Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #319: A-Bonds

An Asia bond could save us from the dollar
Asia has an opportunity to save itself, and the world economy, from the crushing excesses of Wall Street. China and Japan, with other Asian countries holding substantial surplus reserves, should act now to create an Asia bond to contain the fallout from a weak dollar.
They’re beginning to [...]

WHY Freedom Of Speech MATTERS, Dammit!

Malaysian blogger to be detained for two years: wife
Malaysia’s most prominent blogger has been ordered to spend two years in detention under internal security laws after being accused of insulting Islam, his wife said Tuesday.
Raja Petra Kamaruddin, a government critic and founder of the Malaysia Today website, has been sent to the Kamunting detention centre [...]

Stop Sarah Palin! Still!

The pastor who clashed with Palin
Forget all this chatter about whether or not she knows what the Bush doctrine is. That’s trivial. The real disturbing thing about Sarah is her mind-set. It’s her underlying belief system that will influence how she responds in an international crisis, if she’s ever in that position, and has the [...]

Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #207

Telegraph.co.uk has the keenest writer on finance, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. I’ve been following him for months. For the past two weeks, he’s been silent. That worried me, so I emailed. He was on holiday. Now he is back in fine form right from the start:
Who’s next after Lehman Brothers is fed [...]

Politics: Pastors Defiant, Librarians Muzzled

Ban on Political Endorsements by Pastors Targeted
CHICAGO — Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance Defense Fund is recruiting several dozen pastors to do just that on Sept. 28, in defiance of Internal Revenue Service rules.
The effort by the Arizona-based legal consortium is designed [...]

Quote: John Robb

JOURNAL: Why Community Resilience?
As you watch the global financial system continue to unravel this fall, think hard what it will take to prevent rampant state failure in a chaotic global market system that has already weakened (privatized, hollowed out, and bankrupted) nation-states across the entire landscape.
That from an absolutely mind-boggling blog called Global Guerrillas. [...]

Palinistas: Leave My Blog!

Go here instead: Librarians Against Palin
I am now prohibiting Comments on posts that are likely to draw in you political freaks.
Such as this post.

Oprah: Let Sarah Palin Speak!

Drudge Report: BIG DILEMMA: OPRAH BALKS AT HOSTING SARAH PALIN; STAFF DIVIDED
“Half of her staff really wants Sarah Palin on,” an insider explains. “Oprah’s website is getting tons of requests to put her on, but Oprah and a couple of her top people are adamantly against it because of Obama.”
And make question one: Why did [...]

Blog Notes: Second Search Record Set

All the Top Ten Search slots are occupied by one subject today:

This happened only once before in the close to two years I’ve been doing blogs: Truckers Strike 2008: Search Precedent Set.
Americans love books. Americans love intellectual freedom. Americans do not fear intellectual curiosity.
These are the values that led to that little thing [...]

Sarah Palin: Book-Banning Bitch, Part Two

Palin pressured Wasilla librarian
In December 1996, [librarian Mary Ellen] Emmons told her hometown newspaper, the Frontiersman, that Palin three times asked her — starting before she was sworn in — about possibly removing objectionable books from the library if the need arose.
Emmons told the Frontiersman she flatly refused to consider any kind of censorship. Emmons, [...]