March 8, 2009 - March 14, 2009

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Week of March 8, 2009 - March 14, 2009

Illiterate Racist Post Incites Festival Of Culinary Treats.

March 14, 2009, 3:44PM

What started out as an illiterate racist diatribe titled Obammanables Are Failure As Prez provoked an onslaught of delicious recipe ideas at Talking Points Memo, an award-winning online news organization that features political commentary from both its editors and readers.

As you scroll down through the comments, readers share recipes for smoked salmon potato salad, lentils, chili, caramelized caulifower florets and other scrumptious dishes.

The author of the initial post, who goes by the screen name john could not be reached for comment.

Connect the international dots.

March 13, 2009, 3:49PM

Links to four articles that may broaden your perspective on the global economy:

The first, March 11, 2009, UPI reports that Russia and Iran oil exchanges may compete with New York and London.

The second, March 13, 2009, BBC news reports that Obama will extend sanctions against Iran, citing that Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program poses a threat to U.S. security.

The third, March 13, 2009-- New York Times article, in which China, the world's largest holder of American government debt, expresses concern about the safety of its $1 trillion investment.

The fourth, March 13, 2009, CNN report about Wall Street Bank CEOs now claiming to be profitable.

Who's heading up the war on war?

March 12, 2009, 6:56PM

In the grand scheme of things, Wall Street crooks are just bottom-feeders compared to those hell bent on the expansion and sustainability of the military industrial complex.

Frank Gaffney, President of the neocon think tank Center for Security Policy, is on the airwaves today re-asserting the entire universally- debunked justification for invading Iraq.

Ari Fleischer, GWB's former press secretary, was on Chris Matthews just yesterday parroting the same talking points, as if this issue had not been completely and publicly adjudicated over and over already.

Now these guys are just two bit players, but they represent a larger more corrupt mindset that fuels an entire industry.

It's the war industry. It doesn't even need Wall Street.

War is the West's largest private enterprise and those running it are steeped in such arrogance they don't even bother hiding the evidence. And why should they? No one's about to hold them accountable. Not really. We don't prosecute our own leaders for committing war crimes. Heck, we can't even get a truth commission going.

This is the enterprise that really needs its lawlessness gutted.

Who will step up and lead the war on war?

Where would one even begin?

Maybe someone should look into the relationships members of congress have with companies like AAI, BAE, Boeing, Carlyle Group, General Atomics, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and United Technologies.

Let's get these associations out in the sunlight.

Let's set our sights on those far more dangerous and potentially more consequential than Bernie Madoff. Don't get me wrong. No punishment is too severe for someone who would take your money like that.

But there were those who took a million lives in Iraq and didn't think twice.

Media chews more than it bites off.

March 11, 2009, 1:30PM

When's the last time you saw a cable news channel inflict real journalism on the shallow 24 hour spray of talking points coming out of Washington?

Is Barack Obama doing too much or too little? Seriously? Who feeds them these bubble gum narratives?

How about some in-depth reporting on what precisely he is doing? Maybe throw in a week-long expose on a single issue, like energy or health care? Tell us something we don't already know. Give us diversity and more context. Follow up with an intelligent question.

The 2008 presidential election proved that our fate wouldn't be decided by low information voters anymore.

Will it instead be decided by low information media?

Gingrich test flies brand new false equivalence.

March 8, 2009, 10:15PM

Newt Gingrich brought up a brand new false equivalence on Meet The Press on Sunday that deserved the kind of journalistic inquiry David Gregory seems unable to muster.
Here's the link.
Gingrich compared the current popularity of Obama to that of the widespread popularity of GWB when he was just six weeks into his administration--concluding that the reason Obama is doing so well in the polls now is really meaningless, moot.
What Newt conveniently leaves out is context.
In March of 2001, American civilization was not collapsing.
This is March 2009.
GWB's handiwork is unraveling at the speed of light. Our economy has imploded, our unemployment rate is nearing double digits, we are trillions in debt, there is systemic and far-reaching corruption in almost all sectors of industry and government including energy, banking, real estate, insurance, transportation, health care, agriculture, aerospace and defense. A special shout out to the SEC, the NSA, the FDA, the EPA, the FCC and all the rest, without whom this unprecedented downward spiral would not be possible.
AND Obama spent the last two years being called un-American, unpatriotic, a terrorist, a Muslim extremist, black racist, anti-semite, a lightweight, giant question mark, plagiarist, an elitist, a communist, Nazi appeaser, that one, and a socialist imposing his power for the very purpose of destroying our country!
Given all that, according to a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Obama's favorability rating is at an all-time high. (that's after 2 years and six weeks of full-throttled attack.)
Now Newt Gingrich may want you to believe Obama's approval ratings are just average.
But he's not being straight with you.
He's just a member of a very very desperate party.
Crashing and burning.

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