Archive for January, 2010
Where’s Obama’s Populist Outrage Over Conan’s $45M deal?
A reader asks a good question about O’Brien’s deal:
So a joker working for a company bailed out (indirectly) by the government gets $45 million — for failing. Where’s the outrage, Captain Populist?
I don’t have any problem with O’Brien’s deal, though I wish he wasn’t getting the shaft (he hasn’t been great on The Tonight Show, but he’s funnier than Leno).
But if O’Brien was a Wall 
Justices Overturn Key Campaign Limits
Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.
Full story at the nytimes.com
Alan Grayson’s petition against corporate donations
At any moment, the Supreme Court will announce whether it will allow corporations to spend unlimited funds on political campaigns.
PETITION TEXT
Unlimited corporate spending on campaigns means the government is up for sale and that the law itself will be bought and sold. It would be political bribery on the largest scale imaginable.
This issue transcends partisan political arguments. We cannot have a government that is bought and paid for by huge multinational corporations. You must stop this.
link to sign the petition – mydccc.org
Obama’s Substantive First Year
Obama’s Substantive First Year I
Obama’s Substantive First Year II
Couple of good posts by Andrew Sullivan on Obama’s first year.
depressed or tired
Interesting
An excellent presentation disputing man-made global warming using nothing but pure science and statistics by Professor Bob Carter (Australian geologist). It would be very difficult to dispute his facts. In this video he pretty much proves that over 10,000 years the earth has been cooling. Looking at shorter periods of time one can find what ever they want in the numbers. There have been many periods of rapid warming and cooling over this period. He examines the data concerning climate change, Global warming, the problems with the idea that CO2 is driving climate change and global warming, & examples of the scientific data being ignored over popularist views about CO2 causing climate change and Global warming;…the hypothesis fails the test.
