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Attacking Syria as prelude to attack on Iran

By oleeb on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 6:56am |
I have thought for many months now that Bush's sick mind would prepare for and then launch an attack against Iran after the election but before the next President is sworn in so as to make permanent war a fait...
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Congratulations Prof. Krugman!

By oleeb on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 11:46am |
Congratulations Prof. Krugman on winning the Nobel Prize! I know I speak for many who are pleased to see you receive this great honor.  Perhaps equally satisfying is the thought of how this will make the wingnuts of America howl...
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McCain's home mortgage relief plan

By oleeb on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 3:17pm |
It really stuck out to me in last night's debate that McCain was calling for mortgage relief by lowering the value of homes to current value vs maintaining the original mortgage amounts when people get in touble on their mortgages. ...
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Bush to Congress: Tie Obama's Hands NOW!

By oleeb on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 1:35pm |
The tyrant gave his "dire" warning to the Congress today that if they don't pass the finance industry's burglary of the treasury the sky will fall.  But one of the more important motives of the tyrant at 1600 Penn. Ave....
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Why not ationalize the banks?

By oleeb on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 11:47pm |
As Dean Baker points out in a post today, when you consider the situation, it makes more sense for we the patsies (I mean taxpayers), to natonalize the banks than it does to attempt to rescue them with tons and tons of...
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Obama continues to pull partisan punches and launch mild attacks on McCain

By oleeb on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 4:14am |
The pundits--even on MSNBC were giving this debate to McCain tonight.  I agree with them.Now most liberals/Democrats, etc... will scoff and say that Obama clearly bested McCain up and down the line throughout the debate.  All well and good I...
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The Biggest of the Big Lies Debunked

By oleeb on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 9:24pm |
Throughout my entire life I have had to endure the ceaseless bleating of the right regarding every inch of progress made in America since 1932 as though Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton were all representatives of the...
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Dire consequences eh? For who? That lie just doesn't pass the smell test

By oleeb on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 4:09pm |
Bush and all the factotems of officialdom and their lackies (in both parties)are barking and howling and yelping every minute of the day now it seems, to make sure we all buy their line that unless the common people agree...
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It Ain't no Bailout: it's a Robbery! And we are the victims!

By oleeb on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 9:15pm |
The more I consider it, the more convinced I am that the common people of the United States have absolutely nothing to gain from the alleged rescue of the financial industry.  There's all this chicken little rhetoric being bandied about regarding...
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Before we fork over a Trillion dollars I have a question: why is it important that we save these crooks from their own greed, fraud and failure?

By oleeb on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 3:32am |
Pardon me for asking, but just why is it, exactly, that it makes any sense for me or anyone I know or run into during my life to bail out the investment banks?  I really would like to know.Let's say...

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