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Thursday Morning Surprise

Apparently the McFear and Failin campaign has big news to tell us in the AM! OMG ! The Politco , a website that pretends to be bi-partisan, as long as you believe the middle of the political spectrum is to the right of say, Newt Gingrich... okay, I kid, they are better than perhaps the Drudge Report or Newsmax , but not that much better. I guess it would be fair to say they are "right leaning..." and that would be if only you were hanging on to the railing of the ship of state on the port side to begin with... such is the uneven playing field as it were. Really, if it was something "earth-shattering," or even mildly surprising, good but less than an "October Surprise," do you think it would be telegraphed like this on a Wednesday night? When who the (redacted) knows what the news cycle will be tomorrow?? Given that the "markets," are behaving like unbalanced flakes with "The End is Near" signs around their unwashed necks, screaming a...

The Slow-Motion Tsunami

Asian stocks tumble as crisis intensifies So it begins... despite the historic, mind blowingly large, never before seen, or even dreamt of dumping of cash on a problem, that is simply the largest bailout in the history of mankind (or, the biggest heist in human history, depending on your position). Stocks around the world (your grandma's savings for example) are still tanking? This, despite the injection of 800 billion dollars or whatever into the global credit markets (soon to be into the trillions for sure). The great big shitpile ™ continues to sweep across the global real estate landscape. And of course, nobody could have predicted this catastrophe... oh yeah, that's kind of bullshit ain't it? Sleep tight my angels. PS It helps to read this blog entry out loud in a sarcastic British accent to lessen the blow of the real truth of this possibly slow-motion-long-term horror of a financial global train wreck that possibly is yet to come. Doomed to repeat, history is --...