm The funny thing is the courts never really did say that: » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 4:01 pm In the 60’s at the famous “kitchen table summit” Khrushchev said to Nixon “You have have every thing you need and more. What will bring down your country is GREED” My father would repeat that story to me every time a money scandal was in the news. » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 3:48 pm I commented earlier about “A Green Bank” If you would like to listen to the segment it was on “talk of the nation today » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 3:30 pm Javaz, There is a company that manufactures photovoltaic systems in Tucson. They needed a new plant. Where did they build it? Germany. When I asked them why, they said we have more customers in Germany! What, no sun in AZ? (NY has more solar collectors than AZ) » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 3:02 pm LORDY! » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 2:45 pm Whack a Mole? » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 2:39 pm OK. KQ, Whats the trick to make your pics visible. Not just the link? » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 2:36 pm Exactly . » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 2:33 pm Heard toay on NPR that Schummer and some major progressives are attempting to pass a bill setting up what they call “a green bank” to help finance green companies and jobs. Odds? » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 2:31 pm A family member “bragged” to me about how much money he was making from a big multinational.(non-union) I just shook my head. I told him I was making as much (with bennies) working union in the ’80s. Shameful. » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 2:23 pm Afternoon, Javaz, » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 2:14 pm There are a some things that the average person can do to help the economy. Maybe not fix everything in the global fixture, but perhaps a small help in your community. I am not trying to sound like the “chamber of commerce” just helping your community. » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 1:56 pm Political correctness, sexism, and the assault on civility Opps, did Texas get a little too correct? » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 3:49 pm Here’s a few: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050509/blumenthal I bought myself a subscription for my birthday one year 😛 » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 3:30 pm Ah, Now I understand my x. 😉 » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 3:15 pm Max has a bunch of good articles in “the Nation” I don’t know if you can get to them without a subscription. » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 3:10 pm What is this “pride” that repugs have in anti-intelligence? “I ain’t got me no edumacation but I think Obama is…. He outa …..” » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 3:05 pm The whole article is good. I had to pick and choose. Guess I was attracted to the part about “real America”. That just rubs me the wrong way…”real American…Real Patriot…” Real, real real! What as opposed to false? Sheesh! » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 2:54 pm Nellie thanks for the link (and a reminder to listen to Amy) » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 2:23 pm Choicelady, I thank you for all your work. It does seem to me you are in a better position to change the hearts and minds of people. It also seems that you are the one to give guidance on what we should be doing. Perhaps we should be writing as many letters to MSM as we do to our elected reps. » Posted By bito On November 18, 2009 @ 8:48 am Wow, you are worked up as Frank was. I can not disagree with a word you say> What are we going to do about it? I am old school. Join your local party meetings, go to your local city/town meetings. Become a precinct person, work for candidates, walk door to door, and yes do the dreaded phone banking. Elections are fun–legislation is work. Writ letters to editors, congress. If everyone would commit two hrs a week, there will be a change. » Posted By bito On November 17, 2009 @ 7:13 pmComments Posted By bito
Hatch say the previous prosecutions were not successful because they did not get the death penalty!
I have been writing and talking about this tax for a long time. I felt it was one way to pay for health care but I will accept this way to pay for jobs.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h1-v8_4uEROQtVLibsQgS2nWDN9A
Of course Eric Cantor had to make a snide comment about it.
“Sometimes it is difficult for us to take the other side seriously, but if they are serious we welcome this news,” he added, urging Pelosi to work with Republicans to craft the bill.
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood
Justice Sotomayor brought the subject up in her fist case. I read a bunch of th e transcript and I don’t think it will sway any of the others but Ginsberg.
page 33
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/08-205%5BReargued%5D.pdf
This last fall in our economy will take some time to pull out of, I fear. Will the RW give any help?
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=120502566&m=120502561
It begins at around 18 min. in.
They name of the group is “Coalition for a Green Bank”
Actually the whole program is good.
Just stating the old “along journey begins with the first step.” X-Mas is coming, think about where your money is going when you buy that gift.
Many local governments are having budget problems. Local budgets often depend on a regressive sales tax. I propose by doing the simple thing of buying locally. Use the small business that you have been meaning to try anyway. Don’t be purchasing on the internet (to save the sales tax). Use a local bookstore not the chain, the local hardware not Home Depot. The local grocer not the national store. The local craftsman, artisan….. Keep you money in your locale, not shipped away to some large bank and invested elsewhere. Join a local credit union for the same reason( and avoid so many fees)
These few things will help your community, your schools, your neighbors jobs and homes. Think about where your monies go.
Group Says Prop. 2 Could Make Straight Marriage Illegal.
Faulty wording in a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage poses a bigger threat to “traditional” marriage than all the homosexuals in the world, opponents of Prop. 2 declared Monday, the first day of early voting.
the Rev. Tom Hegar, a Presbyterian minister, warns that because the second part of the proposed amendment, prohibiting the recognition of “any legal status identical or similar to marriage,” fails to distinguish between same-sex couples and heterosexual couples, a “liberal activist judge” could see fit to void all marriages. “Don’t risk it; vote against it,” Hegar says, and ends with “God bless you.”
read more:http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A303822
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050425/blumenthal
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/352178/ultra_secretive_right_wing_group_met_in_minn_to_vet_palin
You may like this by Max: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/blumenthal
By emphasizing her own crises and her victimization by the “liberal media,” Palin has established an invisible, indissoluble bond with adherents of that subculture–so visceral it transcends any rational political analysis. As a result, her career has become a vehicle through which the right-wing evangelical movement feels it can express its deepest identity in opposition both to secular society and to its representatives in the Obama White House. Palin is perceived by its leaders–and followers–not as another cynical politician or even as a self-promoting celebrity but as a kind of magical helper, the God-fearing glamor girl who parachuted into their backwater towns to lift them from the drudgery of everyday life, assuring them that they represented the “Real America.”
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