Financial terrorism

More on the Russia-Venezuela situation: Russia engages in 'gangland' diplomacy as it sends warships to the Caribbean.
Financial terrorism:
Randi Rhodes is pretty damn sharp. Go Randi! Listen to her show, it's great fun. The whole bailout plan sounds like antisocialism, to me. Unfettered capitalism is antisocial. Not only that, it's anti-human.

Wilbur Ross is "disturbed about the slippery slope that we have gotten into, where if you're stupid but really big the government will bail you out; if you're stupid but medium-sized, you die. That's going to encourage very bad behavior by very big institutions. I think that's a terrible pattern to set." I find it interesting that he's still planning on investing in industries that have been hit hard by the oil crunch. I'm trying to divine the wisdom there: he's probably counting on prices rising even farther, which implies that he's counting on a continued rise in demand for the oil as well. He may be right about demand, but that being said, I don't think we're going to burn the last of our precious petroleum in our gas tanks. More likely, it will be used in plastics, pharmaceuticals and pesticides/herbicides. Rising oil prices are going to hurt, bad, unless we find alternatives. And I'm not talking alternative fuels.

Please consider taking some action on this buyout: Call Congress, or send this letter, or write a letter to the editor of your local paper, hell- just talk about it to your friends and neighbors. This is OUR problem: the pigs have broken into the corn silo. WE need to stop them, 'coz they sure as hell won't stop themselves. "We're not going to chart a new course with the same pilot."

John McCain was a joke in the 2000 election, he was a joke in the 2004 election, and he's still a joke. I will never forget, however, that George Dumbya Bush was a joke in 1999 too....
McCain's personal fleet of cars
McCain's 'transition coach' lobbied for Freddie Mac as it collapsed
CNN gets fed up with McCain's bullshit
CNN gets fed up with Palin's bullshit
McCain trips and stumbles over his own bullshit

On this day in 1930, Ray Charles was born.
In 1932, the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd merge to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In 1949, Bruce Springsteen was born.
And in 1969, the headline “Clues Hint at Beatle’s Death,” in the Northern Star (Northern Illinois State [Hi Valerie and Rob and family!]), propelled rumors of Paul McCartney’s untimely demise by reporting on a story published in Drake University's newspaper (the Times-Delphic) reporting Paul's death.