Catfish Wallow

04-04-09

Republicons Inciting Violence - Following the German Playbook Leading to Hitler:

Jeremy Scahill: Obama's Neoliberals: Selling His Afghan War One Report at a Time (rebelreports) "In its support for the Afghan war, the Center for American Progress is aligning itself with the ''experts'' who have been wrong about pretty much everything"
Many, If Not Most, Ex-Blackwater Workers To Return to Iraq Jobs Under New Employer By Next Month (nytimes) -- The more they promise us change we can believe in, the more things stay the same.

Mark Morford - Pope, extra ribbed - Benedict says condoms make AIDS worse. God recoils in shame. (sfgate)
Witches, Condoms and the Pope (commondreams)

Kucinich wants House to investigate (Cheney) assassination (ring) claims (cleveland)
Israel on Trial (nytimes) "Of 1,434 Palestinians killed in the Gaza invasion, 960 were civilians, including 121 women and 288 children"

Marijuana appears to aid in the destruction of brain cancer cells, offering hope for future anti-cancer therapies (google)
Paul, Frank Introduce Hemp Legalization Bill (washingtonindependent)

Protesters rally on Wall Street, ask government to 'bail out the people,' not big business (chicagotribune)
Anti-NATO protestors set Strasbourg hotel on fire (channnelnewsasia)

Vitamin D From Sun Exposure Reduces Cancer Risk, Ecological Studies Find (cancermonthly)

Big, Big Splash of Sanity: Dem Leaders Use Fast-Track to Pass Obama Budget -- No filibuster. No amendments. Why weren't they using this legislative method to pass Obama's earlier legislation, which was generally watered down by Republicons to the point of very expensive ineffectiveness? Republicons have demonstrated they will do everything possible to defeat Obama's efforts to set aright our capsized economy -- so just shut them out from the process. Give them a BIG time-out till they have a real change of heart about bipartisan cooperation. That would probably mean the remainder of Democratic rule. The filibuster should be eliminated permanently, along with secret holds and the regal power of committee chairmen.
Gay marriages expected to begin in Iowa April 24 (yahoo/ap) -- Vote by the good people of Iowa to try to amend the state constitution against gays would likely come no earlier than 2012. Just imagine all the heterosexual marriages that will be destroyed during that time because gay Iowans will be able to marry. Just as in Massachusetts, where traditional marriage has literally collapsed because of the presence of gay marriages. Without gays and baby killers to hate, the super-elites would have nothing left to hold together their mostly brain-dead Republicon Party.

Man to Get to Know: William K. Black (pbs video) -- Just watched on Bill Moyers Journal an amazing exposé of the MASSIVE fraud perpetrated by a relative handful of people to produce the present unnecessary economic collapse -- and the continuing government fraud to hide the losses and cover up those individuals' massive deliberate fraud.

William K. Black: The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis (huffingtonpost) "The FBI identified the epidemic of mortgage control fraud at such an early point that the financial crisis could have been averted had the Bush administration acted with even minimal competence."

Glenn Greenwald: Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Wall Street's ownership of government (salon)
Summers Received Hundreds Of Thousands In Speaking Fees From TARP Recipients (huffingtonpost)
Hedge fund paid Obama adviser Summers $5.2 million (yahoo - americablog)
Financial crisis not hurting bank bond owners who hold on to their investments (yahoo) "Many those bondholders, in fact, are still profiting from their investments so long as they haven't had to sell, while the rest of us deal with vanishing wealth."

Saturday, April 4, 2009