Thanks, Mike! Much appreciated.

The chart at the first link says it all.

Well, I guess we now know our economic future is bleak. Just looking at that chart says it all. Should I start growing my own food? Or wait for our political leaders to help out. I’ll choose the latter.

At some point I would guess the Libertarian, Freedman, cool-aid drinkers will tell us poor backward county folk that banking and general financial regulation will make things worse. All problems with the economy come from the Federal Reserve and government regulation. All would be a utopia if the government would get out of the bankers way. Although I think Greenspan has a great deal of responsibility in our current mess, I can only look back at US history and see when we had real government regulation we had the greatest increase of the middle class in the history of the world.

Patty D. @ 3:

Well, I guess we now know our economic future is bleak. Just looking at that chart says it all. Should I start growing my own food? Or wait for our political leaders to help out. I’ll choose the latter.

If you were a large investment bank the govt would help you out for sure.

Cripes….22 year olds getting multi million government contracts…military buying bloggers, the opportunities for wingnut welfare really call into question the utility my college education. To think I could have spent these years studying chemistry war profiteering or spouting government propaganda instead. It’s really a shame.

pissed off patricia, You got that right! Don’t you find that immoral. Helping gizzionaires out, while main street suffers. I believe in cosmic justice, but in this case, I don’t see it coming. The rich getting richer and the middle class getting poorer. Maybe I should find religion and bury my head in the sand.

I have lived in the south just about all my life and I have the words “cotton pickin” probably a zillion times but I never associated it with someone who actually picks cotton or race. Big wake up for this southern female.

Oops, Major mistake in my comment number 8. I intended to say, I have lived in the south just about all my life and I have heard the words …………

Pissed off patricia, as a southern woman, what do your peers have to say about the election? I’m in the north and the people up here are pretty much pissed off. They can’t wait for the primary.

Being very old and remember Tennessee Ernie Ford, I have heard Pea-Picken all my life. Does that mean he was really talking about picking peas and some kind of racial slur that I don’t know about?

pissed off patricia @ 5:

Patty D. @ 3:

Well, I guess we now know our economic future is bleak. Just looking at that chart says it all. Should I start growing my own food? Or wait for our political leaders to help out. I’ll choose the latter.

If you were a large investment bank the govt would help you out for sure.

If we all got together maybe we could become a large investment bank and request a multi-million Fed bailout?

pissed off patricia @ 2:

The chart at the first link says it all.

That is so true ……. And yet … the people who vote republican (lower case intended) think they are actually a part of the republican party. They get duped into voting with them because the republicans claim to have the family values, or are against Gays or against a woman having control over her own body, when in actuality the people they vote in don’t represent those values at all, look at Larry Craig ( I could mention a lot of them here but for the sake of the blog).

I just think it is so strange that thee people think they are part of this thing called the GOP.
Again, I would place these people in that 27% group which I refer to as the Moron Factor. the blind-faith group.

Re: Calculated Risk: The Dilbert Strategy

There was an article yesterday about Bush’s financial re-org plan. The last line of the article is this:

“Dismantling the thrift charter and crippling state banking charters will weaken banking in America,” said Edward Yingling, president of the American Bankers Association.

Even the bankers are not buying Bush’s bullshit.

Chris Huston @ 6:

Cripes….22 year olds getting multi million government contracts…military buying bloggers, the opportunities for wingnut welfare really call into question the utility my college education. To think I could have spent these years studying chemistry war profiteering or spouting government propaganda instead. It’s really a shame.

I know…! It’s so true. Another youth wasted.

C & L: I’m watching Montel Williams (boring day) and he is talking about veterans’ and health care and iraq. The famous soldier we saw with the very disfigured face is there with his wife. Montel is completely shutting down every lie a government shill they have on as a guest is telling (”it’s the democrats fault that veterans have terrible health care), and calling out George Bush’s lies. It’s great, I hope someone can find the video.

rawstory.com

“Clinton likens herself to ‘Rocky’”

http://www.rawstory.com/news/m.....12008.html

I remember reading Sylvester Stallone stating that his movie ‘Rocky’ was a fantasy. I wish I had time to search down the exact quote.

pissed off patricia @ 8:

I have lived in the south just about all my life and I have the words “cotton pickin” probably a zillion times but I never associated it with someone who actually picks cotton or race. Big wake up for this southern female.

I am also a Southerner and have heard those words a zillion times and my opinion is the same as yours (I think). It’s not a racial slur as far as I’ve ever known.

Minneapolis…. June 6-8

Media reform conference…
http://www.freepress.net/conference

speakers includes:
Bill Moyers, PBS legend
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Dan Rather, TV anchor
Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senator
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News & Democracy Now!
Lawrence Lessig, author of The Future of Ideas
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
Michael Copps, FCC Commissioner
Jonathan Adelstein, FCC Commissioner
Van Jones, ColorofChange.org
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Hip Hop Caucus
Laura Flanders, Radio host and journalist
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films
Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake
Tim Wu, author of Who Controls the Internet?
Kim Gandy, National Organization of Women
Rosa Clemente, R.E.A.C.Hip Hop
Robert W. McChesney, Free Press co-founder

Rusty America Shackleford @ 18:

pissed off patricia @ 8:

I have lived in the south just about all my life and I have the words “cotton pickin” probably a zillion times but I never associated it with someone who actually picks cotton or race. Big wake up for this southern female.

I am also a Southerner and have heard those words a zillion times and my opinion is the same as yours (I think). It’s not a racial slur as far as I’ve ever known.

I’ve heard it several times and never associated it as well. I think it’s one of those racial epithets that have been around so long and so overused that they completely lost their racist meaning… sort of like “call a spade a spade”.

really liked this article!

10 Myths About Hillary and staying in the Race!

sweet article

Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 20:

Rusty America Shackleford @ 18:

pissed off patricia @ 8:

I have lived in the south just about all my life and I have the words “cotton pickin” probably a zillion times but I never associated it with someone who actually picks cotton or race. Big wake up for this southern female.

I am also a Southerner and have heard those words a zillion times and my opinion is the same as yours (I think). It’s not a racial slur as far as I’ve ever known.

I’ve heard it several times and never associated it as well. I think it’s one of those racial epithets that have been around so long and so overused that they completely lost their racist meaning…
sort of like “call a spade a spade”.

Calling ‘a spade a spade,’ refers to cards. I don’t believe “cotton-pickin’ is necessessarily a racial epithet. It just became fraught with new meaning coming from Lou Dobbs, in reference to a person of color.

P.D. @ 10:

Pissed off patricia, as a southern woman, what do your peers have to say about the election? I’m in the north and the people up here are pretty much pissed off. They can’t wait for the primary.

Most people I know are ready to use the term President Obama and looking forward to it. But that may not be the same in the rest of Florida. We have a lot of retirees who are from up north and I would guess they are Hillary people.

And no one picks tomatoes anymore

Right-wing bloggers were happy to take orders from the White House, so that one story is hardly surprising. What’s disturbing is for how many years the Pentagon has viewed American citizens as a threat and condoned propaganda against them, or surveillance of them.

Anyone else having problems getting Crooks & Liars to load? Or is it just my computer?

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