Different Day, same Sh*T

That's what the markets are saying.

The firefighters arrived at a fire with busted fire hoses and the fire is out of control...

People are moving to cash.

Because you can't restore CONFIDENCE by throwing money from the helios.

The real money; Trust has disappeared.

Who'll believe a wounded, bleeding duck?

This is an administration that lied us into a war then allowed their buddies to create and export fraudulent bonds. The rest of the world is angry. Leaders are blaming the U.S. for their woes.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Ford and GM seem headed for bankruptcy. Chrysler is likely to take down private equity group Cerberus with it. The whole private equity model is suddenly threatened: Blackstone Group which is the publicly-traded weather vane is down 31.4% today. I wonder who is next. I always wondered what financial Armageddon would look like. Now I realize it's just another day...

it's not just the voting machines that worry me, this is definitely not good news, especially after 3 weeks of work signing new voters up:

States' Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal

Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.

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The screening or trimming of voter registration lists in the six states -- Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina -- could also result in problems at the polls on Election Day: people who have been removed from the rolls are likely to show up only to be challenged by political party officials or election worker...

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States have been trying to follow the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and remove the names of voters who should no longer be listed; but for every voter added to the rolls in the past two months in some states, election officials have removed two, a review of the records shows.

NYT

and BushCo's™ BFF's the saudi's and other opec members are having an emergency meeting to see if they can't push oil back to $100 +, OPEC to hold emergency meeting on oil prices:

OPEC said Thursday it will hold an extraordinary meeting Nov. 18 to discuss how the widening global financial crisis is affecting oil prices, a move that could lead to a coordinated production cut in a bid to halt crude's steep losses...

we do live in interesting times.

the revolution will not be televised...Peace

All this and Bush remains incognito. Not that his presence wouldn't immediately drive DOW to 1,000, but his lack of the slightest tick of Presidentiality is historical. Must be drinking heavily and Cheney, totally undisclosed location. Mind boggling.

I am not at all surprised by what is happening.  This pattern is the same one enacted by W. through his whole life.  He moves in, totally destroys whatever he's "managing", then walks off never taking responsibility for the destruction in his wake.  He sanctified greed and we will pay the price.  And I guess he's moved up.  He used to just destroy businesses.  Now he's managed to destroy a whole country.

And this time daddy's buddies can't fix it.

glad they're trying the swedish model.
might actually work.
of course, i have an irrational hatred to wall street.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??