Comments on: Bailout Monitor Sez Treasury Has No Effin’ Clue

By: Adie

Adie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:13:59 +0000

sustainability is the key, not stubborn reliance on fossil fuels.

imo

By: beyondgreen

beyondgreen — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:01:43 +0000

Not enough credit is being given to the high gas prices this past year and it’s serious damage it did to our economy and society. A record number of homes and jobs have been lost as a direct result.Most families broke the budget at the pump alone. The high cost of fuel affected production and shipping of every consumer product & was passed on to us at the checkout. Electric companies have huge rate hikes. And, while we are doing the happy dance around the lower prices at the pumps OPEC is announcing cuts to manipulate the prices upward again.We can’t take another year like this past. There is a wonderful new book out about the energy crisis and what it would take for America to become energy independent.This book is profoundly informative and our country needs to become more informed and move forward with becoming energy independent. Green technology would not only provide clean cheap energy it would create millions of badly needed new jobs. The Book is called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence NOW by Jeff Wilson. I highly recommend this book if you are distressed about our economy, would like to see new jobs created and see our country become energy independent.

By: Jett

Jett — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:53:57 +0000

Can we still contact our congress-individuals and prod them to vote “NO” on the next installment of the bailout?

By: Adie

Adie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:13:24 +0000

omg. has anyone here ever seen video of a pack of cute-looking little wild dogs taking down a wildebeest? absolutely surgical skill at play.

poor poor kurt. yikes. called y’all “guys” and applied all that nice lock-picking banter. whoosh. *g* I’ll botch this, but….

Improv teamwork on the fly.
So ashamed? not i.
Not even mods need apply.
Trussed up, set on fie.
My oh my, it just flew bye.

By: plunger

plunger — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:50:15 +0000

Helen Thomas knows a depression when she sees one - and knows to call it what it is:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....ine29.html

By: Kassandra

Kassandra — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:35:23 +0000

IMO They’ve been laundering our $$ since they took US into Iraq. This “bank/Wall Street” bailout is just another, huger money laundering operation. Give it to the banks and watch it disappear.

This is why Paulson originally wanted guarantees of no prosecutions in the future. I see the fake angst on their faces, but behind their beards, they are laughing all the way to their Swiss/Cayman Islands/Dubai/Paraguay bank accounts.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Bush is throwing as many roadblocks in Obama’s way as he possibly can. Assuming, of course, that O is really who he says he is and will do what he promised to do in the heat of his campaign appealing to the “far left” which, I assume is code for people who want good jobs and a strong America in these parlous times.

All this talk of O’s “pragmatism” makes me very squeamish. What it seems to me is more code for “business as usual”.

“FAR LEFT” my big, fat fanny!

“We need help, reckoned the poet” - Woody Guthrie

By: Gallus Gallus

Gallus Gallus — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:34:04 +0000

It’s definitely trickle on. But you can can wipe up some of that pee with a paper towel and add it to your compost heap.

(The garden seed catalogs should start arriving in the mail this week.)

By: selise

selise — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:23:33 +0000

lol!

i wish i could hand out smelling salts, shots of one’s fav drink, backrubs, etc to go along with my comments.

By: wigwam

wigwam — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:16:05 +0000

U.S. May Be in for ‘Great Recession,’ Longest Postwar

You’re more optimistic than I am.

By: Crosstimbers

Crosstimbers — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:12:59 +0000

Yes ma’am. I was minding my own business, digging the bunker in my back yard. After that, I was going to go to Cabello’s and exercise 2nd Amendment rights. Then he said that.