Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


brenda m - Sep 24, 2008 12:31:16 pm PDT #380 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Enquirer just went live with their Palin affair story. Maybe that's why they want a time-out from being out on the trail?


Trudy Booth - Sep 24, 2008 12:34:41 pm PDT #381 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Which Palin?


tommyrot - Sep 24, 2008 12:35:08 pm PDT #382 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Ms. Palin.


Theodosia - Sep 24, 2008 12:35:21 pm PDT #383 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

You know, if Obama had proposed postponing the debate, Norquist would be criticizing him as obviously wanting a time out.

That's the level of bullshit these people are putting out. It doesn't matter what the merits of any given proposal is, as long as Obama is for it, they'll tear it down as fast as they can. No matter if it was something they were all for last week.


sumi - Sep 24, 2008 12:35:35 pm PDT #384 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Huh. Maybe. I like the blinking "breaking news" thing.

ETA: I hear though that the story was on the paper edition last week. So, what is breaking news?


Strega - Sep 24, 2008 12:36:18 pm PDT #385 of 10001

I think an economic depression is likely if the bailout doesn't go through. And that a complete collapse is likely if it does go through. The longer we stagger on as if everything's normal, the harder it's going to hurt when we finally fall down.

So I'm really hoping for a depression.

From an article at Forbes

"Choking up of credit is like taking the lifeblood away from the economy," [Fed Reserve Chairman] Bernanke said.

This pretty well sums up the problem.


tommyrot - Sep 24, 2008 12:39:50 pm PDT #386 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So I skimmed the Enquirer thing. Looks like three members of the affair-guy's family swear it happened. But no smoking gun, right?

One of the family members did pass a polygraph test, which maybe means something....


Gudanov - Sep 24, 2008 12:41:12 pm PDT #387 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

It's the Enquirer, I'm not buying it. Yeah, they got the goods on Edwards, but that doesn't make me take them seriously.


tommyrot - Sep 24, 2008 12:41:37 pm PDT #388 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Strega, why do you think things will be worse if the bailout does happen? (I'm not an expert on these things.)

eta: So if the bailout happens, everyone will just get into more debt?


megan walker - Sep 24, 2008 12:42:39 pm PDT #389 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Also? It supposedly happened over 10 years ago. As long as he wasn't on the city council of Wasilia, I really don't care.