Paulson's successful coup has given him the first installment (the $700 billion slush fund 90% of US citizens had very loud said NO to) of what is an open-ended river of money to do with what he wants with virtually no accountability. Remember that being one of the more telling and intriguing parts of the "bail-out legislation" that caused such a stir.

We are here to ask the questions that we believe all Americans have a right to ask: who got the money, what have they done with it, how has it helped the country, and how has it helped ordinary people?

That is such a sweet little quote that I feel I ought to go check my blood sugar. A Warren Report for the 21 C indeed -- you just have to love the fact that they even bothered to convene such a body as the "TARP Congressional Oversight Panel." Maybe it's a baseball thing, tag 'em all, go through the motions, no matter how much of a sham you know it's going to be. There's something charming and American in that. A useless gesture as the corruption train roars on by. Maybe waving a flag or at least while wearing a flag lapel pin.

(A year later, TARP Congressional Oversight Panel report: "FUCK! THEY STOLE OUR MONEY AND GAVE IT TO THEIR FRIENDS!")

"Global warming" has more to do with sunspot activity and the solar wind. Thinking that mankind's activities have caused the climate to move so much as one degree is absurd.

It's like that joke about a mouse feverish copulating with an elephant as the elephant walks along, unaware of the mouse, and whacks its head on a low-hanging branch. The elephant moans from the impact of the branch while the mouse, hearing the moan, slaps the elephant's behind and says "Suffer, bitch."

and killed their people, either to depose Saddam Hussein, who Big Oil despised for nationalizing Iraqi oil, or to search for WMDs, maybe a nuclear arsenal like Israel has, which could not be found (remember Bush's classic performance @ the National Press Club dinner as he looked around his podium for WMDs -- what a comic genius!), maybe to steal Iraq's oil (sorry about those historical sites we destroyed btw) or maybe because Israel told us to do it.

The reason doesn't matter, it was a stark mistake. And WE'RE STILL IN IRAQ, our limp penis in Iraq's rear end. Why? To protect Bush43 from the impeachment he so richly deserves? Because Nancy Pelosi must be on heavy Disney Chemicals to not feel Bush43 is plainly guilty of major abuses of power up to and including war crimes?

I read in the news this morning that the USMC is now working alongside the California Highway Patrol in San Bernardino CA -- can you say MARTIAL LAW? Bush43 not only invaded a country which had done nothing to us, but he happily shredded the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to "protect" us from "terrorists."

A [b]shoe[/b]? The reporter shouldn't be lionized, but every American ought to recognized that they are stark naked pig-dogs covered with feces, following Bush43 like the zombified natives in Apocalypse Now. Unable to speak, certainly unable to pick up a show and throw it. That Iraqi reporter may as well be on of the American Founding Fathers compared to the dismal dishwater-blooded scum that inhabit this country today, myself included. All their lies hinge on 9/11/01. We bought the lie and they shoved it down our throats. And we've been in a fucking coma since 2001. A shoe off the cranium might wake us up.

From Wikipedia.org:

A meme (pronounced /miːm/) is unit or element of cultural ideas, symbols or practices that transmit from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomenon. The term is derived from the Greek word mimema for mimic.[1] Memes are cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate and are subject to selective pressures.[2]

Or, as my dear old Advertising professor put it, "repetition, repetition, repetition."

Those fucking Iranians.

Consider that Barry O is going to be presiding over a major contraction of the dollar, barring any miracles. The US has been thoroughly looted, our currency is virtually worthless compared to its value when the Federal Reserve came into being.

Consider that when a nation substitutes a worthless currency with a fixed unit of currency, the economy is stablized.

Obama is going to be hit by something of unprecedented proportions. Look not to FDR but to Coolidge.

A central bank is NEVER a bright idea, unless you're the one printing the money. JFK's executive order authorizing silver certificates is still in effect, I believe. Let's produce currency backed by something and get the economy fixed, rather than the insane racket being run by Bernanke et al we're currently enjoying.

Feeling the love yet? IT'S THEFT. Plain and simple. Did you read where the Fed flatly refused Bloomberg.com's FOIA request to find out just where the two TRILLION went? The Fed mumbled something about internal workings -- translated, I think that means that the US is flat broke but like any user they're desperately, DESPERATELY trying to keep things going just a little longer.

Banks are hoarding cash because none of the suits knows who is holding how much worthless paper in the form of CDOs etc.

Personally I've been buying a lot of extra pasta and canned food. Every indicator is showing much worse economic news down the road.