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Re: Wall Street traitors now threatening Obama

Media Weasel — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:26:14 -0000

"Mistakes were made at AIG on a scale that few could have imagined possible"

(pause whilst hoping that this is a misprint ..... no, it's not)

Does anyone with a brain find that as unbelievable a statement as I do? Mistakes that few could have imagined possible? Excuse me Mr Liddy but you guys are in the business of prediction and forecasting unimaginable odds and results. That's what you guys were paid MEGAZILLION BUCKS to do. YOU FEW (I'm quoting you here, Mr Liddle) YOU FEW who COULD have imagined the impossible did sweet FA and are now snivelling about not being paid even more money for not doing what you were paid to do.

You guys do not deserve a single red cent more because you are not to be trusted with a bag of mouldy corn let alone people's hard earned money. If you do get the bailout, you'd better agree to complete and utter transparency and no more of those fun little expense jaunts to laugh at the taxpayers' expense.

Re: What Is Tom Brokaw Talking About?

Media Weasel — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:15:05 -0000

He's also going to be aware - unless he just hasn't been listening - that an Obama/Biden administration will be overhauling the White House and insisting on clarity, truth and accountability.

The Murdochs of this world are going to find it hard to gain access and so the MSM are likely to become polarised until the public realise quite how tacky and unreliable the right wing media is. Voting with one's television, radio, laptop and newspaper is going to be very effective in supporting this new administration's fight for honesty and openness. Beware the electorate in a media war.

Re: Backstage Footage Surfaces from Dem Convention

Media Weasel — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:16:23 -0000

Beautiful. Historic. Moving.

Is it November yet :-)

Re: SFGATE : Obama “coal story” fabricated , a lie — But Drudge still running it as headline

Media Weasel — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:58:32 -0000

Here’s a thing – the McCain campaign actually doctored the audio tape – here’s what they missed out:

Obama: "But this notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion. Because the fact of the matter is is that right now we are getting a lot of our energy from coal. And China is building a coal-powered plant once a week. So what we have to do then is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases and carbon."

Source: http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content ...

Of course they’re not going to bankrupt the coal industry – why would they bankrupt an industry that they’re going to help reach zero carbon emissions? Bankruptcy wouldn’t make any sense. Are we going to continue using foreign oil, or start to rely on our own resources and make the country’s air cleaner?

Also see this: http://www.jedreport.com/2008/11/ohios-gop-sena... which shows that in fact it is McCain who is all out for bankrupting the coal industry – not Obama. He's the onewilling to put thousands of mine workers out of jobs.

I have written directly to the Ohio Coal Association to bring all these facts to their attention. It would be a disaster, I said, if the election was lost to McCain, and the coal mining industry discovered that it was McCain all along who expected to put thousands out of work.

Here’s some more info:

Obama and Biden on Clean Coal: Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology. Carbon capture and storage technologies hold enormous potential to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions as we power our economy with domestically produced and secure energy. As a U.S. Senator, Obama has worked tirelessly to ensure that clean coal technology becomes commercialized. An Obama administration will provide incentives to accelerate private sector investment in commercial scale zero-carbon coal facilities. In order to maximize the speed with which we advance this critical technology, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will instruct DOE to enter into public private partnerships to develop 5 “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with carbon capture and sequestration.

Obama Passed An Amendment Supported by Biden To Add $200M For Carbon Capture And Sequestration Technology In Senate’s FY 2008 Budget. Obama was the chief sponsor of an amendment to the 2008 Senate Budget resolution that added $200 million for Function 270 (Energy) for the demonstration and monitoring of carbon capture and sequestration technology by the Department of Energy. [SA 599 to SCR 21, Agreed to by Unanimous Consent, 3/23/07]

Biden Proposed Energy Plan That Would Invest In Technologies To Use Coal More Cleanly. In 2007, Biden proposed an energy plan, “Joe Biden supports more than $50 billion in new incentives for research into: alternative fuel and energy sources, renewable energy technology, nuclear waste management and safety, and carbon capture and sequestration technologies that could allow us to use coal cleanly.” [Biden for President Press Release, 11/20/07]