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Dan comments on Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?

Dan — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:53:21 +0000

Thanks for the link gizzardboy! I particularly like "If you have a society where it becomes foolish not to steal, then only fools don’t steal"

gizzardboy comments on Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?

gizzardboy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:37:19 +0000

I think you would find this article by David DeGraw in The Market Oracle on point: "Lehman's Bankruptcy Report,
Evidence of a Financial Coup in America"
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article17957.html

And by the way, Deep Capture rocks!

Dan comments on Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?

Dan — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:23:57 +0000

Thanks for the link, Keith!

Keith Brown comments on Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?

Keith Brown — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:06:23 +0000

"Bic's Place," a tiny blog I read almost daily was right on the story at the beginning.

http://bicsplace.blogspot.com/2010/03/lehman-brothers-autopsy-report-released.html

Dan comments on Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?

Dan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:55:28 +0000

Fortunately, the names on the A list were not etched on stone tablets and brought down the mountain by Moses. No one starts on the A list, and no one is guaranteed a place there.

lambert strether comments on Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?

lambert strether — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:52:55 +0000

Not the friggin A list, that's for sure. Seems that you've got to go the the econobloggers these days if you want to get anything other than pom pom waving.

Dan comments on Best Music of the Year

Dan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:07 +0000

Thanks Adam!

Adam comments on Best Music of the Year

Adam — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:01:37 +0000

And this is why I read www.pruningshears.us. Killer posts.

Dan comments on The Shocking Solution to Senate Obstructionism

Dan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:34:24 +0000

All true, selise.

selise comments on The Shocking Solution to Senate Obstructionism

selise — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:09:35 +0000

"The point is that they have the tools at their disposal right now. Anyone who talks about additional reforms as a solution is just blowing smoke."

dan, maybe it's even worse than that. filing for cloture is NOT a filibuster. a cloture vote is NOT a filibuster. maybe a failed cloture vote could count. but if the dems decide to file for cloture and succeed either via a 60+ vote or via UC, where is the filibuster? there's been way too much conflation of things that are and are not filibusters -- and by people who know better (or ought to).

is there any objective measure of the degree to which the republicans obstructing via filibustering, or even threatening to filibuster? i mean other than politicians complaining about it.

what if the dems were using false, or overblown, accusations of filibustering as a campaign tactic in an attempt to excuse their own failures? how could we tell the difference?