Ex-president Bush shakes hands with ex-president McCain, who was officially replaced as president today, after a stroke left him with the communication skills of a very bright rutabaga, (a cross between a cabbage and a turnip.) McCain’s wicked shiner was not explained. Excerpts from Mark Crispin Miller: (my emphasis) The choice of Sarah Palin has been widely and repeatedly assailed …
I’m out sitting in the sun reading a book my wife had left on the tub. Anne Lamott‘s Grace (Eventually). I’m just beginning page twenty when my eyes get pulled off the page by a moving blur coming towards me. It’s two dragonflies; they’re stuck together, and by God, they are going to land on me come hell or …
As ye sew, so shall ye reap… A list of what this latest, inevitable crash of Wall Street has cost some of its leading enablers (from yesterday’s NY Times). Surprising how, in the case of former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson, a $300 million loss to his portfolio would lead him to demand absolute, non-reviewable power to spend $700 billion …
1: Steal 2000 and 2004 elections. 2. Appoint proven corporatist attorneys like John Roberts to the Supreme Court. 3. Appoint morons like Michael D. “Brownie” Brown to run critical government agencies like FEMA to prove Reagan’s mantram that government is the problem, not the solution. 4: Start two expensive wars while simultaneously cutting taxes. 5. Deregulate Wall Street. 6. Bail …
Guess who took this picture. John McCain still thinks someone wants to put him in a box. “When you’ve lived in a box, you “only have time for right,” says a deep cowboy voice oozing authenticity, while the orgasmically large flat screen shows the aged maverick returning to his Vietnam prison cell and “forgiving” his captors— and their nation— for, …
From “As the sky grows” by Driftglass: …the candidates weigh in (all quotes for entertainment purposes only.) Senator McSame leaps boldly into the fray: “I Can Haz Always Been An Deregulator! Capitalism 4Evah! Wall Street Roolz! You know, back when I was a guest of the North Vietnamese, I too knew what it was to be heavily regulated!” One of …
“The fish love to be around those rigs.” This means they think off-shore drilling is not only safe but necessary. But will they love to be around China’s oil rigs off Cuba? You need to ask?? More than 600,000 Americans have lost their jobs since January. Home foreclosures are skyrocketing, and home values are plunging. Wall Street is hemorrhaging like …
