Lickety-Split Links (101409, Morning)
Thanks to Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner for noting my late-September BizzyBlog/NewBusters post (”ACORN Question for Local Media: What in the World Are These People Really Doing?”) on Sunday. I also appreciate Maggie Thurber’s nice write-up.
It’s becoming pretty obvious that whatever ACORN’s people have really been doing is mostly not what they say they’ve been doing.
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I’d be surprised if the nation could be so lucky, but a just-fired 37-year ACORN executive in Louisiana said that ACORN national is “going out of business.”
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Useful reminder (HT Hot Air): “There are believed to be dozens of other Americans living in Cuba beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement. Most of them have been holed in Cuba for decades.” Any attempts at “normalization” of relations with Cuba, which I think is a bad idea anyway, should include extraditions of those involved.
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Here yesterday’s runner-up for howler of the day, from Reuters:
A key U.S. Senate committee endorsed a sweeping healthcare overhaul on Tuesday, gaining the support of an influential Republican and delivering President Barack Obama a victory on his top domestic priority.
Olympia Snowe is a lot of things. Her voter registration is presumably Republican. She can be said to be “influential” in some ways. But one thing she is not is influential as a Republican. When’s the last time anyone besides media elitists gave a rip about her take on Republican Party positions the Republican Party should hold, or the general party’s general direction of the party? Crickets chirp ….
The real howler is in the first sentence of an AP report by Laurie Kellman. Put your drink down first and go there (it’s OK; it’s the Breitbart link). Update: I expanded on Kellman’s nonsense in a NewsBusters post this morning.
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Canadians against ObamaCare — There are two especially interesting quotes in this well-done vid, which is part of a series at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy:
“Those who are in a position of influence, they usually don’t wait for services. They’ll deny it, but it’s true.”
“If the U.S. changes its medical system, where are Canadians like us going to go for surgery?”
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Gold was selling at $1069/troy oz, crude oil up to $75/barrel, Is this a trend or is this noise in a volatile market? When the price of gas goes up due to oil, you know that any economy recovery is going to disappear.
Comment by dscott — October 14, 2009 @ 11:11 am
DOW closed above 10,000, is this the first whiff of inflation? With Gold and Oil up based on the dollar devaluing, exports are probably increasing. Is this all really the result of the Fed pumping money and low interest rates? I don’t see how this is sustainable. You can’t pump money and keep rates low indefinitely, something has to give.
Comment by dscott — October 14, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
Talk about the DOW in terms of gold, not so good!
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/dow-10000-oh-wait-make-7537
Comment by dscott — October 15, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
#4, OK, but Dow 10000 some time ago still buys roughly the same market basket of goodies as Dow 10000 does now.
That said, the gold price is a harbinger of future inflation. That might (emphasis might – I know better than to crystal-ball it) suggest that anyone who wants to see their purchasing power stay the same should think about selling.
Comment by TBlumer — October 15, 2009 @ 1:43 pm