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Murtha was the first hawk to stand up and say that we needed to bring our troops home.
From TPM:
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) has died at the age of 77, after serving in Congress for 36 years.
Murtha had been hospitalized in the intensive care unit last week due to complications following a gall bladder surgery.
Murtha’s office released the following statement this afternoon:
Congressman John P. Murtha (PA-12) passed away peacefully this afternoon at 1:18 p.m. at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA. At his bedside was his family.Murtha, 77, was Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.
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Elizabeth Warren
I love this woman.
From HuffPost:
Bailout watchdog and Middle Class advocate Elizabeth Warren has accused Wall Street CEOs of abusing consumer trust and challenged them to step up and support financial reform — for the nation’s benefit as well as their own.
In an opinion piece to be published in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, Warren writes:
For years, Wall Street CEOs have thrown away customer trust like so much worthless trash.
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Voila ma découverte du jour, bon ils utilisent des mecs parfaits pour la promotion, mais c’est assez sobre et a l’air bien coupé, un avis mes loulous ? Leur site http://www.2winkwear.com/ ... Flag post Flag post Flag post Flag post
We have all seen those financial reports where the “expert” is standing in his office while his co-workers are busily working behind him as he waxes on about stocks. Well, it turns out that one dude was watching girlie pics on his computer in the background. It is really kind of funny.
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More on the budget and deficits. On Monday I discussed deficit peacocks (folks who talk about balancing the budget but vote for big ticket budget items). On Tuesday, I showed you a graph on budget deficits dating back to 1931. Today I’d like to talk a little bit about the recession and why we need the stimulus package. I’m going to use an example that Paul Krugman uses in his book, The Return of Depression Economics. The example was originally used in an article entitled, “Monetary Theory and the Great Capitol ... Flag post
from WaPo
Please click on photo to see the enlarged version (or click here). Stare at the graph for a minute. It should become clear that neither Republicans nor Democrats have the phrase balanced budget in their vocabulary. Reagan didn’t balance anything. He increased spending every year. Isn’t nice to see a graph that simply lays out the truth?
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I can’t think of anything that would be worse. Feeling so helpless that you give your own children away.
From CNN.com:
In the devastating January 12 earthquake, he lost the meager home he had sitting on a hillside in Calebasse.
“I can’t stand that they were suffering here,” Laurentus said. “I had confidence in the Americans. I trusted them.”
So Thursday night, when Silsby came with a bus, he placed his girls, Soraya, 4, and Leila, 5, on two seats towards the front. He didn’t pack any of their things, he said. Not even their teddy bear. The American woman had bags filled ... Flag post Flag post Flag post
