"This Sucker Could Go Down"

Was Pres. Bush terrified, bored, drugged, what? Is he standing up for "Core Conservative Principles?" ( Thats a joke, ha ha) Is this a "step down the path to socialism"? (quote from House Republican) ( not a joke) Rush Limbaugh wants the free market to prevail and is willing to let the "sucker go down". I'm certainly willing.
Mr. Fishman ( I like the name, he is Washington Mutuals chief EXECUTIVE) "who has been on the job less than three weeks is eligible for $11.6 million in cash severance and will get to keep his $7.5 million signing bonus", is also willing because he can now ride it out in the Caymans.

the "total value of the worlds stocks and bonds is 100 trillion dollars. The derivitives market is somewhere around 500 trillion." Except their value is ephemeral, a mirage, and depends on emotions such as optimism and pessimism. Be very afraid. Our economy is still growing. What to believe?

"The forger of history does not work in a vacuum: the scope he can give himself and the insolence he can afford depend on how large and heavy is the oblivion which time, indifference and previous falsification have already cast on men and events." Issac Duetcher

A great intellectual/activist who struggled to resist that "oblivion" was Eqbal Ahmad who passed in 1999. I just finished Confronting Empire which is the transcription of a series of interviews he gave and am amazed at his grasp of the history of all the worlds great civilizations. He also studied the politics of memory and we sorely miss his insight today as the NY Times reports that "Pakistani troops fire at US helicopters." It is a burlesque , blundering , beligerence dragging us through the empires periphery and the show is coming to a bloody, tragic end.

Vice Presidential wanna be Palin told Katie Couric that to her it was "clear who are the good guys and who are the bad guys." I'm guessing she had not read Eqbal Ahmed. She also said we would not "second guess" Israels actions! " Hard-core right-wing settlers have responded to limited army operations in recent weeks by blocking roads, rioting spontaneously, throwing stones at Palestinians vehicles and burning Palestinian orchards and fields all over the West Bank." NY Times Like Bolivian Right Wing, they worship at the temple of violence and racial superiority. Palin has read the Bible and westerns.