March 18, 2008
March 17, 2008
Daily Kos Writers’ “strike” Gets Ugly
Alex Koppelman, Slate, March 17, 2008
On Friday, a diarist at the liberal blogging landmark Daily Kos put up a new post calling for Hillary Clinton supporters to launch a writers’ “strike” at the site.
In the post, diarist “Alegre” wrote:
I’ve been posting at DailyKos for nearly 4 years now and started writing diaries in support of Hillary Clinton back in June of last year. Over the past few months I’ve noticed that things have become progressively more abusive toward my candidate and her supporters.
I’ve put up with the abuse and anger because I’ve always believed in what our on-line community has tried to accomplish in this world. No more. DailyKos is not the site it once was thanks to the abusive nature of certain members of our community.
I’ve decided to go on “strike” and will refrain from posting here as long as the administrators allow the more disruptive members of our community to trash Hillary Clinton and distort her record without any fear of consequence or retribution. I will not be posting at DailyKos effective immediately. I will not help drive up traffic or page-hits as long as my candidate — a good and fine DEMOCRAT — is attacked in such a horrid and sexist manner not only by other diarists, but by several of those posting to the front page.
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BartCop.com Volume 2127 – Stobbaple
BartCop.com Volume 2127 – Stobbaple
In Today’s Tequila Treehouse…
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Depression Imminent?  |
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Edwards likes Hillary? |
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Tracy Morgan on SNL |
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Obama and Rezko |
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Merit Badge for Ferraro |
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Hillary voted for war? |
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Obama is Toast |
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Gays vs terrorists |
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Hayden and Hilary |
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Enzyme Behind Cancer Identified – Grimgold
Click here: Enzyme behind cancer identified-Health/Sci-The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Enzyme_behind_cancer_identified/articleshow/2870397.cms
Enzyme behind cancer identified
LONDON: Scientists have discovered a key part of the mechanism that makes cancer cells so dangerous, a breakthrough which they claim could enable them to stop tumour growth in its tracks.
The scientists, led by researchers from the Harvard Medical School, have identified an enzyme which enables cancer cells to consume the huge quantities of glucose they need to fuel uncontrolled growth.
Though the key enzyme, known as pyruvate kinase, comes in two forms, the researchers found that only one — the PKM2 form — enables cancer cells to consume glucose at an accelerated rate.
“Because PKM2 is found in all of the cancer cells that we have examined, because it is not found in most normal adult tissues, and because it is critical for tumour formation, this form of pyruvate kinase is a possible target for cancer therapy,” according to lead researcher Prof Lewis Cantley.
In their experiment on rodents, when they forced cancer cells to switch to other form of pyruvate kinase in the laboratory by knocking out production of PKM2, their growth was curbed.
Subsequently, when the cells were injected into the laboratory mice, they were much less able to produce tumours, the researchers reported in the Nature journal.
Paul Krugman: The B Word
Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 17, 2008
Last week, Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary, and John Lipsky, a top official at the International Monetary Fund, both suggested that public funds might be needed to rescue the U.S. financial system. Mr. Lipsky insisted that he wasn’t talking about a bailout. But he was.
It’s true that Henry Paulson, the current Treasury secretary, still says that any proposal to use taxpayers’ money to help resolve the crisis is a “non-starter.” But that’s about as credible as all of his previous pronouncements on the financial situation.
So here’s the question we really should be asking: When the feds do bail out the financial system, what will they do to ensure that they aren’t also bailing out the people who got us into this mess?
Let’s talk about why a bailout is inevitable.
Between 2002 and 2007, false beliefs in the private sector — the belief that home prices only go up, that financial innovation had made risk go away, that a triple-A rating really meant that an investment was safe — led to an epidemic of bad lending. Meanwhile, false beliefs in the political arena — the belief of Alan Greenspan and his friends in the Bush administration that the market is always right and regulation always a bad thing — led Washington to ignore the warning signs.
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Bush kills off financial sector and economy, vows to leave nothing left of America
It just get worse. Since the moment George W. Bush step foot in the White House the United States has gone straight to hell. Everywhere you look pieces of what have made this country the great country it has been since our independence are falling and smashing to pieces. Now another piece, our vaunted financial system is about to shatter.
Bush’s policies in every single area important to the Federal Government have been absolute shit. Bush has trashed everything from our once untouchable prestige in the world, to the environment, to education, to civil liberties, to a long and bloody illegal war. Unfortunately he apparently wasn’t done fucking up the country. Now our financial system seems to be teetering on the edge of collapse not just a mortgage crisis. Bush’s icing on the cake.
In today’s New York Times, columnist and respected economist Paul Krugman, speculates that this is just the beginning. Krugman seems to believe that the government will have to do a full scale bailout of the financial system much like they did in the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and the crash of the 1930s. That means billions of our tax dollars to bail out the system. Example. Friday the Federal Reserve bailed out financial biggie Bear Stearns and today allowed JP Morgan and Company to by Bear for $2 a share. Nice. While the fat bastards Bush made rich by taking a blind eye to the financial services industry get away with it and stay rich, the regular people take the beating.
So there you have it. One more colossal fuck up by George W. Bush. I wonder how all those folks out there that voted for Bush because they felt he would be more fun to have a beer with feel about him now. Might be tough to feel good about having a beer with the guy when you living in your fucking car because you lost your job and your house was repossessed.