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In the news this evening, another Obama Cabinet nominee has removed his name from consideration here. Commissioner Bud Selig says A-Roid ‘shamed the game’ here. Bill Clinton’s is advocating for more “fairness” on the airwaves here. Chinese hackers are the culprits behind hundreds of attacks on U.S. computers each day here. And the Wild Card remains in play …
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thomg57 on February 12 at 11:13 a.m.
“unfortunate”? Ya’ think?
toadman on February 12 at 11:34 a.m.
Thom.. Dave sometimes has a very dark and dry wit… I appreciate that.
Arch_Druid on February 12 at 1:24 p.m.
I was first alerted to that when visiting Face book in the process of setting up an account there. Then I watched the Rick Sanchez portion of the newsroom. Pretty bad all right. Wonder what they’ll finally say to the guy in the red van who didn’t swerve over the “pot hole” and dragged it with him over the expressways and etc.?
Arch_Druid on February 12 at 1:31 p.m.
Speaking of Face book, anyone who has an account or who would like to set one up in the Spokane, Washington area, I have my page and all and you can find me at Joan E. Harman. I imported one of my blogs, “News and Opinion found in newspapers…” there where you can also comment as you like. I am thinking now that I have done that, I shall start to comment more frequently at http://archdruidstakeonthenews.blogspot.com.
Nice bit of weather we are having, news reports sez we weren’t supposed to get up over 32*. Looks like close to 40.
florined on February 12 at 1:50 p.m.
Wild card, right? Let me recommend “The Women of Lockerbie” playing at the Firth Chew (Spokane Community’s black box venue.) It’s a prime piece of theatre, well directed and performed. Like the best of all art, the experience combines the audience’s personal histories with that of the play’s characters to produce a synergy of fierce emotion and remembrance.
keithincda on February 12 at 2:13 p.m.
Wow….another Cabinet post with someone withdrawing…Judd Gregg withdraws from consideration for Commerce Secretary citing vastly differing views on policy. strike 2 on that Cabinet post!
Arch_Druid on February 12 at 2:21 p.m.
Yeah, just saw that myself. Wasn’t it just yesterday that Lou Dobbs was complaining about Obama’s cabinet pick(s) surrounding himself with people who are all about the outsourcing of American jobs. Gregg was by the way, mentioned in Robert Draper’s “Dead Certain” as one of the political operatives active in GW’s re-election campaign. And we all know just how much GW loved telling Americans that foreigners could do the jobs better than they. Policy differences, probably so. Obama is all for American jobs staying in America and Gregg was all for the business interests, even if they outsourced jobs.
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 3:31 p.m.
The commerce dept is already getting ready to lift some sanctions that had been establilshed on Syria. Obama’s buddy Tony Resco had very, very strong ties to Syria. Some think a lot of the unknown source money that went to Obama came from Syria. Dots or dotted line? Syria gives Obama money, Syria gets sanctions lifted. All done thru the Dept of Commerce. My guess is that Gregg saw what was going on and wanted no part of it.
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 3:37 p.m.
Another thing. Gregg said this afternoon that he had concerns over the way this census issue is being handled. You know, the one the dems are trying to control the census with.
thomg57 on February 12 at 3:48 p.m.
Right wing talk radio on hbo 24/7. Facts? We don’t need no stinkin’ facts!
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 3:49 p.m.
While campaigning, Obama pledged to have all legislative bills posted online for 5 days so everyone could examine the contents. Full transparency was the message. Now that he is President, he is breaking his promises … again. When does this CHANGE stuff start kicking in, guys? This being the President job is a lot tougher than being a community organizer, huh?
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 3:54 p.m.
thom >>> Right wing talk radio on hbo 24/7. Facts? We don’t need no stinkin’ facts!”
The old ‘talk radio’ defense, huh, thom? Lets get this straight. I don’t listen to talk radio. Ever. I don’t listen to Rush. Rush listens to me. So, now. What FACTS would you like for me to produce, specifically? ‘Facts’ is the other generic come back that I get when a substantive response is asked for. Brief one liners don’t make for a very robust discussion of the issues.
Sisyphus on February 12 at 4:13 p.m.
These have no basis if you need some help, Thom. Not that he’ll ever pony up anything resembling support for these.
“Tony Resco had very, very strong ties to Syria.”
“Some think a lot of the unknown source money that went to Obama came from Syria.”
“Syria gives Obama money, Syria gets sanctions lifted.”
“concerns over the way this census issue is being handled.”
“the one the dems are trying to control the census with.”
Also this is an interesting poll. Seems America wants Congress to investigate the past corruption in the White House.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-11-investigation-poll_N.htm
Here’s more evidence of ongoing Republican corruption.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jYuH3mAZbV0pXTznoxmZ2anGhojwD969KBF00
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 4:19 p.m.
Sis. I am aware of all the republican corruption under that miserable President Bush. He was just horrible and his administration was a joke. But, I thought that CHANGE was on its way. I’m looking forward to Obama’s campaign promises not back at Bush’s despicable problems. Republican corruption is not the issue here. Obama’s presidency is.
thomg57 on February 12 at 4:20 p.m.
I don’t listen to Rush. Rush listens to me.
hmo, what doesn’t make for a very robust discussion is your standard, vague, talk radio talking points post that is then followed by a “it was tongue in cheek” response, or followed by a moving target answer. That is what doesn’t make for a robust discussion.
Sisyphus, exactly.
thomg57 on February 12 at 4:20 p.m.
Republican corruption is not the issue here—hmo
How convenient.
Sisyphus on February 12 at 4:26 p.m.
Alas no substantive response yet again Thom. Where’s that definition of troll again?
thomg57 on February 12 at 4:34 p.m.
Sis, you mean drive-by troll, don’t you?
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 4:35 p.m.
thom >>>”Republican corruption is not the issue here—hmo
How convenient.”
Convenient? Its a FACT. You won, Thom. Didn’t you hear Pelosi tell us all that? And, please, get off that ‘talk radio’ comeback all the time. That is really, really old. Its all about Obama now, you got what you wished for. Live with it.
Sisyphus on February 12 at 4:45 p.m.
“Its all about Obama now,”—awwwwwww, da putty tat is showing his colors again, Thom. Its not about governance or country its about his desire for some campaign retribution and putting any scurrilous thing on Obama he can pull out of his a$$ on screen regardless of any factual basis. I’ve yet to see him support something, but apparently he doesn’t like it when we snipe back.
thomg57 on February 12 at 4:48 p.m.
It’s twue, it’s twue!
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 4:51 p.m.
Sis >>> ” I’ve yet to see him support something, but apparently he doesn’t like it when we snipe back”
I wish there were something that Obama has done that I COULD support. So far, pretty much errors and mistakes. I’m on pins and needles waiting from something from Obama that I can support. I trust you guys support everything he has done so far? Is that safe to say? (feel free to snipe back at your pleasure)
Bob on February 12 at 5:52 p.m.
As the night sky grows cold and dark, and the sockpuppet/batman inaction figures go home … it’s my favorite time on HBO, after dark, when me and my crew can kick it old style.
Bring.me.some.morons.
Bob on February 12 at 6:24 p.m.
ZOMG. Sholeh on the CDA Press wrote another one of her patented cut and paste columns, this one on the CDA Postal dude who got fired.
She cut and pasted from the Postal Service employee manual! It’s hilarious. It’s so her, too. God, what a sweet gig she has.
Go read:
http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2009/02/12/columns/columns01.txt
toadman on February 12 at 6:37 p.m.
“I wish there were something that Obama has done that I COULD support.” - hmo
What? You don’t support women getting equal pay for equal work?
Odd.
You don’t want senior staff positions in the White House capped at 100K?
Sounds like someone is only seeing what they want to see. Of course, a lot of people do that, so I suppose it’s to be expected.
“I trust you guys support everything he has done so far? Is that safe to say?” - hmo
No. It’s not safe to say. But I’m not gonna bitch about it too much. Know why? Even the stuff I disagree with Obama about is a damn sight smaller potatoes than the stuff I disagreed with the last administration about. It’s about compromise, temperament, and honesty. It’s never about getting everything I want out of government. That’s a very narrow-minded and stupid idea.
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 6:41 p.m.
toad >> “What? You don’t support women getting equal pay for equal work?”
I go along with that one, toad. I stand corrected.
toadman on February 12 at 6:45 p.m.
“I go along with that one, toad. I stand corrected.” - hmo
Spoken like a gentleman. See? That wasn’t hard, was it? Compromise isn’t easy. It never is. And also, as to change, change is never easy, and never rapid. Give it time. Give Obama time. Dude, it hasn’t even been a month yet.
“… it’s my favorite time on HBO, after dark, when me and my crew can kick it old style.” - BOB
That means I can’t stay around too long, as my child-like sensibilities will kick in and I’ll just stand in the corner of the playground.. OMG! IT’S THIRD GRADE ALL OVER AGAIN AND THE FOURTH GRADERS HAVE ME PINNED AGAINST THE WALL…and it’s DODGE BALL TIME!!!
crap… being a quiet little nerdlet did a number on my psyche.
thawtfulreader on February 12 at 9:02 p.m.
Bob, isn’t she the editor’s wife or something? I thought she got dumped awhile ago. Yeah, that was hacktacular, especially completely devoid of analysis and insight.
Bob on February 12 at 9:18 p.m.
No comment box under the Biden post, but isn’t it nice to have a VP that smiles and seems to genuinely enjoy people and doesn’t seem to be measuring people for caskets or waterboards like that evil old ghoul Cheney?
Could you even imagine Cheney coming to Boise for anything other than a Gun Show featuring heavily modified italian shotguns and AR-15s? For Special Olympics? Cheney? Don’t make me laugh. That grim old demon woulda hit the Special Olympics competitors with his cane just for the pure avarice of it all.
Smile away Joe Biden! You’re charismatic and America loves you!
Thawt, I think she is, probably explains why she even has a column when they dump a superstar like Marty Fortier and keep her! Column by Wiki.
Bob on February 12 at 9:44 p.m.
Kage Mann, couldn’t be with us tonight, but he did make a YouTube for us reading a book about kittens.
I think it’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen and I think Kage Mann is my favorite kitten book reader EVER.
Thanks Kage!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtX8nswnUKU
Arch_Druid on February 12 at 9:54 p.m.
Shall I remind Hmoffsuite that the Bush family had a long standing relation with the bin Laden family? Seems there was more than one source that discussed that, their relation being through the Carlyle group. No talk show fiction in this case.
Escapee on February 12 at 10:45 p.m.
Article in the New York Times:
A Continental Express flight from Newark crashed near Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing 49 people, an official said. Flight 3407 struck a house, which was still engulfed in flames two hours later.
(Now I know why John Madden doesn’t fly At All anymore.)
thawtfulreader on February 12 at 11:38 p.m.
Ahh, the wonderful nature of the privatized juvenile mental/”offender” system. Hell of a profit if you can get it.
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“U.S. judges admit to jailing children for money
Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:36pm EST
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Two judges pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting more than $2.6 million from a private youth detention center in Pennsylvania in return for giving hundreds of youths and teenagers long sentences.
Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan of the Court of Common Pleas in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, entered plea agreements in federal court in Scranton admitting that they took payoffs from PA Childcare and a sister company, Western PA Childcare, between 2003 and 2006.
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Teenagers who came before Ciavarella in juvenile court often were sentenced to detention centers for minor offenses that would typically have been classified as misdemeanors, according to the Juvenile Law Center, a Philadelphia nonprofit group.
One 17-year-old boy was sentenced to three months’ detention for being in the company of another minor caught shoplifting.
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“That judges would allow their greed to trump the rights of defendants is just obscene,” Levick said.
The judges attempted to hide their income from the scheme by creating false records and routing payments through intermediaries, prosecutors said.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE51B7B320090212
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Gee, how many of those minor “offenders”, kids, were deprived of their childhoods and turned into hard core criminals as is the standard outcome in juvie? 30%? Prolly more like 80% were abused and turned into hard core criminals to enrich these crooked judges nad the private juvenile detention facility? These judges should have got double the standard penalty, for their gross abuse of the public trust.
hmoffsuite on February 13 at 6:11 a.m.
Sis and others have argued that ALL the economists support the stimulus plan. Well, not really ….
WASHINGTON — The compromise economic stimulus plan agreed to by negotiators from the House of Representatives and the Senate is short on incentives to get consumers spending again and long on social goals that won’t stimulate economic activity, according to a range of respected economists.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/62082.html
Arch_Druid on February 13 at 8:56 a.m.
Sparky swung by my blog, http://jeh15.wordpress.com to ask how to find me through Face book. Sparky, I created my account by going to CNN, the Newsroom website, and clicking on Rick Sanchez account for Face book. This is what I’ll provide as a link, http://www.facebook.com/ricksanchezcnn#/home.php?ref=home. I hopefully have this copied right and that it will get you there directly.
Arch_Druid on February 13 at 9:02 a.m.
Link works, Sparky, if you are interested.
toadman on February 13 at 9:05 a.m.
Arch (et.al.) - usually the best way to find someone on Facebook is to search for their real name….or the name they use online…or their email address. You can find me best by searching for my email address: toadmaster@gmail.com
Or.. you can just view my HBO profile, here: http://www.spokesman.com/profiles/toadman/ and click on the Facebook link.
Arch_Druid on February 13 at 9:21 a.m.
Sparky might have also simply gone to my other blog that was linked above and simply clicked on my facebook badge. I’ll definitely check you out and see if we can do some networking. For sparky I don’t mind sharing one of my e-mail addresses: jehdruid1@icehouse.net. Since this is required to log onto Face book.