• backspace said on Nov 21, 2008....

  arrest bush,then get drunk.

• ALT said on Nov 21, 2008....

  Stop giving money and tax cuts to the wealthy!

• newmoney said on Nov 21, 2008....

  The 700B so called bailout must be stopped at any cost..

  Bush is only trying to strip SS.                           

• copsunite said on Nov 21, 2008....

  Obama needs to return funding  for local police departments. Crime is through the roof

• wormhilda said on Nov 21, 2008....

   

  like many of us i think bush must be busted. he slaughtered allot of innocent people and turned the world against us.

• Obama said on Nov 21, 2008....

  There is much I need to do, but bringing gasoline prices back down to a dollar a gallon would help everyone this Christmas time. I'm listening to your ideas.

• dyingman said on Nov 21, 2008....

  Redeploy Iraq troops home and to Afghanistan and re-equip, looking for orderly withdrawal from there too.
  
  I think Osama is dead.  He would have released a tape to help McCain win if he had been alive. 
  
  Keep troops handy to bolster local Afghan authorities upon request in order to put down any would-be governing body sympathetic to murderous Muslims.  (as opposed to the far more common peaceful variety.) 
  
  Avoiding spending money on pointless destruction is a good start towards repairing both our economy and our world standing.
  
  
  
  

• curezilla said on Nov 21, 2008....

  First:Osama is dead.

  second: Tell the world about the cure for MS

• house said on Nov 21, 2008....

   

  Bring our troops home right now!

• newmoney said on Nov 21, 2008....

   

  I have money invested in this little conflict. Whey should I want it to end? We need to bomb Iran next,then China and Cuba.

• McCain said on Nov 21, 2008....

  lets at least keep the war going untill we win.

• PARISCULT said on Nov 21, 2008....

  I don't realy care!

• tinkerbell1 said on Nov 21, 2008....

  spread peace

• lfbno7 said on Nov 22, 2008....

  I have little hope that Obama will be any good. He's not going to stop the thieving "bailout" that gives an obscene amount of money to wealthy bankers without helping homeowners in trouble at all. He's not going to stand up to the filthy international pharmaceutical industry that keeps prescription drug prices so damn high, inflating our health care costs to the point that we can barely afford to have health insurance, making windfall profits far beyond recovering their R and D costs. He talks a good game but that's about it. He's more of the same. He's not Dennis Kucinich. He's a run of the mill politician and the only thing good about him is that he won't be as bad as Bush. What's the first thing he should do? Stop the filthy thieving bailout, get the money back that has already been given, and help out the homeowners themselves by offering them a better deal, lower interest, lower principal remaining, and break the back of the international pharmaceutical industry's power in America, forcing them to lower the prices or be prosecuted once again for illegal price fixing, which they have pled guilty to in the past, paying nearly a billion dollars in fines and passing them on to the consumers. This time, put the bastard felons in jail, no fines, and forces the prices down.

• WASnotWAS said on Nov 22, 2008....

  Nothing that this bush has done is Obamas fault in any way shape or form

• curmudgeon said on Nov 22, 2008....

  Seems to me that forcing the pharmas to do anything suggested will simply encourage them to move to more lucrative markets. So many big pharma corporations are global entities and can very likely find more profitable venues than the U.S. If you want to import your drugs from India or China, please do go ahead and prosecute them.
  
  The first thing Obama should do after being sworn in is light a cigarette on camera. He is reportedly a smoker, but I've never seen a pic of him with a cigarette. I don't want him or any other holier than thou liberal hypocrites lecturing us about how tobacco is bad for health and all that guff while their messiah lights up in the back room of the White House.
  

• kelly said on Nov 22, 2008....

  As far as smoking goes, smokers can go to hell until they learn how to keep all the smoke to themselves.  It is nothing less than a physical assault on everyone around them.  A single smoker can foul the airspace around him for half a block.
  
  
  I really don't care if smoking is bad for YOUR health.  Have at it.  But I care if it's bad for my health and I care that the stench is revolting.

• mixednuts said on Nov 22, 2008....

  Pot is illegal but the government loves its taxed drugs(booze,cigarettes)

• mixednuts said on Nov 22, 2008....

  Lets give Obama a chance! Americans picked him!
  Bush used pot and cocain!

• andora said on Nov 22, 2008....

  make love in the lincoln bedroom to clear the eeby geebies out of the house!
  
  then...get dick, don, paul, collin and w to the hague for war crimes!
  

• andora said on Nov 22, 2008....

  I'm sorry, I got it backwards: first he should re-instate Habaeus Corpus then make love!
  
  
  

• mixednuts said on Nov 22, 2008....

  OMG andora!

  Yes...make love in the white house!

• mixednuts said on Nov 22, 2008....

   

   

  I have SINED!

• kelly said on Nov 22, 2008....

  That's not so bad.  I have cosined.

• andora said on Nov 22, 2008....

  black nookie in the white house
  
  what will they think of next ;}
  
  OMG, not to mention a oo, should i say it, a mixed marriage ']
  
  happy saturday everyone
  
  got nookie?
  

• sheltercrow said on Nov 22, 2008....

  Continue the good work of Willacy County district attorney, Juan Angel Guerra
  
  
  
  A Texas judge has set an arraignment date for Friday (11/21) for Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They were indicted this week by a Texas grand jury on state charges accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a privately-run federal jail. Cheney, Gonzales and the others named in the indictments will not be arrested, and do not need to appear in person at the arraignment, the judge said.

• sheltercrow said on Nov 22, 2008....

  And how about this story?
  
  Lou Dobbs on Iran Nukes Funded By the US Taxpayer.
  
  

• sheltercrow said on Nov 22, 2008....

  How to Purchase the 7th Largest Bank in the Country for free using taxpayer money through the TARP. Or another chapter in the Paulson scam. You get to see Paulson dissemble on the issue.
  
  
  
  "If this was 1999, and we had 4% unemployment, I'd say let it fail, let the bankruptcy do its work, but this is not a good time to be having a really major industry turn belly-up." --- Professor Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate, on automakers bailout.
  
  Despite how we feel about these criminal auto exec's, this is something that needs to be done in a timely fashion.
  
  

• mixednuts said on Nov 22, 2008....

  I've dated several black girls and people are people.

• mixednuts said on Nov 22, 2008....

  SC...we've been ripped  off!

• andora said on Nov 22, 2008....

  honeybabysweetiepumkinpie
  
  i was not in anyway casting aspersions upon mixed-marriage etc....I was celebrating
  
  I BELIEVE IN AMALGAMATING THE RACES
  
  no better way to end the fruitless bigotry game
  
  as a white woman, I am more inclined to ridicule my own race...and i do...especially in regard to their mantra 'Manifest Destiny'
  
  you would be blown away if you knew my opinions about the people of the Indigo race...in fact, I may have to write an article about their special position in regard to the Magnetic Polarity and how the Indigo race will reveal much about this mysterious aspect of humanity...but, maybe i won't
  
  anyway mixednuts, you know i love you
  

• husbandhater said on Nov 22, 2008....

  AH Curm I don't know what pictures you've got to look at but I found out he smokes when I saw it in a picture for myself.

  O do the same that Bush did. Immediately repeal the tax laws that Idiot Bush out into place when Clinton left and he took over. Then get our Husbands,wives,sons and daughters HOME! Let the chips fall where they may in Iraq as they are fighting around us and through us. You gotta take the training wheels off sometime. When is enough enough. Make them spend their own surpluses up.

  Then i would go after Osama who is starving in a cave somewhere in Pakistan. I truly beleive Bush knows where he's at or that the government has an idea at least. This would be the greatest of embarressments to the last of the fake ass Bush Legacy.

  I would then call on WallStreet to give Ceasar it's due as they are the ones who caused this Mortgage crisis with their greed and we are bailing them out and not the homeowners. Go fucking figure? I would use whatevers paid back to fix the market and save the homeowners. As for the Big 3. Let them sink or swim. How do you show up to Congress and plead poverty riding in a Luxury jet? Brainless huh. I say sell the jets and you have a couple of million right there to infuse capitol into your companies. But of course the Big boys won't part with thier perks and toys as they have apperances to keep up with.

  Seems like everyones got a hand out these days. I'd have them lay bare their books(Financial records) for all the world to see and see how fast they recoil and suddenly don't need the funds. When we did that here in N.Y. we found the MTA had kept a second set of books and actually had a surplus.

  Either way his 1st 100days will be BUSY!

• andora said on Nov 22, 2008....

  As usual ShelterCrow, you have educated me once again
  
  yesss Juan is an Angel...thankyou for helping me to understand how dickey boy has been getting ahead with gonzo at his side! Tsk Tsk Tsk
  
  Juan Angel Guerrez is an absolute AMERICAN !!!
  
  his is a hero - why is he not all over cnn, msnbc, fox etc????
  
  I am so glad that this is going to change - dick cheney is as dark and ugly as all the jokes make him out to be and worse
  

• sheltercrow said on Nov 22, 2008....

  Paul Krugman on the sub-prime game, tranches, structured finance, collateralized debt obligation and much much more...
  
  

• andora said on Nov 22, 2008....

  dear shelter,
  
  the movie about Tehran is something that people are shocked about, no less, but all the boogie-men are paper cut outs. Iranians are really a very old and civilized people, they are in defense mode...not offense - the US is the terrorist in this scuffle
  
  The bailout is simply a further monopolization of power...we better hope Obama is really a populist, because the American pop has been set up for a fall after losing Habaeous Corpus and getting railroaded with the Patriot Act
  
  If internal terror cells were really an issue in the US, do you think Ashcroft would have wasted time and money on Tommy Chong? No this is a cultural war after all and Bin Laden was the boogie man that helped the sheople give up the Bill of Rights!!! fuck and double fucked!!! I said ba aaa a
  
  
  

• sheltercrow said on Nov 22, 2008....

  I placed the Iran thing to point out that Bush is a fraud.
  
  Iran hates and distrusts the united states for a good reason. Our CIA and President Eisenhower, along with the British MI6, were responsible for the coup that led to ouster of their very popular prime minister Mohammed Mossadeq.
  
  Operation Ajax - Iran and the CIA coup.
  
  American CIA and British MI6 draw up Operation Ajax. A secret plan to overthrow the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq in order to secure their oil interests and contain Soviet influence.
  
  
  
  

• linkone said on Nov 23, 2008....

  arrest bush

• andora said on Nov 24, 2008....

  I wish more Americans knew some history
  
  of course they would have to learn it outside of the US education system if they want to get some truth
  
  what we have been doing to Cuba and Iran in the name of democracy and freedom is evil
  
  we overthrew a democratically elected Vietnamese government and then attempted to put in a deposed kings son, this sparked off the whole Vietnam problem...Americans just do not know this
  
  in fact Phillipino's don't know that our military under general Smith killed millions of Phillipino's in gruesome manners and then gave a ticker tape parade to this general as the soldiers that tried to tell of what was happening in the Phillipines got thrown into Leavenworth prison for treason!
  
  this memory no longer exists for Phillipino's, and it was only 100 years ago that this occurred. I tell my phillipino neighbors about this here in Hawaii all the time and they just go blank...they never heard of such a thing!
  
  it is comforting to know there are people like you shelter that investigate history
  
  thanks
  

• andora said on Nov 24, 2008....

  if you are reading this thread and have not seen the movies about Iran describing the tactics of the CIA, please do. As an American I must beg other Americans to stop buying into the persistent cover-up by our government about its un-American actions around the world.
  
  The non-violent peace activists have been dealing with hired thugs who wear bandana's and show up at major peace rallies for decades...these people are never a part of the grassroots folks that are staging the rally and never speak to those who are not wearing bandana's - they are hired by people like dick cheney etc...to give the enforcement people a way to begin bashing heads and arresting American activists - accusing the peaceful objectors of being violent. In this way an entire class of patriotic Americans have been marginalized and scapegoated as a way of covering up the un-American activities of our gov
  
  i beg you not to go glassy-eyed over this information and to tell others about this...we cannot afford to allow these types of things to be done in our name ever again. and bc of the net, we do not have to lay down and let apathy still our voice.
  
  just a thought
  
  shelter, you are invaluable to this and i wish to give you some deep appreciation for exposing the truth in such an effective way! I hear you :]
  

• sheltercrow said on Nov 25, 2008....

  Spanish American War: The Philippines and Filipino Genocide (1 of 5)
  
  

• sheltercrow said on Nov 25, 2008....

  Police provoke Violence at SPP protest. SSP stands for 'Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.' Quebec police admit they went undercover at Montebello protest. From CanadiansNanaimo
  
  

• sheltercrow said on Nov 25, 2008....

  Obama press conference (1 of 3). I just can't get over the difference between him and the Bush gang. I think he is going to succeed, if anyone can, considering the economic wreckage he was left with.
  
  

• andora said on Nov 25, 2008....

  amen shelter
  
  and thanks for putting up the movies about rioters and the fillipines
  
  i'm not sure any of the Americans here care much about this stuff, it seems to be you and i trying to keep the past fresh in our memory as a way of not having to repeat the idiocy of our forebearers. I was naieve to believe that people would use the internet to educate themselves...they be looking for games to take their minds off of the stuff that makes them anxious.
  
  when reality gets too real, they go to the doctor and get some meds for the head and begin compromising their organs, to the point they can no longer deny they are now sick and anxious. vicious cycle....then they put their kids on the meds while filling them with coca cola and beef that is pumped full of steroids and antibiotics...
  

• andora said on Nov 25, 2008....

  I agree with your take on the Obama press releases
  
  I have been interacting with two of their transition teams
  
  john podesta and the economic recovery team
  
  and Heather (can't remember her last name) who heads the energy transition team. this admin isn't even in office and they are soliciting our suggestions aggressively...this is different from the cabal that called itself the bush admin.
  
  It's exciting to be included in the solutions...most Americans are passionate about helping in some way, i do believe this admin will give them avenues. especially the youth.
  
  I have been promoting my watershed reclamation program that is being adopted here on my island...it is a remote stewardship program that gives college scholarships to the voluteers. This fits perfectly with Obama's plan to volunteer our youth in exchange for college so I am getting them aware of this prior to setting up their program. how wonderful, how very American of our president.
  

• sheltercrow said on Nov 25, 2008....

  World-renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky discussed the meaning of Obama’s victory and the possibilities ahead for real democratic change at a recent address in Boston (Video).

• sheltercrow said on Nov 25, 2008....

  This is how much won't be their when Obama get sworn in...
  
  
  Big Bailouts, Bigger Bucks
  
  By Barry Ritholtz - November 25th, 2008, The Big Picture Blog
  
  Whenever I discussed the current bailout situation with people, I find they have a hard time comprehending the actual numbers involved. That became a problem while doing the research for the Bailout Nation book. I needed some way to put this into proper historical perspective.
  
  If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars. People have a hard time conceptualizing very large numbers, so let’s give this some context. The current Credit Crisis bailout is now the largest outlay In American history.
  
  Jim Bianco of Bianco Research crunched the inflation adjusted numbers. The bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures – combined:
  
  • Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
  • Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
  • Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
  • S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
  • Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
  • The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
  • Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
  • Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
  • NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion
  
  TOTAL: $3.92 trillion
  
  data courtesy of Bianco Research
  
  From Democracy Now.
  
  
  Naomi Klein, Robert Kuttner and Michael Hudson Dissect Obama’s New Economic Team & Stimulus Plan (video).
  
  On Monday Obama named New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner to the post of the Treasury Secretary. Former Treasury Secretary under Clinton Lawrence Summers was named the Director of the National Economic Council in the White House. Obama also called for a stimulus plan that will “give a jolt to the economy.” We host a roundtable discussion about Obama’s latest economic moves.
  
  
  

• andora said on Dec 01, 2008....

  socialism for the corporate cabals as they have whistled the ardent tune against socialism. this is how denial works...in broad daylight shelter
  
  when I tried to crunch the numbers for a 'stimulus' package for American taxpayers I wrestled with too many zeros. really, I think this could be a wake up call about the absolute absurdity that we have created through growth economics. These unadulterated capitalist ideas are no better than any ism - whether we are talking politics or religion.
  
  I am very hopeful that the information available to the collective psyche will enable our species as a whole to rethink our current paradigm...this is what i am poised and waiting for- i have something to say after all
  
  understanding the fundamental Laws of Nature and the FACT that the elements that create physical reality are responsive to personality is news that instantaneously changes ones perspective and choices...gotta love an instant fix
  
  anyway back on the ranch
  
  Obama introduced his foreign policy team and the pundits were stupid as usual...talking about what ifs. this is not journalism this is charlotry dressed up as news. egads
  

• mixednuts said on Dec 02, 2008....

  Thanks to every single one of you for your opinions!

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