No Means No for the GOP

Absolutely amazing and wonderful creatures

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at the movie theater watching

at the movie theater watching a satellite broadcast of the Metropolitam Opera ... Madame Butterfly ... beautiful!

Media smackdown courtesy of a comedian

Wednesday night's Daily Show was one of the all-time best. You have to check out the total destruction of the a**holes at CNBC:

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The Goldfish Party

Hunter at DailyKos.com nails it

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We're gonna need a bigger boat ...

An old friend wrote on Facebook last night that he thought the economy had hit bottom and things were going to start heading back up, up, up. I just can't be that optimistic. Primarily, because of all the Zombie Banks out there, looking alive, but very much dead (and insolvent) inside.

Here's Thomas Friedman at the NY Times:

I’m worried. We’ve just elected a talented young president with many good instincts about how to propel our country forward, extend health care to more people, make our tax code fairer and launch a green industrial revolution. But do you know what I fear? I fear that his whole first term could be eaten by Citigroup, A.I.G., Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and the whole housing/subprime credit bubble we inflated these past 20 years.

I hope my fears are exaggerated. But ask yourself this: Why couldn’t former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson solve this problem? And why does it seem as though his successor, Tim Geithner, won’t even look us in the eye and spell out his strategy? Is it because they don’t get it? No. It is because they know — like Roy Scheider in the movie “Jaws,” when he first saw the great white shark — that “we’re gonna need a bigger boat,” and they’re too afraid to tell us just how big.

But, while I'm down on the short term economic future of the country, I am still glad to have the right man and administration in charge of this crisis and everything else.
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What a hoot!

This is great performance art in the name of advertising ...




But I think they got the idea from these guys:



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What a wonderful world ...

Beautiful pictures here... I especially like the Comet McNaught shot (no. 4) ...

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Punch 'em in the nose

It really is nice to see Democrats fighting back in little and big ways. Here is Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) ripping on a colleague for his disrespect to the DEMOCRATIC Party.


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