http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:18:21 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:18:21 File this under [link:www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/biden-stimulus-money-can_n_169769.html|Don't mess with Joe].

[div class="excerpt"WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden is warning that if states don't use federal stimulus money as intended, the Obama administration may take the money back o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/433 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:44:28 [link:www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/18/84929/6550/876/698838|Good for them.]

Sometimes you just have to take a stand.

Enough is enough.

[div class="excerpt"]Last summer, our governor and the GOP's Shining-Star-of-the-Future Bobby Jindal signed into law SB733, the "Louisiana Science Educ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/432 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:46:58 Nature abhors a vacuum. George Will has filled it... ho boy had he filled it!

When both [link:tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/where_theres_a_george_will_theres_a_way_to_deny_gl.php|TPM] and [link:www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/will-omitted-key-context-in-ice-age.html|Nate Silver] laug... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/431 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:26:26 In more ways than one, we the [link:www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/13/un-climate-chief-praises_n_166778.html|good guys] again.

[div class="excerpt"]TOKYO — The U.N. climate chief praised President Barack Obama's pledge to tackle global warming and expressed hope Friday that the U.S. policy shift ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/430 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:31:59 [link:business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3076045.ece|December 20, 2007], Morgan Stanley bailed out by Beijing after $9bn write-off.

[link:business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article4761884.ece|September, 200... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/429 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:50:17 [div class="excerpt"]http://www.gaypolitics.com/2009/02/06/obama-names-fred-davie-to-council-on-faith-based-and-neighborhood-partnerships/

Fred Davie, the openly gay president of Public/Private Ventures, has been named to serve on President Barack Obama’s Policy Council on Faith-Based and Neighbo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/428 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:58:16 [link:www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/business/04pay.html?ref=politics|Really].

[div class="excerpt""That is pretty draconian — $500,000 is not a lot of money, particularly if there is no bonus,” said James F. Reda, founder and managing director of James F. Reda & Associates, a compensation consulting... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/427 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:38:43 to take BACK the obscene 2008 18.4 billion in banker bonuses.

on MSNBC right now.

Then he verified it is LEGAL to do this with a change in the law.


[h1]TAKE THEM BACK![/h1]
http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/23/take_the_money_back.jpg

Who's with me?

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/426 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:11:52 As a BOA customer, I have been stewing since yesterday over [link:www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/bank-of-america-hosted-an_n_161248.html|this article] detailing their participation in an anti-Union conference call.

As a proud USW member, I cannot in good conscience stay with them unless they i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/425 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:55:52 [link:www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2009/01/21/and-then-it-hits-you|And Then It Hits You…]

1/21/09, 3:43 pm EST

[h3]Obama has just rescinded the rule that would have let Bush’s heirs continue to claim executive privilege over his papers[/h3]:

[i]The Executive Order on Presi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/423 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:45:05 This is one bad-ass vehicle. American made.

http://blog.wired.com/cars/images/2009/01/18/obama_cadillac_limo.jpg

[div class="excerpt"]General Motors has once again built the [link:blog.wired.com/cars/2009/01/obama-rolls-a-s.html|First Limo], which isn't so much a car as an armored personnel ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/422 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:29:20 [div class="excerpt"]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/19/bushs-depressing-goodbye_n_159197.html

Sunday night, President Bush and his friends celebrated the end of his term with a party of their own at Glen Echo Park. [link:www.slate.com/id/2209137|Slate went], for some reason, and their acco... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/420 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:41:28 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/08/AR2008110801856.html?nav=rss_email/components

Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse the presiden... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/418 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:27:49 On the socialist site, [link:www.change.gov|Change.gov], President-elect Obama has already changed this government in a shocking way:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/bochart.jpg

As Josh Marshall [link:www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/243435.php|points out], "And as you can see, not o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/417 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:36:55 He looked himself in the eye, the mirror reflecting back the old twinkle he’d thought was gone for good. Heh. The weight of the past year was lifted up and he could breathe, really breathe again. The phone had stopped ringing; all those angry, annoying bullies he forced himself to be genial to had g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/416 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:46:40 He sank into the leather chair and squinted at the odd label on the beer he was holding. Belgium? He hoped it didn’t have that funny German taste to it. He wiped the wet bottom of the bottle on his khakis and glanced around for an opener. Seeing none, he flexed his fingers over the top and used his ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/412 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:18:43 [link:journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/406|Part I]: The Staffers

[link:journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/407|Part II]: The Candidate

[link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7617431|Part III]: The Wife

She grinned at her reflection in ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/410 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:37:18 She stood ramrod straight, her thoughts on Bitsy. Her snide email had unsettled her. Was this what she was in for on her return to her home state when this was over, if things continued the way they were going? She hadn’t thought that far ahead. Last time, it hadn’t been this big, so a loss would b... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/409 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:42:42 The uncomfortably pregnant teenager adjusted the infant sleeping in her arms; his soft hair was damp with sweat where it met with her chest. His deep, steady breathing calmed her, and she closed her eyes and focused on the sweet rhythm as the plane brought them closer to their destination.

The ba... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/407 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:55:47 After a furtive glance around the smallish conference room for members of the press, he sat down with a thump, and kicked his Ferragamo loafers off. It was a signal we knew well, and there were quick motions to attentiveness; all leaned forward and inhaled. "Who the hell's was [i]supposed[/i] to be ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/406 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:01:04 [div class="excerpt"]http://www.newsweek.com/id/163449/page/1

In the short term, all the solutions to the current crisis require that governments take on more debts and larger obligations. This is inevitable and necessary. But that doesn't mean we should, as some noted economists advocate, stimul... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/403 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:34:12 [h2]A New American Jobs Tax Credit. Obama is calling for a temporary tax credit for firms that create new jobs in the United States over the next two years. [/h3]


http://www.scribd.com/doc/6523359/Barack-Obama-and-Joe-Bidens-Rescue-Plan-for-the-Middle-Class

He unveiled his Economic Rescue Pl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/401 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:56:03 For all of you who have lost, or are afraid you will lose your jobs in this awful economy, may I offer my opinion on what I consider to be Barack Obama's finest [link:www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021303559_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008021400104|idea]. This, to me, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/399 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:42 However, if you are more concerned with what is happening now and will happen in November that [i]can and will[/i] hand the Presidency to Barack Obama, than with what happened a couple election cycles ago, please read on...

the ever-awesome St. Pete Times has a [link:www.tampabay.com/opinion/edit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/395 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:47:54 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26646827#26646827

If you enjoyed this as much as I did - please let his bosses know!!

letters@msnbc.com... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FLDem5/369 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:11:54