Monthly Archives: December 2008

These people haven’t figured it out yet, but they lost the last two election cycles for a reason:� they are WRONG, and have been. Monday, the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell announced that he intends to block President Obama’s stimulus bill without ever seeing it. “As of right now, Americans are left with more questions than answers about this unprecedented government spending, and I believe the taxpayers deserve to know a lot more about where it will be spent before we consider passing it.” He wants to bog this entire process down by sending everything through different committees, and spending months, if not years haggling back and forth on it.� He also wants to tie in tax breaks for the ultra-rich into any spending bill because Republicans are still convinced that the only way to stimulate the economy is from the top down. The actual goal of the Republicans is to continue to try and box the Democrats in by threatening filibusters.� They are playing this huge game of chicken and their plan is to wait until the mid-term elections in hope that the electorate will feel the Democrats have failed. I say, let’s just do away with the filibuster.�…

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I remember what it was like to apply for a car loan, a mortgage, a credit card.� Someone was doing a background check on you and there were a lot of hoops that you had to jump through. But hey, if I were a financial institution, and I was in serious financial trouble and needed a cash infusion of several billion bucks, all I need to do is fill out a two page application, sign it (or designate someone to sign it for you) and send it in.� Then it is just a matter of deciding whether to have the money delivered to you or go pick it up in person. The TARP Application can be downloaded in PDF format and asks such tough and hard-hitting questions as: PAGE 1 Institution Name: Address of Institution: Primary Contact Name: Primary Contact Phone Number: Primary Contact Fax Number: Primary Contact Email Address: Secondary Contact Name: Secondary Contact Phone Number: Secondary Contact Fax Number: Secondary Contact Email Address: PAGE 2 RSSD, Holding Company Docket Number and / or FDIC Certificate Number, As Relevant: Amount of Preferred Shares Requested: Amount Of Institution�s Authorized But Unissued Preferred Stock Available For Purchase: Amount Of Institution�s Authorized…

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From Jim Moss – The Seminal � MasterCard Commercial I’d Like to See � Amount spent each year in Europe and the United States on pet food:� $17 billion � Cost per year to achieve basic health and nutrition for the entire world:� $13 billion � Amount spent on perfumes each year:� $12 billion � Clean water for all the world:� $9 billion � Amount spent on cosmetics in the US:� $8 billion � Basic education for the world�s children:� $6 billion � Total amount the US spends on Christmas each year:� $450 billion�� (or 16 years worth of food, water, and education for the world) � Initial cost of the US Government bailout of failing financial institutions:� $700 billion�� (or 25 years worth of food, water, and education for the world) � Coming to grips with the alarming disconnects of our consumerist society:� Priceless

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“‘This is what I have been working on to prove for over a year. In fact, it was through following the Siegelman-Rove trail that I found evidence leading to Connell. That is how I became aware of him. Mike was getting ready to talk. He was frightened. “He has flown his private plane for years without incident. I know he was going to DC last night, but I don’t know why. He apparently ran out of gas, something I find hard to believe. I am not saying that this was a hit nor am I resigned to this being simply an accident either. I am no expert on aviation and cannot provide an opinion on the matter. What I am saying, however, is that given the context, this event needs to be examined carefully.’” “Mr. Connell has confided that he was being threatened, something that his attorneys also told the judge in the Ohio election fraud case..’” Just one more conspiracy of coincidences for us tinfoil hat people to mull over. Mark Connell, Rove’s go to IT guy, dead from plane crash; just before he was suppose to squeal. Read the story here.

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