The Real Story about the Bull Market

by Geezer Power …7:53 pm

Behind the Scenes in the Beltway
by Al Martin
(3-10-08) A major meltdown in the markets was narrowly averted on Friday, March 7, when the Federal Reserve announced a doubling of its Term Auction Facility (TAF) money auction from $50 to $100 billion dollars per month (which is effectively 28 day money). [...]

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EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson Doesn’t Like To Talk About Conversations With White House

By- Suzie-Q @ 5:15 PM MST

From: TPM Muckraker
Today’s Must Read
By Paul Kiel – March 14, 2008, 9:46AM
If there’s one thing EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson doesn’t like to talk about, it’s his conversations with the White House. When questioned about some decision that just happened to delight the White House, Johnson, the [...]

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Evening Jukebox… Life Is A Highway

By- Suzie-Q @ 5:00 PM MST

TOM COCHRANE – Life Is A Highway

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Telecom Immunity: Vote Backfired For Republicans!

By- Suzie-Q @ 1:30 PM MST
From: Firedoglake
Telecom Immunity Removed From House Bill
By: Jane Hamsher Friday March 14, 2008 11:17 am
Woo! Let’s have a party….
213-197-1…
Looks like the Republican’s “secret session” strategy backfired, and they lost some Bush Dogs in the process.
Eleven Democrats voted “nay,” and that may include some protest votes from [...]

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Spitzer’s Kristen: OMG I Did The Governor!

By- Suzie-Q @ 11:00 AM MST

From: Huffington Post
A new day with new details of “Kristen,” the prostitute from Emperors Club VIP with whom then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer trysted.
From the NY Post:
The high-priced hooker at the center of Gov. Spitzer’s sex scandal trysted with him several times before he was caught on a wiretap [...]

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Bush Speaking To Soldiers: “It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger.”

By- Suzie-Q @ 7:50 AM MST

From: Huffington Post
Bush “Envious” Of Soldiers Serving “Romantic” Mission In Afghanistan
President Bush let his inner adventurer out while discussing the state of the war in Afghanistan with military and civilian personnel. While those in Afghanistan detailed the logistical and diplomatic problems via teleconference, the President took a [...]

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The War and the Working Class

Sudhan @12:55 CET
Michael Zweig | The Nation, March 13, 2008
The government treats its soldiers the way most corporations treat their workforce–as an invisible, disrespected, disposable means to an end that is contrary to workers’ interests. Members of the armed forces come mainly and disproportionately from the working class and from small-town and rural America, where [...]

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