lol looks like oreillys portfolios not doing too good
where have i heard that before?
― gabbneb, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
when is someone gonna go on O'Reilly and just start aping him when he does his little bullshit dance?
― gabbneb, Friday, 3 October 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
― joe six pak (ice crӕm), Friday, 3 October 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
someone who isn't a comedian, thx
― gabbneb, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
can someone loan California $7 billion? k thx bye
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Arnie's got some Terminator money still.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 October 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.shof.net/drupal/files/pictures/execs/larryellison-hd.jpg
― Any cook should be able to run the country. (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 3 October 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Bailout passes House 263 to 171.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Breaking News 1:27 PM ET: House Approves Bailout on Second Try
― joe six pak (ice crӕm), Friday, 3 October 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
dudes dems and reps are going to come back from roshashana w/ten more votes each and pass a nearly identical bill
― \\\\\\\\YES//////// (ice crӕm), Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:17 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― joe six pak (ice crӕm), Friday, 3 October 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd love to know what the add-ons are.
― David R., Friday, 3 October 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck that noise. The basic 'bailout' portion of the bill is unchanged. All that happened is it got loaded down with bribery. But bribes don't make it a better bill, just like putting $500 sunglasses on Dick Cheney doesn't make him a movie star.
Congress is going to get a jolt come November.
― Aimless, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Cocaine and strippers, from the look of things. Repubs hold US AND A over barrel for pork, details at 11:00.
― rogermexico., Friday, 3 October 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe someone posted this already but you can see the whole bill herehttp://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Articles.Detail&Article_id=76b1aea4-39b8-404f-b3cd-f8b6c46e3b14&Month=10&Year=2008
― carne asada, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
its worth mentioning that the add ons arent what got the billed passed - the gop wanted to pass this thing the whole time - they were just trying to trick the dems into doing it themselves so as to run against it
― joe six pak (ice crӕm), Friday, 3 October 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
otm
― stet, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
they had ads already bought on the day on the first vote attacking the dems for passing it, ffs
― stet, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, source? i missed that story.
― sleep, Friday, 3 October 2008 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
it was upthread here, I thought. fucked if I can see it now. will dig later.
― stet, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah ice cream otm. honestly there is plenty about this bailout package that sucks but its best case scenario to get it passed at this point. I was not looking forward to seeing state and local governments completely collapse, small banks and businesses go under, etc.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
dems shouldve just passed their own socialist equity stake demanding package and fuck the gop
― joe six pak (ice crӕm), Friday, 3 October 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah that woulda been nice. woulda been vetoed too.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe I'm naive, but it doesn't seem as if this is simply Democrats vs. Republicans. The magnitude and singularity of the bill, in my opinion, temporarily redrew the political landscape. However briefly, it jolted folks awake, which added a certain uncertainty to the process.
― QuantumNoise, Friday, 3 October 2008 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
no theres no way bush vetos any bailout - real question is if you couldve gotten enough dems on board
xp
― joe six pak (ice crӕm), Friday, 3 October 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I really liked this video that Andrew Sullivan posted about the companies that empty out the abandoned foreclosed homes in southern California:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/memories.html
― polyphonic, Friday, 3 October 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, watched that this morning, but the real impact of that clip is the combination of breezy local-news 'in depth' reporting and what the hell they're actually talking about.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 October 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't buy for a second that they throw everything away once the cameras are off
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 October 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Totally. They should do a Cribs-like feature on those workers' homes!
― QuantumNoise, Friday, 3 October 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
o nevermind, it just said crewmembers are encouraged to keep anything they like
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 October 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
ebay 2nd career
― joe six pak (ice crӕm), Friday, 3 October 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
nothing tells the california part of this story like the fact that arnold had to budget for cleanup efforts to prevent the stagnant water in hundreds of abandoned homes' swimming pools from becoming massive breeding vats for disease-carrying mosquitoes
― El Tomboto, Friday, 3 October 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
when your economic stupidity boils over into a public health issue it's probably safe to say there's more than a few appointees who are comatose at the wheel
― El Tomboto, Friday, 3 October 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
its worth mentioning that the add ons arent what got the billed passed - the gop wanted to pass this thing the whole time - they were just trying to trick the dems into doing it themselves so as to run against it― joe six pak (ice crӕm)
uhh another request for the source
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 3 October 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
anybody check out the marketbeat summary/transcript of the con call with roubini and ritholtz? barry's calling the s&p at three figures, with a 15-1 PE ratio. and both of them basically saying as long as people keep buying on the day-after of these dow dips, you know we've got further to fall. hilarious.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 3 October 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
and wheres the source for this please:they had ads already bought on the day on the first vote attacking the dems for passing it
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 3 October 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/RNC_ad_was_cut_sent_out_before_package_failed.html
hyperlink attempt failed but there
― low ranking monkeys don't look at high ranking monkeys (Hunt3r), Friday, 3 October 2008 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
all yr source are belong to captianlorax
― joe six pak (ice crӕm), Friday, 3 October 2008 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
oh look how happy the markets are with the bailout vote! yayyy!
― El Tomboto, Friday, 3 October 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
too many posts, hope this wasn't posted previously -- a rep from Ohio plays Wall Street Bailout
― al kaline trio (dan m), Friday, 3 October 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
― joe six pak (ice crӕm), Friday, October 3, 2008 3:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
I'll bet the housing boom also created a severe glut of shit like flat screen TVs and leather sofas, which were often purchased on home equity loans.
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 October 2008 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
― Pecan Lake, Saturday, 4 October 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha!!
I love the headlines today that put this all on Bush.There is officially nobody left who thinks this was a good idea.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 October 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope Paulson and Bernanke get hit by trucks and splattered all over the road.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 October 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I want to believe that Bernanke will turn out alright if we can isolate him from the bad kids somehow. He's no dummy. But, yannow, good luck.
― Herb Hitts, Bad Vibe magazine (kenan), Saturday, 4 October 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
he's no dummy? what the fuck is he, then?
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 October 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
a victim of the fucking peter principle?
He's an economist, and at heart, it seems. He's a statistician. Gotta serve somebody.
― Herb Hitts, Bad Vibe magazine (kenan), Saturday, 4 October 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
he's a fucking incompetent. you are on the wrong thread.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 October 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Little starbursts of light.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 4 October 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
xxpost Though that doesn't near explain why the "stock injection" model wasn't even on the table for discussion.
― Herb Hitts, Bad Vibe magazine (kenan), Saturday, 4 October 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link