Everyone here owes to themselves to read the post at "Pancake City". Read it and feel your nerves unwind. It's funny!

I wonder if at times Obama is tempted to do just that? What sane person could blame him if he did? The fact that he hasn't done it speaks well for his determination to try to get our shit back together for us one day.

Please help the rich get richer. It's the only way to save the country.

McCain '08 - "Our country for old men".

Bwahahaha! O'Reilly's site hacked, membership (with passwords) made public

Pissed off after O'Reilly started ranting about hackers and Palin's email, a REAL hacker took his site over and downloaded all its data. He or she only made one screenshot public, but it's pretty sure that if you are a member, your name, city, password and other information is going to at some point be made public.

Can't wait til he finds out about this. The top of his head might come off.

"No one could have thought that Ronald Reagan would attack America with deregulation".

Tx @ 6:

Bwahahaha! O'Reilly's site hacked, membership (with passwords) made public

Pissed off after O'Reilly started ranting about hackers and Palin's email, a REAL hacker took his site over and downloaded all its data. He or she only made one screenshot public, but it's pretty sure that if you are a member, your name, city, password and other information is going to at some point be made public.

Can't wait til he finds out about this. The top of his head might come off.

We can hope, can't we?! Personally, I'd love to see that... but I refuse to watch anything on FOX... anything...

Tx @ 6:

Bwahahaha! O'Reilly's site hacked, membership (with passwords) made public

Pissed off after O'Reilly started ranting about hackers and Palin's email, a REAL hacker took his site over and downloaded all its data. He or she only made one screenshot public, but it's pretty sure that if you are a member, your name, city, password and other information is going to at some point be made public.

Can't wait til he finds out about this. The top of his head might come off.

If the top of his head comes off, his secret will be exposed. The world will see that his head is empty. Once the dust of anger settles out, it'll be revealed to be nothing more than an empty container.

I hope all those Bush loving Texans are enjoying all their new beach front property.

Let's all bundle ourselves into one big entity and declare we are broke. Maybe then our entity would be too big to be allowed to fail. They'll have to bail us out and as a result we will get our money back.

Each time bush spoke last week, especially the first time, he seemed pissed. I wonder what it is about this that has him ticked. Did he think it wouldn't come to a head until after he had scampered away? Did he think he could escape without this feeding into his legacy? Or is he just totally out of control regarding what's going on right now?

America needs to return Republican majorities to the Congress and instill Grandpa as President.

Cutting taxes for the rich and more deregulation are the only way to grow out of this problem, which of course was created by Democrats forcing Freddie and Fannie to make loans to poor people.

McCain '08...America depends on it...or put Depends on America...or Grandpa wears Depends...or something like that.

If the McCain/Palin ticket should win, I think we will all be in a state of serious shock for a long long time. I will never forget the desperation I felt both times bush won. I didn't think our country could make it for four or eight years under him. But we went along one day at a time, one disaster after another and finally we can see the end from here. Now the threat or the thought of McCain/Palin for four or eight years, is unbearable.

pissed off patricia @ 18:

Each time bush spoke last week, especially the first time, he seemed pissed. I wonder what it is about this that has him ticked. Did he think it wouldn't come to a head until after he had scampered away? Did he think he could escape without this feeding into his legacy? Or is he just totally out of control regarding what's going on right now?

I think a certain sociopath is probably seething that his handlers' plan was 2.5 months off! Scampering off to Paraguay with the briefcase may be a *tad* more difficult now.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194057.php

The right wing blogs are frothing over this.

pissed off patricia @ 16:

Let's all bundle ourselves into one big entity and declare we are broke. Maybe then our entity would be too big to be allowed to fail. They'll have to bail us out and as a result we will get our money back.

Yeah! Sorta like WE THE PEOPLE.

Would an updated version of Hansel and Gretel have the witch cyberstalking them by following the cookies they leave behind?

Nader in '08

The whole mess is HIS fault.

Roschelle @ 3:

A recently published article I found this morning on McCain's market-based healthcare plan and a video of him expressing his stand on deregulation along with a bonus! He mentions the bridge to nowhere!!!!

Everytime I hear senator grandpa talk about how he is going to reform healthcare and make it more affordable I laugh and am thankful I live in Canada.
Our system isn't perfect but you don't go broke from a serious illness or hospitalization.
My dad is a diabetic(he has had type 1 for 72 years) he would have been dead many times over or broke if he lived in america.

Market Meltdown Makes Palin Look Even Scarier!
Bloomberg

[...]

The results of that election finally are in: a crashing economy; a war we chose to fight in a country that didn't attack us at the expense of defeating the terrorists in the country that did; an infrastructure crumbling as fast as Baghdad's; health care a pricey crapshoot; and corporations plundering like pirates.

And yet for two weeks, the country obsessed over a Hockey Mom who could bounce back to work three days after giving birth. It took the fall of mighty Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to remove from the headlines the vital matter of whether ``lipstick on a pig'' is a sexist expression capable of sending Governor Sarah Palin to the fainting couch. Now that Republicans have begun monitoring sexism, they see it everywhere.

With the steepest market crash since 9/11, John McCain finds himself back in the real world of the Lower 48 states, where Palin is one more bubble bursting. In fairness to McCain, it's hard to do two things at once: claim vast experience and skill in maneuvering the levers of power while promising that he and his neophyte sidekick embody ``change'' and are ``coming to Washington to shake it up'' as if he'd never set foot there.

[...]

McCain touts his experience as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee as a reason to entrust him to end ``reckless conduct, corruption and unbridled greed'' on Wall Street. But McCain was among the legislators who wanted to leave Wall Street alone. He embraced legislation, along with then-Senator Phil Gramm, that swept aside rules regulating banking and insurance in favor of a free market. This paved the way for American International Group Inc. to become the largest welfare case in history.

Blackberry Inventor

To come up with an accomplishment as commerce chief for McCain, an aide credited the senator with inventing the Blackberry, quite an achievement for a man who says he doesn't do ``the e-mail.'' The claim was later dismissed by the campaign as a staffer's ``boneheaded joke.''

The boneheaded jokester in question happens to be McCain's chief economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who also said McCain didn't have a plan to help the economy because a strong leader doesn't need one. The candidate did propose a ``commission,'' leaving off ``blue-ribbon'' so as not to induce laughter with this old ruse to kick the can down the road.

[...]

Pulled Off Air

That didn't save her from being pulled off the air by the campaign. She may soon join former McCain campaign co-chairman Gramm in exile. He was deep-sixed after calling those worried about a recession ``a nation of whiners.''

[...]

Palin's fresh maverick image is getting sullied as her record trickles out. She fired Alaska's public safety commissioner because he allegedly wouldn't get rid of her brother-in-law; now, she's ignoring subpoenas issued by a majority Republican committee investigating it.

She raised spending, embraced earmarks and cut funds for the Special Olympics.

For the Bridge

Her most fetching lines don't bear parsing. Yes, she got rid of the state plane, but at a loss and not on EBay, as she claimed. She fired her chef, but she then charged the taxpayers a per diem for 312 nights of travel when staying at home, as well as expenses for her family.

When pressed, Palin admitted on ABC television that she was actually FOR the ``Bridge to Nowhere,'' but then when campaigning the next day looked straight into the teleprompter and repeated, ``I said `thanks, but no thanks' to that bridge to nowhere.''

[...]

Afterward, leading lights among conservatives, from George Will to David Brooks to Charles Krauthammer conceded she's not up to the job.

If the country decides it cares more about its own survival than lipstick on a pig, McCain may wish he'd chosen an economic guru, not Phyllis Schlafly in a sled, even if she can field dress a moose.

Liberal AND Proud @ 34:

pissed off patricia @ 24:

If the McCain/Palin ticket should win, I think we will all be in a state of serious shock for a long long time. I will never forget the desperation I felt both times bush won. I didn't think our country could make it for four or eight years under him. But we went along one day at a time, one disaster after another and finally we can see the end from here. Now the threat or the thought of McCain/Palin for four or eight years, is unbearable.

Don't worry. If Grandpa croaks in office, President Palin will provide the leadership so that all Americans can learn to hunt and gather their own food.

Grandpa has been on the government dole his whole life.

Sadly No! nails it. That's all you need to know about the reich wing. That's their excuse for everything. That's their reasoning for everything.
Reslugs are standing over the bloody body of the US still holding the weapon they used to beat it to death with live footage of the crime being broadcast world wide and their only response is "Dems did it."
And there are individuals out there dumb enough to accept that.

George W. Bush - "the Jack Kevorkian of the American Economy"

Alice X - (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 44:

Liberal AND Proud @ 42:

"Thank God, George W. Bush Henry Paulson is our President."

Fu*king Paulson is becoming frightening. He's trying to become a one man financial czar with no rules he must follow and no limits on what he can or cannot do. I don't know what his plan is, but at this point it doesn't appear to be good.

Liberal AND Proud @ 43:

George W. Bush - "the Jack Kevorkian of the American Economy"

Dr. Kevorkian was at least a mercy killer. Dumbya is more like Ted Bundy.

pissed off patricia @ 45:

Alice X - (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 44:

Liberal AND Proud @ 42:

"Thank God, George W. Bush Henry Paulson is our President."

Fu*king Paulson is becoming frightening. He's trying to become a one man financial czar with no rules he must follow and no limits on what he can or cannot do. I don't know what his plan is, but at this point it doesn't appear to be good.

It is not for us commoners to ask such questions. The Treasury Secretary has the ultimate power deigned to him by the imperial President.

We have no right to question him. We have no right to see his emails or notes or letters to the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street.

What the hell is wrong with you? Have you not been paying attention for the last 8 years? What do you think this is...a democracy?!?!

"Americans need to relax. They need to go shopping. Take a vacation to Disney World. Enjoy life." - George W. Bush

Left&Left @ 47:

Liberal AND Proud @ 43:

George W. Bush - "the Jack Kevorkian of the American Economy"

Dr. Kevorkian was at least a mercy killer. Dumbya is more like Ted Bundy.

Speaking of Ted Bundy.. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/204767/ted_bundy_vs_george_w_bu...

Pictures of Ted Bundy and George W. Bush side by side.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/image/75677/index.html?cat=9

Were all "giants" - -"legends" (in our own heads) until death.

VitriolAndAngst @ 56:

Well, the NeoCons and shills are in full force out there. Blaming the Liberals for forcing banks to sell loans to poor people. We twisted there arms to give people loans they couldn't pay back with a 5-year ARM that mushrooms to outrageous interest rates?

And once again...the American People will not fail me in revealing their utter ignorance of reality.

No, I'm starting to understand Paulson's solution here; We find all the ax murderers, and instead of arresting them -- we give them all machine guns. I think, there might be a high body count, but those pensions and IRAs that Bush is holding ransom will only have to be divided between fewer people.

xoites defends Constitution @ 48:

This late score just in!

Keating-5
Paulson-700,000,000,000

John Q Public - 0

Alice X - (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 63:

xoites defends Constitution @ 48:

This late score just in!

Keating-5
Paulson-700,000,000,000

John Q Public - 0

minus 9,650,000,000,000

Orangutan. @ 55:

Pictures of Ted Bundy and George W. Bush side by side.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/image/75677/index.html?cat=9

My first thought was OMG! "that's a creepy resemblance". Then after thinking, I said "OK, that makes total sense".

Scott Horton's story is just another reason the GOP and their flunkies need to be arrested, imprisioned or at least removed from the seats of power. They are all criminals, crooks or deviates. Imagine the uproar if the prosecuting attorney was a Democratic appointee? If you're not outraged, YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION!

Improving the horrible bailout deal is essential.

Horton's piece is sharp and scathing, as always.

Earl Palmer had one hell of a career. RIP.

I'm just really bummed about Earl Palmer! One of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, he pretty much invented the rock n roll beat on drums, and brought that New Orleans feel to rock n roll as well. RIP Earl.

Re: Sarah Palin

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.cfm

Banned Books Week
Celebrating the Freedom to Read
September 27–October 4, 2008

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2008, marks BBW's 27th anniversary (September 27 through October 4).

BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

BBW is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, American Library Association, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Association of American Publishers, National Association of College Stores, and is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.