Pancakes and chimpanzees
Nothing much in the news that moves me this morning. As usual my annual 4th of July posting break is well timed and I think the time off will do me some good.
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News:
Goldman admits to greater role in AIG fiasco
Ian Welsh on the Long Depression
Settling for pennies on the dollar because corporations shouldn’t have to make good on fraud
A Tiny Revolution rant about economics (with applause from Digby)
Isaiah J. Poole on the Senate’s second chance to make good on jobs and unemployment
Dave Johnson on the jobs deficit
Supreme Borks leave Vatican exposed
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The Mudflats’ Donald Craig Mitchell has a very good backgrounder on the history of Alaska politics leading up to the Sarah Palin endorsed teabagger challenge to Lisa Murkowski. Essential reading if you have any interest in AK politics whatsoever.
Other wingnuttery:
Greenwald with more on the whiney war flogger Jeffrey Goldberg
Digby on the inner workings of the teabagged GOP
Cuccinelli just keeps inching further and further out there
Mitch cheapshots me over at Mr. Dilettante’s, but for some reason I can’t get a reply to Mitch published?! (it seems rather odd to let Mitch liken conservatives to chimpanzees and then not allow any responses….)
More on Weigel from warflogger Michael Gerson who doesn’t spare the bile in ridiculing a man who truly understands where media whores like Gerson are coming from
No two ways about it: John Boehner wants to gut Social Security
When you wrap yourself up in God and shut your brain off, yes, you do end up sounding pretty fucking stupid more times than not
More on hating on Thurgood
Grassley takes a wrong step in his quest to get reelected (Iowa’s not one-tenth the gun state Minnesota is)
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Spotty on Koua Fong Lee. I emailed John Choi’s campaign to find out what his position is on Lee, but haven’t gotten a response yet. Again, David Schultz is talking about the Lee case, although he’s not really saying what he’d do about it.
I keep digging on this and the only thing I’ve learned is that Susan Gaertner is very unpopular with all the Dems I hang out with. Very much into prosecution, less so into justice, which was the impression I got back in the ’90s when Gaertner’s office played very rough with one of my clients who they suspected was helping her sleazebag con artist boyfriend.
Worse things could happen than for this fall’s election for County Attorney to be about Koua Fong Lee. More from KARE and the Strib. [No comments allowed at the Strib for some reason.]
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Jon Tevlin does a feature on Dan Lacey, the political pancake painter. Worth a read if only for the Orly Taitz cuckoo for cocoa puffs stuff:
Taitz was incensed over Lacey’s portrait, and smelled a conspiracy (what a surprise). Lacey told a writer for Mother Jones magazine that the Taitz portrait had been commissioned, but he declined to name who paid him. So Taitz looped Lacey into a lawsuit she had cooking against Obama.
In a motion for reconsideration in the case, Taitz said that she “cannot state with certainty who paid Dan Lacey, however it is common knowledge that billionaire George Soros, one of the biggest backers of Obama, through his organization Moveon.org, has commissioned numerous artists to promote Obama and denigrate his opponents and critics.”
Sorry, I just can’t make the connection between Orly Taitz and pancakes. Better choices would have been almost any kind of nut, bean or pickled produce.
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Scott Horton praises, then challenges Patrick Fitzgerald. Praise for the conviction of Commander Jon Burge of the Chicago Police Dept., but criticism over Fitzgerald’s investigative strategy into torture by the CIA.
Good questions to challenge a good man. If we had more Republicans like Patrick Fitzgerald, we wouldn’t be suffering from most of the problems we have today.
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Etc.:
A last column from Garrison Keillor before he takes a sabbatical to write a new book, more from Keillor on the UM
Markos sues his pollster, Mike Masnick delves into the numbers
FDL makes their fundraising goal, pushes for a little more (better than Daily Kos and the Huffington Post put together, imho)
Conan the Barbarian: The Musical (frankly, it’s better than most of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s crap)
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I’m not kidding when I say it was hard to get going this morning. False start to the day when a friend speed dialed me by mistake at 6:30 a.m. after a late night.
Plans are to roll out of town Friday morning and get back by Monday night. (This vacation gets shorter every year!)
The pancakes thing is a meme: http://mentalfloss.cachefly.net/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/400pancake_bunny.jpg