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Horton Hears Who's Voting

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:10:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: another great saying: Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.

Clip Source: nametk.blogspot.com

I still say that democracy is being allowed to vote on getting a sharp stick in the eye, but when you show up at the poll, the choices are Right or Left.

Horton Hears Who's Voting

Tags: vote

won't someone please think of the bankers?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:56:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: it's not their fault they bought and sold loans no one was going to pay back

Clip Source: www.salon.com

McCain’s plan to overpay mortgage lenders

a denunciation of the plan delivered by economist Brad DeLong who says that “McCain’s plan is for the government to buy up $300 billion of distressed mortgages not at current market value but at full face value,” which, he says, would amount to a $100 billion handout to the bankers who made the original loans.

Gods of the Market

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:08:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bargaineering.com

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more

Rudyard Kipling

‘The Gods of the Copybook Headings’

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship.”

… Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, Professor of History, College of Edinburgh, Scotland (but that’s been disputed).

Tags: financial, crisis, common, sense

Blame the media _before_ they ask the questions

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:03:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If Katie Couric is capable of shaking up Sarah Palin, do we really want to put her on the opposite side of the table of, say, Vladimir Putin?

Clip Source: www.thenation.com

McCain-Palin Launches Pre-emptive Attack on Media

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If you ask Palin a question you're apparently out to get her and her family too!

McCain surrogates seem to be preemptively criticizing the questions that Gwen Ifill may choose to ask.

the GOP seems to be saying that if Palin bombs on Thursday it will be because the media wanted her to, not because she simply, obviously is wildly uninformed on national affairs.

What if Sarah Palin was president right now. As the Dow fell 800, what would a President Palin do? Would we feel remotely comfortable?

Tags: mccain, palin, media, lies, innept

Saner voices voted No

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:42:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: who're you going to belive, me, or your own eyes?

Clip Source: market-ticker.denninger.net

Bernanke PROVED Paulson Plan Bankrupt

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The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system,

came hours before the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry.

The Fed threw $630 billion into the market before the vote, and yet the S&P 500 was down 40 handles anyway, and in fact tanked after the vote.

Note carefully - Paulson's plan was $700 billion, and Bernanke spent $630 billion - almost the entire amount proposed - but failed to fix the problem.

IF we are indeed facing a deep recession (or worse) then we will need that $700 billion to feed and house the displaced Americans here in our nation, and cannot afford to hand it to a bunch of rich (and pissed-off) bankers around the world who made bad bets and now are screaming with their hand out like a 2-year old who wants another candy bar.

Tags: bailout, bernanke, paulson, federal reserve

demure, understated wedding dress

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:11:53 GMT

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Clip Source: i37.photobucket.com

Tags: wedding, dress

bag man

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:02:16 GMT

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Clip Source: www.oddee.com

how much do they charge?

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:45:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.oddee.com

i'll drink to that

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:36:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.oddee.com

look who made bail

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:25:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: while we talk about "stimulus" checks, at $300/person, that are supposed to "stimulate" the economy - helpful? wasteful? - the current Wall St. plan amounts to $10,000 for every man, woman and child. All it does is allow greedy people to cash out and keep their shirts. "Let the market decide," indeed - they decided they want our money.

Clip Source: mediapro.foliomag.com

Is it a Bailout or Bail Out?

Tags: wall st, bailout, economy

you kept them where?

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:28:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: and the vote count seems incongruous? correlation does not equal causation, but...

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced Tuesday that the state had realized letting poll workers baby-sit voting machines in their homes, offices, cars or garages without any supervision the night before they're used was, well, maybe not the best plan in the world.

Local officials had defended the practice after Brunner raised some questions about it, saying the only way to keep the machines safe from fraud was to, ahem, keep them hidden somewhere unofficial, where no one could see whether they were being tampered with.

Tags: ohio, voting, ballot

why does McCain want to drill?

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:36:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: and why is he giving billions in tax breaks to oil companies that still break record profits?

Clip Source: pol.moveon.org

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John McCain's oil lobbyists

Tags: mccain, drilling, oil, lies, corruption

Politics as Tarot cards

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:27:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "One notes that it would be tempting to put the Republican Nominee on this list at a couple of places, but one fears that the Secret Service has little understanding of the esoteric meanings of certain cards and even less of a sense of humour in these matters. This is their job, and it’s ok. I recognise that this list could easily be written from the other side of the aisle with a lot of changes save I doubt Mr McCain would fit in the “Fool” slot."

Clip Source: raphael.doxos.com

Democratic Esoterica

The Fool, Barack Obama

The Magician, Al Gore

The High Priestess, Statue of Liberty

The Empress, Columbia (the Gem of the Ocean)

The Emperor, W

The Hierophant, James Dobson

The Lovers, The Clintons (look at the card’s picture)

The Chariot, the Election itself

Strength, Elizabeth Edwards

The Hermit, John Edwards

Wheel of Fortune, the Media

Justice, Condi Rice

The Hanged Man, The Republicans (all of them)

Death, Any one of several other “also rans”

Temperance, Michelle Obama

The Devil, Jeremiah Wright

The Tower, WTC on 9/11

The Star, “change” “hope” and other political slogans

The Moon, the economy

The Sun, we don’t have one of these!

Judgement, Election Day

The World, the Oval office

The first correspondence in this set to suggest itself to me was the Tower = WTC on 9/11. Not because of the picture, tho.

This one card is an essay on why 9/11 happened and it’s been sitting in the Occult Library for several hundred years waiting to be read.

the meaning of the Tower

Tags: politics, mccain, tarot, 9/11

Frankenboob

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:22:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: what (and who) the hell is that?

Clip Source: www.rollingstone.com

Tags: boob, bad, plastic, surgery

it's not "common practice" if you're the only ones doing it

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:54:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I mean, c'mon, really, it doesn't even look real

Clip Source: www.cs.dartmouth.edu

A FOX spokeswoman said the executive in charge of “Fox and Friends” is on vacation and not available for comment but added that altering photos for humorous effect is a common practice on cable news stations.