DoJ Official Resigned over Purged Prosecutor Flap? By Paul Kiel - March 5, 2007, 1:42 PM About an hour ago, we heard that Michael Battle, the Director of the Executive Office of the United States Attorney, had resigned from his post, and that the resignation had been reported on Fox News.
Since then, we've been madly trying to confirm that. I called Mr. Battle himself, who refused to confirm or deny the report, referring me on to the Department of Justice's public affairs office, whose number it took him some time to dig up.
The public affairs office, however, seems to have been caught unawares by Mr. Battle's resignation (if indeed he has resigned). I've been informed that a statement from the department is forthcoming. We'll bring it to you as soon as we have it.
Update: The AP reports:
The department also said that Michael Battle — a senior Justice official who directed the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and who had personally informed the ousted U.S. attorneys of their removal — would leave his post March 16.
Battle, who has held his post since June 2005, notified U.S. attorneys of his decision in January and had informed the department last summer that he wished to pursue opportunities in the private sector, the department said. Battle was not involved in the actual decision-making that led to the prosecutors' ouster, the department said.
"His departure is not connected to the U.S. attorney controversy whatsoever," Roehrkasse said.
Later Update: Sen. Schumer comments:
“This raises another question about a subject where there are already too many unanswered questions. While Mike Battle, a man of integrity, must issue the customary denial, the timing of his resignation asks whether he’s another casualty of the U.S. Attorneys imbroglio.”
The Daily Muck By Andrew Bielak - March 5, 2007, 10:29 AM Ashcroft Straddles Two Sides on Radio Merger Debate "Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who sent a letter this week to his successor Alberto Gonzales blasting the proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., approached XM in the days after the merger was announced offering the firm his consulting services, a spokesman for XM said Saturday. The spokesman said XM declined Mr. Ashcroft's offer to work as a lobbyist for the company. Mr. Ashcroft was subsequently hired by the National Association of Broadcasters, which is fiercely opposed to the merger." (The Wall Street Journal, sub. req.)
Two More Subpoenas March 5th, 2007 by Karina Congresswoman Linda Sánchez, Chairwoman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL), announced this morning that her subcommittee will seek to issue subpoenas to two additional former U.S. Attorneys who were fired by the Bush Administration.
The CAL Subcommittee will meet on Tuesday, March 6 at 10:00 am in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building, to vote on issuing subpoenas to former U.S. Attorneys Daniel Bogden of Nevada and Paul K. Charlton of Arizona. The subpoenas would require them to testify before the subcommittee at its hearing scheduled for the same afternoon, joining four other former U.S. Attorneys who CAL subpoenaed last week.
Mr Seder is the celebrated hero of the Seder revolution in Lebanon, New Jersey. The author of numerous books that all his friends have read, including "Rapture-Ready: a christian cookbook," "Pokemon: Celebi's Dream," and "SNAFUBAR - The Last Acronym," for which he won a Pulitzer prize. He is the current World Featherweight Boxing Champion, and an agent of the Bavarian Illuminati. Mr Seder runs a Nobel-nominated blog with the help of a top secret super-computer underneath a mountain in W. Virginia.
Cheney has blood clot in leg, not hospitalized 12 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors found a blood clot in Vice President Dick Cheney's left leg on Monday but he was not admitted to a hospital and will be treated with blood thinning medication, his office said.
Cheney, who has a history of heart troubles, went to his doctor's office after he "experienced mild calf discomfort," his office said in a statement.
"An ultrasound revealed a deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or 'blood clot' in his left lower leg," it said. "His doctors will treat him with blood thinning medication for several months. The vice president has returned to the White House to resume his schedule."
US economy suddenly appears vulnerable by Rob Lever Sun Mar 4, 5:39 PM ET
The US economic expansion suddenly seems more fragile than thought just weeks earlier, after a sharp downward revision to the past quarter's growth and renewed fears about the slump in real estate.
The latest revision to US gross domestic product (GDP) showed the world's largest economy expanded at a tepid 2.2 percent pace in the fourth quarter, instead of the 3.5 percent growth spurt in the official estimate a month earlier.
That was the sharpest downward revision in a decade, and was attributed to weak business spending and a drawdown of inventories from cautious firms.
Still, most forecasters say the economy will muddle through 2007 at a sluggish pace, in line with Federal Reserve forecasts.
But some say the picture is more shaky than it appeared a few weeks ago. And many are renewing forecasts for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve sometime this year to help pick up the pace of economic activity.
Manufacturing has been sluggish, highlighted by the 7.8 percent drop in durable goods orders last month.
And some say the US has yet to see the full effect of the housing downturn, reflected in the 19.1 percent slide in residential investment in the fourth quarter.
The end of the real estate boom has resulted in high failure rates among risky or "subprime" mortgages, given to borrowers with below-average credit ratings, and some say this crisis could spill over.
"We are seeing cracks in this easy-money-now-not-so-easy environment," said Andrew Busch, analyst at BMO Nesbitt Burns.
He said 20 subprime lenders "have either shut down or been forced to shut down" and more failures are expected. While most major banks are not in the sector, a wave of failures could spread throughout the financial system, some warn.
Stephen Gallagher, economist at Societe Generale in New York, said the sub-prime lending pullback "is a mini crisis that raises questions about complacency in general."
I think Ann Coultur was born a hermaphidite(born with box sexes) and her parents decided that the h he/she would be a she and she's been pissed off ever since!
Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth, wine, smooth as a golden sword, soft as lascivious velvet, wine, spiral-seashelled and full of wonder, amorous, marine; never has one goblet contained you, one song, one man, you are choral, gregarious, at the least, you must be shared. At times you feed on mortal memories; your wave carries us from tomb to tomb, stonecutter of icy sepulchers, and we weep transitory tears; your glorious spring dress is different, blood rises through the shoots, wind incites the day, nothing is left of your immutable soul. Wine stirs the spring, happiness bursts through the earth like a plant, walls crumble, and rocky cliffs, chasms close, as song is born. A jug of wine, and thou beside me in the wilderness, sang the ancient poet. Let the wine pitcher add to the kiss of love its own.
My darling, suddenly the line of your hip becomes the brimming curve of the wine goblet, your breast is the grape cluster, your nipples are the grapes, the gleam of spirits lights your hair, and your navel is a chaste seal stamped on the vessel of your belly, your love an inexhaustible cascade of wine, light that illuminates my senses, the earthly splendor of life.
But you are more than love, the fiery kiss, the heat of fire, more than the wine of life; you are the community of man, translucency, chorus of discipline, abundance of flowers. I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine. Drink it, and remember in every drop of gold, in every topaz glass, in every purple ladle, that autumn labored to fill the vessel with wine; and in the ritual of his office, let the simple man remember to think of the soil and of his duty, to propagate the canticle of the wine.
a Rikers Island inmate was arrested on Monday for allegedly offering an undercover cop $65,000 dollars to kill New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and bomb police headquarters in lower Manhattan.
Authorities say 47-year-old David Brown, of Brooklyn, who's serving time at Rikers Island, was arrested for criminal solicitation. Brown is charged with offering an undercover officer $15,000 dollars to kill Kelly by beheading, and $50,000 dollars to bomb One Police Plaza, officials said.
In taped phone and in-person interviews at Rikers in February, the inmate told the undercover officer that he was "fed up with the case where the guy got shot 50 times," referring to the Sean Bell case. Brown blamed Kelly for not prosecuting the officers.
Brown was convicted in 2001 of attempted murder of his wife. The 6-foot-2, 375-pound suspect is currently serving time for violation of an order of protection against her. Brown was convicted previously on a total of 30 charges -- 14 of them felonies, including five violent crimes.
There hasn't been anyone here posting with the name of Legion. With millions of blogs someone is confusing this blog with another blog. It happens a lot.
I'm not a communist. I'm too young to have made up my mind but I think I'm an voluntary association-ist by choice and a democratic socialist by necessity.
I would argue that it is not communism to blame for many of those deaths, but authoritarianism. Whether it's Bush, Pol Pot, Franco, or Pinochet, I'd say that tyrannical forms of government have proven themselves failures.
As for calling me stupid for supporting those regimes: I could rebut by stating that I'd never indicated support for those regimes. I could rebut by pointing out that fascism, and it's little brother, capitalism, have caused as much or more harm. I could even rebut by saying that Pol Pot can hardly be classified as communist (bat shit crazy is, of course, the proper term).
I think I'll stick with just telling you to GFY instead.
Nobody has combatted State Socialism more than we German Socialists; nobody has shown more distinctively than I, that State Socialism is really State capitalism!
See, Nobody is really cool. That's why the scum attack him even when he's not here.
The ineffable dunce has nothing to say … embroidering it with reasonless vulgarities of attitudes, gestures and attire. There was never an impostor so hateful … a crank so variously stupid and dull. He makes me tired.
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (created for the upcoming issue of Left Turn Magazine)
[Out of Brooklyn have sprung two inspiring models of community-based radical childcare. The organizers of Regeneración Childcare NYC weave their own experiences and those of Pachamama: the Bushwick Childcare Cooperative into an enchanting tale of communities taking care of each other in their own ways in the shadow of the Architects of Despair.]
Once upon a time... in a land called Argentina, there lived hundreds of thousands of people who found themselves with no work. In spite of this, they struggled and found ways to survive. Some formed Unemployed Workers Movements and, over time, were overcome by three beautiful feelings. Listening and speaking with each other, they felt “rage.” Rage was the feeling they felt when they learned that it wasn’t just by chance, but rather by design, that so many of them were out of work.
The unemployed workers called the designers of their most unfortunate situation the “Architects of Despair.” The Architects of Despair practiced a devastating magic—capitalism—that they had been casting intensely over the past decades, taking over all of Argentina’s industries and resources. The unemployed workers organized their rage and they forced the Architects of Despair to give them the things they needed to survive. In this way, the unemployed workers discovered a second feeling, “hope.” ...
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Bushwick was one of the areas hardest hit by looting and arson during the 1977 NYC blackout. The community was impovershed before the blackout and was devistated.
The fucking Humane Society/animal control people put out a two page artile full of lies about Sonora Cat Rescue in their newsletter to 2,00 of the 'big wigs' in this town...Basically they're trying to shut us down...because since we adopt out cats only for a donation, they charge money...we take away from their adoptions..! They even treatened to take the President of our group to court & take her house!
Jeez man...wtf is wrong with people? They're so 'powerful' they've been able to shut down vets who don't play by their rules! This is bullshit NC....
"'At 9:30 the lights went out,' recalled a weary, disheveled cop at the 81st Precinct house in Brooklyn. 'At 9:40 they were breaking into stores. A woman called in and told me, ''They're coming across Bushwick Avenue like buffalo''"
I am please to see another AAR blog brought to it's knees. Soon there will nothing left but the stain of AAR. I knew it was rubbish from the start. This proves once and for all that liberal and left wing theories are nonsense.
Heya conbo. glad you liked the uncyclopedia entry. It changes a bit every now and then... I have to fix it up from time to time, because the right wingers like to make it unfunny, and I need to re-funnyatize it.
//dada said... Heya conbo. glad you liked the uncyclopedia entry. It changes a bit every now and then... I have to fix it up from time to time, because the right wingers like to make it unfunny, and I need to re-funnyatize it.//
haha!
it was very funny! i especially liked the part about the Super Computer that runs the blog from underneath the W Virginia mountains
Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, interviewed by Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder on Air America's Majority Report. There are four parts. Here's Part 1 at YouTube
Today we start off with The Sam Seder Show. Celebrity news is not news when it's not on E! But its funny that in the context of Sam's show talking about Rudy Giuliani is a lot like celebrity gossip.
So what was up with "America's Mayor"? It seems he's polling really well and closing the gap between himself and Jon "I'll say anything to make you love me Evangelicals" McCain.
Of course all the brown nosing up to the far right wing megachurchers is rough when your married to your third wife who was your former mistress while you lived in Gracie mansion while you were just New York City's perhaps most unpopular mayor.
Seeing as how your wife (#2, the first wife was his second cousin but who's counting) was still living in Gracie Mansion at the time and so were your children, Awkward!
I guess being unknown to the rest of the country outside of NYC is a real plus, Hizzoner you do know that these details are going to be used to smear you just as soon as the mud slinging phase of the primaries gets underway?
Oh hey fun fact (except for all the dead fire men that resulted, so actually it's a tragic fact) we came to know Giuliani as "America's Mayor" as we watched him stride about the concrete canyons of lower Manhattan on that terrible day the Twin Towers were raised to the ground in that murderous attack.
Now a natural question (unless you work for Viacom/CBS, Disney, Time Warner, News Corp. and NBC/GE) is shouldn't he have been too busy in a city wide command center coordinating the cities first responders and emergency resources. Sadly it turns out his command center was most unfortunately placed on the 23rd floor of Tower 7 of the World Trade Center. ...
Today we start off with The Sam Seder Show. Celebrity news is not news when it's not on E! But its funny that in the context of Sam's show talking about Rudy Giuliani is a lot like celebrity gossip.
So what was up with "America's Mayor"? It seems he's polling really well and closing the gap between himself and Jon "I'll say anything to make you love me Evangelicals" McCain.
Of course all the brown nosing up to the far right wing megachurchers is rough when your married to your third wife who was your former mistress while you lived in Gracie mansion while you were just New York City's perhaps most unpopular mayor.
Seeing as how your wife (#2, the first wife was his second cousin but who's counting) was still living in Gracie Mansion at the time and so were your children, Awkward!
I guess being unknown to the rest of the country outside of NYC is a real plus, Hizzoner you do know that these details are going to be used to smear you just as soon as the mud slinging phase of the primaries gets underway?
Oh hey fun fact (except for all the dead fire men that resulted, so actually it's a tragic fact) we came to know Giuliani as "America's Mayor" as we watched him stride about the concrete canyons of lower Manhattan on that terrible day the Twin Towers were raised to the ground in that murderous attack.
Now a natural question (unless you work for Viacom/CBS, Disney, Time Warner, News Corp. and NBC/GE) is shouldn't he have been too busy in a city wide command center coordinating the cities first responders and emergency resources. Sadly it turns out his command center was most unfortunately placed on the 23rd floor of Tower 7 of the World Trade Center. ...
Chiapas: charges in jungle massacre; land conflicts escalate
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Tue, 03/06/2007 - 02:47.
Diego Arcos Meneses, an indigenous Chol Maya campesino, has been arrested by Chiapas state police and charged with murder in connection with November's massacre at the rainforest settlement of Viejo Velasco. The Chol campesino organization Xinich protests his innocence. The Xinich statement says Arcos Meneses, 42, is health promoter and Jesuit "catechist" (lay worker) at the settlement of Nuevo Tila, Ocosingo municipality. "Regrettably in our country such human gestures can be dangerous: solidarity is criminalized while repression walks with impunity," says Xinich, the group believed by rights observers to have actually been targeted in the attack. (Xinich statement, March 4)
Meanwhile, land conflicts in the Chiapas rainforest are rapidly escalating, and the Organization for the Defense of Indigenous and Campesino Rights (OPDDIC) is emerging as an aggressive new force. This is the group which both Xinich and the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) say was really behind the Viejo Velasco massacre. Especially at issue are lands claimed by OPDDIC as "Ejido Mukulum Bachajon," now home to the Zapatista "autonomous municipalities" 17 de Noviembre, Vicente Guerrero and Olga Isabel. ...
SJ: you gonna start organising the people around you that love their pets?
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Thanks! Yes...I am going to have to do that...luckily it's one area where a person's political affiliation may be unimportant...Loving their pets...I think...
You're a bright person, WFC... thanks... I sure hope all of us do get to meet this Summer...speaking of...I don't think that was fishgrease earlier....
I have no doubt that we'll meet up some day. I've been blessed with meeting some really incredible people here, and I see no reason not to continue that streak.
Dang that fdl link is killer & exactly what I needed...cool!
--No one is going to read your eleven page Unabomber-style manifesto.--
LMAO!!
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Man, working today was like working three days straight...!! I really miss the Monday bookmobile trip now that I see how much more work there is at HQ...
Then I come home to this cat crap... (heh...)...I have't worked a day after being up all night in a long time...this might suck royally unless I get my hands on the proper coffee to prop me up...
Thanks, NC...you're right too..they probably will be able to do that b/c they have the power to do it...it's as above, so below when it comes to feds & local govt too..they suck equally...but less.. or more...whatever...I'm rambling...once I get going...
The letter is rounding out better now...it was a total unabomber manifesto when I first started it... it's taking on that glacial sheet of smooth ice look now..
As for sites, I mainly read politics. I check kos, MyLeftWing, digby, Jesus' General, Rude Pundit, TalkLeft, Wolcott, Glenn Greenwald, Juan Cole, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, TheNewsBlog, FDL, TPM and it's subsidiaries, and I usually read the MRR folks' blogs, or at least a few of them.
I imagine none of those sites are new to you, but I'm still getting my political education, so that's where my reading focus lies. I also keep an eye on the wire services, as well as CNN and Raw Story. For entertainment, I read something other than blogs. Right now I'm re-reading Watership Down and Four Past Midnight, and I'm finishing a book called Spook by Mary Roach. Her first book was pretty good, too.
With reading that many sites, I hope you use the rss feeds? I find it so helpful...I use the google newsreader...I've used yahoo's too...I prefer google..seems to update faster...
anyway...I think I will give sleep another try now that this letter & research is underway...You've been such a great help WFC..
Sometimes this blog is like a magic 8-ball...right answers at the right times.......and yet still oh so Left... 8-)
I've never used RSS feeds. Up until a month ago, I was blogging from a P2 running Win98SE, so adding things that auto-updated were a no-no. I'll have to look into a feed reader one of these days, but for now, I just read what I can when I can.
Sleep well, A. Pleasure blogging with ya, as always.
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-conbo
DoJ Official Resigned over Purged Prosecutor Flap?
By Paul Kiel - March 5, 2007, 1:42 PM
About an hour ago, we heard that Michael Battle, the Director of the Executive Office of the United States Attorney, had resigned from his post, and that the resignation had been reported on Fox News.
Since then, we've been madly trying to confirm that. I called Mr. Battle himself, who refused to confirm or deny the report, referring me on to the Department of Justice's public affairs office, whose number it took him some time to dig up.
The public affairs office, however, seems to have been caught unawares by Mr. Battle's resignation (if indeed he has resigned). I've been informed that a statement from the department is forthcoming. We'll bring it to you as soon as we have it.
Update: The AP reports:
The department also said that Michael Battle — a senior Justice official who directed the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and who had personally informed the ousted U.S. attorneys of their removal — would leave his post March 16.
Battle, who has held his post since June 2005, notified U.S. attorneys of his decision in January and had informed the department last summer that he wished to pursue opportunities in the private sector, the department said. Battle was not involved in the actual decision-making that led to the prosecutors' ouster, the department said.
"His departure is not connected to the U.S. attorney controversy whatsoever," Roehrkasse said.
Later Update: Sen. Schumer comments:
“This raises another question about a subject where there are already too many unanswered questions. While Mike Battle, a man of integrity, must issue the customary denial, the timing of his resignation asks whether he’s another casualty of the U.S. Attorneys imbroglio.”
LINK
The Daily Muck
By Andrew Bielak - March 5, 2007, 10:29 AM
Ashcroft Straddles Two Sides on Radio Merger Debate
"Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who sent a letter this week to his successor Alberto Gonzales blasting the proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., approached XM in the days after the merger was announced offering the firm his consulting services, a spokesman for XM said Saturday. The spokesman said XM declined Mr. Ashcroft's offer to work as a lobbyist for the company. Mr. Ashcroft was subsequently hired by the National Association of Broadcasters, which is fiercely opposed to the merger." (The Wall Street Journal, sub. req.)
Continue reading...
Two More Subpoenas
March 5th, 2007 by Karina
Congresswoman Linda Sánchez, Chairwoman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL), announced this morning that her subcommittee will seek to issue subpoenas to two additional former U.S. Attorneys who were fired by the Bush Administration.
The CAL Subcommittee will meet on Tuesday, March 6 at 10:00 am in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building, to vote on issuing subpoenas to former U.S. Attorneys Daniel Bogden of Nevada and Paul K. Charlton of Arizona. The subpoenas would require them to testify before the subcommittee at its hearing scheduled for the same afternoon, joining four other former U.S. Attorneys who CAL subpoenaed last week.
http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=86
fishgrease!
where have you been?
what is it like in the real world?
i hear its polluted
-conbo
i can't believe Sam is still using blogger
wtf
actually i can believe it
-conbo
is this anyway to treat the Noble Nominated Bloggers?
making them use Google blogger?
-conbo
i am going to get a lawyer
Cheney has a blood clot in his left leg. Means he has to go on a blood thinner.
He went to the Doctor and they took the ultra sound, but now he is back to work.
I won't say what my thought are!
i said...
Uuuhhh... it's called "Viacom," man. Youtube had nothing to do with it.
March 4, 2007 3:08 PM
Right. I had been blogging for many hours.
__________________________
K... forgiven... been there
from the uncyclopedia dada posted:
Sam Seder
Mr Seder is the celebrated hero of the Seder revolution in Lebanon, New Jersey. The author of numerous books that all his friends have read, including "Rapture-Ready: a christian cookbook," "Pokemon: Celebi's Dream," and "SNAFUBAR - The Last Acronym," for which he won a Pulitzer prize. He is the current World Featherweight Boxing Champion, and an agent of the Bavarian Illuminati. Mr Seder runs a Nobel-nominated blog with the help of a top secret super-computer underneath a mountain in W. Virginia.
-conbo
CONBO!
YES. this blows. it's like using tin cans ansd wires!
Cheney has blood clot in leg, not hospitalized 12 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors found a blood clot in Vice President Dick Cheney's left leg on Monday but he was not admitted to a hospital and will be treated with blood thinning medication, his office said.
Cheney, who has a history of heart troubles, went to his doctor's office after he "experienced mild calf discomfort," his office said in a statement.
"An ultrasound revealed a deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or 'blood clot' in his left lower leg," it said. "His doctors will treat him with blood thinning medication for several months. The vice president has returned to the White House to resume his schedule."
LINK
CONBO!
YES. this blows. it's like using tin cans ansd wires!
it was fun and campy the first six months but now
i am starting to lose faith in the Prophet Seder
-conbo
There are a lot of people who were bummed that Cheney wasn't offed in that bombing attempt.
Millions of people hope that Cheney will croak...and soon.
That collective vibe is out there. It can't be ignored. It is real.
Cheney has to be feeling it, big time. Even a prick as evil as Cheney has to be feeling the angry hatred that is directed at him thru the ether!
US economy suddenly appears vulnerable by Rob Lever
Sun Mar 4, 5:39 PM ET
The US economic expansion suddenly seems more fragile than thought just weeks earlier, after a sharp downward revision to the past quarter's growth and renewed fears about the slump in real estate.
The latest revision to US gross domestic product (GDP) showed the world's largest economy expanded at a tepid 2.2 percent pace in the fourth quarter, instead of the 3.5 percent growth spurt in the official estimate a month earlier.
That was the sharpest downward revision in a decade, and was attributed to weak business spending and a drawdown of inventories from cautious firms.
Still, most forecasters say the economy will muddle through 2007 at a sluggish pace, in line with Federal Reserve forecasts.
But some say the picture is more shaky than it appeared a few weeks ago. And many are renewing forecasts for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve sometime this year to help pick up the pace of economic activity.
Manufacturing has been sluggish, highlighted by the 7.8 percent drop in durable goods orders last month.
And some say the US has yet to see the full effect of the housing downturn, reflected in the 19.1 percent slide in residential investment in the fourth quarter.
The end of the real estate boom has resulted in high failure rates among risky or "subprime" mortgages, given to borrowers with below-average credit ratings, and some say this crisis could spill over.
"We are seeing cracks in this easy-money-now-not-so-easy environment," said Andrew Busch, analyst at BMO Nesbitt Burns.
He said 20 subprime lenders "have either shut down or been forced to shut down" and more failures are expected. While most major banks are not in the sector, a wave of failures could spread throughout the financial system, some warn.
Stephen Gallagher, economist at Societe Generale in New York, said the sub-prime lending pullback "is a mini crisis that raises questions about complacency in general."
LINK
Cheney cannot technically 'feel' things
If he does he usually thinks he has food poisoning
-conbo
Later guys!!
Off to work.
toniD said...
US economy suddenly appears vulnerable by Rob Lever
Sun Mar 4, 5:39 PM ET
a bernanke bomb... the 'R' word...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
I think Ann Coultur was born a hermaphidite(born with box sexes) and her parents decided that the h he/she would be a she and she's been pissed off ever since!
A few minutes before I leave...
More questions from the Libby Jury.
Don't know what they are yet but go to firedoglake.com for the updates.
'Wheels coming off' Bush defense of attorney firings, says
Democratic congresswoman; Top Justice official resigns
Beth said...
come on Ann had to be born a hermaphedite why else would she have an adams apple?!
March 5, 2007 1:45 PM
She's got this weird looking
neck and larynx thing going
on. Man or woman it ain't normal.
~Ode To Wine~
Day-colored wine,
night-colored wine,
wine with purple feet
or wine with topaz blood,
wine,
starry child
of earth,
wine, smooth
as a golden sword,
soft
as lascivious velvet,
wine, spiral-seashelled
and full of wonder,
amorous,
marine;
never has one goblet contained you,
one song, one man,
you are choral, gregarious,
at the least, you must be shared.
At times
you feed on mortal
memories;
your wave carries us
from tomb to tomb,
stonecutter of icy sepulchers,
and we weep
transitory tears;
your
glorious
spring dress
is different,
blood rises through the shoots,
wind incites the day,
nothing is left
of your immutable soul.
Wine
stirs the spring, happiness
bursts through the earth like a plant,
walls crumble,
and rocky cliffs,
chasms close,
as song is born.
A jug of wine, and thou beside me
in the wilderness,
sang the ancient poet.
Let the wine pitcher
add to the kiss of love its own.
My darling, suddenly
the line of your hip
becomes the brimming curve
of the wine goblet,
your breast is the grape cluster,
your nipples are the grapes,
the gleam of spirits lights your hair,
and your navel is a chaste seal
stamped on the vessel of your belly,
your love an inexhaustible
cascade of wine,
light that illuminates my senses,
the earthly splendor of life.
But you are more than love,
the fiery kiss,
the heat of fire,
more than the wine of life;
you are
the community of man,
translucency,
chorus of discipline,
abundance of flowers.
I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.
Drink it,
and remember in every
drop of gold,
in every topaz glass,
in every purple ladle,
that autumn labored
to fill the vessel with wine;
and in the ritual of his office,
let the simple man remember
to think of the soil and of his duty,
to propagate the canticle of the wine.
~Pablo Neruda~
I'm amazed they can keep up with the traffic on this blog. Today's technology is really something.
Please don't ask me what's on my mind
I'm a little mixed up, but I'm feelin' fine
~i'm all shook up
the blog-boys ain't nothing but...
delinquents out fo kicks
I am still handless!!!
eya snorty boy
when we were delinquent we made it count
Communism in Washington State
History and Memory Project
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/cpproject/
^
There is nothing wrong with being a communist.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Inmate charged in alleged plot to kill Ray Kelly
a Rikers Island inmate was arrested on Monday for allegedly offering an undercover cop $65,000 dollars to kill New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and bomb police headquarters in lower Manhattan.
Authorities say 47-year-old David Brown, of Brooklyn, who's serving time at Rikers Island, was arrested for criminal solicitation.
Brown is charged with offering an undercover officer $15,000 dollars to kill Kelly by beheading, and $50,000 dollars to bomb One Police Plaza, officials said.
In taped phone and in-person interviews at Rikers in February, the inmate told the undercover officer that he was "fed up with the case where the guy got shot 50 times," referring to the Sean Bell case. Brown blamed Kelly for not prosecuting the officers.
Brown was convicted in 2001 of attempted murder of his wife. The 6-foot-2, 375-pound suspect is currently serving time for violation of an order of protection against her. Brown was convicted previously on a total of 30 charges -- 14 of them felonies, including five violent crimes.
Is this the new state of the art Sam Seder blog?
The technology displayed here is amazing.
This is what happens when a bankrupt Air America Radio gets rid of lots of employees.
Renaldo, I saw the Nobody walking down the road the other day singing this:
"I'm a communist and I'm okay,
I waste my time on blogs all day and curse at anyone that gets in my way.
Oh, I'm a communist and I'm okay,
I'm deep into the void
as I rant about how I am rampant paranoid."
Hi, Legion.
Couple things.
a) There is nothing wrong with being a communist.
b) Nob's is not a communist. He's a neo-tribalist.
c) You still haven't gotten any better at this. Bummer.
Soviet Anthem, Red Army, Fourth Division Choir
Enjoy
Even as crazy & paranoid as he is, it is good to see Nobody posting occasionally to liven things up.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Hey Jim.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Brooklyn Home Prices Jump 16 Percent, Beat U.S. Trend
Foreclosure filings soar in Brooklyn, Queens
There hasn't been anyone here posting with the name of Legion. With millions of blogs someone is confusing this blog with another blog. It happens a lot.
Hello, everyone. I've missed all of you.
But this doesn't feel right, does it? Feels like we've got our blog underware on backwards.
There is no such thing as a neo nut tribalist.
I'm not a communist. I'm too young to have made up my mind but I think I'm an voluntary association-ist by choice and a democratic socialist by necessity.
I would argue that it is not communism to blame for many of those deaths, but authoritarianism. Whether it's Bush, Pol Pot, Franco, or Pinochet, I'd say that tyrannical forms of government have proven themselves failures.
As for calling me stupid for supporting those regimes: I could rebut by stating that I'd never indicated support for those regimes. I could rebut by pointing out that fascism, and it's little brother, capitalism, have caused as much or more harm. I could even rebut by saying that Pol Pot can hardly be classified as communist (bat shit crazy is, of course, the proper term).
I think I'll stick with just telling you to GFY instead.
: )
Lol. Yeah, it feels like that, Fish.
Hope all is well in your corner of things.
"That system has never worked and has resulted in tens of millions of people being exterminated."
~~~~~~~
You could be describing any system.
~~~
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
Nobody has combatted State Socialism more than we German Socialists; nobody has shown more distinctively than I, that State Socialism is really State capitalism!
See, Nobody is really cool. That's why the scum attack him even when he's not here.
hee
Just for you, GAP.
The Asshole Song, Denis Leary
Fish...!?
Quick! What's your favorite movie to watch in bed @ a hotel?
More commie stuff
Sister Havana, Urge Overkill
Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone:
A thousand critics shouting: "He's unknown!"
~Ambrose Bierce
The ineffable dunce has nothing to say … embroidering it with reasonless vulgarities of attitudes, gestures and attire. There was never an impostor so hateful … a crank so variously stupid and dull. He makes me tired.
Ambrose Bierce, American Satirist, on Oscar Wilde
Revolutionary Childcare Story...
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
(created for the upcoming issue of Left Turn Magazine)
[Out of Brooklyn have sprung two inspiring models of community-based radical childcare. The organizers of Regeneración Childcare NYC weave their own experiences and those of Pachamama: the Bushwick Childcare Cooperative into an enchanting tale of communities taking care of each other in their own ways in the shadow of the Architects of Despair.]
Once upon a time... in a land called Argentina, there lived hundreds of thousands of people who found themselves with no work. In spite of this, they struggled and found ways to survive. Some formed Unemployed Workers Movements and, over time, were overcome by three beautiful feelings. Listening and speaking with each other, they felt “rage.” Rage was the feeling they felt when they learned that it wasn’t just by chance, but rather by design, that so many of them were out of work.
The unemployed workers called the designers of their most unfortunate situation the “Architects of Despair.” The Architects of Despair practiced a devastating magic—capitalism—that they had been casting intensely over the past decades, taking over all of Argentina’s industries and resources. The unemployed workers organized their rage and they forced the Architects of Despair to give them the things they needed to survive. In this way, the unemployed workers discovered a second feeling, “hope.”
...
The Ballad Of A Broken Birdie Record, Mum
More Ambrose Bierce quotes:
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
And one more...
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Bushwick was one of the areas hardest hit by looting and arson during the 1977 NYC blackout. The community was impovershed before the blackout and was devistated.
You cannot even believe this NC...
The fucking Humane Society/animal control people put out a two page artile full of lies about Sonora Cat Rescue in their newsletter to 2,00 of the 'big wigs' in this town...Basically they're trying to shut us down...because since we adopt out cats only for a donation, they charge money...we take away from their adoptions..! They even treatened to take the President of our group to court & take her house!
Jeez man...wtf is wrong with people? They're so 'powerful' they've been able to shut down vets who don't play by their rules! This is bullshit NC....
They send people to entrap us...they say stuff like we adopt out people's pets..just lies...they get away with this crap...
If this bullying stuff isn't nipped in the bud...someday we'll be....like Brooklyn! ;)
Alice said...
You cannot even believe this NC...
March 5, 2007 7:51 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
I believe it.
Turf..
Alice said...
someday we'll be....like Brooklyn! ;)
March 5, 2007 7:54 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
When hell freezes over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick,_Brooklyn
http://www.geocities.com/cb4brooklyn/blackout.htm
http://www.geocities.com/cb4brooklyn/blackout.htm
http://blackout.gmu.edu/highlights/blackout77.html#23
"'At 9:30 the lights went out,' recalled a weary, disheveled cop at the 81st Precinct house in Brooklyn. 'At 9:40 they were breaking into stores. A woman called in and told me, ''They're coming across Bushwick Avenue like buffalo''"
just got off the phone with N,
he ain't posted for ages.
busy here dog bath next
Turf..
March 5, 2007 8:03 PM
I'm SO Mad!!!!
But if I rile them too much they might come up here & take my cats!!
letters@uniondemocrat.com
Welp...I have a lot of writing to do now...
Good night, Blog...sorry for venting...
xo
what it is A.
is them eliminating the competition. you do it with more compassion and effeciently.
they gotta get rid of you or show up as scam artists.
you gonna start organising the people around you that love their pets?
bet theres a coupla thousand...
shelly, if they've slandered you, gather your evidence (make it water tight) and take them to court
Alice said...
I'm SO Mad!!!!
But if I rile them too much they might come up here & take my cats!!
March 5, 2007 8:17 PM
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
They'll vilify you in the press
to justify their actions. The
pics I've seen of your cats give me the impression they do belong
to someone.
You.
Not one of them looks like a
stray. They all look happy and
well taken care of.
I am please to see another AAR blog brought to it's knees. Soon there will nothing left but the stain of AAR. I knew it was rubbish from the start. This proves once and for all that liberal and left wing theories are nonsense.
Long live America and the American way!
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
"Carmen Mcrae My Funny Valentine" 04:25
//The page cannot be displayed//
congratulations, sam
now you got two blogs not working
(piss on you)
i bought a car this weekend
it died today
Sometimes, I wonder if I am on a comedy show and I don't know it
I know life isn't supposed to be a smooth process, it's a test and all that
But for the love of Cheezits!
I need a break!!!!
ONE LOUSY GOOD THING COULD HAPPEN TO ME ONCE IN AWHILE
-conbo
evening gang,
don't sweat the small stuff.
what went wrong #?
maybe we can outmanouver it somewhat.
well
i don't know what went wrong with the car, but I don't even have a title for it
I bought it from this guy who has a dirt field filled with cars that are dirt cheap because I HATE MAKING CAR PAYMENTS
but now I know why its probably better to make car payments and live in your car if you have to
A friend of mine went to a real dealership and talked them into taking the crap car and got a pretty good price on 2006 chevy malibu
so
but i have had to miss a lot of work
and if I can't force that retard with junkyard to give me a real title then I can't get my other car
-conbo
anyway, as usual, I learn things the hard way
howre you Sunny?
"I knew it was rubbish from the start. This proves once and for all that liberal and left wing theories are nonsense."
~~~
Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone:
A thousand critics shouting: "He's unknown!"
Heya jim
Just sent n an email. How's he doin?
Heya conbo. glad you liked the uncyclopedia entry. It changes a bit every now and then... I have to fix it up from time to time, because the right wingers like to make it unfunny, and I need to re-funnyatize it.
//dada said...
Heya conbo. glad you liked the uncyclopedia entry. It changes a bit every now and then... I have to fix it up from time to time, because the right wingers like to make it unfunny, and I need to re-funnyatize it.//
haha!
it was very funny! i especially liked the part about the Super Computer
that runs the blog from underneath the W Virginia mountains
-conbo
Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, interviewed by Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder on Air America's Majority Report. There are four parts.
Here's Part 1 at YouTube
eya dada
n was in his car waiting for his kids to get out of a movie.
The Corporation - Part 1
(1 hour 26 minutes)
The Corporation - Part 2
(1 hour)
Both at Google Video
eya #
if he sold the car and told you he'd provide a title take it to the business license dept in the city.
kiss the money good bye, hope for a title.
we can help you with knowledge the next time so please ask us for advice.
//we can help you with knowledge the next time so please ask us for advice.//
Yes. This seems to be an underlying theme in my life
I think I can do EVERYTHING
by myself
hahaha!
:)
-conbo
have you heard from Chubby?
I should write him a letter
just wondering if he got my letter yet.
have'nt gotten another letter yet.
a busy day today and tonight.
it'll settle down in a few.
Just threw you a rec for the snark at kos, conbo.
night gang
ready to crash out here.
love ya all!
I can't sleep.
Me neither. I'm back and forth between a couple of kos diaries. Was reading at TalkLeft for a bit, too.
Was upset to read about the Humane Society fucking with you guys.
Hey WFC! :)
Do you have a sec to give me some advice please?
For whatever it's worth, A.
What's up, or do ya wanna email me?
Oh yes! I do know YOUR email...
*reminds ono he has six days left*...
Yes, I'll email you now, WFC..
'k.
In the meantime
Jerry Was A Race Car Driver, Primus
http://thesixteenthhour.blogspot.com/2007/03/snafu-its-all-new-again.html
Monday, March 5, 2007
SNAFU, it's all new again
Today we start off with The Sam Seder Show. Celebrity news is not news when it's not on E! But its funny that in the context of Sam's show talking about Rudy Giuliani is a lot like celebrity gossip.
So what was up with "America's Mayor"? It seems he's polling really well and closing the gap between himself and Jon "I'll say anything to make you love me Evangelicals" McCain.
Of course all the brown nosing up to the far right wing megachurchers is rough when your married to your third wife who was your former mistress while you lived in Gracie mansion while you were just New York City's perhaps most unpopular mayor.
Seeing as how your wife (#2, the first wife was his second cousin but who's counting) was still living in Gracie Mansion at the time and so were your children, Awkward!
I guess being unknown to the rest of the country outside of NYC is a real plus, Hizzoner you do know that these details are going to be used to smear you just as soon as the mud slinging phase of the primaries gets underway?
Oh hey fun fact (except for all the dead fire men that resulted, so actually it's a tragic fact) we came to know Giuliani as "America's Mayor" as we watched him stride about the concrete canyons of lower Manhattan on that terrible day the Twin Towers were raised to the ground in that murderous attack.
Now a natural question (unless you work for Viacom/CBS, Disney, Time Warner, News Corp. and NBC/GE) is shouldn't he have been too busy in a city wide command center coordinating the cities first responders and emergency resources. Sadly it turns out his command center was most unfortunately placed on the 23rd floor of Tower 7 of the World Trade Center.
...
http://thesixteenthhour.blogspot.com/2007/03/snafu-its-all-new-again.html
Monday, March 5, 2007
SNAFU, it's all new again
Today we start off with The Sam Seder Show. Celebrity news is not news when it's not on E! But its funny that in the context of Sam's show talking about Rudy Giuliani is a lot like celebrity gossip.
So what was up with "America's Mayor"? It seems he's polling really well and closing the gap between himself and Jon "I'll say anything to make you love me Evangelicals" McCain.
Of course all the brown nosing up to the far right wing megachurchers is rough when your married to your third wife who was your former mistress while you lived in Gracie mansion while you were just New York City's perhaps most unpopular mayor.
Seeing as how your wife (#2, the first wife was his second cousin but who's counting) was still living in Gracie Mansion at the time and so were your children, Awkward!
I guess being unknown to the rest of the country outside of NYC is a real plus, Hizzoner you do know that these details are going to be used to smear you just as soon as the mud slinging phase of the primaries gets underway?
Oh hey fun fact (except for all the dead fire men that resulted, so actually it's a tragic fact) we came to know Giuliani as "America's Mayor" as we watched him stride about the concrete canyons of lower Manhattan on that terrible day the Twin Towers were raised to the ground in that murderous attack.
Now a natural question (unless you work for Viacom/CBS, Disney, Time Warner, News Corp. and NBC/GE) is shouldn't he have been too busy in a city wide command center coordinating the cities first responders and emergency resources. Sadly it turns out his command center was most unfortunately placed on the 23rd floor of Tower 7 of the World Trade Center.
...
oops...sorry..
*
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/
You've got mail
http://www.ww4report.com/node/3294
Chiapas: charges in jungle massacre; land conflicts escalate
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Tue, 03/06/2007 - 02:47.
Diego Arcos Meneses, an indigenous Chol Maya campesino, has been arrested by Chiapas state police and charged with murder in connection with November's massacre at the rainforest settlement of Viejo Velasco. The Chol campesino organization Xinich protests his innocence. The Xinich statement says Arcos Meneses, 42, is health promoter and Jesuit "catechist" (lay worker) at the settlement of Nuevo Tila, Ocosingo municipality. "Regrettably in our country such human gestures can be dangerous: solidarity is criminalized while repression walks with impunity," says Xinich, the group believed by rights observers to have actually been targeted in the attack. (Xinich statement, March 4)
Meanwhile, land conflicts in the Chiapas rainforest are rapidly escalating, and the Organization for the Defense of Indigenous and Campesino Rights (OPDDIC) is emerging as an aggressive new force. This is the group which both Xinich and the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) say was really behind the Viejo Velasco massacre. Especially at issue are lands claimed by OPDDIC as "Ejido Mukulum Bachajon," now home to the Zapatista "autonomous municipalities" 17 de Noviembre, Vicente Guerrero and Olga Isabel.
...
SJ: you gonna start organising the people around you that love their pets?
*
Thanks! Yes...I am going to have to do that...luckily it's one area where a person's political affiliation may be unimportant...Loving their pets...I think...
You're a bright person, WFC... thanks...
I sure hope all of us do get to meet this Summer...speaking of...I don't think that was fishgrease earlier....
Maybe not. Saw him and conbo over at kos recently. Hard to keep up with everybody being scattered.
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The Darko instrumental stuff is some stuff I reall enjoy. Thanks so much!
I meant maybe not about that being Fish.
I have no doubt that we'll meet up some day. I've been blessed with meeting some really incredible people here, and I see no reason not to continue that streak.
Dang that fdl link is killer & exactly what I needed...cool!
--No one is going to read your eleven page Unabomber-style manifesto.--
LMAO!!
*
Man, working today was like working three days straight...!! I really miss the Monday bookmobile trip now that I see how much more work there is at HQ...
Then I come home to this cat crap... (heh...)...I have't worked a day after being up all night in a long time...this might suck royally unless I get my hands on the proper coffee to prop me up...
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
March 5, 2007 8:47 PM
Thanks, NC...you're right too..they probably will be able to do that b/c they have the power to do it...it's as above, so below when it comes to feds & local govt too..they suck equally...but less.. or more...whatever...I'm rambling...once I get going...
Lol. None of the barista types I know are in your area. I don't usually worry about stayin' awake, though. It's sleeping I'm no good at.
Glad the link helped. I read it earlier, and bookmarked it. How does it go? "Just ask and...?"
: )
WFC's FDL, angry letter writing link
I wonder how she knows that 12 lines per paragraph is better than 14?
"Just ask and...?"
: )
March 6, 2007 2:55 AM
:) yeah...howz that go? :)
The letter is rounding out better now...it was a total unabomber manifesto when I first started it... it's taking on that glacial sheet of smooth ice look now..
: )
TRex is, if I'm not mistaken, a fella. And he's a great late night read.
Sweet. I hope it's effective. What you do is important. I have friends involved with a local feral cat group, and it's a thankless job.
I feel thanked...
What other blogs or sites do you think are good for reading?
I'm glad you get some appreciation for it then.
As for sites, I mainly read politics. I check kos, MyLeftWing, digby, Jesus' General, Rude Pundit, TalkLeft, Wolcott, Glenn Greenwald, Juan Cole, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, TheNewsBlog, FDL, TPM and it's subsidiaries, and I usually read the MRR folks' blogs, or at least a few of them.
I imagine none of those sites are new to you, but I'm still getting my political education, so that's where my reading focus lies. I also keep an eye on the wire services, as well as CNN and Raw Story. For entertainment, I read something other than blogs. Right now I'm re-reading Watership Down and Four Past Midnight, and I'm finishing a book called Spook by Mary Roach. Her first book was pretty good, too.
With reading that many sites, I hope you use the rss feeds? I find it so helpful...I use the google newsreader...I've used yahoo's too...I prefer google..seems to update faster...
anyway...I think I will give sleep another try now that this letter & research is underway...You've been such a great help WFC..
Sometimes this blog is like a magic 8-ball...right answers at the right times.......and yet still oh so Left... 8-)
xoxox night!
Oh I'll check out those books...& make sure my library has em..
xoxox
I've never used RSS feeds. Up until a month ago, I was blogging from a P2 running Win98SE, so adding things that auto-updated were a no-no. I'll have to look into a feed reader one of these days, but for now, I just read what I can when I can.
Sleep well, A. Pleasure blogging with ya, as always.
Many blessings.
Just a thought...
Cheney's blood clot was found in his "left" leg.
Karma?
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