Wonkette
- Larry Summers said yesterday that private bank funds may help in the next phase of the bailout. Of course, now that all the private banks are funded by the government anyhow, same difference. [MarketWatch]
- Fort Myers, one of the most blighted and tragic of all recession-hit towns, will get a visit from President Obama and citizens are already lining up for the chance to touch the hem of his robe. [Miami Herald]
- The 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka appears to be headed to a close, so a female rebel killed herself and 28 others in a suicide bombing attack. [Washington Post]
- People in Afghanistan are more worried about the country’s direction than they have been in years, but fortunately most of them still hate the Taliban and don’t see them offering a better alternative. [BBC News]
- The peanut plant in Georgia that produced all the salmonella butter was a whole boatload of gross. [New York Times]
- Fewer people are dying in car accidents these days, in part because we’re driving less and driving more slowly, but in part because cars are designed better. [Wall Street Journal]
Now I know how they make Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter (mmmmm, dried rat bits…)
Afghanistan hates teh GOP? and I thoughts I was alone in this.
People in America are more worried about the country’s direction than they have been in years, but fortunately most of them still hate the Republicans and don’t see them offering a better alternative.
Matt Sludge is running the wrong pic for the $9.7 trillion story he’s got in red ink right now. Instead of Monopoly money, he should be using this http://www.goldinformant.com/images/Inflation-1923-24woman.stuffs.her.furnace.with.money.AdsD.der.Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.jpg instead.
Sorry, no snark, just the facts Ma’am, just the facts.
>The 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka appears to be headed to a close, so a female rebel killed herself and 28 others in a suicide bombing attack.
Oh, be nice. M.I.A.’s performance last night wasn’t that bad
I hope Barry gets into Bush’s practice of holding closed door meetings with the “public”, pre-screened for friendliness. I would be good for his self-confidence.
After Canadian officials in April found metal shavings in peanuts produced by the plant, a new manager handed out raises …
That sentence may seem odd, but the metal shavings were less toxic than the things they had been putting in before.
Betcha the “private bank” in the partnership has initials “G.S.” They should change their slogan: “Goldman Sachs: Like Halliburton, but for Democrats.”
The bank bailout plan is a complete, steaming, pile of shit and worthy of Bush’s worst decisions. Geithner and Summers both need to be fired for the constant stream of bailout-de-jour shitty ideas that have been dripping out of the administration. The only solution that will work for the banks is nationalization. But Obama is fucking it up and we’re all going to have a depression now.
Happy fucking Monday.
private bank funds: All I’m saying is I’d like a nice piece of change I can believe in.
NewAlgier: I liked OldAlgiers better. Was that pre-revolution?
“Before Hendrix became homeless, he worked for 12 years at a pawn shop in town — until it went out of business.”
I believe that this man is the definition of life at the margin.
Ah, Florida. The land of:
PUMAs who can’t play by DNC rules
“Half-Breed Muslin” yard signs
Shotgun blast reply to speech given by wife of Half-Breed Muslin
Disney World - America’s North Korea
NewAlgier: Wow. But Larry Summers has to put the “rib removal” surgery to good use, you know.
NewAlgier: what do you mean “going to have a depression”? I thought it started 9/15/08.
Regulation, who needs it? Reagan could have told us that. That peanut butter plant will be subject to ‘market forces’ and it will eventually clean up. Unless the owners of the peanut butter plant realize that it’s not cost effective to do so…
bureaucrap: There’s still time to avoid a “big D” Depression. But not much. We’re not even as bad as 1982 yet.
Tommy Says Soooo: Check Blodget for some real invective. “Takes a while to figure out how to bail out banks and screw taxpayers without making it obvious that that’s what you’re doing.”
TGY: I lived in New Orleans for a while, on the westbank (Algiers). Pre-Katrina.
This peanut butter fiasco is an excellent example of how dumbass conservative ideas are screwing this country over. The almighty Ronald Reagan stated that government is not the solution but the problem (Republicans are still jerking off to that. So they slash funds to inspection agencies such as the FDA saying that the companies will police themselves much better than the government ever did. Yay! The problem is that greed trumps concern for public safety. This peanut butter producer probably had constant pressure from the stock holders to increase profits every year. You get there by cutting here and there and soon you’re looking at a little bit of sparrow poop in mix without blinking an eye cause you got to have that bonus. This goes on until people start getting sick. “Where were the federal inspectors” people whine. I suggest if you want to take it out on the real culprits you start by digging up Reagan’s corpse and throw it in one of those crusty peanut butter vats and serve it to Gingrich , Rush, Bush, Hannity and the rest of the scum sucking weasels.
Mmmmmm Crunchy Republican.
Monsieur Grumpe: Regulation is for pussies. If you can’t afford peanut butter made from peanuts hand picked by blind Indonesian orphans trained by the junta for the task, the peanuts then ground by naked pre-teen girls from Kyrgyzstan whose feet have been amputated and and replaced by pestles for peanut-grinding, then packaged in jar milled from a solid quartz block mined from secret tunnels under lake Victoria, sealed with diamond plucked from dead Liberian soldier’s hand, then, honestly, what are you expecting?
“Fewer people are dying in car accidents these days, in part because we’re driving less and driving more slowly…” I think ecodrivingusa.com deserves much of the credit, in part because the bulk of our driving is now virtual.
Monsieur Grumpe:
Yeah, what he said but expand it to other forms of inspection such as mine safety and hazardous materials release.
Ya gets what ya pay for. If you don’t like taxes and gubment and safety, you can just move to … uh, some place else!
Monsieur Grumpe: Non-regulation works because consumers will stop buying peanut butter from a particular maker when they pry the jars from their cold, dead fingers. Oh, ahaha, oops. Never mind.
Hey, maybe if things get bad enough, people won’t be able to afford gasoline, and there will be no traffic accidents, at all!
Min:
Just bicycle rage. When broomsticks are outlawed, only outlaws will have broomsticks.
Nobody really believes that the Republicans believe that corporations can police themselves better than gubmint, do they? This is just a smokescreen. The point is no government = do whatever you want to increase profits, public health/safety be damned. The Repubs are simply whores for their corporate pimps. Check that. Congresscritters are simply whores for their corporate pimps (Daschle comes to mind on the Democrats’ side.) This peanut fiasco proves that the people in Congress do not care if you die. Your death is just a cost of doing business, factored into their financial equation just like the occasional lawsuit or government fine (of $50.)
The debate in Congress over the stimulus bill only proves this point. Again. If the cost of maintaining their united front against whatever is the bogeyman of the day (big government, welfare queens, tax increases) is our ruined lives, then so be it. They don’t care. They don’t care if we die. The sooner we realize this the sooner
the communist revolutionour apathy will cause us all to roll over and quit, leaving this stinking corpse of a country to the wealthy .01% to rule as a fiefdom. Yes I just woke up. No I’m not sure any of this makes sense. Also.Servo:I’m sincerely hoping that Joe the Plumber can get to Fort Myers on short notice. The world breathlessly awaits his opinions.
Years ago, when the mastodons were just dieing out, I just loved to snuggle up to Lipton Cup-A-Soup on a cold Chicago day, that was until I read in Consumers Reports that they found a high level of insect body parts in the soup mix, but it was OK because the FDA allowed a certain amount of it in all food stuffs. So the folks in Georgia just took that one step farther. That’s why biology isn’t included in No Child Left Behind. Insect? What’s that??? They are privately owned too, so imagine what their Sunday afternoon stimulus party was like, real downer I bet. Makes my weekend jolly by comparison!
In the sort of gothic irony that we only see in Red America, a lot of the tainted peanut butter ended up being sent to flood victims in Kentucky.