Articles You Should Read November 11 -26, 2008

Backlog from Veterans day. without the internal links and with the time stamps.

Again, the process is that I use twitter (and tr.im) to save articles I find interesting and worth remembering, then copy them over from time to time. May start adding my comments on blogs.

• Citi Bailout is a really bad deal but you won't hear it on TV News http://tr.im/1ihi about 12 hours ago
• Citi bailout http://tr.im/1gej 2:59 PM Nov 24th
• New Yorker on Meltdown http://tr.im/1gei 2:58 PM Nov 24th
• Five Myths About Our Ailing Health Care System http://tr.im/1g67 12:08 PM Nov 24th
• end of the system. Nationalization vs bailout http://tr.im/1g5y 12:05 PM Nov 24th
• Barney Frank profile, funny http://tr.im/1fvy 8:21 AM Nov 24th
• It's not bigotry if it's religion. So slavery and the Holocaust are okay if it's your religion ? I don't think so http://tr.im/1f8o 5:03 PM Nov 23rd
• Brad DeLong says NY Times smeared (ignorantly) Citi Group's failings http://tr.im/1f4m hey why should the NY Times be economically literate 2:49 PM Nov 23rd
• Twitter in Japanese http://tr.im/1exr 9:30 AM Nov 23rd
• Washington post article linked to in http://tr.im/1ex0 about Office of Thrift Supervision failure to regulate http://tr.im/1ewz 8:49 AM Nov 23rd
• Krugman points to some self love about rich guys from July 07 http://tr.im/1ew6 Those whom the Gods would destroy they first make proud. 7:49 AM Nov 23rd
• Under Bush, Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) failed to properly regulate lenders http://tr.im/1eva 6:46 AM Nov 23rd
• Flash ! Bankers Act Like Assholes, Paulson Does Nothing http://tr.im/1ev7 6:41 AM Nov 23rd
• Transcript of great American Life show on financial crisis "Great Pool of Money" http://tr.im/1eut (pdf) 6:08 AM Nov 23rd
• The fall of Citi Group greed, cronyism degregulation and mortgage backed securities http://tr.im/1euj 5:44 AM Nov 23rd
• Right wing lie that Wind Turbines harm birds is, wait for it, a lie http://tr.im/1egi 1:52 PM Nov 22nd
• The right wing wants to sell the Automobile industry to the Chinese http://tr.im/1dpv 6:49 PM Nov 21st
• GOP ratfucker trying to rehabilitate himself http://tr.im/1dlc The guy who bragged about bringing down Elliot Spitzer 4:44 PM Nov 21st
• Google Life Photograph collection http://tr.im/196s 8:38 AM Nov 19th
• The mature view of the Lieberman finesse http://tr.im/191c victory obama 7:22 AM Nov 19th
• TNR discussion of Global Financial Meltdown http://tr.im/1915 7:19 AM Nov 19th
• Give Spitzer a second chance http://tr.im/182b (like Vitter, Gingrich, Guliani) Because we need the best Dr. to fix the financial system 5:24 PM Nov 18th
• Quick proof that Right wing lie that Freddie and Fannie caused mortgage meltdown is false (via Krugman) http://tinyurl.com/689k7p 8:48 PM Nov 17th
• A simple solution to the foreclosure crisis Renting http://tinyurl.com/5tot8c 4:58 PM Nov 17th
• GM Must Remake the Mass Transit System It Murdered http://tinyurl.com/5r9vpa 4:56 PM Nov 17th
• Phil Gramm, proud of causing the World Wide Financial Meltdown http://tinyurl.com/6kmkng 9:08 AM Nov 17th
• The right wing "ballots in the car" lie http://tinyurl.com/5cfmtx 9:00 AM Nov 17th
• Mean streets trump faux cowboy http://tinyurl.com/64ux8r 8:21 AM Nov 17th
• White House staff shaping up to work effectively with Congress http://tinyurl.com/6xwenw 3:50 PM Nov 16th
• Wingnut fables and the real story on the Wall Street Meltdown (secret credit swaps courtesy Phil Gramm) http://tinyurl.com/573lqd 9:19 AM Nov 16th
• Iceland and Bears Stearns http://tinyurl.com/5gkcly & http://tinyurl.com/357coc & http://tinyurl.com/6jjzqj 7:03 AM Nov 16th
• Nominate scoring of Congressional voting http://tinyurl.com/5dwoo9 6:47 AM Nov 16th
• How progressive are individual Senators http://tinyurl.com/5wzcre 6:36 AM Nov 16th
• Saxby Chamblis http://saxby-chambliss.com/ claims Senatorial Privilege to avoid testifying http://tinyurl.com/5drdl4 9:40 PM Nov 15th
• In case you need background information about the Georgia Senate Race http://saxby-chambliss.com/ 9:37 PM Nov 15th
• The UAW already gave substantial concessions which Automakers Management have squandered with their mismanagement http://tinyurl.com/6rggbv 9:23 PM Nov 15th
• New Yorker on the Financial Crisis http://tinyurl.com/6pfd44 It's like deconstructionism 3:52 PM Nov 15th
• Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage http://tinyurl.com/6cbs6k Yes, these Mormons http://tinyurl.com/6kgggy 2:59 PM Nov 15th
• Midnight deregulation, doing as much damage as they can before they leave. http://tinyurl.com/689rfa 12:44 PM Nov 15th
• Great video to read if you ever want to read anything by Ben Stein http://tinyurl.com/67otdk 10:44 AM Nov 15th
• Elliot Spitzer on how to set the market right http://tinyurl.com/55e8nk 10:33 AM Nov 15th
• History of the Creation of the Resolution Trust Corporation (The Government entity that dealt with the S&L crisis) http://tinyurl.com/66ce85 7:05 AM Nov 15th
• Economic plan to address the depression http://tinyurl.com/6pr7jv answers the Republican objections 5:30 PM Nov 14th
• Worth watching for the closing line http://tinyurl.com/6laqh3 3:38 PM Nov 14th
• For the record: Tjhis is your nation on white privilege http://tinyurl.com/3hrksz 10:13 AM Nov 14th
• Sensible Simple Campaign Finance Law reform http://tinyurl.com/6n5tlv Never happen, unfair to corrupt politicians 8:27 AM Nov 14th
• How Now Brown Cloud http://tinyurl.com/5uzbjw very scary 7:49 AM Nov 14th
• This is a parody. But truthful. http://tinyurl.com/6axmpk The Column Tom Friedman should write 7:40 AM Nov 14th
• EPA appeals board turns down EPA approval of new dirty coal plant http://tinyurl.com/5n3ljc 7:27 AM Nov 14th
• Cook: 12 GOP Senators Potentially Vulnerable, Just 6 Dems http://tinyurl.com/5lnp54 see also http://tinyurl.com/5apmh4 6:54 AM Nov 14th
• A rational argument for keeping Holy Joe in his chairmanship http://tinyurl.com/5koyyx One could differ but this makes sense to me. 7:57 AM Nov 13th
• Goop that holds the GOP together, misinformation from David Brooks http://tinyurl.com/59tvgp said first in http://tinyurl.com/55v3jk 6:17 AM Nov 13th
• Great article on Wall Street and the end of an era http://tinyurl.com/5b746z 5:46 PM Nov 12th
• New AIG bailout terms are big win for Goldman Sachs (Paulson's old company) http://tinyurl.com/6n2hzh Quelle Surprise 1:05 PM Nov 12th
• Icelandic banking crisis and what to do about it: The lender of last resort theory of optimal currency areas http://tinyurl.com/6op78d (pdf) 1:00 PM Nov 12th
• summary of what happened to Iceland http://tinyurl.com/58q6pd Are there lessons for the US ? How about political central bankers ? 12:56 PM Nov 12th
• Calendar has a well known liberal bias. Another Bush f*&k up puts last minute regulation givaways at risk http://tinyurl.com/6zeoun 12:42 PM Nov 12th
• Bailout $ for Exec Bonuses. Waxman says "Show me the money (records)" http://tinyurl.com/6l2dds 11:48 AM Nov 12th
• Emanuel, Obama and Chicago http://tinyurl.com/632h9u 10:56 AM Nov 12th
• Rove Protege: "this must have been how the Politburo felt" Bailout as Marxism http://tinyurl.com/6m5u3h Obama aside, Irony not dead. 6:04 AM Nov 12th
• article with many links on WW I http://tinyurl.com/5gpung for Veterans Day 2:27 PM Nov 11th
• How to solve that garden slug problem http://tinyurl.com/5fqwh4 12:51 PM Nov 11th
• Lieberman not progressive any more http://tinyurl.com/5f9ymv It's not just Iraq. 11:24 AM Nov 11th
• 2010 Senate Rankings, Part I: Races #21-#35 http://tinyurl.com/5l3kgz Because it's not too early to start thinking about it 6:32 AM Nov 11th
• It's a noun, it's a verb, it's an adjective...It's Palin http://tinyurl.com/5hmy9t 3:49 PM Nov 10th
• Love the lying. Can't stop http://tinyurl.com/5bhgzg 3:06 PM Nov 10th
• Unconfirmed unsourced rumors that 50 state strategy is being dropped. http://tinyurl.com/5goch9 3:03 PM Nov 10th

Articles You Should Read November 10, 2008

Sorry I haven't posted for a while but I have been twittering

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• Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may be fabricated Also McCain's Annapolis transcripts (joke)
• "Obama is already sitting down with an unpopular, aggressive world leader without preconditions"
• Conservatism doesn't change It's the same as it always was. Palin is like Bush & Quayle but prettier & coherent
• Democrats in general did better than Obama It's not a center right country.
• How will Obama use the web to govern ?
• 2 Trillion (Yes Trillion) dollar loans to banks kept secret. Promises of transparency ignored
• complicated story of the continued looting that is the Bailout
• How Obama won - New Yorker analysis
• Alaska paper on Palin's 7 challenges ahead
• McCains campaign manager doesn't blame Palin lies about her sinking the campaign but it was McCain's decision
• A Center Right Nation we can believe in. Facts collide with ideology and the voters chose facts
• Obama and the American people sadly out of touch with Washington Media
• Words have consequences: Secret Service says Palin's attacks on Obama's patriotism provoked spike in death threats
• Black Voters and Prop 8 - it's not their fault, a list of the major hate supporting demographic groups
• Lots of Books about Cheney Was this the Halloween edition ? less than 5 seconds ago from web
• Making the Bailout decisions unsecret
• Media bias study doesn't include talk radio
• Fox calls Emanuel ( the 126th most liberal out of 235) one of the hardest left-wing ... radicals Breath, Sean.
• Obama to review bailout and an analysis of how bad a deal Paulson is making
• A Real Bush Dog speaks (NSFW)
• What part of "overwhelming electoral defeat" does the GOP not understand? The Answer is Bush in skirts: Palin
• Why Bristol's pregnancy didn't bother the religious right. Red Sex/Blue sex 3 Monkey sex hear no, see no, do it less than 5 seconds ago from web
• Hypocrisy is us GOP and the up and down vote
• Take 2 Republican tries to stop the count in a close election race. 2008 version
• Now, here is a Centrist Agenda for Obama I can support. Title:I Agree With David Broder
• More Bush's Supreme Court selection gave him a mandate, Obama has none logic
• They just keep on coming. A Bailout corrupt Republican congressman moves into leadership
• Mood builds for election reform, which will make voting easier, not more difficult
• Padme Amidala makes a statement
• White Voters in West Virginia, not as simple a story as the conventional story
• How Obama could use his internet organization to govern
• Whats really wrong with the Sarah Palin pick
• How the Internet is changing things Cabinet Selection transparency Cabinet NewsLadder
• Progress not center right
• Bi-partisanship, yur doing it rong
• Move On NRA, we're so over you
• The emerged Democratic Majority - Republicans running out of angry racist whites
• Whole new Media environment makes it more difficult to Gore a candidate
• Correlation South vs America
• Difference between Sarah Palin and a pitbull? The friendly canine eventually lets go, (McCain's punchline)
• Happy Cat
• CEO of failed Lehman Brothers will be “terminated” by the investment firm without any bonus
• New Right Wing Meme: WORM (What Obama Really Meant.)
• John Boehner wrote to his House GOP colleagues urging them to reject Obama's invitation to bipartisan cooperation
• Rehabbing McCain "Remember all that shit about Marxist Muslim Terrorist Elitist, never mind" OK Rehabilitated
• Just remember the Republican and Beltway Media definition of bipartisan
• No matter how you look at it. Nano tech coating to make solar cells more efficient
• How the press narrative screwed Biden
• Healthcare as an economic stimulus
• Fed Hires chief risk officer of Bear (you know, the dead one) Stearns
• Let's be clear on the definition of a Mandate
• More Center Right Country crap Bonus mashup video
• Huff guide to election night viewing
• Culmination of the Southern Strategy, Legacy of Rove
• More Center Right Crap
• If you leave out the "l" image
• Election night watcher guide
• McCain vs Obama internet strategy (authoritarian vs democratic)
• fear of GOP fraud
• This does not deal with the problem of premature voting
• Palin supports lie about Obama not liking Star Spangled Banner
• Secret Bailout panel dispenses Billions without oversight or accountability
• When do you call someone a traitor, historical note from Krugman
• The mystery man behind California Proposition Hate (8)

Articles You Should Read November 4, 2008

• Sarah Palin Police Department Rape Kit Sale
• Pork (earmarks) by state
• Sarah Palin declares war on Iran
• Ben Bernanke, Please Send Me Some Green! (2 min 19 secs)
• Tales of the Bailout. Wachovia and Wells Fargo
• Chinese factory owners vanishing
• definition of critical mass
• McCain's true character - his actions with Keating
• Interesting take on the Google book settlement, gives Google an effective monopoly
• After a Democratic Landslide, how to deal with the lie we are a "center right" nation
• Youth turnout is usually badly reported. Here are some facts and background information
• So Broder is blaming Obama for McCain's dirty campaign except premise is false
• the way to do the bailout
• Oregon Republican Senator caught passing please bailout my contributor note to Paulson Quelle Surprise
• What "Media Bias" means. If you write facts about McCain that's negative
• McCain and GOP pouring cash into TV ads instead of GOTV in final days. Yeah team!. Great decision !
• Detailed summary of Republican Secretary of State voter purge in Colorado, with useful links
• How Unregulated (courtesy McCain Pal Phil Gramm) Credit Swaps caused the Global Financial Meltdown Pt.1
• Hey kid, you look like trouble, get off my lawn McCain courts the youth vote
• Dole bearing false witness Great campaign response to slimy ad.
• More on Bailout giveaway $125 B for $62 B worth of stock
• This election is a referendum on Conservatism (unless Obama wins, then it's a call for bipartisanship) Take 2
• OMFG! Banks to use Bailout money to pay dividends

Articles You Should Read October 30, 2008

• Why is it possible that the $700 Billion Bailout is just a giveaway with no positive effect on the economy ? Nah.
  
• GOP breaks the law intimidating New Mexico voter
  
• TDS-Samantha Bee and the "Air Quotes"
  
• uses and justification for $700B bailout keep shifting Quelle Surprise
  
• Details of Palin's corruption in Wasilla and Alaska bonus:her house was built by "buddies"
  
• Palin claims to make up with aid smeared 15K wardrobe too late Aid already dished
• Debunk lie of the day about "PLO advisor turned University of Chicago professor Rashid Khalidi" and Obama
  
• excellent essay on why Palin lies about everything "Palin hasn’t bothered to keep track of the stories she tells"
  
• McCain in his own words (obama ad youtube version)
  
• McCain in his own words (obama ad)
  
• They are stupid, rich, on NPR and don't learn more from the who could have known there was a housing bubble crowd
  
• Sensible understandable article on Is Stocks Cheap now
  
• "Palin has developed quite a reputation on the campaign trail for shopping." Bonus: Mentors she has turned on list
  
• Obama's 'Fake America' Accounts For 62% Of U.S. GDP (Versus 23% For McCain)
  
• Boulder Colorado Volunteer meets Barak
  
• What Biden actually said Always go to the source because Fox, McCain and Palin, you know lie.
  
• West Virginia voting machines flipping votes caught on video scares the s%#t out of you.
  
• Republican National Committee web site never heard of John McCain
  
• McCain does another Keating
  
• Was McCain involved in Fatal Car Crash, that was hushed up ?
  
• So if whores have sex for money, what do you call people who won't take money for not having sex ? Real Americans
  
• And you thought it was an old joke. Official looking flier says Democrats vote Nov 5 to reduce crowding
  
• The free market works (Call center workers walk off rather than read a lying McCain phone script)
  
• What voter fraud really looks like Do ya think Bush's DOJ will investigate ? You betcha.
  
• The McCain Campaign may not want you to see this (McCain campaign volunteers videos)
  

Articles You Should Read October 27, 2008

• 150K Wardrobe story came from reporter reading McCain Finegold Campaign Finance reports Petard anyone ?
  
• Palin, lying just to keep in practice, Obama did not rent a stadium
• An Oldie (internet time) but a goodie It's All Because (The Gays Are Getting Married)
• Study that shows that Immigrants (documented and not) contribute much more than they take
• This election is a referendum on Conservatism (unless Obama wins, then it's a call for bipartisanship)
• Good explanation of how the banks f*%ked the small countries' currencies
• What bipartisanship means to the media
• The Obama Menace video that shows the danger of Communism and Socialism
• More on Banks not gonna use the Bailout for loans, you betcha, first link:
• The Banks aren't loaning the Bailout money. There are simple ways to fix it. Paulson won't. Obama will.
• The Onion: McCain accidentally left on campaign bus overnight
• Contrary to DJW I think this is an excellent idea
• Palin doesn't take No for an answer even when what she wants is illegal
• Palin rigged bids for pipeline for contributor
• Palin has a long history of turning on her mentors, Here comes the pivot on McCain (Take II)
• They are not just after Darwin Anti-naturalist and their attacks on science
• Chase reveals it won't use bailout money for loans but to buy up more banks
• Palin has a long history of turning on her mentors, Here comes the pivot on McCain
• The Onion:Continues to Lead the Pack in News
• What Palin doesn't consider terrorism (pdf) 7 murders, 17 attempted murders, 175 arsons and 41 bombings
• to quote DeLong McCain Dishonorable and Dishonest, from way back
• Matthews has been a rat all along, he is just trying to jump to a non-sinking ship (scroll down past Palin story)
• McCain campaign uses racist line to push bogus attack story bonus: victim made up story

Articles You Should Read October 24, 2008

• Feminist after all: Woman is Highest Paid McCain Worker
  
• Sarah Palin supports free Government Child Care (search for "the babysitter")
  
• La Times on Palin Patronage
  
• Incompetent and Corrupt - Palin cronyism article
  
• WaPo Wiffs Palin's Clothes
  
• Undecided voters are like: "Do you want the chicken or a plate of shit ?" ans: "How is the chicken cooked ?"
• No actual Moose were harmed in the making of this video more than you can say about the making of Palin's career
  
• McCain's Socialist Past
  
• Another A-list Celebrity Comes out Against McCain/Palin
  
• So when is Sarah Palin paying $50,000 in taxes on the $150,000 in clothes the RNC gave her?
  
• Is buying Palin's clothing with campaign funds illegal ?
  
• Gordon Smith waters his company's fields with human feces Contribute to his opponent
  
• Thank heavens, I was worried that the Government bailout would have vitiated the Bankers' capitalist morals.
  
• Hockey Mama for Obama
  
• RNC spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize Sarah Palin and her family (since August)
  
• Palin surpasses Bush. She is a bigger drag on the ticket Bush had 8 years, she only 8 weeks Heckuva Job!
  
• Al the Shoesalesman Gets a Tax Cut Calculate your tax cut under McCain vs Obama
  
• GOP small donor database is a sham Quelle surprise
  
• I predict that McCain will improve on the prior Arizona Presidential candidate's electoral count by over 300%
  
• Palin Pressuring Feds to Let Her Sell Real American's Natural Gas to the Japanese
  
• McCain's VP Choice Palin still clueless on the role of the VP
  
• McCain campaign disrespects American flag, drags it on the ground
  
• GOP Reichert Gets $500k Illegal Corporate Gift from Local Seattle TV Stations
  
• Morgan Stanley's Bonuses Get Saved By You and Me bailout money given them about equals bonus money due.
  
• Brad DeLong tells us what time has taught us about Bush that Time should have warned us about same goes for McCain
  
• Can McCain beat prior AZ Senator ?
  
• Bernanke Supports New Stimulus, Warns of Downturn
  
• McCain Employing GOP Voter Registration Fraud Operative
• Bush says economic 'panic' easing Also Mission to Mars was successful
  
• EXCESSIVE PRICES AND POOR CLAIMS PRACTICES AT THE ALLSTATE CORPORATION (pdf)
• Turf war on Credit swap regulation
  
• More McCain violence
  
• Another McCain supporters' violent act
  
• "Last U.S. presidential election the Republican Party won without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket?" Answer
  
• Sarah Palin records Robot Calls (Doesn't use the N word)
  
• RNC gets caught red-handed mid-bamboozle hawking a phony vote fraud story.
  
• McCain asks Russian envoy to the U.N. for money
  
• In case you hear the lie that Obama is not disclosing secret donations
  
• A Second (McCain Supporter) Ohio Prosecutor Threatens to Criminalize Voting
  
• 30 cars Tires slashed during Obama rally Mario Diaz, communications director for McCain, didn't respond to a call
  
• Good By Cruel World letter from hedge fund manager to CEO's stupid enough to take the other side of his trades
  
• Easy to understand victory chart. Obama needs any 1 of 6 states to win
  
• Right wing attack on socialism is based on racism
• A woman canvassing for Obama in Wisconsin, punched in the face by man ranting about ACORN McCain has no comment
  
• Republican Arrested for Voter Registration Fraud more links on orchestrated Republican Voter Fraud.
  
• Voters say they were duped into registering as Republicans Actual GOP registration fraud, not phony ACORN stuff
  
• Consumer prices remain high despite oil price decline quelle surprise
  
• How Palin got her start, entertaining the Wingnut boys passing by on cruises
  
• Obama landslide in Newspaper endorsements and why it matters
  
• California’s energy-efficiency policies created 1.5 million jobs Need Federal laws to prevent this.
  
• Candidate Medical records (Palin provides no information) McCain has serious problems, extent unknown
  

Articles You Should Read October 20, 2008

• Ballotpedia.org sponsored by the Sam Adams Alliance, a "nonprofit conservative organization" (nytimes)  
  
• vlad and friend boris presents 'Song for Sarah' for mrs. Palin 
  
• He's a Muslim, no, he's a Jew  McCain/Palin racists. (Extra Point: links to McCain/Palin anti-semitism) about 10 hours ago from web
  
• Big News Orgs (Finally) Picking Up On Magnitude Of McCain's Robo-Slime Campaign  (in saturday editions)
  
• Prosecutor & John McCain’s Southwest Ohio campaign chairman, subpoenaed 671 same day voters personal information 
  
• We can't prosecute them, they're our base
  
• What bi-partisanship means to Republicans and the Media 
  
• McCain: Palin is a counter to "Liberal Feminist Agenda"
  
• Remember how all the pundits said the last debate was a tie ?  
  
• $70 Billion Wall Street Bonuses 10% of bailout  
  
• What to do it you get a Lying Republican Robot calling you about Obama  (don't hang up, take notes, report) 
  
• Bush DOJ says okay to break separation of church and state law 
  
• John McCain wants to cut Medicare   
  
• Sex scandals only matter for Democrats  Not McCain
  
• Actually, it might be illegal  Lavish CEO bonus with bankrupt companies 
  
• Todd Palin, the power behind the throne  
  
• The Onion: Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans  
  
• Okay, I give up, God does exist and she has a great sense of irony Cuba has as much oil as the US ! 
  
• Now Where The Hell is That Bailout?  After all the scare tactics, they still don't know what they are doing. 
  
• No No, The actual origin of the term "tire swinging"  
  
• Media still deeply in the tank for McCain  Bonus points: the origin of tire swinging  \
  
• Cover story on McCain's free private cell tower doesn't hold up.