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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
 
Glenn Beck America

Where encouraging war crimes is fun.

 
It'll Never Be Off The Table

I really don't get why people think there's some grand deal to be cut on Social Security which would take it off the table. A couple of years after the deal is cut, new projects with slightly different facts/assumptions will show it "going broke" in "only" 65 years or something and then they'll be back to hack away at it again.

They don't want the programs to survive, they want to kill them.

 
Lou Vs. The Hispanic Guy

That'll be fun.

His spokesman then played down the idea. Robert Dilenschneider told The New York Times Wednesday a run for president is a "long way off." The spokesman said there would have to be an "intermediary step," such as the seat held by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).

Menendez is the Senate's only Hispanic member aned a strong advocate for immigrant rights. He's up for re-election in 2012.

 
$3 Million

While it probably won't sell for that much now, it did a few years ago.

Different strokes...

 
Thursday Wednesday Is New Jobless Day

466K new lucky duckies. Still high, but moving closer to normal territory.

 
Pumpkin

Pie for breakfast. It is a New England tradition.


Tuesday, November 24, 2009
 
Your Moment Of Zen



Perino: "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term"

 
Sigh

Bad signs.

The Pentagon's top detainee affairs policy appointee has quit the Defense Department just seven months into the job, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.

Phillip Carter, a former Army captain and Iraq War veteran, had been an outspoken critic of Bush-era war on terror detention policy as an attorney and blogging commentator.

 
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Happy Hour Thread

enjoy

 
What's The Second Time Called Again?

All that money's gotta go somewhere...

Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials said record-low interest rates might fuel “excessive” speculation in financial markets and possibly dislodge expectations for low inflation, according to minutes of their meeting released today.



The way it's supposed to work is that banks borrow money cheap from the Fed and then lend it to people who are going to build factories or other productive things. Instead the big banks are borrowing cheap and using it to gamble on financial assets. Heckuva job.

 
Geocities Called

They want their website from 1997 back.

 
Wanker of the Day

Mark Halperin.

 
The Fierce Urgency Of A Year From Now

Unemployment projected to be higher one year from now than the "peak" predicted last January if the stimulus wasn't passed.

Perhaps someone should do something?

 
Oh Dear

Time for another blogger ethics panel.

 
Afternoon Thread

enjoy

 
Accounting Gimickry

I missed this call because I was getting shots (needles, not booze), but it's a shame that members of Congress are having to spend time worrying about accounting gimmickry. The economy has big problems, and rather arbitrary budget rules are really not what we should be worrying about.

 
Pave Over Everything

Hartford had a similar experience to that of many cities, a multi-decade trend of perpetually increasing the amount of parking in the city at the expense of buildings, a decent pedestrian experience, and any reason at all to bother to go to the city other than for work.

Hopefully this attitude is starting to be reversed...

 
Revised

That's a pretty big downward revision to 3Q GDP. Looking on the bright side, it means the 4Q number is more likely to be positive!

 
Fire Sale

Though there wasn't actually any fire.
LOS ANGELES, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Financier Carl Icahn has offered $156.5 million to acquire the partially built Fontainebleau Las Vegas resort, which has been stalled in bankruptcy court since June, according to the resort's chief operating officer. ... Both bids are dwarfed by the $2 billion that has already been spent on the 3,800-room casino resort, which sits toward the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip. The property is slated to go to auction in January.

 
Morning Thread

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Monday, November 23, 2009
 
Herd

I don't exactly agree with everything Taibbi writes, but his general point is correct.






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