I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is Obama Might Change the Politics of Race in Unexpected Ways.
There are at least three possibilities here. First, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama thinks he can turn the deep red states of Arizona, North Dakota and Georgia purple or maybe even blue; second, his campaign so cash flush that it can’t possibly spend it all in the next five days or, and this would be my pick, he’s scaring the feck out of Republican presidential candidate John McCain in order to force him to divert resources.
From Science Daily:
Four years ago, inspired by reading news coverage about the song”s 40th anniversary, Dr. Brown decided to try and see if he could apply a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve the Beatles” riddle. The process allowed him to decompose the sound into its original frequencies using computer software and parse out which notes were on the record.
It worked, up until a point: the frequencies he found didn”t match the known instrumentation on the song. “George played a 12-string Rickenbacker, Lennon had his six string, Paul had his bass…none of them quite fit what I found,” he explains. “Then the solution hit me: it wasn”t just those instruments. There was a piano in there as well, and that accounted for the problematic frequencies.”
Dr. Brown deduces that another George-George Martin, the Beatles producer-also played on the chord, adding a piano chord that included an F note impossible to play with the other notes on the guitar.
Isn’t science amazing?
Here’s how Kay Hagan resonds:
Here’s my prediction. Kay Hagan will win next week and this is a woman to watch.
Jill at Writes Like She Talks wrote a post on 6 September offering brief insights into why she and seven women she knows are voting for their candidate come 4 November.
I liked the no-judgment style of the post and have challenged Jill to do more. Since I’d never ask anyone to act in a way I would not act myself, I told Jill that beginning 6 September and until 3 November I will post this open-thread question to my readers:
Why are you voting for your candidate for President of the United States?
I impose only two restrictions:
First, I’m not going to comment in the open thread. This is not about me debating or supporting my readers, I honestly want to know why you are voting the way you are.
Second, in your comment, you may only offer positive reasons why you are voting for your candidate. Negative reasons why you are not voting for your candidate’s opponent will be redacted or removed.
So, what are your reasons? Make your case.
“Chase recently received $25 billion in federal funding. What effect will that have on the business side and will it change our strategic lending policy?”
It was Oct. 17, just four days after JPMorgan Chase”s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, agreed to take a $25 billion capital injection courtesy of the United States government, when a JPMorgan employee asked that question. It came toward the end of an employee-only conference call that had been largely devoted to meshing certain divisions of JPMorgan with its new acquisition, Washington Mutual.
Which, of course, it also got thanks to the federal government. Christmas came early at JPMorgan Chase.
The JPMorgan executive who was moderating the employee conference call didn”t hesitate to answer a question that was pretty politically sensitive given the events of the previous few weeks.
Given the way, that is, that Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had decided to use the first installment of the $700 billion bailout money to recapitalize banks instead of buying up their toxic securities, which he had then sold to Congress and the American people as the best and fastest way to get the banks to start making loans again, and help prevent this recession from getting much, much worse.
In point of fact, the dirty little secret of the banking industry is that it has no intention of using the money to make new loans. But this executive was the first insider who”s been indiscreet enough to say it within earshot of a journalist.
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is LINKSWITCH: For Bootstrapping Writers and All Their Friends.
The Great Bank Bailout was first proposed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Chairman on September 18, less than 40 days ago. Just think of what’s happened since then. $700 billion in “capital infusions” approved for the financial industry. Wachovia acquired by Wells Fargo. WaMu acquired by JP Morgan Chase. National City acquired by PNC, using $5.5 billion in bailout funds. And talk — endless talk — about whether and how to bail out homeowners facing default and foreclosure.
Now think about what hasn’t changed: Since that day in September, despite all the talk, 1,271 new foreclosure cases have been filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. And 596 more foreclosed Cuyahoga County properties have been sold at Sheriff’s sale.
This must stop. Now. But it won’t, unless we make it stop.
That’s why you need to be at the Justice Center this Thursday at 4 pm to help the Foreclosure Action Coalition tell our elected county judges: Enough is enough. It’s time to Freeze The Foreclosures!
The flyer for the Freeze The Foreclosures rally, with the list of sponsoring groups and other details, is at:
http://foreclosingcleveland.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/freeze_flyer_oct301.jpgPlease click on it, read it, make copies and share them with your friends and neighbors. And then JOIN US on Thursday.
See you Thursday.
Bill
Think overturning Roe only means that states have to work harder? These steps just outlined all involve the federal government. John McCain and Sarah Palin use campaign rhetoric about shrinking government and keeping it out of our homes. They call government involvement akin to the creation of a nanny state and they claim that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the bearers of socialism and communal everything.
From what I hear and see, in their words and actions and what they support, it is McCain and Palin who seek to control our every decision and step in via governmental action, putting their personal preferences into law so that we have no ability to exercise any preference.
That doesn”t sound like any concept of freedom I”ve ever imagined.
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