Bob Morris @ 22:30 Category: Election 2008;
I’ll gladly be a pit bull against the Republicans say Kos, in response to Andrew Sullivan blogging that netroots are overly focused on attacking McCain and Palin and not enough on boosting Obama.
Kos does have a point, and I’m seeing that many of the netroots attacks are now making it into mainstream media.
The dogs of war have already been let loose.
Bob Morris @ 18:45 Category: Renewable energy Tags: wave power;
Way cool, and seriously out-of-the-box thinking indeed. These data centers will be portable and can be moved anywhere in the ocean as needed.
Bob Morris @ 14:30 Category: Election 2008 Tags: McCain, Obama;
Why are netroots ignoring Obama and foaming at the mouth about Palin and McCain?
That’s what a reader on Andrew Sullivan asks, and he has a point. The Liberal blogosphere is currently so utterly preoccupied with attacking McCain and especially Palin that they are barely covering Obama at all.
While the reader thinks this could be a devious ploy by Rove to neutralize the netroots, I’m thinking the liberal blogosphere needed little encouragement to go off on such extended rants. They should get back and focus on what’s important, which is helping Obama win, not constantly giving press and focus to McCain and Palin.
However, this could just be a tempest in a teapot as the general public may not even be following it. But it’s still counter-productive.
And Obama, god bless him, he gets it. As does his team. while everyone whines he keeps at it every day with much much class and like a laser focused on the issues. The problem is not Obama, is that no one wants to follow his lead. Instead they are following McCain-Rove and they don’t even know it.
Bob Morris @ 12:02 Category: Unfiled Tags: Peter Camejo;
From the Green Party OC listserv via Green Lisa comes this sad news.
Peter Camejo has passed away but his life and words will continue. Peter was writing his memoir and I am told only had 1/2 chapter left to write when he entered the hospital at the beginning of the week.
Peter Camejo had decades of experience as an organizer and proponent for social justice. I got to know him a bit while active in the California Green Party. He once gave me a sage piece of advice (that I didn’t fully understand at the time and now wished I had.) He helped and advised countless others too. Even when you disagreed with him on an issue, you respected him. He was that kind of person.
Bob Morris @ 09:56 Category: Unfiled Tags: Hurricane Ike;
From comments on The Oil Drum
What is really interesting to me is that the Neches River currently has a flow of -32000 cubic feet a second - that is, the water is now flowing the wrong direction in that amount.
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Somewhere, this mass of water will collide with the normal downriver flow - and the area where it does will suffer from severe flooding, likely miles from the coast.
Bob Morris @ 05:33 Category: Unfiled;
From financial blogger Barry Ritzholz at The Big Picture
The current headache begins and ends with ideology, namely that of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan–an acolyte of Ayn Rand, a free-market absolutist, a true believer in the evils of regulation. Many of the present headaches point directly back to the decisions made by the Greenspan Fed. Sure, there is plenty of other blame to go around: an unengaged president, a clueless Congress, a hapless FDIC, a compromised OFHEO, and Phil Gramm–but the biggest and most accusatory finger points directly at Easy Al….
Greenspan didn’t do it alone. Lots of other amoral greedheads agreed with him, aiding and abetting in the plunder of a country, all under the banner of a bogus philosophy that glories selfishness and spits upon altruism and the common good.
Bob Morris @ 00:00 Category: Credit crisis;
The New York Fed has told the heads of major Wall Street firms to prepare for an orderly liquidation of Lehman Brothers on Monday and that “if the industry failed to solve the problem their individual banks might be next.”
I’m speechless.
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