Clips: Tina Fey Stops By SNL To Play Sarah Palin

ClatieK
wrote on September 14 2008 @ 03:59 pm: [report]

Damn no-longer-available clip!

toyen
wrote on September 14 2008 @ 07:07 pm: [report]

SNL are nazis about trolling YouTube and taking down their material!!

misha
wrote on September 15 2008 @ 03:49 am: [report]

go to nbc.com and they have the clip there

depressed spencer
wrote on October 5 2008 @ 03:02 am: [report]

great clip of palin and clinton politics s is a joke we   lost oue home to subprime in 2005 we warned chickens come to roost please read this from web site : 
Since the US-led invasion four years ago, the fifth estate has covered Iraq and the war on terror from virtually every angle—the military, media, intelligence, politics—revealing aspects of the story that you didn’t find anywhere else. Now, as the White House warns about the latest threat in the region, this time from Iran, it’s worthwhile looking back to examine the deception, suspect intelligence, even lies, that convinced the world of the rightness of targeting Saddam Hussein.

The political decisions behind the invasion
The Lies That Led To War is drawn from these stories: In 2003’s The Forgotten People, the fifth estate examined the human rights arguments used to make a case for war. We looked at the sale of technology by the US to Iraq during the 1980’s despite the fact that this equipment could be, and was used eventually, in military operations by Saddam Hussein against Kurdish civilians. After the gassing of the Kurds in 1988, American business with Iraq actually increased.

In Act of Faith which aired that same year, the fifth estate examined how George Bush and Tony Blair struck a deal that would lead to the invasion of Iraq. It was a deal struck while UN diplomats worked to avert conflict in the weeks and months leading up to March 19, 2003.

In the widely acclaimed Conspiracy Theories and the Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney, which aired in 2003 and 2004 respectively, we looked at intelligence failures leading up to 9/11, Dick Cheney’s power within the White House and his Halliburton connections, as well as the links between the Bush family, the Saudi Royal family and the Bin Ladens.

Selling the war in Iraq
In 2005’s Sticks and Stones, we turned our attention to the American media and how they covered the ongoing war in Iraq, public dissent, as well as the increasingly hostile tone between left and right in American discourse.

Now, The Lies That Led To War provides context to the events of the previous six years, showing how political, diplomatic, media spin – which sometimes crossed the line into outright lies - have been used by the those in power to further their own agendas.

read the fifth estate on the web site

sad lady
wrote on October 5 2008 @ 03:18 am: [report]

lok for this on the web :
Bush Signs Federal Class Action Bill

President Bush, (with Tennessee’s Senator Bill Frist at his side), laughed as he signed the federal class action bill into law that rewards wealthy business supporters by changing the rules for class-action lawsuits. Denounced by editorials in papers throughout the country, including the Nashville,Tennessean, “Class Action ‘Reform’ is Consumer Safety Retreat”, the true objective of this law is to dilute the impact of strong state laws protecting consumers and the environment and to make it harder for Americans to win redress in court when they are harmed by egregious corporate behavior. Senator Frist believes the “number one agenda ” issue for the Congress is “tort reform.”
The consumer advocate group Public Citizen explains that the law so gleefully signed by President Bush is nothing more than a power grab that strips consumers of their rights to redress in the courts and gives a green light to corporate greed and deception:
“The U.S. Senate today has given banks, credit card companies, insurers, HMOs, drug manufacturers and other big corporations a green light to defraud and deceive consumers without fear of being held accountable. Passage of the class action legislation will mean that many class action lawsuits will not be heard in either state courts or federal courts. Innocent consumers who are victimized by predatory lending, car repossessions, fraudulent billing practices and other corporate abuses will be locked out of the courthouse
This action by a Republican-controlled Senate is a Washington power grab that takes power away from the states and renders most state consumer protection laws unenforceable by consumers. It’s a travesty that the Senate cares more about padding the profits of big corporations and protecting their ability to cheat consumers than about protecting the rights of the least powerful in our society.”
Seen as a significant “victory for the Bush Administration,” the new class action law is a serious loss of consumer and individual rights. The ABA has analyzed the nes law here.The law sharply limits the ability of people to file class-action lawsuits against companies.The measure prohibits state courts from hearing many kinds of cases they now consider, transferring them to federal courts. Experts say many cases will wind up not being brought because federal judges have been constrained by a series of legal precedents from considering large class actions that involve varying laws of different states. The legislation also makes it more difficult for class-action lawsuits to be settled by payments of coupons for goods and services instead of cash by the defendants.
The measure does not affect pending cases.The measure has been attacked by civil rights organizations, labor groups, consumer organizations, many state prosecutors and environmental groups, who say it would sharply curtail important cases and provide new protections for unscrupulous companies. Many federal and state judges and state lawmakers have also criticized the bill, saying it would strip states of an important role in judging such contests and could add a considerable number of cases to already burdened federal dockets. “This bill is one of the most unfair, anticonsumer proposals to come before the Senate in years,” said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the minority leader. “It slams the courthouse doors on a wide range of injured plaintiffs. It turns federalism upside down by preventing state courts from hearing state law claims. And it limits corporate accountability at a time of rampant corporate scandals.” Democrats cast all 26 dissenting votes in the Senate.
Some experts in civil procedure and class actions said they believed that the fight would now move to federal courts and that some federal judges might become more receptive to hearing such claims now that they know that their dismissal would mean that no one else would hear them. Class-action lawsuits rarely make it to trial but require considerable time because judges are called upon by lawyers from both sides to rule on a variety of pretrial motions. Prof. Arthur R. Miller of Harvard Law School, a longtime critic of the legislation who in previous years worked with organizations that tried to soften the measure, said that the legislation could lead to the balkanization of class-action litigation by encouraging plaintiffs’ lawyers to file smaller suits in different courts, rather than a single large nationwide action.“This will clearly have a dampening effect on class actions,” Professor Miller said. “But accomplished law firms will figure out how to work with it.” He also said that the vague language of the new legislation was certain to spawn a significant amount of new litigation over the law’s terms. “This is not neat and crisp like the Ten Commandments,” he said.

aal
wrote on October 5 2008 @ 03:32 am: [report]

NTIC CALLS ON CITIGROUP TO CONTINUE PREDATORY LENDING REFORMS

While celebrating the Citigroup’s decision to stop selling Single-Premium Credit Insurance, the National Training and Information Center and community groups believe that it is only the first step in a long line of predatory practices that need to be eliminated.

“Citigroup made its first right move since buying The Associates. Now it’s time to really show they are committed to cleaning up their loans by stopping the other predatory practices that cause thousands of people to lose their homes,” said Gale Cincotta, NTIC executive director.

NTIC has partnered up with the FTC and local organizations to stop predatory lending practices across the country. It will be holding a public hearing July 14 in Springfield, IL, with representatives of the FTC on the effects of these lending practices and to investigate specific predatory lenders. The hearing will also continue to focus on Citigroup as the largest predatory lender in the country.

NTIC began to focus on Citigroup when the conglomerate announced it would buy The Associates last fall. By acquiring The Associates, Citigroup expanded its sub prime predatory lending empire without expanding access to affordable prime rate loans.

Citigroup’s subsidiary, Citibank, makes prime-rate loans and offers other banking services, has offices in 10 states and Washington DC. Citifinancial, a sub prime subsidiary for Citigroup only makes high-interest loans and does not provide banking services. The combined ownership of The Associates and Citifinancial puts 2,450 high-interest lending offices in 48 states. Together, these sub prime lenders offer predatory loans that have lead to the foreclosure of thousands of homes and contributed to the devastation of communities across the country.

NTIC and its national network of neighborhood organizations, National People’s Action (NPA), presented Citigroup with four national predatory lending reforms and asked to meet with Citigroup’s Chairman of the Executive Committee, Robert Rubin, in a meeting with Citigroup officials last October. Citigroup broke off negotiations once it received regulatory approval to acquire The Associates.

NTIC is calling on Citigroup to prohibit predatory lending practices throughout the country; review and repair predatory loans made in the past by The Associates, Citifinancial, and other Citigroup sub prime subsidiaries; stop two-tiered and discriminatory lending practices by offering affordable, prime-rate loans through Citifinancial in all communities with the long-range goal of opening full-service branches in cities connected with NTIC affiliate organizations and to create a review board with NPA at local and national levels to monitor the agreement.

The National Training and Information Center is a Chicago-based non-profit that for nearly 30 years has served as a resource center providing training and research on issues of concern to grassroots or neighborhood groups.