Zombie Love: Barack Obama, GMAC Initiated at Negative, and an F for Ally Bank

This is a guest post by the Institutional Risk Analyst . Give me Your dirty love Like you might surrender To some dragon in your dreams Give me Your dirty love Like a pink donation To the dragon in your dreams I don’t need your sweet devotion I don’t want your cheap emotion Just whip me up some dragon lotion For your dirty love. ~ Frank Zappa “Dirty Love” Kudos to The Wall Street Journal , which scooped the rest of the Big Media last night by reporting that GMAC Inc. is asking for yet

Our Economy Was a Scam and Now We’re Dead Broke

By Joe Bageant Alternet.com October 27, 2009. When Barack Obama took office it seemed to some of us that his first job was to get the national silverware out of the pawn shop. Or at least maintain the world’s confidence that it was possible for us to get out of debt. America is dead broke, the easy credit, phantom “growth” economy has been exposed for what it was. A credit scam. Even Hillary Clinton and Obama’s best efforts have not coaxed much more dough out of foreign friends. But at leas

Posts about Obama Surrenders Afghanistan as of October 26, 2009

We won’t find al-Qaida in Afghanistan - almendron.com 10/26/2009 By Mehdi Hasan , senior editor (politics) at the New Statesman and a former news and current affairs editor at Channel 4 (THE GUARDIAN, 26/10/09): Whisper it quietly. Contrary to popular opinion, the west has won the war in Afghanistan. How do I know this? Because Barack Obama says the aim of the war is to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat” al-Qaida in Afghanistan – a strategy endorsed by our very own Gordon Brown.

A first! President Obama golfs with a woman! – NIMBRUNG.NET

Plain Dealer A first! President Obama golfs with a woman! Los Angeles Times Another crack in the gender glass ceiling. And just nine months into his first term. President Barack Obama, for the first time in the White House, took a female along on his golfing outing today. She's Melody Barnes, his chief domestic policy adviser. ... A First for President Obama: Female Aide Joins Round of Golf New York Times Woman joins Obama on the links Washington Post Obama gets grief for male-only basketball ga

Obama’s fury at Baghdad bloodbath – NIMBRUNG.NET

guardian.co.uk Obama's fury at Baghdad bloodbath BBC News US President Barack Obama has led international condemnation of Sunday's double suicide bomb attack in Baghdad that killed at least 132 people. Mr Obama branded the attacks - the worst in more than two years in Iraq - hateful and destructive. ... A resilient Baghdad on a day of horror Washington Post Deadly Blasts Rock Baghdad Wall Street Journal Baghdad Suicide Car Bombs Kill More Than 150, Wound Hundreds Bloomberg Times Online Rela

Real quick: was your vote last November primarily due to corporations?

(H/T: Big Government ) As in, you hated them (and lobbyists) with the passion of a million burning suns, you wanted them broken, and you decided that your guy would wash the Washington stables clean? Yeah. About that. From the Wall Street Journal : Raising taxes on the overseas profits of American firms has been a central plank of Barack Obama’s agenda since his campaign for President in 2008. The proposal was featured in the President’s budget in February and was the focus of a May spe

Posts about Pelosi as of October 24, 2009

Saturday October 24th - just-a-regular-guy.com 10/24/2009 Obama offers millions in Muslim technology fundThe White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world. The White House said the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) had issued a call for proposals for the fund, which will provide financing of between 25 and 150 million dollars for sel

Posts about Obama Surrenders Afghanistan as of October 24, 2009

Obama’s Minions Are Ingrates (Stephen F. Hayes/Weekly Standard) - transcosmic.com 10/24/2009 Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard : Obama’s Minions Are Ingrates — The Bush administration did leave a plan for Afghanistan. — On October 18, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel appeared on the Sunday morning talk shows and, in the process of answering questions about Barack Obama’s strategy on Afghanistan … Daily scoreboard - blogs.dailymail.com 10/24/2009 1. Liberal

The new “new normal” is old social Darwinism

R.J. Matson/Post-DispatchBack in January, we suggested that President Barack Obama should call for a “New Normal” in America, one in which shared civic responsibility comes ahead of personal aggrandizement. Lately, we’ve found our phrase has been kidnapped. “[M]any U.S. jobs lost during the recession may be gone forever and a weak employment market could linger for years,” The Associated Press reported last week after interviewing leading economists. “That could add up to a ‘new normal’ of highe

Posts about Obama Surrenders Afghanistan as of October 22, 2009

Gibbs Slams Cheney’s “Dithering” Charge Over Afghan War - heave-ho.org 10/22/2009 WASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday forcefully rejected criticism from former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Republicans that President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan decision is taking too long. “What Vice President Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and to the American public,” Gibbs said. Cheney: Stop ‘dithering’ on Afghani

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