Yes, he’s wrong on everything, but this time, it’s not poor judgement, like Iraq, he says that Obama heard Rev. Wright’s notorious sermon, when a quick google says that he was over 1000 miles away, as would a call to the campaign.
This was for an article in the New York Times, which has to start fact checking its editorials.
He has a post on the Group News Blog, where he asks the following question:
How come, the Feds didn’t have a clue that this GOP fella took $1 million out of the NRCC? But they busted Spitzer in less than a month.
My answer, because IOKIYAR.
Due to the US slump, and the fact that the dollar is falling like a loogie hocked off the Empire State Building, U.S. economy is now number two in the world, after the Euro Zone, which does not include Britain.
Verizon is investing resources in a technology called P4P, a PEER TO PEER technology which promises to reduce the burden on ISPs with regard to the distribution of commercial and licensed high bandwidth products.
This is what Bit-Torrent was designed to do. It was developed for things like Linux distros, and the idea was that when you released an upgrade, you would get the downloaders to share amongst themselves, so your server would not be vomiting blood.
Ars spoke with Verizon senior technologist and P4P workgroup co-chair Doug Pasko, who tells us that Verizon observed download performance improvements of approximately 200 percent during tests conducted with Pando. The performance boost can climb as high as 600 percent in some cases. Verizon believes that P2P technology is moving into the mainstream and is being legitimized for large-scale commercial content delivery. The company sees P4P as a way to enable broader commercial adoption of P2P tech while unclogging the tubes and relieving network congestion.
Since the efficacy of the P4P protocol largely relies on the availability of network topology information, Verizon and the P4P workgroup aim to make the new protocol an industrywide standard and convince other carriers to share their own data and participate. “Quite frankly, any carrier should benefit from this,” Pasko told Ars. The initiative has drawn support from a number of ISPs, including Comcast, which is currently facing scrutiny for impeding peer-to-peer traffic on its own network.
This is not to say that Verizon is not evil, after all they are the phone company, but they are not evil and stupid as ComCast is.
Cheney cites 'phenomenal' Iraqi security progress as bombing kills 40.
I’m not sure that I can top that headline, courtesy of McClatchy, except to say, “Better that he (Cheney) is there, and not here”.
He is unhappy because people are blaming him for the upcoming catastrophe.
As I’ve said before, the idea that the noble entrepreneur must be allowed to innovate, no matter how many people it hurts, is simply delusional Randroid bull#$it.
Ayn Rand was a person to whom great evil was done, by a thoroughly evil and corrupt, much like Leo Strauss. Rand by the Bolsheviks, Strauss by the Nazis.
Their response was to create, and aggressively promote their own personal sort of evil, and both have proved, and will continue to prove disastrous.
Speaking as an Existentialist Jew, and yes they are compatible, when you create philosophies in which people are made unpeople, and in which the concept of personal responsibility for the world one creates is an anathema, you create another template for evil.
Of course, you could read his article in the Financial Times, but there may be some side effects:
Witnesses were called to testify before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Consumer Credit regarding changes to the terms of their credit cards for what appear to be completely arbitrary reasons, and the Republicans on the committee demanded that they sign releases allowing the credit card companies to release their complete credit records on any public forum.
My question is why the Republicans were given veto power over witnesses. They are no longer in the majority.
The answer appears to be that they would have:
Their removal, however, was more the result of political gamesmanship than it was a legitimate legal move. That is, the Democrats could have attempted to seat the consumer panel even without the members signing the waivers. But, according to a Democratic staffer familiar with the dance, the Republicans, in that case, would have presented a number of procedural roadblocks that would have stalled the hearing indefinitely. Rather than waste the entire morning fighting endless motions to adjourn, Democratic committee leaders Barney Frank (Mass.) and Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) decided to scrap the first panel and salvage some of the hearing.
I think that a better understanding of Republicans, that they have no interest in the legislative process, and thus should be accorded no courtesies whatsoever, is needed.
The Waivers read as follows:
I hereby authorize Chase Credit Card Services to publicly discuss my Chase credit card account(s) in connection with the March 13, 2008 and April, 2008 credit card hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
Translated, this means that if they thought it was “in connection with the March 13, 2008 and April, 2008 credit card hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, they could release their account numbers, SSNs, mother’s maiden names, and passwords for online access.
The interest in developing a nuclear submarine, is being driven by a desire to prevent US, and in the case of Argentina UK, CV battle groups from being able to deploy forces off the Atlantic coast of Latin America.
The picture below is from France’s DCNS Barracuda Class SSN. I’m not sure how accurate it is, but the lack of forward bow planes, and the nose mounted torpedo tubes are of interest.
In most SSNs, the torpedoes are located amidships, to allow for a larger sonar array in the nose.
France would have no involvement in the reactor design, which would be a Brazil-Argentina joint venture.
Yes, Obama’s church has Just put out a press release (below), condemning the contraversy regarding Reverend Wright as an “an attack on the legacy of the African American Church”.
This is ill conceived for a number of reasons:
So, please, follow the advice of Abraham Lincoln, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Statement from Trinity United Church of Christ
“AN ATTACK ON OUR SENIOR PASTOR AND THE HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH”
Chicago, Ill. (March 15, 2008) — Nearly three weeks before the 40th commemorative anniversary of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s character is being assassinated in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe.
“Dr. Wright has preached 207,792 minutes on Sunday for the past 36 years at Trinity United Church of Christ. This does not include weekday worship services, revivals and preaching engagements across America and around the globe, to ecumenical and interfaith communities. It is an indictment on Dr. Wright’s ministerial legacy to present his global ministry within a 15- or 30-second sound bite,” said the Reverend Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ.
During the 36-year pastorate of Dr. Wright, Trinity United Church of Christ has grown from 87 to 8,000 members. It is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination.
“It saddens me to see news stories reporting such a caricature of a congregation that has been such a blessing to the UCC’s Wider Church mission,” said the Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC general minister and president, in a released statement. “ … It’s time for us to say ‘No’ to these attacks and declare that we will not allow anyone to undermine or destroy the ministries of any of our congregations in order to serve their own narrow political or ideological ends.”
Trinity United Church of Christ’s ministry is inclusive and global. The following ministries have been developed under Dr. Wright’s ministerial tutelage for social justice: assisted living facilities for senior citizens, day care for children, pastoral care and counseling, health care, ministries for persons living with HIV/AIDS, hospice training, prison ministry, scholarships for thousands of students to attend historically black colleges, youth ministries, tutorial and computer programs, a church library, domestic violence programs and scholarships and fellowships for women and men attending seminary.
Moss added, “The African American Church was born out of the crucible of slavery and the legacy of prophetic African American preachers since slavery has been and continues to heal broken marginalized victims of social and economic injustices. This is an attack on the legacy of the African American Church which led and continues to lead the fight for human rights in America and around the world.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached the Christian tenet, “love thy neighbor as thyself.” Before Dr. King was murdered on April 4, 1968, he preached, “The 11 o’clock hour is the most segregated hour in America.” Forty years later, the African American Church community continues to face bomb threats, death threats, and their ministers’ characters are assassinated because they teach and preach prophetic social concerns for social justice. Sunday is still the most segregated hour in America.
H/T, TPM.
You may recall my linking to a blog post by Stephen Trimble about a mystery bomb, the GBU-57, for the USAF is letting out a contract for integration with the B-2.
While cleaning out my pockets, I came across an article from the Defense Technology International January/February Issue, there is an article on page 14 (no direct link because of the oddball way it displays pages) about three new/old bomb technologies.
Specifically, the use of ES-1 super hard “Eglin Steel”, the “precise time of arrival munitions, where multiple bombs dropped are given flight paths which will result in simultaneous detonation, and “skip bombing”, the Marnes Wallis’ technique used by the Dam Busters. in WWII.
It may still be some sort of MOP integration for a sneak attack on Iran, though how they can ask for bids when Congress has specifically forbidden spending money on this is beyond me.
It was purchased at $236 million, and the value of its Madison Avenue headquarters is assessed at $1.2 billion.
Yep, it’s the end of the world, I got a prediction right. On August 2, 2007, I predicted that, “Bear Stearns will cease to exist. It will either be forced to liquidate, or it will be bought out in a fire sale”.
I never get my predictions right. I look at my predictions on the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray fight.
So, after the Fed lends Bear Stearns $200 billion, JP Morgan buys Bear for 236 million, and they look to be ditching off the risk on the Federal Reserve:
Shareholders of New York-based Bear Stearns will get stock in JPMorgan equivalent to about $2 a share, compared with $30 at the close on March 14, the two companies said in a statement today. The U.S. Federal Reserve will provide financing for the transaction, including support for as much as $30 billion of Bear Stearns’s “less-liquid assets.”
Normally, when I say the end is nigh, I’m joking. I’m not joking now, and it has nothing to do with whether or not I got a prediction right.
It has to do with the fact that in Asia, where it’s Monday already, markets imploded. The Nikkei the Hang Seng have so far fallen by more than 4%, and the Korea Composite Stock Price Index by more more than 3%.
What’s more, on this side of the international dateline, the Fed cut the discount rate by 25 basis points, from 3.5% to 3.25%:
The central bank approved a cut in its lending rate to financial institutions to 3.25% from 3.50%, effective immediately, and created another lending facility for big investment banks to secure short-term loans. The new lending facility will be available to big Wall Street firms on Monday.
That was done on Sunday. When the last time that you’ve heard of the Fed doing anything on a weekend, much less a Sunday.
People are now talking about this in terms of being 1929 bad, not 1970s bad:
Wall Street fears for next Great Depression
….One UK economist warned that the world is now close to a 1930s-like Great Depression, while New York traders said they had never experienced such fear. The Fed’s emergency funding procedure was first used in the Depression and has rarely been used since.
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In the UK, Michael Taylor, a senior market strategist at Lombard, the economics consultancy, said on Friday night: “We have all been talking about a 1970s-style crisis but as each day goes by this looks more like the 1930s. No one has any clue as to where this is going to end; it’s a self-feeding disaster.” Mr Taylor, who had been relatively optimistic, has turned bearish: “It really does look as though the UK is now heading for a recession. The credit-crunch means that even if the Bank of England cuts rates again, the banks are in such a bad way they are unlikely to pass cuts on.”
I think that they are very nearly right on this, at least for the US.
Unlike during the great depression, the US is no longer an exporter of oil, nor does it have the most vibrant and advanced manufacturing base in the world.
It may be bad world wide, but it’s going to be hideous here.
Obama has has disavowed incindiary statements made by his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and he has been removed from his campaign’s African American Religious Leadership Committee.
I’ve not been a fan of Obama, but this should be enough. For all intents and purposes, except for literal genetics, this guy is his family. He was married by him, his daughters were baptized by him.
His statement about him sometimes being like an uncle who makes statements that you disagree with is in my assessment 100% true.
In any sane world, this should close the matter. In fact, it should also remove the whole “Obama as Muslim” slime too.
He’s not a Muslim, and he has a nutty pastor to prove it.
Of course, the world of a presidential campaign is not “sane” by any measure.
This sucks.
The only bright spot is that I think that he has handled it well, which bodes well for him if he gets the nomination.
In this case, it’s USAF Gen. Michael Hamel, who feels the need to warn us about the extential threat that Google Earth poses to the United States.
“It could be as simple as how is it that an adversary gets an image off of Google Earth that could somehow threaten American lives or interests ….. “That is an example of a space threat that we may face in the future.”
And as a commenter said, “Right… and pigs can fly. Or rather, the good General may wish a Pig Ban because if pigs could fly they might somehow hurt US interests.”
I’m beginning to wonder why a disproportionate number of these mind-boggling stupid statements coming from generals seem to come from USAF generals.
Must be something in the water at Colorado Springs…Come to think of it, that is where dog and child beater James Dobson’s Focus on the Family is located.
Stephen Trimble, who has a lot more patience than I do, notices a solicitiation document for bids to integrate the GBU-57 into the B-2.
He does some research, and all he can find is a reference to it being a 5000lb penetrating bomb from an article in the Grauniad* circa 2003, but this appears to be an error actually referring to the GBU-28.
So, why is the USAF putting out bids to integrate a new weapon into the B-2? Why does it appear to be a penetrator?
Is this a preparation for a first strike on Iran?
*According to the Wiki, The Guardian, formerly the Manchester Guardian in the UK. It’s nicknamed the Grauniad because of its penchant for typographical errors, “The nickname The Grauniad for the paper originated with the satirical magazine Private Eye. It came about because of its reputation for frequent and sometimes unintentionally amusing typographical errors, hence the popular myth that the paper once misspelled its own name on the page one masthead as The Gaurdian, though many recall the more inventive The Grauniad.”
I read an interest review of Greenspan’s Bubbles by William A. Fleckenstein:
… He sets out to deflate Alan Greenspan’s reputation by parsing Greenspan’s own comments during his tenure as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. His conclusion?
“Greenspan bailed out the world’s largest equity bubble with the world’s largest real-estate bubble,” he writes. “That combination easily equates to the biggest orgy of speculation and debt creation the United States (and the world) has ever seen.”
Bernanke was left to sweep up after the debauch while Greenspan rewrote history in The Age of Turbulence.
I’m not sure that there is a whole bunch to learn from his book, so I’ll wait until it hits the library.
What I find interesting, and well deserved, is that Greenspan will find himself increasingly reviled in the final years of his life.
In a very real way, this is more than a repudiation of Greenspan, but it is also a repudiation of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism.
The fact that Greenspan endorsed the worst excesses of the market for ordinary people, but rushed to bail out the “noble entrepreneur”, is a direct consequence of his experience of Ayn Rand’s acolytes.
On the 6th of this month, at the Vidsel Missile Test Range in Sweden.
It’s generally in the AMRAAM range of performance, though it offers significantly better kinematics (Range 100+km reported on the wiki, and I’d bet on more than 150km) due to its solid fuel ramget/ducted rocket propulsion system.
Of note, it will
never fit in an F-22 weapon’s bays, though it might fit in those of an F-35.
It’s supposed to enter service in about 5 years….Yeah…I know…what takes so %$#@ing long.
Yes, the Oklahoma state house just passed a law allowing students to pack heat on campus.
Well, I guess that they will learn to dive for cover.
Stupid.
From The Gavel, Pelosi’s Blog:
House Passes FISA Amendments Act
March 14th, 2008 by Jesse LeeThe House has just passed the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 3773, to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes, by a vote of 213-197-1. The revised House legislation to amend FISA grants new authorities for conducting electronic surveillance against foreign targets while preserving the requirement that the government obtain an individualized FISA court order, based on probable cause, when targeting Americans at home or abroad. The House bill also strongly enhances oversight of the Administration’s surveillance activities. Finally, the House bill does not provide retroactive immunity for telecom companies but allows the courts to determine whether lawsuits should proceed.
You can find the vote here.
In the anti-American crowd (Nays), you have 12 Democrats, including Lampson and Shuler.
Nick Lampson I keep getting emails from, because he bought Richard Morrison’s mailing list when he took over the campaign.
As to Heath Shuler, he was an overpaid, no brain, no guts punk when he played for the Redskins, and he’s an overpaid no brain, no guts punk now.
We have reports of rioting, with cars and shops set ablaze.
This is going to get very ugly very quickly.
It will make Tienanmen look like a tea party.