In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t been writing much recently, partially because I’m a little burnt out on politics, and partially because I’ve decided to take some time to clean house. That is, literally, clean my house.
I’m not a very tidy person, and my obsessive attention to blogging and politics has taken its toll over the past year. When my home office grew too disgusting even for me, I picked up and moved into the dining room. When the dining room table (and floor and chairs) became too stuffed with papers, hand scribbled notes, unopened mail and other detritus, my daughter and I started eating in the kitchen.
And then there are the dust bunnies… dust bunnies the size of real bunnies, which I could swear, in recent weeks, have started to animate, and perhaps, plot against me. Between the dog and the cat, the fur they shed and the dirt they track in, not to mention the come-by-honestly perpetual mess machine that is my daughter, keeping my floors clean is a Sisyphean task under normal circumstances, and after an election year of neglect, the underside of the bed and the couch and other pieces of furniture had started to resemble a strange, alien landscape, where but for the absence of surface water, new lifeforms might arise, and eventually conquer our world.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect my drafty old 1912 craftsman ever to be truly clean—at least, not to ex-wife standards—but I’d like to be able to invite guests over again without being embarassed, or risking an emergency call to Child Protective Services. I don’t mind the mess so much, but I’m not proud of the dirt, and I can’t really get to the dirt without first cleaning up the mess. So it’s gonna take some time.
That said, in addition to getting my house in order, I’m also taking some time to get my house in order, in the metaphorical sense, both financially and otherwise. One way or the other, expect some big changes here at HA. Hopefully, good changes.
But in the meanwhile, don’t be surprised by occasional spurts of light posting.
Goldy–
Perhaps Larry Langford, Black Democrat Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama can help you clean house!
Larry Paul Langford is the Black Democratic mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama. He previously served on the Jefferson County, Alabama Commission, including a stint as commission president. He also acted as mayor of Fairfield, Alabama and served one term on the Birmingham City Council.
Langford is largely responsible and best known for raising money and generating public interest and support for Visionland Theme Park (now known as Alabama Adventure Theme Park), located near Bessemer. The park was built largely by bond issues backed by a consortium of municipalities in the western part of the county, as well as the city of Birmingham and the county government. The park later declared bankruptcy, and was sold to Southland Entertainment Group for just over $5 million at auction.
In 2007 Langford was investigated by the SEC on corruption charges. In 2008 a lawsuit was filed against him for illegally accepting $156,000 in cash and benefits.
On December 1, 2008, Langford was arrested by the FBI on a 101 count indictment alleging conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns in connection with a long-running bribery scheme. He is currently free on bail.
What happened to Paul Andrews?
Mr. C @1: And the fact that Langford is black – which you seem to think so important that you mentioned it twice – has what to do with anything?
@1 “On December 1, 2008, Langford was arrested by the FBI on a 101 count indictment alleging conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns in connection with a long-running bribery scheme. He is currently free on bail.”
How refreshing after all the hundreds of lily-white Republican pedos and pervs who’ve been busted. But you don’t care about that, do you?
http://www.republicanoffenders.com/Pedophiles.html
“And then there are the dust bunnies… dust bunnies the size of real bunnies, which I could swear, in recent weeks, have started to animate, and perhaps, plot against me.”
Tell me you didn’t let Roger Rabbit move in with you.
Leave bunnies out of this! We had nothing to do with your messy house! The DOG is responsible!!
WaMu Announces Layoffs
The new owners of Washington Mutual plan to keep all of the bank’s branches, but 80% of the 4,300 Seattle headquarters jobs will be lost. 3,400 jobs will be phased out by the end of next year, of whom 1,500 will be laid off over the next 60 days, and the remaining 1,900 phased out during the transition.
@7, Silly rabbit, there’s nothin’ wrong with the economy. You just hate America.
More on #7.
I’m saddened that we have lost some of our regional businesses like WaMu, Safeco, the Bon. I know over the coming decades small companies we have not heard of yet, will have grown up to be a regional or international powerhouses, like microsoft and amazon and starbucks, but right now, it feels like we have lost something local, something vital.
In a network-news interview set to air this evening, George W. Bush claims that his greatest regrets are “bad intelligence” about WMD in Iraq and his own “unpreparedness” for war.
What the FUCK? What’s next…”The Devil made me do it”, or is he going to claim he was eating Twinkies?
@8 Yeah, the economy is peachy! We’ve been in recession since Dec. 2007 and the Dow is down 500 points today. But as feral fauna living off the land, I’ll somehow make it through this.
Yep, the DJIA is down 623 points, with fifteen minutes to go before closing. It seems like it’s bouncing back and forth in the mid 8,000’s level, depending upon the news of the day.
And now that the election’s over (except in Alaska, Minnesota, and Georgia), documents confirm that it was the Bush administration kowtowing to private industry and refusing to exercise any oversight over the lending industry which caused the current financial crisis. Not CRA, a 1970’s housing program, or the Clinton administration housing policies, as the wingnuts insisted.
Source: Bush Administration Ignored Clear Warnings:
Under pressure from banking industry, U.S. government eased lending rules
The house cleaning I’m looking forward to begins January 20th.
Of course, Bush seems entirely clueless as he talks about the economy, as if it were another hurricane or earthquake, and Act of God beyond human control:
Source: Bush: `I’m sorry’ economic crisis is occurring
Why wasn’t he, and his Republican cohorts who were cheering his “hands-off” approach to the markets, “safegaurding the system” while they had an opportunity to avoid this collapse?
My wife went into a small shop in Mill Creek that she enjoys. She was suprised to learn that they were going out of business by the end of the month. They aren’t even waiting to see how the holiday sales figures come in – even the most optomistic projections show that there is no way it can be enough to recover the losses they’ve incurred over the past few months. And they usually get over 60% of their revenue in the ramp-up to Christmas.
Boy, this is gonna make it a little bit harder for the wingnuts to blame this recession on Obama… It having starting 14 months before Obama even takes office.
Not that this reality will stop them, and if that don’t stick, I am certain the will try to blame it on Bill Clinton.
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Yet, I’m guessing Rush Limbaugh is still referring to the Obama Recession.
@17 Nope, this is the Bush Depression.
Not all BIAW members are pleased with the BIAW’s politics.
http://www.jeffcohomebuilders......pt2008.pdf
16 Oh, remember, according to Grover Norquist, the whole unravelling of the economy was caused by the Democrats’ gains in Congress two years ago, and the resulting panic about taxes going up in 2012.
Man, these people must have some really good drugs.
Today’s closing DJIA numbers:
a loss of 679.95 points, closing at 8,149.09.
I know all the money for polls has been used up. But I have to wonder: how many Republicans would still have voted for Bush and a Republican Congress if they knew the economy would be so screwed up by them in the process?
I’m guessing around 20% of the electorate, which is about the number that still think that Bush is doing a good job.
Also Geov—
You KLOWNS made a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE deal that Obama was the 1st African-American President.
Seems like it is only politically correct to point out the race as BLACK if it’s good news.
Somehow it transforms into racism if the crook is black.
That’s my point Geov………thanks for teein’ it up for me!
Langford of Birmingham and Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit were both Black, Crooked Mayors of major US cities.
Report the facts…let the people judge.
Seems like an epidemic going on!
15. rhp6033 spews:
It is OK to call Obama the 1st African-American Democrat PRESIDENT>>>..
But it’s NOT OK to call Kilpatrick and Langford African-American Democrat CRIMINALS!
Gimmee a break………
They are black and used it for their own profiteering! Bottom-line.
Remarkable! It seems that Republican pedophiles and pervs are all white men. Hmm.
http://www.republicanoffenders.com/Pedophiles.html
By golly, it sure seems like there’s a epidemic of white Republican pedophiles these days.
Yeah, they’re white, Cynical. All of them. Think about it and report back.
I understand that Mr. Cynical is white and a Republican. Hmm, all pedophiles are white Republicans. You’d better explain yourself, Cynical. Yes, explain yourself before we jump to conclusions.
Hmm, it’s also true that all goatfuckers are white Republicans. Cynical? He’s white and a Republican, of course.
29 Goats? Doesn’t Cynical live in Montana, where men are men and sheep are…..uh, sheep?
WOW! The wheels have really flown off of Mr. C’s wagon of racism and hatred!
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Montana: Where men are men and sheep are scared!
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Lemme see, Senator Larry Craig, Congressman Mark Foley, slimy cocksuckers (literally). I think it be be fair to believe that you to are white and slimy cocksucker, Cyniclown.
@12 rhp: Yes – this is totally predictable that the President of the party against regulations and in bed with the banks and corporations ignored warnings and failed to stop the subprime crisis.
Yet ignorant right wingnuts will still go on their merry way and blame democrats. How many times did President dumbass lie to us that the fundamentals of the economy were good.
In 1992 it was the economy, stupid.
In 2008 it was the stupid (republican) economy.
Bush – the gift that keps giving, or in the case of my 401K, the gift that keeps taking away.
@26: Over generalization, racist remarks and pathetically stupid logic – you just won the trifecta for wingnutism!
31. Real American spews:
Racism & Hatred???
You are a real KLOWN.
You are saying we can only identify people as BLACK if they do good things….otherwise not??
Ridiculous.
And if you call BS on this nonsense, you are a racist??
Kool-Aid Drinkers!
We have 2 Black, Democrat Crooked Mayors of large US cities. Pointing that out is “racist” when you KLOWNS gloat over Obama as the first Black President??
Dangerous thinking.
BTW..Langford & Kilpatrick are crooked Black Democrat Mayors.
Look at their bios…They WERE proud of all of the above during the good times aka before they were caught red-handed (notice I avoided saying caught Black-handed…that would be racist, right?)
We have two white, perverted cocksuckers in Craig and Foley. Two white men who have used their positions (wide stance, not withstanding) to further their chase of the dangling cock. All the while denying their gayness and promoting the punishment of sexual predators. Hypocrisy at its finest. This, to remind everyone is Cyniclowns group and personal heroes.
Personally, taking money is waaaaaaaaaaaaay more acceptable. No hypocrisy involved. Just plain old stealing.
MLF–
Hey, I’m no fan of Craig or Foley.
Are you a fan of Eliot Spitzer and these 2 Black Mayors?? How about Congressman Jefferson with $90k in his freezer?
How about John Edwards???
if Craig wins in the Supreme corut – and I think he will – shoe tapping will legal in all states … he committed no crime at all … just fishing
by the way, I dare say, he is not the first hypocrite out there….
by god, he is gone, and now is the Congress really better? what a bunch of cowards
Tailor-made for Mr. Cynical and his ilk:
http://www.republicanoffenders.com/
Take you time, Goldy. You did good work and deserve a break.