Iraqis are "actually starting to like us," and starting to believe Americans when they say they're not just there for the country's oil, [Shays] said.
What else is going on?
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Joe Lieberman says don't worry about Pakistan's nukes, despite the fears raised by the U.N's atomic weapons expert.
That's 'cause Joe doesn't want to BOMB Pakistan...yet.
The fallout from this will get a lot worse before it is gets better and unfortunately, a lot of people are going to lose their homes.
I'm glad Blumenthal is investigating as the corporations who allowed this fiasco a pass need to pay.
Cleveland is suing 21 of the nation's largest banks and financial institutions, accusing them of knowingly plunging the city into a financial crisis by flooding the local housing market with subprime mortgage loans to people who could never repay. [...] The financial crisis has hit Cleveland especially hard, with more than 7,000 foreclosures in each of the last two years, Mr. Jackson said. Entire city blocks have been abandoned. The city's budget has been strained by the effort to maintain thousands of boarded-up homes, and by the cost of responding to a rise in violent crime and arson. [...] The Cleveland suit, filed Thursday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court under the state's public nuisance law, asserts that the financial institutions created nuisances across broad swaths of Cleveland because their loans led to widespread abandonment of homes. "We've torn down 1,000 abandoned houses, and haven't even made a dent," Mr. Jackson said.
[...] The financial crisis has hit Cleveland especially hard, with more than 7,000 foreclosures in each of the last two years, Mr. Jackson said. Entire city blocks have been abandoned. The city's budget has been strained by the effort to maintain thousands of boarded-up homes, and by the cost of responding to a rise in violent crime and arson. [...]
The Cleveland suit, filed Thursday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court under the state's public nuisance law, asserts that the financial institutions created nuisances across broad swaths of Cleveland because their loans led to widespread abandonment of homes. "We've torn down 1,000 abandoned houses, and haven't even made a dent," Mr. Jackson said.
Public Nuisance Law...hmmmm...I see other applications for this. "I am not a Blogger...But I play one on the internet."
BBC/ABC poll Aug 07
Only if this will make you feel better, sign on here.
Then, go to the window, open it, and yell: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."
After that, do as I did this evening: bake some whoopass cookies.
If the first two don't at least make you feel better, the third will.
1- Chocolate Chip 2- Peanut Butter 3- Oatmeal Raisin 4- other 5- undecided But let justice roll down like waters...Amos 5:24a
Have you thought about using your baking skills to do more fundraising for Himes in the next several months. Top draw politicians have $1000-$2000 a plate dinner, all the time. How about a $200-$500 a plate (or box) of cookies. The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
Greenpeas is holed up in her lab, testing out fab new recipes. When the time comes, we'll be relying on you for a testimonial as to the deliciousness of our cookie creations ;-)
Ah, the "DO THE RIGHT THING" progressive dilemma -- and yet, the right cookies could provide the perfect edible conversation piece for a Himes coffee event, n'est pas?
double chocolate walnut drops tested tonight -- Mmmm, that recipe is definitely a keeper!
Thanks so much for playing with us, connecticutyankee! I was so forlorn thinking all that baking was going to go with no audience! Sharing cookies is the only thing more fun than baking em.
thanks for the link. It would be a riot to actually bake cookies in solar ovens and make that a feature.
Oy Vey!!
I hope this is not too late. Kane is his Republican opponent. The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. --Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe in a big tent, but it would actually be better for the Democratic Party if Ken Curran went down in flames. Shamefully, he remains the chair of the Bethlehem DTC, and a representative to State Central. This after working to defeat Dem Senate nominee Ned Lamont!
FWIW.
I was at the debate last week and who shows up 30 minutes late with a bus load of people supporting Kane, disrupting the entire event? Lou DeLuca. The guy's hands are all over Kane's campaign.
Take a look at some of what Curran is running on and you're going to see somebody more progressive than most of the Dems in the State Senate.
But the problem with Ken is that he has no Party loyalty. If he did, he would have stepped down from Lieberman's campaign after the August primary. Or he could have made like Bernie Goldberg in North Haven, and resigned his position as DTC chair.
As far as I can tell, Curran is all about cronyism, and obviously himself. Why any out-of-district Dem should lift one finger in support of Ken is well beyond me.
Also didn't Joe Lieberman say that he was going to stay more connected to to the state of CT in his election in 2006? I am reminded of his commitment to that pledge every time I see him in NH campaigning for McCain, giving speeches at the Enterprise Institute in DC, writing op-eds in non-Connecticut newspapers on why we need to start a 3rd war in the Middle East or hobnobbing with folks who want this to be the year of the Rapture.
I guess it is not as fun as trying to solve problem like jobs leaving CT, crumbling infrastructure, subprime mess, and transportation woes.
Anyway Chris or Joe, if you are ever in the neighborhood we would love you to stop by so we could share our feedback.
Senator Chris Dodd's Presidential campaign died with a whimper in Iowa. But he still seems to be dictating national security policy to fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill, and unless the Bush Administration is willing to fight, perhaps to the next President too. We're told that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is saying privately he now won't attempt to update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on the wiretapping of al Qaeda suspects. Instead, he'll merely support another 18-month extension of the six-month-old Protect America Act. Among other problems, the temporary bill includes no retroactive immunity for the telecom companies that cooperated with the feds after 9/11.
We're told that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is saying privately he now won't attempt to update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on the wiretapping of al Qaeda suspects. Instead, he'll merely support another 18-month extension of the six-month-old Protect America Act. Among other problems, the temporary bill includes no retroactive immunity for the telecom companies that cooperated with the feds after 9/11.
*N.B. I don't mean this in the Larry Craig sense
The reason the original bill had a fairly short time frame for which it was approved is because the bill Reid is bringing to the floor is fundamentally flawed.
By saying he'll bring the nasty bill back, is Reid caving to Dodd or threatening to do something that will be "worse" than telecomm immunity for defenders of the Constitution?
Or is Harry waiting for a moment when the public is distracted by the election and more key senators are not on the floor to push through the Intelligence version of the FISA bill that contains telecomm immunity?
I don't know.
/speculation
Sunday's Editorial Rushing and Posturing in Danbury Congress's failure to pass meaningful immigration reform last year dispersed the debate to dozens of municipalities nationwide. On Monday night, the City Council in Danbury, Conn., will consider a question being asked in too many cities and towns: whether local police should become enforcers of federal immigration law. Danbury's mayor, Mark Boughton, is championing the idea, which - as experience has shown in other parts of the country - is a bad one. The police usually have enough to do, and if immigrants are afraid to talk to police for fear of being deported, it can cripple a department's effectiveness in immigrant communities.
Danbury's mayor, Mark Boughton, is championing the idea, which - as experience has shown in other parts of the country - is a bad one. The police usually have enough to do, and if immigrants are afraid to talk to police for fear of being deported, it can cripple a department's effectiveness in immigrant communities.
However, as the NY Times points out, if you have any other type of garden variety crime going on in the area, the risk is that the community will stop cooperating with police attempts to gather information about crimes committed, and Danbury has a very large immigrant population.
I have read that many police departments are having increasing problems with getting citizens to cooperate in criminal investigations. Adding ICE duties that will make large percentages of the citizenry less likely to come forward in criminal investigations only seems stupid if you have a broader picture of the challenges the police face.
The question is whether the problems will fall more heavily on the immigrant community or evenly over the general populace.
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