tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post8731616452465343360..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: General Motors Contract, Economics or Politics?Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39518787891167357352011-09-20T10:31:43.785-04:002011-09-20T10:31:43.785-04:00.
Denver Post (update)
The Denver Post has rece....<br /><br />Denver Post (update)<br /><br /><br />The Denver Post has received a hand-written "injunction" ordering the paper to 'cease and desist' publication of our exclusive interview with Bob, the Prince of Poison, in Moscow, Idaho.<br /><br />The order signed by The Honorable D. Rat, indicates that our interview conflicts with the terms of an exclusive contract currently being negotiated between representatives of Mr. Bob and the HLN network for sole rights to commentary on the trial as well as an upcoming special to be hosted by Nancy Grace as soon as she is booted off Dancing With The Stars.<br /><br />The Denver Post has officially rejected Mr. Rat's demands on 1st Amendment grounds.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8573628353615457002011-09-20T10:05:03.071-04:002011-09-20T10:05:03.071-04:00"...passed out....""...passed out...."Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39263385997814009742011-09-20T10:02:27.137-04:002011-09-20T10:02:27.137-04:00.
From the Denver Post
The Denver Post has just....<br /><br />From the Denver Post<br /><br /><br />The Denver Post has just received an exclusive interview with the man known only as 'Bob' who is being held in solitary confinement in the sole jail cell of the Moscow, Idaho police station.<br /><br />Bob was moved there from a room at the Ten Star Motel across the street as soon as Teddy "Two Fingers" Rothison sobered up and was released this morning.<br /><br />Our reporter indicated that Bob was unrepentant and kept shouting about civil rights, capital gains taxes, being able to shoot bears whenever and wherever he wanted, someone named Claus, a pretty woman up in the cedars, and wolves.<br /><br />Eventually, our reporter was able to bring the conversation back to his alleged connection with the pesticides.<br /><br />Bob indicated that he is a well educated and well read upstanding life-long resident of Moscow. He states he is a landlord and a farmer (although he was unable to spell windrow after repeated attempts).<br /><br />He further stated that although his family founded Moscow and brought it to prominance, he is constantly being persecuted by Idaho Fish and Game, the Moscow City Council, and the Zoning Commission.<br /><br />When the conversation again came back to the pesticides, Bob admitted he discovered the formula for the illegal pesticide "Wolf-Bane" while suffering an overdose of booze and painkiller he was taking for a prostate condition. He was sitting on his front porch reading what he thought was a collection of Walt Whitman's poems but which in reality turned out to be an old copy of <i>The Merck Index</i>.<br /><br />Luckily, he past out before being able to ingest the brew but he was able to see its effect on his neighbors dog the next morning. From the death of the dog which had obviously sipped the Wolf Bane, Bob was able to judge the effect it would have on the wolves that were alleged to be in the neighborhood.<br /><br />From there it was merely a matter of marketing the brew with hopes of some day being able to purchase another saddle for his daughter, an avid equestrian.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77519450344280993872011-09-20T09:12:22.442-04:002011-09-20T09:12:22.442-04:00.
In an update on the previous story, the attorne....<br /><br />In an update on the previous story, the attorney for Bob, Mr. D. Rat indicated that he is not, in fact, a licensed lawyer in Arizona nor Idaho. He did state, however, that he has spent numerous nights in various Holiday Inns and that he is an expert on constitutional law having spent a number of years googling various Wiki articles and obscure opinions on the subject.<br /><br />Most of the defense's evidence for the incompetance plea will be centered on Bob's body of posts covering a period of several years on an obscure blog called the Elephant Bar.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57834098105697258122011-09-20T09:00:58.381-04:002011-09-20T09:00:58.381-04:00.
Bob and Rat be Busy.
During the last five mont....<br /><br />Bob and Rat be Busy.<br /><br /><i>During the last five months, undercover investigators bought illegal pesticides in shops on Madison, Mott, South Eldridge and Pike Streets in Chinatown, and in Moscow, Idaho the officials said.<br /> <br />Ten of those arrested last week were charged in state court and will be prosecuted by the Manhattan district attorney’s office; two others — one identified in court papers as a wholesaler of the illegal pesticides, the other a grocery store owner who was charged with selling thousands of packets of the products to undercover investigators — will be prosecuted in federal court by the office of the United States attorney in Manhattan. The alleged ringleader of the operation, a farmer and landlord in Moscow, is a defendant identified only as “Bob”. Bob faces up to four years in prison for importation of illegal hazardous materials and bad poetry. We have been unable to talk to Mr. Bob, but his lawyer, a Mr. D. Rat from Arizona told reporters that his client is incompetent to stand trial at this time and will plead not guilty...</i><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/nyregion/12-arrested-in-sales-of-illegal-pesticides-in-chinatown.html?_r=1&hpw" rel="nofollow">The Big Cheese Taken Into Custody in Moscow, Idaho</a><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45059428945352771072011-09-20T02:05:22.275-04:002011-09-20T02:05:22.275-04:00Yikes, 1:00. Big Day, tomorrow. G'nite.Yikes, 1:00. Big Day, tomorrow. G'nite.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89540131323983018522011-09-20T01:22:31.344-04:002011-09-20T01:22:31.344-04:00I had an interesting visit with my banker, today. ...I had an interesting visit with my banker, today. He told me that he had come to the conclusion that the key level was $3.25/gal (this is, if you'll recall, the level I said broke the camel's back in late February.)<br /><br />Was also pleasantly surprised to find out that he is a huge fan of the idea that our Co. should be a "Net Energy Exporter." It seems he had, also, done a considerable amount of research on NW Ms's potential in Wind, Solar, and Biomass. And, he just can't get over the idea of that big, powerful river out there not being utilized at all.<br /><br />The guy I had dealt with for years has left the bank, and this was the first chance I'd had to chat with this young man. There might be hope for us yet.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53390294502844070932011-09-20T01:20:45.864-04:002011-09-20T01:20:45.864-04:00Fahey had dated the married father of four girls f...Fahey had dated the married father of four girls for nearly three years before he shot her to death on June 27, 1996, at his Wilmington home, then put her corpse in an oversized fishing cooler he had bought months earlier. The next morning Capano convinced his younger brother Gerard to go with him to Stone Harbor, N.J., where they used Gerard’s fishing boat, The Summer Wind, to dispose of her body in the Atlantic Ocean.<br /><br />Her body was never found. For nearly a year and half, her disappearance was a high-profile mystery that captivated people in Delaware and across the country.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5996347916179224572011-09-20T01:19:59.895-04:002011-09-20T01:19:59.895-04:00Capano, who was serving a life sentence, has been ...Capano, who was serving a life sentence, has been held in solitary confinement since his November 1997 arrest.<br /><br />Capano was found unresponsive in his cell at about 12:30 p.m. by an officer performing a routine security check, prison spokesman John R. Painter said.<br /><br />Foul play was not suspected in Capano’s death, Painter said. His body was turned over to the medical examiner's office to determine the cause of death.<br /><br />L. Vincent Ramunno, Capano’s brother-in-law, said the prison warden notified him about Capano's death shortly before 2 p.m.<br /><br />“He probably had a heart attack,’’ said Ramunno, who said Capano had recently told family members he might have had some minor heart attacks and had been given an electrocardiogram. Capano had gained a lot of weight on his once-slender frame during his years in prison, which Ramunno attributed to lack of exercise and medications the inmate took for various conditions.<br /><br />Fahey’s brother Robert pointed out that Capano never expressed any remorse for taking his youngest sister’s life at age 30.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-92084685140717727232011-09-20T01:17:36.448-04:002011-09-20T01:17:36.448-04:00We are down One Evil Prick.We are down One Evil Prick.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51960383169691290502011-09-20T01:15:39.062-04:002011-09-20T01:15:39.062-04:00Convicted Delaware killer Capano dies in prison
B...<b>Convicted Delaware killer Capano dies in prison</b><br /><br />By Larry King<br />INQUIRER STAFF WRITER<br /><br />Thomas J. Capano, 61, a rich and influential Wilmington lawyer who fell from the halls of power to a death-row cell for murdering his former mistress, died behind bars Monday.<br /><br />Capano was found in his cell at the state prison near Smyrna, Del., where he was serving a life sentence for the 1996 murder of Anne Marie Fahey. His original death sentence was overturned in 2006.<br /><br />The slaying of Fahey, 30, the scheduling secretary for Gov. Thomas Carper, became a sordid yet riveting tale that resonated far beyond Wilmington, inspiring at least four books and a TV miniseries.<br /><br />At the center of the drama was Capano, scion of a Wilmington family whose father, an immigrant carpenter, turned construction into wealth.<br /><br />Capano, one of four sons, became a managing partner of the Saul Ewing law firm and a player in Delaware politics, advising the powerful and serving as Gov. Mike Castle's general counsel in the early 1990s.<br /><br />In private, though, the married father of four was a manipulative and jealous philanderer, prosecutors said, choosing paramours he sensed were vulnerable. Among them was Fahey, 17 years his junior, a tall and vivacious but insecure woman who struggled with anorexia.<br /><br />On June 27, 1996, Capano took Fahey to dinner at Panorama, a Philadelphia restaurant, trying to persuade her to resume an affair she had ended the previous fall. A month earlier, Fahey wrote in her diary that she had brought "closure" to her relationship with Capano, describing him as a "controlling, manipulative, insecure, jealous maniac."<br /><br />Later than night, prosecutors said, Capano shot Fahey to death in a large house he had rented after separating from his wife of 23 years.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77658188705106138982011-09-20T01:08:46.069-04:002011-09-20T01:08:46.069-04:00I was out and about all day, and I missed all the ...I was out and about all day, and I missed all the happenings. But, from looking at the data, it seems that the Traders are finally acknowledging the inevitability of the "dip," and selling Commodities, accordingly.<br /><br />This will be an interesting couple of months for me. I'm curious as to whether gasoline can break below the $3.00 level, and barring that, if getting below $3.25 will be enough to brake the descent.<br /><br />The nightmare, of course, would be the scenario of a recession in the OECD, and gasoline/diesel prices remaining above the "inflation-inducing" level.<br /><br />My "gut" is telling me that it's going to be close, this time, but that we will probably edge slightly lower than $3.00/gal for gasoline, thus mitigating the fall to a level only slightly below 0.0%.<br /><br />Of course, this is just the end of the "Second" Inning. The game has a long way to go.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35384699701405870252011-09-20T00:58:47.780-04:002011-09-20T00:58:47.780-04:00They musta died, the poor dears. We had a bang-up...They musta died, the poor dears. We had a bang-up post about young girls, masterfully riding powerful stallions, and "Bear Cutting," and neither showed up. Where do we send the flowers?Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82914961195530380232011-09-20T00:52:20.648-04:002011-09-20T00:52:20.648-04:00Did Desert Rat and Bob go camping?Did Desert Rat and Bob go camping?Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75080691313560513342011-09-20T00:51:12.454-04:002011-09-20T00:51:12.454-04:00I was going to do another post, but think I will l...I was going to do another post, but think I will let this one ride.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67755724028168699542011-09-20T00:49:12.423-04:002011-09-20T00:49:12.423-04:00How about a Pirate PartyHow about a <a href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15399521,00.html" rel="nofollow"> Pirate Party</a>Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1151892783397928982011-09-20T00:43:52.895-04:002011-09-20T00:43:52.895-04:00Admittedly, the Republicans are despicable, self-s...Admittedly, the Republicans are despicable, self-serving scum, but Obama, and the Dems shot all their bullets in their arrogant, and high-handed Healthcare coup.<br /><br />Now, the White House, and both houses of congress are going to be taken over by the most reactionary forces of the most reactionary political party in the history of the Republic (okay, that last part was pure, unprovable hyperbole; so sue me.)<br /><br />The Dems will be lucky to come out of the next election with enough Senators (40) to mount a filibuster.<br /><br />Both parties are so out of sync with reality that about all we can pray for is a gridlocked government that can't do much more damage than it has already.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27337134737934183072011-09-20T00:27:27.128-04:002011-09-20T00:27:27.128-04:00Doug said...
You'd be happier at the Daily Kos...<i> Doug said...<br />You'd be happier at the Daily Kos.<br /><br />Mon Sep 19, 04:13:00 PM EDT</i><br /><br />I disagree, you have balance here. Honestly the fact is one party has managed to shift so far to the right and paid absolutely no price for it at the polls. As I read in a recent article, American people are opinion followers, not opinion leaders. So when Fox News and Republican figures are the ones projecting an air of absolute confidence and certainty, voters gravitate toward them. From what I have seen here, no one gravitates towards anything singular, quite the opposite.oppositionresearchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9775851196826141062011-09-20T00:15:24.309-04:002011-09-20T00:15:24.309-04:00Ordinarily, I'd be all for compromise. But wit...Ordinarily, I'd be all for compromise. But with the GOP having gone stark raving mad, this is not the time to be doing it. Democrats should take up centrist positions, explain to the public that these positions are keeping with precedent with policies in the past, and then hold their ground come hell or high water.oppositionresearchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46344147259445024732011-09-20T00:02:38.853-04:002011-09-20T00:02:38.853-04:00link on the "Rogue Trader" clip above<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100105725/rogue-trader-in-38-6-billion-green-jobs-fraud/" rel="nofollow"> link on the "Rogue Trader" clip above</a>Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31832397733578778632011-09-19T23:59:43.559-04:002011-09-19T23:59:43.559-04:00A rogue trader at one of the world's largest b...<b>A rogue trader at one of the world's largest banks (USA Inc., second in economic power only to China Inc.) has been exposed as the biggest fraudster in the history of mankind. The fraud – conservatively estimated at $38.6 billion, </b><br /><br />Others believe it could be at least 20 times bigger once his secret trading accounts in a file mysteriously marked "Stimulus Package" are fully investigated – comfortably exceeds the paltry $2.3 billion losses run up by UBS trader Kweku Adoboli.<br />Though full details of the Uber Rogue Trader – known only by his initials B.O. – have yet to be released, he is believed to be either of Hawaiian or Kenyan birth, with a plausible speaking manner and a deceptive aura of competence and gravitas. He is said to be "coolly unrepentant" about his crime, which, he claims, he was only doing to provide "hope and change" to his 200 million victims.<br />The fraud appears to have centred around an arcane taxpayer-swindling system first devised by Kenneth Lay of Enron known as "Clean tech" or "green jobs." B.O. – who joined the bank in January 2009 – is believed to have persuaded colleagues and shareholders that he could boost the institution's flagging profits by spending $38.6 billion on a "loan guarantee program" for clean tech start up companies. He also claimed that in the process he would create "65,000 jobs".<br />Correctly anticipating that in the open market no one would actually want to buy such overpriced, economically inefficient energy as solar or wind, B.O. hit on the ingenious scam of ramping up demand by spreading misleading rumours. He persuaded high-placed friends at institutions including NASA, the EPA and the IPCC to promote junk-science data grotesquely exaggerating the dangers of carbon based energy and the benefits of "renewable" energy. BO then poured sums of up to half a billion dollars into Ponzi schemes – aka Green Tech – run by sympathetic friends.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21132288496457283832011-09-19T23:52:21.542-04:002011-09-19T23:52:21.542-04:00Ash, Asher, can Ashest be far behind?
Just havin...Ash, Asher, can Ashest be far behind? <br /><br />Just having fun, your comment is well taken Asher.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57030634545467658712011-09-19T23:49:53.348-04:002011-09-19T23:49:53.348-04:00Obama’s speech was obviously anything but a bluepr...<i>Obama’s speech was obviously anything but a blueprint designed to produce bipartisan consensus. For now, those days are over.<br /><br />Instead, the president has decided he must win the battle for public opinion in the debate between his vision and that of the Republicans if he hopes to win a second term in office.<br /><br />He believes the American people are with him on the broad outlines and values he espoused Monday. The campaign that began on Sept. 8 in the House chamber continued Monday in the Rose Garden, with a weakened president fighting to win that battle.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55159536789817722682011-09-19T23:49:47.567-04:002011-09-19T23:49:47.567-04:00Remember Bill Clinton, Al Gore, when they tried to...Remember Bill Clinton, Al Gore, when they tried to close their own deficit? The Republicans during that debate predicted the end of the world as we knew it. During the debate that led to the 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, the Republicans promised that it would lead to a depression that would make the Great Depression appear to be an era of rampant prosperity by comparison. They told us that we would suffer like 1923 Germany, with unemployment in the 30% range and bread lines stretching to infinity. <br /> <br />It passed without a single Republican vote. In the Senate it required Al Gore's tiebreaker. And how did those Republican predictions of certain doom turn out? <br /> <br />Well, they turned out to be (how shall I say it?) somewhat inaccurate. Instead of a frightening depression, we instead, because of the tax increases (retroactive, by the way, and their retroactivity was upheld in court), had the longest unbroken period of growth and prosperity we have ever known. Unemployment fell into the 2% range. Growth rose and remained stable. The deficit was wiped out, replaced with huge and growing surpluses. The dollar became once more the world's strongest currency. Our prosperity spread worldwide and we knew the greatest period of world peace that mankind has ever experienced, even during the Pax Romana. <br /> <br />Then came Bush and his stolen election, and his tax cuts, and his Supreme Court appointments, and the rest is a rather tragic history of America's downfall in every area of world leadership, social, economic, political, diplomatic, and military. <br /> <br />And it happened all because our rich wanted to get pointlessly even richer at the expense of all other considerations, and our government allowed it. <br /> <br />I hope Obama sticks by his guns here but I have little faith that it will turn out that way. The Great Capitulator has always capitulated before despite his lofty rhetoric. I believe that his words are meant for us progressives, to give us false hope and keep us docile until it is too late to replace him on the Democratic ticket, rather than a reliable indicator of what he intends actually to do in any area of policy.Asherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68786053075323454392011-09-19T23:45:56.716-04:002011-09-19T23:45:56.716-04:00Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N....<i>Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) complained that "the plan calls for larger agriculture cuts than are necessary or appropriate." And oil-state Democrats such as Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) are likely to have problems with taking away tax breaks from the oil industry.<br /><br />Obama framed his proposal as a request to a congressional supercommittee that is charged by law with negotiating by the end of November at least $1.2 trillion of deficit cuts over 10 years. The proposal, which calls for the supercommittee to expand its mission by paying for a jobs package and coming up with more deficit cuts, gives the joint committee a new challenge and ran into immediate objections from one of the 12 members.<br /><br />"With the Select Committee's deadline looming, we do not have time to waste on political games and pushing big tax increases that will only make our economy weaker for all Americans," Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said in a statement.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.com