An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Morning Coffee 10/10/08
Senators disown McCain mortgage plan
After Sen. John McCain detailed for a national audience Tuesday “my proposal” to have the government buy out bad mortgages, his presidential campaign Thursday said he was actually following in the footsteps of proposals by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and others.
I don’t give a flip whose idea it was, it still sucks. Enough with the tinkering!
Bush poised to talk about economic crisis
President Bush is ready to make a statement to the nation about the crisis in the credit markets that has caused substantial sell-offs on Wall Street.
Bush a week ago signed a $700 billion bailout bill into law. In advance of what is expected to be reassuring words from the president, the Dow Jones industrials futures plunged 185 points ahead of the opening bell Friday.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said Thursday night that the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation all have the necessary tools to deal with the problem. Bush will deliver his remarks at about 10:25 a.m. ET from the White House Rose Garden.
Oh PLEASE….don’t talk! Every time one of you yahoos opens your mouth, things spiral even farther out of control. Just zip the lip!! NONE of you have the “tools” to do anything more than make matters worse!
A long, hot winter for Pakistan
The Taliban are escalating the conflict in Pakistan’s cities, aiming to strike before the US and its partners can dig in for the all-out war that all quarters – the Western ruling establishments, Afghan government, Pakistani ruling military and political establishment and the two US presidential candidates – tacitly agree must be waged against the Taliban and al-Qaeda inside Pakistan.
Those animals are not going to go away peacefully. Large bombs. Many places.
$90 million lawsuit filed in deadly Orange Mound fire
Survivors of the seven people who died in an apartment fire this summer in Orange Mound filed suit Thursday against the property’s owner, the city and others for allegedly allowing dangerous conditions to exist.
The Circuit Court suit says electrical problems at the rental property were ignored or were not properly repaired, that there were no working smoke detectors and that the triplex did not have at least two modes of exit.
This is why I have problems with lawsuits. Not the fact that there shouldn’t be one, there should. It’s the ridiculous dollar amounts people come up with that puts the bug up my butt. Where do they get these numbers? This family would have never seen such an income in their entire lives. Yes, lives were lost, and it’s horrible, but let’s try to put some reason in with the grief. Their lawyer is looking for a HUGE payday. The people wouldn’t see much of that amount even it was awarded.
NATO defense ministers Friday authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to $100 million a year into the coffers of resurgent Taliban fighters.
“With regard to counter-narcotics … ISAF can act in concert with the Afghans against facilities and facilitators supporting the insurgency,” NATO spokesman James Appathurai said, referring to the NATO force.
The United States had been pushing for NATO’s 50,000 troops to take on a counter-narcotics role to hit back at the Taliban, whose increasing attacks have cast doubt on the prospects of a Western military victory in Afghanistan.
Well jiminy crickets! Where the hell have they been for the past seven years? Where did they think the bad guys were getting the money to fund their little terror reign. Sheesh!
Climate change forcing animals to move up
From the mountains of Yosemite to the tropical lowlands of Costa Rica, global warming is forcing animals and plants to move to higher and higher elevations, searching for climates that have allowed them to evolve and thrive for millions of years.
The exodus from less tolerable habitats to cooler and more benign environments has been taking place for nearly a century, according to scientists who scrambled over rocks and ridges, through steamy rain forests and up steep volcanic slopes to complete their painstaking surveys.
Uh huh. And what were these critters doing for the hundred years before, or the thousand years before that? Give me a break people! Climate changes. Deal with it! Get over yourselves. The world has been changing for millennium…you are NOT that important, and you can NOT control it! This might be proof that animals are a lot smarter than some people…..they adapt.
Kuwait: Nuclear Iran would alter regional balance, says expert
A nuclear Iran would severely alter the balance of power in the region, the head of a leading Middle East think-tank has told Adnkronos International (AKI).
“With only one atomic bomb in its arsenal, it (Iran) would become an insurmountable regional power, a fact that would not contribute to the stability and security of our region,” Sami al-Faraj, president of the Kuwait Centre for Strategic Studies told AKI.
Yeah….with nutbars in charge, it would be a definite problem!
Hamas-Linked Charity Sues US Gov’t to Unfreeze Funds
The “Kindhearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development” organization filed a lawsuit in federal court in Toledo, Ohio on Thursday, demanding that the government unfreeze its assets.
In 2006, the U.S. Treasury Department ordered banks to freeze the organization’s accounts, due to suspicions it was serving as a conduit to groups that were linked to the Hamas terrorist organization.
Sure, go ahead, unfreeze those funds, and distribute them to the people Hamas has terrorized.
Freshman arrested in threats at MTSU
Justin Davis, of Antioch, will face terrorism and arson charges. He was arrested at 5 p.m. Thursday and is reportedly cooperating with authorities.
Davis’ arrest followed a day of intensified police presence on campus and the cancellation of classes for the rest of the week.
Students packed their cars to get an early start on a fall break that would have started at the end of the day today. Worried parents phoned students on campus to find out what was happening.
Throw the book at him!
S.S. D.D.
