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Guiliani poised to cash in on Wall Street bailout. surprise surprise. "get a piece of the action"

there's a joke in here somewhere about lipstick and dog genitalia ...

read gogo's link a couple pages back.

I'm not asking you specifically, but rather to reflect on this thinking that seems typical of the right wing.

one dude's black-ish.

Why all the anti-education, anti-intellectual, elitist bias we hear from the right? Why glorify someone who barely graduated from the Naval Academy(thank goodness daddy and grandpa were Admirals, ring a bell?) and demonize someone who graduated with honors from Columbia and Harvard Law? How is being well educated ever a negative?

Social Security is planning to shut down access to their database for four days, just as election boards are scrambling to verify newly registered voters after registration deadlines. From Brennan Ctr for Justic, NYU Law

fuckin white dudes. seriously, 'you people'. Okay women everywhere, on the count of three, lift your shirts and say "I'm taking over."

I'm betting it gets weirder.

I'm not sure who this radio commentator Ed Schultz is, but here's his take this morning McCain Camp insiders say Palin "clueless" Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."

I see WaMu's done now. Does that mean I don't have to pay my credit card bill?

It's scary. Naomi Klein (author of "Shock Doctrine") explains her theory of global free market capitalism and the disaster it leaves in its wake. short movie and here's her take on our very own financial shock and the federal bailout.

Power, yes. Wisdom, no.

Just in case anyone needs a refresher on the results of Bush pushing emergency actions (from thinkprogress.org) Bush is demanding unprecedented control over billions of dollars

you mean the low jobless rate, the balanced budget and reduced deficit?

you've got to be kidding.

I find it disturbing that there are many things that aren't talked about publicly by anyone in government.

There's a lot of info out there about Bush's Continuity of Government orders, a plan that started w/Reagan (w/assists from Cheney and Rumsfeld. Background info from The Atlantic, March 04

that's the original Army Times article upon which this thread is based.

Phew. I've been thinking that's our best hope.

exactly!

what's the big deal? You need a room with a table, a couple chairs, and a camera.