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And then we’ll have the president read “The Pet Goat.”

• Posted: 2008-10-10T10:35:04Z

I see Bernanke came through it all keeping HIS clothes.

• Posted: 2008-10-10T12:49:38Z

“Once upon a time, there were thousands and thousands of greedy, evil, middle-class people, who tricked all the good, upstanding, innocent bankers into offering them home-loans they knew they couldn’t repay….”

• Posted: 2008-10-10T13:13:33Z

A little bedtime story from Thomas Jefferson… “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

• Posted: 2008-10-10T18:05:40Z

Our stupid embargo of North Korea led to at least a million dying of hunger and no jobs led many of the people to live in caves. Even now there was almost a riot to buy bark to eat in North Korea. LeMay firebombed sixty civilian cities in Japan and Hamburg and other German cities just to kill innocent civilians. He also bombed North Korea to rubble including dams and other infrastructure similar to what Bush did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

• Posted: 2008-10-10T20:21:23Z

Jimbo - where did you get this fiction?

• Posted: 2008-10-10T23:41:11Z

Do they give people in mental institutions computers?

• Posted: 2008-10-11T04:06:49Z

jimbo - provide a link, if you would. That seems a little over-the top. For the record, contrary to one school of revisionist historians, the bombing of Dresden was justified – it was a major transfer point, and stored weapons. The source of the “innocent civilians with no military at all” statement was none other than Dr. Goebbels. The main person who led the popularization of this myth is Nazi sympathizer David Irving.

• Posted: 2008-10-11T19:07:23Z

The results of naked greed?

• Posted: 2008-10-13T01:25:41Z