WOW IT'S GETTING NASTY OUT THERE
Click here.
<----( click on image to go to site. ) COUNTDOWN TO THE ELECTION
MORE TO SAY
THE MESS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - McSAME
BUSH'S BRAIN -- AN EMPTY CHAIR
LOOSE ENDS
HUFFINGTON POST HEADLINE
* - - - - - *
YOU NEED TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. Over the weekend, John McCain's top adviser announced their plan to stop engaging in a debate over the economy and "turn the page" to more direct, personal attacks on Barack Obama. In the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, they want to change the subject from the central question of this election. Perhaps because the policies McCain supported these past eight years and wants to continue are pretty hard to defend. But it's not just McCain's role in the current crisis that they're avoiding. The backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption that helped create the current crisis are looking more and more like the other major financial crisis of our time. During the savings and loan crisis of the late '80s and early '90s, McCain's political favors and aggressive support for deregulation put him at the center of the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan, one of the largest in the country. More than 23,000 investors lost their savings. Overall, the savings and loan crisis required the federal government to bail out the savings of hundreds of thousands of families and ultimately cost American taxpayers $124 billion. Tell your friends, family, and neighbors to check it out. <--- Click here to go to the site.* - - - - - * SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS:
GEE the republicans and right-wing are saying things like "She's a Super Star" when they talk about Sarah Palin. To them it's a good thing. Wasn't just a few weeks ago theses same people where MOCKING Barack Obama for the same thing. Man what a difference a day makes.
Biden wiped the floor with her. Facts trump bullshit folksiness. Don't let anyone tell you different.
McSAME is running "SLEAZIEST AND LEAST HONOURABLE CAMPAIGN" in history.* - - - - - * I've been supporting Al Franken for a long time and for most of that time he has been running behind. With that in mind I was happy to see this little post this weekend. U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken has moved into his first solid lead over incumbent Republican Norm Coleman, according to a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll. Coleman led Franken by four points in last month's Minnesota Poll. GOOD JOB AL. . . KEEP IT UP. * - - - - - * TODAYS BIG NUMBER: 54
* - - - - - *
STILL THINK THIS ISN'T A WALL STREET BAILOUT 1 OF 2
(CBS) On Friday Congress finally passed - and President Bush signed into law - a financial rescue package in which the taxpayers will buy up Wall Street's bad investments.
The numbers are staggering, but they don't begin to explain the greed and incompetence that created this mess. It began with a terrible bet that was magnified by reckless borrowing, complex securities, and a vast, unregulated shadow market worth nearly $60 trillion that hid the risks until it was too late to do anything about them. And as correspondent Steve Kroft reports, it's far from being over.Read the full article. <----( Click to read the full article here )
Click here to watch the video.
McSAME ON THE MEMBRANE
* *
VERY INTERESTING DISCUSSION PART 1 OF 5
When the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off an unexpected chain reaction that some experts warned could threaten the entire economy, the Bush Administration approached Congress with a three page plan: allow the Treasury to spend $700 billion to purchase the distressed mortgages causing banks so much pain.
Many members of Congress, and the public, balked at the idea of giving Paulson unchecked fiscal powers, but, responding to stern warnings of a financial meltdown, the House created a compromise bill around Paulson's plan, 110 pages long. Despite White House pressure and bi-partisan deal-making, the bill didn't pass. The Senate, which Constitutionally cannot originate appropriations bills, responded by pasting the plan into an existing appropriations bill and adding "sweeteners" — unrelated goodies designed to coax reluctant House members into voting for the bill. The Senate passed the bill, called the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008," and on Friday afternoon, the House followed suit, passing the bill 263 to 171, and President Bush signed it into law shortly afterwards. Georgetown University's legal and finance scholar, Emma Coleman Jordan, joins Bill Moyers to discuss how the bailout bill looks now and what it can and can't accomplish. * *BUSHED
Keith Olbermann has listed the various scandles in the Bush administration. Here are three more.
Iraqi media is next U.S. target. The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon has signed deals with private American contractors in Iraq for as much as $300 million to produce media content that "engage and inspire" the local populace to support the Iraqi government and endorse U.S. policies. Keith Olbermann explains in Bushed. * *WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
Lowry's debate review or soft core porn? Countdown's Keith Olbermann names the National Review's Rich Lowry Worst Person in the World on Friday for his gushing review of Sarah Palin's debate performance. * *DOGS RULE - YOU CAN SEE THE LOVE
THEY NEED YOUR HELP
*
*
CALL TOLL FREE 1-888-776-0111 and give what you can.
*
Click here to go to the ASPCA site.
PRETTY GOOD JOKES
FIGHT BETWEEN A CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE SAME TOWN
GREAT QUOTE
Age is like the newest version of a software - it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had. -- Carrie Latet
MY KIDS
My God I love dogs.
BTW, what good is a picnic table if you can't lay on it?
Posted by thebscorner at October 6, 2008 01:54 AM