Comments on: Late Late Nite FDL: Changes http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:17:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: TheLurkingMod http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673830 TheLurkingMod Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:41:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673830 <p>Attaturk is upstairs!<br /><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/08/the-gop-and-your-money/" rel="nofollow">The GOP and Your Money</a></p> Attaturk is upstairs!
The GOP and Your Money

]]> By: bigbrother http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673829 bigbrother Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:41:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673829 <p>The market in Asia… now Europe are in big trouble falling as much as 10%. This is hemmoraging. The central banks, the governments and capital are trying every devise they can dream of lower rates. lower margins, restate balance sheet, buy bad investments for pixie values and gaurantee deposits. Nothing has worked so far. It is spinning out of control. One day at a time.</p> The market in Asia… now Europe are in big trouble falling as much as 10%. This is hemmoraging. The central banks, the governments and capital are trying every devise they can dream of lower rates. lower margins, restate balance sheet, buy bad investments for pixie values and gaurantee deposits. Nothing has worked so far. It is spinning out of control. One day at a time.

]]> By: bigbrother http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673827 bigbrother Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:18:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673827 <p>“Walk softly and carry a big stick.” Hopefully you won’t have to use it and suffer the horrible and unecessary consequences that Bushco has inflicted on us and the rest of the world in so many ways. If John McInsane really understood his hero he would not want to start shit…he would want to finish it. or was it George Bush? Be a bad ass and get your ass kicked…ask Idi Amin and a long list. There is enough trouble in life without asking for it. Wisdom is the better part of valor.<br /> Namaste</p> “Walk softly and carry a big stick.” Hopefully you won’t have to use it and suffer the horrible and unecessary consequences that Bushco has inflicted on us and the rest of the world in so many ways. If John McInsane really understood his hero he would not want to start shit…he would want to finish it. or was it George Bush? Be a bad ass and get your ass kicked…ask Idi Amin and a long list. There is enough trouble in life without asking for it. Wisdom is the better part of valor.
Namaste

]]> By: lokywoky http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673826 lokywoky Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:07:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673826 <p>g’nite.</p> <p>Eyelids needing toothpicks here as well</p> <p>Nite CT</p> g’nite.

Eyelids needing toothpicks here as well

Nite CT

]]> By: CTuttle http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673825 CTuttle Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:06:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673825 <p>I don’t blame them one Iota, loky! I was merely stating the true costs incurred…! *poof*</p> I don’t blame them one Iota, loky! I was merely stating the true costs incurred…! *poof*

]]> By: CTuttle http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673824 CTuttle Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:04:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673824 <p>Well, I shall turn in too! I bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!</p> Well, I shall turn in too! I bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!

]]> By: lokywoky http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673823 lokywoky Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:04:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673823 <p>Well, do you blame them? My ex-son-in-law is a former Navy Seal. He was working as a Deputy Sheriff on the SWAT team when all this contracting in Iraq came up. He went - not with Blackwater - but he was making $13,000 per month, and $80,000 of it was tax free!</p> <p>He was providing security services for the State Department. Unfortunately on his second tour over there, his vehicle was hit by an IED and he lost a leg, two other guys were killed, but the ‘client’ was saved. Nice.</p> <p>But those two dead guys aren’t counted anywhere as part of the cost of this war either. </p> <p>I don’t criticize the guys who work for these outfits - the mindset at this outfit was really different from Blackwater - but the money is what draws them. My SIL was making $27,000 per year at his Sheriff job. He has a child to support. I asked him if he thought it was worth losing his leg over - and he said at this point he’s not sure. He’s still learning to use his new prosthetics and hasn’t really started looking for new work - but I think that’s where the story will get bad.</p> Well, do you blame them? My ex-son-in-law is a former Navy Seal. He was working as a Deputy Sheriff on the SWAT team when all this contracting in Iraq came up. He went – not with Blackwater – but he was making $13,000 per month, and $80,000 of it was tax free!

He was providing security services for the State Department. Unfortunately on his second tour over there, his vehicle was hit by an IED and he lost a leg, two other guys were killed, but the ‘client’ was saved. Nice.

But those two dead guys aren’t counted anywhere as part of the cost of this war either.

I don’t criticize the guys who work for these outfits – the mindset at this outfit was really different from Blackwater – but the money is what draws them. My SIL was making $27,000 per year at his Sheriff job. He has a child to support. I asked him if he thought it was worth losing his leg over – and he said at this point he’s not sure. He’s still learning to use his new prosthetics and hasn’t really started looking for new work – but I think that’s where the story will get bad.

]]> By: Waccamaw http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673822 Waccamaw Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:04:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673822 <p>lokywoky -</p> <p>Not many of us left hanging on the thread so guess it’s obvious 261’s for you. Can’t remember to hit the late-blooming “reply”, wide awake or half asleep. :-(</p> <p>Catch up with you guys tomorrow…zzzzzzzzzzzzzz</p> lokywoky -

Not many of us left hanging on the thread so guess it’s obvious 261’s for you. Can’t remember to hit the late-blooming “reply”, wide awake or half asleep. :-(

Catch up with you guys tomorrow…zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

]]> By: CTuttle http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673821 CTuttle Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:02:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673821 <p>I fully concur! Aloha, newt!</p> I fully concur! Aloha, newt!

]]> By: newtonusr http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673820 newtonusr Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:00:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/late-late-nite-fdl-changes/#comment-1673820 <p><a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/live-blogging-n.html#more" rel="nofollow">Andrew Sullivan’s</a> last live-blog entry this evening:<br /></p><blockquote> <p>10.33 pm. This was, I think, a mauling: a devastating and possibly electorally fatal debate for McCain. Even on Russia, he sounded a little out of it. I’ve watched a lot of debates and participated in many. I love debate and was trained as a boy in the British system to be a debater. I debated dozens of times at Oxofrd. All I can say is that, simply on terms of substance, clarity, empathy, style and authority, this has not just been an Obama victory. It has been a wipe-out.It has been about as big a wipe-out as I can remember in a presidential debate. It reminds me of the 1992 Clinton-Perot-Bush debate. I don’t really see how the McCain campaign survives this.</p></blockquote> <p>nite pups</p> Andrew Sullivan’s last live-blog entry this evening:

10.33 pm. This was, I think, a mauling: a devastating and possibly electorally fatal debate for McCain. Even on Russia, he sounded a little out of it. I’ve watched a lot of debates and participated in many. I love debate and was trained as a boy in the British system to be a debater. I debated dozens of times at Oxofrd. All I can say is that, simply on terms of substance, clarity, empathy, style and authority, this has not just been an Obama victory. It has been a wipe-out.It has been about as big a wipe-out as I can remember in a presidential debate. It reminds me of the 1992 Clinton-Perot-Bush debate. I don’t really see how the McCain campaign survives this.

nite pups

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