WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH?

Bernie Madoff was tucked into his jail cell bed the other night for what could be his home for the next 150 years. For a guy who once “had it all” this comedown must be pretty harsh to say the least. Bet that was no Posturepedic mattress that waited to embrace his cheating bones or [...]

Sunday: What color is the sky in their world?

So, President Obama, the guy we just had to have thrust upon us by the starry eyed idiots of the Obot Whole Foods Nation is now open to taxing employee health benefits, just like he scorned McCain for considering back in the bad old days of the election.  This is the same man who beat [...]

Cannon Fodder

This is a very difficult post to write.  I was hoping that the recent incident that resulted in taking Cannonfire off of our blogroll would go undetected.  But some of our readers, including Joseph Cannon himself, have quickly called attention to the deletion so some of us frontpagers feel we owe our readers an explanation. [...]

Saturday: Jon Stewart, heal thyself

Jon Stewart took on Jim Cramer of Mad Money a couple of nights ago and raked him over the coals about the uncritical journalism of the press that failed to uncover the chicanery of the financial giants.  From the interview, we get this exchange (from Glenn Greenwald, who I’ll get to in a second): STEWART:  [...]

Obama Administration Continues to Defend Bush Torture Policies

This is not unexpected, but still very dispiriting. The Obama administration argued in court documents filed today that four former detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp who have sued over their treatment have no constitutional rights. The suit was brought by four British men who say they were beaten, shackled in painful stress positions, [...]

Unemployed Chronicles – the saga continues: a rant with sprinklings of joy

Here I am – and one million apologies to my fellow Conflucians.  I’ve been a gawd-damn mess the past couple of weeks.  Our dearest Katiebird told me that everything that I’m going through healthwise is actually stress.  I didn’t follow her words – but being the enlightened sage that she is, I have to finally [...]

FOR RANDY ON HIS 38TH!

Tomorrow is the 38th birthday of my youngest child…”my baby”..How he hates to hear me refer to him in that way.  It is amazing to me that time has gone by so rapidly.  At 24 I was the mother of 4 kids under the age of 5!  And to think I survived those years is [...]

Obama: Financial Crisis is all about me.

Yesterday at Obama’s appearance before the Business Roundtable (h/t msclutterbuck in comments), Richard Parsons, chairman of beleaguered Citigroup Inc., asked if Obama could offer some help in a national battle “between confidence and fear.” “A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great. A little bit of bad news and ooohh , we’re [...]

Conflucians Say: The Dark Side of the economic meltdown

Like there’s a good side, right? From Market-Ticker: What’s Dead (Short Answer: All Of It) Just so you have a short list of what’s at stake if Washington DC doesn’t change policy here and now (which means before the collapse in equities comes, which could start as soon as today, if the indicators I watch [...]

Women’s Groups still hoping for change….but keep coming up short

So we have all heard that Barack Obama has created a White House Council on Women.  Sounds great, right?  Well as always one must read the fine print.  According to Politico Obama dissed women again, suprise suprise suprise: After Barack Obama’s election, some in the women’s movement thought big – pushing for a Cabinet-level office, or [...]