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- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Israel and said the US was committed to a two-state solution, yadda yadda yadda. [AP]
- The stock market might rally today because how much more awful can it get, right? (This is what they say pretty much every day in the financial news.) [CNN Money]
- The Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked by armed gunmen in Lahore, Pakistan. It’s going to be nothing but away games for the Pakistani cricket team for a while, because nobody will come to their country and risk death for a frigging cricket game. [BBC News]
- The new Justice Department released nine more sketchy legal memos drafted by such Bush-era luminaries like John Yoo, showing that in essence everybody lost their minds after 9/11 and imagined George Bush was a benevolent warrior king who might just have to destroy the Constitution in order to save it. [Washington Post]
- Healthcare reform shocker: It won’t be easy. [Wall Street Journal]
- Some of the new healthcare funding will go to creating new community health centers. The price tag seems suspiciously low — it averages out to a little over $1 million per center. [Boston Globe]
Cricket. Serious business.
“The stock market might rally today because how much more awful can it get, right?”
Welcome to Tech World, circa 2001.
FYI, MSM morans. It can and it will get worse.
No Flatulent Sea Donkeys this morning I see.
C’est trop mauvais.
I thought we ditched the term “armed gunman” as redundant.
I am committed to two states, Huma Abedin barely clothed and unclothed.
The stock market might rally today because how much more awful can it get, right?
Here are my 5 great stock picks:
Makers of bronze tools.
Traders in fur pelts.
Jewelry makers who specialize in sea shell necklaces and pretty looking pebbles.
Spear and bow-and-arrow manufacturers.
Walmart.
ManchuCandidate: It will get so much worse…The idiots who comment on the market are worse than the economists, some of whom maintain fleeting glimpses of reality.
The economy is continuing to contract. Once it flattens out it will stay flat for a while and the recovery will be slow and uneven. The stock market will never recover. All those trillions in so-called wealth that have been wiped out are gone forever.
Come to Wonkette for the best market coverage available.
We are all cricketeers, today. Wait, they lived. We are all bodyguards, today. Whatever.
ManchuCandidate: donner_froh: I’m a pessimist by nature, but ya know, the MSM didn’t see this coming so I don’t trust them when they start braying. I did catch a bit of CNBC, and these cheeseheads were saying we’re going in the tank as well.
Now if George Herbert Hoover Walker Texas Ranger Bush was running things, I’d say so. But there’s a glimmer here (and not Dow 14K) that some stuff will work, particularly Hopey getting people to do some work and getting some money in the working people’s pockets.
Plus as much as we suck (and we do suck), the rest of the world is worse. Though for a long play I’d consider Canada as a rebounder once some sort of recovery takes place. They ain’t funding two wars still.
Hm. What has got into me? Bootiesecks!
bitchincamaro: Cricket ambushes make soccer hooligans look awfully lame.
I suspect that the DOJ Memos may be a response to news that the Obama Administration has rejected a court order and adopted Bush’s unitary executive theory. I write more on that in my blog, if anyone is interested.
Common sense says that investors and consumers should be fairly numb to any more discouraging financial news. But this is Merika, a country of high-strung and nervous chihuahuas that need to be peeled from the ceiling following the slightest disturbance to their environment.
donner_froh: Srsly, this Pakistan nightmare is only about to begin. Hopey’s sending Hellfire-armed drones into villages nobody’s ever heard of, and our standing in that part of the world, as low as it is, is bound to continue spiralling. Like our economy. TruckNutz, w/o the Truck.
When Britain banned most handguns after the Dunblane massacre (when an armed loony burst into a school and shot dead 15 or so eight-year-olds), the Duke of Edinburgh tactfully complained that it was a total overeaction and you may as well ban cricket bats because you can do just as much damage with one of them.
Given that all today’s terrorists seem to have escaped unharmed while the Sri Lankan party suffered numerous casualites, the ageing Greek wingnut may wish to reconsider…
The price tag seems suspiciously low — it averages out to a little over $1 million per center.
Well, let’s see - a unit at Public Storage, a hacksaw, a case of grain alcohol (both disinfectant and anesthetic), a salary for “Doctor” Cletus, and the fee for the occasional exorcism - sounds about right to me.
As more of this stuff about the Bushies comes out, I’m increasingly surprised that we survived at all.
ManchuCandidate:
Only when we accept and embrace the permanent change to our standard of living will our economy rebound. To assume that the government can restore our destructive course of gluttony and selfishness is folly. Through complacency, we’ve opted for the quick and painful path of change. We’ll make it through, but only after we uproot the denial of not being able to get everything you want, exactly when you want it.
A community health center isn’t all that expensive. We’re not talking a hospital, just a freaking clinic. What makes it really expensive is staffing it full of doctors. Otherwise it’s just a double-wide with a big medicine cabinet.
Is there anything they don’t try to kill in Afghanistan/Pakistan?
Headline on CNN: “12 Gunmen Sought in Attack on Cricket Team”
Using Sara’s impeccable logic, I’d start by questioning the Pakistani Cricket Team. I mean, who else in the world plays cricket? The West Indies? Australia? Jamaica? England? Given that, who in their right mind would WANT a home game in Lahore?
am I the only one, who thought reading this column was the most important thing in life? *sarc”ly*
http://mitchellblatt.com/blog/2009/02/carbon-obama-economy
Terry: yeah, survived.
Todays episode of Hobo DIY, One Eye Frank and Slim show us how they converted a fridge box into a cozy mancave and Crazy Sal cooks up a mess-o-beans and todays beverage tip; mug-o-gin.
I want to read Johnny Yoo’s memo on the president’s inherent right to annex the American-speaking portions of Canadia and to establish detention camps for Hollywood elitists and gay homosexuals. And Mexicans.
Servo:
But but but according to the FAT One who wears Repubes ballsacks on a necklace, it’s US America’s god given right to drive SUVs using the world’s cheapest gas while getting fat on foods made with subsidized corn and mercury laced High Fructose Corn Syrup in homes sprawled in ex-urban neighborhoods watching 55″ Flat Screen TVs while becoming the world’s greatest debtors. Not that I’m critical about that or anything…
All good dictators (myself included) know that sometimes you have to destroy civilization in order to save it…
ManchuCandidate:
I assume you saw ‘King Corn’ too. Even our cows are fuckin’ diabetics. All to honor the promise of double-digit gains for shareholders and a third vacation mansion for the execs.
Tommy Says Soooo: I am committed to two states, Huma Abedin barely clothed and unclothed.
Finally a solution I can get behind. And on top of. And in a number of other positions with. In my mind.
bitchincamaro:
Yesterday I saw a truck with the license plate ‘TRUCK NUTZ’ or some close variant thereof, but, lo, the truck had no nutz. I was mildly disturbed.
…in essence everybody lost their minds after 9/11 and imagined George Bush was a benevolent warrior king who might just have to destroy the Constitution in order to save it.
Nonsense — I’m still holding to the theory that they were all crazy to begin with and just waiting for an excuse. It’ll take a lot to convince me that Cheney, Yoo, Feith and the rest of that gang of idiots were within a stone’s throw of sanity before 9/11.
Losing expected income from hosting games in the 2011 World Cup, Pakistan will soon be as insolvent as the U.S.!
The cricket attack could be a mistake by the extremists, I mean, in a country that loves cricket as much as Pakistan, no home games for their national side will surely sharply turn the tide of public opinion against them.
Incidentally, the Cricket World Cup in 2011 was going to be co-hosted by Pakistan. The US won’t have a team going, but Canada and Afghanistan still have a chance to qualify.
Huzzah! Cnn reports ‘60 People Get Jobs Today from Stimulus $$’ with ‘Another 200 construction projects to be launched in next few weeks’!!
We’re on our way!!
user-of-owls: Well there’s a billion people on the subcontinent, all cricket mad, so I guess a few more play it than the quaint sports followed by Americans. Incidentally one of the shocks expressed in the media here in Australia and elsewhere where cricket’s played, regarding this attack, is that everyone in Pakistan AND Afghanistan loves the game so much they’d assumed cricketers were safe.