You’ve got to give it to the Republicans.
They have restored traditional values.

Traditional values of the stock markets, that is:

Japanese stocks fall to a 26-year low as regional governments in Asia are unable to contain anxiety; lower opening expected on Wall Street.

Obama plans to hold his election night celebration at Hutchinson Field, at the southern end of Grant Park in Chicago.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2…..6591.shtml

Whats parking like by Grant Park? How many people can it hold? How many people can Solder Field hold?
Forget presumption I hope Obama is picking the bigger space.
Besides is Sarah saying that McCain is not renting out space for a victory party?
Everybody winner and loser has rented out space for a party during a Presidential Run or is that one of the facts that Sarah is not up to speed on?

Good Morning, Firepups!

It’s clear and cool this morning in central Jersey. Keep pluggin’, folks. Work to get more and better Democrats in Congress and in state and local government. And if you can’t give time, give money! We’re close to making some change for the better. And working on this helps me from fretting about the markets!

I’ve got herb biscuits, hot out of the oven, and plenty of Kona coffee and water for tea drinkers. Help yourselves.

Work for peace, every day.

“Those clothes, they are not my property. Just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased, I’m not taking them with me. I am back to wearing my own clothes from my favorite consignment shop in Anchorage, Alaska.

http://politicalticker.blogs.c…..e-story-2/

Sarah the GOP can’t return the clothes after you wear them 3 or 4 times the GOP will not get their cash back.
However if you insist where do you plan to donate the clothes Goodwill could have an auction and raise some funds.
But will you or the GOP claim the tax break for charity?
If you claim it then the clothes were yours.

Morning Pups. If Brokaw could think while sitting down he might have followed with something along the lines that according to McCain’s logic she is more qualified to be Presiedent than McCain in terms of “executive” experience.

wazzzup

more from RGE monitor:

Global Stock Markets In Freefall: Another Bad Day
Oct 27: Shares fell across Asia, Nikkei 225 dropped 6% to 7,191.05; in South Korea, stocks dropped 3.7% even after the BoK cut rates 0.75% to 4.25%; Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 4.2%, while Philippine stocks fell 12.3%

more at bbc.
Moscow RTS down 87.11 to 549.43, -13.68%

is someone organizing hot money flight on russia?

jus cogens!

Jus Cogens!

But, but…Sarah claims that most of the clothes are still in the belly of her campaign plane with the tags still on them…I mean, if she hasn’t worn them and they still have the tags, then she could return them(I think – don’t know NM or SFA return policies)? Of course, it does raise the question of sort of ‘over the top – head in the trough – hoggishness’ — I mean, if they bought her so much stuff that she can’t possibly wear it all(let’s see now, if she changes clothes three times a day for the next week – would she be able to wear the rest of them all once?), why did they do it? Who made the decisions of “I’ll take one of those and one of those and oh yeah, that suit over there..I’ll take that, too. And you know that jacket I liked? Well, I’ll have that in black, blue, red and green…”

Charlie Gibson, said, ‘Why would you want to raise capital gains taxes and — when you know that that could decrease revenue?

“

http://voices.washingtonpost.c……html#more

Because thats What FDR did to get us out of the Great Depression Charlie are are you John and Sarah still not up to speed on economics?
We need experts or Newspeople who know the issues to interview the candidates not people who get their information from GOP talking points.

During the war he pushed for even higher income tax rates for individuals (reaching a marginal tax rate of 91%) and corporations and a cap on high salaries for executives. In order to fund the war, Congress broadened the base so that almost every employee paid federal income taxes, and introduced withholding taxes in 1943.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

My bold FDR raised taxes so he could afford to fight and win WW2 fighting wars on the cheap like Bush does is a sure way to defeat.
Notice that the economy got better much better. I hope Obama does the same with taxes but ends Bush’s war.

That amazon article is insane……have never bought anything through them and I’ll die without *ever* buying another book if that’s the only remaining source!

Dang. RIP Tony Hillerman. His writing provided a welcome glimpse into other cultures.

obama says he’s going to lower taxes.

McSame melts down on MTP.

From the link: “He chose . . . poorly.”

LOL!

(cue the seven year old singing in the background: daa-da-da DAAA, daa-da-da . . .”)

I think its lower oil prices. But what have you heard Bush might be turning off the taps of international cash to Russia because of Georgia.
Putin won’t like that but I think Putin knows that Bush wants a war so Putin hopefully won’t give it to him just to spite him.

tw3k!

Nice video.

Don’t forget Sarah’s kids and even her not yet Son in Law got clothes. Still just how many clothes can you buy with that much cash at those stores? Could Sarah be right about if the tag is still on you can return clothes you wore?
I assume if she never wore them she can get the money back.

Sure for US:) but the top 5% are going to have to pay more. McCain will just cut taxes let the Debt grow and let the American Dollar drop even lower in value.
I think Red States need to insist that economics is taught in highschool.
Freshmen year so even Sarah’s kids can learn it.

why would lower oil prices cause the markets to fall?

i’d think they are both symptoms of the same problem – bursting bubbles (housing, commodities) amplified by leverage and “creative” financial products that were traded primarily OTC and unregulated and opaque. and now we’re seeing massive deleveraging because, like a school of fish, we’ve done a 180 on risk tolerance. people want to be in cash.

but i really don’t know how these things work and am only recently trying to understand.

Good morning all,
I don’t know how you can return clothes after they have been altered

Pretty soon here, Sarah, Todd, and the other Palins will go back to Alaska to collect their oil welfare checks. Their little fun in the sun will be over.

got irc?

#firedoglake on irc.freenode.net

You and I *cannot* return altered clothes but………

IOKIYAR

irc.freenode.net/firedoglake

Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. I’m not a big mystery fan, but his were very entertaining, with really good main characters, and fine description of the three corners area. I think he was also a very good man.

Maybe the clothes can be donated for display at the Bush Amusement Park/Library. Hostess Rice will need things to wear.

three corners = four corners

I just put up an Oxdown diary on the Amazon/Obama mask story.

Good point is Sarah getting her clothes altered? Do we know this for a fact?
I have never gotten my clothes altered my whole life Sarah is an Elitist!
She ain’t like you and me, but she pretends to be on that reality show who gets to be President.

Good Morning Blue Texan and Firedogs,

in case you missed it yesterday Bachman’s hometown paper endorses opponent

The bottom line is 6th District residents need a House member who reflects moderate positions and when standing in the spotlight, provides clarity and credibility. In her two years in office, Bachmann’s provided little of either. Tinklenberg deserves his chance. More importantly, voters simply deserve better.

Everyone who bet on higher oil prices with leverage lost money. Oil countries that used future oil revenue as collateral for loans. Lower oil prices would cause the markets in oil producing nations to fall.
Russia has stopped their stock market from trading a few times I heard and the Middle East is having some trouble now too.
But for us lower oil prices are a good thing long term.

Curse that crafty Tweety and his tricky gotcha questions!

I read it someplace here (i think) that she had the clothes selected for her and brought to her along with a tailor.

Good Catch maybe the lesson of this election will be the GOP has to hide their Crazies in elections with high voter turnout because the voters are paying attention.
The GOP will of course have counter spin but if we can knock out a few more Crazies this election it will be hard to deny.
Rick Santorum lost last election the trend of GOP crazies loosing started then I think.

The Amazon article is sick. Hopefully this will go viral and their sales will tank.

I think that was Jane’s thread. Plain folks Sarah is walking around with clothes that cost more than my last used car.

Hot spit!!!!!

It’s gonna be so much fun to see that one go up in smoke! Oh, I forgot……she already did.

Whatever happened to the “giving them to charity” meme?

Mornin, pups.

Excellent vid tw3k

i forget who droped vid in thread lln

this one is more fun: ninja!

Pleeeeeeeeeze send that to Keef and Rachel…………

What is the amazon article of which you speak?

but i really don’t know how these things work and am only recently trying to understand.

I think that was a pretty good read on the situation.

Lower oil prices may have some problem for Russia, but not so much here.

As you accurately point out, it has far more to do with de-leveraging, particularly of hedge funds.

I’m on it JPL9 I just left this on the Discussion section of Amazon’s stock blog I voiced my concern in ways that stockpeople understand Money.
Stock pages do not like bad news about their companies.
Please feel free to go there and add anything you want the more comments the more likely we are to scare Amazon.

a listing on Amazon.com, one of the largest and most successful online merchandisers in the world, seemed to come down even beyond the Republicans’ side — for a while anyway. With Halloween just days away, they’re making a bundle off a $49.95 Barack Obama mask.

Which was displayed on the “terrorist costume” page.

You read that right!

(UPDATE: Amazon’s listing seems to have caught itself and deleted the Obama mask from the terrorist page. However, before that happened, The Ticket captured a photo. See below.)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.co…..orist.html

Way to build the Corporate good will with the next President. What do you want to bet internet transactions get taxed now! Thanks Amazon

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN

Just what you would not expect from a well run company!
prim..@hotmail.com – 6 minutes ago (1 post)
a listing on Amazon.com, one of the largest and most successful …

Sorry the above is the Discussion heading on Amazon’s stock page.

Was able to answer my own question. This is disgusting! When will we see a McCain mask with a Nazi uniform? Skull and crossbones on the hat and an elephant armband.

That’s gotta hurt. Mayhaps Bachmann can shack up with Shrub after Laura shitcans him.

twolf1 can I link your Diary to Amazon’s stock page discussion?

Sure! Link to it where ever you like.

bom dia pups

*yawn* I’m off to make tea and take the pup for a run

Cool!

Friend of mine sent this to me last night. Not safe for work or children.

TCU – sorry for the delayed reply, a friend called and that distracted me. re taxes, i guess it depends on if bush’s tax cuts get extended, which i think obama has said he will consider doing. but as my friend reminded me, these kinds of details during a campaign may have little to do with how a president actually governs.

Good lord, how did such extreme buttheads even have the chance to lead this country.

Go to: http://www.buttheadpolice.com

Vote for buttheads like Palin and McCain to get asses stamped on their heads. Spread the word. Buttheads will roll!!!

LOL!

i guess it depends on if bush’s tax cuts get extended

Good point if that happens the Dollar tanks but John McCain will be happy. I admit my argument would fall flat then.