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Monday, October 13, 2008 12:00 AM

The Goldberg Theorem: Dow skyrockets due to likely Obama victory

Last week, several right-wing geniuses claimed that the Dow was plummeting due to investor fears of an Obama win.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 02:18 PM

Geez Louise

Without impeachments and prosecutions the USA will remain unchanged from its increasingly fascistic course of the last 8 – hell, 20 – years.

1+1=2

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 02:14 PM

Goldberg's secret agenda

It's not surprising to me that Goldberg's blathering confuses correlations with causality. But I have another theory that seems validated every time Goldberg writes anything.

I believe Jonah Goldberg is playing us. He writes the most ridiculous, stupid, inane things and then sits back and lets people (both of the Left and the Right) react. It's Andy Kaufman-like, pushing our buttons, never serious, never the same as he actually believes. So if Goldberg sounds neo-conservative, he's actually a closet liberal. The joke is on us. Our clue is that a writer who can put together syntactically correct English sentences could never really believe the crap Goldberg publishes. Think about it, people!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 03:28 AM

My, aren't we the stock analyst now, Glenn...

I usually enjoy your posts, but stooping to childish name calling is a little beyond the pale...maybe the reason Wall Street would not be displeased with Obama is that he has managed to rake in quite a bit of cash from the downtown set, a fact you ignore conveniently. However, there was little if any correlation with the rise in the markets and Obama's poll numbers...to imagine there is is way dumber than anything Jonah Goldberg is theorizing. If the eoonomy was sailing along, Obama's uptick would never have happened...granted, if McCain hadn't claimed the economy was sound when it wasn't, then his numbers certainly wouldn't have tanked...the race was close before that...I have no doubt in my mind that it will tighten up again, as it has seesawed back and forth for months...Obama may win, but it will not be a landslide...I would say 52-48 at best.

Stay away from analysis of the markets, Glenn...your over your head...bigtime.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 05:43 PM

but Fox and Friends said the market downturn was Jim Cramer's fault

http://www.observer.com/2008/media/fox-business-network-targets-cnbcs-jim-cramer-financial-crisis-ads

http://www.newshounds.us/2008/10/07/steve_forbes_were_in_a_serious_recession.php

The first link is quite astonishing ... I'm not sure I've ever seen any network run a political style negative attack ad against a rival network star before.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 04:47 PM

In post after post I prdicted Obama would win in a landslide as would any dem after Bush.

I even boasted the dems could run a blind monkey and still win. After the Horrors of Bush and with the GOP nominees all being such a joke who in their right mind would vote for a continuation of the current disaster. McCain was just the least embarrassing candidate o the republicans and look how he has self destructed...because it's always me first with them and never the country first. His supporters are the sickest in America and always...always wrong on everything. They are anti government so I is it any wonder they continue to try to destroy the democracy.

Always wrong on everything and lying about it...McCain/Palin are the perfect examples.

Now we have to get Obama straight and exceedingly more progressive out of necessity to survive as a nation.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 04:29 PM

--GC!

Thanks for the love -- right back at you. Speaking of love, I was daydreaming this afternoon and the soundtrack to my reverie got stuck in my head so I finally had to fetch one of the songs from youtube. Crank it up and bath in that honey-chocolate voice. Click sig

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 03:33 PM

Never mind. I thought I got names mixed up. I do that a lot....

Maybe this: (minor redactions, and W.W. would agree, love respectfully) by Walt Whitman. ` *When I heard at the End of the Day.

`

When I heard at the end of the day how my name had been received with plaudit in the capital, still it was not happy night for me that followed. And else when I caroused , or when my plans were accomplished I was still not happy.

But the day when I arose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refreshed singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn, When I saw the moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light,

When I wandered alone on the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters and saw the sun rise, and when I thought how my dear friend lover was on the way coming, O then I was happy.

O each breath tasted sweeter,

and all that day my food nourished me more,

and the beautiful day passed well, and the next day came with equal joy,

and with the next at evening came my friend, and night while all was still I heard the waters roll continually up the shores, I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me, for the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night, the stillness of the cool night. In the stillness of the autumn moonbeams a face was inclined toward me, and a arm lay lightly around my breast--and that night I was happy.

~

`um real nice thoughts.

Walt Whitman and many,

say same, same, and love.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 02:54 PM

Greenwald Theorem

Hey Glenn, looks like your new theory is holding up. McCain releases his new "plan" today, and the market takes a minor dive again.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 02:37 PM

Reilly. I read what you wrote with a sense of awe. I wondered if... (Yak all day, and often it's so wonderful.) ever irritable, tired, annoyed, and sensitive reading comments, cook mashed `tatters and toss on a spouse's supper plate. huh.

Reilly. I needed that post-bath. A joyful read. At bath time never take an acoustical guitar. There no time to lounge about,

in late autumn afternoon,

no jam in a cold h20 tub.

Reilly. Never eat heritage red raspberry jelly when taking a bath. If your a boy who was getting a draft notice in the mail, consider listening to a conscience as a reliable guide.

no order condones wars.

no depart from a home.

or a sadness penetrates.

so red is the blood spilt.

so never spread any fibs.

of all the horror I saw in wartime, whenever any fellow human loves as gentle, kind, and

of that sort of affectionate communion you expressed, it's a mead gathering. a depth of

an encountering. Beauty.

A melodious deep inner feeling of silent calmness. Wonder. A sense of an awesome encounter to offset war's hate sentiment. There's an awareness of that mysterious, and

words fail to say what you wish. There is a golden chord, a binding, a connection, a gold thread. The gold is woven,

or a colored mat brocade.

of you know what i mean.

So a quiet, gentle, a bow.

Gads. One goofs get so damn grouchy ya'll think they had an epiphany. Those know-everthings remind me of them kooky mystic nut cases down at the river swim holes.

Why possums pay good money to listen to goofs say. Why if a acorn flops on their head,

'um cry like a crocodile.

Scales on the skin flake.

`Sweet. Soft. Silk. Silver.

The silver cord, a platter.

It's precious perfect time.

No sup with the reptile crowd with horny textured rawhides. Watch them wiggle a tail and use short stubby claw legs and submerge into a underworld swamp to sulk and hide shame.

Reilly. Watch the eagles,

or a wren, or a Red Tail Hawk, blue bird, a red and black cardinal, and all birds seem to soar and as if 'um a buzzard.

The plumage is colorful.

Reilly. You gave me joy.

Yes. Miss L. from Ohio,

Richard. Stuck with her.

Awe Richard. Luck duck.

Fate is dumb luck? Wow.

No chow down in ducks.

Plucked duck are boney.

Ask eccentric P.? What?

Carry duck on dc dates.

People `awe some fun.

Possums are `precious.

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