This And That

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." - Emma Goldman

Long Story Short: Filling up all that dreaded white space.

Wall Street is demanding a trillion dollar blank check but none of the money is apparantly meant to help Americans save their homes. I think these swine have forgotten that Americans can get along fine without Wall Street. It's Wall Street that cannot get along without Americans.

Fuck Wall Street. Fuck Ben Bernanke. Fuck Henry Paulson. They have failed. Let's all hold our breath and wait until the adults get here next January to figure this all out. It is high time for something new, not the same old crappola!

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There was a time, quite recently in fact, when Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac were doing just fine, making a profit, doing their job. Then Bush removed the heads of those agencies because they wouldn't offer sub-prime mortgages. Thier replacements, Bush's cronies, were happy to offer sub-primes and it was all downhill from there.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's failure was not of their own making. It was Bush's.

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Here are two of the biggest lies that Republicans tell:

1) Anyone can become rich and successful if they just put their mind to it. (Amended from becoming President because let’s face it, most people don’t want the grief of the office. It doesn’t pay; we just happen to always elect millionaires.)

Since this statement is demonstrably false, it has a companion Great Lie:

2) Money doesn’t buy you happiness. All those rich people you admire would trade it all in a heartbeat for the simple pleasures you now enjoy. They don’t, and they could, but trust me, they would. In a heartbeat.

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Legend has it that Pandora, wife of Epimetheus, was given a special box by Zeus who instructed her to keep it always closed. But, as we all know she fell prey to her own curiousity and opened the container, releasing Greed, Vanity, Slander, Lying and Envy, all the basic platforms of the Republican Party. That last bit is not entirely a joke but, as the legend goes on to say, Pandora closed the jar quickly enough to catch one last entity ----

Hope.

=mike=