morning gardener! Bet your organic squash is a lot HEALTHIER than the diseased National financial 'squash' that the Government and the investment/mortgage banks have left us in! lol.
jagrib is right about all those MASSIVE payoffs,and it's absolutely nauseous,to me.
All that payoff cash,GOLDEN PARAGLIDERS, will go straight to OFF-SHORE tax-havens,because those people haven't paid REAL taxes FOR YEARS!
The imcumbents will scream and rant and rave FROM THE HOLES in the sand where they have buried their heads,and will do their best to stay there.
Then,when they DO HAVE TO walk up straight,and face the poeple,who pay their salaries-US-,they will WALK AROUND(not through) the "mounds" of human-waste,that THEY HAVE ALLOWED to accumulate,with their lavender posies over their nosies!
Because if they WALK thru' the mess,the flooded out areas,the neglected reservations,the tent-cities,the ghettoes,the boarded-up residential and down-town wastelands etc they HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT ALL, and that they DID nothing to stop it occurring or getting worse! They CAN'T face that reality of DEREGULATED America.
It's still blue-sky,yellow-brick road and white-picket fences to them!
Whereas MILLIONS of other Americans KNOW THAT'S not reality!
"Deal" is the right word. And dirty TOO! I bet ya!
That's what went on BEHIND CLOSED DOORS YESTERDAY and has been going on FOR YEARS ALREADY!
In secret,just like The Kremlin,or the Reichstag,or The Forbidden City! lol!
When EVERYTHING THAT THEY ARE SAYING TO EACH OTHER,in those secret dark chambers, should be IN A PUBLIC HEARING/COURT,ON OATH(not that their OATH is worth MUCH anymore),IN FRONT of the world Free Press,for ALL the public to hear!
It's about time they had the balls to say,"Sorry,we made a real cock-up of this.It's OUR FAULT for not being GOOD,SAFE,HONEST SERVANTS OF PUBLIC INTERESTS".

They ARE OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS,and if they are going to make ANY "deals" on my life,bank,mortgage,family,home,savings,food cupboard,etc I WANT TO KNOW EXACTLY what DEALS they are making,BEFORE I(we),as a citizen(S),GIVE THEM PERMISSION TO ACT,in MY(OUR)interest! That means BEFORE they sign OUR lives away,on their dotted lines.
The Senators/Representatives seem to forget that we elect them to office,to PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION,BILL OF RIGHTS,CIVIL LIBERTIES,National/International reputation and integrity.
We,and they,guard our interests,and that means making the SMALL-PRINT of ANY deals,available for US to see,agree to,OR DISAGREE!
Those ars***** Senators step in front of the cameras,after their 'secret' meeting and say,
" OOO! It was tough!"
"OOO! It was scary"!
"OOO! We were stunned"!
Blah Blah,Yada,Yada!
What they mean is,they spent that meeting saying,
"Shhh! How do we save face,AND OUR ARS**,and still come out looking like HEROES?" (that they ACTUALLY ARE NOT) lol.
When THEY KNOW they deserve to be legally 'lynched' by the balls,for their INCOMPETENCE and cowardice!
To hell with that! WE the people,HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW,what sh** these impotent,gambling,looting,lying,m/f****** crooks are arranging to leave US FLOATING IN,as they float off in their CORPORATELY ISSUED 'LIFE-VESTS',to their double-dealing,hypocritical,tax-haven islands.
Remember the Titanic?
Again,too high the expectations,too low the common/business-sense,too high the Corporate EGO,bad management,bad budgeting,not enough life-boats and look who DID get in the life-boats PRIMARILY?
Yes! The 1st/2nd class passengers MAINLY!
And all others had to pray,sink or swim!
And that film was NO LIE! It was the perfect metaphor for OUR impotent Government and Congressional eunuchs!
This Congress and White House have made a TITANIC mess of America!
They have made America poorer,weaker,less trusted worldwide and MORE DEPENDANT ON FOREIGN countries,who are NOT really our 'bestest fwends' EITHER!
Some who could CUT THE FISCAL-UMBILICAL CORD pronto!
Who needs WMD's against America when they OWN US by our financial BALLS!
They aren't saying much OF ANYTHING about any country right now--
(except Iran and Pakistan,which are 'financial-mess' cover-ups and election strategy options for a cabbage-brained,PTSD'd incompetent bone-head,and a bible-thumpimg 'rapturous' moose-drooley,who thinks Dinosaurs were here 4,000 years AGO!)
--because the Governmental mess that they have created here,GIVES them no LEVERAGE,OR SOLID GROUND,to bad mouth ANY one else on the PLANET! LOL!
They haven't even got the balls to say,to the international(and domestic)financial experts,
"Yes! you were right.Our EGOISTIC Capitalism failed,we handled it badly and should have listened to ALL the experts who predicted it!"

Yesterday they "bailed" out(very temporarily)their self-created mess by putting AMERICA MORE IN HOCK TO FOREIGN Nations.We are now OWNED by mostly China and Europeand bits of SOUTH America(that's a great ONE!)!
But the REAL ONES,who got the temporary bail out,are those blood-sucking bas***** that PUT THE COUNTRY IN THIS CR** in the first place.
The Corporations,private banks/investors,sub-prime lender-shark-embezzlers,and THEREBY THE Government who are BEHOLDEN(owned by)to these private enterprise,interest-grabbing,HIGH-RISK taking Wall Street robots!
They are giving them time,to fiscally finish their looting,pack their tax-free bags and skidaddle PROBABLY with Presidential pardons,bank accounts intact,and clean-slates!
And that includes most of the White House neocons in situ,AND the neocons WAITING TO RE-OCCUPY our beloved White House! Like John 'KEATING 5' McINSANE who adores people like Gramm,Hannity and Scheuneman and dozens of other white-supremacist radical-right JIHADIST neocons et al! Who are just as extreme(and blind)as the FAR-LEFT COMMIES at the other end of the political boomerang! LOL!
Even Obama,who looks very promising as NEW BLOOD,progressive,full of energy,young,rational and gutsy etc,comes with an ADVISORY GANG who are OLD-SCHOOL dinosaurs from old eras of MORE very covert,SUSPECT American political actions.
Why do we allow these OLD SPECIAL-INTEREST DINOSAURS to come back,time and time again,as if WE CAN'T manage without them?
There is ONLY one place for ANCIENT regressive dinosaurs in an ever-changing progressive political world---the extinction-yard! They are like a ball and chain on the ankle of progress!
What's happening now, is just another American Great Depression on the VERY close horizon,and what happened on the stock-markets(rise in price)yesterday was a false-effect caused by the taking on of MORE DEBT,to shore-up the PRESENT MASSIVE DEBT from drowning us all STAT! And,to distract from that they are TRYING to pull us into ANOTHER WAR!
All we need is the JON-BENET RAMSEY story to raise it's head! LOL!
O.J.Simpson is in the media again! He's usually a good distraction to the attention-deficit FOX types! JEEZ!
F***! These Congressional(Dems&Repubs)and GOP administration guys should be in jail for treason,high crimes and misdemeanours,and GROSS NEGLECT OF OATH and gross PUBLIC OFFICE IRResponsibilities. This has All happened before in the USA, but NEVER to such a level as this! And so much of it,WAS PREDICTED,by the Financial experts,BUT the Government played the 3 wise(and very stupid) monkeys,AT OUR EXPENSE.
Capitalism has always been a HIGHLY RISKY MYTH to chase.And it's a FINITE road!
But True Democracy is SOLID,if allowed to function properly.
And they(we)neglected that.
We can turn this WHOLE thing around,and get REAL Democracy back,but it means getting rid of apathy and those dang rose-coloured glasses,and GREED!
And electing a GOOD CONSCIENCE,CLEAN,FRUGAL,ETHICAL,MORAL COALITION Government,not a bunch of red OR blue lily-livered,worms and sharks!
Jeez! We have MORE COLOURS IN THE US flag,than parties in POWER,LOL!
For 300 million people!
F***! IF ever there WAS a time for EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN TO GET OUT TO VOTE their voice and values,IT'S THIS COMING ELECTION.
Whatever blocks,caging,wars of distraction,disenfranchising etc they try,WE HAVE TO SHOVE IT UP THEIR God-forsaken ar***!
Yes! gardener.We are almost,in practise,a Socialist country,which for a while might be the ONLY life-boat that will keep us afloat.We just need National Health Service,National Insurance and full unions and then we ARE SOCIALIST! LOL!
We are not exactly Communist yet,though our political system is STARTING to resemble it CLOSELY! LOL!
Oh,and with regard to the total mess we have made outside our sovereign shores?

Right now,in Iraq,approx.500 cases OF CHOLERA/DYSENTARY are present,around Babel, because Bush(and the Iraq Gov)have FAILED in rebuilding the Iraqi INFRASTRUCTURE.
We promised them new hospitals,schools,sewage/water systems,and American corporations were GIVEN BILLIONS to honor their REBUILDING contracts.DID THEY DO IT? NO! Is Saddam gone? Yes! Is Iraq better off right now? NO!
Now people are surviving on land-fils,no meds,no jobs,no education,and no CLEAN DRINKING WATER!
CHOLERA/DYSENTARY has not been present IN IRAQ before! Or in Mesapotamia,for 1,000 years!
In Afghanistan,the Taliban are joining up gradually with the proud Pashtuns(including most the Pakistani Army)and the Afghani tribal war-lords.They are OUT OF WORK,HUNGRY,pis*** off,and homeless with many INNOCENTS killed(like Iraqis).
We,America,have "EMBOLDENED" that anti-American alliance(by being SO UNAMERICAN),which was NOT so strong BEFORE we stomped in and started a failed war THERE TOO!
If they have ANY SENSE at all,about Israel(as it is RIGHT NOW),they will dump it like a HOT brick.
And I'm NOT talking dumping JUDAISM here!Even some of my Jewish friends REFUSE to go to Israel! Go figure!
I'm saying that the American Congress should stop BOWING TO KISS the ring of NEOCON ZIONISTS(who are turning the world AGAINST Judaism)because Israel is quickly losing favor and PATIENCE ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Israel has used up 85% their INTERNATIONAL sympathy/empathy post WW2.
They can't even get the majority of Israeli youth to do the mandatory National Service any more! So guess who they are recruiting? Yes! American Jewish youth and European Jewish youth! AND MOST DON'T WANT TO GO,they just feel OBLIGATED!
Israel is militarily brutal to the point of committing war-crime,after war-crime,after war-crime and the REST of the world will not tolerate,OR IGNORE THIS any more! After 2006 in Lebanon,and the continuing murder of Palestinians(many of them women,elderly and children),the EU/UN/AU and EVEN America is getting more and more INTOLERANT of their ILLEGAL actions!
We know Israel is inhumanly brutal,it has been since 1947! It has the cheek to call itself "Democratic",while underneath it is just another brutal dictatorship.
And America is very similar,in its attempted 'assimilation' of other Nations into "Global Democracy".That HAS to change(otherwise WE LOSE ALL CREDIBILITY!)
That is NOT OUR RIGHT! Especially,when WE ourselves ARE making a sham of our OWN Democracy!
BUT I HOPE THAT Israel is not REALLY THAT STUPID,as to think that they(with or without America)can manufacture OR pre-empt an attack on Iran,when there is NO ACTUAL,PHYSICAL or documented EVIDENCE of Iran being A THREAT!
The WHOLE premise of Israel/America doing an offensive AGAINST Iran is based on crystal-ball gazing,and NOT LIKING what they IMAGINE they see.
Totally ludicrous and AGAINST ALL UN/NATO/GENEVA CONVENTION INTERNATIONAL WAR RULES and Rules of Military ENGAGEMENT! It's DISHONOURABLE!

LOL! sorry gardener! You asked! lol!
S***,I need some coffee.
See you later!

bush's war 3.7 TRILLION for their iraq war.

socialist/communist/ capitalist... ..it .don't matter. what do you call the govt. bail-out of the big corporations = socialist+capitalist welfare? call it whatever.

bottom line is the country is screwed, because of greedy filthy rich americans who really dont't give a hoot about their country as long as they can take all.

and israel - what would of happened if 60 years ago they would have instituted diplomacy in the middle east instead war & 1st strikes. there is no middle eastern foreign policy except ' drop a bomb on your head.'

we need leaders in Washington who recognize war is not an option for settling foreign relations with countries. we should never have went into Iraq. it was all about oil.

bin laden would be behind bars already if we had did as Obama suggested and went after him in Afghanistan/ Pakistan years ago. unless we can get the corporate corruption out of the whitehouse, we are all wasting our rights as citizens.

So, How do you think these possible incumbents will "deal" with all the mounds of problems that have piled up over the past few years?

How are they going to deal with Israel making major air strikes on Iran?
How are they going to deal with the others who will get their strikes in also?
How are they going to increase their control of us in the negative financial situations?

What in the hell are they actually going to be able to change - for the better -??

And why is it that "they" aren't saying much of anything about whats going on in Venezuela and their oil?

Is it just me, or is American becoming more socialist/communist by the day??

you should shorten your name to just plain old.

this is where i am posting from - the real world, not to some american dream or ballpark franks nonsence. Take a look at your dream - ceo richard fuld of lehman bros. departs with $446 million , john thain of merrill lynch gets $83.million and stan O'neal previous ceo for merril lynch departs with $165 million package deal, former ceo james cayne of bear sterns gets $138 million - then before jp morgan chace decides to buy bear sterns cayne dumps his entire stock and pockets $60 million. what's going to happen to the employees & stock investors who are left holding an empty bag. and How can the govt. doll out billions to welfare these corp. ( keep them afloat) when bush/chany/ and that other repubs have clean out the treasury to the tune of 3.7 billion for their Iraq war. you must be one of those birds with their head stuck in a hole in the ground. heck, bush and the bankers & other criminals are doing more damage to this country then the terrorist could ever hope for. but you dreamers just keep on sucking on that apple pie bs, till one day your standing in a bread line waiting for your hotdog. As for obama - he can't be all bad when he sais when he's president he's going to clean them all out of the whitehouse. that sounds like a good start.
and please lets stop killing the Iraqi people, better that we all go back to horse & buggy. may God foregive us.

Hey O/B(are you sure it's NOT OBL,secretly lol),missed ya bud!
You know if you want REAL "radical","jihadist","commies" you ONLY have to look at people like Bush,Cheney,McSame,Palin!
Especially 'Bin' Bush and 'Bin' Cheney who have been STRUGGLING on their own PNAC 'JIHAD' for 8 years at least!And that's just in the White House! lol.
That's what's SO embarrassing for us! They're dancing the same Bin dance,just their version.
And McCabbage and Pacain are merely seeking to pick up the Bush legacy baton!
"Change your partners for the square" Doo dee doo dee...."
See ya "dude"!

jagib
So what third world ghetto are you posting your nonsense from?
Everything you have posted so far sounds like you copied it from the Jihad joke book.
The "broke working people" in this country are just fine thank you! You just wish all the crap you post was true. We still fill the movies and the ballparks. Still buy our new cars and color TVs. Still fill the malls and the restaurants. Yeah, we bitch when some idiot Opec manipulators crank up the cost of crude, but hey, then they miss the pocket change they steal from their countrymen and just lower the price again.
Look at all the fat cat Arab oil Barons out there if you want to see dumb a$$ed people getting ripped off by their government. If you really want to call those sorry excuses for a social system governments.

As far as Hussein Obama being smarter I find that laughable.

He was the grandchild of an upper middle class family that had the money to send their spoiled wanna be a Commie daughter to school in Hawaii, where she slept with a radical African to show how liberal she was and to rub Mommy and Daddy's nose in it. She was dumb enough to get pregnant, and the father wasn't man enough to take credit for the son he helped create. He was then raised in the upper middle class household of his white grandparents. Who he later would toss aside to "Go find his black roots" with his fathers family who didn't give a rats ass about him while he was growing up. He knows about as much about the daily plight of poor blacks in this country as you seem to know about the "working class". He is the puppet of a bunch of leftist manipulators who have paid his way into office so they can legitimize their half baked politics.

I find it hilarious that narrow minded fools like you think that people in this country fear his "dark skin". LOL Are you for real? Hell the only thing that bothers me about his skin color is that the vast majority of blacks in this country will vote for him based on that fact alone! No matter how much of a smooth talking, BS spewing, man without a plan he is! There and only there is where the racism is in this election!

Hey! Keep laughing world! Your leaders love it when you keep yourselves occupied thinking we're your biggest problem. While they give your country away to the socialist Eurocrats, and while the jihadists take over your schools and institutions. We'll be here the next time you need us to rescue you from the real trouble makers in the world.

Cheers! Poor Mr Palin, how difficult it must be for him to be "the man".

p.s.gardener ,this will cheer you up! PALIN FOR PRESIDENT!LOL!

http://michaelpalinforpresident.com/

LOL!gardener! I thought Tony Blair ONLY came to America to be on the Jon Stewart Show?
Yale was just an EXTRA TIT-BIT!
LOL! He's realized what a lose-out job he's got as Middle-East Envoy! Picking up Bush's pile of cr** there! lol!

Speaking of 'stupid Americans', Tony Blair is going to be teaching at Yale Univ--a course on 'faith and globalization'(?). Well, I guess that may help some. Mr Blair must be bored to come to America to teach when he could have pick a much better country to share is rich and sought ofter knowledge. Good luck, I hope someones faith doesn't get him in trouble...