eor: (for all the good)
The President just proposed a $700 billion bailout for the US banks. That means we, the people, get to buy all the bad assets while the banks keep control of the good ones and the speculators can move on to their next target, starting the whole game over again. $700 billion is a fair chunk of change. Let's see, around $2,300 for every man woman and child in the US. Or around $6,000 per household. Of course, we won't pay that right off, because we're not going to increase taxes. Instead we'll let some interest build up and leave it for the next generation to pay.

Yet another shift of responsibility. The boomers want to retire prosperous, at any price. They'd rather sell their children down the shitter than live within their means. This house of cards looks like an Escher wetdream already. Or maybe the sarcophagus at Chernobyl.

If you're in the US and you're under 50... you didn't even get a kiss.
eor: (ya know what I'm saying)
So, the current governor of Alaska and vice presidential hopeful has been using private email accounts to avoid public disclosure laws. Isn't that page one of the Rove/Bush/Cheney playbook? Could McCain have possibly picked someone more inappropriate to "change"? Wow, just wow. Who was it that vetted her for McCain's campaign? Is that person now assigned to testing water temperatures, sans clothing, at McMurdo Station? I hope so.

Yes, someone stole the password to her yahoo account through some basic clever guessing. But I'm not marvelling at her stupidity in using a throw away service while in a position of such visibility. I'm just amazed that McCain would pick someone as utterly dangerous as Palin. Think about it: someone with Bush's audacity, precedent already on her side, young enough to have a dynasty for many years, and, of course, smarter than Bush (many rocks qualify for this). If you add a little bit of viciousness, you've got reason to be very concerned. So should McCain.

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