A Few Good Excerpts

Jack is back and backing Hillary, but the Obama people have responded.  Still missing - the McCain boosters closing with "Heeeere's Johnny!"

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[kim]

Does that mean she is toast or that Bill was saluting false flags?
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[anduril]

OT, but what could be more important for the future of America than the education of our children?

School Choice Isn't Enough

[kim]

Hey, I'm all for charter schools, public schools with accountability by contract for teachers, students, and parents.

Lately, though, I see Obama at one time supported them, too. Now I have to wonder what is wrong with them. But then, he's changed his mind about that, too. It couldn't be that there are more teachers in powerful unions than voiceless downtrodden blacks in the inner cities, could it?

Oh, that's the kind of hope for change he's talking about.
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[anduril]

More OT:

kim, the linked article goes far beyond supporting school choice and attempts to get at the problems with mere choice.

Spengler's latest column has further selections from MO's thesis which are very sad and troubling:

Sing, o muse, the wrath of Michelle

[Barack Obama '08]

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[boris]

Better dull than deciding whether to jump or burn.

[kim]

We all play, and a small, dedicated, volunteer military wars, you sad sucker, you.
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[Neo]

Is this "True" ?

[anduril]

Yes. Hey, give the guy a break--he's been very busy. Yes we can!

Have I ever mentioned that I'm not an economist? Here's a very scary article by Ambrose Evans Pritchard: The Federal Reserve's rescue has failed

I noticed this WSJ Heard on the Street article: Wall Street Gears for Its New Pain. This sentence jumped off the page at me:

How much worse the write-downs get likely depends on the economy. "If we go into a deep recession, as implied by the various indices looking at the fixed-income market, the write-downs could be bigger in coming quarters," says Richard Bove, an analyst at Punk Ziegel & Co.

[Barry Dauphin]

Now Hillary yuks it up with Ted Danson. Vote for Hillary, supported by all geezer celebrities!

[narciso]

Really, Richard, you think a sharp recession will lead to sharper write-offs,
Punk Ziegel; what is this April Fools Day. As for Evan Pritchard, I've kind of lost confidence in him since he was used to float
the Clinton 'Mena' drug stories back in the mid 90s. On a more serious note, what did
Greenspan think when they raised rates consecutively for 18 monthes, back in the mid 00s, and then gradually backtracked
over the last year and a half. I don't have
a Ph.d in economics, but I dunno, that seemed like a bad idea at the time. It's not
like this a new thing either, the same thing happened with oil prices and interest
rates back in the late 90s; right before the tech bubble popped. Greenspan ,who I'm sure was preoccupied with weightier matters
at the time, like considering that "Iraq was
about Oil, I'm sure. His negligence puts him
in the same boat as Walt Heller and Nixon's
inflating maniac Arthur Burns, if not the hapless fool that followed George Strong, the original Fed Chairman, of the 20s.

[anduril]

well, narciso, i have the same reservations re the sources of the story, but...i'm worried about the economy.

[kim]

It'll scare the Hell out of you to read that McKinney dude.
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[narciso]

Maybe I wasn't clear, Anduril, I'mconcerned about it too, living in South Florida, how can one not. But Evans Pritchard's over-wrought prose, plus choice comments from Mr. Bove, don't clarify the problem. I pointed the wider nature of the problem in my previous post; including financialSolon Greenspan's responsibility in same mess.