DIMON APOLOGIZES FOR JUVENILE DELINQUENTS

    Jamie Dimon is on a public relations kick to sweep the financial crisis under the rug so that JPM and the other mega banks can continue their strangle hold on American capital.

    At Davos, Dimon whined that people should stop bashing bankers.

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    Out of the memory hole...Reaganomics

    What Reaganomics got for us.

     

    Just in case anyone has forgotten.

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    Running the SOTU over the Hoover Dam

    What would happen if you were put into a store that had everything you needed or wanted or could possibly use and were told just take what you need or want and the only thing you had to do was leave something of value there. Either something you made or grew or some service you can provide. No money or anything.

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    President Hoover Is Back

    I've Been watching State of the Union Speeches since LBJ was President.  Never have any of them been so inadequate to the moment.

    Our President and the rest of the leaders of our country have failed us all and miserably so.  Worse than everything else is how badly our elites are failing our children.

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    What can be, should be, said in the SOTU?

    With the approaching SOTU speech by Obama I know some may wish to focus on specific policies said or not said.  But what I will find interesting to watch during this fundamentally pure political theater event is the theoritical framing which builds with his discourse.  

    A STRANGER CAME TO TOWN

    A Presidency can be about programs and policies. A Presidency can also be a story about a man and a journey.

    The writer John Gardner claimed that there are two basic story forms -- "A Stranger comes to Town" and "We go on a Journey".

    Taken as story President Obama's first two years in office overlooked both basic forms.

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    REAGAN DEMENTIA

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                      THE 40TH PRESIDENT OF THE USA

    Several years ago I watched a comedian on the Comedy Channel describe Ronald Reagan thusly:


    Ronald Reagan had as much to do with the Reagan Administration as a hood ornament on a 1956 Buick had with driving its owner to work.

     

    Those amazingly civil centrists.

    So, centrist hero Rahm Emmanuel had some bad news today. As you may recall, the gentleman is running for mayor of Chicago. Yes indeed. And his candidacy brings all that classic charm and respect for the electorate that we have all come to love and appreaciate to the Twitters with this amazing bio:

    Time for Wikileaks

    In artappraiser's comment to Wolfrum's Keith Olbermann post, she links to the Times' contribution to the cover story.

    Not to repeat my post on Comcast's necessary involvement, but had it actually been true that it had just stood on the sideline every Comcast shareholder would right now be on his way to his lawyer to sue them.  For negotiating an acquisition without the usual prohibition against cardinal changes prior to closing. 

    Of course Comcast approved the terms of Olberman's departure.

    The COMCAST  contract with NBC will of course have contained a stand-still clause ,standard  in  such agreements, under which  MSNBC was required to avoid any major changes during this final  period before the Closing,now  scheduled for Jan 28.

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    Tears

    Maybe the Speaker started something. If men are now allowed to cry in public, the one writing these words have certainly availed himself of this new privilege in the past two weeks. From hearing that Congresswoman Giffords had opened her eyes and the heroism of so many who allowed her to live, and saved as many lives as possible when her fears were realized and a young man who was so easily able to purchase a gun to kill her, to hearing again the first words I can recall having been spoken as a president was inaugurated, the tears have flown very freely.

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    MIRANDA

    Earl Warren
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    KEITH OLBERMANN JUST RESIGNED

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    I just watched Olbermann resign. No repeats on MSNBC on Fridays.

    This is a bummer.

    This guy single handedly took on w bush when no one would.

    THIS IS THE END OF AN ERA.

     

     

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    Defending Health Care Reform – Again!

    It has been very difficult in these last few days to decide whether or not to respond to the House Republicans’ first major political initiative of 2011 – their introduction and passing of the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. Why respond, when responding suggests that the initiative is sufficiently serious as to warrant a carefully crafted reaction? Why respond, and give the initiative a legitimacy it probably does not deserve? It has been very difficult to decide.

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    Not That I Am A Socialist Or Anything...

    ...but there are billionaires out there who can never spend what they have (notice I did not say "earned").  Why should so many people suffer?  Why should people starve, and watch their children starve?  Distribution?  Oh, so inconvenient.

     

    Why should health care at this stage of our planet, where there are preventative vaccines, and medications that can prevent complications, be considered to be "extra's"?  There is enough money in this world to distribute wealth, food, and health-care.  

    There is no appetite for it, however, so all the talk is bogus.  

     

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    Political Cartoon: You're Not my Brother, You' re not my sister....

    Political Cartoon: You're Not my Brother, You' re not my sister.... by Kaveh adel Copyright 2011.

    My two cents worth: Religion and politics don't mix. Period.

    Politicians serve their people not the other way around....

    FsOCK YOU, GEITHNER. BUT THANKS.

    Geithner's latest FSOC report attempts to buttress JPMorgan but unwittingly provides Progressives a road map to real reform.

    Simon Johnson made mince meat of Geithner's latest report which blatently attempts to enable the, imo, Daley-Dimon plan to expand JPM.  www.economix.blog.nytimes.com/2011/20.

    But thanks to Geithner, the report is the perfect bogey for Progressive bank reformers to dissect for years to come. In other words if this is the best they can do in defense of the status quo, it's a rich target.

    Just the facts, mam

     

    New York Times  Jan 20 2011 Cameron Proposes a Radical Reorganization of England's Heath Care System.

    Concluding sentence :  " .......a service in which patients can now sometimes wait months for specialist care."

    Sounds bad. But .....

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    Little Republics - Why local is generally better

    I am what one would call a liberal-libertarian. At least that's what the political compass says. I tend to be socially conservative and economically very left of center. I don't like the terms progressive or liberal since their means are too open to interpretation.  I do favor more local control and implementation of various social and economic programs, and this piece by Sam Smith sums up my thoughts on this quite well. here are a few excerpts from it, with my thoughts as well.

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    Cartoon: The Thinker and the Choices

    Crude as it may be, best thoughts come to us in unlikely places.

    Alas, the choices are not as easy to come by.

    The Thinker must be creative with his choices.

    Crossposted at www.Kavehadel.com/blog

     Artwork 2011©KavehAdel.com

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    Terms of use?

    Like the theme song to Monk asks:

    "Hey, who's in charge here"

    In the last few days I've had two posts tampered with.

    Both, (quelle surprise!) involved interaction with our local version of Pat Robertson, yclept Resistance.

    In one, a "moderator/dagblogger" signing himself d (I think it was Donal, but could have been Destor) changed an expletive "fucking troll" to farging troll, gently reproved me for my tone, and "signed" the editorial intervention with a "d" (less than dispositive...)

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