It seems David Prosser has a history of intemperate outbursts:

There was the time back when he was speaker of the Assembly that he threw a temper tantrum on the Assembly floor, pounding the podium and screaming at other representatives, because a film crew was there documenting debate on a health care bill. Prosser felt it was all about getting film for political purposes.

Then there was the contentious Supreme Court administrative hearing in 2009 when he not only blew up at Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, but launched into a tirade against witnesses who were there advocating tough rules for judges to recuse themselves when principals in a case had contributed big bucks to their election campaigns.

According to sources, turns out it was not the first time for a Prosser tantrum while he was serving on the high court. The only difference was that this time the hearing was open to the public for all to witness.

Many here know about this tragedy, of course, but it is heartening to see the LATimes feature it in an OpEd and include the names of all who perished that awful day 100 years ago in NYC.

Remembering labor’s martyred heroes http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-hoffman-triangle-fire-20110320,0,365617.story.

• I’d still bet that Reid isn’t willing to risk a government shutdown over PP funding.

• Bizarrely one of the Egyptian Constitutional reforms required that the President’s wife be an Egyptian. This seems to be directed specifically at ElBaradei, whose wife is being stalked by birthers.

• Speaking of bizarre, why does The NYT roll out a much-criticized multi-tiered paywall, only to have Lincoln offer free subscriptions through the end of the year? Is the real plan to squeeze more money out of sponsors? I wonder.

“The California Republican Party will basically create an all-mail primary before state primary races, going around the new “top two” primary and giving Republicans the ability to select their favorite. This is both a suicide note for California Republicans, and something to which Democrats may have to respond.” ; and I’ll never know why that proposition passed; said at the time people would be sorry they voted for this.

Thanks, fatster!

And yes, we do have to add the perspective of what this teaches the world community about giving up nuclear capabilities.

especially if your country has OIL underneath it.

• Almost 20% of all homes in Florida are vacant. What a complete mess.

The CNN headline uses “Nearly 20%…”. the actual figure is 18% according to the CNN article’s ref to the last census. That’s a 2% difference, but it’s an exaggeration of 10%. Fifty percent of the sloppy journalism comes from the CNN site, 50% from here. And maybe the census rounded up to the nearest whole number.

War! What is it good for?

US Army ‘kill team’ in Afghanistan posed with photos of murdered civilians
Commanders brace for backlash of anti-US sentiment that could be more damaging than after the Abu Ghraib scandal

LINK.

Explain more it seems interesting but I’m not sure I understand how this hurts the GOP.

These operations could cost between $100 million and $300 million per week, depending on the number of aircraft involved, according to an analysis by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank.

100 million a week spent on Chevy Volts and would we even have to worry about the Middle East and oil prices?

Imagine if we have an earthquake at a nuclear power plant here Florida’s housing problem won’t seem bad at all aftr all banks can’t sell radioactive homes.

Sounds like the political/ideological/temperamental love child of Scalia and Thomas. How lucky the freshly awakened WI electorate can smother this one in its crib and send it packing.

(As for all the rest – gah, Dday, i truly don’t know how you do it.)

Banks here are already making it difficult to buy a foreclosed home from them. All kinds of hoops because once the place sells the bank has to show the loss on their books.

How’d today go?

“I don’t believe that anyone, including myself, foresaw the national and international reaction” to April’s bill, said Glenn Hamer, chief executive of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who said estimates of lost tourism business ranged from $15 million to $150 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/us/19immigration.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

15 million they would laugh off I’m thinking it closer to $150 million Economic Boycotts are the thing that scares the GOP the most they love money so when we take that away from them we get results.

True but thats a shorterm fix they still don’t have money to lend. Their balances are funny.

Next crisis we think the banks will have X amount of cash but they won’t have it.

Hurray for The Monkey Cage!
Now, there’s a revenue model I can get behind.

Nice roundup DDay.

De nada. I wish it signaled the beginning of a trend.

Most of these short sales are in cash. Houses that sold at $120K, as an example, can be had for $40K cash. The banks don’t want to sell these turkeys. In this example they’d lose $60K if the loan was for $100K. A dozen transactions like that is $720K down a rat hole.

I think the banks will need another bailout.

The way the Obama administration is fighting Libya sounds a lot like how Bush fought Iraq – just when Bush did it he was doing more than just enforcing a “no fly zone.” Obama has bombed the Libyan military’s command HQ, which I think is an abuse of the no fly zone. The President – whether it be Bush or Obama – gets given an inch and then takes a mile.

We should be going green now before Japan gets worse or an earthquake here leads to demands that all nuclear plants get shut down.

Your theory works if we send in troops and take over the oil and stay ten years, time will tell.

Nobody gave Obama this inch; he neither prepared the country for his War On Libya nor went to the UN asking for anything remotely what Bush got. Obama’s expansive view of his presidential war-making powers completely eliminates Congress from his solutions, making him entirely extra-constitutional.

He should be impeached.

I compliment NMA World Edition for its coverage of the Fukushima 50 (spoken in Chinese with Japanese and English subtitles):

“Japan’s ‘fukushima 50′ on the frontline” (NMAWorldEdition, Mar. 18, 2011)

Teddy Partridge is upstairs!
Sunday Late Night: “We Are Omnipotent”

I’m talking about just with the No Fly Zone being the inch I’m talking about, which is Obama’s justification for the shock and awe decapitation strikes – not even Bush did shock and awe strikes without first going to Congress.

18% vacancy rate in Florida and the clowns in DC are still on their austerity drive. It’s beyond insane.

According to Politico,

Liberal Democrats in uproar over Libya action LINK.

Go Wisconsin!

Plan for Action: Wisconsin Wave: March 21 – March 25!

Being completely alternative, energy wise seems the best business model. Pushing very hard to make coal and oil obsolete should be our goal. The big energy corporations will still be big energy corporations only with a different product. Cars only last so many years and computers only last so many years-much to my chagrin-alt industry will be on going.

I walked by a house in PDX which has been up for sale since about Q1 2010. The sign said “this is not a short sale.”

Check this out: Venice Beach locals speak about recession and economic downturn

Concur.

Lots of interesting stats in this article:

Unemployment adds 9 million uninsured in U.S

for example, “In 2010, 73 million Americans reported they had trouble paying for medical care or were saddled with medical debt. That’s up from 58 million in 2005, the researchers pointed out.”

LINK.

It doesn’t ‘hurt’ the GOP, it hurts the voting public and it,essentially, is another ‘brick in the wall’ regards two party entrenchment.

Hey, Dragon –

Re: This post at 8 by fatster:

US Army ‘kill team’ in Afghanistan posed with photos of murdered civilians
Commanders brace for backlash of anti-US sentiment that could be more damaging than after the Abu Ghraib scandal

Whattya bet a lot of those troops who’ve posing with corpses and caught rejoicing on video or audio tapes are gonna have BIG cases of PTSD a few years down the road when the nightmares set in?

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Speaking of Florida’s vacancies, does anyone have the news link to that story about the family who were the only occupants in a high rise Florida apartment building?

In other Wisconsin news, Scott Walker says the state’s too broke to afford unions, but not apparently too broke to afford a quid pro quo gesture for Randy Hopper’s lobbyist mistress, in exchange for her helping out new RNC Chair Reince Priebus in DC:

http://foknewschannel.com/cut-the-unions-hire-the-girlfriends

By the way, another Reince Priebus hire is none other than Jeff Larson, who ran the 2008 RNC welcoming committee which was only disbanded last month, but not before Larson and his friends repeatedly helped themselves to it long after the convention and the tear gas had dissipated from St. Paul’s streets — and even well after Barack Obama was in fact sworn in as our 44th president:

http://www.citypages.com/2011-03-16/news/jeff-larson-used-rnc-piggy-bank-to-pay-friends/

But of course the Republican Party of Minnesota, like that of Wisconsin, is stuffed chock-full of people who aren’t very good stewards of other people’s money:

http://phoenixwoman.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/republicans-are-bad-at-math-mike-parry-edition/

Hi guys!

Sorry for the intrusion!

I am new and lost! I know this is off track but somehow I ended up here where I can ask a question. I am having problems getting the basic lay of the land.

What is the difference between a diary and blog? In terms of click through lets say I posted something and came back in two hours. I get lost in trying to find out if there has been any interaction.

I do not know how to get back to where I was. I need a big picture (in simple terms!) mainly click this and then this and this and this is what site is doing!

Again sorry to interrupt – this place has been wonderful as it relates to Japan mess. I will not close this page (!) because I would have no real understanding of what I would need to do if I wanted to return in an hour! HELP! Thanx!

Reminds me of the stories my older brother’s friends — the ones who were a year or two older than him and thus were old enough to be among the last guys to go to Vietnam — used to tell about being made to pose with bodies of their fallen buddies, so they’d get inured to death and gore. Didn’t work out that way.

FDL is a group of Blogs. If you look across the top of the page, there are links to each of the primary “Blogs.” Within each “Blog” there are “Posts.” Right now, you are at “News.”

“MyFDL” is the grouping where individuals such as you and I can post our own Blogs (posts and diaries are used interchangeably there but if you need to differentiate, blog posts are from the FDL front page folks while diaries are from the rest of us).

If you need to get back to a particular post, click on “MyFDL” which will take you to the MyFDL front page. Scroll down just a bit and on the right you will see “Toolbox” – click on My Profile – then “Activity” will get you to all your activity. Then click on the individual post title that you commented on and wanted to get back to.

A little below “Toolbox” is the “Recommended Diaries” list and below that is “Most Recent MyFDL Diaries list (the 20 most recent diaries posted)

Basically, you should just follow the links and explore to find where things are and you can always start back at the beginning by clicking on one of the links at the top of the page such as “Firedoglake,” “News,” “Emptywheel.” “MyFDL” and so on

I thank you sir – just got lost trying to get back here but your feedback should help! Thanx!

Actually, since he’s notified Congress, and so long as he pulls out within 90 days, he’s well within what the War Powers Act of 1973 allows:

The War Powers Resolution requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30 day withdrawal period, without an authorization of the use of military force or a declaration of war.

Considering that Gates has already said that the US’ role in this action is going to be quite limited as France and the UK take over, all US forces will have been withdrawn well before the ninety days are up:

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that the U.S. expects to turn control of the Libya military mission over to a coalition — probably headed either by the French and British or by NATO — “in a matter of days.”

In his first public remarks since the start of the bombings, Gates said President Barack Obama felt very strongly about limiting America’s role in the operation, adding that the president is “more aware than almost anybody of the stress on the military.”

In fact, as Robert Fisk notes, Obama did not want to get US troops involved directly in Libya, even though Britain and France have been pressuring him for weeks to do so (as shown here, here and here (where the administration expresses scepticism over the proposed no-fly zone). Instead, Obama had been trying without success to get the Saudis to send arms to the rebels, something the House of Saud is not willing to do despite its hatred of Gaddafi as they don’t want the Arab Spring that’s toppled governments in Tunisia, Egypt, and now possibly Yemen, as key Yemeni commanders defect to their opposition; this is of course why the Saudis have sent troops to shore up the Bahrainian government against the protests there.

Valuable information. Many thanks!

Here’s Greenwald on this issue.