Play Bail!
Wow! That was close. And we were almost saved, too. I wonder what's happening inside those hallowed chambers of wisdom and humility.
Psst. C'mere. Still laboring under the delusion that this country operates on the principles of Democracy? Repeat after me: Owa... ta-shmah... kyam. Now repeat that faster and faster. I'll be right back.
So the "bailout"'s gonna pass eventually -- you wait and see -- and the country's worst economic nightmare since the Great Depression will have been avoided, like the narrow misses so often seen in low-brow blockbusters featuring meteors and asteroids and hemorrhoids streaking from the heavens on a trajectory to obliterate mankind who, using its vast stores of imagination, hope and just plain moxie, manage to stave off extinction.
You know, just like George Bush did with Iraq and now with the bailout.
And we did it without implementing any of those despised Russkie Socialist things like the WPA, AAA, FDIC, CCC and all those other acronyms that, while it grounded the economy and brought out the true spirit behind this country's greatness, would just befuddle the masses today. We did it with good old American capitalism! All it needed was a $700 billion dollar finger in the dike! Praise Money!
It's as if the American public needs desperately to kick its own ass. Clearly it feels guilty for having squandered its promise of freedom and Democracy by having been suckered into electing bullshitters who sold our hopes out to corporate interests in virtually every area of endeavor. Or maybe its decades of cracked puritanical ethics and repressed sexuality combined with our latent British proclivities that inevitably lead to the sublimation of our shame by bending over for a good old rogering courtesy of a pissed upperclassman: "I've been bad. Reeal bad...". And George Bush and his hand-wringing minions want this reaal bad, too. So you know it's gonna be quite a haul. Once again, Hosannah! Praise Money!.
This most recent parlour game's almost finished. Next stage: how about them voting machines?
Diebold's "Two-Minute Warning" timeout feature which kicks voters off if they don't decide who they want for Fearless Leader in the same time BushCo wants us to approve the bailout plan -- hurry up or die!!!!! -- is only one feature calculated to drive people away or generally futz with your vote to the point where it won't count.
From the decision not to use cameras in a district infamous for its voting irregularities to more and more hackable, tamperable machinery, to the overseeing of vote counts outsourced to the very companies that manufacture the electronic machines themselves, the apparatus is in place to provide yet another staged nail-biter of an outcome, courtesy of partisan produced machinery which drops and/or changes votes and steals elections.
And once again, with the scary and still not-completely-understandable electoral college hovering in the wings (can't wait for those Quadrennial College Explanation News Segments) the possibility for results which will confound rather than confirm looms.
Really, to understand the whole thing, to avoid the utter waste of time parsing the possible reasons why any of the attempts at governance under this administration have failed so miserably, so detrimentally (or to avoid the time wasted listening to pundits and experts on television blab until their CV's yellow and curl), just substitute the word "company" every time you hear "government" and it will all become clear. The dense thicket will fall away as though doused with Agent Orange and you will begin to fathom the whats and the whys of this 8 year scam. Use this like kids use to use "Winky Dink" back in the days before imagination became automated.
So, sit back, have fun, text each other or something else that requires no thought, no action and no involvement in the outside world. And I'll see you on the other side (heaven, hell, the astral plain, Mexico, Iceland).
PS -- and a shout out to Vice President Cheney for all his high profile leadership and courageous words of support during this perilous time.
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I'm waiting for the MSM to eschew current convention wisdom, CW, & admit that the melt down of 9/15/08 has made economic conditions in the USA & the world worse that the conditions related to the depression which started in 1929. We're in for a supersonic ride to new bottoms of the Dow & other measures of the economy daily. This situation will get a lot worse with or without a bail-out.
It's way past time for a re-think for CW.
These are exciting times as in the Chinese curse of old, "May you live in exciting times.".
Give me another double of Canadian Club & a Schweppes Bitter Lemon chaser, no ginger ale. I don't give a damn if it's before noon. It looks drunk outside, anyway.
I can't BELIEVE you actually mentioned 'Winky Dink'!!
Sixty, enlightened and unemployed and PROUD VOTER FOR OBAMA/BIDEN '08
All together NOW---BREATHE!!
Here we go again! THIS TIME the 'threat' looks real enough-Depression, bread and soup lines, high unemployment, no credit for cars, school loans, houses (oops! forgot that had already tanked), paychecks, new equipment.
Obama/Biden '08
Mr. Weber may be on to something I fear. I am aware that little or nothing has been done to fix proven and documented problems with electronic voting. And still there are plenty of the old-fasioned class and racisist based ploys used by republicans. Liberal America can't bring itself to accept that other Americans would stoop so low. They would. I always enjoy Mr. Weber's poetic descriptions of evil.
For all the yelling on all sides over this failed bailout, the only one who everyone on every side, without exception, despises is GW Bush.
He's unleashed such an incredible sh*t storm on this country and planet, that he has actually negative credibility.
If Bush really wanted for the bailout to pass, he should have come out numerous times in the past couple of weeks to say that everything was fine and that we didn't need any kind of intervention in the markets.
People would have freaked and all come together as never before. Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian, would all have worked tiogether on a workable intervention.
Hmmm, I wonder if you can actually get kicked out of skull and bones.
There is hope, people. My 70 year old mom told me she is voting for Obama because there is (quote) something wrong (unquote) with McCain. Mom is a devout Christian, so I ask if she knows Obama is rumored by rumormongers to be a muslim. She said so what if he is, we have freedom of religion in this country.
I love my mom :)
I love your mom too.
My dad on the other hand...
Casting a vote for Obama is asking a bit much from my dad, too, but at least he's abstaining. He abstained for the first time in 2004. He remembered all those comments from BushCo about how easy and fast Iraq would be and he kept tuning into Fox every day after the invasion looking for those WMD. It was sad how he kept believing until he couldn't deny it any longer. And he hates O'Reilly. He says a real man doesn't have to shriek like a girl to get his point across.
I love my mom too (she finally saw the light). Unfortunately, my dad is another story. But I forgive him, he had a mild stroke and hasn't been the same since. Kinda reminds me of McCain.
Not so sure a complete economic collapse can be avoided. Is it time for Canada to consider adding some new provinces, New England, the Upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest and California come to mind?
california can stand on its own, thank you very much.
wanna buy some food?
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California has been the number one food and agricultural producer in the United States for more than 50 consecutive years.
More than half the nation's fruit, nuts, and vegetables come from here.
California is the nation's number one dairy state.
California's leading commodity is milk and cream. Grapes are second.
California's leading export crop is almonds.
Nationally, products exclusively grown (99% or more) in California include almonds, artichokes, dates, figs, kiwifruit, olives, persimmons, pistachios, prunes, raisins, clovers, and walnuts.
From 70 to 80% of all ripe olives are grown in California.
California is the nation's leading producer of strawberries, averaging 1.4 billion pounds of strawberries or 83% of the country's total fresh and frozen strawberry production. Approximately 12% of the crop is exported to Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Japan primarily. The value of the California strawberry crop is approximately $700 million with related employment of more than 48,000 people.
California produces 25% of the nation's onions and 43% of the nation's green onions.
I agree that we can stand on our own in California. Actually, maybe if we cut off the rest of the country and declared the California Republic again we wouldn't have a net outflow of federal money (77 cents on the dollar back on our federal taxes) and have to keep supporting most of the rest of you. Why is it that the blue states carry the federal tax burden while the red states suck it up, and then whine about the taxes they do pay? At least if we can't be a republic again here in California, can we join Canada?
Missippi is covered, their number one cash crop is drugs.
And I love Missippi
"And we did it without implementing any of those despised Russkie Socialist things like the WPA, AAA, FDIC, CCC and all those other acronyms that, while it grounded the economy and brought out the true spirit behind this country's greatness, would just befuddle the masses today. We did it with good old American capitalism! All it needed was a $700 billion dollar finger in the dike! Praise Money!
Giving the federal government a 'legal' vested interest in a WHOLE lot of privately titled real estate in the form or mortgages seems like a twisted form of socialism to me. Not so much that they have it but what nefarious things they could do with it....give
But I'm not so sure about kicking our own ass, and public guilt. I don't think many Americans can look back far enough to recognize or remember or understand when or how many times they got suckered.
I'm amazed at how mundane the facts sound when reported on national TV. Crater doesn't begin to describe it.
And aren't we sorry now that we resisted George when he wanted us to put our future social security into the market?...
Love the sarcasm! Anything Bush wants will be bad for America, I can promise you that. Why, he could have used the $$ for implementing NSPD 51! Would we have been red-faced then!
We didn't know WHAT the $$ would be used for; there were so many loop holes, (written in by the Republicans) that effective oversight could never have happened.
Let the markets hit bottom. They are not our economy. Our economy has already been ruined by the last nearly 30 years of "supply-side" economics.
I sincerely hope this never passes.
Bush is never red-faced himself. Bush is THE CHEERLEADER MOUTHPIECE of republican corporate CORRUPTION.
Republicans are NOT STATESMEN.
Republicans are CORRUPT FRAT BRATS who specialize in dividing, not uniting with
anybody on anything! Republicans CANNOT GOVERN.
MCCain is leader of THE GOP GREEDY BUNCH OF OBSCENE republican GAMBLERS
that crashed the Economy of America.
NO MORE YEARS for corrupt Republican who act out like SPOILED FRAT-BRATS.
Enough is enough.
Republicans proved they can't govern and don't want to! they lie, cheat, steal, divide, war monger.
NO MORE YEARS TO REPUBLICAN LIARS.
Why Why Why are their no MSM outlets talking about voter tampering? Does anyone even know that their is a lawsuit filed in Ohio in reference to the 2004 election. The evidence is overwhelming and none of the networks seem to care.
Because the MSM is OWNED by corporations that will not benefit from such news-mongering. You can practically smell the voter anger. Tea Party, anyone? I predict a thorough route in favor of Obama, especially if he can provide leadership in getting a new "economic stabilization" (need to forget about anything remotely resembling "bail out") proposal pushed through. Stabilize home mortgages and you (ultimately) save the underpinnings of our economy, while not creating the biggest pig trough in the history of this nation.
"...there is a lawsuit filed in Ohio in reference to the 2004 election."
Here is a little something about that:
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As to the "Why are their no MSM outlets talking about voter tampering?"
Because the media are owned by the corporations who don't want you to know that they are hijacking your country.
There has to come a point where people just can't take it anymore. Your comments on the voting process are scary, and unfortunately true. It took a whole lot of cheating, disenfranchising, and fraudelent counts in 2000, along with a push from the Supreme Court, and Gore still managed to capture the popular vote. Then, in 2004 Kerry had it wrapped up, when all of a sudden Ohio got really strange. Now, we have someone intelligent, with charisma, who just might be able to lead us out of this mess, when, lo and behold, some has been "war hero" and his pet moose come charging in like they belong. Whatever conspiracies abound, let's hope there's enough real people left that will overwhelm the whole stinking bunch, even the diabolical Diebold's. There's a lot of us out here, we need to get our butts out there and vote this time. Maybe this time, good will triumph over greed , ignorance, and just plain rot.
anyone who voted for Bush needs to be branded with a big W on their forehead
and forever banned from the voting booth!
What bothers me most are not those millions who voted for W. The millions who, after 8 years of disaster, are still trying to defend their vote and holding on to the same failed politics by even considering or actually voting for JMC, they are the ones i am upset about!
Are they just plain stupid or simply ignorant?
Hey! That's my mom you're talkin bout!
Conversation with my mom:
Me: Mom, please just compare the last 8 years with the 8 before.
Mom: but his middle name is Hussein! We can't just leave Iraq!
Me: I hate you, Mom.
(I luv u mom)
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