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- GeorgesII0
- I read it. Good book. You can find it free online...TheBlueOne
- Here it is at the Gutenburg project:
http://gutenberg.net…
TheBlueOne - thanks TBO :)GeorgesII
- hallelujah0
"Given that we would never have had the odious George W. Bush in the White House in the first place if it wasn't for your blow jobs, Bill, it seems obvious that you owe it to the people of this country, and especially to the parents whose kids died in the Iraq War that Gore would never have started, and to all the parents whose kids would be killed in the WarFest that would be a McCain/Palin -- sorry, Palin/McCain administration -- to do everything in your power to get Barack Obama elected.
But that's not what you're doing, Bill, and it's not going unnoticed. We see your rage, Bill, it's too huge to hide. We see that -- as Chris Rock so brilliantly pointed out -- it pains you to even speak Obama's name. We see you petulantly rooting against him even as you go through the motions of doing the barest minimum on his behalf to avoid being blamed if he loses.
You're not fooling anyone, Bill. You've gotten so caught up in yesterday that you've stopped thinking about tomorrow. You have the power to influence millions of voters and you're spitefully sitting on it. Surely you've noticed what's going on in the country. Surely you're aware of what's at stake on November 4th. This is not a game that you can afford to take your ball and go home with if you don't get to play the position you want. An Obama loss will most certainly be part of your legacy.
There's still time to fix it. How about this for an October surprise? Bill Clinton gets on the road and spends every day until the election sincerely and wholeheartedly communicating the urgency of electing Obama. You're the greatest politician of your generation, Bill. Surely you can fake enthusiasm for a month.
Oh, and stop talking about how much you like Senator McCain. Have you forgotten the vile joke he told a decade ago at your wife's and daughter's expense? Let me remind you: "Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? She's the child of Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton." Are you saying, Bill, that you can forgive McCain for calling Chelsea "ugly" but you can't forgive Obama for defeating Hillary?
If Obama loses a close election -- one in which even one state where you could have made a difference goes for McCain because you sat home and pouted -- it will be on you. We will remember that you couldn't be bothered to rise above your petty resentments for something as trivial as saving your country from the enemies of everything you profess to believe in. We forgave you for Monica, Bill, but we won't forgive you for this."
- This is good. Where is it from?joeth
- column in Huffington posthallelujah
- ********0
when the swindlers get bailed out I suggest two things. One they walk from the White House to Capitol hill in a beggars parade and secondly, they have to go monthly to the local welfare office to pick up their bail-out cheques in person.
- like that scene in simpsons when everyone who'd ever been on the show laughed at the a-ha kidhallelujah
- I suggest we don't bail them out, and like in the olden days, they get hoisted on their own petards. What the hell is a petard anyway?TheBlueOne
- petard anyway? And is it painful to be hoisted upon?TheBlueOne
- petard is a ship board mortar I think and idiom fr, Shakespeare but w/o google its all I remember********
- http://en.wikipedia.…********
- TheBlueOne0
Disregard above, I meant:
- TheBlueOne0
Hmmm. Something else to stick inside your conspiracy tinfoil hatbox:
- hallelujah0
Krugman blog:
"Andrew Leonard has an interesting theory about what Paulson and Bernanke may be thinking — namely, that mortgage-related securities are wildly underpriced, and that the Treasury can create a market that will lead to major upward revaluations, and we’ll all live happily thereafter. I would quarrel with that theory — at least so far, the losses acknowledged by the financial system still fall short of the true, “hold-to-maturity” losses we can expect given the decline in housing prices; plus, does it really take $700 billion to create “price discovery”?But even before we get to substantive discussion of the theory, here’s the thing to notice: this isn’t what we know Paulson is thinking, it’s an attempt to infer, based on very few clues, what Paulson might be thinking. Why doesn’t he just tell us? The two striking things about the Paulson push since last Friday have been (1) demands for complete discretion, with zero accountability and (2) a complete refusal to explain the theory of the case — to explain why this thing is supposed to work, so that we can have an open discussion of whether he’s right.
The whole premise of the bailout push has been “We’re the grownups, we know what we’re doing, just trust us.” Sorry, but that’s how Colin Powell sold the Iraq war. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice ... you shouldn’t get fooled.
And that, by the way, is why Paulson’s whopper about oversight matters. On one hand, the secretary poses as the adult providing supervision, with no need to explain his decisions; on the other, caught with his hand in the cookie jar, he offers childish excuses.
No more taking this administration on faith — and Paulson’s performance over the last few days has made it clear that yes, he is a Bush administration official, with the trademark inability to take responsibility for his own actions. Explain what you’re doing and why — or get out of the way, and let Chris Dodd and Barney Frank write the plan."
- ********0
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…
The lobbying firm founded and co-owned by Rick Davis, the campaign manager for Sen. John McCain's White House bid, received payments from Freddie Mac in recent months, despite assertions by Davis earlier this week that the firm's work for the mortgage giant had ended three years ago.
An industry source told The Washington Post that Davis's firm, Davis Manafort, continued to receive monthly payments in the $15,000 range from Freddie Mac until very recently, confirming an ongoing financial relationship reported last night in several other publications.
The source said Davis Manafort was paid for being on retainer to Freddie Mac but did little actual work after early 2007.
Two unidentified sources told the newspaper Roll Call yesterday that Davis Manafort is still receiving payments from the mortgage giant, one of the financial institutions at the center of the nation's housing crisis. The New York Times reported last night that the payments stopped last month.
- TheBlueOne0
Well, I'm relieved now. Sarah Palin is meeting with Bono today to brush up on Foreign Affairs.
I wish I was kidding.
I am not.
http://afp.google.com/article/AL…
*buries head in hands
- I wonder if Bono will find her as idiotic as we do.DCDesigns
- TheBlueOne0
I'm on a Hemingway kick today.
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
- Ernest Hemingway
- hallelujah0
"Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: There are about 30 scams the Republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get Democratic voters off the rolls. These scams originate in the so-called Help America Vote Act, which was passed after the Florida debacle in the year 2000. It was originally suggested by Democrats and Republicans, but it was passed by a Republican Congress with a Republican senate and a Republican president. And instead of reforming what happened in Florida it basically institutionalized all the problems that happened in Florida. And institutionalized a series of impediments that make it very difficult for Democrats to register, for Democrats to vote and then for Democrats to have their votes counted.
One of these requirements under HAVA is called 'the perfect match,' and what that does is little known but it is devastating. A quarter of the voters in Colorado have just been removed from the rolls because of this--[and] just this one scam. And what it does is, they use a computer system to compare your registration application to all [your] other government records in the state. So they'll look at your Social Security records, your Motor Vehicle records, and any time you've had any interaction with the government, and if there is any information on your voter registration that is different than the information on another government record that they find, they remove you from the voting rolls.
For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr., I'd be removed from the rolls. If your initial is different, if you leave an initial out, if you leave a "Jr." out, if you leave a hyphen out in your name. And what they've done is a study in New York that said 80% of the errors are errors by state clerks taking down this information. And particularly [in] immigrant communities, [where] people tend to vote Democratic, people have namesŠspell Muhammad with an "o" instead of a "u"
Papantonio: Are the Democrats suing to stop this?
RFK, Jr.: No, the Democrats are doing nothing to stop it. In New Jersey, which is a swing state, 300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote. New Jersey is nice enough to actually notify them--most states will not even notify them. And New Jersey intends to send out 870,000 letters so that is three quarters of a million people off the voting rolls in a state that could decide this vote by 50,000 votes. And these are Democrats that are being pushed off the rolls.
Let me tell you about one of other scams people should know about. If you're a newly registered voter--and of course the Democrats have done these gigantic registration drives--12 million people on registration--if you're a new voter, you MUST include your license or some other state I.D. when you come to vote. What that means is that if you're a college kid--and college kids now, they're sending in absentee ballots, they're not going to the voting place, they do everything online or they do everything remotely. They don't dream of going to the precinct house voting on election day and waiting in a long line. So if they send in the absentee ballot, and they don't include a color copy of their [driver's] license, their vote is going to be thrown into a trash can. And none of these people know this, because you had to have to read the law in order to know it. There is no notification [of this requirement] when you fill out your registration form, so all of those 12 million people that the Democrats have registered--those ballots are going to be just thrown out.
Papantonio: And if Democrats won't talk about this, how the hell's anybody gonna know about it? I'm involved with this kind of thing every day--I didn't know that until you just told me. The media is not talking about it. How in the hell is somebody gonna find this out? It's just incredible.
RFK, Jr.: Hopefully--Obama is getting $66 million a month--hopefully somebody in the Democratic organization is going to pay some attention to this before Election Day."
- ********0
- no, i don't give a fuck either. but we are only allowed one thread and have to share.********
- no, i don't give a fuck either. but we are only allowed one thread and have to share.
- robotron3k0
another blazing speech by Rep. Katpour:
- There are women like this out there and they give us Sarah Palin? It's so shameful. Spread this video around.monkeyshine
- Mr. Wiener hahahahahahahahahaha...fooler2
- TheBlueOne0
At 3:37 the preacher (not an American citizen, mind you, and just back from driving witches out of possessed people in Africa) calls Palin to the stage and they lay hands on her and pray in the name of Jesus that she gets elected so she can do Jesus' work in government.
- Greedo0
http://www.armytimes.com/news/20…
Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.October surprise?
- mg330
http://www.johnmccain.com/mccain…
How can McCain and his droogs call the New York Times a "partisan paper of record," when Fox News is so utterly the exact same thing?
It pains me to watch Hannity & Colmes, because Sean Hannity is undoubtedly the worst of the right supporting journalists on television. I think calling him a journalist is a strech as well.
I watched it last night to see a particular story, and they never even talked about McCain. It was nothing but Obama bashing and mentioning Ayers at every breath: Obama is friends with terrorist William Ayers who sent bombs to blow up government buldings... Obama's political life began with meetings with Ayers...
Then, they had a kid and his dad on there, and the kid had been suspended from school for making and wearing a t-shirt (that obviously belonged to his fat dad because it was a giant XXL shirt - this kid was like 9 years old) that said "Obama loves terrorists" and the word Obama with a circle and slash over it.
And Hannity starts talking to the kid "so you did this because Obama is a friend with a terrorist who sent bombs to the US Government in the 60s ,and you realize that someone who is friends with terrorists should not be running for president?" (something like that)
Then, he offered to send the kid and his dad a box of "Stop Obama Express" t-shirts, hats, and bumper stickers, which hannity sells on his web site. This is on television??????? Oh, of course it is, it's Fox News.
Hannity is just pure trash. We all know that, but watch it every now and then to see just how spiteful and disgusting Hannity is. It's just deporable. O'Reilly is a saint next to this guy.
- tommyo0
Just got this email from Ron Paul...we're not buddies btw...I gave him $75 during his campaign though. I do love how he or whoever wrote this for him double spaces after a sentence. That's from old school type writer manners - took a while for me to break that habit too!
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Dear Friends,
Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.
The events of the past week are no exception.
The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress' throat is not just economically foolish. It is downright sinister. It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect. It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder. Two weeks ago, financial analyst Jim Rogers said the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made America more communist than China! "This is welfare for the rich," he said. "This is socialism for the rich. It's bailing out the financiers, the banks, the Wall Streeters."
That describes the current bailout package to a T. And we're being told it's unavoidable.
The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it. But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences - predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics - are being let off the hook. The Federal Reserve System is actually positioning itself as the savior, rather than the culprit, in this mess!
• The Treasury Secretary is authorized to purchase up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets at any one time. That means $700 billion is only the very beginning of what will hit us.
• Financial institutions are "designated as financial agents of the Government." This is the New Deal to end all New Deals.
• Then there's this: "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." Translation: the Secretary can buy up whatever junk debt he wants to, burden the American people with it, and be subject to no one in the process.
There goes your country.
Even some so-called free-market economists are calling all this "sadly necessary." Sad, yes. Necessary? Don't make me laugh.
Our one-party system is complicit in yet another crime against the American people. The two major party candidates for president themselves initially indicated their strong support for bailouts of this kind - another example of the big choice we're supposedly presented with this November: yes or yes. Now, with a backlash brewing, they're not quite sure what their views are. A sad display, really.
Although the present bailout package is almost certainly not the end of the political atrocities we'll witness in connection with the crisis, time is short. Congress may vote as soon as tomorrow. With a Rasmussen poll finding support for the bailout at an anemic seven percent, some members of Congress are afraid to vote for it. Call them! Let them hear from you! Tell them you will never vote for anyone who supports this atrocity.
The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability? Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for? Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care?
When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media?
Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.
In liberty,
Ron Paul
- haha wow...nm about the double spacing. Did QBN technologies reformat it? weird.tommyo
- Wait..your NOT friends with Ron Paul? Now I'm all sorts of confused. :)TheBlueOne
- Well I would sleep with him if that's what you're asking. wait..huh?tommyo
- tommyo0
Doing my civic duty. I just sent Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi an email. But before that I purchased, boxer-blew-it.com and pelosi-blew-it.com.
email:
Dear Mrs. Boxer,
I have been a California resident for over 20 of my 30 years. I was born in this state and if you vote for this bailout, I will see to it that your tenure as a Senator will die in this state. It's time that our government starts holding people accountable for their actions. I just purchased boxer-blew-it.com. I'm a graphic designer and boy can I do some fun things with photoshop.
With Love,
Tommy O'Connor- Truth to power.TheBlueOne
- if all else fails, photoshop bribery...robotron3k
- Zactly...I'm thinking fangs, photoshopped heads on humping dogs, animated gifs galore!tommyo
- TheBlueOne0
By the way, some of those people arrested BEFORE they even protested at the RNC convention are being charged with acts of terrorism ("Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism") under the MN State Law incorporation of the Patriot Act.
http://www.businessnorth.com/kuw…
http://www.nefac.net/en/node/242…
So I guess this is dead:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."Police say the group was preparing to "kidnap delegates and firebomb the convention" which I find highly unlikely. And to date, despite seizing computer, papers and all digital devices the police have not been able to prove any of the above allegations.
It gets my goat that these people were arrested before they even DID anything. Thoughtcrime indeed.
- TheBlueOne0
WTF? CNN Headline right now: "John McCain suspends campaigning to work on economy, requests postponing Friday debate; asks Obama do the same."
Yup. Yeah this is the guy I want in the White House. "Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Putin, I can't handle this crisis, can we have a Time Out and I'll get to you next week? What? My VP? No, she's not allowed to come out and play either...."
Fucking useless...
