The Crash: "Why has the market dropped so much?" everyone asks. What is it about the specter of our first socialist president and the end of capitalism as we know it that they don't understand?
The freeze-up of the financial system and government's seeming inability to thaw it out are a main concern, no doubt. But more people are also starting to look across the valley, as they say, at what's in store once this crisis passes.
And right now it looks like the U.S., which built the mightiest, most prosperous economy the world has ever known, is about to turn its back on the free-enterprise system that made it all possible.
It isn't only that the most anti-capitalist politician ever nominated by a major party is favored to take the White House. It's that he'll also have a filibuster-proof Congress led by politicians who are almost as liberal.
Throw in a media establishment dedicated to the implementation of a liberal agenda, and the smothering of dissent wherever it arises, and it's no wonder panic has set in.
What is that agenda? It starts with a tax system right out of Marx: A massive redistribution of income from each according to his ability, to each according to his need all in the name of "neighborliness," "patriotism," "fairness" and "justice."
It continues with a call for a new world order that turns its back on free trade, has no problem with government controlling the means of production, imposes global taxes to support continents where our interests are negligible, signs on to climate treaties that will sap billions more in U.S. productivity and wealth, and institutes an authoritarian health care system that will strip Americans' freedoms and run up costs.
All the while, it ensures that nothing absolutely nothing will be done to secure a sufficient, terror-proof supply of our economic lifeblood oil a resource we'll need much more of in the years ahead.
The businesses that create jobs and generate wealth are already discounting the future based on what they know about Obama's plans to raise income, capital gains, dividend and payroll taxes, and his various other economy-crippling policies. Which helps explain why world stock markets have been so topsy-turvy.
But don't take our word for it. One hundred economists, five Nobel winners among them, have signed a letter noting just that:
"The prospect of such tax-rate increases in 2010 is already a drag on the economy," they wrote, noting that the potential of higher taxes in the next year or two is reducing hiring and investment.
It was "misguided tax hikes and protectionism, enacted when the U.S. economy was weak in the early 1930s," the economists remind us, that "greatly increased the severity of the Great Depression."
We can't afford to repeat these grave errors.
Yet much of the electorate is determined to vote for the candidate most likely to make them. If he wins, what we consider to be a crisis in today's economy will be a routine affair in tomorrow's.
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Colonization of Mars looks more attractive every day...
#2
When they say it is the death knell of capitalism, I say that it may very well be the death knell of socialism.
Socialism cannot support itself. It is a parasitical form of government. It has only had some successes in the US because it has spent money it didn't have. But now, the ability to spend beyond their means is running out.
And BTW, the most successful socialist experiment that is often referred to is Sweden, but it only had limited success because half of its industry was in making arms, and though heavily taxed, was not under socialist rules.
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Barack's election would be considered the high point of Socialism in the US, IMHO. It would be such a financial FUBAR that there would be a run to Free-market Capitalism and you wouldn't see another black president with a (D) after his name for decades
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If you elect Obama, then you go into a vertical spin and auger in.
If you elect McCain, you go into a graveyard spiral. At least you have time to try to get out of it before you hit the ground hard.
That's the way I see it.
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You know, Obama mimics the profile of a sociopath in many regards, which is why he is so "charismatic" and "endearing" and seems to "powerful" to people. Also, as cingold will tell you, Obama uses the cultural norming of Indonesian socialization patterns, which makes it feel to AMERICANS that Obama is everyone's "friend." Because cingold grew up in Indonesia, he can see past it. He says Obama is the most violent hate-filled man he has seen. Very dangerous.
Glibness/Superficial Charm
Language can be used without effort by them to confuse and convince their audience. Captivating storytellers that exude self-confidence, they can spin a web that intrigues others. Since they are persuasive, they have the capacity to destroy their critics verbally or emotionally.
Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They dominate and humiliate their victims.
Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right." Craves adulation and attendance. Must be the center of attention with their own fantasies as the "spokesman for God," "enlightened," "leader of humankind," etc. Creates an us-versus-them mentality
Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and able to pass lie detector tests.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Shallow Emotions
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion, it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
Incapacity for Love
While they talk about "God's love" they are unable to give or receive it. Since they do not believe in the genuineness of their followers' love, they are very harsh in testing it from their devotees and expect them to feel guilt for their failings. Expects unconditional surrender.
Need for Stimulation
Living on the edge, yet testing the beliefs of their followers with bizarre rules, punishments and behaviors. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal.
Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them. Their skills are used to exploit, abuse and exert power. Since the follower cannot believe their leader would callously hurt them, they rationalize the behavior as necessary for their (or the group's) own "good" and deny the abuse. When devotees become aware of the exploitation it feels like a "spiritual rape" to them.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others. The followers only see them as near perfect.
Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blame their followers or others outside their group. Blame reinforces passivity and obedience and produces guilt, shame, terror and conformity in the followers.
Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Totalist leaders frequently practice promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts. This is usually kept hidden from all but the inner circle. Stringent sexual control of their followers, such as forced breakups and divorces, removal of children from parents, rules for dating, etc.
Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future. Many groups claim as their goal world-domination or other utopian promises. Great contrast between the leader's opulent lifestyle and the followers' impoverishment. Support by gifts and donations from the followers who are pressured to give through fear and guilt. Highly sensitive to their own pain and health.
Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
Changes their image and that of the group as needed to avoid prosecution and to increase income and to recruit a range of members. Is able to adapt or relocate as needed to preserve the group. Can resurface later with a new name, a new front group and a new twist on the scam.
Other Related Qualities:
Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
Authoritarian
Secretive
Paranoid
Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
Conventional appearance
Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim's life
Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim's affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
Incapable of real human attachment to another
Unable to feel remorse or guilt
Extreme narcissism and grandiose
May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
In the old days, this disorder was called "moral insanity" then "sociopathology" then "anti-social personality disorder."
Republicans and centrist Democrats are joined together on this effort to get the truth out about Obama before the November election. We firmly believe in McCain's victory and do not believe it hinges on any developments with RICO. The polls, in our opinon, are wrong, and the internal numbers we see coming out of NC, VA, PA, OH, IN and FL show McCain wins in all of those states (there is no mathematical possibility for Obama to win without taking PA, OH, or FL). We believe after McCain's win there will be a continued prosecution of Obama and members of the Democratic party for voter fraud under RICO statutes in the months and years ahead. ACORN and leftist Democrats have gone too far this time -- for years ACORN has engineered deliberate election fraud using taxpayer dollars funneled to it by Democrats. This time, with both Democrats and Republicans joined against them, ACORN Is going down...and we believe it will ultimately take Obama, Axelrod, and most of today's Democratic leadership down with it.
The Obama campaign, meanwhile, is in damage control mode, trying to amend FEC filings to erase ACORN from all of its paperwork
There IS a RICO investigation of ACORN and the Obama campaign underway - this has now been established by the mainstream media. Right now it's rumored here in Chicago that Patrick Fitzgerald is heading it (confirmation on that has not come yet). There is a lot of activity in Chicago right now, with a lot of IRS agents looking into the finances coming in and out of this city, and across state lines (this was established on Monday when the GOP issued emergency press releases that much of Obama's campaign contributions could very well be illegal foreign contributions - what appears to be deliberately poor record keeping designed to hide the true identities and monetary sources of online donors is at issue here). We see in 15 states now that ACORN is being busted for attempted voter fraud, and for fraudulent, illegal voter registratons in the hundreds of thousands, if not a million. The article below states, and we have confirmed this with people who know for sure, that the people who gathered evidence of Obama's fraud and voter intimidation techniques during the primaries against Hillary Clinton are sharing everything they have with the Republican Party and the federal government.
What's happening here is something we have never seen before: centrist Clinton Democrats and Republicans are working together to expose the DNC and Obama campaign's illegal activities and orchestrated, coordinated fraud. Both parties are working with federal agents to investigate ACORN, which has been funded with upwards of $800,000 in questionable donations from the Obama campaign (in what appears to be the expressed and explicit direction to engineer voter fraud in the general election). The tactics being employed now in the 15 states currently under investigation are the VERY SAME TACTICS we saw on the ground in Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Indiana, and other states working for Hillary Clinton in the primaries.
And all of this ties back to Chicago.
Where the Obama campaign and DNC are now based.
(T)echnically, nothing Obama did during the primaries was illegal...if our understanding of election law is true and political party primaries are not safeguarded under federal law. Tthe things his campaign is orchestrating now, however, ARE violations of the law.
Thus, all the evidence Clinton supporters and Republicans have gathered of fraud and voter intimidation during the primaries establishes the pattern of behavior that's allowing RICO investigators to clearly discern a national conspiracy, rooted in Chicago, to hijack this election and defraud the will of the people. It's all background information, with the RICO case seemingly evolving from the 15 separate investigations now underway in all states busting ACORN offices.
The Obama campaign, meanwhile, is in damage control mode, trying to amend FEC filings to erase ACORN from all of its paperwork -- including claiming the $800,000 the Obama campaign paid ACORN for voter fraud (including registering the dead and enlisting homeless people and college kids to illegally multi-vote in multiple states or multiple intrastate polling places) was actually awarded to an unrelated, though wholly owned, subsidiary of ACORN.
All of this is still developing and we do not know how many more breaks in this story will come before November 4th. We do detect a purposeful breaking of something new in this story every few days. Monday was the reports of illegal contributions to the Obama campaign from overseas that tied into the $800,000 given to ACORN by Obama. On Wednesday, all Hell broke lose in 15 states with ACORN offices left and right busted for massive voter fraud operations. We don't know about other cities, but lawyers here in Chicago are talking about something BIG going down.
More seriously, what happens if the Obama campaign is indicted before -- or after -- November 4th? Does it become a one-candidate election, does Hillary Clinton take Obama's place on the ballot by implication? There really doesn't seem to be time to reprint and replace ballots for the entire nation...
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I'm not so sure, .5MT The feds have officially opened a RICO investigation. They don't do that on a whim. The PUMAs have been saying for some time that they were lied to, locked out of and sometimes physically intimidated from participating in caucuses that won Obama the nomination.
If ACORN vote fraud is tied in some legally sustainable way to his campaign, PUMA affidavits will contribute to making the case for racketeering. Big 'if' there ....
#6
Here's the link to the documentary about the Obama campaign's strong-arm tactics during the primaries. These people, all Democrats, seem legitimately PO'd. Based on their testimonies in the film, I can't blame them.
This is the first time I've ever really heard anything about this, at least in this much detail. Of course, the MSM ignored the entire thing. Go figure.
#7
What this amounts to is a coup by Hillary and her supporters, to be followed by a major purge of the Democrats once Obama loses. But from there, the scheming gets interesting.
The real Obama backers came up with him in the first place not to win the presidency, but solely to beat Hillary. They only thing they have to assure now is that he survives until election day.
However, they long ago knew that once he had lost the general election, Hillary would be in de facto charge of the Democrat party, and would purge Obama supporters. So his real backers kept quiet and in the background, to avoid being purged themselves.
Hillary, in turn, while almost having to purge the party, will not make any friends doing so. In fact, it will make her lots of enemies. And this means that in the next election, there is going to be a powerful block of old and new enemies to stand in her way.
#9
I don't see any RICO investigation continuing past February in an Obama administration. It will get closed down quietly, and the MSM will be told that the investigation 'fizzled out for lack of evidence'. The MSM will believe that of course and report it verbatim.
Pat Fitzgerald will be dismissed. He's a U.S. attorney appointed by GWB and thus may be dismissed at will. There won't be a fuss about it like there was when Gonzales dismissed those eight U.S. attorneys. It'll just happen. If Obama is deft he won't even have to fire the man, he'll just have someone 'talk' to him, and Fitzgerald will 'resign to pursue other activities'. Quietly.
The Chicago Way is to control the prosecutors and the judges so that you can do what you want without fear. It's no big surprise in Chicago that the Cook County sheriff and the Cook County States Attorney are big Daley allies. That's how you do it. Toss in effective control of the editorial boards of the major newspapers (or at least the ability to spin them to your interests) and you're gold.
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"I will fight, but we will be respectful," he said. "I admire Senator Obama" -- as the crowd booed loudly -- "I want everyone to be respectful. ... I don't mean you have to reduce your ferocity, just be respectful.... He's a decent family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. ... I have to tell you, he is a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States."
Quotes above from his "Rally" Oct 10 in Minnesota. Spoken like a Senator who values senatorial collegiality more than principles, who would rather lose and be genteel to a member of "the club" than stand up and force the issues that need to be forced.
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Facing the dirtiest campaign in memory, McCain refuses to engage.
Maverick, you;re done -- and so are those in the GOP that put you there and continue the downward spiral of the GOP leadership into invertebrate mediocrity.
McCain, my message to you comes from Dale E, who know a thing about being a fierce competitior - and about winning.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat that candy ass of yours" - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
#2
1. Obama worked with Ayers for many years on a number of the organizing projects; it boggles the mind that he now says either Ayers is just a person in the neighborhood or he thought Ayers was rehabilitated. Take your pick which story, if either, you believe.
2. Obama had as his pastor and spiritual mentor for 20 years the Reverend Wright who publicly condemns America using the words "God D**n America" and blames the US for 9/11 and the CIA for the AIDs epidemic.
3. Obama received a sweetheart discount for his Chicago home and convicted felon Rezko purchased the lot next door at full price so that Obama wouldn't have a neighbor.
4. Obama, as well as many other Democrats (and yes some Republicans) received large contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and some of his advisers are former executives of the organization. Further, he opposed any action to stiffen mortgage requirements such as reviewing/approving borrower credit history, requiring sufficient down payment, and limiting sub-prime mortgages.
5. Obama is not pro-life; believes in abortion at all times and voted in the state senate against giving care to an aborted baby who happens to be born alive, calling it an NVF (non-viable fetus).
6. Obama, if elected, will have the opportunity to appoint two or more judges to the US Supreme Court and scores of replacement judges to the lower federal courts. You can be assured they will not believe in an interpretation of the constitution that the framers intended. It will be a "living document" tailored to whatever relativistic moral values are popular at the time: Gay marriage, abuse of the flag, restrictions on private property and free speech, etc.
7. Obama, in the past, has opposed handgun rights and proposed curbs on sale of other guns and ammunition. Our Second Amendment rights likely will be reexamined by a liberal majority Supreme Court.
8. Obama has been against the war on terror, specifically the war in Iraq where so many of our brave men and women have given the ultimate sacrifice.
9. Obama's foreign policy is not realistic; his diplomacy would consist of sitting down with dictators without preconditions.
10. Obama's system of taxes will overwhelm and shut down economic recovery and prosperity. Taxes on small business, capital gains, death, income, etc. will be levied to support the many new "entitlement" programs.
11. Obama's history shows that he is a socialist who believes that government rather than the individual should have the power. Look for more government, increased regulation and less freedom if he is elected.
NOW Senator McCain, is THAT enough to generate an honest fear of an Obama presidency, unchecked by a Democrat liberal House under Pelosi with her SF Values, and a veto-proof Democrat Senate?
You asked us to FIGHT for you at the convention, and now you leave us hanging you sumbitch.
McCain's intransigence has completely demoralized those of us who are volunteering and working for him.
I guess after all, he is the John McCain we thought he was.
I'm still going to vote McCain, but it is back to a grudging vote against Obama instead of for McCain.
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Respectfully, I disagree with the striked out items but agree on most. I can think of many more for McCain though.
1. Obama worked with Ayers for many years on a number of the organizing projects; it boggles the mind that he now says either Ayers is just a person in the neighborhood or he thought Ayers was rehabilitated. Take your pick which story, if either, you believe. The Annenberg Foundation is not evil. Unless PBS is evil?
2. Obama had as his pastor and spiritual mentor for 20 years the Reverend Wright who publicly condemns America using the words "God D**n America" and blames the US for 9/11 and the CIA for the AIDs epidemic.
3. Obama received a sweetheart discount for his Chicago home and convicted felon Rezko purchased the lot next door at full price so that Obama wouldn't have a neighbor.
4. Obama, as well as many other Democrats (and yes some Republicans) received large contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and some of his advisers are former executives of the organization. Further, he opposed any action to stiffen mortgage requirements such as reviewing/approving borrower credit history, requiring sufficient down payment, and limiting sub-prime mortgages.
5. Obama is not pro-life; believes in abortionat all times and voted in the state senate against giving care to an aborted baby who happens to be born alive, calling it an NVF
6. Obama, if elected, will have the opportunity to appoint two or more judges to the US Supreme Court and scores of replacement judges to the lower federal courts. You can beassured they will not believe in an interpretation of the constitution that the framers intended. It will be a "living document" tailored to whatever relativistic moral values are popular at the time: Gay marriage, abuse of the flag, restrictions on private property and free speech, etc.
7. Obama, in the past, has opposed handgun rights and proposed curbs on sale of other guns and ammunition. Our Second Amendment rights likely will be reexamined by a liberal majority Supreme Court.
8. Obama has been against the war on terror, specifically the war in Iraq where so many of our brave men and women have given the ultimate sacrifice.
9. Obama's foreign policy is not realistic; his diplomacy would consist of sitting down with dictators without preconditions.
10. Obama's system of taxes will overwhelm and shut down economic recovery and prosperity. Taxes on small business, capital gains, death, income, etc. will be levied to support the many new "entitlement" programs.
11. Obama's history shows that he is a socialist who believes that government rather than the individual should have the power. Look for more government, increased regulation and less freedom if he is elected.
#4
Since I live in the People's Republic of Pugetopolis bluer-than-blue Washington state, my vote for McRollover would be worse than meaningless. I'm very seriously considering writing in Generals David Petraeus for President and James Mattis for VP...at least I could go on record as voting for someone who still has some fighting spirit.
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And the time for McCain to have pounded The One on his rogues' gallery of radical/criminal/terrorist mentors and advisers would have been right after putting Sarah on the ticket. For about two weeks afterward, the Obamessiah was punch-drunk and flailing blindly...a perfect point at which to start a steady barrage of ads, speeches, etc. calculated to pin the hammer and sickle to the middle of his forehead. The fact that McCain didn't do something along that line makes me wonder how much he really wanted it by that point.
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I see the flying monkeys are up late tonight. Oh, that's right, no skool tomorrow.
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I concur with OldSpook..
McCain likes to use the line; "he's out of touch".
LOL *ima crying*, It is so.. so Rich & Sad, both......
his ability to whip a guppy is even gone!
:(
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I'd still love to see a Vice-President Palin, but I'm starting to wonder if the disaster of a Hussein Osama presidency might be the kind of shock-therapy this crazy nation needs... and mark my words, if elected, it WILL be a disaster beyond imagination.
#9
With the collapsing economies foremost in everyone's minds, all Obama has to do is not @#$% up for the next month, and most of the talking points that are firing up the rightwing blogosphere strike me as utterly irrelevant giving peoples focus on their jobs and savings.
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if elected, it WILL be a disaster beyond imagination
Iran will get nukes. And Arabs who never had problems with Isreali bomb (knowing Israel would not use it) greatly fear the Iranins pschos and would also go for the bomb (plus the weakness of US). So you would get 10 Midele East countries with teh bomb. And son or mate one of them would get into terrorist hands.
The irony of this is that the nuked cities are likely to be Obama strongholds.
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...all Obama has to do is not @#$% up for the next month...
...and the MSM will carry him across the finish line on their shoulders.
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I'm trying to remain somewhat optimistic here...while I've concluded that J-Mac has a better chance of winning the Boston Marathon than he has of beating Obama, a half-term of a raving radical agenda and Sixties retreads like Ayers running wild in the halls of power should be of immeasurable assistance to Trunk chances in the '10 midterms. If we get at least one, preferably both houses back then, the Messiah can be stopped cold. And by early '12, we should know if Bobby Jindal packs the gear to run on a national stage.
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but I'm starting to wonder if the disaster of a Hussein Osama presidency might be the kind of shock-therapy this crazy nation needs... and mark my words, if elected, it WILL be a disaster beyond imagination. Posted by Scooter McGruder
"Coming home to roost"......easy credit, affordable housing for everyone, affirmative action, slavery guilt cult, liberal courts, broken fatherless families, entitlement mindset, midnight basketball, blame cast upon the rich, abortion on demand, you can't fire me I'm ........!
#14
What distresses me most is not Obama, might as well be Che or Fedel. Seen it before, got the T-shirt. Same mindset, same philosophy. What really concerns me is the support he is apparently getting from the "American people." It's something akin to going to a VFW pancake breakfast and seeing everyone sitting around and smoking pot. It's just unbelievable.
#16
Sometime when the old guy is on his back, it take a woman and the 'little people' to see it through. Of course that assumes you have the fight still in you and haven't surrendered to 'fate' already.
#20
That is my greatest fear, that Obumble will become a 21st century "Il Duce."
We already see the Obama Youth, the SA of Acorn, the one's call for a civilian defense force as large as the defense dept, out of control prosecutors attempting to silence political speech in Obama truth squads, etc.
#21
This election has the feel of Bob Dole except Dole was a better candidate. McCain ought to be beating BHO like a rented mule. McCain on The View beaten to a pulp, how Presidential was that? Palin will have to carry him across the finish line. After hearing McCain slobber over Obama being a he is a decent guy and would make a fine President it appears McCain is conceding and campaigning for Obama. The GOP party bulls have foisted this man on us when there were so many better candidates. Has McCain even mentioned ACORN? It is theft in plain sight.
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OS, you pegged it. This f**kin' old fool is an even worse POS than we imagined. This silly bastard is making crowds shouting mad. Me too. Can't vote for the Islamo, but McPain is giving me a sick gut. Maybe Bob Barr in protest. If these damn Republicans keep giving us these shitface candidates, I'm permanently done with them.
#24
The sad thing is the meme has already been started amung the left and the media how McCain is fighting dirty and he still won't fight. If you're gonna get blamed for it anyway.... You don't even have to fight dirty, just use everything.
Snark and mockitude should be used to puncture the pretentious Obama.
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An "interesting" FYI. John is in the psycho-social developmental stage of "integrity vs. despair" (Erikson). Obama is in "productivity vs. stagnation." EVERYTHING John is doing is about shoring up his sense of personal integrity, that what he has done has mattered and is moral according to his generational cohort (in other words, he is reflecting on what what acceptable/non-acceptable from his earlier years as a young man). Obama, on the other hand, feels he MUST produce his vision for the world, or he will stagnate and feel meaningless. He is driven, and his campaign reflects his upbringing as a young boy during the 60s (radical, rebe, "yes we can"). John was already a grown man by then, and reflects other values.
Romney would have been a better match from a developmental profile point of view. Both he and Obama would be on the same "developmental page."
Reagan was no different, but his "take" on his stage of life was that to maintain integrity and avoid despair, he would have to fight and maintain a clear and unwavering position. That is what made him so powerful.
Unless John quickly redefines what integrity means for him and for our country and quickly redefines what he must do to promote that state of being, he will give way to the younger "buck" who is more ready for a knock-down-drag-out fight.
Obama and his ilk have been very effective in creating a large enough underclass to support them in the socialist/communist takeover.
And John is just sitting it out.
If people believe in prayer, now's the time. John needs a wakeup call.
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#29
shit, I'm still scratching my head as to how mcpain got the GOP nod in the first place...too many rinos and independents voting in the primaries. I still liked Romney or Fred. Minus his foreign policy views Ron Paul is closer to my position on domestic policy and the constitutional rule of law.
#30
Romney lost when Huckabee, with the tacit approval of McCain, refused to withdraw from the race and played the Mormon card with southern evangelicals. So instead of a guy with sterling economic, business and executive experience -- plus a huge on-the-ground organization or the potential to create one -- we got Johnny.
#31
There were two rallies in my area yesterday. Sarah Palin drew 10-12,000 supporters, Barack Obama drew 5,000. John Kerry was polled to win at this point in the election cycle, yet Obama can only get a statistical draw, even with heavily skewed samples. The FBI is examining ACORN across the country, as are prosecutors in a number of key states (see the DrudgeReport and Instapundit for links), and newspapers and television stations are reporting on the false mass registrations, while federal prosecutors continue interviewing Chicago gangster Rezco, who keeps talking, apparently not just about the Illinois governor.
The presidential candidate is supposed to act presidential. It's the vice presidential candidate who is supposed to be the attack dog, which Sarah Palin has been doing nicely,
#33
McCain is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. If he goes too negative, he opens himself to incessant criticism from the Obama One and the sycophant media. And if he stays too positive, his base will crucify him. Sort of the beating your wife dilemma.
The daily polls seemed to have stopped moving over the last two weeks. The fence sitters are starting to pay attention, but are simply watching. How McCain responds may be more important to them despite the base frustration.
Either McCain is showing his age or the internal polls show something the media is willfully ignoring.
#34
I think it's closer to "bi-partisanship and my friend the Honorable Senator from Illinois" syndrome. Get along to get screwed anyway with principles the other side couldn't care less about.
SPLIT from the same geographical ovum 61 years ago, Pakistan has lived apart from India like a severed physical twin. It has always been aware of a previous presence. Every thought, every act, every policy move has been a reaction to something India said or did or threatened to do. Earlier, it used to be manifest in the theatre of conventional arms. Today, it can be seen at the test site of nuclear capability.
In the previous bipolar world, it was easy to choose your friends. Your enemys enemy was your friend. India and China fought a war, therefore we courted China as a friend. India flirted with the Communist bloc, therefore the United States became our friend. Common enmities were justification enough for creating or joining an alliance.
Now that the United States has emerged as the singular victor from the Cold War, international politics has become a free-for-all. Your enemys enemy is no longer your friend; your friends friend could well be your next enemy. Opportunist countries like ours just do not know who to trust any more.
For years, our sun in more ways than one rose dependably from the West. We assumed it would never set, which is why the US-India nuclear deal is regarded here with such foreboding. It is as ominous as a solar eclipse.
We ought to have discerned the portents. We had been given enough warning by more than one US president. When John F. Kennedy forgave Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru his flirtation with the Non-Aligned Movement (and by association communist China), we should have realised that the $160m of US military aid, given to India between 1962 and 1966 after the Sino-Indian war, was not simply belated largesse but conscience money for not rescuing the Indians earlier from themselves.
When President Bill Clinton during his visit to India in 2000 described it as a natural partner, he was not advocating organic diplomacy. When, six years later, President George W. Bush deepened Clintons tracks with the statement that Pakistan and India are different countries with different needs and different histories, we should have recognised that we too were being relegated to history.
When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced this year that her government had de-hyphenated India from Pakistan, we should have interpreted her words for what they were a candid acknowledgement that India did not stand on the other side of Pakistan so far as the United States was concerned. Diplomatically, India and Pakistan stood equidistant from the US; strategically, the Indian peninsula shared common borders and common interests with mainland America.
For Pakistan, de-hyphenation from India is a second vivisection, this time from a Ravana of its own military fears and anxieties. Pakistan still continues to be one of the highest recipients of US aid, but that is absorbed primarily by the armed forces under one imaginative heading or another. As one analyst put it, Islamabads view is that the de-hyphenated policy has virtually come to mean that Washington is focusing on the Pakistani military role as an efficient, well-trained and well-equipped border militia in the tribal tracts with Afghanistan.
And what does de-hyphenation mean to India? Freedom from a shared past, and a second boost to strive for a separate future. It means being allowed by its international elders (who in its heart it knows not to be its betters) to be treated as an adult, a responsible steward capable of steering its own ship of state. It means having the United States on its side at the United Nations, at the IAEA, at the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, and at the order book end for nuclear equipment, fuel and supplies. Such rewards do not come on demand; they have to be earned.
However facile Indias contention may appear to some that it needs nuclear technology to meet its energy deficit (Mrs Gandhis peaceful nuclear has now become Mr Manmohan Singhs civilian nuclear), this argument has been accepted at face value by everyone that matters. India wants to generate 25,000MW from nuclear sources, and its demands are met. Pakistan proposes under its Medium-Term Development Framework Plan to enhance its energy supplies from nuclear sources from a present paltry 400MW to an ambitious 8,800MW by the year 2030. Its pipe dream remains in the pipeline.
India has electrified 95 per cent of its villages; Pakistan is still struggling to connect villages to the national grid. India plans one additional power plant every month (China by comparison commissions one plant every week); over the past eight years, Pakistan has added only 2,100MW to its power capacity.
India meets over 50 per cent of its energy requirements from indigenous coal; Pakistans coal deposits like its heroes lie buried below ground. Indias trade with the US is almost $40bn with a potential of $100bn; Pakistan imports $2bn worth of goods from the US.
India sees its US nuclear deal as a cashiers grille where anyone who is willing to supply it nuclear reactors and fuel can apply. The US views the treaty as a token, permitting it to stand at the head of the queue. The Indo-US deal is Indias reward for behaving with brahmacharyan celibacy, by not succumbing to the temptation of nuclear proliferation. Pakistans nuclear programme has been compromised by its own Dr Frankenstein who was exposed peddling its secrets to the wrong customers.
Before we make demands of the United States to treat us at par with India, we might do well to reconsider also the limited efficacy of our own nuclear deterrence. Are we still sovereign even in that? If Mr K. Subrahmanyam (former Indian secretary for defence production) is to be believed, apparently not. He has cautioned: Pakistan should also take into account that it is under constant surveillance by the US super-secret ECHELON system and it cannot rule out a pre-emptive strike by the US if it were to think of a nuclear strike on India.
Had that been written some years ago, it would have appeared far-fetched. Today, with the Americans pounding Fata, it carries in its syllables the chill of the possible.
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before you make you impotent demands to be treated on a par with India, you should remember:
a) All that military aid has been poured into a corrupt ISI/military which supports terrorists which attack American interests
b) your leading pols are corrupt when they aren't insane islamic fanaticists
c) you routinely arm, train, and support attacks on your neighbors, even whil.e your loser ineffectual military allows rebel armies to occupy and control large areas of your precious "soverignty"
In short, you are like the "friend" who is always short of money, can't hold a job, votes against your interests, has whacked out and unpredictable behavious, perpetually attempts to break and enter, then move-in in his neighbor's house..but demands you respect him...and support him
Pakistanis can go fuck themselves. If you had no nukes, you'd be a fourth-world shithole nobody cared about beyond your counterfeiting skillz. The nukes move you into third-world shithole status, and "target"
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/11/2008 15:15 Comments ||
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I hate to be scatological, but India is the body and Pak is the turd.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
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You know where this is going. Everything Islamic is better than Western, especially their morality, which is far superior than the West's, yada-yada-yada.
The international financial crisis began over a year ago, and has intensified over past few months. The International Monetary Fund has already warned that this credit crisis will result in losses of over trillion dollars and that it may worsen especially after the 150-year-old US financial giant Lehman Brothers been declared bankruptcy, not to mention the sale of financial services firm Merrill Lynch to the Bank of America.
Islamic banks are unaffected by the sub prime mortgage crisis; rather many non-Muslims are turning to Islamic banking as customers spooked by turmoil in the Western banking system feeling Islamic banks as a safe haven because these are immune against such crisis due to inherent business ethics within Islamic banking.
There are mainly two important reasons for insulation of Islamic banks under this current credit crisis as compared to the interest based banks and financial institutions. The first is liquidity problem due to inter banks lending, merger and resales of debted companies with their assets in the money markets. The second problem is realted to the rating the asset values mortgaed against debt finances by the credit rating agencies.
Principally Islamic banks are custodians and cannot tarnsfer public deposits to other banks without permission of the depositors. Inter bank liquidity transfer on debt finance basis is not permitted in Islam, which counters liquidity realted problems in the market.
Under Islamic banking, since equity finance does not mortgage assets to grant debt finance, but analyze cost projected yield on projects needing finance, the credit / equity finances remains unaffected with changes in assets values. There are so many internal and external factors affecting the asset values of stocks, bonds and securities which are prime components for credit rating system for Interest based lending; so it is not easy for the banks and even for credit rating agencies to evaluate the exact credit risk. The credit rating under Islamic Finance has nothing to do with up and rise in asset values, instead it depends on actual business. Thus there is no fear of sub prime mortgage under Islamic banking principles, and it thus reduces the throat cut competition in financial sector to get more credit shares. This principle in fact tends to provide stability in the financial market.
Islamic banking interestingly helps the weaker and even the weakest section of the society through various ultra modern financial products. Under Islamic banking credit in terms of equity finance, business finance, trade finance and leasing is provided by investors / banks to the borrowers with a condition that financial risk is borne by investors. This helps the poorer and vulnerable to get credit at no risk, but definitely requires other credibility like strong business proposal, sound projects, rational approach, skill and technical art to attract the financer. Under Islamic finance, genuine business proposals fetch credits with no risks and irrational projects finds difficult to get finances. This raises entrepreneurship skill within the economy helping inclusive growth because financial resources is well shared among haves and have nots with financial risk on financers and other risks on borrowers of funds.
The credit rating under Islamic banking and finance evaluates real term business potential and growth trends, instead of evaluating manipulated asset values which has caused recent damages to the credit market. Thus the regulators and credit rating agencies should now adopt principles of Islamic banking to safeguard the financial sector from any more turmoil.
According to economic analysis the severe financial crisis ravaging the US and hitting the international community on all continents has its economic roots in two major realms: One was the overbearing political pressure put on Wall Street to release loans into unprepared sectors of society and two, was the miscalculation -some say the drunkenness- of Wall Street in accepting these immense risks. But according to Political Economy assessment, there may have been a third player in the crisis: OPEC, or more precisely, radical circles within Oil Producing regimes in the Peninsula. The thesis argue that combined Salafist-Wahabi and Muslim Brotherhood circles in the Gulf -with consent from the Iranian side on this particular issue, used the escalating pricing of Oil over the past year to push the financial crisis in the US over the cliff. The "high point" in this analysis is the timing between the skyrocketing of the prices at the pumps and the widening of the real estate crisis. In short the "Oil-push" put the market out of balance hitting back at Wall Street. Basically, there was certainly a crisis in mismanagement domestically (with its two above mentioned roots), but the possible OPEC economic "offensive" crumbled the defenses of US economy in few months.
The link between this analysis and our counter terrorism interests is dual. One, if the forthcoming investigation will demonstrate that there was a war room manipulated by the "radicals" within OPEC striking at US and Western economies, we would be witnessing the rise of the concept of "economic terrorism." Two, and as the forthcoming investigation is progressing, a re-reading of al Qaeda and other Jihadi literature, speeches and statements about the Silah al Naft (Weapon of Oil) and more particularly the calls by Ayman Zawahiri on "selling US dollars and buying Gold, ahead of American economic collapse" seems to be necessary. Zawahiri's statements most likely aren't coordinated with the OPEC "hard core" push but his knowledge of the "push" is more than likely because of his ties to the Wahabi-Salafi circles inside the Kingdom. Moreover, such a finding would shed light on the analysis of commentary on the web and on Satellite media about "the necessity for Americans to feel the pain of economic pressures, to put political pressures on their Government to change course in the region."
I am posting here two pieces on the subject.
Is There A Foreign Force Waging War Against the US Economy? (Part One) head to link for this and the following article
OPEC's HEAVY HAND
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SEC is investigating whether some massive moves late in the last few days appear to be coordinated computerized trading. Standard thing for them to investigate but pretty important to answer.
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Did the SEC ever answer the allegations that there was very heavy shorting of the NYSE from the Middle East just before the Sept. 11 islamic attacks?
Posted by: ed ||
10/11/2008 10:26 Comments ||
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The 9/11 commission did - they tracked the puts to balancing purchases by a US institutional trader that were part of a portfolio adjustment prior to the end of the quarter IIRC.
Posted by: ed ||
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I try not to indulge myself in conspiracy theories...but am I the only one here who thinks the timing of all this stuff - subprime meltdown followed in rapid succession by oil shock, Lehman, AIG, etc. tanking, credit markets freezing and the stock market crashing, and all right before the election - is just a little too convenient?
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) ||
10/11/2008 17:56 Comments ||
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As you said on another thread, Soros-type convenient.
The fact that he's still breathing is absolute proof the British don't have a real-life James Bond. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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