REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons

SUNDAY

Quote of the Day
September 26, 2010

'China is doing moon shots. Yes, that's plural. When I
say "moon shots" I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-
year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at
least four going now: one is building a network of
ultramodern airports; another is building a web of
high-speed trains connecting major cities; a third is
in bioscience, where the Beijing Genomics Institute
this year ordered 128 DNA sequencers - from America -
giving China the largest number in the world in one
institute to launch its own stem cell/genetic
engineering industry; and, finally, Beijing just
announced that it was providing $15 billion in seed
money for the country's leading auto and battery
companies to create an electric car industry, starting
in 20 pilot cities. In essence, China Inc. just named
its dream team of 16-state-owned enterprises to move
China off oil and into the next industrial growth
engine: electric cars.

'Not to worry. America today also has its own
multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing
moon shot: fixing Afghanistan.'

Columnist Thomas L. Friedman
'Their Moon Shot and Ours'
New York Times
September 26, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/2vwzumq

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2bmdtd7
What We See
Jeff Stahler

MONDAY

Quote of the Day
September 27, 2010

'Bismillah Khan, the police chief in the Zhari
District, confirmedthat the combat operation there
began on Saturday, but he declined to give further
details. Some of the heaviest fighting has been in
Zhari, where troops have been told to avoid contact
with local people because of widespread hostility
toward foreign forces there. '

'American and Afghan Troops
Begin Combat for Kandahar'
New York Times
September 27, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/2ex8vxa

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2cnozuk
Goi9ng Boldly ...
Stuart Carlson

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day
September 28, 2010

'We are starting to wonder whether Congressional
Democrats lack the courage of their convictions, or
simply lack convictions.'

Editorial
New York Times
September 28, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/2bs38ve

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2dg2qcq
John & Mitch
Pat Oliphant

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day
September 29, 2010

'I was on Hardball Tuesday afternoon (with Talking
Points Memo's Josh Marshall) talking about Vice
President Joe Biden admonishing the progressive base to
"stop whining."  Even I'm getting tired of talking
about it -- Democrats really don't need this right now
-- and I told Chris Matthews I felt like I was part of
a family feud. I happen to love Joe Biden, but I don't
enjoy Uncle Joe telling me to stop whining. I also said
I didn't understand the politics behind blaming the
base, and Matthews asked if I thought maybe the White
House was scapegoating progressives, setting us up to
take the blame in the event of a big Democratic loss in
November. I answered maybe, because I really couldn't
think of a good political reason to be insulting the
base five weeks before the election.

'I don't honestly believe that's what the White House
is doing. But before I move on, I just want to make one
important point: Progressive reservations about the
Obama administration's accomplishments are not merely a
matter of ideology or nit-picking. I firmly believe
that if the programs Democrats have pushed through are
too weak - if healthcare reform, financial reform and
the stimulus don't do what they were intended to do --
Democrats will pay at the polls, ordinary people will
suffer more, and corporations will continue to have
free rein in our economy.'

Columnist Joan Walsh
Salon.com
September 29, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/25nppgy

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/29eu5pc
'Sledge'
Stuart Carlson

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day
September 30, 2010

'Operations can be moved globally and capital can be
accessed globally.'

Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive
of Goldman Sachs, warning that
the bank could shift its operations
around the world if regulatory
crackdown on the industry
becomes too tough in certain
jurisdictions.

Financial Times
September 30, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/35652dv

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/23od57b
Another Quarter
Ed Stein

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day
October 1, 2010

'The Billionaires Boys Club is a discussion of how
we're in a new era of the [billionaire] foundations and
their relation to education. We have never in the
history of the United States had foundations with the
wealth of the Gates Foundation and some of the other
billionaire foundations - the Walton Family Foundation,
The Broad Foundation. And these three foundations -
Gates, Broad and Walton - are committed now to charter
schools and to evaluating teachers by test scores. And
that's now the policy of the U.S. Department of
Education. We have never seen anything like this, where
foundations had the ambition to direct national
educational policy, and in fact are succeeding."

Educator Diane Ravitch, author of
The Death and Life of the Great
American School System, to
Democracy Now! Quoted by Shamus Cooke
'Billionaires Unite! (Against
Public Education and Teachers)'
LA Progressive
September 30, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/285vxc7

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2e22m5z
Education Reform
Rob Rogers - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day
October 2, 2010

'We will see in the next two years the real cost of
there not being a second round of stimulus.We will
see the economy slow down at a very high economic
cost.'

Nobel Prize-winning economist
Joseph Stiglitz calling for
another round of federal
stimulus dollars to spur
the economy

National Center for Business Journalism
October 1, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/24oevxm

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/2bqxk24
A Capitol Tour
Toim Toles - Washington Post

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