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Gunslinger ...

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The Money Line is From 1:17 to 1:34, but the whole thing is really pretty darn good. Read below the fold...

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Shark not jumped

AP:

Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark. In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female Atlantic blacktip shark in the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center contained no genetic material from a male.

Thank Goddess!

Unto us a shark pup is given... Read below the fold...

Wells Fargo buys Wachovia without FDIC help

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Well it seems Citigroup has decided that even with the help of F.D.I.C. that it just did not want to take on even part of the bad loans/debt Wachovia had from its' earlier mergers. According to the NYTimes , Wells Fargo gets to have it all and create a $1.42 Trillion company stretching coast to coast.
Citigroup wants to sue Wells Fargo for $60 Billion for interfering, but may not be able to because: Read below the fold...

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Are these people for real?


One of the saddest outcomes of the many cry-wolf hakas practiced throughout the campaign is the lost ability to rationally assume that what we're hearing from lefty blogs is accurate.

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Hey guys? Can you buy gas in your 'hood? What price?

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Just askin', 'cause it's under $3 a gallon in my hometown today.
Could there really be a de-flation cycle starting?
If so, how close are we to 10/29/29 well-and-truly screwed? Read below the fold...

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Berlusconi: Markets to close while "new Bretton Woods" invented?

Bloomberg. It's only a "hypothesis", though, he says, designed to spread "calm" and not "panic". Good luck with that.

But, enough!

As long as the banks work, and commercial paper flows, do we need the speculation? Probably not, for now. Who knows, though.

OK, sunny day, gotta go paint!

NOTE Hat tip, Amberglow. Read below the fold...

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Voter Registration Fraud? Nah. Indianapolis voter registration at 105%.

{{First post - wish me luck}}

Ah, where were "the authorities" back in January? I think we’d have a different democratic nominee if they’d been vigilant about this voter fraud thingy back then.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/a...

Here's my favorite part:

"And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

"All the signatures looked exactly the same," Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. "Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same." Read below the fold...

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Shed a tear for the billionaires

Times Online:

In April, the collected wealth of the country's top thousand multimillionaires totalled £412.8 billion [and the pound is worth something, these days], according to his calculations. “If current trends continue, we will be lucky to make £300 billion next time around,” Dr Beresford told The Times. “It is too early to be exact, but I estimate that at least one third will be wiped off the personal fortunes of the top 1,000 by next April.”

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Connecticut Supreme Court: Prohibiting Gay Marriage Unconstitutional

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The advance release of the opinion suggests the Connecticut Supreme Court's 4-3 vote (there were 3 separate dissents) is in favor of gay marriage. Read below the fold...

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Rapture index closes down one on floods

Here. Of course, in the wacky world of Christianist end times theorizing, down is bad because down takes you further from the Rapture.

Oddly, however, financial turmoil doesn't affect the Rapture index at all; if it did, you'd expect the RI to be spiking right now.

Speaking of end times theorizing... Read below the fold...

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October 29, eh?

McClatchy:

Barack Obama is buying a half-hour slot on television networks in prime time on Oct. 29, the anniversary of Black Tuesday of 1929, when panic in the stock markets set in ahead of the Great Depression.

Obama, leaving a campaign stop in a diner in Georgetown, Ohio, on Thursday evening, declined to say whether he planned to address the current economic crisis in the context of the depression.

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What I Cannot Figure Out

is what, exactly, McCain's performance in this video really means.

On one hand, a guy who wants to be the most powerful leader in the free world lets some nutjob take over the microphone; on the other, a Senator who may or may not be for real is talking about the value of voting.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Oscar? Read below the fold...

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How now, Dow Jones?

The DJIA dove under 8,000 shortly after open, before recovering more than half of the early loss of about 600 points. Currently down -223 at 8,355.

Seatbelts, shoulder belts, and Dramamine highly recommended. Also, growing your own food if you can.

(BTW, yes, I know it's down 223, not -223, but the minus sign indicates the market direction, despite the inexact phrasing) Read below the fold...

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