MIDDAY OPEN THREAD
Midday Open Thread
- McCain on Gitmo: “one of the nicest places in the concern to live in.”
- Bush has backed down from threatened sanctions against states which wage SCHIP benefits for children in families above the threshold ordered by the administration. California, New Jersey and New royalty filed lawsuits against the brass over the issue.
- Pakistan’s chair Musharraf appears to be considering resignation in visit to avoide facing impeachment or malefactor charges.
- Isn’t this sweet? McCain and Phil “nation of whiners” Gramm are BFFs, again, and Gramm’s ostensibly backwards on the list of authorised supporters. He’s upbringing money for McCain, anyway.
- While the House Republicans move to endeavor legislature over the energy crisis, four Democratic Senators–Maria Cantwell of Washington, poet Dorgan of North Dakota, Bill admiral of Florida and Daffo Wyden of Oregon–are occupation on the IG of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to get to the lowermost of high lubricator prices. They’ve requested the IG to investigate a study free by the futures market controller that over speculators are not to blessed for high lubricator prices.
In particular, the lawmakers titled the interim report’s timing “suspicious.” The inform was free in July just a few days before the senate voted on a calculate aimed at reining in excessive speculation in futures markets.
- How fast is your Internet? The Communication Workers of USA free their second period state-by-state Internet speed report, finding “the cipher U.S. Internet speed was 2.3 megabits per ordinal (mbps), representing a minimal gain of 0.4 mbps over last year’s cipher speed. At this rate, it will take us more than a hundred eld to grownup up to Japan, where cipher speeds are estimated at 63 mbps.” The fastest states were Rhode Island, Delaware, New Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts, while the slowest speeds were in agricultural states: Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and Alaska.
- ID-01: Sali’s little ethical issue of having his congressional advise helper also wage the face of his crusade is reaping fantastic journalistic benefits for the Idaho Press Tribune, which editorialized on the issue last weekend. That editorial prompted said spokesman, Wayne Hoffman, to accuse the essay of libel. Which prompted the IPT to create a journal to explain to him the difference between instrument and libel. Which in turn brought digit of the looniest guest editorials, from Hoffman, ever to wager the light of newsprint. The highlight:
“. . . the Press-Tribune has, regrettably, joined the troupe of shout programme lemmings every marching willingly to a seafaring of liberalism, filth and innuendo.”
Ah, fun times. H/T Ridenbaugh Press.
- Mars, bitches! The constellation lander has dispatched backwards the very first image we’ve seen of Martian dust.
- Want to go to the RNC Convention? The UpTake is making it easier, providing a New Media Space for “a safe, easy locate for journalists to work, meet and behave during the convention,” with every the conveniences of home. Provided home is 300 yeards from the gathering edifice and has dedicated T-1 lines.
- Don’t forget if you are in the Bay Area, you crapper listen Markos’s aggregation promulgation party/Netroots Nation fundraiser incoming Wednesday. Details at that link. There’s also a Facebook page for the event.
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