10.05.08
It’s his entrails or yours, Senator McCain
The only real problem for me, and all my homies here at BN, being that our freedom, and this Western civilization that has made our lives so liveable, goes down the tubes if you don’t get a clue, and pronto.
This s— of not letting your campaign bring up Rev. Wright is not just suicidal but genocidal.
Mr. Dings said,
October 6, 2008 at 12:23 am
It didn’t hurt O vs. Hillie and, you know, sadly, this American system is so broke, folks will believe in just about any change there might be a chance for. Not that I’m voting for O, but I might know a bit more about it than Joe Sixpack, I dunno. But, man, what a mess! Just why would the majority vote for a continuation? The stupid, misjudged, misguided and plain miserable preemptivity that has kept us occupying foreign soil now for over 6 years, continued corporate fraud, the assinine Demo leadership too, never seen morale so low and cynicism so high here. What a choice!
Administrator said,
October 6, 2008 at 12:48 am
Find yourself some real conservatives, get behind them, champion their cause, cultivate them, go hear them speak, vote for them on their way up the political ladder.
Administrator said,
October 6, 2008 at 1:01 am
In other words, crud like “continuation” and “occupation” and “corporate fraud” ain’t gonna cut it. What are your core principles?
Administrator said,
October 6, 2008 at 1:08 am
They don’t involve “God damn America” and “eschew middle-classness.” do they?
Mr. Dings said,
October 6, 2008 at 8:30 am
It’s Obama’s to lose, sadly so, but the Repubbies deserve everything they are gonna get. None of it worked, dude. Especially your free markets. Of course they still aren’t free enough. My core principles are peace, love, freedom. Aren’t they yours too?
Mr. Dings said,
October 6, 2008 at 8:51 am
God has damned my savings? God damn those who did. And that is not a military academy, that is a fat farm.
Administrator said,
October 6, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Please explain how free markets failed in our current situation.
Mr. Dings said,
October 7, 2008 at 12:20 am
Not monitering things like this that we find out about after the fact. But, the rich are different from me, if not you, like, well, I guess they feel entitled. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_go_co/meltdown_lehman
WASHINGTON – The now-bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers arranged millions in bonuses for fired executives as it pleaded for a federal lifeline, lawmakers learned Monday, as Congress began investigating what went so wrong on Wall Street to prompt a $700 billion government bailout.
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The first in a series of congressional hearings on the roots of the financial meltdown yielded few major revelations about Lehman’s collapse, and none about why government officials, as they scrambled to avert economic catastrophe, declined to rescue the flagging company while injecting tens of billions of dollars into others.
But it allowed lawmakers still smarting from a politically painful vote Friday for the largest federal market rescue in history to put a face on their outrage at corporate chieftains who took home hundreds of millions of dollars while betting on risky mortgage-backed investments that ultimately brought the financial system to its knees.
Administrator said,
October 7, 2008 at 1:53 am
Those weren’t some kind of new bonuses cooked up as a reward for screwing up. They were part of the existing contractual arrangements, golden parachutes if you will, which are a bargain for companies wishing to shed lousy managers. The amount involved is so miniscule relative to the losses involved as to not be relevant to the discussion.
Mr. Dings said,
October 8, 2008 at 12:55 am
i know, i know, they are smarter, taller, prettier, live in houses on hills, behind gated communities, drive many different later model vehicles, have pretty hos and country club wives. They’ve got it all figured out. For themselves. Gee, figure the rest of us, simply screwed. Sure, take my money, mo money, now I gotta bail you out, after a sixty per cent hit with my retirement fund. Still, the sad (and so off base) refrain is, buy low, sell high…
Mr. Dings said,
October 8, 2008 at 1:15 am
Of course you will call it class envy. You wish….
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
October 8, 2008 at 1:26 am
One of our real problems in this country is this generalized fantasy image of a “privileged person.” It breeds class envy. It’s immature.