Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions - Financials US News Story - CNBC.com.

So.. you think $700 BILLION DOLLARS is a large sum of money?  Much like I said earlier, its just the tip of the iceberg here folks.  According to this article, we are already at over $4 TRILLION and growing and yet the Democratic Congress (and some Republicrats), Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke want to throw more at it?

Does it seem rational that a problem that hasn’t been solved by $4 trillion in cash can be solved with… more cash? I don’t think so and can’t understand why all of these supposed “smart” people think it can fix this!!

Jaguar Chases Roadrunner, but Can’t Grab Top Spot on Latest List of World’s TOP500 Supercomputers | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites.

Some pretty cool stuff here regarding the worlds top performing computer (IBM of course)

RT - 24/7 English-language news channel : Crisis Chronicle : Let the market do its job.

When Ron Paul was running for President, most news outlets dismissed him as a kook, as someone who was ringing a warning bell that did not need ringing, yet, as the economy collapses around us the news media is now flocking to him as the guy who has “the answers” to this whole mess. I think I would have to use not only my hands and toes but several other peoples extremities to count the number of appearances that he has made since this whole bailout debacle has hit the front pages.  Amazing how one day he’s a kook and the next he has all the answers.

Maybe if the main stream media would have let him talk when he was running for President we could have averted this utter catastrophe since more people would have been able to hear his messages of fiscal responsibility and a reduced role as the world’s police force.

It looks like Ron will have the last laugh though as the majority of his predictions regarding our economy have come to fruition so far and I have no doubt that the remainder will be proven true in just a matter of months.

Ben Smith’s Blog: Off the plane - Politico.com.

So when someone disagrees with you, rather than accept it and either continue to win them to your side or just agree to disagree, you ban them from covering anything you do.

Yep, thats exactly what the Obama campaign did today when they decided to “make some tough choices.”

On the flip side, McCain and his cronies have barred liberal columnists from his plane as well.

Since when has barring anyone from reporting the flip side of the story been a smart thing to do??

I tremble for the coming changes to this country regardless of who is elected.

I’ve never made any excuses or explanations for my dislike of big government in general.  I make an effort to report the good and bad of both candidates.  I dont like either of them, but  I guess I lean more to the right than I had believed in the first place although I consider myself more a Libertarian/Constitutionalist than anything else.

I laugh when I see things like this though and the majority of the main stream media (MSM) outlets just blatantly ignore it completely. Im sure many of you have heard that Obama has said that if you make under $250K a year, his tax plan would save you money.  Then we hear $200K a few days later.  Now we see that, once again, the Obama-Biden ticket can’t get their lies straight and Biden tells a crowd in Pennsylvania that it will be $150K and below.

Are we ever going to be able to trust any of our elected officials?

Article here

A Wasted Vote
by Chuck Baldwin
October 10, 2008

When asked why they will not vote for a third party candidate, many people will respond by saying something like, “He cannot win.” Or, “I don’t want to waste my vote.” It is true: America has not elected a third party candidate since 1860. Does that automatically mean, however, that every vote cast for one of the two major party candidates is not a wasted vote? I don’t think so.

In the first place, a wasted vote is a vote for someone you know does not represent your own beliefs and principles. A wasted vote is a vote for someone you know will not lead the country in the way it should go. A wasted vote is a vote for the “lesser of two evils.” Or, in the case of John McCain and Barack Obama, what we have is a choice between the “evil of two lessers.”

Albert Einstein is credited with saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. For years now, Republicans and Democrats have been leading the country in the same basic direction: toward bigger and bigger government; more and more socialism, globalism, corporatism, and foreign interventionism; and the dismantling of constitutional liberties. Yet, voters continue to think that they are voting for “change” when they vote for a Republican or Democrat. This is truly insane!

Take a look at the recent $700 billion Wall Street bailout: both John McCain and Barack Obama endorsed and lobbied for it. Both McCain and Obama will continue to bail out these international banksters on the backs of the American taxpayers. Both McCain and Obama support giving illegal aliens amnesty and a path to citizenship. In the debate this past Tuesday night, both McCain and Obama expressed support for sending U.S. forces around the world for “peacekeeping” purposes. They also expressed support for sending combat forces against foreign countries even if those countries do not pose a threat to the United States. Neither Obama nor McCain will do anything to stem the tide of a burgeoning police state or a mushrooming New World Order. Both Obama and McCain support NAFTA and similar “free trade” deals. Neither candidate will do anything to rid America of the Federal Reserve, or work to eliminate the personal income tax, or disband the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Both Obama and McCain support the United Nations. So, pray tell, how is a vote for either McCain or Obama not a wasted vote?

But, back to the “he cannot win” argument: to vote for John McCain is to vote for a man who cannot win. Yes, I am saying it here and now: John McCain cannot win this election. The handwriting is on the wall. The Fat Lady is singing. It is all over. Finished. John McCain cannot win.

With only three weeks before the election, Barack Obama is pulling away. McCain has already pulled his campaign out of Michigan. In other key battleground states, McCain is slipping fast. He was ahead in Missouri; now it is a toss-up or leaning to Obama. A couple of weeks ago, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida were all leaning towards McCain, or at least toss-up states. Now, they are all leaning to Obama. Even the longtime GOP bellwether state of Indiana is moving toward Obama. In addition, new voter registrations are at an all-time high, and few of them are registering as Republicans. In fact, the Republican Party now claims only around 25% of the electorate, and Independents are increasingly leaning toward Obama.

Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama is headed for an electoral landslide victory over John McCain. John McCain can no more beat Barack Obama than Bob Dole could beat Bill Clinton.

I ask, therefore, Are not conservatives and Christians who vote for John McCain guilty of the same thing that they accuse people who vote for third party candidates of doing? Are they not voting for someone who cannot win? Indeed, they are. In fact, conservatives and Christians who vote for John McCain are not only voting for a man who cannot win, they are voting for a man who does not share their own beliefs and principles. If this is not insanity, nothing is!

So, why not (for once in your life, perhaps) cast a vote purely for principle! Vote for someone who is truly pro-life. Someone who would quickly secure our nation’s borders, and end the invasion of our country by illegal aliens. Someone who would, on his first day in office, release Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean and fire U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton. Someone who would immediately, upon assuming office, begin leading the charge to dismantle the Federal Reserve, overturn the 16th Amendment, expunge the IRS, and return America to sound money principles. Someone who would get the US out of the UN. Someone who would stop spending billions and trillions of dollars for foreign aid. Someone who would prosecute the Wall Street bankers who defrauded the American people out of billions of dollars. Someone who would work to repeal NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and stop the NAFTA superhighway. Someone who would say a resounding “No” to the New World Order. Someone who would stop using our brave men and women in uniform as global cops for the United Nations. Someone who would stop America’s global adventurism and interventionism. Someone who would steadfastly support and defend the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

“Who is this person?” you ask. Go here to find out:

BALDWIN ‘08

As John Quincy Adams said, “Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

Got this email today and thought it was pretty powerful:

International Picture of the Year

Here are two very touching photos honored this year:

First Place

Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News

When 2nd Lt. James Cathey’s body arrived at the Reno Airport , Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac.

During the arrival of another Marine’s casket last year at Denver International al Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as so powerful:  ‘See the people in the windows?  They sat right there in the plane, watching those Marines.  You gotta wonder what’s going through their minds, knowing that they’re on the plane that brought him home,’ he said.  ‘They will remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives.  They’re going to remember bringing that Marine home.  And they should.’

Second Place

Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News

The night before the burial of her husband’s body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time.  The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag.  Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of ‘Cat,’ and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept.  ‘I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it,’ she said.  ‘I think that’s what he would have wanted.’

CNNMoney.com Market Report - Oct. 6, 2008.

Looks like Congress’s grand plan isn’t working as well as they had thought. Dow is now under 10,000 points.. somewhere it hasnt been for 4 years. Great job! Morons…

So, yesterday, the Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was defeated in the house. Take heed though… this doesnt mean that they are giving up on it.  As evidenced here they are quickly looking to see how they can “fix” this bill to make it more appealing to not only the lawmakers but the public.  Guess what?  With a roughly 300 to 1 ratio of those against it to those for it I highly doubt ANYTHING that Bush, Pelosi, Paulson, Reid or the rest of the idiots in power can do will make this taste any better to the American people.

So now they get to play the blame game in Washington while the American public is still no better of than we were 24 hours ago.  Sure, we are off the hook, for now, for $700B but I guarantee you that our illustrious leaders will not rest until they have driven our economy into the ground.

Im saying this now, driving a stake in the ground, that you will see a backroom deal, probably done late at night along with a late night vote behind closed doors that will pass something to “rescue” us.  Is it really a rescue when you are thrown a lead sinker?

Lord help us all… we are going to need it.

Citigroup buys Wachovia | ajc.com.

And yet another one bites the dust…

Even though the article says that Wachovia didn’t fail.. does the FDIC and other banks “take over” you if you aren’t financially sound?  The answer is no.

We need to wake up and wake up soon people.  Do you think dropping another $700B money bomb out of thin air is going to make this go away? I highly doubt it.

You know, Paulson and Bernanke should be brought up on charges with all of the rigging they are doing to our financial system.  I would almost say it verges on treason.  We should, as citizens, demand a full accounting of the Treasury *AND* The Fed (a private, non-government entity mind you!) and make these so-called bankers tell us everything that is going on behind the scenes.