Leisure Suit Larry: ’... Wall Street seems to bottom at 8,100 then bounce back, that suggests a loss of about 4,000 points from mid July. That’s a loss of 25 TRILLION dollars that’s real money now gone poof… ‘

No, real money is just what it wasn’t.  Much of the price levels of the equities markets were based on the same Ponzi scheme of ever-expanding credit as the real estate markets.  It was a bubble, and once people tried to convert any substantial amount of it to real goods or labor, it would have collapsed.  I’m not at all sure it is entirely deflated yet, either—there seems to still be a lot of Belief out there wandering around.

By Leisure Suit Larry, November 8 at 6:04 am

I predicted after the 770 point dow drop that if this is the beginning of crash 7000 would be the point the market would bottom. Now, I am not so sure and that 5000 or a little lower may be the bottom, don’t forget, this has been a false economy even before willie clinton signed the NAFTA that excellerated the loss of manufacturing in this country, so much so that more than 1 person surely has recognized the fact of the huge debts of trade and budget, bailouts , all to give the few more and more money before the depression hits, that there is no problem with w & dick handing the US over to the other corporated power to sink or swim for the next 4 years which swimming looks really useless also.
And obama, having already coming on board with the corporations and the american izreali political affairs committee it looks as IF there will be more rewards and welfare for those that have irresponsibly and criminally destroyed our economy the one thing the ‘war on terror’ was supposed to prevent- but I guess that was really a fool’s hope considering washington d.c. has more terrorists that are more of a threat to our national economic security than any other country could ever hope to have and to accomplish. Surely being friends with the bin Laden family, w and dick have carried out those financial terrorist attacks much to bin Ladens delight.
And we the people are just going to sit back and enjoy another 4 years of samosamo… IF obama doesn’t come around to what the country really needs and that does NOT include corporate welfare or occupation or attacks on any foreign countries. I really hope obama surprises a bunch of people by rounding up the trash that have trashed this country in the name of anything but the truth. And surprise people like me who don’t believe he will go after these people and hold them accountable by prosecution and penalties.

Why is so surprising to anyone ? If you watch her on the interview repudiatign all these stories, she is tilting her face and playing for the camera like she is being interviewed for a frigging beauty pageant show. Palin, my best advice to you is stay in Wasilla, and leave the lower 48 to the intelligent ones, please. We DONT need you and we dont WANT you anywhere near the White House. There is not enough room in the White House for you, your families an dyour croonies.

Entertaining as they may be, I hesitate to trust the veracity of stories about Palin’s ignorance.  There is no doubt a considerable struggle going on within the Republican Party over whatever remains, and the long (and short) knives are out.  Let us not be too credulous ourselves.

Sarah has at least one parent who is/was a teacher and I believe both her parents were teachers in the public school system at one time. Scary, when you think of it that Sarah turned out so IGNORANT. It took her 5 different colleges to earn a degree in journalism.

As for the daughters of Sarah not being in school, fear not. Bristol missed 5 months of school from about Thanksgiving 2007 until just after the birth of Trig in April 2008, you know her mothers baby #5(?), because they claim she had mono-for 5 months.

Sarah has also stated she believes of home schooling all children in America,by their mothers, who should be stay at home mothers and not working mothers, ridding libraries of books she and her church do not approve of, eliminating science classes and replacing them with classes more religiously inclined, just to start with in the re-education of American children into soldiers in God’s army to take over the world with their MAVERICK brand of religion, when she becomes VP/PREZ.

Sarah and Todd prove that any idiot can make a baby(ies). Unfortunate for the babies though.

Wow, fux news. What an incredibly important issue of topic. Any other life beneficial issues the public needs to be kept update on for their next life altering decision? carl cameron is pathic and so is the other pontificator; useless for news. I would expect to see him giving w one of his ‘in depth’ interviews again.

I wish disclosures like this were put out before she was almost elected VP. If she would of been elected and this bomb dropped a day later, I would of been so embarrassed for our country.

Its incredulous to hear how inept she is on topical issues in one breath, and a moment later hearing the reporter saying how much the GOP base still adores her and has future aspirations for Palin as a contender to the White House in 2012.

The GOP basically tried serving the American people a shit sandwhich, fortunately they ran low on bread, so we got a little taste before hand, instead of the whole thing later.

The vast majority of Americans are ignorant about geography.  Thousands of college students have been tested in recent years and the majority have been unable to find such countries as Iraq and Afganistan on a globe.  One recent report told how students started looking in South America when asked to find Iraq on a globe.

LMAO…..Especially because she might actually believe that she should be allowed to run in 2012!  Now, that’s priceless!!!!!

Btw - the fact that the convicted Stevens has been re-elected is just another reason that as a state Alaska should not even be taken seriously!!!!  Convict, hustler, swindler, liar, just put them into office - oh my!!!!!

Hippy Pam: Siberia has been a part of Russia for hundreds of years.  Not that I’d expect much intelligence from someone still obsessed about a pregnant teenager.

And she does not realize that she-on a clear day-is looking at SIBERIA[not russia]....Now that she has tasted POWER WE-THE PEOPLE- need to KEEP HER IN OUR SIGHTS…“Her Great State” must be very corrupt since they have re-elected a CONVICTED FELON….That is the same as putting a CONVICTED PEDOPHILE IN CHARGE OF A PLAYGROUND FILLED WITH CHILDREN….And HAS ANY ONE HEARD ANY MORE ON LEVI and BRISTOL and the wedding????Or is that MOOT now that mama does not have to present THAT IMAGE?????

We don’t really find this surprising, do we?

Perhaps the lesson to be taken from this sorry Palin episode is the realization that intelligence, to a huge portion of the American electorate, really doesn’t matter. Politics is more a beauty pageant than a conflict of intellectual visions. Most people do not think intellectually; rather, they react emotionally to propaganda.

I would be curious to see what percentage of the electorate really spends any time trying to grasp the intellectual content (if any) of the candidates’ policies, versus what percent vote on the impression that candidate A seems to be a nicer guy than candidate B.

Politicians realized this ages ago. This is why attack ads work. This is why name-calling works. This is why Sean Hannity has a job.

And, yes, this is how Sarah Palin, with even less intellectual content than the average voter, can be hailed as Vice Presidential material today, and even (seriously) as Presidential material in 2012.

Perhaps you are beginning to see why I am not terribly enthused with the concept of Democracy.

The very idea of an elected official, especially the Vice-President not knowing the least amount of geography is truly frightening.
Sarah Palin, is every persons worst nightmare! A marketable, seemingly knowledgeable candidate, who, has some credentials for the Presidency, yet lacks the basic acumen for even dogcatcher.
Sarah Palin is without doubt the dumbest bunny on the planet, even most of the contestants in a beauty pageant know that Africa is a continent and that economics is something beauty contestants should stay away from.
Should she reappear in 2012, let us hope that the American people have enough sense to send her packing back to the backwaters of Wasilla, Ak.

Now it is all coming out…I wish I would have been there when the Masked Avengers called her.  You could hear some background swearing, etc…at the end of this piece.  Wonder if she is ready for anything in 2012..let´s see, “How old will she be?” if she continues in this childish behavior.

Is that what she was banning from the Wasilla library, geography books?

My God, what were they thinking, AND what was she thinking?  Did they/she really think she could put that one over on the entire nation?

Makes you wonder about the Wasilla Schools.

But, the bigger issue is why would anyone choose someone so ignorant and misdirected, unless that was what you WANTED.  And we’ve seen this premise throughout this administration and the interests that back them right up to ye old George W.

Makes Biden look like a flippin sage, and makes me look like a geopolitcal scholar…..LOL

We come to you with greetings and gifts O WISE ONE, please…. VP elect Biden reveal to us the location of Africa O WISE ONE, and we will give obeisance and many gifts to you, O WISEST OF THE WISE.