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Archive for September 22nd, 2008

By- Suzie-Q @ 8:45 PM MST

Nice Bailout. Now Pay For It!
How are we going to pay for Wall Street’s $700 billion rescue?
By Daniel Gross | NEWSWEEK

Published Sep 22, 2008
To spend is to tax, as capitalist deity Milton Friedman is said to have put it. If so, over the last several months, we’ve seen an orgy of [...]

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The Sarah Palin Effect

By- Suzie-Q @ 7:30 PM MST
The Palin effect
Daily Kos- by kos
Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 07:00:26 PM PDT

PPP teases us about their Colorado poll tomorrow, giving us a “clue”:
Date                   9-9     9-21
Palin Favorability 41/38   38/47
Spread Obama +1   ?
What’s PPP getting at here? Obviously, [...]

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Court Has Ordered Release Of Pentagon Prisoner Abuse Photos

By- Suzie-Q @ 5:45 PM MST

Court orders release of Pentagon prisoner abuse pics
Raw Story- Nick Juliano
Published: Monday September 22, 2008
A federal appeals court on Monday ordered the Bush administration to hand over photos depicting abuse of prisoners held by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, handing the American Civil Liberties Union a victory in [...]

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Dirty Secret of the Bailout: 32 Words

Posted by Basheert @ 1:24pm via Huffington Post

A critical – and radical – component of the bailout package proposed by the Bush administration has thus far failed to garner the serious attention of anyone in the press. Section 8 (which ironically reminds one of the popular name of the portion of the 1937 Housing Act [...]

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By- Suzie-Q @ 12:05 PM MST

McCain’s Latest Stupid Obstinacy Could End the Election Today (w/Digg Link)
Daily Kos- by sluggahjells
Sun Sep 21, 2008 at 10:43:50 PM PDT
Make no mistake that if this goes viral, which it should and probably will since it was on CBS, that the election could be over tomorrow.

The reason for the dramatic [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… Rock The Casbah

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:00 PM MST

The Clash – Rock The Casbah

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Emmys: Tina Fey Wants To Stop Playing Sarah Palin

By- Suzie-Q @ 10:15 AM MST
Tina Fey’s Emmy Night: Humble, Wants To Stop Playing Sarah Palin
September 22, 2008 08:07 AM EST |
LOS ANGELES — Isn’t it just like Tina Fey to have something go haywire on the night she’s recognized for her many talents?
“If anyone’s seen my purse,” Fey announced to reporters backstage after [...]

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Naomi Klein Discusses “Disaster Capitalism” On Real Time With Bill Maher (VIDEO)

posted @ 18:10 BST

Naomi Klein, author of the book “The Shock Doctrine,” was a guest on Bill Maher’s HBO Show, “Real Time.” Klein’s book posits that certain people often like when there is a disaster because it allows them to rationalize making radical and unpopular changes that normally the citizenry would [...]

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The Paulson Plan

posted @ 18:00 BST

“I deserted Colonel Hamilton, or rather Colonel Hamilton deserted me; in a word, the divergence between us took place from his wishing… to administer the Government into what he thought it ought to be…” Representative James Madison
Constance Lavender | OEN | September 21, 2008
He is the most powerful United States Secretary of [...]

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Obama Statement on the Bailout

posted @ 17:40 BST
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama as Prepared for Delivery, Charlotte, North Carolina, Sunday, September 21, 2008
The news of the day isn’t good.
The era of greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street and in Washington has led us to a perilous moment. They said they wanted to let the market run free but instead [...]

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The Financial Crisis And ‘The Keating Five’

By- Suzie-Q @ 9:30 AM MST

Three Times is Enemy Action
Daily Kos- by Devilstower
Sun Sep 21, 2008 at 06:03:41 AM PDT
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is Enemy Action.”
– Auric Goldfinger
James Bond’s wealthy nemesis may have had an obsession with gold, but he judged, quite correctly, that if people keep putting your plans awry, [...]

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