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The swing to the right in 2010 and 2012 is going to be a forced issue by the majority of the US, regardless of the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT and ACORN vote.

People vote with thier feet, stomach, checkbook and personal needs in mind. Going back right of center with every appointment of the new Socialist Gov't.

Oh, and Gays still can not marry in CA.

Is THAT what Dino blows at Barney Frank's weekly orgy?

Moonbattery ain't pretty is it?

Why can't leftists just admit that they despise this country and wish to destroy it along with everyone it. Everything they do or say points directly to that assesment, but luckily for them, most people are idiot lemmings.

There is no global warming we have unscruplous politcians who want to drive this country into the ground just to keep their power over the masses and the evil greens from the various eco-freak groups are doing all they can STOP THE ECO-NAZIS UNER THE GREEN SWATIKA. SQUAWK SQUAWK HITLER WAS A ENVIROMENTALIST SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

I SAY RECESSION, YOU SAY DEPRESSION

You say potato and I say potahto,/ you say tomato and I say tomahto/ Let’s call the whole thing off…

That Gershwin song from another era tells the sad tale of a collapsing romance. Today, I say recession and you say depression, both of which deal with a distressed economy but the differences are far greater than differing word pronunciations and, regrettably, we can’t just call the whole thing off.

An old distinction between recession and depression went: When your neighbor is out of a job, that’s a recession, when you are out of work, that’s a depression. That gross oversimplification, however, fails to even approximately define the differences.

Historically, the nation has weathered a mere four depressions over our 2 1/4 centuries, as well as numerous major and minor panics, money crunches and recessions. The grandfather of all depressions, of course, was the Great Depression which effectively lasted from 1929 until 1940, the longest and most severe economic downturn we have ever endured–and ultimately survived.

Wall Street’s implosion, which on Thursday brought the DJIA to 7552, down another 445 points, is probably the public’s easiest barometer to judge how we’re doing and the answer to that query has to be that we’re doing miserably, a word that also well describes the general outlook.

As people watch the Dow plunge lower and lower, the millions of private investors as well as those tens of millions of people invested in 401k’s and 403b’s have to be thinking that we’re headed for a depression and not just toward that “R” word which politicians have been avoiding even uttering for many months now.

Most of us know the technical definition of recession, namely two consecutive quarters of negative growth in the GNP, but when Wall Street is spiraling down as it has been for weeks now, ever since the election of Barack Obama, it’s tough not to think the D-word as opposed to the relatively benign R-word.

Having lived through a few recessions, including the especially nasty 1987 downturn, I can’t say I’ve experienced a true economic depression even vaguely comparable to the Big One. However, I have known any number of Americans who did experience that Big One and, although most were reluctant to talk about the pain they suffered, I got the gist of what those years were like and they were indeed awful years for them and for our nation.

In October, 1929, investors lost 40% of their money. Between 1929 and 1933, 11,000, or almost half the banks in America failed, we lost half of our manufacturing output, over 30% were unemployed, people went hungry, people lived and starved in the streets, soup lines stretched for blocks in our cities, and hundreds of thousands were dispossesed: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761584403.

Unfortunately and coincidentally, those infamous dust storms swept the Mid West, destroying thousands of farms and many more thousands of lives of people who helped provide our food supplies....

(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)

These people should be executed as enemies of the State:

Verizon staff had unauthorized access to Obama's cell (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless said on Thursday that some employees had gained unauthorized access and viewed a personal cell phone account held by President-elect Barack Obama that is now inactive.

An Obama aide said his voice-mail messages and e-mails were not breached in the incident.

"We were notified yesterday that employees had accessed the records of an old cell phone no longer in use," the Obama aide said. "No voice or e-mails were listened to or read."

Maybe the Verizon story was just FISA in action. You know, surveillance of someone with known ties to terrorists.

The stock market just loves news like this.

We are so screwed.

Re: the Verizon story

What do you expect? Nobody really knows anything about the guy, still. Maybe these few people were just curious about him.

And Yoda, did you feel the same way when Palin's e-mail account was hacked? She's also a high-ranking member of government. Should the young h4x0r be tried and executed as an enemy of the state also?

When I look at this guy, all I can think is:

"*HOW* CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING WHEN YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT?!?"

Hey Waxman, LEAVE OUR MONEY ALONE! (following up on Pink's comment)

Elections have consequences, and the people have to live with their choices. Let's hope there's something left to salvage in 2010.

according to the eco-freaks becuase o this global warming poppycock bull kaka were going to be looking like it did in that stupid KENIN COSNER stinkeroo WATERWORLD where we get to see him swimming and looking like a complete dork SORRY BUT OBAMA IS NOT MY PRESIDENT AND IM STILL A VERY DEFIANT OL SHOREBIRD WITH A ATTATUDE SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

Message to Moonbats:

The act of being alive releases CO2. We ALL have a “carbon footprint” from conception to total decomposition. So even if you kill yourself to reduce CO2 emissions, you will STILL have a carbon footprint!!! HA HA!!!

Interesting Global Warming site. CO2 not all it's cracked up to be.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

Popular folklore talk of the goofus bird a bird that is said to fly backwards becuase he dont acre where he is going only where he has been and WACKY WAXMANS TURKEY IS STILL LOOKING NERVOULY AT THURSDAY WHICH IS THANKSGIVING and WACKY WAXMAN IS A TURKEY