HAPPY TALK

Having taken the first step along the path of compromise and least resistance… It requires a great and noble character, having started out wrong, to turn about and go right.  All too often one’s own mind tends to justify continuance in the path of error when once it is entered upon. —The Urantia Book

Some Updates

The Goldman Borg to Obama: You will be assimilated Two Goldman Sachs related items. The first involves Goldman’s continuing takeover of the financial levers of power of the executive branch of the US government, a subject I’ve covered here and here. This week President Obama appointed Goldman’s Vice-Chairman Robert Hormats to the State Department as its undersecretary for economic, energy and …

Torture In Context

Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique” In 1999, Bush‘s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda. (That would include the privatization of social security whose blood rich corpse would be served …

White House Aide Trampled To Death

Bush bids farewell White House Employee Trampled To Death As Bush Aides Flee Jan. 19, 2009 WASHINGTON D.C. [C.U.News] —  Long time White House doorman, Oscar Willit, who served four different presidents, died in a stampede today as aides to President Bush and Vice President Cheney fled the building in advance of the incoming Obama Administration. “It was surreal”, said …