They Knew…

By way of Bruce McQuain, who you will recall, I was a little harsh with last week on the AIG thing, comes this news:

The other shoe concerning the AIG “bonuses” and the administration’s knowledge of them is beginning

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Yeah, the usual Nightly Ramble sign is under all that snow, somewhere.  We got at least most of

McQ notes, this morning, something that bothered me last night, as well:

If there is indeed an “era of maturity” evident, it has nothing to do with the leftists of this country. Indeed, even on this day, they just

McQ over at Q&O points up a source of power we haven’t been using as much as we should; Tidal forces.

With 12,383 miles of US coastline, this seems like a technology which would make sense for both development and

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• I shouldn’t have to tell you the amount of heat I’m taking for my stand on Unions. Boortz, today touches on this, too…

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Tuesday. 28 days until the election.4 days until my vacation, and about 5 hours to the second debate. And if you don’t understand the joke

Bruce McQuain does an admirable job of explaining my estimation on the sub-prime meltdown quoting a 1999 article in the New Work Times:

The lede:

In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income

Bruce:

The House has passed the travesty, er, bailout, er “Financial Rescue Plan” (263-171).

UPDATE: It sure impressed the stock market, didn’t it?

While I don’t doubt that there’s a distaste on the part of the market for

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• Charlie Rangel’s scandals just keep going on.  It strikes me that were the press to have actually been doing it’s job, they’d be

Oliver Willis entitles a post “GOP Has Buyers Remorse” and claims the GOP is upset that Palin is on the bottom of the ticket instead of the top.

Not really. Possibly in fantasy land, but unlike the “reality based

Bruce at Q&O dives into the swamp known as Gustav in relation to the RNC. It’s a worthy article, but one point of disagreement:

Frankly, keeping Bush out of the convention limelight is a positive. How to do that without

• It’s August, already? Where the hell did July go?   2/3rds of the summer is gone and I’m just getting started on the stuff I wanted to do this year.
• Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption Contest. I gotta admit, that

Timing is everything. Bruce posts a Project Hero post, and I’m out of town.

Oh, well.

This week, Bruce digs into the story of an attack in Afghanistan a few weeks ago, where 9 soldiers got killed. The story here,

• 90 Billion BBLsof oil under the ice.
• So, Obama went to the wall today. We’re suppsoed to be impressed by the turnout. Perhaps before you get too impressed with how well Germans react to his posturing, perhaps you’ll be

• A .491 Blood Alcohol level? Why is this guy still breathing? And he was Driving?
• Profits at The New York Times are off 82%If I’m Rupert Murdoch I’m watching this one.
• Dolly visits Texas. No deaths, far as