Comments on: Early Morning Swim http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:16:20 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: gbsavatar http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748872 gbsavatar Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:14:38 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748872 <p>Any bailout of the automakers is, like the incredible sums being printed for the select group of financial cronies, another example of the endemic corruption of American government. Only some groups of people are worthy of assistance, the rest, eh, they can starve. “Too big to fail” is propaganda for “only some deserve support.”</p> <p>I find it so hard not to just start screaming a long series of profanities.</p> Any bailout of the automakers is, like the incredible sums being printed for the select group of financial cronies, another example of the endemic corruption of American government. Only some groups of people are worthy of assistance, the rest, eh, they can starve. “Too big to fail” is propaganda for “only some deserve support.”

I find it so hard not to just start screaming a long series of profanities.

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748808 Bluetoe2 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:26:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748808 <p>533,000 jobs lost in November.<br /><a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Most_jobs_lost_in_month_in_1205.html" rel="nofollow">http://rawstory.com/news/2008/....._1205.html</a> </p> <p>What will the numbers be if a Republican controlled Congress gleefully watches from the sidelines as the U.S. auto industry collapses? Unions and progressives should begin promoting the idea of a nationwide general strike.</p> 533,000 jobs lost in November.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._1205.html

What will the numbers be if a Republican controlled Congress gleefully watches from the sidelines as the U.S. auto industry collapses? Unions and progressives should begin promoting the idea of a nationwide general strike.

]]> By: sophiehunter http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748795 sophiehunter Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:18:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748795 <p>Seriously, thank you.</p> Seriously, thank you.

]]> By: sophiehunter http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748791 sophiehunter Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:16:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748791 <p>Probably not…..I say let’s get ‘em!</p> Probably not…..I say let’s get ‘em!

]]> By: Elliott http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748790 Elliott Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:14:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748790 <p>gee thanks sophie. .)</p> gee thanks sophie. .)

]]> By: sophiehunter http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748789 sophiehunter Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:14:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748789 <p>Have a great day SD, Namaste.</p> Have a great day SD, Namaste.

]]> By: sophiehunter http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748788 sophiehunter Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:14:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748788 <p>You are so right!</p> You are so right!

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748786 SouthernDragon Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:13:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748786 <p>Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.</p> <p>Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.</p> <p>Namaste</p> Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

]]> By: sophiehunter http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748781 sophiehunter Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:11:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748781 <p>Thanks Elliott, you are always so helpful and on the spot. Yor are one of the best!</p> Thanks Elliott, you are always so helpful and on the spot. Yor are one of the best!

]]> By: ThingsComeUndone http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748780 ThingsComeUndone Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:10:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/05/early-morning-swim-61/#comment-1748780 <p>When the Palins began building a new family home off Lake Lucille in 2002—at the same time that Palin was running for lieutenant governor and in her final months as mayor—Spenard supplied the materials, according to Antoine Bricks, who works in its Wasilla office. Spenard actually filed a notice “of its right to assert a lien” on the deed for the Palin property after contracting for labor and materials for the site. Spenard’s name has popped up in the trial of Senator Stevens—it worked on the house that is at the center of the VECO scandal as well.</p> <p>Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of contractors he described as “buddies.” As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city, and there is no public record of who the “buddies” were. The house was built very near the complex, on a site whose city purchase led to years of unsuccessful litigation and, now, $1.3 million in additional costs, with a law firm that’s also donated to Palin collecting costly fees from the city.</p> <p><a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/news/the-book-of-sarah/5" rel="nofollow">http://www.villagevoice.com/20.....of-sarah/5</a></p> <p>Has she paid taxes for this gift?</p> When the Palins began building a new family home off Lake Lucille in 2002—at the same time that Palin was running for lieutenant governor and in her final months as mayor—Spenard supplied the materials, according to Antoine Bricks, who works in its Wasilla office. Spenard actually filed a notice “of its right to assert a lien” on the deed for the Palin property after contracting for labor and materials for the site. Spenard’s name has popped up in the trial of Senator Stevens—it worked on the house that is at the center of the VECO scandal as well.

Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of contractors he described as “buddies.” As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city, and there is no public record of who the “buddies” were. The house was built very near the complex, on a site whose city purchase led to years of unsuccessful litigation and, now, $1.3 million in additional costs, with a law firm that’s also donated to Palin collecting costly fees from the city.

http://www.villagevoice.com/20…..of-sarah/5

Has she paid taxes for this gift?

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