Reshma's Lower East Side Community Conversation
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Power Shoe
Dress Code
Yahoo: Power Shoe: When Reshma Saujani, a candidate running in the New York Democratic primary, admitted to wearing a Kate Spade wedge to pound the pavement, the news inspired a stampede of searches..... Word of the must-have item caused a run on the shoes on Yahoo!: One-day lookups for "kate spade halle" spiked 625%..... Think of these kicks as pantsuits for the feet: They're practical, they wear well, and they look good.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Fears Of A Double Dip Recession Are Very Real
Image via WikipediaThe Huffington Post
Happy Days Are Not Here Again: Obama, China and the Coming Great Contraction: we have reached the twilight of the oil-industrial age .... nine interlinked planetary conditions and their boundaries, which include climate change, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss and other eco-indicators necessary for human survival and civilized development. Three of these boundaries have already been overstepped because of growing global reliance on fossil fuels, industrialized forms of agriculture, and overuse of natural resources. The world economy is fast approaching almost all of the other boundaries. ......environmentally-induced change is a far greater danger to Americans than any form of terrorism .... A combination of drought, warmer, drier weather, and warmer winters, has allowed the pine beetle to expand its range to higher elevations and devastate forests in Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Washington. ..... 2010 was the warmest year in recorded human history ...... If we don't move more rapidly towards a greener globalization, then we are in for both economic contraction and environmental disorder. ...... Nearly 75% of Americans tell pollsters that they believe the earth's temperature is warming and that human behavior is responsible. Solid majorities think the nation needs a fundamental overhaul of its energy policies and expect oil to be replaced as a major source of fuel with 25 years. Yet, our political system seems unable to act and our president unable to lead.....the Republicans do not have a viable national candidate or a message that is not simply negative and backward looking
Nouriel Roubini: Double-Dip Odds Now Greater Than 40%, GDP To Be 'Pathetically Lousy': there's hardly anything the Fed can do about it because they're "running out of policy bullets"
The banks might have paid out most of the bailout money, but they have not paid for lost economic activity. They can't. It's too big. The damage that was caused to the economy is still there.
When the meltdown started, noone seemed to have the slightest clue what was going on. The entire system was within hours of going bust. One bank collapsed first. One department within that one bank first collapsed. It was one unit within that one department. Just like we don't know about the first few seconds of the Big Bang, we don't know about how the meltdown really started. For all I know, it could have been an act of cyber terrorism, some bug let loose into that one unit of one department of one bank.
The financial system did have systemic malaise. And I personally think it started with the Iraq War. Bush spent a trillion dollars he did not have. That sent the wrong signals to the market. And the market started engaging in gimmicky capitalism. There is a direct relationship between the political act of trillion dollar wars, and the bad behavior on Wall Street.
Part of the systemic malaise was racism. Global microfinance could have absorbed excess capital. Global infrastructure could have absorbed excess capital. But instead the piles of excess money was pumped into real estate in America creating some major sleight of hand. Nefarious ways permeated the culture.
Global microfinance and global infrastructure both would easily have given annual 10% returns.
The banks were bailed out. They paid back the bailout money. And Wall Street reform has been carried out by Congress. But the stimulus bill that was supposed to take care of the rest of the economy did not do the task. It is because the stimulus bill had some fundamental flaws. There was this thinking that if only you paid people their unemployment benefits for a little bit longer, if you paid the salaries of the firefighters, teachers and police officers a little longer, then the economy would rebound on its own, and then we will have crossed the river.
But this was not like the 1992 recession. This was not a recession that happens about once a decade. This was one that happens about once every 70 years.
The stimulus needed to be about massive public works programs. What would be the Tennessee Valley Authority of today? Installing solar panels on a mass scale might be one such thing. The government needs to get down and dirty and retrain people for new jobs.
A second stimulus is going to be cheaper than a second dip.
Yes, Maloney Is A Crook
New York Daily News: "Silk Stocking" Slugfest: Carolyn Maloney Vs. Reshma Saujani: “It’s sort of a Karl Rove thing, where you attack the strengths (of political rivals). I think one of my strengths is that I’ve been independent and honest and right. She’s basically saying I’m a crook,”Maloney said.
Carolyn Maloney is a crook at four different levels.
Level 1: Maloney is a crook for standing by a crook. Charlie Rangel is the biggest crook in Washington DC. Harlem has been having an image problem without any help from Rangel for decades, and Rangel is not helping any, and Maloney is only adding fuel to the fire. (Charlie Rangel: An Unrepentent Motherfucker)
Level 2: Maloney is a crook for not seeing that Rangel's antics will cost the Dems the House in November. She is being disloyal to the party and its leader.
Level 3: Maloney is a crook for not agreeing to weekly TV debates. This woman lacks respect for democracy. That is considered crookish behavior in a democracy.
Level 4: She was holding fundraisers with Wall Street PACs at the same time she was working on Wall Street reform. Six or eight other House members who engaged in similar behavior are under investigation. The ethics committee will come around to Maloney too. It is not like Rangel got into trouble the same year he did not pay taxes. The law seems to take its sweet time.
In The News
New York Daily News: Incumbent Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Challenger Reshma Saujani Question Each Other's Mosque Support: The question for upper East Side Democrats is not whether their two congressional candidates support the Ground Zero mosque. It's how strongly they support it.
Albany Times Union: A.M. Roundup: Debates, Debates And More Debates
Our Town NY: Saujani To Hold “Community Conversations”
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City.com: Saujani To Hold “Community Conversations”
ABA Journal Daily News: Despite $80K In School Debt, Candidate Wears $300 Kate Spade ‘It’ Shoes
New York Daily News: "Silk Stocking" Slugfest: Carolyn Maloney Vs. Reshma Saujani: have yet to hold a debate. A radio debate is scheduled for Sept. 7, a week before the Sept. 14 primary election..... Saujani has repeatedly called for Rangel to resign because of the 13 ethics violations he’s been charged with by a bipartisan panel of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Maloney says a system is in place to try Rangel and he’s entitled to his due process......“Giving Charlie Rangel a kiss on the cheek and a $2,500 check at a time right now when people are so frustrated with the process indicates to me that she doesn’t have the same values that I have.” ..... Saujani, a lawyer and former counsel for hedge funds, said “ the power of incumbency is the reason why we’re in this mess in the first place,” and added, “You’ve got a bunch of people in Congress and a bunch of (other officials) who think that there’s a path, (that) being a professional politician is the way of getting into Congress. And I think that that’s why we don’t have really great ideas coming out of Washington. I think that’s what we need right now.” ...... Saujani said, “I think that Maloney ranks at the bottom of our New York delegation, and I’m saying that on the record. And I think Carolyn Maloney represents the problem. We have in Congress, I think, a lot of mediocre representatives.” ...... Saujani said that “Maloney “has been good enough” as a representative, but meant it as a negative, adding, “But 'good enough' isn’t good enough right now. We deserve excellent representation, this district deserves excellent representation.” ..... “It’s sort of a Karl Rove thing, where you attack the strengths (of political rivals). I think one of my strengths is that I’ve been independent and honest and right. She’s basically saying I’m a crook,”Maloney said...... Asked if she really thinks Maloney has questionable ethics, Saujani referred to fundraisers Maloney has held with financial investment firms while serving on the Congressional Committee on Financial Services and added, “I think she’s demonstrated questionable ethics by having those two fundraisers.” Maloney takes money from corporate PACs, while she doesn’t, Saujani noted.
Charlie Rangel: An Unrepentant Motherfucker
Image via WikipediaNew York Daily News: Forget The Obama Slam: Rep. Charles Rangel Is Now President's BFF: Two days after ripping President Obama ..... Democratic primary challenger Adam Clayton Powell 4th said voters should dump Rangel because of his rocky relationship with the President...... "We need to send someone to Washington to work with President Obama, not disrespect him, not get into a fight with him," Powell said at a candidates forum..... At a forum Monday, Rangel popped off over an Obama comment last month that the 80-year-old congressman should "end his career with dignity." ..... The President spoke after Rangel was slapped with ethics charges. "Frankly, he has not been around long enough to determine what my dignity is," Rangel said Monday...... "In the next few years, I will be more likely to protect his dignity." ...... He said Obama's remark had rankled because "I just thought dignity was an individual thing other people can't really describe."This guy is way past retirement age. He did announce he was retiring, did he not? Why did he backtrack?
The allegations against him are serious. They are real. If he has any loyalty to the party, he needs to get out of sight, out of mind, yesterday.
Charlie Rangel and others like him are the reason there is no democracy in China. This country should be moving in the direction of total campaign finance reform. Rangel and others like him instead are running in the other direction. This dude is no progressive.
This is a thoroughly corrupt human being. This guy is rotten to the core.
One commenter has said: "Unethical is not illegal, and as Mr. Rangel stated, everything that he had done was fully vetted by the sainted Mr. Morganthau, the distirict attorney."
I would know a thing or two about Rangel and Morganthau ganging up. Fuck these old bastards. They need to disappear already. One has gone, the other needs to as well. The fuck with these two old hags. When it comes to these two, I am pretty much color blind.
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This motherfucker will wear his senility like a medal all the way to his graveyard. Look the other way. Ignore this dude.
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New York Daily News: Rep. Charles Rangel Swats Back At President Obama In Candidates Forum
"Rangel may have lost his Chairmanship and possibly his mind, but his hubris is intact."
Dress Code
My current dress code is this all black stuff above but instead of a black shirt, I wear the red, white and blue Reshma 2010 shirt. The first thing to go out the window for me was the tie. Then out went the dress shirt. But I like the rest. And I like the color black.
I bought black pants and black Brazil and Argentina shirts for the World Cup. Made me look like an amateur.
The picture at the top is from the India Day Parade from 2009.
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New York Daily News (blog): Clinton On Sidelines In NY Cong Race: Democrats are quietly working to kill rumors that Secretary of State Clinton is “unofficially” backing Democrat Reshma Saujani in her longshot bid to unseat Rep. Carolyn Maloney.......The whispers that Hillary Clinton is secretly backing Saujani enraged party officials and even some folks close to Clinton..... The rumors hit a new high mark this past weekend when the New York Post wrote that “Hillary Clinton … gave her campaign an unofficial nod of approval.” Maloney was surprised to read that since she has long been loyal to Clinton, a source told The Mouth...... Saujani has had a past professional relationship with Clinton, working with her political action committee to raise money and turning down a job she was offered at the State Department..... Saujani and Clinton did meet to talk about the campaign at one point ..... Maloney, meanwhile, was warned early in the campaign not to cart out any past endorsements from Clinton, who backed her in her previous races, a source said. Maloney pulled down from her website one reference to a past Clinton endorsement in the springWhy would Hillary Clinton support Reshma Saujani? I could think of a few very good reasons.
One would be to say thank you. Reshma was the first scare Hillary 08 gave to Obama 08. Reshma is the reason Obama 08 nicknamed Hillary the Democrat from Punjab before a single vote had been cast. The second scare was the New Hampshire victory.
But it is my suspicion that the bigger reason is not about the past but the future. How would have an Indian felt in 1946? When independence was finally in sight? Hillary has dreamed of gender equality her entire life. And finally she sees it in plain sight.
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It also helps that they are friends.
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