Bumped from CNN

just had to endure the campbell show waiting for you - and found out the last five minutes that mj is still dead and his kids's future is problematic

May I interject here???
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Submitted by smcgee43 on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 9:11pm.
Lets not forget the bust of Neffertiti that the British Museum has to.

Egyptian history's most famous queen is Nefertiti, renown for the gorgeous portrait sculpture with elegant neck and classic features. Her name means “the beautiful [or youthful] woman has come.
Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten.
Akhenaten was a lover not a fighter, so you won't find the typical war and hunting scenes glorified in his Amarna pagentry. Amarna chariotry glorified the regular ceremonial parade on the Royal Road between the king's temples and palaces.

I couldn't get on the site ghettofender..

WENDELL POTTER
With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform.

MONEY, POLITICS AND HEALTH
Trace campaign contributions, ad spending and the revolving door between industry and government.

HEALTHCARE REFORM ON THE TABLE
Public option, single payer, free market — what are the options now under discussion?

He goes on later than he used to here so I can watch

--Prisoners brought from Afghanistan reported that they had been "stacked like cordwood" in shipping containers and had to lick the perspiration off one another to survive.

[I knew about this...but not the exact way they were in the container..or the methods they went to to survive...]

The Sunday Show Line-Ups
By Eric Kleefeld - July 10, 2009, 2:50PM

Here are the line-ups for the Sunday talk shows this weekend:

• ABC, This Week: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ).

• CBS, Face The Nation: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL).

• CNN, State Of The Union: Sec. of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius; Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI); Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH); Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN); and Sen Kent Conrad (D-ND).

• Fox News Sunday: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX); House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA).

• NBC, Meet The Press: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

He has been president of the United States for 172 days, yet it appears that Barack Obama is still deemed capable of producing writing that is "potentially detrimental to national security".

That peculiar judgement was made following a request by a high-security prisoner to read Obama's two bestselling books, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope. The plea was made by Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who is being held at a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado which applies the toughest security restrictions to some of the country's most dangerous prisoners.

Abu Ali, a US citizen, was found guilty on 25 November of helping al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate the then US president George Bush. [OMG I WISH HE SUCCEEDED!!] He was sentenced to 30 years.

The prisoner asked to see Obama's two books last August, at a time when the US presidential elections were entering the home stretch. Such was the sensitivity of his al-Qaida connections that the request was sent to the FBI for consideration. Later, the prison authorities turned down permission for him to read the books on the grounds that they contained material "potentially detrimental to national security".
...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/10/barack-obama-books-blocked-p...

Despite difficulties caused by state laws that inhibit participation in special elections by smaller parties and folks without big bucks, the Mary McIlroy for Congress campaign is going ahead in the Tenth District (centered in Contra Costa County). She will carry the flag for the Peace and Freedom Party in the only special election for Congress that is expected to occur this fall.

It was necessary to line up about $1700 in filing fees to do this, a factor that eliminated several other candidates, apparently including all other candidates from smaller parties. While this is grossly unfair, and we strongly favor ballot access laws that make it easier to run, it also means in this case that Mary's campaign will be the only alternative to the two big-money parties. We need to get the maximum mileage out of this campaign, reach as many voters as possible, and toward the latter part of the campaign (in October, if not earlier) get some of our candidates for statewide office in 2010 to campaign with her, and jump-start their vital campaigns that will enable us to keep our place on the California ballot.
...

Bill Moyers Show Tonight Reveals Insurance Lobby's Secret Plan to Attack 'Sicko' and Michael Moore

We've just been informed that Bill Moyers, on his show later tonight, will expose for the first time the health insurance industry's secret campaign against Michael Moore and his film, "Sicko." It contains a stunning revelation and admission by a top health insurance executive -- the former head of publicity for CIGNA, one of the top health insurance companies in the country -- that the disinformation and attacks on Michael and the film were extensive and well-planned. Their job was to stop the movie from reaching a wide audience (and, more importantly, from having the widespread political impact the industry feared "Sicko" would have).

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Judge allows review of government's refusal to hold inquiry into vehicles criticised for offering poor protection to troops

Susan Smith outside the high court in London after winning the right to a review into Snatch Land Rovers. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq has won the right to a judicial review of the government's refusal to hold a public inquiry into Snatch Land Rovers.

Susan Smith, of Tamworth, Staffordshire, whose son Phillip Hewett died in 2005, is challenging the use of the vehicles in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Mr Justice Mitting allowed the review but said it would not cover the present and future use of the lightly armoured vehicles, which have been criticised for offering poor protection from bomb blasts.

The high court heard that 37 soldiers had died in Iraq and Afghanistan while using the vehicles since 2005.

However, the judge said the vehicles' present and future deployment was "unimpeachable" in the courts.

Smith's son, a 21-year-old private in the 1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment, and two other soldiers were killed in the al-Amarah region of Iraq on 16 July 2005.

Hewett was driving a Snatch Land Rover when it was hit by a roadside bomb attack on three of the vehicles on patrol.

...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/10/snatch-land-rover-review

A few days ago, a citizen asked the progressive legislator from California, Congressman Henry Waxman why he took his name off the list of about Eighty House sponsors of single-payer health insurance? Mr. Waxman replied: “it [H.R. 676] isn’t going to happen.”

In early January and last year, Americans who believe in Presidential accountability for constitutional, statutory and treaty violations asked Democrats in Congress—“If not impeachment, why not at least a resolution of censure of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney?” The uniform reply was “It’s not practical.”

These lawmakers—Democrats all, who are the majority in Congress and who agree with these questioners—keep saying “It’s not going to happen” or “It’s not practical.”

“It’s just not practical” to provide a federal minimum wage equal to that in 1968, inflation adjusted, which would be $10 an hour.

“It’s not going to happen” to get comprehensive corporate reform at a time when a corporate crime wave and the Wall Street multi-trillion dollar collapse on Washington, on taxpayers and on the economy is tearing this country apart. A little regulatory tinkering is all citizens are told to expect.

“It’s just not practical” to give workers, consumers and taxpayers simple facilities for banding together in associations with their own voluntary dues to defend these interests in the corporate occupied territory known as Washington, D.C.

Last year, the excuse was a Bush veto. So the Democrats didn’t even try to advance reforms they believe in, knowing Bush and his Republican Party would stonewall. What’s the excuse this year with Obama in the White House?

After all, it was only a year and a half ago when nominating and then electing an African-American President was “not going to happen, was not practical.”

But since it did happen, why aren’t these and many other long overdue beneficial redirections and efficiencies happening for the American people? Why aren’t there rollbacks, at least, of the Bush-driven inequities and injustices that have so damaged the well-being of working people?

Why isn’t a simpler and more efficient carbon tax more “practical” than the complex corruption-prone, corporatized cap and trade deal driven by Goldman Sachs and favored by most Democrats? The avaricious tax cuts for the super-wealthy are still there.

The statutory ban on Uncle Sam negotiating volume discounts on medicines purchased by the federal government are still there. Taking the huge budgets for the Bush wars in Iraq and Afghanistan off their annual fast track, and putting them a meaningful House and Senate Appropriations Committee hearing process has not happened.

Face it, America. You are a corporate-controlled country with the symbols of democracy in the constitution and statutes just that—symbols of what the founding fathers believed or hoped would be reality.

Even when the global corporate giants come to Washington dripping with crime, greed, speculation and cover-ups, and demand gigantic bailouts on the backs of taxpayers and their children, neither the Republicans nor the now majority Democrats are willing to face them down.

The best of America started with our forebears who faced down those who told them “it’s not going to happen,” or “it’s not practical” to abolish slavery, give women the right to vote, elevate the conditions of workers and farmers, provide social security and medicare, make the air and water less polluted and so on. These pioneers, with grit and persistence, told their members of Congress and Presidents—“It is going to happen.”

To paraphrase the words of a great man, the late Reverend William Sloan Coffin, it is as if those legendary stalwarts from our past, knowing how much more there is to achieve a practical, just society, are calling out to us, the people today, and saying “get it done, get it done!”

Outstanding interview with Wendell Potter.

Major whistleblowing on the greed of the health care insurance industry going on here...

Definitely a must watch.

I hope this guy gets much more facetime on the MSMs after this. Very powerful stuff. If we can get his message out to the public they will turn on the insurance companies for sure...

generaliisimo francisco franco is still dead

by Wall Street:
http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article-7084-les-leopold-explains-the-lo...

as Director of the Progressive Caucus?

I can't find a peep...everything links back to the roll call article 60th posted.

-If we can get his message out to the public they will turn on the insurance companies for sure...-

Even today one of those Fox freaks warned me about Obama's socialized medicine...Most people I know do not care, aren't interested, don't know...don't want to know...

I have way more snarky shit to write...but I'm sitting on my attitude for a few moments to see if I still feel like it after I take a mental breather...

I recevied my 70 dollar less paycheck today...and that's not all the cuts, there was one week of regular pay in it...So two Friday's from now...I have a feeling I am going to go way beyond a bitter cynic....(which I must say to Crank...bitter cynics do not vote dem...IMHO)

Like the Bohemian Club, THE FAMILY is secretive by plan. They WANT to be under the radar. Their members and visitors agree to NOT talk about the 'the fellowship' (their other name; confusing to have two, even three names isn't it?). We must challenge this group and those who support and participate witht it. Their GOAL is THEOCRACY. We cannot step aside while they infiltrate -- via their members in government and business -- to turn (what's left of) our democratic republic into a theocratic fascist state. Theocracy IS a form of totalitarianism! (The author of The Family was on Rachel Maddow's radio broadcast today, and it was most interesting, so I recommend it.)

AWAY or GOING TO CHANGE, nora....?

Thats what we're here for...

Sorry work is so shitful lately.

btw, what comes after bitter cynic? I blew past that sign post a few miles back...

Alice @ 10:11
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Yikes! What is happening to Henry Waxman? Taking his name off the single payer bill?

And too, Waxman then allowing a food safety bill become a draconian anti vitamin/supplements tool!

Is this a case a of "Power corrupts..."?

than I, cent...

Hi, Alice! Thanks for the heads up. Sounds good.

I heard someone this week say that Sarah Palin has enough celebrity now to be a great draw for fundraising events for Republicans across the country. So she has value and Palin is a serious Republican/Dominionist 'force'.

All she has to do is smile, look good, sign autographs and give a short canned speech. She can handle that.

July 9, 2009
Henry Waxman, Single Payer and the Deception of the Democrats

Filed under: News — russell @ 10:37 am

For the years the Republicans controlled the White House, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California) was an ardent supporter of a single payer national health insurance system.

Then when the Democrats took the White House earlier this year, Waxman took his name off as co-sponsor of HR 676, the single payer bill in the House.

Why?

Because the Democrats – Waxman and Obama included – are the party of deception.

The Republicans will tell you straight up — single payer is socialism.

We’re for big business.

That’s why we’re against single payer.

The Democrats will tell you what you want to hear — we’re for single payer.

Until we take power.

Then we are against single payer.

The reality is that there is only one solution to the health care crisis – get the insurance companies out of the business of health care.

The Democrats are engaged in what Dr. Marcia Angell – former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine – calls “the futility of piecemeal tinkering.”

Angell and a majority of doctors in the United State believe that only a major overhaul will get the job done.

And Waxman, Obama and the Democrats are not up to the challenge.

“I don’t think we can pass anything that is such a major overhaul of the health care system,” Waxman said yesterday when asked why he took his name off of HR 676. “We are building on the employer based system rather than eliminating it.”

Won’t work.

The mixed public/private system won’t work because, as the Congressional Budget Office pointed out last month – it will cost more than $1 trillion over ten years and still leave 37 million Americans without coverage.

We asked Waxman about this.

And Waxman gave a typically deceptive answer.

“The public option isn’t intended to cover everybody,” Waxman said. “Everybody will have a choice of either a public or a private insurance plan.”

Notice – the public option isn’t intended to cover everyone, Waxman says.

True enough.

But we were asking about the public/private system – which the Congressional Budget Office says will leave 37 million Americans uninsured.

Obama and Waxman say that the public/private option will cover everyone.

Because it mandates that everyone be covered.

But CBO says it won’t.

President Obama and Waxman are alike.

When they are out of power, they promise single payer.

When they are in power, they bow down before the altar of the health insurance industry and take single payer off the table.

Single Payer Action

Major whistleblowing on the greed of the health care insurance industry going on here...

has anyone ever tried halved fresh cherries and cashews on a grilled tortilla? I am hoping to make a simple low gi desert.

I know of zero pending legislation on single payer. The option on the table is to provide a public option that installs regulation on the industry. There is no other option in this debate. I want single payer and now I'm afraid I won't even get a public option.

How are you going to prepare that? make the cashews like a butter and the purree the cherries/. inventive blend (got iceberg lettuce?)

cherries are my absolute favorite. I eat fruit with low fat yogurt or low fat cottage cheese to help with the glycemic index if I am eating lots of fruit. blueberries are really in season near by in NJ and they are very good in the GI blood sugar thing.

I just had one. The tortilla was toasted golden and almost crunchy. The cashews were a whole fist full unsalted like they come. The cherries were split and pitted with a steak Knife.

That was yummy. Like a Pb&J

this to me..

-this is off topic, sorry-

the thread was ripe with health care issues.

I was just posting a desert recipe off the grilled tortilla. I distracted things unnecessarily.

Now I feel stupid. See? - sorry.

The one thing I've noticed in the health care debate is the raising of conscience of health care responsibility. There has been an effort to try to expect a level of fitness. Very Orwellian. Will we be woken by the tele to touch our toes too?

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People made a concentrated extract of cherries and it was very good for arthritis. I think in Minn. the authorities made them stop saying that it had a "medicinal effect". it's that Codex Mindset.

I have only recently understood what a blessing they are.

Especially sliced, pitted and marinated in a drizzle of lime with grilled jalapeno chunks.

I'm enjoying this movie...

...

Beethoven is describing his "Song of Thanks to the Deity"] No key. It's common time, molto adagio, sotto voce. First violin, quarter notes. Middle C up to A. Measure. G up to C, tied, F. Second violin, bar two. Middle C up to A. Double note E, G, C. Viola clef, 2B pressed. It's a hymn of thanksgiving to God, for sparing me to finish my work. After the pianissimo, the canon resumes. First violin takes the theme. Viola, C to A. It's growing, gaining strength. Second violin, C to A, an octave higher. Then the struggle. First violin, C, up an octave, and then up to G. And the cello, down. Pulled down. Half notes, F, E, D. Pulled constantly down. And then, a voice, a single frail voice emerges, soaring above the sound. The striving continues, moving below the surface. Crescendo. First violin longing, pleading to God. And then, God answers. The clouds open. Loving hands reach down. We're raised up into heaven. Cello remains earthbound, but the other voices soar suspended, for an instant in which you can live forever. Earth does not exist. Time is timeless. And the hands that lifted you caress your face, mold them to the face of God. And you are at one. You are at peace. You're finally free.

one of the Librarians (capital L), made it for the teen book club...and made so much she passed it around..I never liked ambrosia until yesterday...it was so fresh and lively tasting...!

Did you make up that recipe up there? Cuz...it is really weird... but I trust you and so I'm going to suggest it to my chef... and see what he thinks.. :)

and he made "a face..." ;)

Me thinks the ruling class can't imagine how to drive the capitalist engine without the massive profits from the overcharging,scaming of Pharma and Insurance cartels

Of course they dont want to see the wealth redistributed. and If the people rise up the war profiteers will be ecstatic.

I can't eat flour Alice.

Zero, Nothing, Nada someday...what then? You know, I suppose if any one of us believed this "we are one" stuff then we wouldn't mind taking and giving at will with the rest of the humans...maybe...

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Does it taste like chicken? (that's my question now)... :)

Of course they dont want to see the wealth redistributed. and If the people rise up the war profiteers will be ecstatic.
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This does not follow.

the war profiters may go out of business, along with the rest of the swine.

but I bet it's great with tequila & lime grilled chicken too.

That Copying Beethoven movie was producer (Kimmel) as this next movie we're going to watch which is called Lars and the Real Girl...

What are you all up to tonight?

I didn't make the connection... I thought as in you like them also...

I f I come across some ripe cherries I'll give it a shot ;)

peaches too. Some of my favorite foods :)

Submitted by Fernando on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 11:51pm.
I can't eat flour Alice.
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It overwhelms the subtle hint of eight jalapenos.

I think that passive resistance will work. .I also think the dark forces/cheney types want to provoke violence so that they can be bring out the big guns.Then the major sheeple will cave in.

I want a general strike yesterday. Not like the G 20 or G 8 meetings or what ever number we are up to ,with vandalism. But more Martin Luther King style,bravely walking silently throught the valley of Greed. en masse (sp)
New York City through Wall street would be a good place to bring say 500,00 thousand passive resistors.

I loved that movie. I just finished Revolutionary Road right now.

Holy crap that one was hard to take!

"this machine kills fascists"

Tesla had been feeding pigeons for years. Among them, there was a very beautiful female white pigeon with light gray tips on its wings that seemed to follow him everywhere.

A great deal of rapport developed between them. As Tesla confessed, he loved that pigeon: "Yes, I loved that pigeon, I loved her as a man loves a woman, and she loved me."

One night as he was lying in bed, she flew in through the window and he knew right away that she had something important to tell him: she was dying.

Tesla: "And then, as I got her message, there came a light from her eyes - powerful beams of light". "...Yes," "...it was a real light, a powerful, dazzling, blinding light, a light more intense than I had ever produced by the most powerful lamps in my laboratory."

tell me how that looks compared to passive aggression...

it's because Helmut who is having a SUPERHAPPYTERRIFICKITTENSPAZZOUT has raced over my face and clawed me to death....!

Passive resistance..
Submitted by Alice on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 12:21am.
tell me how that looks compared to passive aggression...
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When passive aggression encounters passive resistance, nothing happens.

Passive resistance
Submitted by Alice on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 12:21am---

On Tesla .He lived down from street from me at the Hotel New Yorker. there is a dedication on the outside of the Hotel.

Careful with that ax Eugene.

Tesla's...

it is their birthdays today and I was looking for a good segue. I really have a thing for the Mavis Staples. I kid my self and think the Staples center in L.A. is named after her.

Bela Fleck is a lot of fun on that Banjo and He is very humble in real time. .

WooHoo!

I don't get to eat cake but I hope you do!

It's Tesla's birthday..

I'd like to see that one too...This Lars one I'm not getting into at the moment....some laughs so far tho...

You said the anger would come back
just as the love did.

I have a black look I do not
like. It is a mask I try on.
I migrate toward it and its frog
sits on my lips and defecates.
It is old. It is also a pauper.
I have tried to keep it on a diet.
I give it no unction.

There is a good look that I wear
like a blood clot. I have
sewn it over my left breast.
I have made a vocation of it.
Lust has taken plant in it
and I have placed you and your
child at its milk tip.

Oh the blackness is murderous
and the milk tip is brimming
and each machine is working
and I will kiss you when
I cut up one dozen new men
and you will die somewhat,
again and again.

BTW To C. Bubba & others
>>> Merry BirthDay near here ;) <<<

Rep. Keith Ellison offered a unique strategy on the health reform debate on the public option: he took his video camera to the House floor to discuss the issue.

http://minnesotaindependent.com/39022/reporter-ellison-rep-takes-on-publ...

miss cake? ;) I've got a saying to see if u can read? teehee or mwah haha or boo ;

how is C Bub?

huffingtonpost.com

A new study by the Pew Research Center finds that the GOP is alienating scientists to a startling degree.

Only six percent of America's scientists identify themselves as Republicans; fifty-five percent call themselves Democrats. By comparison, 23 percent of the overall public considers itself Republican, while 35 percent say they're Democrats.

The ideological discrepancies were similar. Nine percent of scientists said they were "conservative" while 52 percent described themselves as "liberal," and 14 percent "very liberal." The corresponding figures for the general public were 37, 20 and 5 percent.

Among the general public, moderates and independents ranked higher than any party or ideology. But among scientists, there were considerably more Democrats (55%) than independents (32%) and Republicans (6%) put together. There were also more liberals (52%) than moderates (35%) and conservatives (9%) combined.

Free Democracy

& Kevin © on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 2:26am.
;)

Are you working on a cookbook Fernando?

Maybe you should be? ;)

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http://www.vodamusic.com/blog/

if you are looking for one Cranes. There is some good stuff online too.

The Loveland City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a $100,000 incentive deal for start-up car company Lightning Hybrids to create 50 jobs in Loveland.

Lightning Hybrids will collect its first $50,000 from the city when it signs the agreement, possibly by Aug. 1.
It then has 24 months to have 25 new employees working for at least one year and paid no less than $65,000 annually, said Betsey Hale, Loveland's business development manager. - Lightning Hybrids

http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090708/LOVELAND01/90708002/1193/LOVE...

Endeavour Launches Sat., July 11, 7:39 p.m. EDT:

broken news (it would be breaking if i was more timely)

House Democrats Plan to Tax the Wealthy for Health Reform

To pay for a sweeping overhaul of the health care system,
House Democrats will propose a surtax on individuals earning
$280,000 and up and couples earning more than $350,000, the
chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee said on
Friday.

In all, the proposal is projected to generate roughly $550
billion over 10 years, which would cover about half of the
estimated cost of the $1-trillion-plus health care
legislation.

But it remains unclear if the Senate would approve such an
across-the-board income tax on the wealthy.

of course they can't tax the wealthy. They just have a super majority of votes.

The Senate Democrats are giving the party a stench.

- NYT

If and when I go to Chicago, I want to visit with toniD not stand 1300 feet up in the air in a structure that can't be defined as solid or liquid. Screw a bunch of that noise.

What's next? Icepick in the forehead for fun?

you probably alone would know if all is said okay...it is so anyone speak Spanish or Latino and what is said okay?
Can you "change" the Diabetes direction with diet, as with Diabetes Cookbook: Everyday Meals, Easy as 1-2-3 (Hardcover)?
Is this a decent book, since a friend has diabetes also, but should be able to change with diet.
Another distant friend has the the other type of Diabetes, dealing with certain type of actions for balance.

Capitalism and consumerism have brought the world to the brink of economic and environmental collapse, the Prince of Wales has warned in a grandstand speech which set out his concerns for the future of the planet.

The heir to the throne told an audience of industrialists and environmentalists at St James's Palace last night that he had calculated that we have just 96 months left to save the world. - The Independent

Banks generating even more profits from TARP assitance
by Chris in Paris on 7/10/2009 11:51:00 PM
It's understandable if banks want to try to make more profits but in these circumstances it's a slap in the face to the taxpayers who rescued them from insolvency. It also creates an environment of deeper mistrust which is going to make it challenging to help the banks in the future if more problems arise. It's also going to sour the public on helping spur (or save) the economy with the second stimulus plan but maybe that's the plan or maybe they simply don't care. Either way, this is shameful behavior on the part of the banks. Not that they have any sense of shame though.

The Congressional Oversight Panel, which is charged with overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, said in a report that a group of 11 small banks that have repurchased government warrants in exchange for taxpayer-funded assistance, have bought-out the stakes at 66% of their face value.

The C.O.P., which employed three Harvard University valuation experts to conduct the analysis, said that taxpayers would have received $10 million more had the warrants been sold back to the banks at their face value.

The report argues that liquidity discounts are a key factor for why the warrants were purchased at such low prices. Should a similar discount be a major factor for warrant repurchases at larger institutions buying out government stakes, the shortfall to taxpayers could be as much as $2.1 billion, the report said.

http://www.americablog.com/2009/07/banks-generating-even-more-profits-fr...

...it just doesn't "fly" - but I think funny -- and always with "a seed of truth", ;) Fernando.
But I had ALWAYS Believed, but "baiting" you to be curious, made me realize they could have been saying ANYTHING. LOL
LOL ;)

changes that go a long way Ms_A.

What seems to work for me is the trial, and stab method. I try a food with a low GI score and the next morning I stab my finger and see if it was a problem. I've been adding one food at a time.

Cooking your pasta al dente, for example changes the GI score of pasta. Moderate amounts of alcohol lowers blood sugars if you have hyperglycemia. Cooked cactus (which I have yet to try) will actively drop your blood sugars too. Cherries and peaches make better choices than watermelon. Snack on walnuts between meals instead of chips. Stuff like that.

But no matter what, all of us should exercise. Walking is a fun easy thing to do anyway. And don't go to bed right after eating.

Prince Charles gives the world 96 months or else we die.
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Submitted by Fernando on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 7:31am.

I am so very happy that someone besides Gore is proclaiming.
By many scientists in '80s were given until 2000c.e. -- only possibly, maybe 2010c.e.
{bah humbug}
;)

caring. I finally feel like celebrating and must find time to write "a prince" of a guy...
:):(

Report: Too few officials
knew of Bush's surveillance
Not enough relevant officials were aware of the size and depth of an unprecedented surveillance program started under President George W. Bush, let alone signed off on it, a team of federal inspectors general found.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090711/ap_on_go_co/us_domestic_surveillance

Americans swap homes
for hotels as recession bites
Some Americans are swapping homes for motels as the ranks of the homeless swell during the recession, crowding out shelters and forcing cities and states across the country to find new types of housing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090710/ts_nm/us_usa_homeless_motels

July 10, 2009

With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform.

Video:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html

>More about Wendell Potter and the health insurance industry.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/profile.html

sorry...

don't read this

Cook Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:

* A Relatively Light Recipe
* 1 2/3 pounds (700 g) ripe cherries -- ones that have a slight bitter tang to them will be best
* The zest of a half a lemon
* The weight of the cherries in sugar
* 3 cups (750 ml) dry white vermouth
* A clean 2-quart glass jar that seals hermetically
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* A Stronger Recipe
* 2 1/4 pounds (1 k) ripe cherries -- ones that have a slight bitter tang to them will be best
* 1 1/4 cups (250 g) sugar
* Grain Alcohol
* A 2-inch (5 cm) piece of stick cinnamon (optional)
* A clean 2-quart glass jar that seals hermetically

Preparation:
In either case, wash the cherries, stem them, and pat them dry.

The Milder Version:

Cut the lemon zest into thin strips. Combine all the ingredients in the jar and put it where it is struck by the sun. Shake the jar once a day for a month, then put it in a cool dark place to age for at least six months. They'll be a wonderful addition to a winter meal.

The Stronger Version:

Pack the cherries into the jar, sprinkling them with sugar as you go, and crumble the cinnamon stick in too if you're using it. After filling the jar with cherries and sugar, add grain alcohol to cover, seal the jar, and put it in a cool dark place for 45 days.

A Few Notes:

Some people also add other spices, for example a few cloves. They will be less necessary if you use vermouth, which is already flavored, than if you use grain alcohol, which is not.

Rather than grain alcohol or vermouth, some people use brandy.

I've been asked about safety. The combination of sugar and alcohol should be sufficient to inhibit bacterial growth. If, for some reason, the jar gives off a burst of gas when you open it (this could happen with the vermouth, though it shouldn't), I would perhaps discard it.

Finally, after you open the jar, use a plastic mesh disk of the sort also used in pickle jars to keep the fruit submerged in the liquid.

Report: Bush admin. skirted probe of mass Afghan slayings

When CIA-backed Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum had up to ’several thousand’ Taliban prisoners sealed and suffocated to death in metal shipping containers just days after the United States invaded the country, it did not go unnoticed by the White House.

They simply chose not to do anything about it and quietly worked to discourage efforts to uncover the truth, according to a late Friday report by The New York Times.

“ ‘At the White House, nobody said ‘no’ to an investigation, but nobody ever said ‘yes,’ either,’ said Pierre Prosper, the former war crimes ambassador for the United States,” reported the Times. “ ‘The first reaction of everybody there was ‘Oh, this is a sensitive issue. This is a touchy issue politically.’’ ”

“During Afghanistan’s tortured 30 years of war, Dostum served in the Soviet occupation forces and backed the pro-Moscow Najibullah government before switching sides,” noted Global Research. He joined with the US-backed Islamist militias that overthrew Najibullah, then was part of the fierce factional rivalry for power in Kabul before the Taliban finally took control.”

Dostum, a key ally of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, is expected to be reappointed as Karzai’s military chief of staff, the paper noted. Dostum ran for President of Afghanistan in 2004.

It is unclear if the Obama administration plans to take action against the warlord.

Read the rest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/world/asia/11afghan.html?_r=3&hp

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Report: Ashcroft, Tenet dodged wiretapping inquiry

Report finds Bush administration “undermined” DOJ on warrantless spying analysis

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former CIA Director George Tenet declined to be interviewed in an internal review of the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, according to a summary of the report, declassified on Friday.

“…[The] other officials who declined interviews are Bush’s ex-chief of staff, Andrew Card; Dick Cheney’s former top aide David Addington; and former top Justice Department lawyer John Yoo,” reported the Associated Press.

The warrantless spying, referenced by the document as the “President’s Surveillance Program,” was kept under careful lock with only certain officials being “read in” to the program. Even members of the FISA court were kept out of the loop, and only three Department of Justice lawyers were aware of it, the report says.

Secrecy surrounding the program’s early legal analysis led the White House to trust only one DOJ attorney to formulate its authorization: John Yoo. Ashcroft actually complained of the inconvenience it caused him to not have his top deputies read in to the program’s details. Only much later, as other attorneys began to second-guess Yoo’s legal memorandum, were any objections raised, the report says.

According to Yoo’s legal reasoning, the President’s Surveillance Program was legal because the Fourth Amendment is aimed at curtailing law enforcement abuses, and not intended to affect military operations. The warrantless wiretapping program, in his view, was a military operation and therefore not subject to FISA or any other court’s oversight.

Ultimately, the report says, “it was extraordinary and inappropriate that a single DOJ attorney, John Yoo, was relied upon to conduct the initial legal assessment of the PSP, and that the lack of oversight and review of Yoo’s work, as is customarily the practice of the [Office of Legal Counsel], contributed to a legal analysis of the PSP that at a minimum was factually flawed.”

The report concludes: “The White House’s strict controls over DOJ access to the PSP undermined the DOJ’s ability to perform its critical legal function during the PSP’s early phase of operation.”

Five inspectors general from U.S. intelligence circles reviewed thousands of documents and interviewed officials such as, “John Negroponte, who served as director of national intelligence, National Security Agency Director Michael V. Hayden, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,” reported The Washington Post.

The review was ordered by Congress in legislation that effectively altered the FISA laws to suit President Bush’s agenda.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/10/report-bush-officials-snubbed-wir...

Admin. proposes small-biz bailout
Funds from $700B bank bailout would go to small businesses.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR200907...

my recipe for the day: pasta fredda (cold pasta) which is not the same as pasta salad

dedicated to fernando who needs to stay away from grappa'd cherries

and good in the summer heat

but wait, I'll need to translate it, :(

well, while i translate, look and water your mouths

Ricetta della mia mamma.

(mom's recipe)

250 g di chifferi o pipe rigate (any kind of short macaroni)

3 zucchine medie freschissime (zucchini)

uno spicchio di cipolla (piece of onion)

mezzo peperone rosso, spellato sotto il grill e tagliato a falde o quantità equivalente di Peperlizia (red pepper, skinned on the grill and sliced, or you can substitute a good quality already preserved and jarred kind)

6 pomodori perini, rossi e sodi (6 roma tomatoes, the pear shaped ones,, some here call 'em san marzano)

foglie di basilico (basil leaf - can you believe marc maron yesterday kept basil out of the matriciana? unbelievable! blasphemy!)

uno spicchio di aglio (garlic clove, only one)

olio extravergine di oliva (no translation needed)

sale, pepe (salt and pepper)

200 g mozzarella

prezzemolo trito (parsley)

Lessare la pasta al dente, scolarla e metterla a raffreddare sopra un canovaccio pulito. Scottare, spellare e tagliare a cubetti i pomodori. Metterli a macerare per un'oretta con un trito di aglio e basilico, sale e pepe (o peperoncino, se piace). Spuntare le zucchine, tagliarle a dadi e farle saltare in un soffritto di poca cipolla e olio, cuocerle al dente, lasciarle freddare. Tagliare a dadini la mozzarella. In una capiente ciotola riunire tutti gli ingredienti,cospargere con del prezzemolo trito, dare una bella mescolata, coprire e lasciar insaporire, al fresco, per una mezz'oretta, prima di portare in tavola.

NB non ci starebbero male anche delle olive nere

tomatoes: dump in boiling water, cool them in cold water, skin them, dice and let them sit in oil, minced garlic and basil for a while

zucchini: dice and toss in hot frying pan with oil and onions for no more than 5, 6 mins

cook pasta in salty water, drain and let cool off naturally (avoid blasphemy and never never put this in the fridge)

now you can cut the mozzarella in small bite-sizes; same with the red peppers

take out a plate or mixing bowl and toss all these ingredients together (do not over mix, be gentle)

you may have noticed if you looked at the picture above that i kept out, censored you may say, the "hot dog" or wurstel, a kind of cured hot dog you can eat raw which is very popular in italy; i think it is not necessary in this recipe at all (even though my mom would have probably used it)

nb: wouldn't be a bad idea to add some black olives (the wrinkled skin, bitter moroccan kind)

now as for the wine, the recipe doesn't say, but I am sure some Fumega "green" wine would be great, cold and refreshing

after this beautiful healthy lunch go take a nap, because it is the weekend (tgiweekend)

buon appetito

(gee it's still only 8:13 am and i need to go to the gym)

It looks great and it tastes great. I make something similar.

I love the baby bocconcini! (mozzarella balls)

I have to get a basil plant. Fresh basil is the best.

yes, the plant is best; when you buy it already cut in small packages at the store it just doesn't last, it spoils quickly and i always end up having to throw away 75% of it

When you cook for yourself only, it takes awhile to use up the basil.

Did you ever try the Greek basil? The taste is the same but the leaves are much smaller. Saves a bit of chopping.

Please post that recipe. The stores here have recently started carrying live basil in plastic bags of water. All of the plants are hydroponically grown. So I keep basil and Ciliegine style mozzarella around. I'm going to the grocery store at noon because I'm short tomato.

I love me some cold pasta salad.

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/5015#comment-352862

HBO is re-running Shouting Fire right now. It's a great documentary about the pressure against the freedom of speech.

in italy we do it with grappa
Submitted by mire on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 8:37am.
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Looks delicious except for the dead goldfish.

Your Mind:
From : Marc Maron

Subject : Future Stuff

Well, Friends-

Here some sad news out of the gate. I will not be returning to Air America
Radio. Today will be the last time I call in on Sam Seder’s show. I will not be
guest hosting any Air America shows in the future. This is all my choice. No
conspiracy here. I’m just done with that company. My relationship with AAR is
officially over. Thank you all for your support over the last couple of years.
I’ve got to let go and move on.

There are some things percolating at HBO. I have no real news about what or when or if but there is percolation.

Here is something I do know. I will be appearing with Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at the Grammercy Theater in NYC April 10-15.
March 2007

http://www.instructables.com/id/VERTICAL-VEGETABLES-quotGrow-upquot-in-a...

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