In terms of unconstitutional centralization and use of power, I have had many reasons to wish Bush had never acquired the presidency. Nevertheless, I think we’re going to miss Bush’s “fascism” when we meet the real thing: Here’s the plan for the SS and I’m sure there will be a youth division too:
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Memo to Craigslist: you might want to inform your users that we are not yet in a deflationary spiral. Otherwise, I think your value as a job site might imitate the value offered here:
GRAPHIC ARTS AND FRONT OFFICE (St. Louis Southwest County)
Reply to: job-895103520@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-10-27, 9:14AM CDT
Employee needed to multi task. Part of the day on [...]
Briefly following up:
First, from Reuters:
“In our opinion, NCC was in essence forced into finding an acquirer at a panic price,” said Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Kevin St. Pierre, who considers the deal a “boon” for PNC shareholders and a “boondoggle” for NCC shareholders…
Commenting on possible reasons for the sale, Citigroup analyst Keith Horowitz said “it [...]
Normally this would simply be a friendfeed item. But I don’t like blogging too irregularly and I’m busy at the moment. So it will do.
U.S. Rep. Steven C. LaTourette (R-OH) says he fears that John Dugan, Comptroller of the Currency, steered $7.7 billion of taxpayer bailout money to his former client, PNC, so it could [...]
If I’m going to post music, I can’t overlook this.
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So here are a few I found and now post for your pleasure. I include links because I have learned not everyone sees my embedded videos.
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Not sure Michelle sees it that way, but I think Reagan stands out as courageous for realizing that it was wrong to think that peacekeeping in the Middle East was worth American blood. He got us out after reconsidering his decision, from the standpoint of over two hundred killed. Strangely, for many, “never forget” seems [...]
Any time a god saves people he gives them a new song.
The worst thing I can say is that I’m tempted to wish on the singers the fulfillment of their wishes.
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I have no idea if Naomi Wolf’s book is any good or not. I’m not even done with the video. I have it paused now at 1:45.
But what is Meredith Vierra thinking and what are viewers supposed to think?
Wolf reports that the First Brigade is being deployed in the United States in contravention to ….
Well, [...]
That’s how the establishment responds to the prophesied Judgment Day: “It is all their fault”
Thus, the Slate rant. But you gotta love the irony:
The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school. Like [...]
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Newsweek: “Vulture’s in Miami’s Real Estate Market”:
Not since a hurricane devastated Miami in 1926 has the city offered so much property at such steep discounts. “You’re not going to see a new condo go up in this town for seven years, minimum,” says Zalewski. “The common Joe can’t get a mortgage, and a 40% downpayment [...]
Watch this video.
How has the price of gasoline affected your purchasing power in other areas? How has it affected prices.
Again, watch the video. Wall Street was banking (literally?) on those high prices to keep them going. It’s not about resource depletion. It is about speculation and a desperate attempt to keep living large. Now that [...]
I mentioned earlier that I felt like I was stuck in an Ayn Rand novel. A favorite sci fi author reminded me of some more details about why that is. I think some writer’s scoffed that Rand would name a government bureaucrat, who blackmailed and stole from corporate heads, “Wesley Mouch.”
Can you imagine the reaction [...]
Reading this report, I can only hope it is accurate. If the United States was to go into 2009 with a strong economy, that would mean we could be certain to engage in more international warfare on foreign soil. (Who gets elected would have made no difference. The McBama presidency will mean more war unless [...]
I’m too tired to find links or videos or anything, so you’ll have to do all the relevant googling yourself. A couple of fixed points: First, I don’t approve of illegal activity involving deception in order to vote more than once in an election. Second, I would prefer that Obama not be our next president.
Outside [...]
OK, get over the horrible book aesthetics of yesteryear:
Looks like a relevant read (no pun intended on the author’s name).
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CEO Michael Hyatt’s blog post about “the wealth Wall Street can’t touch” is a great reminder of what really matters.
His title, however, reminded me of an editorial I ran across today. I wonder if we could take it further. Maybe Wall Street simply does not have the earth-shattering impact it wants us to think it [...]
October 9, 2008
U.S. May Take Ownership Stake in Banks
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and MARK LANDLER
WASHINGTON — Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, according to government officials.
Treasury officials say the just-passed $700 billion bailout bill gives [...]
I was supposed to go to Nashville today, but Charis broke her arm. She had to go under general anesthetic and get the twice-broken bone set. She’s doing finr.
But I don’t have much time to write anything. And frankly, I don’t have much to say except to rant about the same things as yesterday and [...]
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