Green Eagle

Amazing new material relating to Nazi motivations and attitudes has appeared at this website , which I happened across. It certainly provides every reason to think about many of our casual assumptions relating to World War II, and I think it is worth a look by everyone.

From Financial Times: “Finance is one of America’s great industries, and they’re destroying it,” said one banker at a firm that has accepted public money. “This happened out of haste and anger over AIG, but we’re not like AIG.” The banker added: “It’s like a McCarthy witch-hunt...This is the most profoundly anti- American thing I’ve ever seen.” The most profoundly anti-American thing he's ever seen. More profoundly anti American than, say attacking an innocent country and killing a couple of hundred thousand of its people, or keeping thousands of innocent people in jail for years without trials, or illegally spying on us, or thieving our wealth on behalf of rich bastards like you, buddy. Just wait. Another couple of years of this kind of attitude, and you are going to experience one of the most American things there is- prison.

From a comment on a Village Voice post: "Obama only "killed" if you are inclined to like him. To the rest of us, and there are many, he was his usual arrogant self, incapable of speaking off the cuff and full of empty platitudes. How soon until this fraud is exposed and put behind bars where he belongs? Want to know where his real heart is -- in the gutter.... The man's a monster. Posted by: Disgusted Democrat at March 20, 2009 4:49 AM" First of all, why do Republicans so frequently lie and pretend they are Democrats? Anyone with an IQ above 50 must realize what they are. Secondly......oh, never mind.

I'd like to flesh this line of thinking out some day, but it's occurred to me that companies that are too big for us to allow them to fail, are maybe too big for us to allow them to exist.

From an article by Jason Leopold, in The Public Record: "In a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing , former Halliburton unit KBR complained that it will be at a “competitive disadvantage” to win “large-scale” international contracts because it is being forced to comply with U.S. laws. Last month, KBR pleaded guilty to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and admitted that it paid $180 million in "consulting fees" to two agents for use in bribing Nigerian government officials to win a lucrative construction contract for the Bonny Island natural gas liquefaction plant while former Vice President Dick Cheney headed the corporation. KBR paid a $402 million fine as part of its plea deal." I am so surprised that a company headed by "former Vice President Dick Cheney" would find it inconvenient to comply with U.S. laws. He certainly never showed any inclination to not "comply" with U.S. laws when he was Vice President, rig...

Boy, this is just what we need to get us out of our problems.

From The Washington Post: Our Must-Win War The 'Minimalist' Path Is Wrong for Afghanistan By John McCain and Joseph Lieberman Okay, we've read enough of that one.