Some Thoughts For Your Morning

- Holy Joe Lieberman did his best to try and align himself with Republicans ( as always ) in claiming that "the system" somehow failed after the botched attempt for Shahzad to set off a car bomb. In truth, the only thing that failed was the car bomb. But while some will boast that Shahzad was not caught prior to him boarding the plane, it should be noted that he was captured before the plane took off. It was a close one, but "the system" worked - period.

- Michelle Malkin is already creating a proto-typical profile of Elena Kagan as her SCOTUS nomination will be announced within the next few hours. From my perspective, Malkin's words echo what her and many other reactionary conservatives had to say about Obama once he made it known he would run for President. The caveat to this is that I would like to do a little more digging into her alleged ties to Goldman Sachs. Considering that Malkin brings this up as a keystone to her thesis, I'm guessing that Kagan was nothing more than an ancillary character and her ties will be inflated to supporting-actor status.

- It's amazing how the selective nature of conservatives often leads them to do an say incredibly stupid things. In another example of how Liz Cheney is completely devoid of intellectual honesty and rule of law in America. If Shahzad had not been read his Miranda Rights, any information that he gave over to law enforcement officials could have been thrown out on a technicality. Way to go Liz.

- One of the hotter topics on conservative blogs this morning are comments made by Obama about how entertainment and information are being blurred in America. And while it can be rather easy to take these comments out of context, I would have liked to have heard him state that with more people fact-checking ( that would be progressives/liberals doing the bulk of that ) it's much easier to parse statements and pick out the disinformation from the truth. Even though that could likely be inferred from Obama's statement, it's just vague enough for conservatives to create, guess what, disinformation.

Without Merit

Check out this clip and then tell me where Limbaugh gets this "proof" that the Obama administration knew about pending litigation against Goldman Sachs.



This has always been a major issue with me - conservatives don't fact check.

But here's the other side to this issue. What is so troubling about the White House having a sponsored link when you key in the search terms "Goldman Sachs SEC"?

This is yet another example of Rush, and people like him, looking out for the interests of a corporation rather than the average American. The economic rape of this country was perpetrated by people like Goldman, so why shouldn't a bright light be pointed in their direction and information on how to reform these kinds of people be available. You remember that whole "transparency" thing that conservatives complained wasn't real? It's right there and Rush is whining about it.

Typical.

Cuil Vs. "The Google"

Here's a new piece of internet technology for John McCain to "be aware of".

Via Reuters:

Cuil Inc (pronounced "cool") is offering a new search service at www.cuil.com that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google, which boasts the largest online index.

The way it displays the "search results" is interesting. But, considering that I'm far from being as tech-savvy as I'd prefer to be, i'm not sure how this will top Google.