But no official announcement yet.
How it effects the Guiliani campaign, I’m not sure, but I think that our so-called liberal media will be less aggressive about this than they were about the Clinton donor who had an ounstanding warrant.
After all, they basically ignored the dope dealer on Thompson’s staff.
I heard the story today about Hillary Clinton going to a restaurant in in Iowa, and having her picture taken with a waitress, but not leaving a tip on NPR.
The story was untrue, the campaign says that they paid $157, and left a $100 tip, and it was confirmed by the restaurant manager.
So much for Journalism, at least the journalism of David Greene, at NPR.
Update, NPR has a correction:
Editor’s Note: Since this story aired, Hillary Clinton’s campaign contacted NPR to say that the campaign paid Maid-Rite a bill for $157 the day of Clinton’s visit and left $100 in tip money. NPR contacted Maid-Rite manager Brad Crawford, who confirmed that a bill was paid and tip money was left. Crawford, who was not in the restaurant at the time, said that he believes a campaign staffer left the money with one of his employees, but “where Hillary was sitting, there was no tip left.”
How about a little fact checking in the future.
Investors agree: Anything but the dollar – International Herald Tribune.
And it’s only going to get worse.
If these had been stolen for profit, we’d be seeing them on eBay, and we are not. Someone scrubbed the documents so to remove embarrassing items, perhaps the deal with the Iranians in 1980, or evidence showing that Reagan knew of, and approved of, Iran-Contra.
The number of documents imply one of two things:
Or maybe a bit of both.
Well, despite the best efforts of the craven Bush Dogs to kill it, Barney Frank’s mortgage reform bill was voted out of committee.
It tightens restrictions on issuing mortgages (a barn door cow thing, but still good), and gives people more options in bankruptcy.
This is why Democrats matter.
Iraq Plans to Confront Security Firms on Guns – New York Times
The Iraqi interior minister said Wednesday that he would authorize raids by his security forces on Western security firms to ensure that they were complying with tightened licensing requirements on guns and other weaponry, setting up the possibility of violent confrontations between the Iraqis and heavily armed Western guards.
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If anyone here does not think that this will result in all out warfare between the Iraqi security forces and the mercs, I want what you are smoking.
Another brokerage with massive losses.
The problem is that for the past 30 years, due to deregulation, these entities have become too big for the government to allow them to fail, so we will all pay for it.
Of course, the Very Serious People™ are claiming that it’s a compromise, but it’s a weasel.
You see, his “compromise” would make the Federal Government, as opposed to the telcos, the defendants. This allows for wholesale classification, foot dragging, sovereign immunity, and all the other tricks which would guarantee that nothing would come out.
Seriously, this sort of crap is why our government is so f*^%ed up.
Honda will be putting ultracapacitors in their cars in the next few years. They will use it on a fuel cell vehicle to handle demand peaks.
Capacitors have some advantages and disadvantages relative to batteries.
The pluses: hey don’t wear out, and they can put out a lot of juice in a short time (they are in camera flashes).
The minuses: They slowly* leak stored energy over time., and they have lower energy density.
The technology is advancing rather quickly†, so the disadvantages may decrease.
You could also use the capacitors in conjunction with batteries to go with a higher energy/lower power battere (higher power means lower energy and vice verse),
*Very slowly, as anyone who has gotten knocked on their when they open up a TV that has been in a junkyard for two years can attest.
†When I was in school, I was told that a 1 Farad capacitor would be the bigger than a a pick up truck, now there are commercially available ones that are smaller than a thimble.
Wicked cool. Popcorn Popping filmed with a very high speed camera..
As a result of the Opium eradication efforts in Afghanistan, farmers are switching to Marijuana.
This is development is best summed up by the comment, “The powers that be often forget that people are NOT going to voluntarily starve to death.”
Go to Matthew Saroff’s Act Blue Page, and show her some love.
This is not something I would expect Hillary to do
An Arkansas lawyer recalled a story about Hillary from her days at the Rose Law Firm that demonstrated her sense of humor. Someone at her firm had made off with a slice of pizza she had put aside for later, prompting her to send a firm-wide memo which said, “Who took the evidence she was saving for a poisoning trial?
Funny and sick…A sense of humor after my own heart.
6 days ago, I noted Andrew Cuomo’s investigation of collusion between banks and property assessors.
Now, he has expanded the investigation to include Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
I think that we are going to find that corruption was the rule, not the exception, in the real estate bubble, at all levels.
If credit for small business has not dried up because of the ongoning debacle on Wall Street, why has he felt compelled to deny it?
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
The prosecution dropped the attempted murder charge.
At the end of the day, the only just resolution will be that the Jena 6 have their charges dropped, and the racist cracker DA goes to jail.
It now appears that the Bush Dogs are taking the side of abusive mortgage issuers over the people harmed by this fraud. Chris Bowers has it right:
It’s time to understand that Bush Dogs are part of a working conservative majority. They are not our friends, they are not our allies, they are political opponents who want to bail out wealthy investors and hurt people trapped in subprime mortgage markets. Politically, they are also the people hurting Democratic capacity to differentiate ourselves as populists and capture swing areas and exurban Republicans hurt by the housing meltdown.
I would take it further. These people are so damaging to the party, and to the country, that liberals shoule provide significant opposition to them in both the primaries and the general election.
The Democrats are going to pick up seats in 2008. If alle of these seats are foregone in order to excise Bush Dogs from the party, it would be a good thing.
Here is a guy who takes our money, and as opposed to going after terrorists in the north, has spent it on gold plating his military machine to go after India in the south, but according to John Negroponte, he is indispensable.
The Pakistani military has spent the past 60 imagining the glory of der tag*, and Musharraf is very much a part of this dysfunctional and anti-Democratic culture.
Of course, the current alternative, Benazir Bhutto, is remarkably corrupt, even by the standards of Pakistani politics (Yes, I know, “corrupt even by the standards of Pakistani politics”, is hard to wrap one’s head around).
*The German Imperial Navy, in the days before World War I, constantly longed for der tag, the day, when they would confront the British Navy.
Seeing as how the statute of limitations expires on November 15, this is not surprising in the least.
The most basic point is that Guiliani plucked this guy out of obscurity, and he will be going to jail because he is mobbed up.
Of course, there is also the bit where used an apartment that had been donated to the city for the benefit of ground zero workers to f%$# Judith Regan, but he’s still Rudy’s guy.
It raises the obvious question, just how will Rudy screw up in selecting his inner circle next? Is he going to select a pedophile priest or something?
Oh….Wait…He already has.
It appears that there may be a filibuster on Mukasey. FWIW, I’m hoping that there is one.
I don’t expect it to stick, but this should be a defining issue for any Democrat: Do you support, or oppose torture? If you do, I, and you, should work towards defeating these people in the primaries, and yes, that means you Schumer and Feinstein.*
*Full disclosure, my great grandfather, Harry Goldman, and her grandfather, Sam Goldman were brothers.