720P:  Rich Karlgaard, Forbes.com, re the financial crisis, the bear market, the joblessness, the global recession and "Turning Around America - A Modest Proposal," recovery program, "The wealth of American households is down about $20 trillion from 18 months ago;" re the car bailout and the failure to halt the filibuster, re the TARP and Detroit, re the Blago distraction, the Bernard Madoff distraction.  

735P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC "Kudlow and Company," re the Senate filibuster an the strict limis urged by Bob Corker, Tennessee (R), re the Dick Cheney mention of Herbert Hoover if the bailout does not apss, re the White House considering TARP for Detroit; re the peculiar melodrama in Chicago.  U.A.W. Chief and Senator Gain From Face-Off.

750P: Professional Roundtable with Natasha Korecki, Chicago Sun-Times,  Margaret Hoover, FNC, and John Fund, Wall Street Journal; re the Chicago Way scandal in the Blagsosphere, re the untouchability of Patrick Fitzgerald, re the test of the Obama transition team (above Blago and Obama at the governors's conference in November), re Rahm Emanuel "death threats," John Kass: 'Where's Rahm?'   and Tribune exclusive: Emanuel talked with office; re the Jesse Jackson Junior admission he is Candidate 5 and the JJJ denial he sought to bribe Blago.   Jackson allies held Blagojevich fundraiser 

Capone (Robert DeNiro): "I'm gonna tell you something. Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with with him. Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand? Now, I have done nothing to harm these people but they are angered with me, so what do they do, doctor up some income tax, for which they have no case. To speak to me like me, no, to harass a peaceful man. I pray to god if I ever had a grievance I'd have a little more self respect. One more thing, you have an all out prize fight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. And that's how you know who won."  From David Mamet's screenplay for Brian De Palma's  "The Untouchables."

805P:  Continued re the ongoing Jackson risk, re the ongoing Emanuel risk, re the prospect of Illinois Attny General Lisa Madigan maneuvering the Illinois Superme Court to dismiss Blago, re the Obama obstacle course ahead, re Al Franken catches up and Norm Coleman in hot water?   In Serbia, disbelief, sympathy for Blagojevich. 

820P: Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the China slowdown and the massive migrant worker dislocation, re the Taiwan prosecution of ex-President Shu-bian, re the collapse of the Austrailian currenc, re the crisis in East Asia markets.

835: Financial Professionals, with John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Simon Constable,Dow Jones, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Jim McTague, Barron's, re the car bailout in the House and the car wreck in the Senate, re the GOP filibuster, re the GOP blames the UAW (below Ron Gettelfinger UAW chief), re the Cheney  "Herbert Hoover" remark.   More panic for Monday morning: Citadel Halts Withdrawals.  Ecuador Will Default on Foreign Debt.  

850P: Continued, re the Bernard Madoff scandal and the greatest Ponzi scheme ever engineered, the missing $50 billion from the best country clubs in Florida and Long Island Many Red Flags in Case, re the Marc Dreier alleged bunko scheme and the missing $100 million, re the question asked, is capitalism for crooks and the jobless?   Lawyer Accused of $100 Million Swindle;  Letter from the research firm Aksia to its clients on Madoff Securities (pdf)  How Madoff Made Folks Look Dumb. 

905P: Dan Henninger, Wall Street Journal, re the Hank Paulson-led bailout of Christmas, re Santa "too big to fail," Satire: Is Christmas Too Big to Fail?  re the TARP and the complete abuse of capitalism, re the "Chicago Way" defense and the slow deflation of the Obama team, re Blago is everybody's Christmas sticking stuffer: Governor tells ministers he'll be 'vindicated' 

920P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major Jewish Organizations, the Durban II UN racist regime; re Rahm Emanuel at the center of the Obama/Blago exposure/ re the Bush administration offer nucler energy to UAE and is the Gulf to be all proliferation?

935P: Eric Maddox, author, with David Seay,  "Mission: Black List #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein As Told By the Soldier Who Pasterminded His Capture," re the relentless and cunning detective work that put together the wiring diagram of Saddam's bodyguard cadre in order to lead closer and closer to where he was hising outside Tikrit; re the exotic and logical nature of Arab names, Son Father Grandfather Tribe Region, that allowed the searchers to cross-reference, re the madness of Saddam.  U.S. Troops May Stay in Iraqi Cities.

955P: Exeunt with Aaron Klein, re are their illicit visits by American officials to Hamas in Gaza?

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705P PT: Scott Horton, TheDailyBeast.com, re a tale of two US Attorneys: Michael Garcia departing the Southern District of New York for a plumb plush job on Wall Street after a tenure that saw few high profile victories, most notably the disgraced and removel but not prosecution of Eliot Spitzer --  and Patrick Fitzgerald, Northern District Illinois, a reputed workaholic and John Law, now an update of Eliot Ness, prosecuting Tony Rezko during the presidential campaign and  now prosecuting Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich during the Obama transition (below Blago with 5th CD and new Obama CoS Rahm Emanuel), re the lasagna mold urban legend, re the Chicago Way meets an Untouchable.

720P: Van Jones, author, "The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems," re blue-collar employment that has been upgraded, re the Obama Administration ambition to create Green Corps jobs, re the prospect of carbon tax, or cap-and-trade, re the financial crisis and the environment.

735P:  Professional Roundtable on Afghanistan with Ann Marlowe, (just returned from theater), Forbes.com, Kerry Patton, (DOD Human Terrain Systems, Regional Command East, just returned from theater) Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal, Larry Johnson, No Quarter and State; re the decision by David Petraeus to recommend a surge of 20-30,000 combat soldiers to Afghansitan in 2009 to overwhelm the Taliban; re the attacks on NATO supply lines from Pakistan; re the continuing friendly fire episodes.  U.K.'s Brown Visits Afghanistan.

750P: Continued re Afghanistan: Marines killed by boy with bomb in a wheelbarrow

805P: Professional roundtable with Monica Crowley, McLoughlin Group,  Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, John Avlon, RealClearPolitics.com, re the Chicago Way and the paralysis of the Obama transition, re the hasty review of contacts with Blago and Harris, re the Jackson, Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett problems, re the ongoing pursuit of Rahm Emanuel and the "death threats" allegation, Tribune exclusive: Emanuel talked with office; re the complete breakdown of normalcy, continuity, transparency, gravity and confidence in the Obama transition. Jackson may not be in clear with fedsEntrepreneurs seek profit from Blagojevich scandal

Capone (Robert DeNiro): A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiams... What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Teamwork... Looks, throws, catches, hustles.Part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field... what is he? You follow me? No one. Sunny day, the stands are full of fans. What does he have to say? I'm goin' out there for myself. But... I get nowhere unless the team wins. 
Hoods: Team! 
[Capone beats one of the men to death with a baseball bat] From David Mamet's screenplay for Brian DePalma's 1987 "The Untouchables." 

Blagojevich may decide on his future by MondayFrom Blagobusted.com: Gov. Blagojevich will decide early next week -- perhaps as early as Monday -- whether he should resign, a source close to the governor told the Chicago Sun-Times.

820P: Continued re:  Reverends meet with Blagojevich; Political Wisdom: Conservatives Are Gleeful; Cheney: It's 'Herbert Hoover' time  Could a Kennedy fill Obama's Senate seat?

835P:  Nathan Koppel, Wall Street Journal, re the arrest and investigation of the prominent Wall Street lawyer Marc Dreier, re the missing $100 million, re the loudly voiced fear at the close of the week, after the Bernard Madoff revelations and the missing $50 billion, that everyone is crooked and that the super rich are super weird: Dreier on Brink After Founder's Arrest; Lawyer Accused of $100 Million Swindle; Dreier Faces More Allegations.

850P: Bob Zimmerman, author "Universe in a Mirror," re the surprising falling out between the NASA leadership with Mike Griffin  and the Obama transition team, re the headlines and fallout, re the cost overruns for Mars LAB (right) now delayed until 2011, re the discovery of not only Co2 in the atmosphere of the new Exo at 63 light years but also water vapor and weather, re the sunspot reports. 

905P:  Jeffry Imm, Anti-Jihad League of America, re What is Sharia Finance?, re AIG now promotes a Sharia package throughout the United States, "On December 1, 2008, AIG announced that it was "introducing a Takaful Homeowners Policy, the first installment in Lexington Takaful Solutions, a series of Shari'ah-compliant (Takaful) product offerings in the U.S. The newly announced Takaful products are compliant with key Islamic finance tenets and based on the concept of mutual insurance." Note that AIG indicates that such Sharia insurance products are the "first installment" in a series of Sharia products."

920P: Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re the Detroit bailout and the failure of the car companiers to make the UAW case, re the GM ordered shut down of 20 plants in January, re the severe cutbacks in production at Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Daimler as well as at the Big Three, re the radical reduction in gasoline consumption, re Is this the End of the New Car?"  Global Auto Contraction Ahead.  Deal Journal: Meet GM's Bankruptcy Advisers.

935P: Karl Jacoby, author, "Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History," the Camp Grant Massacre of April 30, 1871, and the historical frame of four centuries that created the paradox of the cultures of the American West, re the impossibility of one version of American history, re the aftermath of the massacre.  The many incomplete stories of a war crime from at least four major points of view, the Spanish/Mexican, the rival O'Odham peoples, the Euro-American settlers of Arizona Territory, the Apache who were hunted like devils and slaughtered like vultures.  

950P: Exeunt re scale of the financial crisis is now matched by the scale of the fear of worse ahead, re the blending of the Marc Dreier and Bernard Madoff scandals, the widespread reports of malfeasance at the financial centers, the Blagojevich abuse and cynicism.  Re the warnings of 1934.  Also re Billy of LA: Do Zoos Shorten Elephant Life Spans? 

David Mamet:  "I am from Chicago, and, so, having been disillusioned with politics at an early age I do not become involved. The only reason I vote is because they pay me."  (Below, Friday 12 December, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, now a leading name for the Senate seat once Blago is removed from office and is replaced by Lt. Governor Pat Quinn, at her press conference announcing a petition to the Illinois Supreme Court to remove Blago.)

Ness (Kevin Costner): Never stop, never stop fighting till the fight is done. 
Capone: What'd you say? What're you saying? 
Ness: I said, "Never stop fighting till the fight is done." 
Capone: What? 
Ness: You heard me, Capone. It's over. 
Capone: [sneering] Get out, you're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge. 
Ness: Here endeth the lesson.  From David Mamet's screenplay for Brian DePalma's 1987 "The Untouchables."