Mr. Gore championed environmental and social sustainability throughout the 1990s in the Clinton Administration; managing director David Blood brings to the table significant experience in traditional investing as former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Derivatives. Just sayin'.

As for the anthrax attacks, I sense most of the people living in UT have a pretty good handle on that, if reading the comments is any guide.

Again, our militarism goes back to economics more than anything.

the major consequence of the problem is exponentially increasing debt. Further, society is forced to produce goods that consumers either do not want or cannot afford to purchase (i.e. economic sabotage). The latter represents a favorable balance of trade, meaning a country exports more than it imports. But not every country can pursue this objective at the same time, as one country must import more than it exports when another country exports more than it imports. The long-term consequence of this policy is a trade war, typically resulting in real war – hence, the Social Credit admonition, “He who calls for Full-Employment calls for War!”, expressed by the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, led by John Hargrave. The former represents excessive capital production and/or military build-up. Excessive capital production is only a temporary correction, as the cost of the capital appears in the cost of consumer goods or taxes, further exacerbating future gaps between income and prices. Military buildup necessitates either the violent use of weapons or a superfluous accumulation of them.

Hope everyone enjoyed a great Thanksgiving!

Anybody wanna see a true tough guy warrior?

http://www.nfl.com/videos/detroit-lions/09000d5d8147c551/Sound-FX-Matthew-Stafford-mic-d-up

Bolton should apologize to every policeman and fireman in New York City one by one. You can't praise those emergency responders for their courage on 9/11 and at the same time say you fear for your life because an accused terrorist is going on trial.

Simultaneously, as he fears for his family, Bolton is actually hoping that Chicago gets nuked:

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton believes the security of the United States is at dire risk under the Obama administration. And before a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Thursday morning, he suggested, as something of a joke, that President Barack Obama might learn a needed lesson if Chicago were destroyed by a nuclear bomb.

Appearing at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the nation's largest annual conference of conservative activists, Bolton, one of the hardest hardliners of the George W. Bush administration, spoke at length about Obama's naiveté and how various nations – Russia, North Korea, Iran – will be exploiting the new president. The most dramatic moment of his speech may have been when he cracked a joke about the nuking of Obama's hometown.

"The fact is on foreign policy I don't think President Obama thinks it's a priority," said Bolton. "He said during the campaign he thought Iran was a tiny threat. Tiny, tiny depending on how many nuclear weapons they are ultimately able to deliver on target. Its, uh, its tiny compared to the Soviet Union, but is the loss of one American city" – here Bolton changes his tone subtly to prepare for the joke – "pick one at random – Chicago – is that a tiny threat?"

Bolton wasn't the only one who thought this was funny. The room erupted in laughter and applause. Was this conservative catharsis, with rightwingers delightfully imagining the destruction of a city that represents Obama? Or perhaps they were venting vengeance with their laughter. (Bolton is no stranger to inflammatory remarks. He once infamously quipped, "There are 38 floors to the UN building in New York. If you lost 10 of them, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.")

I dunno, cake, a lot of folks think the movie "Dumb and Dumber" is quite funny. Colbert's whole schtick is pretending to be an ignorant right-wing ideologue. Is he funny? What a weird argument you're offering.

Um, that was scripted. Bush was both scripted funny AND, more importantly, unintentionally funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlcE3HVRlRs

Now that's some comedic gold.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday outlined a shift in the enforcement of federal drug laws, saying the administration would effectively end the Bush administration’s frequent raids on distributors of medical marijuana.

After seeing Coburn, Imhofe, Sessions and the like (y'know, "The Family"), demand that Holder reverse that decision (almost as a quid pro quo for allowing these show trials to go forward) I have my doubts the DOJ will follow through on that pledge.

I'm waiting for Obama to do anything, ANYTHING, good for this country.

I don't count making pretty speeches in Cairo, because of the empty rhetoric thing. It's insulting to the rest of the world. And I don't count his supposed support of science and research, because there's no money to fund research and he's done nothing concrete in terms of policy that I can find. Don't talk to me about cap-and-trade, either. That's a huge Ponzi scheme waiting in the wings. He doesn't support decriminalization of marijuana, in fact he mocks the idea. He's made some good appointments, but look how they're dropping like flies. Instead, we have entrenched bastards like Rahm Emmanuel playing the role of Karl Rove. His revolving door of Goldman Sachs bankers at the Treasury and the Fed is ridiculous. Yeah, where's Dawn Johnsen? He plays too much golf and he sucks at it. I'll wager that Sotomayor ends up being quite the authoritarian justice.

Jeezus, at least Bush offered comic relief.

Clearly, those Afghans can't appreciate the difference between regular bombs and US Freedom Bombs. The Afghans we need to be hearing from are people like Mariam Nawabi, the young Westernized woman who looks like she just walked out of Saks Fifth Avenue.

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4479