6 October 2008 - Granite Grok

October 6, 2008

So, Obama and Ayers – just acquantances?

From the University of Chicago Chronicle (Nov 6., 1997)   Close-up on juvenile justiceAuthor, former offender among speakers By Jennifer VanascoNews Office Children who kill are called "super predators," "people with no conscience," "feral pre-social beings" — and "adults." William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, …

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Jeanne Shaheen: Off to Washington to help some old pals? GULP!

Given Jeanne Shaheen’s sordid past relationship with a financial institution that she granted special favors and pulled strings for while governor, why on Earth would we send her to Washington, DC given the current environment? Would she do for the big banks and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac like she did for Providian— whose subsequent …

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