Hemorraging Wealth

Whooo-Boy! A lot of people sure got a little less wealthy today!

At this point: (Shares slump as rescue bid fails) (BBC)
Dow down 6%
Nasdaq down 7.8%
FTSE (London) 6.3%
Dax (Frankfurt) 4.2% etc. etc.

Well, lets just say that all of the markets in the world that weren't snug in their beds when our congress grew a pair and decided against giving $700 BILLION dollars to the very people that helped to bring our financial system to its knees went into free fall.

I'm torn. I'm happy to see our congress actually stop to think about what they are doing before throwing shit-tons of our money into a bottomless pit (Despite the leaderships best efforts to prevent independent thought). However, its only a matter of days before enough people cave to the whims of their party and they begin their attempts to bulldoze cash into that pit.

P.S. Even Iceland (Times UK) is nationalizing its banks!

They say the surge is working...

Joel Pett

Sweet Socialism

Yes folks, we have pretty much socialized the banking system. This'll help the guys in the financial industry keep their high paying jobs instead of watching their jobs disappear around them as their failures lay waste to everything they've built. Now they have a little island of taxpayer money to stand on and claim that that this whole mess wasn't their fault. After all, you don't expect them to do a thorough background check on EVERYone they gave a loan to, do you? They made so much money from subprime! It wasn't their fault!

US agrees to Wall Street bail-out (BBC)

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Have I mentioned?

Have I pointed out that we're paying McCain and Obama a salary this year?

Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure we rarely get our money's worth from ANY Senator, but these guys aren't getting ANYthing done...

Also, don't get me wrong, its not like they get paid a whole lot. By McCain's standards, someone making $169,300 (About.com) is middle class at best.

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Fashion Police

US judge rejects saggy jeans law(BBC)

This story is ok; makes complete sense. I could really give a shit about what other people are wearing. If I WAS interested in seeing what other people were wearing, I'd tune into the fucking fashion channel.
So, why does this article get posted? Because Taxpayers in Florida (and around the country) are spending an incredible amount of their mostly hard earned cash on their congress' and judges to discuss whether or not our government should dictate what people can and cannot wear.
Actually... Not WHAT we wear, but HOW we wear it!
Hello Nationalized Uniforms! I hope we at least get to select the color of our uniforms from a list. Or, maybe we could just settle on some sort of a dismal gray for all...

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Maybe it would be best...

Maybe it would be best if we all started paying more taxes... There's a lot of rich bankers that would really like to stay pretty darn rich and not lose *everything*. Heaven fucking forbid we should we should use our taxes to build better schools and try to avoid bridge collapses.

US government rescues insurer AIG (BBC)

This one cost us $85 Billion.

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More from the Pakistan Border

Pakistan soldiers 'confront US'

The Pakistani Army took a few shots across our bow. We turned around. Who knew other countries didn't like being invaded?

Who knew? Get Your War On did!

I've spent the better part of two days reading this guys strip (Get Your War On).
Fucking hilarious, if you take the time read 'em all... Of all the strips I've seen that I wanted to show, this one was great because of the timing. Published in 4/06, it shows a bit of great foresight on McCain.

More on Oil Officials, their sex lives, and drug use

What else can I say? I started blogging at the exact same time a perfect example of my premise is slowly aired to the public. I don't even need to explain this one. Just thought I should point it out.

How To Entertain Like an Oil Company SLATE

The New War

Why isn't anyone talking about the fact that we've recently invaded Pakistan? Even though we have already done raids into Pakistan, but American media seems to be outright ignoring it! Even my beloved NPR made the situation sound hypothetical while talking about it earlier.

Bush 'approved' Pakistan attacksBBC

From the article:
The US has been carrying out regular military air strikes on Pakistan from Afghanistan, but ten days ago US troops carried out a ground assault for the first time.

Pakistan said the raid in South Waziristan was a violation of its sovereignty and summoned the US ambassador to hear a "very strong protest".

If you ask me, and of course, you didn't, I'd say that foreign forces inside of another country killing people counts as some sort of invasion... And the Pakistanis aren't fond of being invaded.

So, yes, W. has technically started another war before he leaves office. I thought Cheney was going to start his war with the Iranians, but you never can tell! (Maybe we'll get both!)

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And We're Off

You knew it was true. You didn't want to beleive it was true, but deep down inside you knew it.

Holy Shit, you gotta read this one...

US oil agency rapped over conduct BBC

We all imagined it, and its true! Our government snorting coke off of strippers' asses paid for by big oil.

They're like hamsters in a box crawling all over each other...

Seriously, take a minute to read through the article. They are actually claiming that they had to snort the oil companies coke to gain valuable 'market intelligence.' They openly admit that they didn't think the laws pertained to them!

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Welcome

All this is is some rantin' and ravin'. I find myself outraged at all the brazen bullshit pulled by government and other groups. I don't have any solutions. I can't even successfully describe the problem.
All I know is this:
When I read or listen to the news, I usually end up getting pretty damn pissed off. Every time I think to myself, I need to tell my friends about this. They'll be as outraged as I!

I imagine that none of my friends read e-mails from me anymore.

Now, I'll have an outlet that doesn't force anyone to give a shit about what pisses me off.