Bush issues appeal to approve bailout

Worried analysts await the bailout.

President Bush went prime time last night to try and convince a skeptical public and rebellious Republicans that the government must use $700 billion of taxpayers' money for the proposed rescue plan.

TODAY'S THREAD:

Do you think we should pay for this bailout, and if we do, will it save the economy as experts are claiming?

McCain wants out of debate: Obama says 'let's go'

 

Surrounded by his big-money cronies, McCain told the press he wants to put Friday's debate off because he wants to concentrate on the bailout package before Congress. What? He can't do two thing's on the same day? Doesn't sound like a very versatile presidential type to me.

Racial prejudice and the elderly

A new study shows that prejudice plays a big part in how elderly white Americans vote. 

How big an effect this prejudicial attitude will have on the presidential race remains to be seen, but pollsters are facing up to the reality that prejudice is alive and well in this country, and that it plays a part in politics.

War hawks are circling the Op-Ed Pages with bad intentions

Okay...it's time to start worrying when bipartisan hawks start screeching for another war! The target is Iran.

Some recent Op-Eds supporting a war with Iran have been run in the Nation ("Everyone needs to worry about Iran") and

a group of hawks have their own web site, United Against Nuclear Iran.

This is all pretty scary stuff. In my opinion we have enough wars going on right now. The last thing we need is to listen to these old chicken hawks who are eager to send more young men and women to war to satisfy their blood-lust!

TODAY'S THREAD

Do you think we should be targeting Iran for war right now-or ever?

It's looking more like the Great Depression every day now

An encampment for the homeless in Highland Park, Washington, sprung up overnight, and the city has already responded with a 72-hour time frame to get out.

A sign in front of the encampment reads, "Nicklesville," a play on Mayor Greg Nickles, whose not exactly a friend of the homeless. Some have drawn the comparison of the Depression-era Hooversville with it's tin shanty towns, to this modern version of 150 fuchsia-colored tents.

Main Street moans as Wall Street slides

It's no secret that the taxpayers are the one's paying for the massive bailouts on Wall Street. Many feel they are paying for the bad judgement of the CEOs who get 'Golden parachutes" while everyone else gets the shaft!

Now Congress is looking at pumping more taxpayer money into the slumping market, and people are wondering if that's such a good idea.

China paper urges new currency after recent U.S. financial woes

This is how bad it is...Chinese are feeling threatened by a "financial tsunami" as they watch our stock market teeter and the government bail out private business. Wasn't it McCain who said our economy is basically sound? I just can't help disagreeing with that stupid statement.

T-S As It Stands: outsourcing education

We are slowly in the process of replacing our teachers with foreign teachers. What happened to to the quality school system we once had that was the envy of the free world? The solution to our slowly diminishing teacher pool is not to import teachers, but to look at what we're offering teachers to teach our children.

Palin said Yes to Bridge to Nowhere

Just the facts folks. Palin was for that infamous bridge to nowhere until the feds pulled out and called it pork spending. As my grandmother use to say, "The proof is in the pudding."

The LA Times today details that whole story and her lies on the campaign trail. How can she continue to tell this lie and get away with it? Well, she's not getting away with it. Facts trump rhetoric.

Meanwhile Fox news reporters Hannity and Van Susteren spent three days interviewing Todd and Sarah Palin in what turned out to be infotainment so frothy, slanted, and off-point they managed new lows for the cable network that's known for low standards!

TODAY's THREAD:

To me, it's scary that people want to vote for a known liar. What's even more disturbing is that despite the truth, people will vote for McCain/Palin because their not interested in substantial issues; just in jingoistic rhetoric that supports their narrow world views. Who truly believes that Sarah Palin would make a good president if McCain dies in office?

Bush seeks $700 B bailout from Congress

How bad are things today? Officials say this proposed bailout is bigger than the one during the Great Depression!

The statutory limit on the national debt will go from $10.6 trillion to $11.3 trillion to make room for this massive rescue effort. We know who got us here; The Bush administration.

TODAY'S THREAD

Has there ever been a worse administration than than Bush and his cronies?

A Time of Saddness

I'm going be gone until Saturday or Sunday, as I will be attending a funeral. My wife's brother George L. Holloway died suddenly last week.

He and I were in the Nam together in 1970 (he was in the Brown Water Navy and was a Crew Chief). He was only 66 years-old. It seems too many people, friends and family, are dying off lately. It's one of the drawbacks of getting older as you watch people in your own age group pass away!

Last year, while he was living in Humboldt County, he went to the North Coast Stand Down, and had a great time meeting other veterans. He talked about it for months afterward. His funeral is in Tacoma Washington.

Rest-in-Peace, old war buddy, and brother-in-law. We're all going to miss you.