Congressional Bail Out -- RIP

Nays = 227
Yeas = 206

My solution is to make available the $700 billion loan directly to the CEOs, members of the corporate boards personally. The repayment would have 30% annual interest and a balloon payment after 5 years. If they don't make the payment (which they inevitably couldn't at such a high interest rate) the government would then take every asset from these individuals forcing them into destitution, thus wealth re-distribution on such a grand scale that would give Mao Zedong a hard-on.

Billionaires no more!

John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com? | GOVGAP

John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com? | GOVGAP

McCain Campaign bought the domain name www.VoteForTheMilf.com the day that Sarah Palin was announced to be the GOP's Vice Presidential nominee. Objectifying women is certainly the best way I can think of to get former Hillary Clinton supporters on your side.

Below is the official listing for the VoteForTheMilf domain. Though the address listed is in Arizona it is simply the address of hosting company Go Daddy (whose past advertising has gotten the holy rollers's panties in a bunch due to the ad's racy content).

Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: VOTEFORTHEMILF.COM
Created on: 29-Aug-08
Expires on: 30-Aug-09
Last Updated on: 29-Aug-08

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration VOTEFORTHEMILF.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2598

Technical Contact:
Private, Registration VOTEFORTHEMILF.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2598

Domain servers in listed order:
NS57.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS58.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

M.T.A. Seeks Contingency Plan to Cut Service if Economy Worsens - NYTimes.com

M.T.A. Seeks Contingency Plan to Cut Service if Economy Worsens - NYTimes.com

Seriously... the MTA will find any excuse screw the city. After a year of record revenues, and ridership on every service (bus, subway, LIRR, Metro North, and NJ Transit) and the MTA is  giving the hackney cop-out that because of the financial collapse will cause them to cut services. Then did they have cyrtal ball back in June when they said they were going to increase fares?

Will There be a GOP Primary for Mayor?

Will There be a GOP Primary for Mayor?

Despite this post on Urban Elephants yesterday declaring the unlikeliness that Bruce Blakeman will not run for GOP nomination for Mayor. I just saw an ad for for him on NY1's morning news. It seems to be a year early but it probably is dirt cheap today the day after primary day.

Why Do Football Coaches Hate Democrats? | The New York Observer

Why Do Football Coaches Hate Democrats? | The New York Observer

"Prominent football coaches. For whatever reason - a natural sympathy for autocratic leadership, perhaps? - the G.O.P. has had no shortage of sideline generals to showcase through the years, a tradition that the party will renew tonight when former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs addresses the convention just before 9:00."

So the Republicans can have sideline generals, Democrats will keep the actual generals

$10 Billion A Month in Iraq

McCain/Palin campaign spokespersons have been touting Sarah Palin's executive experience, managing 24,000 employees, proximity to Russia and Alaska's $10 billion annual budget. What is Sarah Palin going to do the second month? Why bring attention to Palin's budget decisions (she severally cut special education in her first budget before giving birth to a son with Downe Syndrome)? Sarah Palin did not even have a valid passport 2 years ago, is she really the best person to be a heart beat away from the oldest nominated presidential candidate who has had cancer, and heart disease?

John McCain has no executive experience, so why make the argument that Senate experience doesn't count? The difference between Democratic and Republican conventions was the GOPers couldn't stop booing, and the speakers couldn't stop blaming the media, the congress, and the rest of the world for anything and everything. Victimhood does like look good on the elephant, whether Senator Phil Gram calling Americans whiners, Sarah Palin complaining about the liberal media and the Washington establishment stating she doesn't have any experience, or John McCain kvetching that we would have lost Iraq if we had listen those people that wanted to withdraw 2 years ago (the people he is referring to... the American people).

$10 billion a month
What does the US get in return:

• $3.89/gallon gas,
• a huge national deficit,
• 4,000 plus service men and women dead,
• 50,000 military casualties,
• 6 billion inhabitants of the world that justifiable do not trust us as far they can throw us,
• American citizens committing war crimes then having it rebranded it as "enhanced interrogation,"
• a crippled and stretched-too-thin military,

So I'm going have to say 'thanks, but no thanks' to McCain's offer of providing judgement and values.

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