McCain - Palin

by **withahip** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:38 pm

by **Frank The Bunny** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:42 pm

yeah... I posted that SNL one back on page 11.

pay attention.

by **withahip** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:35 am

Love her or hate her, it was wrong to go all Patriot Act on her email:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7622724.stm

The attack comes as Ms Palin falls under scrutiny for the way that she used personal e-mail accounts to conduct state business as governor of Alaska. US law dictates that all messages connected to official business as state governor must be preserved.

by **Frank The Bunny** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:27 am

withahip wrote:Love her or hate her, it was wrong to go all Patriot Act on her email:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7622724.stm

The attack comes as Ms Palin falls under scrutiny for the way that she used personal e-mail accounts to conduct state business as governor of Alaska. US law dictates that all messages connected to official business as state governor must be preserved.

Yeah, I think it was wrong for them to hack her email, too.

But I bet it was fairly easy - I'm sure she didn't use a complex password.
She probably used "bushdoctrine" - figuring since she didn't know what it was, others wouldn't either.

by **withahip** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:44 pm

Dija hear about the tanning booth? Or her husband's refusal to a summons?

Alaska's legislators shook up the presidential race yesterday with a vote to subpoena Todd Palin, the husband of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, to question him about whether she sacked the state's police chief in order to settle a personal score.

The governor did have a tanning bed put in the Governor's Mansion," Roger Wetherell, chief communications officer of Alaska's Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, confirmed to this newspaper. "It was done shortly after she took office [in early 2007] and moved into the mansion."

(She paid for the tanning bed. I don't know if she paid the electric bill.)

by **Frank The Bunny** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:17 am

Epsilon wrote:I lived through the Glass-Steagall days at my former employer, where
banks couldn't distribute its own mutual funds/products. Once that
law was repealed, all bets were off, lines were blurred even more as
to what banks and brokerages could sell, off-balance sheet assets
and liabilities weren't somebody elses risk any more. Banks were now
on the hook for the underlying investments, which seemed as of late to
have become extremely exotic and too complex with counterparty
solvency in question. I'm all for progress if it will make things better in
the long run, but not sure getting that law repealed was worth seeing
viable companies evaporate, creating unrepairable damage. So sad.

I walk by Washington Mutual's corporate headquarters every day on my way to work.
For the better part of a week, an independent satellite broadcast truck has been parked across the street, waiting for WaMu's demise. The vultures are circling.

by **black francis** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:22 am

Should I pull my $23.14 from my WaMu account?

by **withahip** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:19 am

black francis wrote:Should I pull my $23.14 from my WaMu account?

Are you kidding?!?!?! It's a buyer's market!!!!!!!!!

by **withahip** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:39 am

Virginia-based author Joe Bageant claimed Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin as a fellow "redneck", in a recent essay for BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He meant it as a compliment. Here Jamie Stiehm, a city-dwelling political commentator, asks whether small-town values are all they are cracked up to be.

by **Epsilon** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 7:11 am

The measures that the Treasury and Fed put in place this past Friday should
help stabilize the financial markets, but we'll see what happens on October 2nd
when short-selling those certain institutions is permitted again. The M&A activity
is just incredible, as firms jockey for position as buyers and sellers. The velocity
of change and impact of news is wild. Don't take your seatbelt off just yet, since
the ride is most definitely not over...

by **Epsilon** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:55 am

OK, does everybody have their scorecard:

So, Bank of America, the largest bank that didn't want any more investment banking
'fun', buys Merrill Lynch at bargain prices gaining huge exposure to investment banking
and brokerage. Now, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the largest investment banking firms that didn't want to be banks, were forced to become banks today in order to save their independence.

I think Charlotte, NC just became Wall Street - what a thought...

by **withahip** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:28 pm

Microsoft has unveiled plans to spend $40bn (£22bn) buying back its shares from investors, the biggest single buy-back plan in history.

Analysts say the move is an attempt by the software giant to use its spare cash to prop up its share price which has fallen by almost 30% this year.

by **Frank The Bunny** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:32 pm

I'm building birdhouses in my frontroom. Getting ready for the barter economy.

by **withahip** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:19 pm

The other night a friend of a friend said, "I am glad I am a tattoo artist so I got something to barter for when the economy tanks."

by **withahip** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:39 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7626471.stm

The US election nightmare scenario

By Professor Larry Sabato
University of Virginia

The odds are that the victor of the American presidential election on 4 November will secure a clean-cut victory in the electoral college - an absolute majority of 270 votes or more.

But that isn't a guaranteed result.

The closer the election gets - and right now the polls have it very tight indeed - the greater the chance that a tie of 269 to 269 will occur.

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