Thursday edition - February 5, 2009

"I tell you, the economy is so bad, even people who have nothing to do with the Obama administration aren't paying their taxes." --Jay Leno

The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without George W. Bush

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,237 AP

• Blast kills six Afghan bodyguards AFP

• Iraq: Education official unharmed in bombing AP

• First results due from Iraq vote, Maliki favored Reuters

• US sailor missing in Gulf of Aden after boat flips AP

• Joint Chiefs say US should pare Afghanistan goals AP

• FBI probing US kidnap: Pakistani officials AFP

• Israeli navy: Lebanese aid boat impounded The Associated Press

• Israel still dealing with international fallout AP

• Civilians Flee Sri Lanka War Zone Voice of America

I was stunned by the Daschle story because we don’t expect Democrats to cheat on their taxes. No, we expect Democrats to cheat on their wives. That’s how this is supposed to go! - David Letterman

Kissing The Arses of The Rich

I was watching MSNBC's Morning Joe (I prefer calling it Morning Blow) this morning and Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, was a guest. As Jack was walking on the set, Mika Brzezinski, co-host of the show, excitedly gets up giggling with glee and says, "Oh, he's here!" and runs over to greet Jack.

After Mika fawns all over Jack Welch, the discussion turns to the cap Obama wants on CEOs salaries and "business practices" of partying with taxpayers money. This was Jack Welch's comment, paraphrased. "I got two banks that want my business. One wants to take me to lunch at McDonalds. The other wants to take me on an all-expenses paid trip to the Bahamas. Which bank am I going to give my business to, Mika? Huh?"

Isn't that bribery?

It gets better. The conversation soon turns to Bernard Madoff and his 50 BILLION dollar ponzi scheme. Mika's comment was so memorable I had to preserve it in a phototoon.

Where did that reporter in you go to, Meeka?

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Subject: Cheney's dire warning

I may just be kidding myself, but I firmly believe if the Dick/Bush team had taken the August 2001 PDB about "Bin Laden Determined To Strike Inside USA" or at the very least, took Richard Clarke's warnings seriously, We wouldn't have been attacked at all inside the US. I don't really think that attacking Iraq (blameless on 9/11) and creating a new level and intensity in the terrorist recruiting as a result kept America safe. Torture, warrant less wiretaps, fear-mongering and the unconstitutional Patriot Act all seem to be acts of men who have no clue how to protect this country. Having some leaders determined to go to war who had some active duty military experience might have been a plus. This whole thing has be a "tragedy o errors".

Jonathan

Dick misses his abuse of power, methinks.

Quick, name one of Bush and Cheney's successes.

Can't think of any? Me neither.

Bush was in the Texas Natl' Guard which he gave his partial attention....and that seems how he has handled his 8 year reign...with partial attention.

Thanks for writing!

Disturbing News

• Townspeople prep for volcano's eruption CNN

• Study: 9/11 lung problems persist years later AP

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized - Politico

AP Must Be Broke - Takes On Artist

On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE....The image, Fairey has acknowledged, is based on an Associated Press photograph, taken in April 2006 by Manny Garcia on assignment for the AP at the National Press Club in Washington.

The AP says it owns the copyright, and wants credit and compensation. Fairey disagrees.

If AP wins this lawsuit, which I doubt, AHNC and all phototoonists out there would have to resort to actually drawing cartoons! I could do that!

"And it was on this very day in 1690 that the very first paper money in America was issued in Massachusetts. It was issued by a man named Merrill Lynch, who used the money to give himself the first huge bonus." --Jay Leno
 

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Republican-Shenanigans News

• Christian right challenges Obama's Justice picks AP

• Sarah Palin blasts Defenders of Wildlife for new anti-Palin campaign Christian Science Monitor 

• Joe the Plumber to address GOP Hill aides USA Today

• As Rangel Investigation Slogs on, GOP Renews Calls for Him to Step Down CQPolitics.com

• Republicans urge Obama to OK offshore oil drilling Reuters

• Ariz. sheriff puts illegal-alien inmates in tents AP

• Scarborough has book out in May MSNBC

Broken Promise by Obama?

Several recent federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in California have betrayed President Barack Obama's campaign pledge to halt such busts if elected, medicinal cannabis advocates said on Wednesday.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents served search warrants on four medical marijuana vendors in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, seizing more than 200 kg (440 pounds) of cannabis, edible marijuana products and about $10,000 in cash, a DEA spokeswoman said.
 

"You know what really did Tom Daschle in? It turns out there are now pictures of him partying with Michael Phelps." --Jay Leno

Rock-The-Voter News

• Labor steps up pressure on Congress for union bill AP

• Obama views children's health bill as step one AP

• First lady: HUD important for economic recovery AP

• CIA nominee Panetta faces questioning by senators AP

• Gregg: Ex-staffer caught up in corruption probe AP

• NY gov says campaign aide leaked Kennedy dirt AP

Antonin Scalia: Rush Limbaugh's Man on the Supreme Court

Justice Antonin Scalia exhibiting a GFY Italian gesture.

Eight years after he and four of his U.S. Supreme Court colleagues effectively decided the 2000 presidential election, Justice Antonin Scalia visited this hotbed of recount passion Tuesday and was asked to reflect on the momentous Bush vs. Gore decision.

"My response to that is always: Get over it," Scalia told a packed Forum Club of the Palm Beaches luncheon.

Alternating between earthiness and erudition, Scalia laid out his "originalist" approach to the Constitution during a 40-minute speech, mixed it up with audience members in a question-and-answer session, then promoted his recent book, Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges.

The book promotion led Florida Atlantic University student Sarah Jeck to ask Scalia if the Supreme Court's opposition to having its proceedings televised was "vitiated" by, among other things, "Supreme Court justices going out on book tours."

Her question drew laughter and applause from the crowd of about 730, but Scalia wasn't amused.

"That's a nasty, impolite question," Scalia said before moving on to another query.
 

"Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is on the show tonight, ladies and gentlemen. I hope that thing on his head doesn't bite me." --David Letterman
 

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Biz-Tech News

• Oil prices rise above $45 in London AFP

• Rising unemployment hits 98 percent of metro areas AP

• World stocks fall on grim company earnings AP

• FDIC: estimate for cost of bank failures over $40B AP

• SEC pummelled as Madoff whistleblower testifies Reuters

• Post office $384 million in the red AP

• College gossip Web site shuts down, citing economy AP

• Google, NASA Offer Virtual Mars Tours InformationWeek

• Salazar cancels Bush-era energy leases in Utah Los Angeles Times

"We are being told we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ...... because his father was black, because this is the first black president, we've got to accept this"- Rush Limbaugh exercising his sexual fantasies

"The U.S. Post Office announced they could run out of cash by the end of the year. They said they're in serious danger of becoming a bank. That's how bad it is." --Jay Leno

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Subject: Housing crisis

Lisa, Spot on. ARMs (Adjustable Rate Mortgages) should be illegal! To give a mortgage to someone who can barely pay the initial amt. then raise it on them in a few years has made this real estate market a real mess. I've always advised against them and if that is the only loan my client can qualify for I tell them to refinance for a 30 year fixed loan, asap.

I'm a small mortgage broker and the quickest way to get the real estate market going is to LEND PEOPLE MONEY!! Refinance all ARMs to start with! We gave money to the banks and they aren't lending. I know, I negotiate loans.

Keep spreading the word. Have you gotten a loan yet?

I'm sending you a small check. You're not only funny but you know your real estate.

Bob in San Diego, CA

Thanks for the stimulus check, Bob! No, I haven't gotten a loan yet but I'm still trying!

I'm concerned that Obama hasn't insisted on refinancing home loans in the stimulus package. It'll stop the middle class bleeding immediately.

I flipped my first house in 1973 (way back then we called it a handyman special) and I have never seen money unavailable for real estate, until now.

Refinancing would be an instant boom to the economy, you're right. Why haven't the Democrats taken this and run with it, is beyond me. It's a quick and easy solution and should have been done almost two years ago when all the foreclosures started.

The Poetry Corner

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the disappearance of the crew of Baron 52 - five days AFTER the U.S. supposedly ended such involvement in southeast Asia. This occurred approximately six months AFTER a LT.
George W. Bush of the Texas Air National Guard disappeared from his duties in Alabama and Texas while supposedly on duty. LT. Bush did finally surface approximately six months later - just before he was supposedly honorably discharged [sic] EARLY from his six year military obligation! Countless questions still remain regarding BOTH disappearances

"Betrayal of Baron 52"

By: Hubert Wilson
www.ilovepoetry.com/viewpoem.asp?id=87349

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Obama signs order to close Guantanamo Bay facility CNN Political Ticker 

• UK foreign secretary to make Guantanamo statement The Associated Press

• EU aid may go to members taking Guantanamo inmates The Associated Press

• 11 former Gitmo inmates on Saudi wanted list The Associated Press

"And the Smithsonian Institute wants the hat that Aretha Franklin wore at President Obama's inauguration. They want to put the hat on display, and they will take possession of the hat as soon as they can build a new wing to house it. " --Jay Leno

Buh-Bye Bush

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• Cheney accuses Obama on al-Qaeda Aljazeera.net, Qatar 

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Subject: Cheney

Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.

Would somebody please tell this idiot that the worst domestic terrorist attack on U S soil occurred while he was second in charge?

Rick

The Dick doesn't care what anyone thinks, especially the little people like us. Maybe he'll shoot himself, by accident, of course!

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