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by Brent Kellogg
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MONDAY,
11.17.08 - What follows is information I culled over the weekend,
but I must tell you that late Sunday I had a sort of epiphany after seeing
Naomi Klein on C-SPAN that had such an impact on me that starting today,
after you read this column, you may see a change in that I'll be focused on
finding articles to show you that the election of Obama was not all peaches
and cream.
For example, the appointing of Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff was the first
mistake. If Hillary is made Secretary of State will be the second. You know
when Henry Kissinger says Hillary will be a great SOS there's a problem. And
the far worst mistake will be if Larry Summers is added to the
administration in any way. Summers is the guy who started the financial mess
during the Clinton years. He is the guy who argued that women are less
gifted in science than men, that "Africa is Underpolluted", that child
sweatshop work in Asia can be justified, and that energy used to oppose job
destroying trade agreements was "very, very badly misplaced".
This just in: Gregory B. Craig, a lawyer who handled Clinton's impeachment
defense, has been chosen White House counsel.
The pulling of the old guard from the 90s into Obama's new change will be
nothing more than a continuation of the Clinton years which was not a good
thing for the world as a whole given the Clinton's militaristic method of
distributing democracy.
Yes, electing Obama was better than getting stuck with Insane/Palin, but as
I'd said all along, Obama was the lesser of the two evils as I fear we'll
soon see. So that's what I'll be looking for from now on; the signs, another
of which we're seeing as consumers cut their spending back and the shrill
goes out that this could be the worst ever retail Christmas. You may have
already asked yourself why gasoline is down to $2. Other than driving to
your lucky to have a low-paying job, what's the reason they want you behind
the wheel? So you'll be lulled into a false sense of financial security?
Recall how they told us the high cost of oil is responsible for higher food
prices? If oil is at it's lowest ever ($58 barrel as of Friday), why didn't
food and other prices come down?
Don't expect to get answers to questions like this from the Corporate Media.
You know why we call it the CM. Its mission is to distract you from the real
news. (See
also)
As liberal as Olbermann and Maddow are, there's a line and if they cross it
they'll be gone. This may explain why they've been pushing the LIEberman
story as a hot topic as though it matters. For a moment there they even had
been caught up in it which is why on Friday I started today's column with
the following:
Leave it to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to sum up the LIEberman dilemma.
"To reward Senator Lieberman with a major committee chairmanship would be a
slap in the face of millions of Americans who worked tirelessly for Barack
Obama and who want to see real change in our country. Appointing someone to
a major post who led the opposition to everything we are fighting for is not
'change we can believe in.'"
My analogy goes like this: Say you work for Coke and yet you go around
praising Pepsi. How long you think Coke will keep you employed when it finds
out?
One other example of the distraction is this item that has been floating
around in the CM for days.
Will Obama give up his BlackBerry?
Here's what the New York Times wrote: "Those are seven words President-elect
Barack Obama is dreading but expecting to hear, friends and advisers say,
when he takes office in 65 days."
Who gives a shit? Of what importance is this? More from the NYT's two page
story on this:
"Before he arrives at the White House, he will probably be forced to sign
off. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the
Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official
record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. A
decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing
president, but aides said that seemed doubtful."
After all the fuss about how Bush and his goons "lost" email. Obama's mail
could be subject to public review? I don't think so.
...
Holy shit!
Parishioners of a South Carolina Catholic Church have been told they should
not receive Holy Communion if they voted for Obama because he backs abortion
rights and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic
evil."
The very scary Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter that God-fearing
members of his church are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy
Communion before doing penance for their vote. The Rev said too that he will
continue to deliver the church's strong teaching on the "intrinsic and grave
evil of abortion" as a hidden form of murder.
...
Good news for the environment.
The EPA's Environmental Appeals Board has put a freeze on the construction
of as many as 100 new coal-fired power plants around the country. Now it's
up to Obama to develop rules on carbon dioxide emissions from such plants.
While this is good, at least one industry representative is calling it a win
for his team. Rich Alonso, who represents utilities and power-plant
developers for the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani and previously served as a
senior air attorney with EPA's enforcement office, points out that the
board's decision doesn't explicitly require the EPA to regulate CO2 under
the Clean Air Act; it simply remands the decision to the regional office. In
this case, Colorado.
Bad news for the environment.
Cities from Beijing to New Delhi are getting darker, glaciers in ranges like
the Himalayas are melting faster and weather systems becoming more extreme
due to the combined effects of man-made Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs) and
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
So say scientists studying a more than 3km-thick layer of soot and other
manmade particles that stretches from the Arabian Peninsula to China and the
western Pacific Ocean. The brown clouds are the result of burning fossil
fuels. You know, "clean coal".
...
Here's a tip: If you're collecting disability do not run in marathons.
A former San Francisco firefighter has been busted for collecting $140,000
in workers' compensation and disability payments at the same time she was
competing in sporting events. And now Christina Hijjawi is facing felony
charges for alleged fraud and attempted perjury. Dumb shit.
...
Too funny, CIA doofus Michael Hayden says Usama bin Forgotten is alive and
"worried" about his security as if to say this a bad thing because Bush
doesn't worry about his. Waving the flag, Hayden said, "America and its
friends have taken the fight to the enemy" and that Usama has been
"successfully isolated" although there's not a single iota of evidence.
Let me note again that the war in Iraq, failed from a war standpoint, is a
great success for gangsters like Blackwater. Much profit has been made.
Too funny 2 - The auto bailout alone would now cost as much as $200 billion.
Too funny 3 - As Americans suffers, Bush throws a party (G-20) at the White
House. Note: The G-20 was nothing but a photo opt. The G-20 solved nothing.
On the party menu?
Fruitwood-smoked quail with quince gastrique, followed by thyme-roasted rack
of lamb and eggplant fondue and ending with pear torte and huckleberry sauce
and baked Vermont brie with walnut crostini. To wash it all down there were
the $500 bottles of wine.
I won't explain to you what all that stuff is because I'm sure your
routinely eat it. There was so much lamb leftover last night at my house I
gave it to the dog.
Speaking of dog chow, not all is bad.
According to the makers of Spam, a bad economy is good for business. Hormel
employees have been working double shifts since July to keep up with demand.
Then I heard on C-SPAN...
A tour of the White House Special!
Yes, coming next month on C-SPAN, for 7 days, a tour of how the ultra-rich
live.
...
That's it! I'm moving to Mexico City. Viagra is being given out there for
free. Oh wait, to men 70 and older so that leaves me out, damn. The mayor
there says the ability to have sex has "a lot to do with quality of life and
our happiness" and so let the old timers, and there are some 112,000 of them
70 or older in Mexico City, walking around with 4-hour erections. |
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