- Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman from Ohio to be elected to the House of Representatives, is dead. [The Hill]
- Does Barack Obama have a rural voter from western Pennsylvania problem? [New York Times]
- Barack Obama and John McCain both have economic plans, and they differ in the way that Democrats’ and Republicans’ plans usually do. [Los Angeles Times]
- Hmm, maybe speculators were driving up the price of oil after all. [Washington Post]
- Another poll shows John McCain pulling even with Barack Obama. [Wall Street Journal]
- Condoleezza Rice is in Baghdad today, discussing the details of possible future troop withdrawals with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. [Washington Post]
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Another poll shows John McCain pulling even with Barack Obama.
Well, damn… it’s time to start convincing my Canadian fiance that it’s time to return to Montreal… and to take me with him.
Turns out that Adam Smith’s invisible hand was just fisting us all along much like it did with the mid 90s Asian Markets, Internet, Tech, Housing and now commodity markets.
Self regulating free markets just seems more of a very expensive fantasy, much like communism.
Like Rupert Murdoch owned WSJ has any agenda to push.
“The agreement must be approved by Maliki’s Council of Ministers, which includes Iraq’s Kurdish president and two vice presidents — one Sunni and one Shiite. Maliki has also pledged to submit it to Iraq’s fractious parliament”
Does this chap anyone else’s ass? When is OUR “fractious parliament” going to vote on it, Democracy indeed…
Tubbs Jones became the seventh member of the House to die while serving in the 110th Congress.
Holy crap.
[re=64691]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Does this mean that the pajama tantrum party being thrown in the darkened congress is not really a practical solution?
[re=64698]Cape Clod[/re]:
Yeah, but don’t tell the Repubs… Shhhhhhhhhh!
Be like telling them Santa doesn’t exist and they’ll cry.
I’m from western Pennsylvania. I don’t know about this Barack Obama. Where did he come from? Now excuse me, I got some rocks to eat.
All snark aside, I have a bunch of relatives up in the former coal towns in rural western and central Penna. ALL of them are going to vote for Obama, despite voting for Bush in past elections. They do still debate things back and forth in conversation, but their votes are decided.
Things SUCK in those towns and have gotten suckier in the last 7.5 years. Few jobs, low salaries, and when you join the military to try and get out of those places, you end up on a endless series of tours in Iraq and Afghanistan until you are seriously injured or killed.
The stupid is almost unbearable. And maddening. Makes me want to go to the clocktower. Any fucking idiot could see that it was speculation affecting the price of oil. And food. And so people get fucked and robbed blind and when the fucking and robbing’s done, everyone just says “oops!”
Oh wait. I was supposed to be funny. Hmmmm . . . let’s see . . . Well shoot. I just can’t seem to work up anything funny out of hundreds of millions of people and hundreds of thousands of businesses getting fucked over by a select few while our government sleeps. Fuckers.
[re=64702]Big Ass Belle[/re]: Well, your name is funny.
[re=64702]Big Ass Belle[/re]: “go to the clocktower” I’m borrowing that (and will cite you).
So the evil Swiss are behind the high gas prices. I knew it. I’m sending back my knife as soon as I can get it out of my back.
I’m a white guy and a native of western Pennsylvania. Born and raised in Mercer County, about eighty miles north and slightly west of Pittsburgh. My grandfather was a Polish immigrant who worked at Sharon Steel until he was too old to, and spent the rest of his life as a janitor at Sharon High School, plus drinking beer and watching TV.
The old ethnic western Pennsylvania is pretty much gone. It’s become countrified. You hear country radio everywhere you go, and there are too many weird fundamentalist denominations moving in. It’s becoming depressed and depressing there. There’s a fair sized black population, but regardless, plenty of whites there complain about how “political correctness” won’t allow them to use racial epithets in public anymore, or crack jokes about fried chicken and watermelons. Which is really all anyone ever means when they complain about “political correctness”—it’s just nostalgia for the days when they could get away with being overtly, publicly racist.
Now this impulse is resurging. I know a few white Obama supporters in Mercer County, but hell, western Pennsylvania (and, by extension, eastern Ohio) is being colonized by the Dark Side. Cleveland (and Erie, PA) won’t give out, but those columns of counties on the Pennsylvania/Ohio/West Virginia border are either lost or on their way to being lost.
And come on: “I dunno if it’s true, and I don’t have the time to find out”? What the hell? Losers like that should have their voting rights revoked. I’m serious.
I was born and raised in a Pittsburgh neighborhood. The best recipe for acceptance in this region is to have him ride in on a Harley with a hardhat painted like a Steelers helmet, have photos and news footage of him in the shithole local bars drinking Iron City Beer ( absolutely NO grimace ), laying wreaths at small town war memorials, and give speeches about the plans to revive manufacturing jobs like South Carolina did with their defunct textile industry. He can bridge the racial divide with working class brotherhood “all of our knuckles bleed red” speeches.
[re=64726]Servo[/re]: Any man who’s strong enough to actually drink Iron City Beer without grimacing is strong enough to do anything. If he’s not up to it, maybe he could drink Straub’s? It’s marginally better. Very marginally…
first
black
woman
Ohio
House
Got enough qualifiers there? Gotta make sure she’s all historic and all, and for anything but her legislative work.
So why, again, are we leaving the cost of a commodity that impacts every facet of the lives of every American up to the whims of the very free market?
The way things are going, we are gonna need a lot more clocktowers.
“Does Barack Obama have a rural voter from western Pennsylvania problem?”
Shit, where ya bin, girl? I reads me the payper ev’ry day, and it’s clear Obamer has a problem with ev’ryone. He’s being abandoned in droves by all people ev’rywhere – other than a few of them Negro holdout deadenders – just as Hillaryous gets her speechifying chance to say “I toll y’all so. And it’s NOT too late to reconsider, baby.”
After the tidal wave of PUMA re-installs Hillaryous into Her Inevitableness, we’ll all be scratchin’ our heads and askin’ “Wasn’t there some black fella runnin’ fer this gig?”
Damn! I forgot the Primanti’s sandwich.
[re=64691]ManchuCandidate[/re]:
In school they teach us of the steady guidance of Adam Smith’s invisible hand, but in reality it often feels like we’re getting reamed by Ayn Rand’s invisible strap-on instead. I call “bait and switch.”
[re=64790]Serolf Divad[/re]: Don’t worry, it’s BOTH. Ladies have two holes for a reason. And for men? Well, I’ll let you figure that one out.
[re=64751]Godless Liberal *[/[re=64691]ManchuCandidate[/re]: re]: We’re leaving the price of oil to the speculators and/or the free market because we don’t have any control over either one, even if our whole government weren’t already a subsidiary of Big Oil anyway. Not funny, but true.
[re=64693]freakishlystrong[/re]: Our “fractious parliament” is too busy honoring National Prune Danish month to do anything about the war. They went down the Pussy Path when they said, “Okay, Chimpy, you can have your war if it means that much to you.”
[re=64841]CivicHoliday[/re]: Some get reamed by the Rand strap-on (love it), some get jerked off by the invisible hand. It’s all laid out in the Calvinist doctrine of pre-ejaculation. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
[re=64761]Servo[/re]: Those awful things with the Freedom Fries right in the sandwich, right? Oughta call ‘em the Cardiologists’ Delight. Mmmmm….cholesterol….
[re=64841]CivicHoliday[/re]: Ladies have THREE holes, so you seem to be shy one.
Unless I’ve been pokin’ a nostril all these years.
“The documents do not say how much Vitol put down to acquire this position, but under NYMEX rules, the down payment could have been as little as $1 billion, with the company borrowing the rest.”
Okay, the article says Vitol has 57.7 million barrels of oil it’s holding, at $138.00 a barrel at the time, that’s $7,962,600,000.00. And they’re allowed to buy it on a 15% margin?! Um — we let people speculate on margin before — the results of that brilliant exercise in free markets was called the Great Depression.
[re=64705]RuperttheBear[/re]: I’m armed and dangerous, Rupert. But the only funny thing about it is that no one under the age of 40 has any idea what I’m talking about. Ha! Ha Ha!
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