Bloomberg News offers the following intro to a story on the upcoming Fed Reserve announcement:

Bernanke May Give Republican Lawmakers Bad Election-Year News
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may deliver his fellow Republicans a message they'd rather not hear when he gives Congress his monetary-policy report this week: The economy is slowing and inflation remains a risk.

Ahh, what part of reason, and of decency, is killed,

When such a monster they toil and toil to build.

For some reasons, Republicans are rarely bothered by their party's absurd claims of treason, sympathizing with terrorists, and the rest of the Rovian trash heap called politics in the 21st century.  When the absurd smears are directed at Democrats, that is.

It figures. It always does.

The escalating mayhem in the Middle East is actually making some folks about to have an orgasm....

Just the other day, if you've been keeping up, Frmr CIA person Valerie P Wilson and her hubby, Joe Wilson are now taking steps to file a civil suit against Darth Cheney, Turdblossom Rove and a host of John Does...

The U.S. has often taken China and other repressive regimes to task for using cheap/free slave labor or prison labor.  Right wing sites, such as NewsMax do so frequently.

Any guesses as to which other, closer-to-home country, has a very large and still growing prison labor industry?

I never had a lot of hope for John Boehner.  Turns out that "not a lot" was too much.

I love bits like this, really. Neat story with former Nixon White Slum counsel John Dean........

So Fox ballyhoos that Bob Novak says "No Bush Administration Effort to Discredit Joe Wilson.  That's a relief, 'cause that would have been one doozy of an example of dirty politics.  And since so much publicity has been focused on Wilson, Plame, Novak and the other players in the lengthy Fitzgerald investigation, Novak wouldn't say that without being pretty certain of his conclusion, right?  Right?

Things are likely to be quiet around WTW this week as both Six and I will be away most of the week.  I'll be back Thursday.

Wayne Madsen claimed way back in December of 2005 that the NSA had begun serious spying/eavesdropping before 9/11 ever occurred.  While I've never seen confirmation of Madsen's particular claim, there's a new allegation reported by Bloomberg (among others) that the NSA asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

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