Everybody’s worried about all the financial… even though I’m still not quite sure how any of it affects me. Now, the presidential candidates are going to use this as a case for themselves, but President Bush really needs to make some grand gesture if he doesn’t want to go out of his presidency on a super low note.
Here’s my idea for Bush: Take over America in a military coup.
Yeah, I know, he’s already in charge, but that’s what will make this so much easier. He has unquestionable control of the military, so it won’t take much to get a bunch of tanks to come into D.C. so Bush can come out and announce, “Because of this crisis, I am taking over America and declaring myself leader. I will also punish all of those who are responsible!”
Then he can say all the problems are because of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. He’ll then put the two in a rocket and launch them into space as is the custom in American military coups. And now the weirdo goobers who think he stole the elections will have to finally recognize President Bush since his military coup will certainly be very legitimate. Or they will also be placed in rockets.
It all sounds like a good idea to me. There’s only so much the government can do, so it’s best just to keep people from panicking by taking charge with military force. The other idea for Bush is to flee in the middle of the night, but he can keep that as an option if the first idea doesn’t work.
He’s already done that, don’t you read the Daily Cuss, or the Democratic underwear???? Obama is being followed by polka dotted helicopters waiting to wisk him off to a secret concentration camp!! Ron Paul is already there!
The answer is clear. Invade Canada.
That’s over simplification, Son of Bob. We need to have the coup, then invade ALL of North America. Stealing Canada is thinking too small. Canada has all that oil, Mexico as well. And with Reid and Pelosi deep-chilled in the Vacuum of space, we’ll be able to actually steal all our own oil too!
Then the Saudis and the rest of the Middle East will become destitute(r) and will fall like dominoes. Then we can spank the shit out of those murderous Islamist bastards. Win/Win/Win/Epic Win
U.S. Drafts Sweeping Plan to Fight Crisis (WSJ)
Well, it looks like GW has beaten both Obama and McCain to the socialist punch.
The United States of America are being replaced with The Socialist States of America.
This country is off it’s friggin rocker.
The weird Fed wants to own everything. It confuses me.
I think in honor of “Talk Like A Pirate Day” GW should do some keelhauling prior to the rocket launch. Maybe a little plank walking as well.
“The answer is clear. Invade Canada.”
NEIN!! That will simply flood the US market with lousy beer. 🙂
As to Herr Bush, the problem is that he is PART of the problem. Deregulation on Wall St. along with his active participation in the Clinton-era “Give the Homies a Home” initiatives have brought about a lot of this mess. I am for markets with a great degree of freedom, but not enough to allow outright piracy on the part of the market participants.
OK. So we are supposedly not in a Communist state. But our real estate is… and our banks are…. and our money is….
So you and I are not in a Communist state but everything we own is?
I don’t know about you guys, but my 1040 just got up and started walking toward the wastebasket. Is there an emergency stop cord we could pull on this runaway federal train? Holy socks, this is unprecedented. I don’t even want to be a part of this.
I hate this stupid government stepping in to “fix the problem”.
But, anyway, who cares what note Bush ends his presidency on? High or low? In the end I think we’ll look back on him much the same way we do Reagan. I think he’ll have a great presidential legacy in spite of the liberal whining.
The fed bailed out the market? How come the Fed always gets to be the good guy?
“Look at me, I’m not raising interest rates!!!”
“Look at me, bailing out the market in an unprecedented move!!!”
“Look at me, claiming credit for the mexi-canon!!!”
I’m SICK OF the fed.
We need to have more politicians who think
Don’t just do something, stand there!
It isn’t just going to be the Fed. The U.S. Treasury is going to be involved. And you guessed it, it all depends on us:
“The ultimate taxpayer protection will be the stability this troubled asset relief program provides to our financial system, even as it will involve a significant investment of taxpayer dollars,” Mr. Paulson said.
Protection? Protection? That’s like the robber saying with his gun to your head, “Don’t worry, I won’t kill you right away, unless you resist.”
They’re talking about Congress passing legislation within a week. Are we THAT close to the brink? Pelosi and Reid were going to adjourn! Remember? What? Now they’re not?
And all we have is the tax-and-spend Democrats between us and forced tax-payer ownership of the final risk of Trillions of dollars of bad lending?? Hello?
Somebody please teleport me to a parallel quantum universe. This is so bad…
Well, the short answer is that our bank accounts, mortgages, and IRAs are safe for now, but our taxes won’t be. This bailout has cost more in seven days than the Iraq war did in seven years. Or the Great Society programs do every 8 years, or we spend on foreign energy every year.
I’m waiting for the comment: “Now the federal government owns your banks – because the Jews f**ked up.”
The Fed owns everything now but at least Obama won’t take away our guns! He’s a very nice man. I’m determined to have a fun party though anyway even if he loses.
Jimmy, I’ve been telling my friends we already are in a parallel quantum universe but they don’t agree.
Can we send Michelle O in the rocket, too? If so, I’m in!
Reality Intrudes, the economy is in a quantum state, being both free market and socialist/communist simultaneously. I’d show you the math, but WordPress is totally lacking in the mathematical expression symbols area.
“The answer is clear. Invade Canada.”
If we invade anyone it should be Saudi Arabia. We could take their oil and have energy independence. We would have no more need for any gay alternative green fuels. Also we could solve the “global warming problem” by producing more CO2, thus allowing plants to make more oxygen.
I like the military coup idea. I’d rather have Bush take complete control than to have either McCain or Obama become president. (Although I certainly could live with Palin.)
the market collapse is yet another secret bush distraction to take control of the usa and to keep us from fixing the oceans wwhich are turning to enormous acid pools. the great barrier reef may dissolve someday because republicans focus more on making bombs than making sure the fish are doing ok. already there is rises in jellyfish. there are some monster ones trying to get the japanese right now.
(D) None of the above.
I say the States should call for a new Constitutional Convention. This government needs to be overhauled.
Now Jimmy, just who would we have at the constitutional convention. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Michael Moore, Susan and Tim Sarandon? The MacBamas or maybe the Kennedy’s would be better picks.
Maybe what we ought to do is throw out the lightweight RINO’s and find some real Conservatives to run for office. Maybe Sarah will help us hunt them down. She’s good at hunting, ;you know.
Seriously the laws and ideal we already have are good, seriously divinely inspired, what we need are people who are willing to actually to follow the precepts already laid out. That should be the first thing we look at in our candidates. Who believes in the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the laws of our land? If someone’s previous work shows that they do, they go to the next level, if not oh sad, too bad.
Sarah Palin wants to kill the polar bears
she looks silly in her underwears
Sarah Palin likes private Yahoo mail
She will lose to Obama in an epic fail
Palin wingers think conception starts the life
but they don’t care about so many invitro deaths
cuzz of them bein hippocrates
if they were true to what they say
they would want fertility doctors in jail
but they are liars scums and losers
they are full of crap too
Boogy,
In vitro fertilization does destroy a lot of embryos but there are some conservatives who are not hypocrites and are against this and abortion. They are quiet about it though because it sounds bad to say you are against women trying to have babies and that you want fertility doctors thrown in jail, which they must be if they believe life begins at conception. What’s funny is most of the life begins at conception people are total cowards and they are afraid to speak out against in vitro. Can you imagine telling a woman who is trying to have a baby that she has to now go to jail just because she wanted the opportunity to get pregnant?
But really, what’s so great about the barrier reef?
Gotta go get me Mossberg 500. The giant jelly fishes are on my lawn. Worse than monkeys, I tell ya.
We’re Hippocrates??? I always fancied myself more of the Plato type – well, maybe more like Aesculapius. Oh, stupid me. You meant hippopotamus. Yes. Quite right. Anyone who likes Palin is indeed a hippopotamus. Well said, Booger.
This be for seanmahar
and anyone else as pure of heart.
(http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/024585.php)
“I hate this stupid government stepping in to “fix the problem”.”
Ja. My grandfather was a small cattle rancher in central MO and he used to say that the most frightening words any man could hear were, “Hi, I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.”
LOS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think they considered invading Canada but the only “asset” they saw coming from this sorry excuse of a country was an increase in man-on-man action and this did not seem to be something that would lead to any stability in the financial markets…
Well, you some of you might be Hippocrates, but I’m still Herpules.
Well, I’m John McCain and I’d just like to… say… that… our good friends… to the north… should not… I don’t think… Barack Obama… I mean… the Federal Government of the United States should NOT be bailing out any more investment banks! Yeah, that’s IT!! I’m sick and tired of this crap. We’re gonna go to Warshington and clean… how much?… TRILLIONS?… house and… When?… Is Pelosi?… Huh?… You’re kidding. Call Palin up and tell her we’re going north… to Juneau, Alaska. I’m moving our campaign headquarters… Oh, and sell my stock…
Constitutional Convention?
What’s wrong with the bill of rights? What would you do to change it?
I propose that every 10 years, along with the census, initiatives for constitutional amendments be circulated and followed to their natural conclusion. And that is how we should change the constitution. To give these hacks a blank check would be like playing Cleveland Roulette [no empty chambers].
How about NO.
Yeah, I’ve heard that sentiment dozens of times since the late 1960’s, Sigmund (which kind of dates me, doesn’t it?!). It has always astonished me because at its root is a fundamental disbelief that anyone could compose our Constitution in the first place, let alone do it again.
Yet, gaping holes in it have allowed the deterioration of our laws over the years as we clearly see in today’s crisis. I rather suspect that doing nothing – or trying and failing – will have about the same outcome. So, you are no doubt correct. In either case, borrowing a phrase from a recent movie better summarizes my position: “That you are a slave, Neo.” That sentiment is about to be more true than ever before.
(#30) As long as McPalin is moving HQ up there, maybe there’s something to this Alaska Independence Party.
In fact, I say all 50 (sorry BHO) States fire our Congresscritters, secede from the Union, and start fresh as independent Nations. Then each state can do what it wants, right or leftwing, and reap the rewards or sow the consequences therein.
It’s actually an idea straight from our Founders themselves, in the Declaration of Independence: Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
#26 That was powerful. And Gibson is an ass; may God have mercy on his soul.
Psalm 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord
I love this idea! While I am no Hippocrates I do have a thing for Virgil.
Dude, stick with what works: nuking the moon.
Atom–
Is this the same in vitro the Catholic Church is completely opposed to, or have you invented something new?
Why in the world does anyone care about some cells killed during in vitro fertilization? This is a wondrous technology and allowed my sister-in-law to have a child. It is not murder to kill some cells anymore than using an R486 pill is murder. It’s only extremists who would ever think that not your typical Republican. The Catholic Church is not opposed to in vitro which creates life. This is such nonsense. Anyone opposed to in vitro needs their head examined.
I agree wholeheartedly as a lifelong card carrying brie eating . Bush should take over and assume the throne of america. I don’t the reputation of all in the press who’s opinions i take as gospel to be rendered incorrect! I don’t want our years of blatant bush bashing to be in vain! If your a real dyed in the wool militant liberal like myself march on washington and demand Bush assume the throne!
I read that the court of appeals in California recently overturned a law that said parents who home-school their children would have to be certified by the state like public school teachers.
The court ruled that since private school instructors don’t require state certification and home-schools may be defined as private schools, no certification is necessary.
Victory for the home-schoolers!
The future of the country depends on who controls the education of our children.
‘Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will do: he will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.
Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.
He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.
Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use.
He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.”
But the people refused to listen to Samuel.
“No!” they said, “We want a king over us.
Then we will be like all the others nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”
Some lessons from history we can’t afford to forget!
Oh, sorry! 1Samuel 8:10-20
26 Jimmy, sorry we’ve had computer issues. Thanks for the video it made me sad, glad, and mad. I thank my God for Gov. Palin. I was beginning to believe that, as in the days of Noah, the Lord wouldn’t be able to find a virtuous woman (or man) in politics ( I know one can’t be found among the media elite).
4 of 7, That my friend is one of my favorite accounts in the OT. The only one better is the Priest of Baal and Elijah. My favorite verse
27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Ist Kings 18 (the whole chapter is wonderful-this is my God)
Actually (and no, I am not making this up – check it out for yourself), one of those phrases was bowlderized by the King James scholars and certain later squeamish ones. The actual translation of that bit is, “or maybe he’s on the crapper.”
Prophets: Ruling the trash talk world since 2300 BC.
#43 – Peregrine John,
Years ago I read a novel called “The Mantle”.
(can’t remember the author) It was based on the life of the prophets Elijah and Elisha.
It included that version of the taunting of the priests of Baal, but I thought that was just artistic license!
But it Does sound like something Elijah would say.