YouTube - BTW I'm Voting For Mccain / Palin

American Thinker: How allies of George Soros helped bring down Wachovia Bank

"While the Sandlers personally made 2.4 billion dollars on the 24 billion dollar sale of Golden West Financial to Wachovia, the employees (including their own former employees) and shareholders of Wachovia, including those who have invested their retirement money and children's college funds in Wachovia stock and bonds, are not doing nearly so well. Communities where Wachovia has branches that may be closed as a cost-saving measure will also suffer. But worst hurt of all will be the homeowners who were sold mortgages that they should have never been offered, by a lender far more sophisticated than they were."

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Email Archiving Made Simple

"For a flat fee of $45 per user per year, you can now add hosted archiving with the ability to retain messages for up to 10 years, along with spam and virus filtering, all powered by Postini. With this package, you can:

* Set the retention policy that makes sense for your organization
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Meltdowns: Neel Kashkari reveals a coder's plan to save the world

Sometimes Owen, you surprise me.

Home run!

The dirty little secret of "progressive" politics is the false notion that socialist experiments of the past failed simply because they didn't have ENOUGH control over the economy.

We now have computers that can play a perfect game of checkers. That wasn't the case for a long time. Chess is harder, many more combinations than a computer can exhaustively search even today.

Compare that with an economy, where the number of "positions" at any point of time is for all practical purposes infinite and the number of possible next moves equally infinite.

But somehow, these deluded control freaks continue to think they are just one more "patch" away from getting it all under control. And in the mean time of what value are the freedoms of action that not only large companies but we as individuals are losing while these people build their planned economy?

Your own state of California, with every well-meaning social program imaginable and probably the strongest economy in the world is on the verge of a breakdown, and you have the nerve to ask the rest of us to help you out?

What ARE you people smoking?

In the debates last night, Obama said he wanted to approach cost savings with a scalpel rather than a hatchet. That's like saying I'm going to start mowing my lawn with a pair of scissors. The waste in the Federal government alone is enormous. It NEEDS a hatchet. Much easier to eliminate the Department of Energy and then restore the one or two valuable things they do than to take ten years to "trim" the hundreds of things they do that serve no purpose. And exactly how do you "trim"? By shuffling idle bureaucrats to other overstaffed agencies? Again, all we have to do is look to California for how it is going to go once our government realizes that it is too big (and I'm not sure most Americans have even come to that conclusion yet).

John Stossel :: Townhall.com :: Try Free Enterprise

"Economist Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute looked at the credit numbers kept by the Federal Reserve. He writes: 'Although certain financial institutions are undeniably in deep trouble -- difficulties of their own making ... -- credit markets in general have not ceased to operate. Moreover, lenders are extending credit in historically great amounts'."

New: Gmail for Drunks and Dopers!

"When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?"

Wachovia: A Split May Boost the Banking Industry - BusinessWeek

"If Bush is right, that could mean the era of regulators forcing troubled banks into shotgun marriages—with no recovery for investors in banks such as Wachovia or investment firms like Bear Stearns—could be coming to a close. And the Wells Fargo deal, which Wachovia's board embraced on Oct. 3, prompting Citigroup to sue, could convince investors that for all the bad loans and soured investments these firms are sitting on, acquirers are getting a steal."

Thomas Sowell - Do Facts Matter?

"Abraham Lincoln said, 'You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.'

Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election day, just a few weeks from now.

Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being fooled a whole lot of the time."

Microsoft Profits vs. $700 Billion Wall Street Bailout | The VAR Guy

"If Uncle Sam invoiced Microsoft for the entire $700 billion bailout (and let’s assume we don’t charge Microsoft interest…), the software giant could pay off the $700 billion balance in roughly 39 years and seven months."

I LIKE it!

YouTube - Democrats messed up big-time on the Economy

YouTube - Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?

Better version of this I think.

Certainly This Will Gain Me Some Karma

Top 10 Tax Sweeteners in the Bailout Bill

"Current law places an excise tax of 39 cents on the first sale by the manufacturer, producer, or importer of any shaft of a type used to produce certain types of arrows. This proposal would exempt from the excise tax any shaft consisting of all natural wood with no laminations or artificial means to enhance the spine of the shaft used in the manufacture of an arrow that measures 5/16 of an inch or less and is unsuited for use with a bow with a peak draw weight of 30 pounds or more. The proposal is effective for shafts first sold after the date of enactment. The estimated cost of the proposal is $2 million over ten years, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation."

And according to Taxpayers for Common Sense the primary beneficiary of this bit-o-pork is Rose City Archery

Let's give a hand to those that got a bigger piece of the pie than the rest of us.

But this is just the silliest example, not the most expensive. Click the title to see the list.

Debate analysis: Palin spoke at 10th-grade level, Biden at eighth - CNN.com

Unfortunately CNN News analyst's comprehension level is way down at fifth, and the average CNN viewer is still being fed by mommy out of one of those little jars.

I fear for our country after discovering that far too many voters know nothing about the candidates other than what they can recall from TV in the last 48 hours.

Dr. Sanity: BLOWING BUBBLES

"I can live for four years with a President I despise (and certainly without the delusional insanity that has been the hallmark of those with BDS for the last 8 years since their candidates lost). I have done it multiple times before this point in history.

But what I cannot live with is a media that is no longer capable of giving reasonably fair and objective reporting on the critical issues of our time. I cannot live with propaganda. I cannot live with the opinionated nonsense that today passes for serious journalism on the front pages of our major newspapers--and I am not talking about op-ed pieces. Those are clearly marked as 'opinion.' But the day to day burying of important information to the end of articles; the misleading headlines; the rampant unfairness of a press that is obsessed with Sarah Palin's tanning bed and facials, but indifferent to Barack Obama's connections to homegrown and Islamic terrorism. A media that joyfully exposes what conflicts of interest Palin has had; but ignores Joe Biden's. A journalistic corp that joyfully and openly supports Barack Obama and hides or misleads about his lack of experience to be POTUS; but is so very sincere and courageous about getting it out to the public that Sarah Palin is 'not qualified' to be VP."

Well said.