Clinton on Obama: Soft vs. Hard Power (The Future of Foreign Policy).

One of the best pieces of the day. I hope you read it. This is a reminder of why Bill Clinton was a good president...and why Obama WILL be a great president.

Henry Paulson gets the Veruca Sault Award. Couldn't have happened to a bigger asshole.

Today's "Honest McCain Campaign Poster":

http://gopnot4me.blogspot.com/2008/09/honest-mccain-campaign-poster-36-b...

How stupid do they think we are?

Personal responsibility is for the little people. Yeah, screw us!!

Did ya miss Craig Ferguson last night? Ouch. Not a brutal as Letterman, but pretty funny.

MsJoanne @ 9

Thank you very much! I love your site and I will be blogrolling you is just a few minutes.

The Site Monitor deleted the same poster in the Barney Frank post just below and called it spam.

I felt it was on point, otherwise I would have saved it for this open thread.

Just watched The Daily Show episode with Bill Clinton. To me he didn't look well, I mean he really looks oooolllllldddd. Like his physical health is not where he might want it to be. Maybe that's why he's not as involved in this election as some might want him to be. He just looks like a man whose time has past him by. Whatcha' think?

The same people who were so adamant that we save Iraqi children are now equally adamant about not saving American children.

Chicken "Hussein" Little - Not! @ 14:

Just watched The Daily Show episode with Bill Clinton. To me he didn't look well, I mean he really looks oooolllllldddd. Like his physical health is not where he might want it to be. Maybe that's why he's not as involved in this election as some might want him to be. He just looks like a man whose time has past him by. Whatcha' think?

Well, he's not young, but he's younger than McCain.

I didn't think he looked that bad. He still has it. He gave a pretty rousing speech at this Millennium thing today. See my link above.

Condi Rice now admits the explicit discussion of torture, in writing!

Here

Remember the torturers?

And the murderers!

Bush was ironically against an attack on Iran's reactors. [Maybe he's hoping McCain will "finish the job"?]

20 Alice X - (Click Here for Nader Debate What If) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - Says: Condi Rice now admits the explicit discussion of torture, in writing!

Here

Remember the torturers?

And the murderers!
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Bush Aides Linked to Talks on Interrogations

Pakistan leader slams US after border gunfire

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari lashed out at the United States after their troops traded gunfire sparked by claims Pakistan forces shot at two US helicopters for alleged violation of airspace on the border with Afghanistan.

The US military said the helicopters were within Afghanistan territory providing cover for patrols in pursuit of militants when it came under fire from Pakistani troops, resulting in the exchange of gunshots by the two sides.

Pakistan's military said its troops fired warning shots at the helicopters, which it insisted were "well within Pakistani territory."

In a speech to the UN General Assembly, Zardari said Pakistan would not tolerate violations of its sovereignty, even by its allies.

"Just as we will not let Pakistani's territory to be used by terrorists for attacks against our people and our neighbors, we cannot allow our territory and our sovereignty to be violated by our friends," he said without citing the United States or the border flareup.

"Unilateral actions of great powers should not inflame the passion of allies," he further said, cautioning that any cross border raids could be counterproductive.
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MountainMan23 @ 24:

20 Alice X - (Click Here for Nader Debate What If) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - Says: Condi Rice now admits the explicit discussion of torture, in writing!

Here

Remember the torturers?

And the murderers!
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Bush Aides Linked to Talks on Interrogations

Many Bush officials have been charged with war crimes. Now, when will someone act?

Need a quick Keating Five refresher?

I heard a guy on the radio today who is on the ground in California and next to none of the younger people there know anything of Keating Five, let alone McCain's relation to it.

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Rice Admits She Led High-Level White House Talks About Torture
http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/347-rice-admits-she-led-high-level-...

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TAX REVOLT
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/36310

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Chicken "Hussein" Little - Not! @ 14:

Just watched The Daily Show episode with Bill Clinton. To me he didn't look well, I mean he really looks oooolllllldddd. Like his physical health is not where he might want it to be. Maybe that's why he's not as involved in this election as some might want him to be. He just looks like a man whose time has past him by. Whatcha' think?

his eyelids have become so puffy, it's hard to believe he can see much of anything these days.

i don't think he's quite built for the modern era. and i DO think he's still a little flummoxed over the drubbing he and his wife-in-name-only received in the primaries.

he's still a heck of a lot smarter than say, james imhofe, but he's got nothing on john negroponte.

(i don't know if some of you out there quite get why i'm a negroponte fan. it's because he is literally one of the smartest men in america. i'm not convinced he can shoot lightning bolts out of his arse like braveheart, or demolish mountains with the click of a mouse, but i know he can beat dick cheney in chess. or checkers. or connect four.)

Tequila @ 22:

Bush was ironically against an attack on Iran's reactors. [Maybe he's hoping McCain will "finish the job"?]

Since nothing the Chimp SAYS is true, I'd put money on this being the October Surprise.

steveb @ 33:

MsJoanne @ 18:

Chicken "Hussein" Little - Not! @ 14:

Just watched The Daily Show episode with Bill Clinton. To me he didn't look well, I mean he really looks oooolllllldddd. Like his physical health is not where he might want it to be. Maybe that's why he's not as involved in this election as some might want him to be. He just looks like a man whose time has past him by. Whatcha' think?

Well, he's not young, but he's younger than McCain.

I didn't think he looked that bad. He still has it. He gave a pretty rousing speech at this Millennium thing today. See my link above.

wtf is Willy doing lately with excusing and understanding McCain's debate bailout? The way he can barely bring himself to even mention the name Barak leaves no doubts

Dude, read the post I linked to above. He was awesome talking about Obama. AWESOME!!!!!

as far as the bailout/scam goes:

i don't care WHO got us WHERE.

right now, in september 2008...

DO NOT GIVE THE VAMPIRES CONTROL OF THE BLOOD BANK.

Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 31:

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NY Police tazer naked man; Dies...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31eqJ8G4hcI

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WTF? What the hell did the cops think would happen? Ever hear of GRAVITY, pigs?

Someone better file against these cops on behalf of the guy's family.

GOPnot4me @ 43:

Here's a snapshot I took in our office parking lot this morning:

http://gopnot4me.blogspot.com/2008/09/repubs-for-obama.html

Makes me smile!

That's an organization of some previously high ranking Republicans. I wrote a piece on it some time ago (I think C&L did, too).

Well lets see.... they witheld warrantless wiretapping for a whole %^*ing year. Had they printed the story when they first broke it our world might be quite different today. Hell the image of America abroad might even have allready recovered. How do you know they will print it? How do you know they will print it?

"What do you think the people are going to want us to do then."
"Ask them."
"Not now. Then. Ask them when they're running out."

Classic dialog. Carter started America on the road away from oil dependence. Now, we borrow tens of billions from the Chinese to pay the Arabs for oil to power our cars to go shopping at Walmart for things made in China. Somewhere between this bankrupting behavior, we are also supposed borrow more from China to give to just a relative few who lost 10% of our GDP.

fastfeat @ 47:

BTW, it was great seeing you at my place...I was out all day so I couldn't respond but thanks for stopping by!!!

Thanks for that link. I've thought about that scene so many times these past several years, almost as many times as I've been reminded of _1984_.

Peter G @ 53:

GOPnot4me @ 43:

Here's a snapshot I took in our office parking lot this morning:

http://gopnot4me.blogspot.com/2008/09/repubs-for-obama.html

Makes me smile!

Don't have to be a Republican to stick one of those on. It would drive Rush and the other rightards if Democrats all started putting these on their vehicles. Kind of reminds me of an old story about two politicians, a Conservative and a Liberal who share a cab to Parliament. When they get out of the cab the Liberal offers to pay for the fare, gives the cabby a twenty dollar tip and says: Remember, vote Liberal. As they're walking in he says to the Conservative: I always do that. Votes are where you find them. The Conservative replies: Yea I do something like that except I stiff them on the tip and say: Vote Liberal.

How Rovian of you! I LOVE IT!! Where do you get one? www.republicansforobama.com ?

Amusing video.

At White House, McCain Plays Bailout Spoiler

CBS News reports that McCain's alternative proposal includes "fewer regulations and corporate tax breaks"

Isn't that what caused all this in part? What happened to his new found "regulator" bullshit?

it's kinda funny how a rotten-child family can spend 228 years building a pyramid, only to have the whole thing go down like a house of cards just as the last brick is about to be set in place.

*meant to say 232 years

"Chinese banks told to stop lending to US banks"
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSPEK16693720080925

Embittered-Anti-Republicrat Max-Hussein-1 @ 57:

MsJoanne @ 49:

fastfeat @ 44:

Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 31:

WTF? What the hell did the cops think would happen? Ever hear of GRAVITY, pigs?

Someone better file against these cops on behalf of the guy's family.

There has been a rash of deaths by tasers. stun Guns Replace Police Work.

U.N.: Tasers Are A Form Of Torture
"Stun Guns" Are Under Fire After Six Deaths This Week; Rallies Held Demanding They Be Banned
NEW YORK, Nov. 25, 2007
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/25/national/main3537803.shtml?sou...

But then again, since when has the USA ever followed UN?

Cops are pretty much the same everywhere. Our Mounties pulled a similar piece of stupidity a couple of weeks ago. The had a drunk underage female in custody. Apparently she pushed one of the officers so a bunch of them held her down while one administered multiple crotch shots with a taser to teach her some manners. Naturally they've investigated themselves and, surprise, determined that the tasering was within the guidelines for proper use.

bullfrog @ 62:

it's kinda funny how a rotten-child family can spend 228 years building a pyramid, only to have the whole thing go down like a house of cards just as the last brick is about to be set in place.

But will they? They know Obama is going to kill them, as will most dems in the downstreams. Did you watch this video about military being brought back from Iraq to patrol US streets? I keep asking myself why. Well, does anyone think that these neocon assholes are going to let this happen?

I am more and more fearful for Obama's life...and the result should anything happen to him.

constituent @ 63:

StirFry @ 59:

GOPnot4me @ 43:

Here's a snapshot I took in our office parking lot this morning:

http://gopnot4me.blogspot.com/2008/09/repubs-for-obama.html

Makes me smile!

Here in my Texas neighborhood, we have a Republicans for Obama org meetings. The roster has been growing exponentially these last few weeks.

right on..........some people get it.

Texas is red, but we're trying.

MsJoanne @ 70:

bullfrog @ 62:

it's kinda funny how a rotten-child family can spend 228 years building a pyramid, only to have the whole thing go down like a house of cards just as the last brick is about to be set in place.

But will they? They know Obama is going to kill them, as will most dems in the downstreams. Did you watch this video about military being brought back from Iraq to patrol US streets? I keep asking myself why. Well, does anyone think that these neocon assholes are going to let this happen?

I am more and more fearful for Obama's life...and the result should anything happen to him.

I think by the constitution, that it is illegal for them to use the military but, when has that stopped them before?

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Nader on the "Get out of jail free" bail out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7aC7CyOP0Q

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Nada @ 66:

"Chinese banks told to stop lending to US banks"
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSPEK16693720080925

We are now truly and deeply fucked.

Ron @ 74:

MsJoanne @ 70:

bullfrog @ 62:

it's kinda funny how a rotten-child family can spend 228 years building a pyramid, only to have the whole thing go down like a house of cards just as the last brick is about to be set in place.

But will they? They know Obama is going to kill them, as will most dems in the downstreams. Did you watch this video about military being brought back from Iraq to patrol US streets? I keep asking myself why. Well, does anyone think that these neocon assholes are going to let this happen?

I am more and more fearful for Obama's life...and the result should anything happen to him.

I think by the constitution, that it is illegal for them to use the military but, when has that stopped them before?

I do believe that the Patriot Act or the Military Commissions Act changed that. It is unconstitutional, but who fucking cares when there are turrurists out there. US.

smiling dog @ 71:

We lived it out. The New York Times didn't print it (until after). Maybe the Joe Wilson thing, but that was just scratching the surface. Funny, because when I saw the movie I was naive enough to think, "Of course they'll print it." Looking back now, that movie seems darn right optimistic.

All the news that's fit to print... That's it. Who knows what they don't. Luckily we have the blogs now to get an idea.

housing sales not good

http://www.cnbc.com/id/26886443

MsJoanne @ 78:

Nada @ 66:

"Chinese banks told to stop lending to US banks"
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSPEK16693720080925

We are now truly and deeply fucked.

Yeah, but it's worth remembering that money, like oil, is a fungible commodity that flows inexorably downhill. And, while we are evidently now at the bottom of that hill, the Chinese cannot totally step on the airhose, because they breathe from it too.

But, learn to speak Mandarin.

Orangutan. @ 77:

War Games.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eootfzAhAoU Cynthia McKinney calls out Rumsfeld. Later faces unprecedented opposition in her house candidacy in Georgia. Loses. Faces voting fraud. Faces harassment. Loses.

Who is going to stick up for her. She sure as hell stuck up for us.

What happened in GA? That is very sad. So few people with any spine in our government.

it's amazing how much important stuff is falling thru the cracks as we are monumentally being distracted by the McCain/Palin sideshow: our lastest war in Pakistan, the disater at Guatanamo commision, the utter lack of leadership across the boards.

i wouldn't put it past the rethugs for engaging in Operation Mass distraction (aka known as the bailout) in treating it like our economy was destroed by the terrorists(Rm)

x174 @ 90:

it's amazing how much important stuff is falling thru the cracks as we are monumentally being distracted by the McCain/Palin sideshow: our lastest war in Pakistan, the disater at Guatanamo commision, the utter lack of leadership across the boards.

i wouldn't put it past the rethugs for engaging in Operation Mass distraction (aka known as the bailout) in treating it like our economy was destroed by the terrorists(Rm)

The banking system is in turmoil; but, I can remember this happening back in the 1980s. I don't really think this is that big of a deal. I wonder about the dollar amount and the new powers for the Treasury Secretary. It seems to me like a power and money grab.

constituent @ 84:

housing sales not good

http://www.cnbc.com/id/26886443

Job losses were equally bad...worst in 17 years.

x174 @ 90:

it's amazing how much important stuff is falling thru the cracks as we are monumentally being distracted by the McCain/Palin sideshow: our lastest war in Pakistan, the disater at Guatanamo commision, the utter lack of leadership across the boards.

i wouldn't put it past the rethugs for engaging in Operation Mass distraction (aka known as the bailout) in treating it like our economy was destroed by the terrorists(Rm)

It was...by BushCo and the neocons.

MsJoanne @ 94:

constituent @ 84:

housing sales not good

http://www.cnbc.com/id/26886443

Job losses were equally bad...worst in 17 years.

BUSH does nothing to instill confidence.this is the guy they voted for over mccain in 2000.

constituent @ 98:

MsJoanne @ 94:

constituent @ 84:

housing sales not good

http://www.cnbc.com/id/26886443

Job losses were equally bad...worst in 17 years.

BUSH does nothing to instill confidence.this is the guy they voted for over mccain in 2000.

Now it's looking like Bush was the better pick. Oh Gawd, what am I saying?

MsJoanne @ 101:

Ron @ 100:

constituent @ 98:

MsJoanne @ 94:

BUSH does nothing to instill confidence.this is the guy they voted for over mccain in 2000.

Now it's looking like Bush was the better pick. Oh Gawd, what am I saying?

No. McCain was a vastly different person then. He called bullshit on the religious right. Even I could have accepted him back then.

Now he's just power hungry and wants to be president before he dies. He is not qualified, he is too ignorant, and now, more than ever, is totally beholden to the fundies.

I know. I actually considered him in 2000.

MsJoanne @ 103:

Well, all...I am going to hit the sack. Sweet dreams all around.

Didn't mean to bore you. Sweet dreams.

Regarding John McCain's erratic behavior and his "eye" thing which no one was explaining to me what it could be a symptom of.. Well I found a possible answer over at Reddit...

"McCain has had a mini-stroke. Think about it. Recently, a rumor floated out into the ether that McCain had had a stroke. Then, he's suddenly off tv, needed to "help fix the economy". DOES NOT want to debate, and sat very quietly in the White House meeting today....

update-addressing the reporters after the WH meeting, he sounded slightly confused and very subdued.

I hope he's taking care of himself. If He's not doing well he should really take it easy."

MsJoanne @ 88:

Orangutan. @ 77:

War Games.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eootfzAhAoU Cynthia McKinney calls out Rumsfeld. Later faces unprecedented opposition in her house candidacy in Georgia. Loses. Faces voting fraud. Faces harassment. Loses.

Who is going to stick up for her. She sure as hell stuck up for us.

What happened in GA? That is very sad. So few people with any spine in our government.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5965670944815984616

MsJoanne @ 93:

Orangutan. @ 82:

smiling dog @ 71:

We lived it out. The New York Times didn't print it (until after). Maybe the Joe Wilson thing, but that was just scratching the surface. Funny, because when I saw the movie I was naive enough to think, "Of course they'll print it." Looking back now, that movie seems darn right optimistic.

All the news that's fit to print... That's it. Who knows what they don't. Luckily we have the blogs now to get an idea.

Oy. I don't know if I can take much more before blowing my fucking brains out.

No. No. MsJoanee. Please we need people like you to continue spreading the word if we are going to succeed. Please keep up the fight.

Sarah Palin shows her true colors when interviewed by the press...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NGXlsqPL2A

109 constituent Says: hey marge and dennis…..what do you think of this. pasteur muthee
laying on the hands to rid palin of witchcraft? wow…….
go to 7:45 on the video………potentially the next president. religion
is personal but this is a bit much…..i wonder what the evangelicals
think about this……probably normal

http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/.....arah-palin
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Here's the 2 min 50 that starts at the 7:45 mark ..
Sarah Palin, Thomas Muthee and witchcraft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-on3kfWuE

Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 107:

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CCAGW Blasts Chairman Obey for $1 Trillion Budget Circus
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ccagw-blasts-chairman-obey-1/story...

The bill, H.R. 2638, will fund nine of the twelve appropriations bills at fiscal year 2008 levels until March 6, 2009. It contains billions in congressional earmarks. H.R. 2638 also contains language which appropriates $7 billion of an authorized $50 billion in loan guarantees to bailout Detroit's "Big Three" automakers. The bill contains a $600 billion "security omnibus" bill combining the remaining three appropriations bills (Military Construction/Veterans Affairs, Defense, and Homeland Security), as well as $22.9 billion in so-called disaster relief. Lawmakers also rammed through a separate $600 billion Defense Authorization bill, which passed by a vote of 392 to 39.

We're being taken to the cleaners...

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Sorry...
I need a bigger calculator here folks...
Please reread the last line...
$600,000,000,000.00 (defense authorization)
$600,000,000,000.00 (DOD “security omnibus” bill)
$700,000,000,000.00 (CEO bail out)
... with all the other add on billions...

FY '09 begins when...?
October 1st...?

... NOW I understand the "URGENCY" to get this "Bail out" done by the EOM.

FY'09 is adding up close to $2,000,000,000,000.00

Shhhhhh.........

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Hi, folks!

It's me, your pal Mojopo. According to me, John McCain explained why he is mucking up the economic bail-out/photo op by explaining his motivation: a very small penis. The story is safe for work, and you can read it here (on my stupid blog), Mojopost. Hope you like. I'm writing my ass off to make you smile. As often as possible.

Thanks for reading!

--Mojopo

mojopo @ 118:

Hi, folks!

It's me, your pal Mojopo. According to me, John McCain explained why he is mucking up the economic bail-out/photo op by explaining his motivation: a very small penis. The story is safe for work, and you can read it here (on my stupid blog), Mojopost. Hope you like. I'm writing my ass off to make you smile. As often as possible.

Thanks for reading!

--Mojopo

ouch.....................funny and rather descriptive

it's impossible to describe how deranged it is trying to understand what the hell is going on in this country (except to know that the BushFelons are robbing us once again). I thought a moment of sobriety may be in order by getting a British view of the matter:

"I would sum up his two terms in four words: hubris followed by nemesis. . . .

"The irony of the Bush years is that a man who came into office committed to both celebrating and reinforcing sovereign, unbridled national power has presided over the weakening of that power in all three dimensions: military, economic and soft. . . .

"The massive, culpable distraction of Iraq, Bush's war of choice, leaves the US - and with it the rest of the west - on the verge of losing the war of necessity. Here, resurgent in Afghanistan and Pakistan, are the jihadist enemies who attacked the US on September 11 2001. By misusing military power, Bush has weakened it.

"Economically, the Bush presidency ends with a financial meltdown on a scale not seen for 70 years. The proud conservative deregulators (John McCain long among them) now oversee a partial nationalisation of the American economy that would make even a French socialist blush. . . .

"As for the decline in American soft power, . . . [h]is arrogance, his unilateralism, his insensitivity, his long-time denial of the need for urgent action on climate change: all fed directly into the plummeting credit of the US around the world. It would have been a different story with a different president.

Timothy Garton Ash writes in the Guardian (source: Dan Froomkin)

Did McCain wake up Monday morning and decide to make himself the laughingstock of the country? If so would that make him a genius?

GNA!

WHERE THE HELL IS DICK CHENEY????
Don't be surprised that under the distraction of the bailout and the debates, Cheney is plotting something really big for the dying days. you don't think he's going quietly? Is Halliburton going to build a line of cheap clapboards across America as a solution to the housing problem? Keep an eye on Condi in the next couple of months. Trace her movements. The US drones invading North Pakistan is getting me very suspicious.

The line in Three Days of The Condor about once the people are starving, they don't care how you get it as long as you get it to them. This rings so true today.

As someone with medical experience I can't see McCain lasting the distance with all this extra stress on him. Those cancers could be metastisising as we speak.

The bail out is a fraud, cooked up by Bush and the GOP to steal more taxpayer money and blame it all on the Democrats. If it was so necessary why are so many of the Republicans against it? Tell the Democrats don't be suckered again. Let the bail out die!

MountainMan23 @ 85:

Paulson Retreats on Pay, Equity Measures in Bailout

As Goldman's chief, Paulson himself received an $18.7 million cash bonus for the first half of 2006, and in 2005 he was the highest paid chief executive officer on Wall Street, reaping $38.3 million in salary, stock and options.

He had also accumulated 3.23 million shares of Goldman's common stock worth $492 million, plus restricted shares worth $75.2 million and options to purchase 680,474 shares, according to a Goldman regulatory filing on July 2, 2006.

$18.7 + 38.3 + 492 + 75.2 = $624.2 MILLION

That's 11,777 times the $53,000 median American family income.

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if one assumes 2 years involved, he was paid $6 MLN/week or $1.2 MLN/work day..

With 8 hours of work/day, Paulson was paid $150,000/HOUR !! or $2,500 for EVERY friggin' MINUTE. $41.60 a SECOND..

For each 5 minutes bathroom break he was compensated $12,500. With the price of GOLD @ ~$1,000/oz, in 5 minutes he must have crapped 12.5 oz (35 dkg !!!) of PURE GOLD !! Nothing else could be as valuable - to be paid SO MUCH !!!

When I finally got thru to Chris dudd's office yesterday, and some chirping staffer took the call, she was very ignorant. So I asked her would she buy a CAR (not a used one, but brand NEW), from ANY of the THREE STOOGES: Paulson, Bernanke or Cox. She could not answer.
Since they do not accept regular emails (online form does not allow for attachment), she gave me the FAX number. It didn't work. End of story w/DUDD.

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Video of Greg Palast discussing the upcoming elections...
http://blip.tv/file/1288079
33:22

Video of RFK Jr. discussing the media complicity and US corporatism...
http://blip.tv/file/1288446
32:06

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Thank you Sydney.

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Pelosi Won't Touch Impeachment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO1-HBXarRs

Minimum wage DOES NOT halt unwarranted spying...
Veteran bills DO NOT halt usurped Congressional power...
Energy bills DO NOT halt conspired acts of TORTURE...

"I, ______, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.''

"OFF THE TABLE" = "PURPOSE OF EVASION"!

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Bush's bailout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3dMWRUBlz4

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How many of these house republicans rejecting the deal are part of the group that came to Washington promising they would leave after two terms???

How many were around when the house republicans shut down the government???

The Washington Post have just published a newspaper story documenting the $25,000.00 worth of gifts,

that Gov. Sarah Palin has received from assorted Lobbyists with pending regulations and petitions for state money allocations.

Can we now call her Mrs Ted Stevens. And will there be investigations by the FBI GAO DoJ etc.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows.

honorific tributes, which are a visible tie, hidden things happen at these events

expensive artwork

free travel for a family member

more than $2,500 in personal items from Calista, a large corporation with a variety of pending state regulatory and budgetary issues

a jewelry valued at $1,200 from a lobbyist from Nome with heavy interest in municipal, local and capital budget matters

On forms disclosing the gifts, Palin, who is the Republican vice presidential nominee, routinely checked "no"

when asked whether she was in a position to "take official action that may affect the person who gave me the gift,"

and a spokeswoman for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign said the gifts had no undue influence on her.

I've been saying it for years. We are like ANTS. Look down some time and look at the similarities. The one thing that scares me though in the comparison is, there are so many of us and we are dispensible.
The power people are politicians, wealthy businessman and media, make no mistake about it. They can make things happen, make things known as to what they want you to know.
Thie closing of this movie was amazing. It reminds me of that scene in Hunt For Red October when the captain says to the KBG admiral........"Your arrogance has killed us".

As electoral-vote.com put it this morning:

When you read that this "crisis" is about economics, don't believe a word of it. It is 100% politics, pure and simple. Yes, something needs to be done, but if the markets know that Congress is working on it, they will wait a few weeks before dissolving in a puddle.

The movie "The Unforgiven" teaches us
.............................in time, every bully picks the wrong fight!
For the USA, it's there....right around the corner. The corner being November 4th.