Pre-SOTU digest. Got a lot on my mind today.
WordPress doesn’t like me today. Not only have two of my comments to Tedski’s blog been disappeared, but my response to Timmy’s Cat’s comment on last night’s post got eated too. It’s completely gone. Doesn’t even show up as spam. Whither my comments, WordPress? Raul Grijalva is now under the dirty hippie bus. Tedski’s post [...]
Tuesday Energy Blogging apropos of the President’s speech.
From the 1998 Congressional record: At Unocal, we believe that the central factor in planning these pipelines should be the location of the future energy markets that are most likely to need these new supplies. Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union are all slow growth [...]
I have one thing to say about the ACORN undercover sting scandal.
If it isn’t standard policy, in any community organization that puts people in public-facing positions of responsibility, that any and all allegations of child sex abuse brought to their attention are to be taken seriously and reported to the authorities, it needs to be. That is all.
A special message to any Jason Rose staffers who may be reading this blog.
It’s been brought to my attention that interns and employees of Rose and Allyn Public Relations are monitoring websites and blogs so they can spam the comments sections of articles about the Phoenix City Council election on behalf of their client, Sal DiCiccio. Rose, as many of y’all are aware, is the garish local PR [...]
Clean Elections shenanigans in LD10
Tedski’s got a post up today about Rep. Doug Quelland’s little problem with overspending his Clean Election limits in the 2008 election. If it’s proven he committed campaign finance violations, he could be removed from office. But let’s not forget he wasn’t the only candidate in that district who gave local political junkies cause to [...]
No, you’re not just imagining things.
What Digby said: If I didn’t follow politics closely, I would think these people are the ones who won the election. It’s a sad, sad day when Fox(!) is exhibiting the closest thing resembling parity in coverage. H/T to Think Progress for the chart.
$1490 an hour for this guy, and he isn’t even represented by the UAW!
Thanks to Bloomberg for this alert to some of the bonuses AIG execs and managers are getting. With our bail out money. AIG said in the filing that the 130 payments included $3 million for retirement services chief Jay Wintrob. His award, almost 400 percent of his 2007 salary of $775,000, was the only one [...]