ccmask @ 57

Cassie can brinbg in the Vitter, the Craig & the Foley stories.

Nope. Not US news this year. World news. Library is on Fridays.

Well, you might consider something about how the Europeans are considering regulating American companies which rate home mortgage loans. They’re basically saying we’re selling junk the same way Chinese are selling lead filled paint on toys. They’re saying it has to be internationally regulated and hinting they might not buy ANY if it’s not regulated.

Could you imagine the outrage if Europeans stopped buying our junk mortgage loans?

What if a big part of the whole mortgage loan scam was to dump ‘em abroad as well as here in America, to spread the depressing losses?

Search (google, yahoo, etc.) for German banks, American mortgages.

It’s a fascinating story in the making and will probably be completely ignored by American media until it’s all over.

Larry Craig, David Vitter, Ted Stevens and Pete Domenici.

The Sinning Senators.

I wonder if they do good harmony, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I hear John Ashcroft is looking for a few good back up singers — they’d be called St. John and the Sinners.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 7

How do the righties get away with constantly accusing the MSM of being the liberal press?

It’s a meme they’ve gotten people in America to believe like unions are bad and are responsible for the loss of jobs because of exorbitant wage demands….not like any one contract ever came close to paying a shitload of workers what one friggin hedge fund manager makes, I’m just saying.

Fantastic point. From now on we should always say there can’t be any union blamed for asking too much as long as there is a hedge fund manager makin’ a billion bucks a year.

R-Men’s Room

bwahahahahahaha!

“oh FDL, I wish I could quit you”

(work productivity hovering near zero this week)

Yeah, me too…

(late to the thread, as usual…)

Well gang, I’m going to be writing an op-ed on Craig for the L.A. Times.

Stay tuned.

Gee haw. Let us know & provide us with a link when it’s up.

Aargh, it’s 3-2 Yanks in da Bronx, top of the Sixth! C’mon Cardiac Sox!!! 8-(

Yanks vs. Sox tonight? Nail-biting time. [I’m a Sox fan since 1969.]

Jonathan @ 320:

Hope your daughter is enjoying NYC.

She loves NYC. She’s in Gallatin, concentrating on “Developing Countries.” Spent 6 months in Ghana last year.

Now lives in Williamsburg. [That dreadful Manhattan real estate market.]

I’ve spoken at AA meetings at that psych hospital. Like a walk back in time, literally.

James, I believe the Bushies will use any fearful threat to increase their hold on power.

With respect to resistance – the farm birds are fed antibiotics that act against non-viral critters (bacteria, amoebae, parasites, and the like).

The vast majority of “antibiotics” don’t kill viruses (which is why getting antibiotics for “colds” – caused by viruses – usually is worthless at best).

So I’m not concerned about antibiotics in current ag usage increasing H5N1 virulence.

(Unless tamiflu is used in ag – that would be crazy, but I think tamiflu is still too expensive for ag).

I’m really concerned about antibiotic use in ag because it causes resistance to the antibiotics we humans already use.

ON the other hand, Ihaven’t read Greger’s book, so maybe I’m completely ignorant here.

Wouldn’t be the first time.

I just get nervous when I hear things like they’re trying to get the genome for the pandemic 1918 strain at Ft. Detrick, or there was a researcher who wanted to look at the smallpox samples that were left, and then there’s the researcher at the Universoty of Texas who gets some anthrax spores on him, the Ames strain, even though that strain was supposedly destroyed after the “attacks” on congress (the dems only) in 2001.

When we try sequencing a virus that has been untouched for many years and against which the majority of the population isn’t vaccinated, I start worrying.

I remember the flu scare of 1978 where the vaccine killed more people than the illness itself. I just don;t trust the government to do what’s in my best interest, isn’t that a friggin shame?

Eli @ 359

Just a lot of patience. Plus he got me into an SNL commercial, and a sushi-eating contest… And the cafeteria of a psychiatric hospital on Roosevelt Island, which is every bit as cheery as it sounds.

Eli,

You sound pretty weird.

Please take that as a compliment.

Heh. I usually do.

james @ 367

Eli @ 339

I already made my prediction…

Newt ain’t an attorney (not that being one helped Gonzo).

Like Dubya would care. I think “In your FACE, Dems!” is going to be his #1 selection criterion.