Posted on September 13th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
Gidget and The Geezer probably don’t lie every time they open their mouths. I’m sure that sometimes they just misspeak themselves through the rationalization that if a ton of their B.S. was screened carefully enough at least one kernel of truth would almost certainly be found. Take the situation regarding the contribution made to U.S. energy [...]
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Filed under: Alaska, Big Oil, Darrell Prows, Energy, Environment, In The News, McCain-Palin '08, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans
Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
On my personal ranking of the news events of the past 100 years, the top three stories are (1) Hiroshima/Nagasaki; (2) The tearing down of the Berlin Wall; and (3) The current forcing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into federal conservatorship.
The conventional wisdom, of course, is that Fannie and Freddie are “too big to [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, China, Consumers, Credit Crisis, Darrell Prows, Economic News, Economy, Fannie Mae, Foreclosures, Freddie Mac, George W. Bush, History, Housing, In The News, Japan, Opinions, Political News, Politics, Republicans, Saudi, Wall Street
Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
The War on Terror has finally blended in to the War on Drugs to the extent that it is no longer possible to ignore the connection.
AFGHANISTAN: A DOWN YEAR FOR OPIUM PRODUCTION, BUT IS THE TRAFFICKING THREAT RECEDING?
Aunohita Mojumdar 8/27/08
A EurasiaNet Q&A with UNODC Afghanistan Country Chief Christina Oguz
Afghanistan experienced a 19 percent decrease in [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Bush Admin, Darrell Prows, Foreign Policy, In The News, International
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
Who knew? If it was possible to see even a sliver of the future, what might be different?
Sen. Clinton just gave the presidency to her former rival, Sen. Obama. And in doing so, she accomplished the feat largely by showing the President she would have been, as opposed to the lesser president her campaign, for [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, DNC, Darrell Prows, Dem Convention, Democrats, Denver, Election '08, Hillary Clinton '08, In The News, Obama-Biden 08, Politics, Presidential Election, Presidential Primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Joe Biden
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
Paraguay just had an election. The “leftist” won.
The whole problem with allowing poor countries to have real elections is that it’s guaranteed that there will be a candidate to run the country who talks about using national resources to benefit the national population. Well, if you let people vote for things that are in their [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Darrell Prows, In The News, International, Political News, Politics, World News
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
When Reagan and Daddy Bush finally tied the knot after their big dustup in 1980, the only reasonable conclusion was that they were really consummating a marriage between the military/industrial complex and big oil. This probably started out as a tenuous union but eventually morphed into the shadow entity most appropriately known as BUSHCO.
Fast forward [...]
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Filed under: Big Oil, Bush Admin, BushCo, Darrell Prows, Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, War, World News
Posted on August 15th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
The Temptation is to just chalk this up to another monumental blunder by little Georgie, but, really, Ronald Reagan comes in for a heaping helping of blame as well.
Why does the “nation” of Georgia even exist? But after Reagan established the precedent with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, is there any way to deny “national aspirations” [...]
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Filed under: BushCo, Darrell Prows, Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, John McCain '08, World News
Posted on August 8th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
Are covered bonds the next fiasco?
“The U.S. Treasury Department is continuing to consider ways to resuscitate weak homebuying activity, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday, highlighting the potential of covered bonds as a “promising” solution.”
“Covered bonds are securities created from either mortgage loans or public sector loans and make up one of the oldest and [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, BushCo, Corporatism, Credit Crisis, Darrell Prows, Economic News, Economy, Housing
Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Darrell Prows
Hey McCain, let’s look at a quote from an article entitled “All eyes on India’s nuclear prize” at P. 32 of the August 4 issue of Business Week magazine. “India hasn’t signed a treaty that created a global fund to compensate victims of nuclear disasters, so reactor-builders in India would have to shoulder the responsibility…’GE [...]
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Filed under: Climate Crisis, Conservation, Corporatism, Darrell Prows, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, John McCain '08, Presidential Election, Republicans, Wingnuts
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
Watching Stephanopoulos interview McCain this morning on ABC, it struck me that he’s so easy to dislike that I can sometimes do it without even really thinking.
McCain: “If we start counting time sixteen months ago, it would prove that Obama would be happy to have Osama Bin Laden take over this country, or even Saddam [...]
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Filed under: ABC News, Conservatives, Darrell Prows, Election '08, Healthcare, In The News, Iraq, John McCain '08, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans
Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
The House just passed a Bill entitled “Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008”. It is said as of this writing that the Barney Frank version just given the okay in the House is the piece of legislation that will be passed imminently by the Senate, and that Pres. Bush has now agreed to sign [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Darrell Prows
On this evening of wondrous celebration (we’ll all wake tomorrow and find that there was no loser in Penn.), it only makes sense to pay particular attention to the relationship of the two most wealthy persons in the history of this great land. Notice that I said “most wealthy” and not “most powerful”. The spawn [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, Bush Admin, BushCo, Darrell Prows, Hillary Clinton '08, Politics, Presidential Primaries
