Gryphen, the interesting, more than sometimes right, sometimes speculative Alaskan blogger, has been threatened with libel papers over his Palin divorce story.
That said, the Alaska Report notes this is the fourth time in a month Thomas Van Flein, Sarah Palin's lawyer, has made such a threat. Never delivered on the previous ones.
That said, if he did deliver on this one, the deposition would sure be fun.
August 02, 2009
AP fact check on healthcare undercuts ’wingers
More succinctly than the Washington Post’s Ceci Connolly, the AP shoots down not only ’wingers’ “euthanasia” claims but a bunch of other conservative bloviating on national healthcare.
So, if you have any conservative friends, this is the handy-dandy story to send to them.
So, if you have any conservative friends, this is the handy-dandy story to send to them.
Obama’s worst Cabinet secretary talks middle-class tax hikes
Treasury Secretary Tim Geither, being impolitic at best, today refused to rule out a future middle-class tax hike. Lemme see.
We’re in the middle of a recession. Obama is trying to get a national healthcare bill passed amid discussions of its cost and wingnut distortions of what it would mean for the middle class, and Geither gets sandbagged into this?
We’re in the middle of a recession. Obama is trying to get a national healthcare bill passed amid discussions of its cost and wingnut distortions of what it would mean for the middle class, and Geither gets sandbagged into this?
Crowley the quasi-racist cop and other thoughts
New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich points out one thing I missed in the stories about Harvard prof Henry Louis Gates being arrested by Cambridge cop James Crowley.
In his police report, Crowley clains 911 caller Lucia Whalen is a racial profiler, saying the two men at Gates’ back door were black. Actually, she said one “looked kind of Hispanic” and she couldn’t tell about the other because she couldn’t see him.
So far, no apology from Crowley to Whalen. Or a general “mea culpa” to the public. So, far, no comments on this part of the situation by the Cambridge PD.
This, in turn, gets back to the meme others have observed in the past few days. In part, if not in large part, this is about police authoritarianism. Now, whether its more about race, as Rich does dot-connecting over conservatives’ berating Obama’s initial response to this issue vs. their own ongoing response to Sonia Sotomayor, or whether police authoritarianism is the primary problem, or it’s something in the middle, I don’t know.
But, the image of James Crowley, constructed both by himself and peers on the Cambridge PD, doesn’t fully square with reality.
In his police report, Crowley clains 911 caller Lucia Whalen is a racial profiler, saying the two men at Gates’ back door were black. Actually, she said one “looked kind of Hispanic” and she couldn’t tell about the other because she couldn’t see him.
So far, no apology from Crowley to Whalen. Or a general “mea culpa” to the public. So, far, no comments on this part of the situation by the Cambridge PD.
This, in turn, gets back to the meme others have observed in the past few days. In part, if not in large part, this is about police authoritarianism. Now, whether its more about race, as Rich does dot-connecting over conservatives’ berating Obama’s initial response to this issue vs. their own ongoing response to Sonia Sotomayor, or whether police authoritarianism is the primary problem, or it’s something in the middle, I don’t know.
But, the image of James Crowley, constructed both by himself and peers on the Cambridge PD, doesn’t fully square with reality.
WaPost finally covers ’wingers euthanasia scare
Only a couple of weeks late to the scene, the Washington Post and Ms. Healthcare Industry Suck-Up Ceci Connolly finally run a story about the right-wing PR machine’s “government-driven euthanasia” scare story on national healthcare.
That said, it is better than some of her work; she explicitly notes that both the AMA and AARP support such a provision.
In other words, more obfuscation of the type that gets people to believe Medicare is not a government program.
That said, it is better than some of her work; she explicitly notes that both the AMA and AARP support such a provision.
“These are important discussions everyone should have when they are healthy and not entering a hospital, so they are fully informed and can make their wishes known,” said association President J. James Rohack. “That’s not controversial; it’s plain, old-fashioned patient-centered care.”
In other words, more obfuscation of the type that gets people to believe Medicare is not a government program.
$100 mil for increasing our gas prices in a recession?
Meet Andrew J. Hall, arguably the king of oil commodities future speculators. It was him and his ilk, in addition to legitimate supply and demand concerns just 12 short months ago, who were probably adding an extra $25/bbl to the price of oil even as we were already officially in a recession and moving deeper into it.
It’s people like him who have caused the recent spike in gas prices, all because Wall Street is less “recessed” than you and I.
Oh, and he wants $100 million from Citigroup for his work, even though Citi got bilions in TARP money from Uncle Sam, aka “you and I.”
That all said, this is now the second time in less than a week that I’ve rhetorically asked why we have no Congressional action on another promise, or quasi-promise, from Obama, to rein in commodities speculators. (That said, that wasn’t just an Obama promise — at the periphery of the bailout table last October, a lot of people were saying we needed this.)
It’s people like him who have caused the recent spike in gas prices, all because Wall Street is less “recessed” than you and I.
Oh, and he wants $100 million from Citigroup for his work, even though Citi got bilions in TARP money from Uncle Sam, aka “you and I.”
That all said, this is now the second time in less than a week that I’ve rhetorically asked why we have no Congressional action on another promise, or quasi-promise, from Obama, to rein in commodities speculators. (That said, that wasn’t just an Obama promise — at the periphery of the bailout table last October, a lot of people were saying we needed this.)
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