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A housekeeping note: I’m on a plane Tuesday, so expect only a few posts in the morning. The rest of the week I’ll be with family over the Thanksgiving holiday, so posting will be light. And now…
• More on this Tuesday AM, but the big news is that the President will veto ANY effort to kill the automatic cuts triggered by the failure of the Super Committee. And he kind of sets it up as a way to start the clock until the time the trigger goes into effect, on January 1, 2013. So it’s another Super Committee of sorts, known as Congress.
• Not sure I buy this number, but according to a consulting firm, the top 10 biggest banks could lose up to $185 billion from people moving their money to community banks and credit unions.
• In a way, I’m proud that nobody I saw picked up Jonathan Chait’s troll-bait on liberal disappointment. People really don’t understand history. There were also people who didn’t approve of FDR – from the left – at the time, Jon. And they helped push legislation in a more progressive direction. It’s part of politics. Sheesh. And nice backhanded tagging of Occupy Wall Street as anti-Semitic.
• I will admit that Democrats did far better dispensing with the Balanced Budget Amendment than they did in 1995, but that’s because the party is more ideologically coherent now.
• This is at least the fourth time I’ve heard about peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan or Pakistan. This time they’re REALLY starting, I guess.
• This New York City “Lone Wolf” terrorist announced last night was such a dicey case, the FBI wouldn’t even take it up because they feared “entrapment.” Sounds like Bloomberg uses terrorism announcements the way George W. Bush did.
• Now there’s a report about a new sex abuse allegation on the Penn State campus. Don’t worry, Louis Freeh is looking into it. And in the most hateful moment of the day, students at an area high school bullied an alleged victim of Jerry Sandusky’s out of school.
• Looking at the Hotline’s Senate rankings, I’m not seeing the need for despair by Democrats. If they pick up Massachusetts and Nevada, Republicans taking back the Senate will be a real stretch.
• You can be part of a real live filibuster at StopCensorship.org. Put your name on a petition against the Protect IP Act and Ron Wyden promises to read it into the record when he tries to hold up the bill.
• Work sharing is a very solid idea.
• Mitt Romney’s run of high-profile endorsements signal that he could be gaining traction toward the nomination. And he’s looking to provide the knockout punch in Iowa. And seriously, his biggest obstacle to that could be not Newt Gingrich, but Ron Paul. Seriously.
• Now even Larry Summers is talking about how to stop inequality. I guess the fact that one in three Americans are poor or “near poor” must have gotten to him.
• Aung Sun Suu Kyi is running for the Burmese Parliament.
• The UC-Davis chief of police has now been put on leave. Maybe she can write the total Scoville unit of pepper spray 25,000 times. The rally at UC-Davis sounded pretty intense, too.
• Libya has now captured the former intelligence chief of Moammar Gadhafi.
• AIG’s Hank Greenberg sets the record for audacity today by suing the US government over the AIG bailout for $25 billion. Nice gratitude.
• Given that they came from the Washington Times, I’m disinclined to believe these Dale Kildee sex abuse allegations right off the bat. That they allegedly happened 50 years ago also makes it dubious.
• Another EPA delay, this time on greenhouse gas rules for oil refineries.
• Wow, Jan Brewer is going to go ahead and re-impeach the redistricting commissioner she was told she could not impeach the first time.
• Good for McDonald’s and Target.
• Wait, the Alabama immigration law wasn’t supposed to get a German arrested!
• Brad Plumer elaborates on the very real pain associated with the trigger cuts, in particular the NON-defense ones.
• Occupy Davos. Loving this.
• Here’s Shepard Fairey’s new Hope poster.
• Richard Branson – Richard Branson! – says capitalism has lost his way.
• The best House committee witness ever.
• OK, I would tune into the Obama classic.
• Sarah Kliff bravely defends Big Tomato Paste.
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Several hurt as Saudi forces fire on protest: report LINK.
LA Times Op-Ed: Kamala Harris, deal breaker
“Positioned at the very center of the fight between Wall Street and the 99%, Harris has come down on the side of the 99% [thus far]. That speaks well not just of her but of the emerging movement, whose voices she’s heard, to restore some equity to America’s politics and economy.”
Bet Chevron wishes Brazil had an Admiral Thud to work with them like BP had here in the Gulf.
Chevron takes full responsibility for Brazil oil spill
Brazil’s Energy Minister Edison Lobao had earlier said the company would be “severely punished” if it was found to have failed in its environmental responsibilities.
. . .
Mr Scliar [Head of the Federal Police Environmental Division] said the company was “pushing” the oil to the bottom of the sea, rather than gathering it, putting corals in the area at risk of pollution.”
LINK.
Ooops. There’s a bit more.
Brazil to fine Chevron at least $28 million over oil spill LINK.
You will be as shocked as I was to learn that
Fox News viewers less informed about current events, poll shows
I’m honored to sign the stopcensorship.org petition.
Everyone also please sign the get rid of UC Davis Chancellor petition. (It asks for your address but you can just give 1 Firedoglake Plaza if you want to. Addresses are only required on petitions to members of Congress.)
http://www.change.org/petitions/police-pepper-spray-peaceful-uc-davis-students-ask-chancellor-katehi-to-resign
Chancellor Katehi is going to have to accept that the buck stops with her for institutional violence against students. The sooner she realizes that the better off all UC Students and the Occupy movement will be.
Well, Dave, if you’re going to take a break for a holiday, maybe I’ll have time to get caught up on your links.
From the ones I read…Igloos for Davos Occupy! Love that, too!
Who was that Congressman who told Douglas Brinkley (!) “you just be quiet?” I’ve already forgotten his name. Sheesh. The arrogance. And ignorance.
Remember when somebody told Karl Rove “you work for me?” Forget exactly what Rove’s response was, just that it was nasty.
Small start toward justice at UC-Davis – putting that idiot police chief on leave, the one who stated flatly Friday night that “when you see the video” you’ll realize the cops acted in self-defense…after all, “they were encircled!” Not.
The video of Katehi walking to her between lines of silent dignified students is so powerful. I doubt that she’ll resign, tho’ she should. But nobody does that these days.
Have a good Turkey Day, Dave. I bet your fingers will itch to tweet or post or both….eat instead, take a real break.
UC Chancellors get $400,000 a year plus perks to do two things: (1) raise money and (2) avoid scandal–especially violent crackdowns on students.
When the occupy protest started 15 days ago, resolving it peacefully should have been at the top of her agenda. It seems like she was aware of it but wasn’t actively involved. Afterward she (1) initially defended the police, (2) claimed what we saw on the video may not have really happened, (3) put two people on leave, (4) hid from students, (5) blamed non-student agitators, (6) claimed the faculty association calling for to resign doesn’t represent the faculty, (7) put another person on leave, (8) hoped in vain that George Stephanopoulos being a fellow Greek would give her a friendly forum, (9) said it was in the university’s best interest for her to stay and “lead us out of this” [disaster she created], (10) spoke for all of 90 seconds at a special assembly, receiving hearty applause from meatpuppet attendees despite 75,000 having signed the petition for her resignation.
Thank you David for your tireless and indispensable work. The shear magnitude of your daily output is a source of continuing amazement. As Om’ would say, “safe travels and safe home” and have a wonderfull, and relaxing Holiday. We’ll be here when you get back.
Yea, like that’s going to happen. It will be another deal where Obama caves in, because those mean nasty Republicans are holding the American people hostage for one thing or another.
I see Lucy standing on the sidelines just waiting to snatch the ball away again.
About that veto threat
The threat to veto any attempt to cut the automatic changes in spending is pure theater. The “automatic” cuts in the law would be completely impossible to implement because of the conflicts they would create with other laws.
Everyone involved in this farce wants to pretend that the cuts are a real possibility, because they all want to use the political disaster thay would represent, if they were a real possibility, as a threat to get their way. Hostage-takers negotiating with hostage-takers. Of course it’s going to end badly.
Good Morning, Oldnslow
Well, I can’t just stand here in my bathing suit any longer. It’s too cold. I gotta jump in. Maybe for the winter, the morning swim can be a soak in a hot tub?
I’m with tejanarusa a ways up, in that it will take me a while to read all the links.
David Is amazing. Just a little overwhelming at o dark thirty-ish.
Mornin’, David, pups
Yeah, the Democrats have gone full blown neoliberal, throwing all those progressive ideas out the window along the way.
I saw it and was so disgusted that I didn’t know where to start.
Good morning.
That was my first thought as well. This is the president opening negocations with the intent of surrendering.
I’m sure he’ll get good value for not vetoing when the time comes.
Boxturtle (Holy Joe will probably give him candy)
What is my cat thinking?
Niece gave me a copy. Are you familiar with it? It’s actually interesting, as well as cute.
O still wants to “Go Big.”
How dare you?
I didn’t realize that I’m supposed to understand my pets. That would take all the fun out of our relationship.
How ya doing, e? Are you taking anything with you to your neighbor’s dysfunctional dinner?
I’m going to a Volunteer potluck at MEND and am trying to figure out what to take.
Law firm that mocked the homeless on Halloween is closing: dn
Corine’s MF (heh) Global now missing double the amount originally reported: dn
Planning today.
Prolly venison as well as wine.
The best gravy in the world.
New military courts in Egypt might be exceeding brutality of Mubarak regime: dn
If UC alumni contributions dry up because of her, she’ll be forced out.
You are and will be the Venison Lady for the winter, won’t you?
Since there will be some down time here during the holidays, if you ever get bored of an afternoon, I bet the readers here would love a 101 Things To Do With Venison diary.
Just an idea.
My impression is Kamala Harris is not to be trusted, she goes wherever she sees personal advantage. It can be exceedingly difficult to hold that type in one place. She’s already waffled how many times? It was my biggest issue with Hillary Clinton and remains so.
Oh, I was looking for a link. Maybe a little of CraneStanton’s Frog Gravy?
Good idea. Talked with friend last night who pointed out that if you make lots & lots of gravy, you can easily keep it hot & don’t need to worry so much about keeping other food hot. My friend has bought some chicken wings & necks to get the gravy started in quantity in advance and will add pan drippings on the day.
Pity. Wonder how many of them will be joining the ranks of the homeless.
I could do that.
I was going to elaborate on a point, but in deference to some who disagree with hunting, I’ll refrain.
Pic of eCAHN capturing Thanksgiving Day dinner
One can only ‘hope.’
Exxon-Mobile’s settlement is instructive: http://www.esginsider.com/?p=234 We’ll see what happens with Chevron, but besides their wealth and influence, these companies employ the best lawyers money can buy, cost no object.
Who ya making fun of, huh? Ya better watch out. I got friends ya know. :-)
November 22 of year 3. If 0 makes it through the day, he will have out-survived JFK.
Morning Pups,
Lacing up the ice skates at this pool. Not a swim suit in sight.
All about the money.
Haven’t seen that. Looks interesting.
11/22/11
A palindrome date.
Precisely.
Jesus we need a few more links LOL. I don’t see how he does it. It takes me a whole day just to post a diary. Amazing work no doubt.
I saw that yesterday. How fitting.
It is & nicely done. I’ve looked thru it & read a few passages. Prolly won’t learn a lot but it brings to the surface some thoughts I’ve had while looking at Cahnstance.
I knew the diner would be open. Ah I love the smell of coffee in the a.m.
Prey animals need predators and we’re the only large, widely distributed predator left in many parts of the world.
Environmentalists demanded hunting, even closing the state parks to allow hunting, because the overblown deer population (never a problem in the days before commercial agriculture) browsed off every bit of undergrowth in the parks and re-generation of the forests was seriously threatened.
Tear gas used in Tahrir Square comes from Pennsylvania and that is not lost on the demonstrators. dn
Good morning E-Cahn how are ya?
Or if the stain on the university grows too much. it helps that she’s currently doing the right things. She’s suspended the cop and the chief who supported him. She’s accellerated the investigation from the standard 90 days to 30 days. She appeared with the students and took her spanking.
Not sure anymore if she’s part of the problem or part of the solution.
Boxturtle (If she’s wise, she has already told her lawyers to try to settle with the victims)
But but but, deer prey on cars. :-)
Yes. I was thinking of that phrase, Wherever you go, there you are.
Cream and sugar, or black, like your socks?
Morning sir your right on top of it.
I’ll second that impression. I think she’s working on a deal for massive election support from ObamaLLP and the DNC and the individual banks.
Dunno if they’ll meet her price.
Boxturtle (DON’T turn your back on her)
Cool. Other numbers. JFK knocked off 48 hears ago today at the age of 46.
LOL!
My contribution to T-Day for years has been sausage dressing ladled with turkey-sausage gravy. It blows everything else away.
It does, however, give older folks heartburn that lasts until Christmas.
That’s very circumspect of you, e, especially so early in the day.
It seems that each of us has some personal issue that we Must protect, with much overlysensitive and defensive ranting.
:)
I’m familiar with the arguments, but some here will not appreciate such talk this early in the day.
I’ve had enough conversations with my hunter friends, who are all very strong 2nd amendment supporters, to know that the hunters & the environmentalists have a lot in common.
Doing well. And you?
I could gain a few pounds just reading other’s recipes and ideas here.
That sounds sooooo good.
Cream and sugar if you please. I had another phrase but didn’t think it was appropriate. :)
She is making all the CYA moves. Remains to be seen if that will be sufficient.
As someone who hasn’t eaten red meat for thirty years, just fish and poultry , i’m not down with hunting for sport but eating what you kill is fine with me.
Go for it and anybody short on deer call me I see 10/20 go through the yard everyday and allow bow hunters to harvest, if they can.
Boy, do they! I’ve seen so many deer strikes this year it’s unreal. Gun season can’t come soon enough, I think they should close US35 between Xenia and I71 for a day and let the hunters work the fields.
Boxturtle (heck, they’ve already closed it for more than a day an accident at a time)
Ah, good man. I see you’re being circumspect too.
Pretty well rainy and cold in St. Louis today. After I grocery shop I am going to settle in for the day. Watch out for deer today they can go anywhere. Lol
Actually, without weapons we’re prey.
Around here, they’re pretty much the same people.
Boxturtle (I don’t see PETA coming out of the woods with freshly picked trash)
It’s unbelievable I can think clearly this early in the morning.
Do you have a fireplace? I just love a little fire when it’s raining.
Some soup and a good book. What could be better?
It’s so much better, I think, when we see what we have in common, rather than knit picking the differences.
(Shutting up now. :)
When I lived in Imnaha, OR, summer home of the Nez Perce, we used to have to rescue the snake bit big bad bow hunters from the cities. Or find the deer they’d wounded. Assholes.
Yes I have a fireplace. In fact I was going to build one tonight. My brother is coming over to watch the hockey game.
Sounds cozy and how nice that you are close to your brother. Is this the man you went to the lake with?
Final segment on dn is on vulture investors. They can make my blood boil pretty quickly.
demi, it features your friend Greg Palast.
Yes we go once or twice a year.
Ever seen footage of a tiger being torn apart by Asian wild dogs? All predators can be vulnerable. There’s a female orca off the CA coast who kills great whites to eat the livers. Biologically speaking, we’re a predator species. And I would guess our most effective predators, besides other humans, are pathogens.
Knocked off? Hmmmm. Interesting way to put it.
Your buddy Greg Palast talked with Rob Lorei of WMNF last night for a half hour about his new book. Gonna have to get that one, too. Sounds good.
Especially ones who caused the crisis and were bailed out by taxpayers.
I tried to read that first free chapter of his book.
He’s just so damn self indulgent in his style. Good information, though. And, he just reports, there’s usually no offers of what to do about any of it.
He was here in LA last week I think. Didn’t go see him.
We’re also probably the only species that fouls, nay, destroys its own habitat. So clever, these modern two-leggeds.
If you go to his web site, you can download the first chapter for free.
He does know how to dig.
Is there any other way to express that?
Had one outside the shop window with it’s right front knee blow out .
If you pull the trigger finish the kill no matter how much underbrush there is to go through.
Have a great day all. Seems I have had too many distractions this morning to follow the thread very well. Hopefully I will be better tomorrow. :)
Good morning, everyone. I guess I missed the gathering this morning. I checked in downstairs and went off to follow links and now I suspect everyone’s off on their day. Guess I’ll go get some brekkie and start making pumpkin cheesecake.
As a footnote, November 22 is the anniversary of the blackest day in American history.
Morning Molly
Save me a piece, please?
Yes, I’m heading out to get ready to go to the Kitchen.
Talk to you later.
A day other than the day JFK got “whacked”?
Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.
US KIA Afghanistan: 1,843
US KIA Irak: 4,484
Afghan, Iraki and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M
US MBS 2011: 40,300 and counting
Me and Bobby McGee
No war but class war
Be good to yourselves, and all other living things
Namaste
Never. Give. Up.
Did you ever check out the Mary Ferrell website?
Good Morning msmolly,
Baking is on my list today, also. Had a request for my late Mom’s recipe for nut bread for Thursday. Risky proposition as it will be compared to decades of memories. Not stopping me and I’ll be baking two kinds, one of my favorites, too.
Yes………..
So they do. How careless of me to overlook that.
Regarding “Looking at the Hotline’s Senate rankings. . .” the casting aside of despair is a call to get involved.
Scrolling down through the 20 of them (in that link) may not be too encouraging at the moment by the numbers. Still, a year is a long time for us to improve prospects if we act vigorously.
Obama is setting himself up well.
He is setting up the line that
1. he is for higher taxes
2. he is for cutting defense heavily.
One of the interesting elections ever. Can anyone get elected on that platform?
Professors have promoted that agenda for years. Are they smarter than everyone else?
Isn’t that amazing? And not only is the missing amount estimate now doubled from what it was, but they’ve taken action that hints at what might be coming: court papers have been filled “seeking the rare appointment of a separate trustee to take over the company’s assets in bankruptcy”, an action “reserved for cases in which a company’s executives are accused of wrongdoing . . ..” No charges filed yet, though.
LINK.
Everything But The Girl
The Heart Remains a Child
I wouldn’t do it, but I don’t have much problem with hunters who eat what they kill. Trophy hunters, OTOH, are the scum of the earth. All ego, no soul.
LOLOLOLOL
Right you are. Keeps the car population healthy. ;-)
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
So much wisdom packed into such a few words. One of my all-time fave sayings. Heard it from a therapist originally, 35 years ago.
Hey, Omgirl. ;-)
Heja, rc.
Just sitting here eating chips – why am I doing that? I must be stressed. The salt tastes…….omg look at my fingernails.
Best receipt for venison I ever got was from a Vermont “French” place that slow braised it with wine, tiny sweet onions, mushrooms and wine. Don’t have the whole receipt unfortunately – but it do not taste like chicken :-).
The defense cut is 8% of future spending.
The tax increase is less than 25% of a return to the Clinton tax rates.
Obama is in fine protect the 1% form, IMHO.
You’ve got fingernails? I’m jealous.
I sort of know/know of AIG’s Hank Greenberg
“AIG’s Hank Greenberg sets the record for audacity today by suing the US government over the AIG bailout for $25 billion. Nice gratitude.”
This is a fellow that went to China as an insurance salesman sponsored by the US and our control of the Chinese government at the time. He came back to the US with a tiny ins company and a few sales and charmed the widows of the Starr Trust (the supermarket ladies) of New Hampshire, and they bought his little China operation, giving him money to expand – followed by theft of their money via thousands of fake, in the sense he personally profited, agency purchases at inflated costs in the far east. The valuation of AIG far east assets was always at cost plus earnings to date – never at market – so the house of cards grew, with real ins companies bought along the way. He stole over a billion from those ladies – directly and via getting them to agree to give him massive stock and stock options.
The suit is over his not getting billions via those stock options and for his stock. The chutzpa – Nice gratitude – is the fact he was given the opportunity to buy AIG from the gov – and declined because it was not worth much. He claims he would have screwed the worlds banking by not paying off on those derivatives he wrote at full 100 cents on the dollar and would have got the other side to accept 70 cents on a dollar- thereby protecting his personal fortune as the world went down the toilet.
Hmmmm, not sure if I should eeevvveeeennnn go there, lol!
I am a terrible nail biter. Are you?
Lord, I’m supposed to be in the kitchen. Where is the nail brush???
No, my dear, I’m a very good nail biter. Lots of practice. PLUS, I have assorted implements of torture at my disposal.