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Week of March 15, 2009 - March 21, 2009

Regarding: Michelle Obama's First Trip As First Lady


So let me see what I see at whitehouse.gov...

1) She goes to Fort Bragg
2) Seven pictures are posted of her at Fort Bragg
3) One picture is posted of her at The Arts Center in Fayetteville

And yet, people wonder why asshats like me (even in peacetime) carp and complain about how America is a militarized culture and warlike society; about how America is not a culture dominated by the Arts and Sciences;  and about how citizens must supplement their incomes by becoming soldiers...rather than, say, pursuing happiness and the general welfare of their community by becoming musicians or  just having jobs that are sufficient to a peaceful and virile life.

And gosh, why can't I and everyone like me not do that sort of complaining now?

After all, America is at war.

That's politics. You're welcome.

Regarding Chase and Madoff? No: regarding North Fork, Roger Stone, and Eliot Spitzer


Josh just posted this and says:
"But it does raise very serious questions about JP Morgan/Chase's behavior with Madoff. "

I think it raises questions about Roger Stone and his dirty tricks.

What was Stone doing in the loop on the Spitzer issue?

Seriously: how did it come to pass that someone's financial transactions, the subject of a Federal investigation and protected by confidentiality laws, came to be known by Roger Stone and passed by Stone to the FBI?

Here is what Josh seems to be saying: North Fork notified the Feds of the suspect transactions; the Feds wiretapped Spitzer; and somewhere in all of this, at some point, Stone passed that information on to the FBI.

Google easily turns up reports of Stone, quoted, claiming responsibility for bringing down Spitzer. Stone is very satisfied; and is comfortable proclaiming that his vendetta against Spitzer succeeded.

How did Roger Stone get information about a Federal investigation? Did Stone violate any law by having it? Did the person who gave it to Stone violate any law? Was Stone's source an employee of North Fork? Was it a Republican operative in Albany? Who told Stone?

Is the line from Stone's source to Stone a line that intersects a line to any part of the national Republican Party? If not a line, what degree of separation is there between Stone, his source, and the Republican Party attempting from a national level, to sabotage Democratic governors?

Everyone here remembers Don Siegelman, right?
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