Memnison Journal

Not-Surprise: Democratic leaders (such as Sen. Reid) reportedly pushed Blago not to pick a candidate for Senate (this was before the phone calls came out) that couldn’t win downstate, which included pretty much any of the main black players in Illinois Democratic politics.    Obama suggested others, including two of the same group: Illinois Veterans Affairs [...]

..of the Bush administration, a casualty of the war on terror, troubled and victimized soul that he is.

Blago’s selection of Roland Burris as the new Senator from Illinois is an interesting pick, mostly from the direction of Blago deciding to stir the pot in a reaction against the Feds and everyone railing in the press and whatnot against him.

Roland Burris until this weekend had become a has-been in Illinois politics; he got [...]

From Dick Meyer at NPR on Blago and Made-off:
As audacious as Blagojevich’s political gluttony is, it is easy to find far worse political corruption, much of it perfectly legal: Distorting intelligence to invade Iraq, torturing prisoners, failure to regulate Wall Street, and systematic pork-barrel boondoggling come quickly to mind. If you’re feeling expansive, how about [...]

Craft stores and online stores that sell handmade stuff are doing well as cheap gift-things with the recession.  Me, I’m worthless at handmade gifts, unless you make ‘em on a computer.
People (and primates) will believe lies and deceive each other far more than dolphins will. I say we elect dolphins.
Yes, the non-US based [...]

Saudi man needs money, and essentially sells off his eight-year-old daughter for $5000 for marriage to a 58-year-old-guy.  Horrified mom takes it to court.  Court sides with the dad, and says the kid can make the decision to go for a divorce - when she’s older.   Like puberty.

W. Mark Felt obituary in the Washington Post.
“As Deep Throat, Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land,” the prosecutor, John W. Nields, wrote in The Washington Post in 2005. “Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs, he seems [...]

Cops in a small town outside Dayton, Ohio, got a report of a strange man sitting in a running car that was stopped in a driveway.  Coming up to the car, they found that the passenger seat was filled with a full beer keg, and the drivers side was filled with a very drunk man [...]

No more Polaroid film.  Digital’s killed it.
Whole Paycheck Foods is having problems, and people are going for store generics everywhere in grocery stores.
Mark Penn can’t imagine how he hurt the Clinton campaign for President.
China is having serious upsets and problems due to the recession elsewhere; if nobody buys the stuff you make, [...]

Some folks have mentioned privately to an earlier post that the idea of putting strings on a bank deal is a bit much.   And that there has to be other things that could be done to make them behave better.
Well, yes, in a couple of months, when a grownup who won’t be afraid of going [...]

…or several.  Details and quotes after the cut:

As per those WaPo and NYT stories I mentioned a day or so again, the Alaska AG is some dude that nobody ever heard of - that had a solo practice and was in local politics in Palin’s area.   He had to recuse himself from the Troopergate case because he was one of the people [...]

Going back to my response posts,  I want to stress that I never assume that anyone voting against Obama is a racist, or that Republicans are racists, or that either on the Republican ticket is a racist.  I know better.
I’ve lived with serious racists, had racism and sexism used against me and mine (you do [...]

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General has announced today that it found ’systemic’ violations of the law in the hiring and firing of staff attorneys in the DOJ; people who were fired because they ’seemed’ to be gay, people who were specifically not hired or were fired because they ’seemed’ to be ‘liberal’ or someone [...]

There’s been a number of notes in the news recently to the direction of – well, Bush would far rather have McCain as his successor because McCain would never go after Bushco for all of the mopery, dopery and violations of federal law that the present ‘whatever you say boss’ Justice Department would never look [...]