WOOT!

ES!

Eureka!
Miss Jane is in there!

Good evening all

She’s everywhere I tell ya. *s*

es!

Jane looks great!

We need an FDL banner for times and places like the big tent gathering. I see kos has one hanging out front.

Hi everyone…… waiting for Letterman……

Hey ES….. read my comment downstairs on the Weathermen prosecutor

Jane’s smile eclipses the need for one…! ;-)

Hey ES.

Jane is sensational.

The banner has to hang on the White House next january.

ok that’s just creepy

What’s creepy about her smile? 8-P

Lou Reed is on tonight… they put him on at the very end.

Left Coasters – Maher is good tonight….

We get the East coast feed here, saw it a couple of hours ago. And it is good.
But they need some new Goopers. This guy might as well have been Crock-o-Joe.

dugg

Bravo, thanks & (((((ES)))))

Am also all fired up tonight by this SF video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnfhFlS6U8

She can’t feel the heat coming off the streets…

All She Wants to Do is Dance – Eagles

npb, that is incredible. thank you

i wanna see that ad go national.

hey npb!

Evening ES, pups…

Okay, this just off the wire. And of course they had to put it out as late as possible on Friday…so it probably won’t even hit the Saturday AM papers.
US To Buy Stakes In Banks

Of course, they are “non-voting shares” just to avoid the taint of “socialism”. After all who better to determine how to waste the taxpayers money than the capitalists that lost billions in their depositors moneys!

Yowza! Water’s getting nippy here in New England.

The Rovian McCain snake has begun to eat its own tail.

-G

didja see ian’s post on the need for buffett shares?

41 here – what’s it there gds?

This guy might as well have been Crock-o-Joe.

I’ve seen him on Maher before. I think he’s allowed to come back is because he:

a) writes for The Wall Street Journal, and

b) is quite obviously ridiculously stupid, proudly ignorant, stirs up the crowd, and Maher can swat him down every time he opens his mouth, without breaking even the tiniest bit of a sweat.

And don’t worry. The McCheese campaign doesn’t take weekends off. There will be plenty of poll-plummeting foolishness every hour from here until the end.

Tomorrow – Ni denounces Obama for denouncing her (which he didn’t) for denouncing him, mixes in her love for alphabet soup, proving she can read.

45…Where are you Suz…?

-G

Per MoonOfAlabama.org:

A really decisive move over the weekend would be to Declare All Credit Default Swaps Null And Void. That would solve 80% of the problems the banks have right now. Some would still fail, but with the big issue removed, interbank lending and commercial lending would carry less risk and revive.

Banks can’t afford loan now, because they have no idea what reserves they need to cover the credit-default swaps they’ve sold.

Think of the world of securities as a giant bookie ring, where anybody can bet on any thing. For example, you could bet that Lehman would default on their bonds even if you didn’t own any. And, I could cover that bet even though I don’t have a prayer of covering all of the Lehman defaults I’ve sold already. Declaring those bets null and void would let swap sellers off the hook and leave the swap buyers high and dry in spite of the premiums they’ve payed, but that’s likely the lesser evil, and it would (to some extent) free up the banks to start loaning again.

Sarah sez, “Oh, I want to get away, I want to…”

Fly Away – Lenny Kravitz

on the oregon coast, netarts bay – its almost even with portland on the map, just south of tillamook bay and west of tillamook town

A cool crisp 68 here…! ;-)

AZ in the path of Hurricane Norbert which is a Cat 2 off Baja CA…… we should feel the affects on Sunday…..

Ah Oh….. the local news is FINALLY doing investigative journalism about the questionable deaths at Sheriff Joe’s jail……. about DAMN time…

Ah…..The colors are getting just peak around here…..What a visual banquet…..

Now the news that the McCain camp is spiraling out of control….

Also, it seems Al Franken is on the rise in Minnesota….

Also saw Obama hitting McCain……

-G

Suz….. you are appox at the 45th parallel…… that is just south of Salem…

Heh, colors… I’ve two colors to see green and green…! ;-)

*sigh* I do miss Autumn…!

we are coming out of the burnt crispy colors…….. and into our 100 plus days without rain…..

Yeepa!

Just watched one of those videos of the McCain crowds telling people that rape victims should “pay double” for their rape kits…..”Commie faggots” and the like….

We are witness the dying gasps of the lunatic fringe….They have terrified much of America with their unhingedness…..

-G

Suz – I recall you mentioning netarts bay when you first settled in the new digs. Its such a great name and I keep forgetting to ask you if you coined it?

i’m north of it – the 45th is just north of lincoln city on the coast – about an hour south of me – but not in the 44’s.

i uploaded some pictures of the melting hail on the deck late last nite – and tonights sunset.

Looks like we are doing a great job keeping Iraq safe for KBR pederasts.

KBR employee demands to be treated like military in child porn case.

Freedom!

-G

here’s the history and no, i didn’t coin it.

they have to have something really psychologically broken…… where empathy does not live….. where decency and humanity usually lives…… their souls…..

“My in-de-pen-dence seems to vanish in the haze…”

Help! – The Beatles

I hope the G7 have the courage to consider that. It localizes the losses to the gamblers and instantly frees up interbank lending. (Worst case, you could have the government pay back the premiums over 20 years or something.)

Good for the Judge… He’s dead on…

“He wasn’t there because he had volunteered” to serve his country, Ellis said. “He was there to get some money.”

Waltrip, who served 13 years in the Army before being honorably discharged in 1990, was making $7,000 a month as a bus driver for KBR.

Prosecutor Jerry Smagala said Waltrip’s case is “a run-of-the-mill child pornography possession case that happened to take place in Baghdad.” He said a lighter sentence wasn’t warranted simply because the crimes took place in a combat zone.

GREEK ISLAND CRUISE FOR wACHOVIA

For insensitivity, Wachovia refuses to be outdone
While waiting to see if the government will relieve it of bad loans, the bank prepares to send 75 employees on a Mediterranean cruise.
David Lazarus, Consumer Confidential
October 9, 2008
» Discuss Article (69 Comments)

As ailing Wachovia Corp. waits to see whether it will be acquired by Wells Fargo & Co. or Citigroup Inc. — possibly with taxpayers paying the tab for hundreds of billions of dollars in bad loans — some of the company’s top brokers are preparing to depart Saturday for an all-expenses-paid cruise of the Greek Isles.

The weeklong trip for up to 75 employees of brokerage A.G. Edwards, which Wachovia acquired last year for nearly $7 billion, will also include spouses and significant others, said Teresa Dougherty, a Wachovia spokeswoman.

“This is one way that we recognize our top financial advisors,” she said.

Word of the Wachovia junket follows reports that senior executives of troubled insurance giant AIG attended a $440,000 company retreat last month at Southern California’s swanky St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach just days after being bailed out with $85 billion in taxpayer funds.

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when did the g8 become the g7? or am i confusing two different groups?

Suzanne….. I finally visited ALL the Oregon Lighthouses….. the last is the one north of Florence which was privately owned until a few years ago…… NOW the Lighthouse keepers house is a Bed & Breakfast….. Heceta Head Lighthouse

G7 is meeting in Washington this weekend. Though actually I think there are G2 through G47, inclusive.

Also, it seems Al Franken is on the rise in Minnesota….

That’s very good news. The point is that he is a real progressive. I expect good thihgs from him.

how forking kewl, katymine… i always wanted to spend the nite at the b&b on the island out in the sf bay, a lighthouse north of the richmond/san rafael bridge

Actually, it’s vice-versa, the G-7 became the G-8 with the inclusion of China…!

Busted Knuckles had a neat post today.
High wing here all day and cold now 52…this is our summer on central coast of CA.
Bill Moyers has the absolute best video on the run up to the Iraq War. Mind blowing the false presumptions Bushco pedaled so masterfully. Niece piece with Soros on the markets demise that was building for 25 years, he is not a Paulson fan.
Been with it 17 hours today so much going on so fast. So many post. I understand the world a little better today.
EW had good new ones on Troopergate. The FDL house rocked today, unlike the global economy.
Evening Fiery Lake Snarlin Dawgs you were tuff today…evening Eureka Springs. Interesting video you put up.

“Put on your face, put on your fear, and let’s hit opening time down on…”

Fascination Street – The Cure

bb, didja see ct got front paged too? been a great day at the lake :)

Belay that… Russia makes it 8… G-7…

From wikipedia:

Group of 6 or G-6: United States of America, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom
Group of 7 or G-8: Add Canada (1976)

It is not to be confused with the G8, which is the annual meeting of the heads of government of the aforementioned nations, plus Russia.

*blush*

You owe me a cold one…! ;-)

Yay CT — and such amazing news too! And with nearly zero TradMedia coverage as yet, yes?

I’ll deliver it in person… some day * s i g h *

Has the Superferry started service to The Big Island yet? From Maui its wake looked quite fearsome.

I think Caribou Barbie has buried the lede…! ;-)

I hope the G7 have the courage to consider [declaring all credit-derivative swaps null and void]. It localizes the losses to the gamblers and instantly frees up interbank lending. (Worst case, you could have the government pay back the premiums over 20 years or something.)

I was thinking more about the refunding of premiums, etc.

In fact, each month’s (or six-month’s) premium is for insurance for that month. The buyer has already gotten his/her coverage (fair value) for the period covered by that premium. That’s month’s salary is spent, and the value for it has already been received. So, I don’t feel that there is any (moral) need to refund past premiums on CDSs.

The Alabama shipyard just launched the ferry… Sea trials and all, we’re looking at July, ‘09…!

Thanks for the link – fascinating history of indigenous people I had never heard of before. I hope the new world conquerors treated them better than the Carmel Mission padres way back when. sigh….

She’s buried a lot more than the lede, I’d say. Personally I’d be checking for bodies in the rose garden. Assuming roses grow way up there.

George Soros on Bill Moyers now. He said if some thing would have been done months earlier we would have avoided this mess. He doesn’t like Paulson. He says in the next 3 months it could get much much worse. Soros says reduce foreclosures, recapitalize world banks, and better world policies.

And of course there will still be EIR legal challenges. Will the ramp at Kawaii be OK by then? Or will they have to use Hilo?

BTW, we now get to celebrate Columbus Day to celebrate the discovery of white men in North America.

“Have mercy…whole Bus be packed up tight!”

Waiting On the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago – ZZ Top

It’ll be Kawaihai, Hilo is too far outta the way, and, the EIS is still pending, but, they’ve addressed the biggest complaints by posting whale spotters on the bows… Not likely to be impeded like it is/was for Kauai… Which still has no ferry service…!

Which started the genocide of the Indigenous Peoples for centuries……

*headdesking repeatedly*

I’m still trying ot figure out how to make it to Nov 1st (and my move out date) on 30$ and air. I attempted to find out if i could get any kind of loan at all to ease the pain. Nope, no can do. Not sure my parents can afford ot help either. So that means i subsist on rice and ramen while i try to figure out how to scrape up gas money from thin air. Cause my paychecks certainly aren’t going to be enough right now. At least, not until i’m out of here.

Did indeed..saw your kudo…he had a lot to talk about with the timelne…need to reread when I am clearer. So many comment to little time. Very upbeat pobably move faster after the election hoping. Sorry CT my head is to full. Sistani and Maliki comments folowing yesterdays post on Russia in Syria paling up with the Sunnis.
Then we have the Neocons nuking with India as Bushco leaves vacuum from losing the strategic struggle. What a total FUBAR. Then there are 50,000 trained terrorist we are forcing Pakistan to send into Afghanistan to ally with the Taliban. What are these people up to/ Does not bode well.

Nite everyone…… woo hoo…. it is no alarm Saturday….

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Very interesting, thanks for the update! Sorry for misremembering Kawaihai as Kawaii — been looking at too many Japan maps I guess.

Hi everyone, I got lost in YouTubes.
Someone should put up a warning.

Aloha, Katy! Enjoy!

Sweet dreams katymine -

g’nite katymine

It is FUBAR, BB! No argument there… As Bacevich says we need to seriously modify our global designs and concentrate on a ‘modest foreign policy’… To say the least…! 8-(

‘Night, katymine. Sweet dreams.

As Bacevich says we need to seriously modify our global designs and concentrate on a ‘modest foreign policy’

What a quaint and novel notion!

I’m trying again – you’ll love this version…

ZZ Top

oh yeah… i love this video, thanks rfw

As ‘quaint’ and ‘novel’ as the Geneva Conventions, eh? ;-)

Damn you said so much in that sentence…what a difference it wouild make if we got ride of belligerents like bush. The world would have a deep sigh of relief and out military could heal. Soros said the same thing on foriegn policy you just did.
Has climate change affected the Islands noticably?

Easin out…see ya later

Bleaching of our reefs from the elevated water temps and lowered rain fall levels, dramatically, here in the city where the rain reigns…!

g’nite bb

Aloha, BB!

Moyers starting right now…! I shall bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!

nite bb
nite tuttle

Aargh… Damn Google put a ‘Vets for Freedom’ ad on my Web site… I feel violated…! My integrity is kaput…! *poof*

aloha ct

nite tuttle
hey, click away. you never know who is getting payed when you do

Yup. I’m sure that I’m going to be disappointed by Obama, but I’m so looking forward to the ending of this reign of terror that we’ve been enduring.

There is something so amazingly poetic, and pathetic, in the whole world’s economic infrastructure coming crashing down as the curtain drops on the Bush/Reagan era.

But the Bush-43 Chapter was so surrealistically macabre that it boggles my mind, e.g, this infamous quote from a NYT article by Ron Suskind, which typifies the attitudes of the Bushie neocons:

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn’t fully comprehend — but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

I hate what it happening to us, but there is such poetry in what it happening to THEM.

Niters all you trescool late late nite firepups. Up to my ears with work and miss you rascals.

I would be much happier if the price for this mendacious behavior were born by those who created it. That’s the big fish.

Patriots. Republicans or Democrats or whatever. Calling all Patriots.

g’nite npb

By Patriots, do you mean only Murkans ? *g*

Hey Firepups … one party down, 2 more to go !

I would be much happier if the price for this mendacious behavior were born by those who created it.

The people who created this problem are those 50 million Americans who thought that Bush would be a great guy to have a beer with.

To them I’d like to say: “Next time, pony up for the beer. Yes, initially it’s more expensive than voting for him president, but in the long run, the beer is a bargain.”

nite npb

hey petrocelli – how goes?

Hey petro!
If Canadaoids or Francicans or Latviadites were acting in the best interest of the United States (and by extension, the planet), yeah – all of them.

((( Suz )))

Great weekend in Toronto, temp wise … 70’s all through Tuesday

We act in the best interest of America, just not the crazy part …

You should act in the best interest of Canadaoids first. We fucked the earth and the landslide is heading your way. We will be happy to use whatever spare industry you can throw our way, once you see the lesson of this politics and oust your very own Gooper.

ian has a fresh thread upstairs

I think our NeoCon Harper will win the election on Tuesday, forcing the Libruls and NDP to unite and form the next Gov’t. We cannot afford another week of Harper’s rule. He has trampled all the ideals we hold most dear.

As far as spare industry … put on your skates, eh ! *g*

He has trampled all the ideals we hold most dear.

I am so damned sorry to hear it.

The saddest thing, despite all that BushCo has done, lots of Canadians will vote for Harper …

The saddest thing, despite all that BushCo has done, lots of Canadians fascists will vote for Harper …

There, fix that for you.