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Financial Markets "One step away' from meltdown" - Lindy - 9/15/2008 5:48:39 AM
- Don't worry. Everything's just honky-dory with our financial system! (n/t) - John McCain - 9/15/2008 6:18:32 PM
  - Who you callin' a honky, cracker??! (n/t) - McFly - 9/15/2008 8:48:13 PM
  - If there's anything we Republicans know how to do, it's run an economy and fight a war. (n/t) - hERbERt HoovER - 9/15/2008 7:05:46 PM
    - Priceless! (n/t) - Lindy - 9/15/2008 10:04:27 PM
- re: Financial Markets "One step away' from meltdown" - Andrew - 9/15/2008 6:15:46 AM
  - You can be sure the CEO's will all walk away with their golden parachutes intact. (n/t) - Eri - 9/16/2008 2:26:51 AM

Obama's most important decision... - Buck Galaxy - 9/8/2008 4:07:55 AM
- Does the DNC always take place before the RNC??? - Raoul - 9/8/2008 7:12:34 PM
  - They trade time slots every election year (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 9/9/2008 5:10:32 AM
- Pundit writes essentially the same - Buck Galaxy - 9/8/2008 5:09:46 PM
  - The Conventional wisdom here is still wrong. - Tony - 9/8/2008 9:08:56 PM
    - Minor Detail - Marsby - 9/9/2008 3:10:33 AM
- Obama-Biden will be just fine... - z - 9/8/2008 4:14:38 PM
- re: Obama - Eric - 9/8/2008 12:21:30 PM
- You did not expect the Republicans to get a bounce from their convention? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/8/2008 5:24:23 AM
  - Bounce Yes, Lead No (n/t) - Marsby - 9/9/2008 3:12:23 AM
    - re: Bounce Yes, Lead No - alcaray - 9/9/2008 4:34:58 AM
      - Had you been man enough to make a gentleman's wager... - alcaray - 9/16/2008 2:20:55 AM

The epidemic is spreading, eh? - ER - 9/14/2008 1:41:30 PM
- Hey! - Laurie Street - 9/15/2008 10:09:21 PM
- Far be it from me to slam our northern neighbors. - ER - 9/15/2008 2:34:18 PM
  - The polarization is built in to the process. - Bowser - 9/15/2008 3:12:05 PM
    - re: The polarization is built in to the process. - ER - 9/15/2008 5:36:05 PM
- Well...my PM, Mr. Harper, is not quite comparable to Anne Coulter. - Jacob - 9/15/2008 1:54:12 PM
  - Sorry, Jacob. I misplaced my reply (see "Far be it", above) (n/t) - ER - 9/15/2008 2:36:48 PM
- re: The epidemic is spreading, eh? - Bowser - 9/14/2008 2:17:45 PM
  - re: The epidemic is spreading, eh? - Marsby - 9/15/2008 12:28:51 AM
  - Before I comment on your remarks, - ER - 9/14/2008 3:15:10 PM
    - re: Before I comment on your remarks, - JEKing - 9/14/2008 9:11:12 PM
      - Reason #11 - TB - 9/15/2008 3:46:55 AM
        
        re: Reason #11 - read with caution - nick hoffman - 9/15/2008 5:05:05 AM
        
        Addendum - TB - 9/15/2008 3:56:13 AM
      - Good points. - ER - 9/14/2008 10:30:30 PM
    - Eventually it will come to one of two things. - Eri - 9/14/2008 8:54:15 PM

Can someone help me understand the Merrill Lynch, Bank of America deal. - Bowser - 9/15/2008 3:40:06 PM
- You can write off the losses? - Lindy - 9/15/2008 10:07:59 PM
- Bank of America paid more because despite it all ML fits well with its financial services empire - z - 9/15/2008 6:48:00 PM
  - But it's not as if anyone else would/could buy it. No bidding war of which I'm aware. - Bowser - 9/15/2008 8:23:11 PM
- GREED is Good - carl - 9/15/2008 4:24:22 PM
  - Well, yabbut... - McFly - 9/15/2008 5:19:26 PM

What a calamity building at election time - JEKing - 9/12/2008 11:58:15 PM
- Food for thought, and seems to validate what ER said earlier. - Bowser - 9/13/2008 2:24:09 AM
- If the article is close to accurate, then I hope the Democrats lose. - ER - 9/13/2008 12:40:54 AM
  - Those who don't heed history are doomed to repeat it! - Eri - 9/13/2008 5:48:25 AM
    - ...doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat... - ER - 9/13/2008 11:20:53 AM
      - re: ...doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat... - JEKing - 9/13/2008 4:17:14 PM
        
        re: ...doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat... - ER - 9/13/2008 5:37:56 PM
        
        machinations - JEKing - 9/13/2008 6:54:17 PM
        
        I hope you're right... - ER - 9/13/2008 7:14:58 PM
        
        re: I hope you're right... - JEKing - 9/14/2008 8:11:54 PM
        
        Great poem. Thanks. - ER - 9/15/2008 6:07:35 PM
- If that article is close to accurate... - Eri - 9/13/2008 12:34:55 AM
  - It isn't. - TB - 9/13/2008 7:11:32 PM
    - Heh, heh. Sort of like the GOP. - Bowser - 9/13/2008 8:44:07 PM

Sarah Palin's Myth of America - ER - 9/11/2008 6:02:25 PM
- But Palin's embrace of small-town values is where her hold on the national imagination begins. - Lindy - 9/12/2008 3:07:01 PM
- re: Sarah Palin's Myth of America. - Ok... - Marcia - 9/12/2008 3:47:36 AM
  - A lot of Klein's premises in that article are incorrect. - TB - 9/12/2008 4:32:15 PM
    - OMG - Lindy - 9/12/2008 5:40:22 PM
      - Oh Lindy...what have you done? - McFly - 9/13/2008 12:02:50 AM
  - re: Sarah Palin's Myth of America. - Ok... In Other Words, I agree with that one. (n/t) - Marcia - 9/12/2008 3:49:23 AM
- That's heady stuff. - Bowser - 9/12/2008 2:35:18 AM
  - Ybor City project rat. - ER - 9/12/2008 3:29:00 AM
    - Freudian Slip? - ER - 9/13/2008 6:26:05 PM
    - You don't get it. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2008 7:11:12 AM
      - But I got this much... - ER - 9/12/2008 10:40:59 AM
        
        " Right or wrong, the Left thinks the world can be better, the Right doesn't care as long as ..." (n/t) - they don't have to live in it - 9/12/2008 3:26:06 PM
        
        re: But I got this much... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2008 12:57:12 PM
        
        Of course, the slander is half-hearted... - ER - 9/12/2008 1:35:37 PM
        
        I'll Take Melting Pot Over Muticulturalism Anyday - Marsby - 9/14/2008 3:07:04 AM
        
        I can live with that assessment - ER - 9/14/2008 2:31:38 PM
        
        re: I can live with that assessment - Marsby - 9/15/2008 12:57:19 AM
- Sounds like someone really doesn't like America. - Lee - 9/11/2008 11:23:13 PM
  - re: Take another look at Joe Klein - SteveS - 9/12/2008 1:53:13 AM
    - I'm sure he does like Bush. - Lee - 9/12/2008 3:11:21 AM
      - You been drinking much? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/12/2008 4:35:13 AM
  - Never heard you define yourself so cleary as a white supremacist. - RobVG - 9/12/2008 1:19:22 AM
    - Lee's master race - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 6:14:25 PM
      - Except the beer ain't American. - ER - 9/13/2008 1:35:53 AM
    - And that makes no sense. - Lee - 9/12/2008 3:22:44 AM
  - Play that funky music, white boy. - ER - 9/12/2008 12:33:27 AM
    - You must not be able to take it either. - Lee - 9/12/2008 3:17:58 AM
      - Hey Lee, from one white man to another... - Buck Galaxy - 9/13/2008 6:25:12 PM
      - We? WE???? - Mary Anne - 9/12/2008 5:29:54 PM
        
        Just making a retort Mary Anne. - Lee - 9/12/2008 11:36:06 PM
        
        The Red and the Black... - Mary Anne - 9/14/2008 2:31:52 AM
        
        The Cubans have a saying... - ER - 9/13/2008 1:24:08 AM
        
        Keeping this impersonal - Lee - 9/13/2008 3:08:51 AM
        
        So how does this prove the superiority of the white race? - ER - 9/13/2008 1:45:46 PM
        
        The only person talking "superiority" is you. - Lee - 9/13/2008 4:07:38 PM
        
        Since you asked. Here's the real deal. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2008 12:10:06 AM
        
        Awesome post - The Silent Majority - 9/15/2008 3:40:05 AM
        
        Oh, your reply right here does a pretty good job of talking up white supremacist opinion. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/13/2008 4:37:15 PM
        
        Q.E.D. - ER - 9/13/2008 6:56:54 PM
        
        What's really funny. - alcaray - 9/13/2008 8:34:08 PM
        
        Not only that, - ER - 9/13/2008 11:07:44 PM
        
        You've got that wrong. - Lee - 9/14/2008 12:57:30 AM
        
        So you're saying it's white capitalists who are responsible? - ER - 9/14/2008 1:53:39 AM
      - You're out of line, Lee - RobertS - 9/12/2008 4:57:51 AM
        
        I agree, Robert. - Lee - 9/12/2008 11:26:56 PM
      - Geeze, at least get your ethnic slurs right... - z - 9/12/2008 3:38:11 AM
        
        a little more on this slur... - z - 9/12/2008 2:35:25 PM
        
        In some parts of the South and West... - ER - 9/12/2008 6:49:07 PM
        
        A veces estoy harto de explicar a esos pendejos - z - 9/12/2008 9:12:04 PM
        
        I don't know what a "pupusa" is... - ER - 9/13/2008 1:33:56 AM
        
        Tasty, sort of empanada-like. Central American... El Salvadoran? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/13/2008 5:30:07 AM
        
        It sounds absolutely dreadful, - ER - 9/13/2008 2:16:02 PM
        
        pupusas are pretty popular hereabouts - alcaray - 9/13/2008 6:47:53 PM
      - The real reason we come here... - ER - 9/12/2008 3:33:15 AM
        
        I suspect they hold no attraction in this case. - Bowser - 9/12/2008 7:49:12 AM
- Gibson's first interview. Got her first passport this year, and ready to be president.. - Bowser - 9/11/2008 10:23:22 PM
  - She's a female GWB who doesn't trip over her tongue. Yet. (n/t) - Eri - 9/12/2008 3:14:20 AM
  - Unfortunately I think Sarah Palin missed her true calling in life - z - 9/12/2008 2:10:18 AM
    - Yeah, DEAD Ringer for Tina Fey of SNL Fame - carl - 9/12/2008 3:09:24 PM
      - You think she's got that much of a sense of humor? (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/12/2008 6:48:02 PM
    - Hmmmm - Eri - 9/12/2008 3:15:23 AM
      - No, she's the religious fanatic who would have eagerly judged and burned the witches... (n/t) - z - 9/12/2008 3:22:24 AM
        
        Well... - Eri - 9/12/2008 1:03:14 PM

Alaskan People Campaign against Sarah Palin - Lindy - 9/15/2008 3:30:28 AM

Rove calls McCain a lying sack. - alcaray - 9/14/2008 10:39:16 PM
- You think maybe... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/15/2008 12:03:55 AM
  - Wha? - alcaray - 9/15/2008 12:37:39 AM

Women's liberation isn't dead. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2008 5:58:40 AM
- When you start to talk to teenagers on the path to *success*, then we'll talk. - Mary Anne - 9/12/2008 5:53:43 PM
  - See... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2008 9:25:18 PM
    - The role of cliques is highly exaggerated. - tigER beat - 9/13/2008 11:34:50 AM
    - Techie, with your photographic memory- could you define 'clicks' as you used it? - ARRELL - 9/13/2008 4:33:22 AM
      - Still looking for gotchas? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/13/2008 10:42:37 PM
        
        How do you hang out in a verb? (n/t) - ARRELL - 9/13/2008 11:51:22 PM
        
        re: How do you hang out in a verb? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2008 12:51:53 AM
        
        In your own words... - ARRELL - 9/14/2008 5:36:57 PM
- Did you WATCH her flub the softball interview...?! - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 3:22:47 PM
  - She's Not and Neither is Obama - Marsby - 9/14/2008 12:50:33 AM
  - Context. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2008 9:58:34 PM
  - Techie's just pushing buttons - Tony - 9/12/2008 5:07:42 PM
    - my post was also in response to his defense of palin on flame - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 5:21:25 PM
- re: Women's liberation isn't dead. - Lindy - 9/12/2008 2:55:10 PM
  - It isn't so much... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2008 9:42:49 PM

"Group With Swift Boat Alumni Readies Ads Attacking Obama" - Bowser - 9/14/2008 2:26:21 AM

Honduras blocks accredation of US ambassador. - Bowser - 9/14/2008 1:31:04 AM

One man you never want to see in your town... - Jody - 9/13/2008 11:19:16 AM
- I thought you were talking about this guy. - Lee - 9/13/2008 2:40:35 PM

Ouch! Palin appears lost and in way over her head in Gibson interview... - z - 9/12/2008 4:02:41 AM
- Never mind about her not being ready to be president. (n/t) - She wasn't even ready for this interview - 9/12/2008 2:59:10 PM
- And Gibson's personal political beliefs mirror Limbaughs. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/12/2008 5:02:13 AM
- I may be biased.... - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 4:15:50 AM
  - re: Considering Gibbson got the Bush Doctrine wrong - SteveS - 9/13/2008 11:48:49 AM
  - We'll see the entire interview tonight - Buck Galaxy - 9/12/2008 10:14:18 PM
  - re: I may be biased.... - Andrew - 9/12/2008 6:48:08 PM
    - re: I may be biased.... - Lindy - 9/12/2008 8:27:44 PM
      - "People who CARE about their country..." - McFly - 9/12/2008 11:43:56 PM
        
        They just released the part of the interview which gave her views on pro-life - Lindy - 9/13/2008 2:41:10 AM

Galveston, oh Galveston - nick hoffman - 9/13/2008 7:03:34 AM

Pungent discussion of recent 'ID" arguments - JEKing - 9/10/2008 4:42:31 AM
- Absolutism of Reality..Hans Blumenberg - Jody - 9/10/2008 12:14:15 PM
  - I tell my fortune with chicken bones. - ER - 9/10/2008 1:14:37 PM
    - Okay Snidely Whiplash.... - Jody - 9/10/2008 4:04:39 PM
      - That's Oil Can Harry to you, Miss Fenwick. - ER - 9/10/2008 5:23:29 PM
        
        ER would like CS Peirce - JEKing - 9/13/2008 5:07:11 AM
        
        He he...You can tie me up now Harry... - Miss Fenwick - 9/10/2008 9:31:48 PM
        
        That won't be necessary... - ER - 9/11/2008 6:33:35 PM
      - "God works in mysterious ways." - Bowser - 9/10/2008 4:45:50 PM
        
        My my! Bowser had tacks for breakfast...:) - Jody - 9/10/2008 9:37:15 PM
        
        Me thinks I may have mis-interpreted the quote I posted. - Jody - 9/10/2008 5:13:45 PM
        
        Interpreting your quote - "why are you being a poophead?" - Bowser - 9/10/2008 5:28:17 PM
        
        OMG Bowser... - Jody needed a laugh - 9/10/2008 9:33:32 PM
        
        Me too. :-) (n/t) - Bowser - 9/10/2008 9:53:10 PM
    - "Oh, but that is different" - Jody - 9/10/2008 3:54:42 PM

McCain campaign's pathetic attempt to play the gender card - z - 9/10/2008 3:03:54 PM
- I agree however - Buck Galaxy - 9/11/2008 6:42:19 AM
  - Palin doesn't own the word "lipstick". - Mary Anne - 9/11/2008 3:20:02 PM
    - correction: - Mary Anne - 9/11/2008 3:24:57 PM
      - McCain used the expression describing Hillary's health plan. - Bowser - 9/11/2008 5:50:29 PM
  - nonsense - McFly - 9/11/2008 1:38:15 PM
    - re: nonsense, yes - Buck Galaxy - 9/11/2008 3:53:33 PM
      - I don't think anyone who heard Obama or who read a complete transcript... - alcaray - 9/11/2008 10:39:45 PM
        
        re: I think Liz did - SteveS - 9/12/2008 12:07:26 AM
        
        At this point, some liberals are just making fun of you guys. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/12/2008 12:14:14 AM
        
        re: Like CNN? - SteveS - 9/12/2008 12:20:10 AM
        
        I thought we were talking about lipstick on a pig. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/12/2008 1:12:30 AM
        
        re: We were - SteveS - 9/12/2008 1:47:33 AM
        
        Obama stuff pre-dated Liz stuff. This is kinda silly, right? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/12/2008 2:03:23 AM
        
        re: I guess, if you read like that - SteveS - 9/12/2008 2:31:41 AM
        
        I was pointing out that there were silly photoshoped things about Obama before there were silly photoshoped things about Palin. - alcaray - 9/12/2008 2:42:02 AM
        
        re: I was pointing out that there were silly photoshoped things about Obama before there were silly photoshoped things about Palin. - SteveS - 9/12/2008 1:15:29 PM
        
        Then have a thread about it, instead of turning any thread where you are losing traction into one about media bias. - alcaray - 9/12/2008 5:20:00 PM
        
        re: Oh please! You were the one losing the point - SteveS - 9/12/2008 9:33:51 PM
        
        We don't seem to be communicating at all. - alcaray - 9/12/2008 9:58:38 PM
        
        re: Thanks - SteveS - 9/13/2008 1:16:30 AM
        
        At this point 'silly' is all they got... - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 2:15:42 AM
  - Not that dumb, really - Lindy - 9/11/2008 12:02:37 PM
  - In that case, can you get McCain to lay off the word "change"? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/11/2008 7:36:18 AM
- You can put lipstick on a hockey mom... - McFly - 9/10/2008 4:52:53 PM
- re: Things are going to change with McCain...or will they? - Eric - 9/10/2008 4:17:13 PM

I am reluctant to express this, but - E.P. - 9/12/2008 7:15:31 PM
- Truthfully - Eri - 9/13/2008 12:30:27 AM

Palin's climate remarks conflict with past views - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 4:08:32 PM
- link - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 4:09:24 PM

Bolivia and Venezuela both expel American ambassadors. - Bowser - 9/12/2008 3:04:25 AM
- re: Bolivia and Venezuela both expel American ambassadors. - Marcia - 9/12/2008 4:00:21 AM
  - Bush set up CIA operation to take out Chavez, or did you forget? (n/t) - Lindy - 9/12/2008 3:02:20 PM
    - My next question would be..... - Lindy - 9/12/2008 3:20:12 PM

Former ethics adviser warned Palin about her actions - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 5:24:36 AM
- Of course they'll reject subpoenas! Republicans are ABOVE the law, you know! (n/t) - Eri - 9/12/2008 12:56:32 PM

Bush - with pretzeled logic has moved from nukes, WMDs, democracy, stability, winning to "success". - Bowser - 9/12/2008 7:46:15 AM

Another wedding! - Peter Bruener - 9/12/2008 6:50:59 AM
- Pretend you're a profiler. That's all kind of humorous to you, isn't it? - Bowser - 9/12/2008 7:12:50 AM

Russia builds new Super Electromagnetic Super Weapon - Lindy - 9/11/2008 1:31:41 AM
- Wonderful example of an article that says less than nothing.... - ARRELL - 9/11/2008 7:33:46 PM
- It is impossible to take photographs or film a video of the new generator in action because it immediately puts all electronic devices out of order. - SDG - 9/11/2008 6:38:53 AM
  - I can't imagine what there would be to see. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/11/2008 6:45:07 PM
  - Unless I am mistaken, - ER - 9/11/2008 10:18:29 AM
- How soon before we can steal the plans? (n/t) - Eri - 9/11/2008 3:12:22 AM
  - To quote USAF General Buck Turgidson. - Jacob - 9/11/2008 6:09:17 PM
    - One of my fave movies! - Eri - 9/12/2008 3:16:28 AM

"Pentagon official: Afghan strategy not working." - Bowser - 9/10/2008 10:17:33 PM
- Translation... - Eric - 9/11/2008 4:57:39 PM
  - They aren't doing "hearts and minds", just expanding the war to Pakistan. - Bowser - 9/11/2008 5:58:58 PM
    - Excursions into Pakistan - Lindy - 9/12/2008 3:09:00 AM

McCain criticized Wasilla earmarks in 2001 - ARRELL - 9/11/2008 2:17:06 AM
- re: Obama-Biden have one to answer about - SteveS - 9/12/2008 12:17:35 AM

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