Darryl Hall and John Oates at the Apollo:

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Maybe you won’t have to go broke this winter:
“People are panicking. They’re calling every other day, every day,” said Adams, owner of Adams Petroleum in Emsworth, a family business that’s been delivering heating oil for nearly 75 years.
“They ask me, ‘What should we do?’ I tell them, ‘My crystal ball is cloudy, I don’t know,’” [...]

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Put Republicans in charge and all kinds of economic progress start to happen:
More than $23.6 billion in California housing wealth will evaporate if real estate prices continue to decline and foreclosures on subprime home loans soar, according to a new congressional report that indicates the fallout from the national mortgage crisis is worsening.
In addition, over [...]

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I can’t remember whether Susie posted on this, but ever since I read it I have been haunted by the specter of plastic accumulation. There really doesn’t seem to be much chance of escaping it, from the hundreds of totaled plastic-based cars I saw in the yard where my beloved Saturn sat before going [...]

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From The Politico:
House Democratic leaders have begun privately surveying their members to determine their support for a criminal contempt resolution against White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers for shunning congressional subpoenas in the U.S. attorney investigation.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) said the contempt motion [...]

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Just in:
The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that Genarlow Wilson’s 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager is cruel and unusual, and ordered him released from prison.

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Thomas Paine:
All religions are in their nature kind and benign, and united with principles of morality. They could not have made proselytes at first by professing anything that was vicious, cruel, persecuting, or immoral. Like everything else, they had their beginning; and they proceeded by persuasion, exhortation, and example. How then is it that they [...]

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Booman with some very useful advice to the Congressional lovelorn. (”But what if they get mad at us?”)

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And the media begin? An Alternet interview with Krugman:
ROC: It sounds like you’re saying there’s a bias in the media. If you are, what is the bias?
PK: The media’s bias, a large part of it is in fact right-wing bias, because they are effectively part of the right wing. Fox News … there’s nothing like [...]

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Why the coverup?
Even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended her department’s oversight of private security contractors, new evidence surfaced Thursday that the U.S. sought to conceal details of Blackwater shootings of Iraqi civilians more than two years ago.
In one instance, internal e-mails show that State Department officials tried to deflect a 2005 Los Angeles [...]

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Steve Lopez gets it exactly right:
You knew it had to happen.
The moment firefighters began to get an edge on the fires, pundits, bloggers and other gasbags couldn’t wait to proclaim San Diego’s superiority over New Orleans in government response to disaster.
A writer on the conservative Red State website said the difference, of course, was firm [...]

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Well, Pelosi gets it right. The Democratic leadership made the changes in the S-CHIP bill that Republicans claimed kept them from supporting it, but scheduled the vote for yesterday while nine Republican members were touring the fire damage in California.
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) met [...]

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Today’s installment of “Lie Down With Dogs Rise Up With Fleas” features Rudy’s conservative guru William Simon, who makes sure the man who sells himself as the Republican centrist actually adheres to the far-right litmus tests.
How very brave of Sir Rudy!

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In today’s installment, the Washington Post talks about how very bad a strike on Iran would be for the oil markets and thus concludes it’s very unlikely:
Oil traders said that even if the chances of military conflict with Iran were small, the huge run-up in oil prices that would result encourages some speculators and investment [...]

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We’re almost there:
The speed at which mankind is using and abusing the Earth’s resources is putting humanity’s survival at risk, scientists have said.
The bleak assessment of the state of the environment globally was issued as an “urgent call for action” amid growing concerns of worldwide waste, neglect and governmental inertia.
Fundamental changes in political policy and [...]

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I just wanted to give you all an update on the Joseph family rebuilding fund in New Orleans:
Specifically, $10,570 have been raised via this online donations website to date. This is no small feat, and when I informed Kellie this afternoon she was very thankful to all of you! As I was pouring through the [...]

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No, this isn’t a joke.

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This photo by Ben Marcus is from the L.A. Weekly, and is captioned ‘Foam sprayed on Jeffrey Katzenberg’s house.’ Gee, I think I would have called it ‘The money shot.’ But then, I have an evil mind…

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Via Roxanne: What color are the holes in your parachute? A tale of a union member who gave birth to a very premature baby, and what happened with her job and health insurance.

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Don’t know if you’ve been following this, but the behavior of the military in this has been appalling. Truly, this is the most politicized administration ever.

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I’m always so shocked when journalists covering presidential campaigns actually write about substantive issues - you know, like the fact that Rudy’s foreign policy team is chockful o’batshit crazy neocons who really, really, REALLY want a war with Iran.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

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Natasha.

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Ready for Plan B?
The Bush administration plans to roll out an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds Force as a supporter of terrorism, according to senior administration officials.
The package, scheduled to [...]

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My astrologer friend April, who lives in San Diego, posted this lovely meditation on how disaster clarifies your life.

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They Might Be Giants:

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Hall & Oates:

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Yeah, but we were just kidding about that “democracy” thing:
The oil game in Iraq may be almost up. On September 29th, like a landlord serving notice, the government of Iraq announced that the next annual renewal of the United Nations Security Council mandate for a multinational force in Iraq — the only legal basis for [...]

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Medea Benjamin was arrested for holding up her fingers in a peace sign at the same hearing where Condi Rice was confronted. God bless Code Pink:

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Protester Desiree Farooz confronts Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a photograph taken today by Charles Dharapak of the Associated Press.
Rice was preparing to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee when she encountered Farooz inside the hearing room. Farooz had painted her hands red, apparently to symbolize her group’s claim that members of President [...]

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This just in:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House significantly edited testimony prepared for a Senate hearing on the impact of climate change on health, deleting key portions citing diseases that could flourish in a warmer climate, documents obtained by The Associated Press showed Wednesday.
The White House on Wednesday denied that it had ”watered down” the [...]

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