Well, the Pulitzers are out, and for the third year in a row, bradwarthen.com didn’t win anything. I know; it’s hard to understand. Sigh. OK, let’s get this week rolling so I can run home and get some dinner:
- S.&P. Lowers Outlook for U.S., Sending Stocks Down (NYT) — OK, so I embarrassed myself today by tweeting that I still don’t understand hedge funds, causing my financial adviser to give me a call. But I do understand that THIS is not good. As Wonder Pet Ming-Ming would say, “This is sewious!“
- U.S. Hurries to Sell GM Stake (WSJ) — I don’t know what’s coming over me playing up all this financial news, but I’ve been doing it a lot lately.
- Nigerian president calls for calm (BBC) — But so far, he’s not getting what he wants.
- Libya promises U.N. access to besieged city (WashPost) — It remains to be seen whether that promise will be kept.
- Haley asks Tea Party supporters to back voter IDs at polls (thestate.com) — Michele Bachman also spoke to them. I understand that the Tea Party is celebrating its second birthday. There are all sorts of things I could say here about the typical behavior patterns of 2-year-olds, but I won’t…
- Hallelujah! The King James Bible Turns 400 (NPR) — Betcha didn’t realize that. And even if you did, it’s still interesting. Over the weekend, I was trying hard to get my wife to be impressed by Twitter, and by the fact that my iPhone can read bar codes (her reaction: “Yeah, I can read all that stuff on the box.”) She did, however, allow as how the printing press DOES impress her. So this one’s for her.
Sorry I missed the news the other day that our governor filed her tax returns on time. That, of course, was HUGE. Talk about exceeding expectations. Now, it seems, the president is copying her….
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How would the KJ impress your wife re: the printing press. Now, maybe Zwingli’s translation…. But even the Geneva Bible (the one Shakespeare used) would have been a better choice re:printing press wonders.
Did anyone go to the Tea Party rally at the State House today? I drove by, and it looked like mostly older white folks, some with patriotic hats and shirts and such. Most carrying lawn chairs. Reminded of a fourth of July picnic. I’m not much for the Tea Party, but seeing the folks made me wish I’d stopped and just enjoyed the atmosphere (that part of it, anyways).
Kudos to Tony Bartelme of the Charleston Post & Courier, who was one of the 3 Pulitzer finalists in Feature Writing, for this series on a Charleston doctor working in Tanzania.
On the other hand, Goodluck Jonathan is a cool name.
SusanG – Word has it that those who would have attended were actually at work instead… unlike many of the participants of other rally’s held on those same steps.
Hmmm — there was almost no one at the other rally, so I guess I can assume that they were working even harder than the Tea Party crowd?
What other rally, the one lead by students?
Here’s a story concerning a long forgotten event in American history: The invasion of Iraq. These kinds of stories won’t make headlines but it’s important to put this information out there so we won’t ever forget how terrible our own government can be.
Memos show oil motive in Iraq war Paola Totaro
April 20, 2011
LONDON: Government ministers discussed plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves in the months before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, documents have revealed.
The secret papers, obtained by an oil campaigner and published by The Independent, are minutes of meetings between senior oil executives and Labour cabinet members, and highlight for the first time the hollow nature of Western governments’ public denials of national self-interest in the decision to invade Iraq.
There was a moveon.org rally near there at about the same time, I think protesting their feeling that Bank of America and other corporations aren’t paying their taxes. But rereading what you said, I think you were refering to some other rally at another time? Dunno — the reference was too vague for me — what was the other rally (for people who don’t work)?
It sounds like both of these rallies were poorly advertised. Besides who sets up a rally to be held on a Monday morning and expects people to show up. The only people who can attend are the people who aren’t or refuse to work, the retired, and the media who are paid to cover the event.
I was talking about the rally a few weeks ago where students from USC were protesting the Darla Moore removal from the USC Board of Trustees. It appears about 25 people showed up (200 if you believe WIS or The State’s numbers).
FYI, all, my good buddy Jeff Miller up in DC shares James Fallows’ take on the S&P news.
I think Fallows is saying it’s not “sewious.”
I have no idea who is right. I THINK I know that DeMint is playing with fire threatening to block lifting the debt limit, but I don’t know which S&P would regard as worse — continuing to lift the ceiling, or NOT, and banging our heads against it. Maybe it’s in a story I haven’t read. But then, as Fallows says, what does S&P really know?
And Steven, I don’t know about 200… MAYBE, if you counted the media people. But look at the picture. Looks closer to 100. There were a few people in the shade of the trees out of the frame, and a few to the right blocked by that big ol’ mass of granite, but 200 seems a slight stretch…
Never thought about the fact that there never are any rallies in the evening that I know of. It would seem like a rally just about the time of the 5 or 6 o’clock news would be a good idea. I wonder if there are some rules about when one can hold these events that are forcing them to be during the day?
Want to know who was at the Tea Party rally? NOTSCGOP strikes again. Warning: this video will destroy whatever hope you may have left for the future of SC and the USA.