Rachel Maddow was fantastic again last night!

You know speaking of no sense of humor… Joaquin Phoenix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..gspot.com/

Unless it was some sort of “bizarre Andy Kaufman” type performance.

I love it. According to the Fat Cat CEO’s of 2009, the word “bonus” is no longer used by them. Yeah, yeah, they now use words like “award” and “retention incentive” instead. Of course, the CEO’s are also saying these big payouts are part of their contracts, but they’re forgetting that if they’re using ‘contracts’ then that means that money is part of their yearly salary when they originally.

Estate tax = death tax
bank bailout = Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

You have to fix the name to make crap sell.

Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down

Isn’t this the place with the indoors ski slope?

Too bad Ds aren’t as clever at naming. SCHIP, ugh.

I thought that was Japan.

Happy 200th birthday to Charles Darwin.

May be but this is the place I was thinking of.

WRT “we made them do it” meme, not at all. The stim is not a victory for us on the left, it’s a victory for the plummeting jobs.

Turns out there’s quite a few of them! Who’d a guessed?

Why is Paul Lukasiak’s non-existent blog still on the blog roll?

Back in the day when I enjoyed snow I always hated artificial snow. Now I hate both kinds. I remember when Bend, OR was a hot spot for hippie ski bums. No longer.

I only ski on real snow. I skiied for years at Hunter, NY, which is primarily man-made. Never got the hang of skiing on ice.

Morning, BT & all. Um….

Wingnuts have no sense of humor.

Yeah they do. Just ask Eric Cantor. Heh.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Namaste

Good article in the Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…..-recession

Not just the banksters to blame for the economic collapse but the fetish of the “free market” and deregulation. That fetish along with tax cuts as the cure all is alive and well in the Republican party and the corporate media.

Rahmbo works for Obama, if Obama had serious objections, they wouldn’t have been done.

Leahy is calling for a “Truth and Reconcilliation Commission” to address the crimes of the Bush regime. Constitutional authority Jonathan Turley says it’s a terrible idea for a nation that has a developed judicial system. It’s a cop out.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._0211.html

Watching Scarbrough and gang (including Maria Bartiromo) this a.m. Had Time’s Richard Stengel on to push next week’s issue which has an article, “The 25 to Blame” (IIRC). One of the 25: Alan Greenspan. Very interesting to watch the co-workers of Mr. Andrea Mitchell squirming in discomfort. Largely speechless when Stengel brought him up. Bartiromo observed that she thought the list was fairly accurate.

Chickens. Roosting.

FINALLY. That moron Jack Welch is not on CNBC this morning…

Instead, it’s Orin Kramer, an Obama campaign adviser.

w00t!

And they are even listening to him intently, not talking over him. Color me shocked – and pleased, even.

Factoid of the day: stim is about 3%/year for this year and next, whereas jobs are being lost at twice that rate.

Mornin’, Dragon. Wow! that article about Dubai really hits me where I live. My mural partner and I were offered high six figures to work for a hotel chain there early last year and, after much discussion,- even through it would have been our only payday-m we turned it down. We were afraid that as a woman and a gay man, we would be under high scrutiny and were fearful of the outcome. We are so glad we did not go. Thanks for the linky.

I emailed Rachel’s show to suggest a “debate” between Turley and Leahy on her show. I know her format would have to adjust to something like that, but it would be fascinating TeeVee.

Thanks for the link, SD. Sounds really bad in Dubai – and debtors’ prison still in effect there.

Isn’t Dubai where Cheney has a gated home (palace)?

Article said the artificial island is sinking and in the 5 star hotels water taps produce only cockroaches….guess this could be called the Dubai Double Bubble.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer country.

I always love this thread: But the links…Sirota, good and quirky; the Jindal: Read the racists comments (or don’t)…cretins; Rove: Who cares? Yapping again. What a way to start the morning ;)

Dubai is the fantasy world for these Randian whackjobs….Dubai and Chile under Pinochet are their fantasies.

As Lynne Cheney would say, these are bad people.

-G

Turley pointed out how a “Truth and Reconcillation Commission” is applicable for emerging democracies such as S. Africa but in an established democracy with a well developed judicial system it’s a real cop out and sets a dangerous precedent.

Apparently Dubai has debtors prison so the folks who are losing their shirts are flying out in droves and leaving their expensive cars with the keys in them…..

The great unraveling.

-G

please tell me larry summers was on the list?

What does she say about Shooter her husband?

Couldn’t happen to a nicer country.

huh?

just like here i expect it will not be the people who have abused their power who are the ones who will now suffer the most.

that is a really excellent point.

except that i disagree about the the “established democracy with a well developed judicial system” part. :(

Turley’s terms not mine.

Yeah. Looks like that ‘if you build it they will come’ got out of hand, huh?

Oh, so we should hope the wealthy keep all their wealth to avoid the consequences of a burst bubble for the real people? Sounds like trickle down in the extreme.

Most of what I’ve read and heard (including B. Clinton on Davos) lay the cause of the world economic melt-down onto USA. Lotsa those Middle East folks are strong on revenge….

Christy has a new diary up at her new digs on the Dubai situation, and other economic unraveling.

no. but your comment was about the whole country and not only the wealthy. i didn’t think that was what you meant to write.

personally, i would like the consequences to fall on those most able to cope. but then i don’t care if some people are rich – what i care about is how that distorts power and interests.

eCAHNomics, selise, Rayne and all.

I would greatly appreciate anyone willing to dialogue about the National Infrastructure Bank, NIB. I have been harping on it at Oxdown but only a few have made comments on whether it’s a good idea. I think we need to look at it and start the conversation about it here before it’s a done deal and we have had no thoughts on the matter. Thanks in advance to anyone willing to learn more and dialogue about it.

Charles Robert Darwin was born 200 years ago today in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

There is grandeur in this view of life,
with its several powers,
having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one;
and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on
according to the fixed law of gravity,
from so simple a beginning
endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful
have been, and are being, evolved.
—Darwin, concluding On the Origin of Species in 1859

Happy Darwin Day!

Turley debated Dems quite often during the Clinton impeachment, when he (Turley) ardently believed that a bj and a too-close definition of “having sex with that woman” were high crimes and misdemeanors.

Yes,
Darwin’s a God

klynn – thank you and please keep reminding me (you are welcome to do so by email as well – click on my name and see the contact link at the top right). squeaky wheel and all that.

i just finished posting today’s hearing list and in minute am going to work on other things. so i’m afraid it might be forgotten again. just feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment, please forgive…

thank you so much for your Oxdown post. It is terrific!