Congress!? We ain't got no Congress. We don't need no Congress! We don't have have to show you any steenking CONGRESS!!

Via TPM, check this Bloomberg article

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a9MTZEgukPLY&refer=home

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Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression.

The Fed increased its existing currency swaps with foreign central banks by $330 billion to $620 billion to make more dollars available worldwide. The Term Auction Facility, the Fed's emergency loan program, will expand by $300 billion to $450 billion. The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are among the participating authorities.

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Treasury Officials Admit Bill's CEO Compensation Measure and Restrictions on Paulson Were a Farce

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That's all I've got...

Give me a minute to dig up Pearlstein's email addie. I want to send him a copy of this post...

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But I'd sure like to see this get spread far and wide.

http://myblogthebword.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-holiday-with-john-mccain-it-was-just.html

Must read to gather gist...

MY HOLIDAY WITH JOHN McCAIN

It was just before John McCain's last run at the presidential nomination in 2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island in Fiji with John McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their adopted Bangladeshi child).

It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close quarters with John McCain for almost a week, since Turtle Island has a small number of bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all vacationers who are there at the same time to get to know each other intimately...

More @ linky/sig. No excerpt can do it justice.

One can only hope.

S&P 500 closing price Jan. 19 2001

1342.54

Bush inaugurated Jan. 20 2001

S&P close today

1056.89

DOWN 21.3%

Hooray Republicans! More tax cuts! Woohoo!!

You beat me to it.

Check this

http://www.ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/court-orders-release-17-innocent-guantanamo-detainees-u.s.

and this

http://www.ccrjustice.org/learn-more/reports/profiles-ten-guantanamo-refugees

deliberately dropping bombs on civilians just before he spent five years without a kitchen table?

..."this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7AET4i6L74

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A few bad apples, minor glitch, nothing to see here...

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5987804&page=1

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S&P 500 closing price Jan. 19 2001

1342.54

Bush inaugurated Jan. 20 2001

S&P close today

90.92

DOWN 32.2% (~7.75 years later)

Hooray Republicans! More tax cuts! Woohoo!!

Close today 909.92

Shocking.

I was not not aware of the al-Marri en banc ruling and its ramifications. Jeezuz.

...watching some of those vids, I'm afraid the McPain tactics might actually wind up having their desired effect. And then we'd all be facing one helluva firestorm.

...remind me of the first time I poked a stick at a dead carcass (raccoon, I think) only to have it burst open to reveal the writhing mass of maggots it was hiding.

Did I catch an Ode on the previous thread?

Was it the celery, or the blueberries Max drew?

Love back to you. Spread it around.

The U.S. press corpse/political punditry [previous post] and the GOP...

FOX news in a nutshell.

Lotta corpses today.

Glenn, you spelled "and" as "nad" somewhere in the post. I think.

I used to occasionally hang out on the River Keeper's boat. '83? Before RFK Jr. got involved. The upper Hudson's gorgeous. Whatever happened to all those PCB's GE was nice enough to dump in the river?

And does he read Glenn's stuff, or should we send it to him?

http://www.propublica.org/article/govt-bailout-2-1014/

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Gov’t Bailout 2.0 Hands-Off Compared to UK’s

by Paul Kiel, ProPublica - October 14, 2008 11:38 am EDT

Following the example of Britain, France and Germany, the U.S. government announced a capital-injection program for the nation’s banks this morning. But compared to the British intervention, the U.S. model is quite hands off.

The U.K. essentially took control of those banks with a $63 billion investment, acquiring voting shares (as opposed to preferred shares, which are non-voting). The CEOs of the banks stepped down, and the government could even take board seats at the banks. As the New York Times puts it, the move “creates a two-tier banking system in which the nationalized banks are run like utilities and others are free to pursue profit growth.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403331.html?hpid=topnews

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CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos

Waterboarding Got White House Nod

By Joby Warrick

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, October 15, 2008; Page A01

The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.

The classified memos, which have not been previously disclosed, were requested by then-CIA Director George J. Tenet more than a year after the start of the secret interrogations, according to four administration and intelligence officials familiar with the documents. Although Justice Department lawyers, beginning in 2002, had signed off on the agency's interrogation methods, senior CIA officials were troubled that White House policymakers had never endorsed the program in writing.

This bit made me laugh. Funny, that group amnesia.

In interviews, the officials recounted a series of private briefings about the program with members of the administration's security team, including Rice and Cheney, followed by more formal meetings before a larger group including then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, then-White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. None of the officials recalled President Bush being present at any of the discussions.