Tag Archives: Iran

Baucus Bill Boogie-down

1. The Baucus Bill gets its (first) day – Senate Finance Committee is set to vote on the $829-Billion-Dollars-over-10-years bill today.  Here’s what it would do:  Require Americans to buy Health Insurance.  Here’s what it wouldn’t do:  Create that sticky public option.  Tens of millions currently without insurance would get it by way of expansions [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Iran test fires long range missiles

1. Iran does its best North Korea – Missiles launched, muscles flexed, bla bla bla. Well crap.  Now what. (From the Times of London) 2. Roman Polanski Taken into Custody – 32 years ago Roman Polanski fled the U.S. after he pled guilty to having sex with a 13 year old girl.  He had avoided nations [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Iran’s not so secret Nuclear Facility

1. Iran to the world:  By the way… we’ve got a nuclear facility – Iran says it’s just for peaceful purposes.  To generate electricity for its people.  So then why all the secrets?  (From NPR) 2. A Who’s Who guide on the Afghanistan Issue – It’s a Friday, let’s not push it too much mentally… here’s [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

What an attack on Iran might look like

1. Stopping Iran’s Nuclear Program with Force - What an attack by US forces on the Iranian Nuclear Capabilities would entail, and the consequences that would follow.  (From NPR) 2. Obama approves new team to interrogate Terrorists - Experts from numerous security agencies will team up to interrogate high value Terrorist detainees.  Which is a much [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Ayatollah Khamenei sides with Ahmadinejad

1. Iran’s Supreme Leader tells protesters to give it a rest - In Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the absolute last word.  And he proclaims that there was NOT massive fraud in the election.  He also said the protests are being fueled by foreign leaders and the media.  And that they should stop.  So… now [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Wall Street to get a new set of Rules

1. Hey looky there… More Financial Sector Regulation – Critics correctly point out that more consumer protection will just make for dumber, less savvy consumers.  Problem is:  There’s already too many of those dumb ones that could perpetuate the financial ruin for the rest of us.  Hedge funds would have to register with the SEC, [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Iran gets ornery

1. Ahmadinejad:  I won, don’t protest. 50% of the Iranian public: Yeah right, whatever. - Mousavi, the opposition candidate even shows up at the banned rally to rally his side.  Supreme Religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei now backs an election inquiry after some shadiness surfaces.  (From the London Times) 2. Health Care Reform Push begins… but how [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

No More Cheap Oil

1. Cheap Oil is on the way out - The Annual International Energy Outlook report says the stuff that’s easy to pull out of the ground is going to become increasingly scarce.  Sources like Shale and Oil Sands are where we’ll be getting the fossil fuels we demand in the future and those places don’t [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Election day Eve in Iran

1. Iran’s Election day is Tomorrow - So what’s in it for us?  Well, a lot. And by the way, today is a day for quiet reflection in Iran, so the citizens can contemplate their choices at the polls.  I’d say that’d be a great idea for us to try here in the States, but you [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

North Korea holding two U.S. Journalists

1. U.S. Journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labor in N. Korea - Pyongyang has accused the two of major crimes against North Korea, but hasn’t really elaborated on just what those crimes are.  Something about illegal entry,  but that’s about all that’s come out.  The trial was extremely fast, closed to the public, and [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Obama Headlines White House Correspondents’ Dinner

1.  President Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner “John Boehner is a person of color…”  Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa… haaaaaaaa!  (From the Hill) 2. U.S. Journalist Freed from Iranian Prison - She was charged with espionage, and sentenced to eight years.  Appeals court knocked it down to a two year suspended sentence.  And get this, she works for the [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Huckabee… the great “right” hope?

1. Huckabee would be Obama’s “Toughest” opponent in 2012 - Annnnnd Teddy Roosevelt is crying somewhere right now into a dusty bandanna he wore charging up San Juan hill.  If the GOP throws Palin or Huckabee up against the wall in 2012, that could very well be the end of their party.  Anyone who’s not a [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Waterboarding, Waterboarding, Everywhere

1. CIA waterboarded two Al-Qaeda types 266 times - That’s… Wow that’s a lot.  (From the NY Times) 2. Ahmadinejad knows how bomb on stage – Claims Israel is the world’s most “cruel and racist regime”… at a U.N. racism conference.  Bunch of diplomats walk out.  (From the Wall Street Journal) 3. Columbine, 10 years later.  What happened, [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

1. Netanyahu is PM - Will he go more middle of the road? From the sounds of his latest speech, probably not. (From the London Times) Oh, and speaking of that region… 2. Iran has enough Material to make one Nuke - That’s probably going to upset Mr. Netanyahu.   (From the Financial [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

President Obama Press Conference

1. The new guy is thorough. Focuses mainly on the economy I think his answer for the first question asked was something like 8 minutes long. Q&A ranged from the Economy (Obviously) to Foreign Policy (Expected) and some… other stuff (see Below) Takes a question from a blogger, which, is the first time [...]
Posted in Morning Five | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Daschel is out

1. - el gets…  /ed! Ha!  A punctuation joke!  (sorry)  It wasn’t about not paying those taxes.  It was about helping health care companies lobby D.C.  (From Mother Jones)  Okay fine, some of it was about not paying those taxes (From Slate) 2. Iran puts a Satellite into space with technology that could rival… Sputnik? Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (deep breath) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Blago is Toast

1. Blago is done He’s convicted 59-0.  Also he can never hold public office in Illinois ever again.  Perhaps he’ll apply to become the newest host of The View?  (From the Chicago Tribune) 2. President Obama starts writing a letter to Iran The State Department has apparently been working on this since inauguration day.  Keep your friends close… keep [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment