Maybe Obama is learning the difference between chicken salad and chickensh*t, but I'm not getting my hopes up.


Wise man.  He's merely demonstrating that he knows the difference between "I can pass this a month before the election", and "I can ignore it and Congress can pass it again after the election, when I won't jeopardize any of my candidates by signing it."

If the Republicans take either or both houses of congress, they're not going to get anything done for the country.  All they're going to want to do is undo what Obama did...and...wait for it...investigate every soul Obama ever chanced to meet so as to get something to impeach the man!
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If the Republicans take either or both houses of congress, they're not going to get anything done for the country.  All they're going to want to do is undo what Obama did...and...wait for it...investigate every soul Obama ever chanced to meet so as to get something to impeach the man!
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If they took over both houses, we'd have a situation akin to the Clinton years.  As gridlock goes, that's probably the best scenario possible for the markets.  Alas, a split Congress (in this case, Republican House and a Democratic Senate) isn't so good for the markets.  Even worse than the periods of one-party (House, Senate, and President belonging to the same Party wing) rule.

If they took over both houses, we'd have a situation akin to the Clinton years.  As gridlock goes, that's probably the best scenario possible for the markets.  Alas, a split Congress (in this case, Republican House and a Democratic Senate) isn't so good for the markets.  Even worse than the periods of one-party (House, Senate, and President belonging to the same Party wing) rule.


What's good for the markets is frequently bad for humanity.  Anybody who challenges the bawling yahoos selling you automobiles and retirement bonds is marginalized as a crank...an arrogant crank who thinks he knows gooder'n you about how to spend your money!

Maggie Thatcher was too leftist when she said there's no such thing as society, only individuals and their families.  She was willing to break with 15,000 years of human history, so I'm not about to go any rounds with Mags!
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What's good for the markets is frequently bad for humanity.  


Yeah, but as long as I'm on the winning side of the trade...

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Consequences, schmonsequences, 'long as I'm rich!

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Yeah, but as long as I'm on the winning side of the trade...

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Consequences, schmonsequences, 'long as I'm rich!


That's between you a your maker.  Bookmaker!

If you gotta worry about market fluctuations, you ain't such a John D. Rockefeller nohow!
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fluctuations


Well, that's not quite how the Nobel Peace Prize committee put it to the Chinese government, but what does that have to do with stocks? :)

On the bright side, someone got a Nobel Peace Prize who actually deserved one.  So we've got that going for us.

Well, that's not quite how the Nobel Peace Prize committee put it to the Chinese government, but what does that have to do with stocks? :)

On the bright side, someone got a Nobel Peace Prize who actually deserved one.  So we've got that going for us.


Arafat, Tho, Kissinger, Carter, Obama...

;D

Arafat, Tho, Kissinger, Carter, Obama... ;D


Hey, I'm as surprised as anyone, but I'm not above giving credit where credit's due.

Sure, they coulda picked Hugo Chavez, but instead they went for a dude who said "Human rights are universal" and in so doing, they flipped the bird so hard to the Chinese government that it turned the People's iPhones into iPods in a futile effort to block their own citizens from reading the news.

Arafat, Tho, Kissinger, Carter, Obama...

;D


Let's not forget the "Terrorist Trio" of Arafat, Rabin, and Peres who all got it in '94.

And who can forget Woodrow Wilson, who managed to REVERSE desegregation in the Federal government?

Let's not forget the "Terrorist Trio" of Arafat, Rabin, and Peres who all got it in '94.

And who can forget Woodrow Wilson, who managed to REVERSE desegregation in the Federal government?


I don't think he managed to reverse desegregation, though precious little there was du jure in 1915.

He was a racist.  He made no bones about that.  He also had no trouble using the courts to sentence dissenters to prison.  He did think it was a good idea to have a sort of "League of Nations" so we can work out our disagreements without bloodshed.  Who could argue against that? 

I just don't like the man he was. 

Furthermore, I know Glenn Beck likes to hold up Woodrow Wilson as Satan in his psychotic Sesame Street.  But our problems today do not really start political/public policy left by which to remember Woodrow Wilson.  That was close to 100 years ago.  In Wilson's time we didn't even have Social Security.  Glenn Beck sometimes gets it right for the wrong reason.  Here he didn't even get it right for any reason!.  Yeah, you can kick FDR's bones down the street cursing their names.  You can call it a Kennedy plot.  You can say Nixon was behind it.  But the fundamental change in American civic sentiment occurred in the Ronald Reagan years.  We moved into a financial Ponzi scheme economy (aka. The Information Society, The Service Economy, downsizing, right-sizing, and all that right wing idiocy FOX still cranks out, and Tom Friedman)  Right, so we moved into a financial Ponzi scheme economy.  We had record numbers of Americans participating in the stock market.  Most of it through 401K retirement plans and such.  These "investors" had absolutely no say in how the corporation was to conduct itself.  It's sh*t.

That was not the original philosophy of limited liability, which required investors, not consumers as investors.  That is people who play the market like it's a lottery.  I've heard it gets pretty stressful.  Maybe you're ready to shoot your wife and kids at the end of the day.  Maybe you're ready to shoot your wife and kids anyway, but we can help you afford it in style. 
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Let's not forget the "Terrorist Trio" of Arafat, Rabin, and Peres who all got it in '94.


Like I said, this is Bizarro Inthe00s Month: for once, I'm the guy arguing that you should pay $75 if you want the fire department to put your house out when you set it on fire, and that the Nobel Peace Prize committee is doing OK.  I'm not crazy!  Y'all are the ones that are crazy! :)

Like I said, this is Bizarro Inthe00s Month: for once, I'm the guy arguing that you should pay $75 if you want the fire department to put your house out when you set it on fire, and that the Nobel Peace Prize committee is doing OK.  I'm not crazy!  Y'all are the ones that are crazy! :)


INSTITUTION!!!

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