Wonkette
- Kim Jong Il might or might not be dying, and North Korea looks like it’s starting up its nuclear program again so … everything looks rosy on that front! [Spiegel Online]
- The president will meet today with John McCain (who SUSPENDED HIS CAMPAIGN, COUNTRY ABOVE SELF &c) and Barack Obama and together these three men will save the American economy or something. [New York Times]
- McCain and Obama released a joint statement saying, in essence, “This financial crisis is really a doozy,” and pledged to work together to resolve it. [Wall Street Journal]
- President Bush addressed the nation last night and said, “Sorry liberals I know you hate bailing out fat cat CEOs, and sorry conservatives I know you hate socialism, but please join together in my socialist bailout of fat cat CEOs, for the good of the country.” [Wall Street Journal]
- So yeah, Condi Rice and other senior Bush Administration officials knew about all the torture stuff the CIA was doing by early 2002. [Washington Post]
- In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law banning text-messaging while driving. Offenders will be fined a whopping $20 the first time they’re caught and $50 every time after that, until they are eventually thrown in a CIA prison and tortured by Condi Rice. [Los Angeles Times]
oooh, video of that minister driving the witchcraft out of Sarah Palin and praying for evangelicals to take over government:
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/palin-and-the-witch-hunter-chapter-ii/#comments
So Walnuts has ’suspended’ his campaign, yet will still find time to address the Clinton Global Initiative today. Hey Johnny Mac - GO FUCK YOURSELF. If you don’t want to debate, just say it. Stop being a pussy.
Any feel bloated after hearing W’s Kool-Aid speech last night?
>>tortured by Condi Rice
HAWT
My friends, I spent 5 and one-half years unable to fake concern for the working man and indignation over imagined sexism.
By the way, the Chinese have decided to leave us holding the flaming bag of cocks:
Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.
Have a nice day!
Geeze, Kali-phonia’s TM fine system means that
1) The fines are still cheaper than Sprint’s plan
2) Causing fatal train collisions are still free.
If Kim Jong Il dies then who will stop the collapse of the Swedish hooker and Remy XO markets? Tell me that Barry, Walnuts and Dubya! Are you going to let a valuable dictator market collapse like the US fiscal markets? Shows that you do not care about short crazy commie Koreans with delusions of grandeur!!!!!
I’m shocked…
“In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world– through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.” - http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
So yeah, Condi Rice and other senior Bush Administration officials knew about all the torture stuff the CIA was doing by early 2002.
Nope, doesn’t surprise me anymore. Yup, still depresses me. I need a shot of cynicism. Oh, wait, McCain is using the economic crisis to help him not study for his big test. And so is Palin. Yeah, there we go…
“Sorry liberals I know you hate bailing out fat cat CEOs, and sorry conservatives I know you hate socialism, but please join together in my socialist bailout of fat cat CEOs, for the good of the country.”
Is that guy still talking?
BobLoblawLawBlog:
You know, that’s exactly what this is. McCain, a C student if there ever was one, remembers how effective it was in high school to come down with an illness right before the test for which he was unprepared. McCain is wimping out of the debate. Will it be Cindy or his mother who writes the note for him?
Terry: That’s the first time I’ve seen that entire thing and heard the audio and I must say that is one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen.
Those people scare me. I’m not kidding.
Now, doesn’t the bailout just make you yearn for the good old days of bitching about gay marriage and wire tapping?
“I will follow Osama bin Laden into the GATES OF HELL….. unless it conflicts with my Katie Couric interview.”
4tehlulz:
Fuck, we are so fucking fucked!
Canuckledragger:
Or how about: “I will follow Osama Bin Ladin to the gates of Hell, but I won’t follow Barack Obama to Mississippi because… well, that guy can really debate!”
Hey, this North Korea news is great! When it comes to ending massive economic depressions, nothing fixes it better than a World War! It worked last time!
“Offenders will be fined a whopping $20 the first time they’re caught and $50 every time after that, until they are eventually thrown in a CIA prison and tortured by Condi Rice.”
Hey, if she agrees to wear those leather boots from that one time then I’m in. I’ll start sending out texts like I was announcing my VP pick.
Serolf Divad: Just read on Naked Capitalism that it’s been denied, but the way things are, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Chinese said “Fuck this. Let’s just get this overwith.”.
4tehlulz: Oh shit… well, economy, it was nice knowing you but now you are dead.
John McCain is a maverick against sanity and competence.
There’s something tragic about Chinese banks not being allowed to lend to American banks. You’ve got America, the mighty financial empire, the shining beacon that led the world into a new economic era, and you’ve got China, a broke-ass country of peasants and sweatshops still tangling with communism.
This is like that episode where Bart tries doing the Bartman on the schoolbus to show his classmates that he can still be cool, and even Ralph Wiggum takes him down a notch. A tale of the eternal symbol of cool being undone by an insult from the loser.
ProgHead777:
Me, too. That video is worse than any parody you could come up with.
Obama, Bush and McCain in the same room working on our problems. I think I’ve seen this movie:
Bush tells them both that a fortune in Knight’s Templar treasure exists beneath Mt. McKinley. Bush will take them on a secret mission to get teh treasure to save our economy. While searching for it, they find themselves at the point of death from a team of Russian Commados led by Putin himself. At the LAST second, Sarah Palin shows up and mows the Commie bastards down. When they get to the secret treasuer room, they find that it is empty. Cut to Karl Rove smoking $4000 dollar cigars and lighting them with the splintered wood of the cross Jesus was sacrificed on. Biden, all the while, is the comic relief in this story. He is lost in a series of madcap misadventures trying to get to Alaska. At the end of the story he is cornered by an amorous moose.
the end.
dave666: Word Origin: maverick
Origin: 1867
It was all the fault, or the bright idea, of Samuel Augustus Maverick, who lived from 1803 to 1870. Descended from an old and notable New England family, he sought his fortune in Texas and there inadvertently made a name for himself. He took up cattle ranching, which was quite a different proposition from raising livestock back East. In Texas cattle grazed on the open range, without fences to keep one herd separate from another, and thus there was much opportunity for theft and disputes over ownership. To identify their cattle, ranchers branded them, rounding up the calves each year for this purpose.
But Maverick put no brand on his cattle. Stories about “old man Maverick” give various reasons for his abstinence: he was lazy; he objected to the cruelty of branding. Whatever the reason, if he had been an ordinary citizen, this practice would have put him at the mercy of other ranchers, who would have appropriated his cattle and marked them with their own brands. But Maverick was influential: mayor of San Antonio, member of the Texas legislature, and holder of 385,000 acres, he was able instead to claim that any unbranded calf was his. And so, either in earnest or in jest, the name maverick was applied to all cattle without brands. In 1867 a writer complained, “The term maverick which was formerly applied to unbranded yearlings is now applied to every calf which can be separated from the mother cow–the consequence is, the fastest brander are accumulating the largest stocks.”
So John McCain is, essentially, a cattle rustler.
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, the witchdoctor video is on mudflats
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/
Terry: I tend to think it’s like those losers who pull a fire alarm or phone in a bomb threat right beore a big exam.
In this case, I think that this is all a ploy to prevent Palin from debating.
Katie: “For the last fucking time, will you give one goddamn example of John McCain being for regulatiing something!”
Sarah: “(Moose in headlights expression), I’ll try to find a few, and get back tah yah!”
They cancel Mississippi, bump it to the VP debate slot, and then start argueing that the Palin/Biden face off should be written off because it will be too close to the election.
Terry:
How disturbing is it to hear an occasional backwater Mississippi preacher accent rearing its head?
4tehlulz: Serolf Divad:
I don’t think it is bad–nothing more than the PRC hoisting a big quarantine flag in front of every big bank in the United States, saying that the banking system here has a deadly incurable disease that will spread rapidly to banks in other countries with interbank lending as the primary vector.
The Chinese simply want to keep the cancer of uncollectable debt backed by imaginary assets from infecting their banking system.
Nothing to worry about–our finacial house of cards will crumble and this country will be buried in an unmarked grave in Potter’s Field but the Chinese will be OK.
I hope this puts Rice on the list of extraditables. Can you imagine, she’s tooling down the Grand Canal in Venice and the gondolier pulls a citizens’s arrest on her and she gets a free plane ride The Hague? In irons?
Serolf Divad:
Yep, you can see his role models, can’t you? Of course, the average backwater Mississippi preacher probably hasn’t tried to have an eccentric old woman stoned to death as a witch to prevent local traffic accidents. The Mississippi preacher would probably ask the town council to put stop signs or something.
grendel: The flags in front of my work (investment firm) are at half mast today, mourning the demise of the economy I presume. What a drag.
Cape Clod: Anyone who can watch ten seconds of Sarah Palin trying to answer anyone’s question about anything and then think about the real stakes that are involved–the economy of the United States, everyone’s job, pension, home, EVERYTHING–and still think of voting for Palin/McCain is not just stupid but dangerously insane and should be locked away forever for his own good.
donner_froh:
How dare you question Sarah on anything. She’s on a mission from God.
Cape Clod: Stop being so cynical. McCain is setting an example by stepping above the partisan fray by suspending his campaign to go to Washington and work full-time on solving this mess.
Dammit, I’m in. I’m going to help, too. And suspending payments on my mortgage until this credit crisis is resolved once and for all.
I’m heading for Washington; if you want to join me, just text me in my car; I’ll pick you up on the way.
omfg road trip
Puh-leez folks. Stop with the econ panic. Cartoons have all the answers.
http://www.overcompensating.com/comics/20080924.png
Duh. Y’all are stupid.
As far as I know diddling my iPod while driving is still good and legal in the great state of California.
Giant Robot: Saw her on Bill Maher. Sorry to say Andrew Sullivan handed her her ass.
BobLoblawLawBlog:
— “The validity of the confessions they didn’t care about; they just wanted the confessions so they could put them on TV,” [Senator Carl] Levin said. —
I take it that this was pre-YouTube. Pity.
jst try & pul me ovr fukrs! lol!