• Ford looses $8.67 billion bucks in second quarter, retools plants - carl - 7/24/2008 1:13:25 PM
  • .... And swiftly blames organized labor.... - Yeti - 7/24/2008 2:49:07 PM

• After blaming Obama for price hikes, "McCain credits Bush for drop in oil price" - Bowser - 7/23/2008 5:59:10 PM
  • It's the silly season - Robert - 7/24/2008 12:12:06 PM
  • I don't understand ... - James Brown - 7/23/2008 10:28:19 PM
  • Link. - Bowser - 7/23/2008 6:21:20 PM
  • I'll bet Karl Rove is behind the tactics - Lindy - 7/23/2008 6:16:37 PM

• Wachovia loss $8.9 Billion, cuts jobs, Mortgage Unit - carl - 7/22/2008 1:35:58 PM
  • The business headlines are grim, and the stock market is up. - Bowser - 7/22/2008 9:21:22 PM
    • "Caterpillar's profit is up 21%" - Lindy - 7/23/2008 6:21:10 PM
    • "Fannie, Freddie bailout could cost $25 billion " - Lindy - 7/23/2008 6:18:48 PM
    • re: The business headlines are grim, and the stock market is up. - Hans - 7/23/2008 1:01:10 PM
      • I still think there is more downside to the market before we're at bottom - Yeti - 7/23/2008 3:08:05 PM
        • and the market drops 300 points today - Yeti - 7/24/2008 2:44:21 PM
  • "Next bank run" - McFly - 7/22/2008 8:27:07 PM
  • and Wamu comes in with a more than $3,000,000,000 loss - Yeti - 7/22/2008 4:33:42 PM
    • That's what they get for selling my mortgage to Wells Fargo. - ER - 7/22/2008 6:32:46 PM
      • Ponzi Scheme? - Lindy - 7/23/2008 6:13:23 PM
      • STOP Paying, SUCKERS!!!!!!! - carl - 7/23/2008 7:46:30 AM

The following threads have had no activity for the last 24 hours:

• "McCain***s attacks get more reckless, less responsible." - Bowser - 7/21/2008 7:52:55 PM
  • McCain ad: "Who can you thank for high prices at the pump?" Obama!!! - Eric - 7/22/2008 6:11:52 AM

• Karadzic captured-Another one bites the dust, - Andrew - 7/21/2008 3:32:18 PM

• FCC BUSTED on Fine for "WARDROBE MALFUNCTION" - carl - 7/21/2008 9:46:56 AM

• Focus on the Family's James "Dobson shifts positions, may endorse McCain." - Bowser - 7/20/2008 9:43:28 PM
  • re: Focus on the Family's James "Dobson shifts positions, may endorse McCain." - James Brown - 7/20/2008 10:46:46 PM
    • More likely abortion - Eri - 7/21/2008 7:05:14 AM
      • re: More likely abortion - James Brown - 7/21/2008 7:28:35 AM
        • McCain is as anti-abortion as the rest of 'em - Tony - 7/21/2008 12:17:44 PM
          • Tony, you know darn well that McCain is not anti-abortion - FrankC - 7/22/2008 10:36:46 AM
            • McCain on abortion- How do you read it Frank? - ARRELL - 7/22/2008 11:06:33 AM
              • See below.... - FrankC - 7/22/2008 11:38:35 AM
            • I do? - Tony - 7/22/2008 10:54:34 AM
              • President McCain not candidate McCain - FrankC - 7/22/2008 11:27:47 AM
                • It's not just what he's saying, it's 3 decades of voting too (n/t) - Tony - 7/22/2008 12:11:14 PM

• This has me nervous: Polyanna Paulson - Yeti - 7/20/2008 5:31:00 PM
  • There's an old joke which fits. - Bowser - 7/20/2008 10:05:03 PM

• Dipolomacy, Borack style... - Marcia - 7/19/2008 6:44:16 PM
  • "be fri9endly with whoever. whatever, whoever whould want to take over our country." - Lindy - 7/20/2008 7:48:32 AM
    • They never left the Stone Age! - Eri - 7/20/2008 8:31:03 AM
      • re: They never left the Stone Age! - Marcia - 7/21/2008 1:28:49 PM
      • re: They never left the Stone Age! - Lindy - 7/20/2008 8:55:41 AM
  • I assume you are talking about Bush sending a diplomat to meet with Iran after blasting Obama for even suggesting it...? - ARRELL - 7/19/2008 9:39:06 PM
  • re: Dipolomacy, Borack style... -spell check:: Barack. - Marcia - 7/19/2008 6:53:40 PM

• "Iraq PM wants troops out 'as soon as possible'." Obama's 16 months about right. - Bowser - 7/19/2008 5:53:42 PM
  • "They" got to him. - Bowser - 7/19/2008 7:08:27 PM
    • What happened with the Iraqi PM - z - 7/20/2008 12:20:23 PM
    • re: "They" got to him. - ER - 7/19/2008 7:24:33 PM
      • re: "They" got to him. - Buck Galaxy - 7/20/2008 9:05:35 AM
  • Something's going on. - ER - 7/19/2008 6:41:13 PM
    • I think there are 2 things going on. - alcaray - 7/19/2008 11:36:23 PM
      • Maliki's behavior - ER - 7/20/2008 4:24:28 AM
        • Irans 'price' - Yeti - 7/20/2008 8:58:54 PM
        • Round 2. - Yeti - 7/20/2008 5:20:29 PM
          • Doesn't make sense. - Lee - 7/20/2008 7:12:36 PM
            • PS - Yeti - 7/20/2008 8:48:58 PM
            • Not surprised - Yeti - 7/20/2008 8:46:44 PM
        • Or maybe you can take Bush for his word on this. - Lee - 7/20/2008 7:55:24 AM
          • Will you take Obama's word on it, in a few months? (n/t) - alcaray - 7/20/2008 1:23:41 PM
            • Obama would cut and run, leaving Iraq at a vunerable time. - Lee - 7/20/2008 6:53:14 PM
              • wow (n/t) - alcaray - 7/21/2008 9:37:36 AM
    • But you can be sure "there's a man with a gun over there". (n/t) - Bowser - 7/19/2008 6:45:09 PM
      • "Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep..." (n/t) - ER - 7/19/2008 7:26:04 PM
        • Starts when you're always afraid, man come and take you away. - RNE - 7/21/2008 2:56:09 PM
          • re: Starts when you're always afraid, man come and take you away. - James Brown - 7/21/2008 10:42:03 PM
          • In some ways, it's already here. - ER - 7/21/2008 6:13:05 PM
        • And "all the world's a plot, and we but victims in it", or somesuch. (n/t) - Bowser - 7/19/2008 7:54:58 PM

• "Sunni Arab bloc rejoins Iraqi Cabinet ." - Bowser - 7/19/2008 8:35:44 AM
  • So everybody's going to take a BAATH. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob - 7/19/2008 5:06:20 PM

• Diplomacy, Condi style or "What you say when you want a war." - Bowser - 7/18/2008 5:50:46 PM
  • Who's we? You got a frog in your pocket? - Eri - 7/18/2008 9:23:14 PM
    • In the summer it's a toad. - Bowser - 7/18/2008 10:07:15 PM
      • And you don't get warts! (n/t) - Eri - 7/19/2008 5:10:47 PM

• Time for some campaignin' - Buck Galaxy - 7/18/2008 3:31:19 PM
  • re: Time for some campaignin' - Lindy - 7/19/2008 2:58:15 PM
  • The Today Show aired the whole thing this week. - Mary Anne - 7/18/2008 6:14:21 PM
  • That is very clever. Thanks. (n/t) - Bowser - 7/18/2008 5:45:08 PM

• Update: The George W. Bush Memorial Sewage Plant - Robert - 7/18/2008 1:38:47 PM
  • re: Update: The George W. Bush Memorial Sewage Plant - Lindy - 7/19/2008 2:59:06 PM
  • I'll have to work on some song lyrics - Eri - 7/18/2008 4:40:22 PM
    • He is flush with pride.... (n/t) - ARRELL - 7/18/2008 5:21:33 PM
      • I'd rather flush his pride.... (n/t) - Eri - 7/18/2008 9:25:07 PM
        • I'd be proud to flush him. (n/t) - ER - 7/19/2008 11:12:50 AM
  • I'm surprised the liberals of SF use a sewage plant. - Lee - 7/18/2008 4:06:42 PM
    • No, no. Liberals *like* government-sponsored public-health initiatives. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 7/18/2008 9:49:51 PM
    • You should come down outta the hills more often (n/t) - Robert - 7/18/2008 9:12:51 PM
      • If it weren't for liberals raw sewage would still be dumped into rivers. - Bowser - 7/19/2008 10:50:18 AM
  • Recycling's too good for him! (n/t) - alcaray - 7/18/2008 2:44:46 PM
  • Well, they'd have to reverse the process for this to be accurate. - Bowser - 7/18/2008 1:48:25 PM

• The army brings home the bacon: PETA, Pissed, Protests Porcine Practice Patients - ARRELL - 7/18/2008 10:58:54 AM
  • re: The army brings home the bacon: PETA, Pissed, Protests Porcine Practice Patients - Jack Herer - 7/18/2008 1:21:15 PM
    • Guinea Pigs? - nick hoffman - 7/18/2008 10:30:25 PM
  • link - arrell - 7/18/2008 10:59:58 AM

• Jimmy on Energy - Eric - 7/18/2008 3:19:14 AM
  • Do you people not see the insanity of that argument? - Lee - 7/18/2008 4:18:47 PM
    • apply your own insane argument to your own insane argument (n/t) - alcaray - 7/18/2008 4:49:47 PM
      • I'm not going to court to stop alternative fuels from coming to market. - Lee - 7/18/2008 5:30:16 PM
  • re: President Carter on Energy - E.P. - 7/18/2008 12:01:22 PM
  • re: Jimmy on Energy - ER - 7/18/2008 5:05:47 AM

• Belgians buy American beer... government collapses - ARRELL - 7/17/2008 10:47:22 PM
  • What made Milwaukee famous, has made a Belgian out of me... (n/t) - nick hoffman - 7/18/2008 10:31:57 PM
  • Here, put on these beer goggles. - Lee - 7/18/2008 4:22:31 PM
  • No connection; I'm no beer drinker and powerless in front of english puns:-/ (n/t) - Raoul - 7/18/2008 11:38:15 AM
  • I detect some bitterness - Jody - 7/18/2008 6:02:26 AM
  • Don't start a brewhaha! (n/t) - Jody - 7/18/2008 5:57:19 AM
    • I think this situation's coming to a head (n/t) - Bubbles - 7/18/2008 9:25:28 AM
    • You're foaming at the mouth again! (n/t) - ER - 7/18/2008 6:07:37 AM
      • It's barley noticeable. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 7/18/2008 9:53:13 PM
        • When did you get drafted, MA? (n/t) - ER - 7/19/2008 7:42:15 AM
          • I was merely tapped to mug for the camera. - Mary Anne - 7/19/2008 2:01:30 PM
      • Chimay be foaming, bud. (n/t) - Tony - 7/18/2008 6:41:52 AM
        • Ale no! (n/t) - Jody - 7/18/2008 7:01:46 AM
          • This conversation has come to a lager-head. (n/t) - Yeti - 7/20/2008 9:35:52 AM

• "Report: U.S. to establish presence in Tehran." (Don't tell McCain.) - Bowser - 7/17/2008 9:46:26 PM
  • Darn appeasers! - alcaray - 7/18/2008 1:00:24 PM
  • This isn't the first time we've played footsie under the table with Iran. - ER - 7/18/2008 5:16:24 AM
    • As did Reagan. The rhetoric v. reality is fascinating. (n/t) - Bowser - 7/18/2008 7:41:43 AM
      • Even ideological enemies will cooperate when its to their mutual benefit. - ER - 7/18/2008 8:05:04 AM
        • Just as an aside... - ER - 7/18/2008 8:18:11 AM
          • good questions - Robert - 7/18/2008 1:29:02 PM

• George Bush & Big Oil Saving 1000 lives a month since 2006! - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/17/2008 8:47:16 PM
  • "Big Oil" saves more lives than anyone can calculate. - Lee - 7/18/2008 4:54:40 AM
    • That's a complicated question. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/18/2008 11:14:34 AM
  • I thought you gave up nitrous oxide? (n/t) - Robert - 7/17/2008 9:09:48 PM

• Dollar parity - nick hoffman - 7/17/2008 3:28:49 AM

• "U.S. air strike in Pakistan linked to database gap." - Bowser - 7/16/2008 9:16:38 PM
  • Oops. "Pakistan disputes U.S. air strike due to database gap." - Bowser - 7/17/2008 8:47:19 AM

• Steady progress in Iraq. - Lee - 7/16/2008 6:44:57 PM
  • May not be the perception of Iraqis. - Bowser - 7/17/2008 4:02:33 PM

• "Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak." - Bowser - 7/16/2008 3:42:58 PM
  • Cojones the size of ... - Robert - 7/17/2008 9:06:12 PM
  • I'm shocked - James Brown - 7/17/2008 6:36:19 PM

• "Bernanke: Markets under stress, outlook uncertain." Why are these guys so behind the reality? - Bowser - 7/15/2008 5:30:03 PM
  • They listen to Rush - E.P. - 7/16/2008 10:57:04 AM

• As GM goes, so GOES the NATION...I hope Not!!!!! - carl - 7/15/2008 12:44:36 PM
  • "Engine" Charlie Wilson - "What's good for GM is good for the US." - Bowser - 7/15/2008 6:44:11 PM
  • They'll come back - Buck Galaxy - 7/15/2008 3:50:45 PM

• So what do you do if your bank tanks? - ER - 7/15/2008 10:31:02 AM
  • 50 cent on the Buck after $100K and - carl - 7/15/2008 12:47:27 PM
    • diversify - dtb - 7/16/2008 7:17:16 AM
    • $100K+? - ER - 7/15/2008 1:16:22 PM
      • Fidicia - McFly - 7/15/2008 6:30:24 PM
        • Yea, but the depositor/investor has to ask the question. - alcaray - 7/15/2008 7:23:48 PM
          • Quite right on the first count - McFly - 7/16/2008 10:23:02 AM
            • re: Quite right on the first count - alcaray - 7/16/2008 11:31:30 AM
              • Nine years, huh? - McFly - 7/16/2008 1:09:21 PM
                • re: Nine years, huh? - alcaray - 7/16/2008 1:10:13 PM
            • and forgive the typos too - McFly - 7/16/2008 10:29:09 AM

• "I don't think the government ought to be involved in bailing out companies," Bush said. (While requesting a Freddie and Fannie bailout.) - Bowser - 7/15/2008 8:56:19 AM

• Torture Revisited- What 5 years can do to us - ARRELL - 7/14/2008 8:08:20 PM
  • re: Torture Revisited- What 5 years can do to us - Eric - 7/15/2008 2:39:34 AM

• Freddie and Fannie Fall on their FANNYS - carl - 7/14/2008 9:34:20 AM
  • "crony capitalism" - TB - 7/14/2008 10:10:05 AM
    • Left's Crony Capitalism - James Brown - 7/17/2008 6:51:54 PM
    • Some good links? - Lindy - 7/14/2008 5:01:01 PM
    • Cook the Books - carl - 7/14/2008 11:54:13 AM

• Good News from Iraq. - Bowser - 7/14/2008 8:55:48 AM
  • The really good news from Iraq - Bush and McCain are more and more isolated in their push for "endless war" in Iraq - z - 7/15/2008 5:32:27 PM
  • I think the end of 2012 is a good target date for us to be out. - Lee - 7/14/2008 5:36:06 PM
  • The information you're looking for is out there. - TB - 7/14/2008 10:06:03 AM

• "Nation of Whiners" update - TB - 7/13/2008 9:45:14 PM
  • Of course the economy is based on people's perceptions. - Mary Anne - 7/15/2008 6:51:12 PM
  • Certainly describes Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter. - Bowser - 7/14/2008 8:34:38 AM
    • Noticed RELIGION More and MORE ranted - carl - 7/14/2008 1:01:03 PM
  • The whining around here is mostly from the right. - ER - 7/14/2008 5:39:42 AM
    • Anybody got something relevant to the new information presented? (n/t) - TB - 7/14/2008 8:48:19 AM
      • Whine and roses. - ER - 7/14/2008 10:10:31 AM
        • Excellent point - ARRELL - 7/14/2008 10:12:51 AM
          • More blither. (n/t) - TB - 7/14/2008 10:23:00 AM
            • More bluster - ARRELL - 7/14/2008 12:42:06 PM
      • Not you, apparently... - ARRELL - 7/14/2008 10:09:31 AM
        • "Who would YOU take more seriously?" - ER - 7/14/2008 10:32:51 AM
          • Qualifications - TB - 7/14/2008 11:05:29 AM
            • Yep. - ER - 7/14/2008 11:11:32 AM
          • More seriously than WHO? - TB - 7/14/2008 10:48:44 AM
            • "Over to you, fellas." - ER - 7/14/2008 11:06:49 AM
              • You call this crap "feedback?" - TB - 7/14/2008 11:16:53 AM
                • Seriously, why do you bother? - Your No.1 Fan - 7/14/2008 8:15:18 PM
                  • I've tried to convince him for years now. - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/14/2008 10:00:52 PM
                • The Revenge of the Whiners - ER - 7/14/2008 11:24:44 AM
        • You too, huh? - TB - 7/14/2008 10:21:24 AM
          • "I don't know what you're using to sweep back posts here" - 8^) - 7/14/2008 1:44:41 PM
          • "Well King, this case is closed." (n/t) - sargEant pReston of the Yukon - 7/14/2008 10:39:34 AM

• Obama on foreign policy - McFly - 7/13/2008 8:14:18 PM

• How to tell there's an election in the offing. - Bowser - 7/13/2008 6:48:24 PM

• I believe we can give up the idea America stands for "free enterprise", "capitalism". Except for the little guy. - Bowser - 7/13/2008 6:40:59 PM

• Quick roundup on microbial biofuels - TB - 7/13/2008 12:39:05 PM

• Cynthia McKinney running for President for the Green Party - TB - 7/13/2008 8:28:29 AM
  • The fact that people like her are even in government is a sign of how bad off our society is. - Lee - 7/13/2008 10:09:47 AM
    • "Let a hundred flowers bloom." (n/t) - Chairman Mao - 7/13/2008 2:00:33 PM

• Where all the energy is - TB - 7/12/2008 3:28:51 PM
  • That is fascinating. (n/t) - Bowser - 7/13/2008 9:17:02 PM
    • We need to start building nuclear power plants. And being REAL nice to the Aussies! (n/t) - TB - 7/13/2008 10:19:51 PM
  • A belated thank you - McFly - 7/13/2008 6:36:18 PM

• If the Bush Administration takes over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. - Bowser - 7/11/2008 8:54:17 PM
  • Hate to break this to you, but the government has been in the mortgage business since FDR. (n/t) - TB - 7/11/2008 9:33:17 PM
    • And got out in 1968 - Robert - 7/12/2008 10:47:13 AM
      • re: And got out in 1968 - TB - 7/12/2008 11:36:50 AM

• A run on banks by depositors left the California mortgage lender short on cash - Eric - 7/11/2008 6:41:54 PM
  • FDIC insures depositers up to $100,000 - Lindy - 7/12/2008 8:22:03 AM
    • Above 100k, 50 cents on Dollar - carl - 7/14/2008 1:01:55 PM
      • For uninsured deposits? It is a lot better than nothing. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/14/2008 7:20:46 PM
    • 10,000 people had more than $100,000 - Eric - 7/14/2008 4:56:26 AM
    • "regulars" meaning regulators (n/t) - Lindy - 7/12/2008 8:23:40 AM
  • Did you see the part about Chuck Schumer starting the run on the bank? - TB - 7/11/2008 9:38:02 PM
    • A bit more on Schumer's pooch-screwing... - TB - 7/11/2008 9:48:41 PM
      • re: A bit more on Schumer's pooch-screwing... - Eric - 7/12/2008 4:17:34 AM
        • Don't let depositors know their bank is insolvent??!! - Bowser - 7/12/2008 8:17:47 AM
          • The right hates nothing more than those that point out that the emperor has no clothes.... - ARRELL - 7/13/2008 10:10:44 AM
          • The regulators think he's an idiot. They probably have a good take on it. (n/t) - TB - 7/12/2008 10:05:27 AM

• 8k Gallons of GAS Goes PfffffT on New Jersey Turnpike - carl - 7/11/2008 10:07:23 AM
  • The driver obviously forgot his BEANO. (n/t) - Eri - 7/12/2008 8:25:03 AM
  • Bet the motorists were fuming at the traffic jam. (n/t) - Lee - 7/11/2008 4:07:55 PM
    • Yeah, they must have been really smoking... - ER - 7/11/2008 4:52:34 PM
      • (sigh) You amatuers and your fuelish puns... - ARRELL - 7/11/2008 5:06:49 PM
        • Are you trying to spark the flame of controversy, - ER - 7/11/2008 5:23:41 PM
          • Obviously an attempt to be refined crude. (n/t) - podrock - 7/11/2008 6:34:12 PM
            • Pouring oil on troubled waters! - Eri - 7/12/2008 8:24:03 AM
  • Sounds like a volatile situation. (n/t) - ER - 7/11/2008 12:37:53 PM