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NASDAQ Chairmain Arrested on $50 BILLION fraud - Lindy - 12/12/2008 4:07:52 AM
- The story says up to 20 years and $5 million in fines. (n/t) - TB - 12/13/2008 4:40:38 PM
- He must have missed the last train to Galt's Gulch. - ER - 12/13/2008 12:52:42 PM
- Sure glad it wasn't a union with $50 million problem. - Bowser - 12/13/2008 4:09:33 AM

WHITE COLLAR BANKS BAILED OUT..Blue COLLAR Jobs left out IN COLD - carl - 12/11/2008 11:32:45 PM
- Bank of America to layoff 35,000 workers - SteveS - 12/12/2008 6:57:15 PM
- Generally speaking, banks aren't union shops - McFly - 12/12/2008 6:18:12 PM
  - Wouldn't have been bailed out if they were. (n/t) - Bowser - 12/13/2008 4:10:40 AM
- Looks that way, don't it? - Lindy - 12/12/2008 12:50:43 AM

Greg Mankiw on tax cuts vs. spending increases - TB - 12/12/2008 6:01:13 PM
- re: Taxes - SteveS - 12/12/2008 6:45:25 PM
  - Its the classic Keynesian strategy: - ER - 12/12/2008 8:17:04 PM
    - Which doesnâ€™t work - SteveS - 12/13/2008 1:20:41 AM
      - Re: Which doesn't work - ER - 12/13/2008 2:52:52 AM

Was the bailout wrong-headed? - Eri - 12/13/2008 2:02:33 AM

The Big 3 - Eri - 11/20/2008 4:42:07 AM
- Why can't they get loans from the banks - zed - 11/21/2008 7:36:48 AM
  - I'm the only one banks are willing to lend to right now. - Eri - 11/22/2008 3:23:34 AM
  - re: Why can't they get loans from the oil companies? - azstrummer - 11/21/2008 10:01:17 PM
  - GM Selling two Jets - carl - 11/21/2008 8:15:40 PM
    - Disconnected, disinterested, distressed - Eri - 11/22/2008 6:58:26 AM
      - re: Disconnected, disinterested, distressed - Grandma Mary - 12/12/2008 5:55:53 PM
- The plan now... - ER - 11/20/2008 1:31:03 PM
  - re: The plan now... - TB - 11/20/2008 8:45:16 PM
    - "I haven't got an answer, but I think I have a plan." - ER - 11/20/2008 11:25:44 PM
      - Selling them the rope - ER - 11/21/2008 3:21:09 AM
      - Very well said, thanks (n/t) - McFly - 11/21/2008 12:58:40 AM
      - re: "I haven't got an answer" - TB - 11/21/2008 12:46:15 AM
        
        I misplaced my response. See "selling them the rope" above. (n/t) - ER - 11/21/2008 3:24:34 AM
  - I hate to say it - azstrummer - 11/20/2008 2:25:59 PM
    - Good post! (n/t) - Eri - 11/20/2008 7:48:12 PM
    - No need to apologize. - ER - 11/20/2008 3:05:17 PM
      - Great article I just read - azstrummer - 11/20/2008 3:39:17 PM
        
        Not that great. - TB - 11/20/2008 11:13:15 PM
        
        No one's disputing - azstrummer - 11/21/2008 2:03:27 PM
        
        Toyota US employee benefits - Laurie Street - 11/21/2008 7:34:48 PM
        
        Actually very impressive - azstrummer - 11/21/2008 8:07:20 PM
        
        re: Actually very impressive - Laurie Street - 11/21/2008 9:20:39 PM
        
        "GM employees once they retire, will not end up on the public dole..." - TB - 11/21/2008 7:03:31 PM
        
        What's your point? - azstrummer - 11/21/2008 9:20:46 PM
        
        They're called "hidden costs." - ER - 11/21/2008 3:06:04 PM
        
        A perspective on Unions from a Union troubleshooter. - Bowser - 11/20/2008 7:58:29 PM
        
        I wish I could write like that - ER - 11/20/2008 4:53:51 PM
- Class warfare. - Bowser - 11/20/2008 8:19:54 AM
  - It isn't about NOT helping workers - Eri - 11/20/2008 2:13:23 PM
    - That's the effect. "Collateral damage." - Bowser - 11/20/2008 8:05:16 PM

"Even as winds calm, more Californians flee fires." This is the middle of November. - Bowser - 11/17/2008 5:36:59 AM
- This is Santa Ana season - podrock - 11/17/2008 7:38:03 PM
  - That would be "Santana winds" - Robert - 11/17/2008 9:28:47 PM
    - re: That would be "Santana winds" - Bomber - 12/12/2008 3:22:16 PM
    - re: That would be "Santana winds" - Bomber - 12/12/2008 3:22:03 PM

Newsweek is a must read this week - azstrummer - 12/10/2008 2:09:05 PM
- That issue is a pure puzzlement. Why should gays be so privileged? - Bowser - 12/10/2008 5:06:51 PM
  - What exactly is your argument with the rabbi on the point he was making? - Socrates II - 12/11/2008 2:11:09 PM
    - Fair question. - Bowser - 12/11/2008 11:56:13 PM
      - I know all about Guilt by Religion - Socrates II - 12/12/2008 4:19:28 AM
        
        very well said Socrates II - Jody - 12/12/2008 10:29:50 AM
    - The rabbi - Lindy - 12/11/2008 5:50:11 PM

"Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel ducks reporters' questions " - Bowser - 12/12/2008 3:53:18 AM
- So who IS "Advisor B?" - TB - 12/12/2008 5:23:22 AM

"Panel blames Bush officials for detainee abuse" - Bowser - 12/12/2008 5:09:20 AM

Obama will name Steven Chu his choice for Energy secretary - AHB - 12/10/2008 10:56:46 PM
- Been reading some of his lectures. He might be good. (n/t) - TB - 12/11/2008 3:58:00 PM
  - This page has some good stuff on Dr. Chu - Socrates II - 12/11/2008 4:25:54 PM
    - Dr. Chu is more than a very good choice - Buck Galaxy - 12/12/2008 1:42:58 AM
      - Come on, not even a little cronyism? - TB - 12/12/2008 1:53:52 AM
        
        Only if Hillary were President - Socrates II - 12/12/2008 3:58:52 AM

15 Billion in Loans overseen by a CAR CZAR - carl - 12/8/2008 9:45:52 PM
- An interesting cartoon on bailing out the auto folks. - Bowser - 12/10/2008 5:27:51 PM
  - Where WAS USA on DEC 8th, 1941? - carl - 12/10/2008 6:16:45 PM
- I hear Blago is looking for a way out of the governor's office (n/t) - Scratch his back and he'll scratch yours - 12/10/2008 2:51:08 AM
- I still don't understand - zed - 12/9/2008 2:33:58 AM
  - re: Not so sure the car makers are doing the convincing (n/t) - SteveS - 12/9/2008 2:48:31 PM
    - Don't BANK on BANKING - carl - 12/9/2008 7:26:59 PM
      - re: Where else you going to go? - SteveS - 12/10/2008 12:48:46 AM
        
        Uhh, Ever Hear of CASH????? - carl - 12/10/2008 6:20:13 PM
        
        re: Uhh? - SteveS - 12/10/2008 8:30:40 PM
        
        You have a point. - ER - 12/11/2008 2:08:11 PM
        
        Times are changing - SteveS - 12/11/2008 4:20:09 PM
        
        The Inverness link did not work for me... - ER - 12/11/2008 6:30:00 PM
        
        re: The Inverness link did not work for me... - SteveS - 12/11/2008 6:51:29 PM
        
        Living on the fault line, or Holy Tomales, Batman! - ER - 12/11/2008 7:01:00 PM
        
        Still there - SteveS - 12/11/2008 7:56:05 PM
        
        Doesn't seem to have changed a bit. - ER - 12/11/2008 8:22:14 PM
      - Besides, banks don't look for weak horses to bet on, they look for strong ones. (n/t) - McFly - 12/9/2008 8:50:37 PM
        
        Please don't interpret the above as a defense of banking... - McFly - 12/9/2008 9:20:55 PM
        
        Banks are LIKE HOOKERS!!!!! - carl - 12/10/2008 4:45:16 PM

OMG poor Santa why do people spread these lie's ;) - brian gyles - 12/11/2008 6:29:37 PM
- Ops that was wrong heres the link - brian gyles - 12/11/2008 6:44:42 PM

Think OBAMA's Transition Team is TAPPED? - carl - 12/11/2008 5:23:17 PM

Blagovich - Yeti - 12/9/2008 5:38:32 PM
- Fitzgerald really really wanted that AG job in the new administration (n/t) - You don't know the Truth - 12/10/2008 2:44:53 AM
  - Pick a handle and stick to it. (n/t) - TB - 12/10/2008 3:57:32 AM
- It appears the Obama administration blew the whistle on him - azstrummer - 12/9/2008 7:45:50 PM
  - re: It appears it's another; That's not the man I knew - SteveS - 12/10/2008 3:25:52 AM
  - keep whistling that floater. (n/t) - Obama is next - 12/10/2008 2:45:50 AM
  - Obama was smart enough to always keep his distance from that guy - z - 12/10/2008 1:21:36 AM
    - Yeah,,, And Resko his next door neighbor (n/t) - More floaters - 12/10/2008 2:46:41 AM
- Media shocked to find corruption in Illinois. - TB - 12/9/2008 6:06:39 PM
  - Well? At least he wasn't caught with a hooker...A little levity thrown in. (n/t) - Jacob - 12/10/2008 11:35:34 PM
  - And Dick Turbin was laying the groundwork for Blago's future pardon...By insisting on Ryan's pardon... (n/t) - Bush didn't act soon enough for Chicago - 12/10/2008 2:48:36 AM
  - Trying to start a shouting match? - McFly - 12/9/2008 8:11:20 PM
  - It is a big story. How, though, is it the media is "shocked"? - Bowser - 12/9/2008 6:25:05 PM
    - Their next shock will be that Obama came from Illinois (n/t) - Fitz really wanted that AG job - 12/10/2008 2:49:42 AM

Get over it, Clinton haters... - Buck Galaxy - 12/7/2008 11:15:44 PM
- "Supple thinking." Is that what we're calling it now? - TB - 12/8/2008 4:16:50 AM
- She may well have a fatal flaw. One would hope not. - Bowser - 12/8/2008 2:01:54 AM
  - '92 '93 health care - Yeti - 12/8/2008 11:10:23 PM
    - My observations were on style, results. - Bowser - 12/9/2008 12:32:49 AM
      - So were mine ;-) - Yeti - 12/9/2008 5:06:29 PM
        
        You get it. Bowser doesn't. - Buck Galaxy - 12/9/2008 5:39:52 PM
        
        Truth as always lies somewhere in the middle - azstrummer - 12/9/2008 8:00:59 PM
        
        This is easy. We'll see how she behaves. - Bowser - 12/9/2008 6:09:50 PM
        
        And behavior will be like a cloud upon which to project what you want. - Yeti - 12/9/2008 6:35:58 PM
        
        I did say that, and I meant that. She thought they voted for HER. - Bowser - 12/9/2008 7:00:11 PM
    - PS - Yeti - 12/8/2008 11:17:50 PM
  - Did you even read the link? - Buck Galaxy - 12/8/2008 3:16:09 AM
    - I share Bowser's skepticism - azstrummer - 12/8/2008 3:13:53 PM
    - Did you read the post? She thinks she's Oprah. - Bowser - 12/8/2008 5:14:04 AM

In Iraq, 'a Prison Full of Innocent Me' - Bowser - 12/6/2008 12:46:22 PM
- re: Guantanamo lawyer tells why he quit - Eric - 12/6/2008 5:31:44 PM
  - Thank you Eric - Lindy - 12/6/2008 5:53:13 PM
    - The answer to your queston... - ER - 12/6/2008 7:55:08 PM
      - The monster called HATE. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/7/2008 9:26:47 PM
        
        What's hate got to do with it? - ER - 12/8/2008 2:37:05 PM
        
        Lots more than you seem to realize. - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/9/2008 12:16:10 AM
        
        I did turn the other cheek... - ER - 12/9/2008 1:41:24 AM
        
        re: What's hate got to do with it? - Lindy - 12/8/2008 5:41:53 PM
        
        Is the party over? - ER - 12/8/2008 7:04:26 PM
        
        And yet... - TB - 12/8/2008 7:46:05 PM
        
        Mea culpa, but EVERYBODY does it... - ER - 12/8/2008 8:40:24 PM
        
        Initiation and response - TB - 12/8/2008 11:33:16 PM
        
        What a hoot! - ER - 12/9/2008 1:04:53 AM
        
        On the other hand... - TB - 12/9/2008 1:47:04 AM
        
        Well, you sure put a stop to THAT, didn't you? - ER - 12/9/2008 1:56:15 AM
        
        Actually... - TB - 12/9/2008 5:56:15 PM
        
        You're encouragement is appreciated, - ER - 12/9/2008 6:25:02 PM
        
        re: And yet... - Lindy - 12/8/2008 7:50:49 PM
        
        The one thing all "obsessives" seem to have in common - TB - 12/8/2008 8:00:59 PM
        
        A very insightful, but not very introspective, comment, (n/t) - ER - 12/8/2008 8:19:38 PM
        
        "you folks" - Mary Anne - 12/7/2008 11:45:29 PM
        
        Fact finding commissions - SDAI-Tech1 - 12/8/2008 12:14:13 AM
        
        "Don't let it make monsters out of you folks" - Lindy - 12/7/2008 11:33:20 PM
        
        PS - Lindy - 12/7/2008 11:37:11 PM
      - re: The answer to your queston... - Lindy - 12/6/2008 9:50:37 PM
        
        Some have managed to make the leap - Lindy - 12/6/2008 10:10:51 PM

NATO supply line attacked in Islamibad AND Peshawar. - Bowser - 12/7/2008 11:58:23 PM
- I'm surprised its taken these guys this long to figure this out. - ER - 12/8/2008 7:13:57 PM
  - It's why I've often questions the prevailing assumptions about war history - azstrummer - 12/9/2008 3:10:30 PM
    - The conventional wisdom is wrong. Sometimes. - ER - 12/9/2008 4:10:50 PM
      - re: The conventional wisdom is wrong. Sometimes. - azstrummer - 12/9/2008 5:38:30 PM
  - My take is that they didn't have Pakistani cooperation before. - Bowser - 12/8/2008 10:08:03 PM
- re: NATO supply line attacked in Islamibad AND Peshawar. - Lindy - 12/8/2008 2:31:00 AM
  - 9/11 happened before we were "over there". - Lee - 12/8/2008 2:50:35 AM

Murmurs of Mortgage Moratoriums - RobVG - 12/8/2008 3:49:22 AM
- re: Murmurs of Mortgage Moratoriums - Lindy - 12/8/2008 8:15:27 PM

New Canadian gernment may fall next week - Laurie Street - 12/1/2008 7:46:34 PM
- I'm just tired of hearing journalists acting like crybabies on TV - zed - 12/5/2008 12:01:40 AM
- I wonder if it will be a legal/constitutional takeover? - Jacob - 12/1/2008 9:57:07 PM
  - re: I wonder if it will be a legal/constitutional takeover? - Andrew - 12/3/2008 11:12:51 PM
    - re: re:Thanks for the info. - John A - 12/4/2008 3:03:08 AM
  - "Allow" a party to run?? - Laurie Street - 12/2/2008 4:38:14 PM
  - re:Power lust, dark logic, yes, "treason" seems like the appropriate word. - Johannes - 12/2/2008 5:54:35 AM
    - Conservative popular vote in the last election: 37.6% - Laurie Street - 12/2/2008 4:33:00 PM
      - Was the word, Coalition, on your ballot in this past election? (n/t) - Jacob - 12/5/2008 5:02:26 PM
        
        That's the expectation: we voted for one party, and expect one party to form the gov't - zed - 12/5/2008 11:41:21 PM
        
        More to the point - zed - 12/5/2008 11:48:34 PM
      - If western Canada wereto separate, it would have a dominant conservative government. - Jacob - 12/5/2008 5:00:24 PM
        
        preference for conservative party - JEKing - 12/5/2008 10:35:57 PM
      - re: Conservative popular vote in the last election: 37.6% - Laurie Street - 12/3/2008 4:50:18 PM
        
        re: re:The petition - Johannes - 12/3/2008 6:46:24 PM
        
        re: re:The petition (n/t) - John deKemp - 12/8/2008 6:41:17 PM
        
        re: re:The petition - Laurie Street - 12/3/2008 8:49:01 PM
        
        re: re:More interesting, yes it even got ME to think about politics. - Johannes - 12/4/2008 2:32:48 AM
- gernment? Wow, that was a typo and a half! Sorry about that gov... (n/t) - Laurie Street - 12/1/2008 7:48:12 PM

New Amero Currency Unveiled - Lindy - 12/7/2008 4:30:47 AM
- It's possible you may be getting your information from a crazy person. - TB - 12/7/2008 5:57:25 AM
  - Snopes was from Oct 2007 - Lindy - 12/7/2008 4:48:34 PM
    - Rule One: The burden of proof is always on the crazy person. - TB - 12/7/2008 8:04:42 PM
      - Item of Interest - Lindy - 12/7/2008 11:22:57 PM
        
        Dig deeper, Lindy, - podrock - 12/8/2008 1:13:54 PM
  - Too bad. - Bowser - 12/7/2008 7:52:54 AM
- re: New Amero Currency Unveiled - David F Mayer - 12/7/2008 5:44:17 AM

"Obama unveils 21st Century New Deal", certainly better spent than on AIG - Bowser - 12/7/2008 7:46:02 AM
- Trains ! - Raoul - 12/7/2008 9:05:59 PM
- Debt - RobVG - 12/7/2008 7:47:38 PM
  - "deficits" (n/t) - RobVG - 12/7/2008 8:43:11 PM
- Infrastructure repairs, upgrades, and expansions are always a good idea. - Lee - 12/7/2008 5:12:33 PM
- re: Start with democratic advisors - SteveS - 12/7/2008 3:59:43 PM
  - Bridges collapse under the just and the unjust alike. - Mary Anne - 12/7/2008 5:41:50 PM
    - The point Steve made... - TB - 12/7/2008 7:53:33 PM
      - re: The point Steve made... - Eri - 12/7/2008 9:41:44 PM
        
        On this, Republicans and Democrats are pretty much all the same. - TB - 12/8/2008 5:04:44 AM
      - High Speed Trains - Raoul - 12/7/2008 8:10:59 PM
        
        City Centers - dtb - 12/8/2008 4:32:15 AM
    - re: I'm all for it - SteveS - 12/7/2008 6:04:42 PM

A small measure of justice: "Obama taps Shinseki as VA secretary" - Bowser - 12/7/2008 7:32:02 AM
- re: A small measure of justice: "Obama taps Shinseki as VA secretary" - Buck Galaxy - 12/7/2008 9:37:08 PM

Revisiting the Obama "small donors" myth - TB - 11/30/2008 9:14:15 AM
- Republicans STILL got their butts kicked (n/t) - Robert - 12/1/2008 5:50:15 PM
  - What George W. Bush says about that. - Bowser - 12/1/2008 7:11:14 PM
    - a "repudiation of Republicans" - Robert - 12/1/2008 9:02:04 PM
  - re: Republicans STILL got their butts kicked - TB - 12/1/2008 6:44:31 PM
- Revisiting the "We couldnt have possibly lost because of our failed policies" myth - ARRELL - 11/30/2008 10:23:16 PM
  - Which policies are those? - TB - 12/1/2008 6:02:35 AM
    - "So far Obama seems to be remarkably comfortable with Business As Usual. " - two words- "Mike Brown" - ARRELL - 12/2/2008 2:17:55 AM
      - re: "Obama is bringing in people based on competence" - SteveS - 12/7/2008 5:18:07 PM
    - Is that a joke? Or can't you really see the difference? (n/t) - Bowser - 12/1/2008 9:35:20 AM
      - It's hysterical blindness. (n/t) - McFly - 12/1/2008 6:14:29 PM
- Stop Press: Lazy shill obsessively hot-links without comment - Put it in your *own* words fella - 11/30/2008 4:58:37 PM
  - Stop Press: Anonymous Schwanzstuckerkopf can't process information unless someone chews it for him. (n/t) - TB - 12/1/2008 4:46:40 AM
    - Yet you, more than anyone else here, make posts that are only a link to a blog.... - ARRELL - 12/2/2008 2:13:03 AM
      - he'll never change - Anon E. Mouse - 12/2/2008 2:57:29 PM
    - who anonymous here? - Anon E. Mouse - 12/1/2008 1:27:58 PM
  - Yell at me too...I am also guilty of doing that (n/t) - Ain't perfect...don't profess to be. - 11/30/2008 6:32:24 PM
- peck, peck, peck... (n/t) - Eri - 11/30/2008 3:28:53 PM

Atheists set up "Holiday" display at state capitol - RobVG - 12/2/2008 3:27:19 AM
- re: display at state capitol - TB - 12/2/2008 7:42:39 PM
- I was briefly a member of the FFRF in college - Buck Galaxy - 12/2/2008 2:57:37 PM
- Shoe on the other foot? - azstrummer - 12/2/2008 2:27:10 PM
  - re: Shoe on the other foot? - RobVG - 12/3/2008 2:47:03 AM
    - re: Shoe on the other foot? - Lindy - 12/7/2008 12:52:30 AM
    - I'll reply to that when I get some time - azstrummer - 12/3/2008 5:58:12 PM
      - No need for a novel, a few lines would be fine. (n/t) - RobVG - 12/4/2008 6:57:03 PM
        
        Okay a brief one - azstrummer - 12/5/2008 4:41:44 PM
        
        A propos of nothing. - Bowser - 12/6/2008 1:20:39 PM
        
        Thanks Art - RobVG - 12/6/2008 12:08:23 AM
        
        re: Thanks Art - Bowser - 12/6/2008 1:26:08 PM
        
        The End - Raoul - 12/7/2008 9:05:21 AM
        
        re: a brief one - TB - 12/5/2008 6:19:56 PM
- [Numerous obscene replies deleted] - Space Moderator Nick - 12/2/2008 11:01:32 AM
  - The sign as it reads is the height of rudeness and arrogance. - Post Sputnik - 12/2/2008 12:09:28 PM
    - Gee, thanks for the tutelage. - RobVG - 12/3/2008 2:54:26 AM
- Too bad they didn't do it on it's own merits. - Bowser - 12/2/2008 4:18:48 AM
  - What about that bust of Washington in the middle? - TB - 12/2/2008 6:25:25 AM
  - Bias Alert - Post Sputnik - 12/2/2008 4:35:33 AM
    - Aren't you up past your bedtime? - Bowser - 12/2/2008 7:32:37 AM
      - The Odds of Rationality - Post Sputnik - 12/2/2008 12:12:46 PM

Caroline KENNEDY Lobbys for Hillarys JOB - carl - 12/6/2008 5:03:14 PM
- re: Caroline KENNEDY Lobbys for Hillarys JOB - Marcia - 12/6/2008 6:59:53 PM

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