Tuesday Afternoon Reading (Amusing Hillary Clinton Photo, 47 Links, July 20, 2010)

Same format as usual.  I am placing all the links in comments below.  They are in no particular order.

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Update on Jul 20, 2010 at 7:39 PM by DailyBail

Updated.  Now with 55 stories.

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[DailyBail]

A secret FBI test of a correctly made version of the Times Square bomb revealed that it "would have killed thousands of people" if it had been made to explode as terrorists had intended, law-enforcement sources told The Post yesterday.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/chilling_toll_of_times_sq_bomb_400MLFIYrBDELDqzmiq0EM

[DailyBail]

Is experimental well cap making disaster worse?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_20100616041036

[DailyBail]

BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center

http://www.americablog.com/2010/07/bp-photoshops-fake-photo-of-command.html

[DailyBail]

Obama calls on GOP to vote for jobless benefits, forget politics

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/109517-obama-calls-on-gop-to-put-election-aside-vote-for-unemployment-benefits

[DailyBail]

Elizabeth Warren might not have the votes to win confirmation as head of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) suggested Monday.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/109539-dodd-doubts-warrens-confirmability-for-new-consumer-protection-post

[DailyBail]

Sen. McCaskill in the middle of an Appropriations civil war on spending

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/109375-mccaskill-in-the-middle-of-civil-war-on-spending-levels

[DailyBail]

Big Heaping Praise: VP Biden Calls House Speaker Pelosi “The Most Powerful Person in American Politics”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/07/big-heaping-praise-vp-biden-calls-house-speaker-pelosi-the-most-powerful-person-in-american-politics.html#tp

[DailyBail]

Dems Start to Panic As Midterm Reality Sets In

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2004646,00.html#ixzz0uFd0bjSp

[DailyBail]

Spending showdown looms as Reid clears deck for energy reform bill

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/109451-spending-showdown-looms-as-reid-clears-deck-for-energy-reform

[DailyBail]

Why the silence from The Post on Black Panther Party story?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071604081_pf.html

[DailyBail]

Cheers, Worries Greet New Cap on Oil Well

Device Poses Threat of Leaks—and Prompts Questions About Why It Wasn't Used Earlier

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704229004575371333339830808.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories

[DailyBail]

NEW YORK—Goldman Sachs Group Inc., clobbered by turbulent markets and charges to settle the U.S. government's civil-fraud complaint, posted its lowest earnings since the peak of the financial crisis.

The investment bank reported that second-quarter profit slumped 82% from a year earlier, reflecting a pullback in risk-taking by clients worried about the global economy. Profit was also sideswiped by $1.15 billion in one-time charges to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission case and pay a British tax on bank bonuses.

For Goldman, the disappointing results top off a stunning chapter in the 141-year-old company's history.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575378820317667494.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_business

[DailyBail]

Immigrant deaths in Arizona desert soaring in July

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100717/D9H0G0LG1.html

[DailyBail]

http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_f090dbd2-59a4-11df-989f-001cc4c002e0.html

Gomp and jts...for you guys...felony with a golf cart...

Two former Oregon State University football players and one current team member are facing felony charges of unauthorized use of a vehicle - an OSU golf cart.

Lyle Moevao, 23, Brennan Olander, 22, and Keaton Kristick, 21, were arraigned Wednesday afternoon in Benton County Circuit Court, where they all entered pleas of not guilty. Corvallis attorney John Rich is representing all three men.

Moevao is a former starting quarterback for the Beavers; Kristick is a former linebacker. Olander, a senior, is a defensive tackle. The three are accused of stealing a golf cart belonging to the OSU athletic department.

The black and orange cart was reported stolen March 14. At 3:54 a.m. on March 18, Oregon State Police found the cart, damaged, in a parking spot for the handicapped in the 2800 block of Southwest Western Boulevard.

Witnesses said they saw a man driving the cart earlier, and he had flipped it over.

[DailyBail]

Kudlow: Just Because I Support The Gold Standard, Doesn't Mean I Think Obama Is A Muslim

http://www.businessinsider.com/kudlow-just-because-i-support-the-gold-standard-doesnt-mean-i-think-obama-is-a-muslim-2010-7#ixzz0uFfHY7pM

[DailyBail]

Inside Mexico's Drug War, Americans Allege Abuse

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704288204575362862267177490.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories#articleTabs%3Darticle

[DailyBail]

A former State Department analyst, a privileged great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell who became a spy for Cuba, defended his decades of work for Fidel Castro before being sentenced Friday to life in prison.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704913304575371322331546674.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_world

[DailyBail]

Through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has burst back into the political spotlight this month, while her family life has once again become part of the broader American conversation.

But it is Ms. Palin's groundwork on behalf of candidates across the country, along with her continued fund-raising abilities, that has Republican leaders and political strategists wondering whether she is gearing up for a presidential bid in 2012.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704229004575371470539071824.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_us

[DailyBail]

Rig's Final Hours Probed

Spill Investigators Focus on 20 'Anomalies' Aboard Doomed Deepwater Horizon

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704196404575375460908534140.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_US

[DailyBail]

For three months until last week, marijuana dealers had something they could only dream of before: the apparent stamp of approval of a federal agency.

On April 1, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office created a new trademark category: "Processed plant matter for medicinal purposes, namely medical marijuana." The patent office, part of the Department of Commerce, posted the new category on its website.

The patent-office change set off a land rush by pot dealers in the 14 states where laws permit medical-marijuana sales. Some staked claims on rights to long-used names like Maui Wowie and Chronic. Others applied to trademark business names such as Budtrader and Pot-N. Two companies applied to trademark psychoactive sodas named Keef Cola and Canna Cola.

"It looked like a positive step to me. We don't have many steps by the federal government legitimizing medical cannabis," said Steve DeAngelo, executive director of the Harborside Health Center medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif., who hired an intellectual-property lawyer to trademark his company name before the patent office created the new trademark category.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704682604575368783687129488.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_US

[DailyBail]

Cities Rent Police, Janitors to Save Cash

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704334604575339153865582376.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_US

[DailyBail]

Lost in Taxation

The IRS's vast new ObamaCare powers.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704518904575365223062942574.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

[DailyBail]

WASHINGTON—Democrats for the first time are acknowledging that Republicans could retake the Senate this November if everything falls into place for the GOP, less than two years after Democrats held a daunting 60-seat majority.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704875004575375122374132154.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

Solid interactive map...

[DailyBail]

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/07/19/july-2011-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-to-include-four-troops-one-damaged-field-medical-kit/

July 2011 “Withdrawal” From Afghanistan to Include Four Troops, One Damaged Field Medical Kit

[DailyBail]

Banks Break Law, Pay Small Fines, Go Back to Breaking Law

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/07/17/banks-break-law-pay-small-fines-go-back-to-breaking-law/

[DailyBail]

Roger Altman: Most Of The Business Community Sees Financial Reform As 'Relatively Harmless'

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/opinion/19altman.html?dbk

[DailyBail]

Oil spill media blackout UPDATE for Tampa, Florida: Gulf oil spill sea floor leak now confirmed

http://www.examiner.com/x-55371-Tampa-Gulf-Oil-Spill-Examiner~y2010m7d19-Florida-oil-spill-Update-Gulf-oil-spill-sea-floor-leak-now-confirmed

[DailyBail]

Cameron Raids Dormant U.K. Accounts as Minister Attacks Banks

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-18/cameron-raids-dormant-u-k-accounts-while-minister-attacks-rip-off-banks.html

[DailyBail]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/tea-party-to-hold-summit_n_650989.html

Tea Party To Hold Summit To Combat NAACP's Charges Of Racism

[DailyBail]

After Firestorm Over Racist Post, Mark Williams Demoted On Tea Party Websites

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/after-racist-post-firestorm-mark-williams-demoted-on-tea-party-websites.php

[DailyBail]

For you zara...

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For as long as there have been birthers, there have been politicians jumping on the birther bandwagon. And for as long as there have been politicians jumping on the birther bandwagon, there have been politicians who casually lean up against the birther bandwagon but run away before anyone sees them.

Here's TPM's roundup of politicians who have proven to be, for lack of a better term, birther-curious, before having to back things up a bit...

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/-heres-tpms-roundup-of.php

[DailyBail]

The core message from the NABE report is that the recovery the organization saw in April died in July. The data begs the question, when taken with other similar signs from other private sector sources, of whether the economy can expand at all without government intervention to help the unemployed, keep interest rates low, and foster job creation. Elections in November will increase the rhetoric about deficit spending as an enemy to the nation’s long-term financial health.

http://247wallst.com/2010/07/19/the-july-2010-nabe-industry-survey-what-recovery/#ixzz0uFt0Ngnh

[DailyBail]

Home builders' optimism falls to 15-month low

NAHB's economist affirms forecast calling for 10% sales growth in 2010

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-home-builders-index-falls-to-15-month-low-2010-07-19-10100

[DailyBail]

HAGATNA, Guam — Authorities in the U.S. territory of Guam have turned away a ship after thousands of spiders overflowed from its cargo.

The Guam Department of Agriculture said hundreds of large spiders and thousands of smaller ones were seen when stevedores began offloading insulation and beams for housing units from the ship, the M.V. Altavia.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/mv-altavia-spider-infeste_n_652152.html

[DailyBail]

ATHENS, Greece — A Greek journalist was gunned down in a pre-dawn attack outside his home Monday by suspected members of a Greek terrorist group that had vowed to target the media, police said.

At least two attackers fired 16 shots at 37-year-old Sokratis Giolias, killing him instantly after luring him from his home Athens' eastern neighborhood of Ilioupoli, reportedly by telling him his car was being stolen.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/sokratis-giolias-greek-jo_n_650979.html

[DailyBail]

Feds: Seepage near BP cap coming from another well

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill

[DailyBail]

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - After weathering the fear of federal prosecution and competition from drug cartels, California's medical marijuana growers see a new threat to their tenuous existence: the "Wal-Marting" of weed.

The Oakland City Council on Tuesday will look at licensing four production plants where pot would be grown, packaged and processed into items ranging from baked goods to body oil. Winning applicants would have to pay $211,000 in annual permit fees, carry $2 million worth of liability insurance and be prepared to devote up to 8 percent of gross sales to taxes.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100718/D9H1MFFG3.html

[DailyBail]

Delta Expects 65,000 Applicants... For 1,000 New Jobs

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-16/delta-air-lines-foresees-65-000-people-applying-for-1-000-jobs-across-u-s-.html

[DailyBail]

SEC Split Over Goldman Deal

Republican Disputed Move to Impose Big Fine While Diluting Charge; 3-2 Vote

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704229004575371601322076426.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_business

[DailyBail]

By LUCA DI LEO

After fending off most challenges to its independence and winning new powers to oversee big financial firms, the Federal Reserve has emerged from a bruising debate on the overhaul of U.S. financial rules as perhaps the pre-eminent regulator in the sector. But that could only bring it added blame if things go wrong again.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703722804575369072934590574.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories

[DailyBail]

What's Bloomington Got That We Don't Got?

http://www.statecollege.com/news/columns/whats-bloomington-got-that-we-dont-got-472893/

Nice, little story on the greatest college town in the u.s....also headquarters of the Daily Bail

[DailyBail]

Big bank results stoke growth concerns

U.S. economy may be adjusting to a life of lower leverage

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/big-bank-results-stoke-growth-concerns-2010-07-16

[DailyBail]

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- American International Group said Friday that it agreed to pay $725 million to settle a securities class-action lawsuit filed in the wake of a 2004 scandal.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/aig-to-pay-725-mln-in-class-action-settlement-2010-07-16

[DailyBail]

I Don't Know About You, But Working At Goldman Sachs Sounds Like A Harrowing, Existential Ordeal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/i-dont-know-about-you-but_n_652803.html

Worth the read...very funny and true...yves smith of naked capitalism weighs in...

[DailyBail]

True Lack of Deleveraging in the Housing Market

http://dailyreckoning.com/true-lack-of-deleveraging-in-the-housing-market/

[DailyBail]

Nation Demands Tax Dollars Only Be Wasted On Stuff That's Awesome

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-demands-tax-dollars-only-be-wasted-on-stuff,17704/

Decent satire from the Onion...

[DailyBail]

Parachuting donkey shocks Russian beachgoers

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100720/tts-russia-accident-animals-offbeat-509a08e.html

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEep5BrexT0

[S. Gompers]

"Gomp and jts...for you guys...felony with a golf cart..."

Those guys were rookies on a training wheel model.

[DailyBail]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/20/air-france-flight-attendant-theft

Air France flight attendant charged over 'mile-high' thefts

Suspect allegedly stole cash and credit cards from business class passengers during at least 26 flights

[DailyBail]

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea executed a former Cabinet official who was in charge of talks with South Korea, a news report said Tuesday, the latest reported death sentence for a North Korean official over policy failures.

Kwon Ho Ung – Pyongyang's chief delegate from 2004 to 2007 for high-level talks with the South's then liberal government – was executed by firing squad, Seoul's mass-circulation Dong-a Ilbo newspaper said, citing an unidentified source in Beijing knowledgeable about the North.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/kwon-ho-ung-north-korea-o_n_652610.html