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Hurricane Hump Day

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
  • Trouble in the mortgage market is now translating to higher interest rates. [New York Times]
  • Barack Obama wouldn’t just be a post-racial, post-partisan president; he would also be a post-Iraq president, as illustrated by his emphasis on Afghanistan and Pakistan in his visit abroad this week. [Washington Post]
  • Barack talked with Barak, in Israel. [Los Angeles Times]
  • Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, accused of all sorts of crimes, will not seek a pardon from President Bush. [The Hill]
  • John McCain got money from an Oregon venture capitalist named Craig Berkman even though Berkman stole $5 million from his investment partners. [Washington Post]
  • People short on cash are skipping preventive care, which translates to higher bills in the end. Many, many depressing anecdotes in this story. [Wall Street Journal]

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All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
  • The decade-long manhunt for Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic came to an end when he was discovered living in Belgrade. He disguised himself for 13 years by cutting his hair and growing a beard. [New York Times]
  • A military judge presiding over the trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver will not allow some evidence that was obtained under duress in Afghanistan. Stuff the guy said in Guantanamo is fair game, though, as long as the interrogators testify about the conditions he was questioned under. [Washington Post]
  • Senator Jack Reed is a little fellow from Cranston, Rhode Island who might be our next Vice President. [Wall Street Journal]
  • John McCain keeps saying old-people things, and people are wondering if his age has anything to do with it. [Politico]
  • Will Barack Obama be able to solve the Israeli-Palestinian problem while he’s abroad, and if he can’t, is that a sign he’s not fit to be Commander in Chief? [The Caucus]
  • The jumper at the Hart Office Building (a serial jumper, it appears) came down from his perch without incident at 2 am this morning. [The Hill]

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Barack Obama’s International Peace And Basketball Tour

Monday, July 21st, 2008
  • John McCain’s Iraq strategy took a blow this weekend; first on Friday George Bush agreed to a “general time horizon” for American troop withdrawal (NOT A TIMETABLE PEOPLE IT’S TOTALLY DIFFERENT) and then on Saturday Der Spiegel ran an interview with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that seemed to back up Obama’s 16 months-ish withdrawal schedule. The McCain people said, “Yeah well an interview with a magazine is not official policy.” [Politico]
  • Barack Obama visited Afghanistan this weekend, and today he’s in Basra and Baghdad. [New York Times]
  • Guess who didn’t get a seat on Barack Obama’s plane of international transcendence? Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker writer whose profile was in the infamous “satirical cover” issue. [Los Angeles Times]
  • The surge worked. But will it hold? [Washington Post]
  • Some people are sad that their neighborhood Starbucks is closing. [Wall Street Journal]
  • South Africa, with the help of the UN, the African Union, and 14 southern African nations, is trying to broker a power-sharing agreement between rival factions in Zimbabwe. [New York Times]

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Nation Of Derelict Wastrels

Friday, July 18th, 2008
  • America’s newest enemy in Iraq: electrical fires, which broke out 283 times in a single six-month period due to bad wiring by military contractors. [New York Times]
  • Air Force bigwigs really really really want $16 million to spend on some weird luxury space-cabins they would put inside their planes to help fight the Global War on Terror, and Congress keeps saying no. [Washington Post]
  • Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman is running for governor and all her fellow Republicans hate her because of her Global War on Earmarks. [Wall Street Journal]
  • Nancy Pelosi wants another $50 billion for an economic stimulus package. [The Hill]
  • Barack Obama has 300 people on his foreign policy advising team. Is this the beginning of a gloriously bloated bureaucracy? [New York Times]
  • America has become a nation of whores willing to do pretty much anything — literally anything — for a free gas card. [Reuters]

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Hope Rides In On A $52 Million Unicorn

Thursday, July 17th, 2008
  • Iraqis are inclined to like Barack Obama, even if they’re not all superpsyched about his troop withdrawal plan. [New York Times]
  • The U.S. and Great Britain may be weathering tough economic times, but countries like Kenya and Russia with emerging economies are going like gangbusters. [Washington Post]
  • People are making crazy cash producing and selling dumb/weird posters about Barack Obama. [Wall Street Journal]
  • Southern California home prices have fallen nearly one-third from June 2007, disaster and ruin loom, etc. [Los Angeles Times]
  • Youngsters under the age of 30 harbor a particularly bleak outlook on our nation’s economic situation. [Politico]
  • After early reports suggested Barack Obama raised as little as $30 million in June, the official figure is … $52 million. [New York Times]

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Winners Never Quit, And Quitters Never Win

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
  • How can Barack Obama be elected president when he can’t even solve a simple issue like America’s 400-year-old race problem? [New York Times]
  • Obama’s inability to deliver wide-scale racial transcendence has translated to … a 7-point lead in the latest Reuters poll. [Reuters]
  • Rahm Emanuel is young, ambitious, and probably too impatient to wait around long enough to become Speaker of the House. [Politico]
  • The state of the American banking system is strong! And now Wachovia will probably fail, too. [Washington Post]
  • “Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress his plan to bolster Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac gives the government a ‘bazooka’ in its pocket,” so that it can combat financial stability with its massive boner. [Wall Street Journal]
  • Homeowners in danger of mortgage default are taking in boarders to help cover the bills. [New York Times]

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Moving Parts

Monday, July 14th, 2008
  • This weekend the Bush administration proposed measures to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from collapsing. They involve loans ‘n stuff. [New York Times, Los Angeles Times]
  • Joe Lieberman is so ronery. [New York Times]
  • Meet like 50 of Barack Obama’s closest friends and advisers! They are all from Chicago. Also, Rahm Emanuel told him once that if he wanted to be left alone when he boards his campaign plane he should put in his iPod ear buddies. [Washington Post]
  • Want to reduce your gas consumption? Drive like an old lady. [Wall Street Journal]
  • The newest issue of the New Yorker features a satirical cover that will be hailed as God’s honest truth by a nation of paranoid Bitters who, thankfully, don’t read the New Yorker anyway. [Politico]
  • Dick Lugar would like to see more troops in Afghanistan. [The Hill]

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Money Troubles

Friday, July 11th, 2008
  • After the May earthquake in China that killed thousands of children in collapsed schoolrooms, parents started complaining. And now we don’t hear anything about it because the state threw some complainers in jail and started a big propaganda campaign to get it out of the news. [New York Times]
  • Bigwig Democratic donors are tired of being hit up for cash for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. [Washington Post]
  • RNC fundraising far outpaces DNC fundraising, but Barack Obama has personally raised lots more money than John McCain, and now McCain’s people argue that Obama will need to raise $200 million in the next four months. [The Hill]
  • The number of Mexicans who became US citizens last year increased by nearly 50 percent. [Los Angeles Times]
  • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s stock prices have taken a serious dive, leading to even more concern over the health of the mortgage market. Most people believe the government will step in if Fannie and Freddie’s situation gets really dire. [Los Angeles Times, Washington Post]
  • John McCain might be a secret Panamanian after all. [New York Times]

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Let The Eagle Soar

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
  • Iran ran more missile tests and Condoleezza Rice wasn’t happy and oh God George Bush is going to bomb the living crap out these people. [Washington Post]
  • Barack Obama has traversed this great nation and picked up all sorts of useless geographic trivia to share with reporters. [New York Times]
  • Obama has managed, brilliantly, to disappoint the left with his “move to the center” while still irritating the right with his “unreconstructed liberalism.” [Washington Post]
  • John McCain is the modern William McKinley, while Barack Obama is the modern William Jennings Bryan OH SNIPPETY SNAP, TRIPLE ZING. [Wall Street Journal]
  • John McCain left his national press entourage on the plane outside Pittsburgh while he talked with local reporters, and all the national press people got mad. [Los Angeles Times]
  • Ted Kennedy returned to the Senate yesterday! His vote helped pass a bit of stalled legislation that will prevent a big drop in payments to doctors under Medicare. [The Hill]

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There Is Nothing Wrong With Properly Folded Jeans

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
  • Maybe George W. Bush will get that war he wanted with Iran. [New York Times]
  • After dropping for a few days, the price of oil began to rise again following Iran’s disclosure that it had test-fired some missiles. [Reuters]
  • Neither US presidential candidate is flip-flopping on Iraq, because the “facts on the ground” have been flip-flopping as well. [Washington Post]
  • Barack Obama admits he is sort of sick of campaigning. [Los Angeles Times]
  • Many economists who signed a letter in support of John McCain’s “Jobs for America” economic program do not support key portions of McCain’s economic platform, or even the candidate himself. [Politico]
  • Former clothing retail drones find themselves compulsively re-folding clothes in stores and at home, leading to marriage strain and weird looks from strangers. [Wall Street Journal]

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