When Bad Luck Blackie takes his Friday constitutional through the news wires, the crap in his wake tends to be a little more foul than usual.
Bad Luck Blackie: A kitten enlists the aid of a black cat who causes things like flower pots, safes, and battleships to fall on a bulldog that is tormenting him. [(1/22/49) dir Tex Avery] (Click here for full-size picture.)
U.S. Army slips further behind recruiting goals, 1 hour, 12 minutes ago [at 6:20 PM ET 06/10/05)
Greenspan, regulators raise volume of housing alarm, Fri Jun 10, 2005 04:36 PM ET
Bonds Fall on Fed’s Bullish Assessment, 51 minutes ago (7:40 PM ET 06/10/05)
Trade Deficit Swells As Oil Imports Climb, 1 hour, 59 minutes ago (as of 7:25 pm ET 06/10/05)
Fire in the hold …
The low=lights:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army has slipped further behind its recruiting goals amid the Iraq war, figures released on Friday showed … The Army hopes to raise the maximum cash bonus for new recruits … and begin a pilot program to give up to $50,000 in home-mortgage assistance to people who volunteer for eight yearsof active-duty service … The new proposals would need congressional approval … The Army, which provides most of the U.S. ground troops in Iraq, had missed its fourth consecutive monthly recruiting goal in May, officials said earlier in the week. The Pentagon had delayed release of the detailed recruiting figures by more than a week for what it called extra scrutiny.
WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan this week added to a chorus of worry about the growth of home loans seen as far riskier than the 30-year mortgage that has been U.S. housing’s bedrock for decades.
NEW YORK – Bond prices fell Friday as the Federal Reserve chairman’s bullish assessment of the economy a day earlier raised expectations for further interest-rate increases. Stocks drifted to a mixed finish. The price of the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell 23/32 point, or $7.19 per $1,000 in face value. Its yield, which moves in the opposite direction, rose to 4.05 percent, from 3.95 percent late Thursday.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. trade deficit rose to $56.96 billion in April as a big jump in exports was swamped by record foreign oil prices and heavy American demand for imports. The Commerce Department reported Friday that both exports and imports climbed to record levels. … The Bush administration insists that the soaring trade deficits reflect a faster-growing U.S. economy … However, critics contend that the deficits are the result of failed administration free trade policies [which] have produced a string of record deficits and the loss of more than 3 million manufacturing jobs over the past five years. … Those attacks are coming at a time when the administration is struggling to round up enough votes in Congress to pass its latest free trade deal, the Central American Free Trade Agreement with six Latin American countries.
Crossposted at the Daily KOS
Be sure to check the wires after 11:00pm. It’s when the really stinky stuff comes out.
I hope by then the mojitos are in full effect.
Sorry I couldn’t post a more eloquent and personal hello as I’d hoped before adding a diary to the Friday pile.
I promise to do a better one on the weekend introducing myself, when I’m not so much on my way out as now. I hope this this will suffice for now. It’s a comment (Thanks, Chi’champ! You’re why I’m here!) I made on chicagochamp‘s excellent KOS diary called Why Abortion is Different
My view, expressed in other threads, was that even contentious debate on backburner issues generated great ideas and exchange. I don’t think all the issues mainstream Dems are avoiding can nor should be duked out once than be made to go away. I think it’s a mistake for Dems to get into a race with Repugs over who can prove they believe abortion is wronger.
Nor are the whole myriad of transitory ‘single issue’ annoyances to be tidied during primaries. (Dem message to the base: GOTV-then-STFU!)
Apart from unfairly dismissing a lot of the women here, I think it’s shortsighted of Kos (and mainstream, D-first Dems) to diminish/view so-called “special interests” as troublesome static. I think the static is more valuable than the quest for the Magic Bullshit — “our” version of Brand AmeriCo Pap the Rethugs have — because it’s where real people live and that’s where we’ll find our strength.
I’ll be a regular at the Booman Trib because some of my favorite diarists are there and I look forward to REAL discussions with smart, witty progressives. I hope smart, witty actual conservatives will be there too. (I know they exist offline but are in a state of shock over this admin.)
I’m sticking around KOS to discuss diaries like [, which actually do relate to Markos’ stated mandate of electoral issues and strengthening the Dems but have been, unfairly I believe, marginalized at the site for illusory expediency.
(and to add to the above)
I had hoped that the Freedom Pie Fight wasn’t simply the usual one-sided crapola pandering to the straight male horndog, and in my naivete maintained a Watch4 well-hung guys pie fight ads and ended up still waiting for Kos to run big-cocks pie fight ads. Hmmm … they never did turn up.
Warning, absence of pandering to the sensibilities of the most dumbass of straight male dumbass may be inoffensive to the rest. (Okay, so there’s nothing actually graphic in the posts but if you’re in the mood for a bit of snark, give them a click. 🙂 )
Well, I need a feeding and watering, so I’ll drop by later!
Sorry, but I am beginning to tire of these comments from another site being brought into here and of this nature. This is starting to look like a porn site I think it’s getting out of hand. Do you really need to bring this kind of talk to this site which to this point has been virtually free.
I don’t think that is our focus and is getting very distracting. I click on a diary to read some news updates and second comment down I find the above.
If we wanted to read dk we would be there reading. We don’t need to read it here.
Color me tired of this whole deal…….with DK.
Gosh, pardon the heck out of me, your majesty. I suppose I should have hunted around for you in particular better to decipher your whims and moods regarding the migration, even without knowing who the hell you are.
You must be some huge muckety muck, possibly the head hall monitor in the Great Soul. Apparently, once you have achieved a particular state on the dKOS crossposting and migration, there’s no real need for others to introduce themselves or give a preamble in her/his first diary here about his/her migratory state.
My comments are in the context of (a combination of) introducing myself, posting a diary and explaining why my Friday Night News Dump wasn’t preceded by a post in one of the Welcome Diaries introducing myself.
As I’ve visted B’trib but not posted or added a diary, I didn’t want to be rude and also wanted to greet the other users I’ve talked to at dKOS. The migration/intros are still ongoing I wanted to include my $0.03.
If your eyes are still burning I suggest some distilled water as an eyewash, a bit of Visine. Perhaps a front page emoto=bat on the level of your various whims so new posters might not offend your ass.
Or, you could get over yourself and cut first posters some slack during the migration. [/sheesh]
I was feeling a bit overwhelmed last night and flipped out a little. Sorry I took it out on you.
I am not a muckety muck, nor a majesty, but I am the one that started the welcome diaries till they got too big for me to handle.
My personal feeling on the subject of profane language still stands, but I am sorry for projecting this on to you.
All of us have been a little overwhelmed with the sheer density of diaries and comments and members and I guess I started stamping my feet last night, not a very attractive attribute, I am sure.
Can we start over?
If I could say my comment over I would say it in a much more kind and gentle manner.
I think you have chastised me sufficiently for what appears to be my over bearing attitude.
I really do apologize, and hope you will accept this in the maner intended.
Heh, Don’t sweat it — a challenge if you’re getting anything like the weather I’m getting.
I’ve been finding a bit of the same lately trying to discuss abortion rights and feeling I had to start from bottom all the time. What was happening was that more people were joining the debate that usually stayed out of it.
One of the points I tried to make in my other discussions — you know about the creamy thing at the place where the stuff happened — was that this is EXACTLY why “troublesome” interests that have been swept under the rug in the Bush Dim Ages (feminism, race, civil rights) can’t keep being brushed aside as things which can be tackled in a political primary.
They need to be covered regularly even to make people feel comfortable talking about controversies and if someone flares up, hey, it’s like a shutter banging or a bit of weather, but the day and the discussion goes on and that’s where ideas come from.
And give back the tiara — it’s the only item of clothing it’s not too hot to wear today. 🙂
Thanks for your reply, Peanut, are you male or female I am curious, can’t tell and I hesitate to assume as that has gotten me in trouble.
Where are you located with the bad weather, in the East Coast area? Things are gloomsville here in Socal, overcast but 72.
Ok you can have the tiara…it wasn’t too good a fit for me last night, lol.
Did you post a bio, if you did would you link and post it here. If not, please do.
Thanks for being so forgiving….
Seems I am talking in dots today…..
Nice chatting with you.