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This American Life w/Ira Glass (podcast will be available for free online tomorrow). http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ Look for the podcast of the show that originally aired Saturday (10-04-08). It does a fantastic job of explaining the massive damage that credit default swaps did, and...

John McCain is and has been hated by the base of the Republican Party since he's held elected office. I am just now hearing real feedback about how Palin's VP Debate statement on supporting homosexual partners' benefits in terms of health insurance, life insurance and property rights went...

Who saw the segment regarding subprime mortgages, the 'bailout' legislation and 'credit default swaps?'

You were hoping there was a greater than 40% chance McCain dies before fulfilling his first term (on the stretch he actually can win)? This is why the Republicans lack real enthusiasm this year. They have a demoralizing headliner, and a lightweight in the 2nd slot.

:D Nice sell out, McBush. I'm surprised they didn't have some lard for Halliburton and Bectel in that puppy.

Everyone hates attorneys - - until they are a victim or feel what the victim does.

Palin's record doubted in South In GOP strongholds, some conservatives question her experience. http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081003/POLITICS01/810030375 Ben Evans / Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- John Thomas has lots of reasons to support John McCain for...

This fact was taken into account by the actuarial tables in predicting a 40% chance of Palin succeeding John McCain prior to him being able to complete a first term.

Many of the so-called 'small government' Republicans and conservatives here want the government to be able to tell your wives, girlfriends, daughters or whomever else you know that they can't have an abortion - AT ANY STAGE (even within weeks) - EVEN WHERE THEIR PREGNANCY IS THE RESULT OF RAPE...

Why, because I hadn't noticed a short, 'Time Magazine' article? I will investigate this further. Palin is what is dooming McCain's campaign, and I seem to recall Lieberman advising her to not let her debate with Joe Biden 'turn into an I.Q. test.'...

Link please.

Let's presume I am. Color me a perfectly average stereotype of what an 'American' is. Will I want to elect the most intelligent and capable person to high office, or someone who I believe conforms the closest to me, my lifestyle, my interests, and my capabilities?

Basic summary as I understand it: Corporation XYZ needs to raise short term capital (for payroll, to buy machinery, whatever). In past, an employee (low level clerical position typically) of Corporation XYZ would call a specialist at the bond desk of a Lehman, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and...

Signed, John Q. 'I'm not looking to have a drinking buddy as President' Public

I researched that case (the foreclosure case cited in the film). The attorney was the defendant who claimed the mortgage note lacked consideration, and who initially won the case. He was apparently disbarred (temporarily) for bringing a frivolous claim (attacking the monetary structure of...

But the problem is that the language is 'vague,' and this power (stock injection) is to be used at the 'discretion' of the Treasury Secretary. The bank lobbyists resist this power. We don't know if the 700 billion to whatever trillion will be spent mostly on buying shitty assets, or via...

It is absolute fact that Blackwater was hired and utilized in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, posting foreign mercenaries on American City Blocks, at FEMA's directive. Throw out all your old notions of quaint but vestigial terms such as 'The Posse Comitatus Act.' It truly is a...

Anyone in debt, for whatever reason, is a slave, whether an individual, family, city, state, nation or globe. Period. The creation and use of debt as a tool of control is a methodology for oppression and suppression, in order to concentrate and preserve true wealth (aka 'the lack of need...

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If he thought there were odds-on favorites there'd be a depression, he exactly be buying those entities, such as Goldman (which just so happened to convert itself into a 'commercial bank' so as to grab its piece of that government largess that is the 'bailout' package), that will be absolutely...