January 04, 2008 11:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
All Spin Zone: The economic outlook is so bleak, some economists are looking for a bunker to hide in. But what do economists know? Chimpy is is upbeat about the economy, though I'm sure he'd be amenable to more tax cuts...and he's not the only one living in a fool's paradise.
Wall Street Jackass: Sage advice
Beggars Can Be Choosers: Iowa shows how Iraq war support remains toxic for candidates, though apparently, the "surging" St. McCain doesn't think so.
Blorgable: Year of the web: 10 strangest political moments of 2007
CQ Politics: Voter ID court challenges expected to have a big impact on the 2008 elections.
Watchdog Blog: The House Ethics Committee parties on
Quoted from the CQ politics voter id fraud blog
Supporters are hoping to get judicial approval for voter id's and part of their plan is not to challenge specific people at this point, depriving challengers of the plan their argument. The pro voter id folks will start challenging after the law is upheld.
Let us not forget.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/48.html
What a strange campaign mantra for an ancient, incontinent candidate, McCain;
'Another Hundred years, Another Hundred Years'
It's time for the Quiz A Rama show
"While we should take no option, including military action, off the table, sustained and aggressive diplomacy combined with tough sanctions should be our primary means to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons"
Name The Candidate
The Campaign Finance Reform Act didn't say anything about the pols using taxpayer money to throw parties for themselves. So if they attend self-congratulatory galas, with Lamborghini SUV's as door prizes, and tanker loads of Cristal, all on the taxpayer dime, it's legal.
The Catch-22 about trying to find something to invest in, to hedge against the coming economic crash, is that all we have to invest with is dollars.
We need a law to make social security benefits be paid in Euros.
Anyone who seeks, and follows, financial advice from Wall Street, probably also expects the guy on the street who's robbing him at gunpoint, to give him cabfare home.
Preacher Boob @ 6:
Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will increase the size of two scheduled auctions of emergency loans by 50 percent to $30 billion as part of a global attempt by central bankers to restore faith in the money markets.
The Fed reiterated that it will continue the loan auctions, designed to increase the amount of cash available in the banking system, ``for as long as necessary,'' in a statement released today. The third and fourth auctions will be conducted on Jan. 14 and 28. The central bank will announce on Feb. 1 whether further auctions will be conducted.
L.A. Confidential @ 8:
Gee, let's see, if you flood the money supply with new dollars, it'll make all dollars worth less, or all products seem to cost more, and all values to go up, so pretty soon you won't have enough money to buy the wheelbarrow you'd need to carry the cash you'd need to buy food, if you had it. Of course, this will be good for the sale of giant SUV's, 'cause people will need them to carry the money they'll need to buy gas, since money will be depreciating so fast that no one will accept credit cards.
The one remaining illusion will be Bush's, that 'Things are going well'.
Preacher Boob @ 9:
Yes real swell. Personally I feel like a guy sitting on death row awaiting execution as far as the economy, my investments, and assets are concerned.
The final Iowa vote tally revealed that Ignatz Crapsweeper, an Iowan sheep shearer, who was a write-in candidate as a gag by a bunch of his rowdy drunken friends from the redneck Flatlands Saloon and Pool Parlor in Sioux Falls, whomped the sh*t out of Giuli in the vote count.
L.A. Confidential @ 10:
The only asset I have that's worth a damn is the friendship of a European lady friend who has set aside a guest room for my use, in perpetuity, to run to when Bush's ignorant delusions send the whole US economy down the toilet.
Preacher Boob @ 12:
I've been thinking maybe enclosing our yard-property with a twelve foot electric fence topped with razor wire might be a sound investment.
Nothing stimulates the economy like a good ol' faux war!
L.A. Confidential @ 13:
Good thinking. Then become a Mormon, stock in a year's supply of food, rent a couple of tigers from the San Diego zoo, invest in an AK-47 with a pick-up full of ammo, surround your fence with security cameras, lay back, and alternate between cable's coverage of the revolution, and watching people impale themselves on your fence, trying to commit suicide-by-tiger.
ConcernedCanuck @ 14:
Yes borrowing money from China for this war definitely stimulates their economy.
Preacher Boob @ 15:
I was thinking set up a 50 Caliber Machine Gun with a video camera for a scope on my front porch hooked up to my computer monitor and joystick in my office. I'm not into firearms at all though.
Get ready for a brief but sharp recession that drives a significant portion of the American public out of the middle class, (losing jobs & homes etc.) followed by a period of rapid inflation (caused by the fiscally irresponsible Republican Party "borrow and spend like there is no end"). We will wake up in 2010 with a really severe hangover caused by the excesses of the conservative agenda.
L.A. Confidential @ 17:
Maybe I can go green-organic and just do things like dig deep pits the unsuspecting falls into, or ankle rope traps that yank the intruder upside down up into the air for easy retrieval. Non lethal but effective. Just call the police and say I have a few more ready for relocation.
L.A. Confidential @ 17:
Count your blessings. You're lucky you can afford a fence. The only thing I can afford is to lash together bales of dollar bills, to form a wall.
If you think the Movie Industry, and the Recording Industry, are in snits now, because of piracy, wait'll we have a Baptist president, and they find out they're outlawed.
I just made a bundle on a deal, by screwing the Chinese.
I convinced them I was a CIA double-agent, and agreed to sell them a copy of the brain-wave analysis of G.W. Bush.
We made the deal, they handed me the cash, and I handed them the charts. As I drove away, I could hear them swearing (I can't repeat the Chinese leader was shouting, but the substance was: 'That SOB round-eyes crook, he drew straight lines with a ruler on graph paper and charged us millions of dollars').
I went back, and convinced them the charts were the real deal. I had to spend half of my loot buying them a cup of latte at the Beijing Starbuck's, before they were fully convinced. I asked them, 'Who else but a brainless assh*le could run the US into a hole so that it costs 250M US$ for a cup of Chinese coffee?'
One thing that's made it real easy for the Bush administration members the past seven+ years, they've never had to worry about how to provide Bush with 'Plausible Deniability'.
He has plausible deniability about the correct spelling of 'George Bush'.
I'm tired of the repubs invoking poll taxes with their "you need a picture id to vote!" These same people make excuses for Ann Coulter's voter fraud in Florida. They know when the turnout is big that Democrats win so they do all they can to prevent seniors, the disabled and minorities from voting
One thing Bush can always be proud of, and use to lord it over any other president he ever meets,
'My vice-president was a bigger DickHead than your vice-president'.
Yeah, give us more of that war, occupation!
It's so shameless how some if not all of the GOP are also talking of "change" when their policies are fundamentally the same as Bush's.
As for economics, besides all his far right court appointees, Bush's fiscal mismanagement will probably be his most lasting harm.
I was going to read the Blorgable post, until I was nauseated with the Huge Ad for Ann Coulter right on top of it.
Are some of my fellow bloggers making big bucks from selling out for these bullshit ads on your blogs? I hope not. It's hard to take a blogger serious when your site is pimping Coulter and her ilk while at the same time waxing poetic about Freedom and change.
If you are selling hate speech ad space on your blog, you ARE part of the fucking problem.
Boycott blogs that sellout for this type of cheap shit.
And the Iraq war 'progress' just keeps progressing, as an Iraqi soldier, on a joint US/Iraq mission, shoots five US servicemen, killing two.
WTF are we doing to our troops now, making them go on 'joint' missions with Iraqi troops who are likely to kill them?
WRT Wall Street Jackass "sage" advice:
A little truth in there - a lot ... not so much:
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/fortune.asp
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