Clean alternative energy thats 98% available

post from Jutia Group on 01 December 2008 10:38:27 AM. © Jutia Group

John McIlveen, a veteran securities analyst specializing in renewable power, turns The Energy Report on to a hot but hardly new source of energy in this exclusive interview. Geothermal power runs 24/7, is clean, cost-competitive and ready now. McIlveen, who recently…

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How to Combat a Banking Crisis: First, Round Up
the Pessimists (Andrew Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

post from memeorandum on 01 December 2008 10:35:00 AM. © memeorandum

Andrew Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
How to Combat a Banking Crisis: First, Round Up the Pessimists — Latvian Agents Detain a Gloomy Economist; ‘It Is a Form of Deterrence’ — RIGA, Latvia — Hammered by economic woe, this former Soviet republic recently took a novel step to contain the crisis.

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Unprecedented Volatility Will Precede Highly
Profitable Rebound

post from Jutia Group on 01 December 2008 10:31:29 AM. © Jutia Group

In the 20 years I’ve been creating stock-market forecasts, I’ve never seen such a contradictory set of forces at work in the markets all at one time. I could just as easily make the case that we’re finally nearing a…

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Obama trying to avoid picking intel officials
associated with Bushs policies.

post from Think Progress on 01 December 2008 10:30:00 AM. © Think Progress

The Wall Street Journal reports that Obama is ?moving more slowly on his intelligence picks in an attempt to find experienced officials who aren’t associated with the Bush administration’s controversial interrogation policies.? After former CIA official John Brennan withdrew his name from consideration due to his prior support for key Bush policies, retired Navy Adm. Dennis Blair emerged as a front-runner, though the decision hadn’t been finalized. ?Blair is free of any association with two of the intelligence community’s most controversial issues: the CIA’s harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects and the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program.?

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Tina Fey on Sarah Palin and sexism

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 01 December 2008 10:28:00 AM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

There's a ridiculous article I just read on AP or Reuters (I don't know which, and don't plan to link), talking about how both Hillary and Sarah Palin were both victims of torrid sexism. Puhleez. First off, don't dare put Sarah Palin in the same camp as Hillary for anything. While I'm still not convinced that Hillary suffered any more sexism than Obama suffered racism, the idea of suggesting that Sarah Palin was somehow treated unfairly is simply ridiculous.

Here's Tina Fey's take on sexism and Palin (but I think it applies the same to Hillary):

Around the same time, Fey saw an entertainment reporter on TV say that Palin had been gracious toward Fey, but Fey hadn?t been gracious toward Palin. ?What made me super-mad about it,? Fey says later, ?was that it seemed very sexist toward me and her. The implication was that she?s so fragile, which she is not. She?s a strong woman. And then, also, it was sexist because, like, who would ever go on the news and say, ?Well, I thought it was sort of mean to Richard Nixon when Dan Aykroyd played him,? and ?That seemed awful mean to George Bush when Will Ferrell did it.? And it?s like, No, that?s not the thing. This is a comedy sketch on a comedy show.? ?Mean,? we agreed, was a word that tends to get used on women who do satirical humor and, as she says, ?gay guys.?

?I feel clean about it,? she says. ?All these jokes were fair."

It's not sexism when you metaphorically beat the crap out of male candidates, so why is it sexism when you go after women in politics just as feistily? Because, I think, there's still an internalized sexism that makes people defensive of women when they're attacked politically - it's still "an attack," and we've all been taught that "you don't hit a girl."

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Senate Could Give New President Early Legislative
Victories (Paul Kane/Washington Post)

post from memeorandum on 01 December 2008 10:25:00 AM. © memeorandum

Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate Could Give New President Early Legislative Victories — As Senate Democrats prepare for next year's agenda, they are likely to have a working filibuster-proof majority on a variety of legislative issues that could provide early victories for President-elect Barack Obama.

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CORN-ENCRUSTED PORK.

post from Ezra Klein on 01 December 2008 10:24:00 AM. © Ezra Klein

As the question of stimulus collides with an eagerness to invest in green energy, it's worth keeping in mind the sort of investments we're making now As Craig Cox writes:Every gallon of ethanol produced costs federal taxpayers 51 cents in subsidies. That[...]

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AP IMPACT: US diluted loan rules before crash
(Matt Apuzzo/Associated Press)

post from memeorandum on 01 December 2008 10:20:04 AM. © memeorandum

Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
AP IMPACT: US diluted loan rules before crash — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed.

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Remember My Republican Friend Bob He Voted For
Obama -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser

post from BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash on 01 December 2008 10:18:13 AM. © BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

VERSE CASE SCENARIO
by Tony Peyser

Remember My Republican Friend ?Bob?? He Voted For Obama

Reflecting on the Bush era, he recently said
Something rather sensible:
"Since the election, I no longer have to try &
Defend the indefensible."

VERSE CASE SCENARIO

Tony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, "Blue State Jukebox." He was a daily cartoonist for the L.A. Times from 1994 to 1997. You can e-mail Tony at tonypeyser@yahoo.com.

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Jihad's True Face (William Kristol/New York
Times)

William Kristol / New York Times:
Jihad's True Face — Much of the reporting from Mumbai the last few days has been informative, gripping and often moving. Some of the commentary, on the other hand, has been not just uninformative but counterinformative — if that's a term, and if it's not, I say it should be.

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