ThinkFast: September 22, 2008
ThinkFast: September 22, 2008
Having spent 20 years and millions of dollars “loudly and bitterly attacking the liberal leanings of American campuses,” conservatives “have failed to make much of a dent in the way undergraduates are educated.” In a new strategy, they “are finding like-minded tenured professors and helping them establish academic beachheads for their ideas.”
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley “will transform themselves into bank holding companies subject to far greater regulation,” the Federal Reserve announced last night. The New York Times describes the change at the last big independent investment banks on Wall Street as “a move that fundamentally reshapes an era of high finance that defined the modern Gilded Age.”
$1,800,000: Amount Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign manager Rick Davis was paid as president of a lobbying company founded to defend Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from stricter regulations, over five years. “The value that he brought to the relationship was the closeness to Senator McCain and the possibility that Senator McCain was going to run for president again,” a former Fannie spokesman said.
In the midst of the current credit crisis, Americans are “cutting back on health care, a sector once thought to be invulnerable to recession.” Spending on doctor’s appointments and preventive tests is down while “the number of prescriptions filled in the U.S. fell 0.5% in the first quarter and a steeper 1.97% in the second,” compared with 2007 — the first negative quarters in the last decade.
On the trail today: Barack Obama will campaign in Green Bay, WI. Joe Biden will speak at a National Guard Association meeting in Baltimore. John McCain and Sarah Palin will hold a joint rally in Media, PA.
The trial of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) begins today, “marking the first time in more than 27 years that a sitting Senator will face a federal jury. Stevens was “indicted in July for failing to report gifts from an Alaska oil-services company.”
“Under pressure from the White House and the Pentagon,” the EPA is expected to rule that “it will not set a drinking-water safety standard for perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel that has been linked to thyroid problems” in pregnant women and children. The White House “heavily edited” a proposal that assumes the “maximum allowable” level is 15 times greater than what EPA had suggested in 2002.
“Congressional Democrats began to set their own terms on Sunday for a plan to rescue the nation’s financial institutions, including greater legislative oversight of the Treasury Department, more direct assistance for homeowners and limits on the pay of top executives whose firms seek help.”
Three years after the Defense Department set out to increase the number of foreign language specialists within its ranks, little progress has been made. Only “1.2 percent of the military receives a bonus paid to those who can speak languages judged to be of critical importance for the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as other areas of strategic concern.”
And finally: Politics took center stage last night’s Emmy awards ceremony. Co-host Howie Mandel began the night by noting that he didn’t have an opening monologue: “We are like on Sarah Palin’s bridge to nowhere, that’s where we are right now. The government can’t even bail us out of this.” Comedian Tommy Smothers, who won an honorary Emmy, dedicated his award to “all people who feel compelled to speak out.” Jon Stewart, who won an award for The Daily Show, said, “I really look forward to the next administration whoever it is. I have nothing to follow that up with.”
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End-Times Prophecies and More: How Electing Sarah Palin Endangers Your Life
If you watched Keith Olbermann on Friday, he had a story about Sarah Palin’s witch-hunting pastor, a man whose own website talks of taking over nations. It was an odd story. Not so scary, just weird. Olbermann picked up on the witch hunter aspect of Palin?s speech, but neglected to cover the most terrifying part of this particular speech. Olbermann?s guest addresses it, but it winds up being glossed over.
What is so terrifying? Palin?s reference to Revelations, the Prophecy, Alaksa?s role in the prophecy and especially the response from the pastor. This deserves much more attention. Much, much more!
Palin (not a surrogate, not a strategist, but Palin herself) said:
Anyone familiar with evangelical dogma should recognize some of the words Palin used in her speech (highlighted in bold above).
Between End-Tmes prophecies, witch-hunting bishops who bless Palin unconditionally – without knowing her personally, only her church, to her ignorance of what this nation was and was not founded upon, along with her desire to engage in more wars, including Russia, is this the person you want a heartbeat away from becoming the President of the United States of America?
End-Times Prophecies and More: How Electing Sarah Palin Endangers Your Life
Read this post and watch the videos (there are 11 videos in all). You have got to understand that Palin seeks the End Times. Palin’s pastors welcome Armageddon. It is all on video.
Please distribute this post far and wide. Palin is hardly the person we want to be literally a heartbeat away from becoming president of the United States of America and that heartbeat would be one 72 year old John McCain.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 amDue to a couple of requests from last week I’m working on a Spin Fast post–probs ready in half an hour.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 am> Having spent 20 years and millions of dollars
> “loudly and bitterly attacking the
> liberal leanings of American campuses,”
yeah, you know, teaching stuff like moral relativism and the idea than the earth is more than 6000 years old and that women actually WERN’T made from adams rib…
right wingers hate higher education because the more people think the more they turn away from their superstitious and xenophobic dogmas…
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 amPossibly the recent change in poll numbers for Obama is coming from:
One thought pushes fence-sitters to the left: Palin
ST. PETERSBURG — Five weeks ago, the St. Petersburg Times convened a group of Tampa Bay voters who were undecided about the presidential election. Their strong distrust of Barack Obama suggested it was a group ripe for John McCain to win over.
Not anymore. The group has swung dramatically, if unenthusiastically, toward Democrat Obama. Most of them this week cited the same reason: Sarah Palin.
Of the 11 undecided voters participating in the discussion one recent evening at the Times — four Republicans, five Democrats, and two registered to no party — only two Republican men applauded the selection of Palin.
Nobody had finalized a choice, but seven of the panelists said that McCain’s running mate selection had made them more likely to vote for Obama, and in several cases much more likely.
What they’re saying about Palin
“The one thing that frightens me more than anything else are the ideologues. We’ve seen too many.”
Donn Spegal, 80, St. Petersburg, Republican Air Force veteran
“I’m truly offended by Palin. You’re somebody’s mom and what are you going to do, say, ‘Excuse me, country, hold on?’ ”
Philinia Lehr, 37, Largo, Republican full-time mother
“That was almost insulting. Do they think we’re really stupid? … I’m definitely leaning toward the Democratic side now. Sarah Palin scares … me.” ”
Rhonda Laris, Temple Terrace, Democrat
“She is Dick Cheney with a dress on.”
Bill Chever, 56, St. Petersburg, Independent Air Force veteran
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article818181.ece
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 amWhat Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines
Marriott Hotel has now become a ghost house which was yesterday the most beautiful and prestigious hotels in the Islamabad. While the condemnation of the blasts and the deaths and the loss of property is going on from all the quarters, some intriguing news is also pouring in.
After the blast, mysteriously fire was started at the fourth and fifth floors. It was said that this fire was the result of gas pipeline burst running through the hotel. The million dollar question is that was the gas pipeline not running through the other floors? Why the fire broke out from the fourth and fifth flours? That is the question which perhaps holds the key to the mystery as why the hotel was targeted yesterday, in which more than 60 people died including many foreigners.
Though it would never get confirmed but the fire on the fifth and fourth floor of the hotel broke out because those floors were housing the mysterious steel boxes under the heavy guard of United States marines and no one including the Pakistani security forces and the security men of the hotel were allowed to go near with the them. These boxes were shifted inside the hotel when the Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.
It is said that one member of parliament Mumtaz Alam who belongs to the PPP, the ruling party was there eye witnessed the whole scene when the white truck of US embassy came to the gate of Marriot Hotel and US marines themselves unloaded the steel boxes from the trucks and shifted them to the fourth and fifth floors without passing through them the scanners at the entrance of the hotels. When the truck was there, all the entrance and the exit passage way to the hotels were closed.
And now this blast has occurred at the Marriott, while that mysterious activity was going on.
http://www.daily.pk/politics/politicalnews/7422-what-was-mysterious-activity-going-on-in-the-marriott-hotel-islamabad-by-united-states-marines.html
**Wow! I watched MSNBC’s coverage of this and for a long time the only video they had was one showing the fire on those two floors. I thought it was weord that the entire building wasn’t in flames after the blast. Would love to find out what was going on especially when we have black-ops going on in Pakistan.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 amYesterday, Yahoo posted a poll that said some Democrats (1/3rd?) are uncomfortable of Obama’s skin color and are unwilling to vote for him because of this issue.
WTF?
Is this poll biased (I’m sorry, I did not research it’s demographics and margin of error.)?
If not, I’d like to call out the third who may post here and ask:
How the hell does someones ethnicity effect your vote?
And why does skin color matter, at all?
Again, I hope this poll was skewed to make an issue out of nothing in hopes of tightening the race for network ratings.
But if not, I would really like the above question answered.
Thank you.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 am“She is Dick Cheney with a dress on.”
Bill Chever, 56, St. Petersburg, Independent Air Force veteran
AHHHHHHHHH!
MENTAL PURGE! MENTAL PURGE!
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 amPerhaps the difficulties Conservatives are having in installing Conservative philosophy on campuses is that their ideas are intellectually bankrupt and morally corrupt.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:26 am$1,800,000: Amount Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign manager Rick Davis was paid as president of a lobbying company founded to defend Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from stricter regulations, over five years. “The value that he brought to the relationship was the closeness to Senator McCain and the possibility that Senator McCain was going to run for president again,” a former Fannie spokesman said.
They paid Rick Davis to derail legislation that would have helped regulate the banking industry. Which means the government should get all the money back from the McCain Campaign Manager and give that to all the taxpayers that will now be footing the bill… That seems fair.. And people are voting for McCain for what reason????
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:29 amoooh, watch out barack…
Hard-Hitting McCain Ad Links Obama to Chicago Political ‘Machine’
FOXNews – 46 minutes ago
by FOXNews.com John McCain’s campaign released one of its hardest hitting ads in this election on Monday, aiming to ratchet up the guilt-by-association game by linking Barack Obama to convicted felon Tony Rezko.
what a su-prise…
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 amBarack Obama lambasts government over economic bailout
Birmingham Star – 33 minutes ago
By Anonymous, 09-21-08, 08:51 PM we should be rioting in the streets that this money is being essentially stolen from the American economy by bank and government who are threatening a collapse of the entire system if we don’t do as they say.
Democrats Begin to Set Own Bailout Terms New York Times
funny, a blogger’s comment (i’m guessing) makes the top copy…
and it’s TRUE!
and, keep after those dems.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 amWhy are there so many “low information” voters in this country? Why are young people, by and large, not interested in politics? Both can be answered by the fact that most High Schools no longer teach Civics classes. I’m hoping that President Obama changes that ASAP. We now, more than ever, need an educated voter. One who can see through the BS that Fox News spews daily.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 amHank Paulson came from Goldman-Sachs. Now he is to be the saviour of our nation? Once again, this looks like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 amAbout Rick Davis, the rest of that quote is what burns me:
Didn’t really do anything, screwed over the country and the taxpayers by working against critical regulation, but got paid $35,000 per month!! And these are the “patriots” who don’t want to pay taxes! Grr, argh.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 amSlow progress in language acquisition in the military is attributable in part to the ever greater share of defense spending going to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the huge drains represented by funds to contractors and other crony capitalists all of which take funds away from other areas. This, together with the low language skill set of many incoming recruits as standards are lowered to maintain recruitment levels all exacerbate standards of language performance.
Furthermore, once language skills are honed, if the language person doesn’t have a strong general educational background which would make them well-conversant in politics, sciences, finance, etc., one can’t expect them to understand and deal with such concepts in second language.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:36 amRe: the thread about professors making beachheads around the Republican meme….I’d say that in the areas of banking, finance, and business administration, the current “models” of economic standards are being rewritten as we type. Clearly, the “greed model” of the free market system is horse$hit as we all know now.
I doubt it.
Is there an Econ department ANYWHERE, major or minor school, that actually teaches against the prevailing orthodoxy?
Neo-lib econ RULZ. St. Milton, the Dead Friedman still controls the discourse.
Econ profs always piss me off, with their absolute certainties about such ephemeral horse-shit…
I can tell ya everything you need to know about ‘economics’ in about 5 sentences. MBA-For-Dummies:
1) Buy Low. Sell High.
2) Three things matter in bidness: Location, location, location.
3) Never give a sucker an even break.
4) There’s an ass for every seat (used car version of “There’s a Fool Born Every Minute)
5) Phuck your dead grandmother if it gets you an edge/dollar.
There you got it. Forget Harvard, Wharton, etc. Sheer bullshit. With those five principles, you know EVERYTHING any MBA does…
I doubt it. There are people paying econ schools now to teach Atlas Shrugged, for fark’s sake.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:36 am> Palin’s pastor welcome Armageddon.
Yep. Bad trip. Also, the neocons are currently filling Palins mostly empty head with their almost equally deluded idealogy.
My guess is the cancer will take McCain before the end of the decade. My guess is, he knows it too.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 amAnd then, if they “won”, this lady will be “running” the show. Not really running, mind you, but she will become a puppet for a multitude of much more maliscious minds.
Keep up the hard work folks every little bit you do counts.., honestly, we’re in serious, serious, trouble as a species if this troglydette is able to take control of the reigns of this country..
$1,800,000: Amount Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign manager Rick Davis was paid as president of a lobbying company founded to defend Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from stricter regulations, over five years.
Obama needs to make this into an ad ASAP. He’s got the lead on the economy and he needs to pound on it daily.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 amMorgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs abandon investment bank status
Bizjournals.com – 38 minutes ago
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have received Federal Reserve approval to become bank holding companies. The last two giant investment banks on Wall Street concluded that they would have more flexibility and opportunity if they submitted to …
TOPWRAP 4-Investment banks convert as bailout debate begins guardian.co.uk
convert? just like that?
does that conversion come with absolution?
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 amDRxJ Says:
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Yesterday, Yahoo posted a poll that said some Democrats (1/3rd?) are uncomfortable of Obama’s skin color and are unwilling to vote for him because of this issue.
WTF?
Is this poll biased (I’m sorry, I did not research it’s demographics and margin of error.)
**I am suspicious that this is just now becoming an issue. Didn’t Lush Lintballs say the same thing on Friday? I think that there are some desperate repukes out there doing all they can to derail Obama. I think back to all thr yelling about the PUMAs which really turned out to be a small minority and a non-issue. Why, then, did Obama do well during the primaries? I would think this issue would have reared its ugly head then.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:38 amJohn McCain and Sarah Palin will hold a joint rally in Media, PA.
The old man and his trophy running mate. Oh well, we are covering twice as much territory as they are, so they can continue their road show.
Anyone besides me notice that McCain is no longer allowing Ms. Palin to speak first. He puts the crowd to sleep and then she wakes them back up again.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:39 amUPDATE: JetBlue terminal reopens in New York: reports
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — JetBlue Airways reopened its terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday morning after a brief evacuation because of a suspicious package, according to media reports. Passengers were evacuated just before 8 a.m. Eastern time Monday. An Associated Press report quoted a JetBlue spokeswoman as saying the package, found in a passenger’s luggage, contained replica grenades that were used as paperweights.
think, people, THINK!
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 amHank Paulson came from Goldman-Sachs. Now he is to be the saviour of our nation? Once again, this looks like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
And Roobert Rubin, who is Obama’s chief advisor on this shit is also a Goldman-Sachs alumnus…Citigroup, too
This isn’t putting a fox in charge of the henhouse. It’s putting Col. Harlan Phuquing Sanders in charge…
I am hopeful, though, now that the fascist fux are screwing with the people’s reqal money, the folks will get inspired to actually DO something.
No, that’s not true. I am not hopeful. I doubt that this or anything else can or will bestir the average Murkin away from the NFL or the Infotainment Empire…
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 am“Under pressure from the White House and the Pentagon,” the EPA is expected to rule that “it will not set a drinking-water safety standard for perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel that has been linked to thyroid problems” in pregnant women and children.
I can understand the Republican’s need for greater wealth, but I can’t understand why they would not be furious at what the Bushies have done to our environment and in protecting our food supply. That will affect them too.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 amI’ve been pondering this for a few days and still can’t get my head around it. Sarah Palin insists that after telling Congress, “Thanks, but no thanks” on that bridge to nowhere that, “if the State wants a bridge, we’ll build it ourselves”.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 amWe all know by now that is a lie. She pushed for the bridge until Congress made it a hot button issue after which she backed off. We also know that she happily kept the money (some 233 million dollars) and built a road leading up to the spot where the bridge would go. This is all common knowledge by now. The part I don’t get is that the state has more than enough money in it’s coffers to pay for construction of the bridge but hasn’t! Can someone ask Palin why the bridge was a necessity when the lower states were footing the bill but not so important for the state to pay for itself? Alaska is a state with a projected budget surplus of six billion dollars this year (1.5 billion last year) all from oil taxes yet still persists on requesting large amounts of earmark requests (256 million in 2007 and 198 million so far in 2008). Maverick? Fiscally responsible? Or, much more likely, GOP business as usual!
And the beat goes on Says:
What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines
Yesterday, I got to thinking (always dangerous) and I’m coming to the conclusion that we are on the brink of another catastrophe. Some sort of terrorist attack within our borders. Threat level raised to five or red or whatever.
The purpose of such an attack is two-fold. First, it takes our attention off of the looting of our national treasury that is taking place right before our eyes. Trillions of dollars leaving the treasury, and probably leaving the country as well. Second, it puts the country back into FEAR mode, the only mindset that could get McCain elected.
The GOP and Neocons don’t want McCain elected per se, they just need a Repub in the White House for four years so they can finish their looting, keep the war front(s) profitable, and quash any further investigations into their myriad illegal activities.
I am at a loss for words. Someone, please talk me down.
(removes tinfoil hat to say…)
PEACE
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 amUS helicopters reportedly cross into Pakistan
International Herald Tribune – 54 minutes ago
AP ISLAMABAD: Pakistani troops and tribesmen opened fire when two US helicopters crossed into the country from Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Monday.
weren’t they warned?
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 amDrxJ, that article was written by Ron Fournier, you remember him, the guy who sends off GO GET ‘EM emails to Rove and was offered a job with the McCain camp but figured his pulpit at the AP was a more choice location to spew all crap McCain.
And the AP created their own set of talking points so that they would know what to say when people contacted them about their coverage.
AP is propaganda (with enough truth scattered here and there to keep up the guise of respectability and honesty). It is only a guise.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 amConservatives aren’t interested in introspection or the pursuit of knowledge, so it is no surprise that they aren’t interested in university teaching. Also, conservatives hew to an ideology and support it with arguments that are deliberately tendentious and intellectually dishonest, making them generally unfit for the ethical climate of a university.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 amHmmmmm.. so our Sec Hank Paulson, who was head of Goldman/Sachs wants a trillion dollars/American to give to banks and bankers (no conflict of interest there he he) all the while Goldman shorts the very industry that made Paulson and Goldman filthy rich on Bush tenure. Another hmmmmm..
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:46 amhttp://www.mcclatchy.com/227/story/52856.html
I am glad to see that the Democrats are showing some cajones when it comes to dealing with our “financial crisis”. I am sure they are under intense pressure from the Republicans who are, undoubtedly telling them, if you don’t act now and the market crashes, we’ll blame it on the Democrats for not acting quickly enough. Please Dems, don’t fall for that threat again.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 am@ 24: And the beat goes on Says:
DRxJ Says:
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Yesterday, Yahoo posted a poll that said some Democrats (1/3rd?) are uncomfortable of Obama’s skin color and are unwilling to vote for him because of this issue.
WTF?
Is this poll biased (I’m sorry, I did not research it’s demographics and margin of error.)
Racism is the elephant in the room.
MIDDULL Murka is NOT going to elect a Kneegrow ITS presnint. Especially not one with “Who-Sane” in his name.
Murkins are quite happy to have nominated a Kneegrow as a “serious” candidate. But they’ll stop there. No need to actually “ELECT” one, if merely nominating him serves to blunt the accusations of USer endemic racism.
I have said since this time last year that, if nominated, either Hillary or Obama would become V$ERY PROMINENT electoral footnotes…
And, btw, I’m gonna vote for WhoSane, for no other reason than to stick my stubby little thumb in some cracker asshole’s eye…
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 amI’d like to see every fcuking elected official, whether running a tainted office or not, tarred and feathered then run out of DC on a rail.
The US government has become a frat house financed by the working American.
Disgusting shitbags make me want to puke.
NONE OF THEM is working for the average American, they ALL, ONLY work for themselves.
The system is forever broken, and that’s where the “fcuk it” attitude comes from for so many officials-they’re helpless to affect change so they throw in the towel, and become part of the party, at our expense.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 amSpencer’s Mom,
All day yesterday the newsservices were speculating that the Marriott attack was a warning.
But nobody would follow it out: It was a warning fom Cheney to the new PAKI puppet to watch-the-phuque-OUT, after that worthy had explicitly warned USers to stay the PHUQUE out of Pakistan…
which injunction the USers speedily violated, with chopper raids today…
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 amkaty Says:
does that conversion come with absolution?
______________
No doubt the executives at MS & Goldman are hoping it does…
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 am> and I’m coming to the conclusion that we are
> on the brink of another catastrophe.
yeah I would not in the least be surprised by a false flag in the next month… my sense is that the internal polling of both candidates probably has obama leading by more than is let on, and once it fully sinks in that the Palin puppet will lose them more votes than it gains them, they will try something else. i fully beleive georgia took offensive action which against russsian interests at the behest of cheney/mccain cronies with ties to the georgian government, the point of it being to frighten people away from voting for the the “young inexperienced black guy”
if obama gets elected alot of people are going to jail, and they know it, and they are going to keep trying to pull things out of thier hat till they find a rabbit..false flag wouldnt surprise me AT ALL at this point…
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:54 amspencers mom Says:
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And the beat goes on Says:
What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines
Yesterday, I got to thinking (always dangerous) and I’m coming to the conclusion that we are on the brink of another catastrophe. Some sort of terrorist attack within our borders. Threat level raised to five or red or whatever.
The purpose of such an attack is two-fold. First, it takes our attention off of the looting of our national treasury that is taking place right before our eyes. Trillions of dollars leaving the treasury, and probably leaving the country as well. Second, it puts the country back into FEAR mode, the only mindset that could get McCain elected.
**I wish I COULD talk you down. My first thought was false flag. Think (with or without hat!) about the “sudden” financial crisis along with our black-ops going on in many middle-east countries and I, too, am convinced that something big will happen. I hate this “tin-foil” hat mood I am in!
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:54 amThe system is forever broken, and that’s where the “fcuk it” attitude comes from for so many officials-they’re helpless to affect change so they throw in the towel, and become part of the party, at our expense.
Nah, you don’t get it. They system’s working like a charm, if you’re a member of the Elitocracy.
Proof?
Has ANY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE DOG-PHUQUERS GONE OUT A WINDOW YET?
NO?
It’s working famously, then, redistriubutig those funky old assets BACK to the Elites to sell again when they figger the rest of us have learned our lessons…
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:55 amAnyone besides me notice that McCain is no longer allowing Ms. Palin to speak first. He puts the crowd to sleep and then she wakes them back up again.
No surprise there. After a week or so, the campaign realized that the crowds start leaving after Failin’ Palin reads her stump-dump. They had to change the batting order so that McNumbNuts won’t be embarrassed by the obvious lack of interest in him.
Also, it will be interesting to see what happens with the Unstable/Unable campaign this week. The Congressional deliberations concerning the bail-out are likely to be the heaviest-lobbied event in more than a decade. If that’s the case, who will be left in McNumbNuts’ campaign office? Nobody, that’s who! Then we’ll see what Unstable and Unable are really made of.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:58 amChocolate Jesus Says:
My guess is the cancer will take McCain before the end of the decade. My guess is, he knows it too.
And then, if they “won”, this lady will be “running” the show. Not really running, mind you, but she will become a puppet for a multitude of much more maliscious minds.
What scares me even more is that she WOULD be running the government. If I were the Republicans, I would be a little worried about Ms. Sarah. I don’t think that she would give up her power easily if she became President.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:04 amI don’t think of Larisa as a tin-foil hatter. This post really expresses my thoughts as well:
Welcome to the final stages of the coup…
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. ~ Julius Caesar
In 2000, the long fought for and long admired democracy of the United States of America began a slow and steady decline toward fascism – a Bush family tradition – with the installment of a president – a man the citizens overwhelmingly rejected (although the funny math told a still believed myth) – by a few corrupt judges on the US Supreme Court. That coup is now nearly complete and checkmate is all but unavoidable.
Let me first point you to the Bush administration’s so-called Wall Street bailout bill, here, so that you can see for yourself that this treachery is being conducted in the light of day. Fascism is finally and formally out of the right-wing closet even if the F word is not yet openly being used (although it should be, and often).
Now, if you do not yet understand that the Wall Street crisis is a man-made disaster done through intentional deregulation and corruption, I have a bridge in Alaska to sell to you (or Sara Palin does anyway). This manufactured crisis is now to be remedied, if the fiscal fascists get their way, with the total transfer of Congressional powers (the few that still remain) to the Executive Branch and the total transfer of public funds into corporate (via government as intermediary) hands.
(snip)
This is a must read. Read the rest:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/welcome-to-the-final-stag_b_127990.html
**I am now halfway through Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine. I keep having to put it down because I get disturbed by how long we have been spreading our poison internationally. This whole scenario we are in has been planned for a long time. Now, the big question is what are we going to do about it?
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 amDoc Rock Says:
Furthermore, once language skills are honed, if the language person doesn’t have a strong general educational background which would make them well-conversant in politics, sciences, finance, etc., one can’t expect them to understand and deal with such concepts in second language.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:36 am
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Also critical is the fact that Arabic isn’t one language. It’s at least three. There’s the classical Arabic you’ll find in the Qur’aan and other ancient texts, there’s the Modern Standard Arabic that you’ll find in newspapers and books and TV news broadcasts, and then there’s the colloquial, spoken dialect that people actually use in conversation, varies greatly from country-to-country, and has vastly different grammar rules and vocabulary.
We need to start invading places like Spain or Korea, with easy-to-acquire languages.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:16 amSpin Fast ????
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 am**I am now halfway through Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine. I keep having to put it down because I get disturbed by how long we have been spreading our poison internationally. This whole scenario we are in has been planned for a long time. Now, the big question is what are we going to do about it?
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 am
Oh, DO something? Well, after MNF, before I go to bed, mebbe…
But then it’s so late, and I gotta get up to go to work…
Murkin “Kapitalism” has long been recognized as a cancer by the rest of the international community. It has killed democracy everywhere it has touched it…
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 am> What scares me even more is that she WOULD be
> running the government.
I just dont beleive she has the brainpower. I look at her and everything about her screams “puppet for my hubby”..
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 amI can understand the Republican’s need for greater wealth, but I can’t understand why they would not be furious at what the Bushies have done to our environment and in protecting our food supply. That will affect them too. September 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 am
Because there is money to be made. That it affects their familes, heck, even themselves, is meaningless. It’s all about money.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 amThese were tough to spin so if you don;t find it amusing I won;t be surprised.
Spin Fast
Liberal leaning American campuses looking forward to money-saving new conservative education plan that only requires three books for all courses: “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand, “How to Speak to a Liberal” by Ann Coulter and the “The Holy Bible” by God and Jesus H. Christ.
US charitable-giving increases unexpectedly during financial crisis as Fed ‘adopts’ impoverished Wall Street orphans Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs on behalf of Main Street.
In exchange for giving the orphans access to the public’s bank accounts sponsors will receive regular news updates on how well the orphans are doing and the joy of knowing that their simple gift is making someone’s life a little easier.
You too can own a John McCain, a multi-billion dollar value, for just five easy payments of $360,000 a year. And if John McCain becomes President you can expect an even BIGGER return on your investment.
Republican health care reforms finally paying dividends as Americans “cutting back on health care” reduces prescription-drug abuse, hospital administrative costs and medical malpractice suits as reduced appointments allow doctors more tee-time.
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) will be fighting for the rights of every American who ever received a friendly neighborhood welcoming gift of a tuna-casserole or a pineapple-upside-down cake and failed to report it as income.
The White House, Pentagon and the EPA announced a new alternative-fuel program where rocket fuel will be distributed to households via the current drinking water system thus saving millions on more traditional transportation costs whilst reducing US dependence of foreign oil.
The Democrats plan to include rescue the nations financial institutions, provide greater legislative oversight of the Treasury Department, provide direct assistance for homeowners and limit the pay of top executives whose firms seek help is expected to be one of the most economical government programs ever devised on account of the now limited number of financial institutions and homeowners.
Defense Department announces success of cost-reduction program involving ‘critical language’ bonuses.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 am“The longer we stay in Iraq and Afghanistan the more the locals will learn to speak American—it’s a win for them, for US troops and for the US tax-payers” said a Pentagon spokesman.
WOW.. this is actually on CNN’s frontpage..shocking
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/21/palin.rape.exams/index.html
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 amThese just seemed somewhat similar to moi (Godwin’s law notwithstanding):
In a new strategy, [conservatives] “are finding like-minded tenured professors and helping them establish academic beachheads for their ideas.”
(from the book, “Corrupted Science,” via Boingboing.net)
Here, Grant begins with Nazi science, and not just the gruesome death-camp experiments we’re all familiar with, but also the bizarre attacks on “Jewish” mathematics and physics and the effort to create “German” equivalents that adhered to the ideological tenets laid out by Hitler’s regime.
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Finally, Grant closes with the systematic attacks on science under the presidency of George W Bush, and makes a compelling case that the failure of countries that tried to constrain science in order to make it comply with ideology is a real possibility for the USA today. Grant’s relentless account of the Bush administration’s attacks on health science, environmental science, geoscience, evolutionary science, climate science and other critical disciplines is deeply chilling.
Or is it just moi?
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:06 amI think we’d better not trespass on the 5th Estate. We’re not worthy.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 amKaty, I am really tired of the Republicans demonizing Chicago. The only person in jail having been convicted of crimes is the last REPUBLICAN governor of Illinois and he is from Chicago. That being said. Chicago is still a booming city with planty of jobs and property values holding stable while the rest of the country is flailing. That ad makes me ANGRY.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 pmThe Army Times reported a full brigade will be at the disposal of our Northern Command starting October 1.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
The timing of this stinks.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:09 pmAs for the Wall Street bailout, BushCo is buying up unregulated “mortgage related security” products to prop up dice rolling institutions.
The a-nalogy would be buying all SUV’s because they’re not selling or underwriting Super Supreme gas because people stopped buying the more expensive formulation. Vehicles and gas make the economy hum, similar to credit.
What industry gets to offload their unsellable crap to the feds? And how do CEO’s get to keep their outrageous pay? Zero Americans think the economy is getting better. I smell a revolution simmering.
NorthCom gets a full brigade October 1. These are fighting men, not fence/road builders, bridge repairers, or hospital evacuators. Why does America need a full domestic brigade just a month before the Presidential election?
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm