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If you’re a Republican running for office this November, you better start praying and donate boatloads to worthy charities. You’re going to need all the karma points you can get.

With so many Americans loosing their homes or already living on sardines and crackers after having lost their homes…after watching their savings evaporate….while taxpayers watched all the excesses which Wall Street is famous for, the rich became bloated hogs…with 2:1 of the public not blind enough to not blame the GOP for our woes, and an unjust war in Iraq…I’d find it a hard sell trying to get the American people to vote for a presidential candidate who has 7 houses and a vice president who’s 7000 member town charged rape victims up to $1000 for their examinations. If by some chance McCain/Pailin do win, it will be by the skin of their teeth and with the help of illegal manipulation.

The Republicans are opposing edits to the $700Bn bailout of Wall Street directed at limiting executive pay and allowing courts to reduce payments for borrowers with a house in foreclosure. Is that really so unreasonable given the funk we’re in? Maybe they should require every CEO & member of upper management that needs to be bailed out to work 2500 hours a year in soup kitchens, rebuilding distressed neighborhoods & helping those living in tent cities. Let these wealthy honchos directly face the mess they made. Let them bathe in the sorrow they’ve put thousands of families in, and get their damn hands dirty. Maybe, just maybe, these ultra rich dimwits will have a remote sense of cause for their fellow human. Ahh, who’m I kidding, they sold their souls a long time ago…and they could give a rat’s ass about those not in the circles of the ultra elite.

It’s truly great to have friends in influential positions. I’m sure if Treasury Secretary Paulson’s mother was battling a life threatening disease with no medical insurance & about to loose her home to foreclosure, there would have been a fierce bill proposed in an equally swift manner to tackle many of our nation’s ills long before this golden parachute for Wall Street. But that will never happen since he’s a Goldman Sachs alumnus…even if he up and quit tomorrow or G.W.B. fired him, Mr. Paulson could still live out wonderful years in lavish opulence…and he’d take care of mama (or at least one would hope).

Mr. Paulson effectively terrified Congress into approving a legally immune blank check to the tune of $700Bn+ for global financial behemoths within a week…and he doesn’t want CEO compensation capped for institutions that seek taxpayer money to save them from their own undoing. I’d think a CEO might put their avidity aside for a few moments rather than let their company go bust (but what the hell do I know). And, naturally, the lobbyists and financial servicing firms are wetting their shorts/frothing at the mouth at the prospect of getting their greedy paws on this legislation.

Isn’t it just too convenient that with so much deregulation, nobody is going to jail for any of this mess? Since the U.S. is diving head first towards socialism they should bring back 20 lashes in public square…with Angelo Mozilo first in line to receive his administrative punishment. Now that the argument for democracy/capitalism is dying, maybe they’ll finally cut Cuba some slack.

Aye, these are wild financial times we’re in, matee. What amazes me is, when Enron defrauded people & the market out of billion$, everybody cried for blood. And the public got something close to the flogging spectacle they clamored for. The CEO worked himself into a heart attack before going to his prison sentencing, and a few top henchmen got convicted and are doing time. But, I’d bet you’d be hard pressed to find any such focused blame & legal lashing for the economic turmoil unfolding at our feet. I mean, come on….every major economist in the world is placing blame on Alan Greenspan, the Bush administration, predatory lending, complex financial vehicles, and the charge toward more deregulation. But what really gets me is comments like those from Dana Perino (White House spokeswoman) who tried to defer the blame for this financial turmoil on Congress. I can’t help but fantasize about strapping these arrogant idiots to chairs in front of speakers brandishing the unyielding volume & tones of The Thrones (Joe Preston). I know it won’t produce any epiphany toward the greater good of humankind. But it might make a few people feel better. The moral of the story is, if you’re rich enough, you can throw the U.S. into the moral equivalent of a hostage crisis…and the wealthy greed-sleeze will protect their own.

So, it seems, for better or worse, the times have irreversibly changed. Not only has the Internet brought leisurely smut browsing to the home computer in the locked room of every lonely young guy (thus saving many men from that embarrassing moment of trying to buy skin mags for the first time)…but apparently, high school & dating ain’t what it used to be. The conservatives are probably having a field day criticizing the frivolous behavior of today’s youth. South Park even had a great episode spotlighting Paris Hilton. But you can’t take the jungle out of the lion. People have been procreating, getting into trouble, & challenging authority at a youthful age for thousands of years…there is a formidable foe in battling eons of evolution, but they (the conservatives) don’t believe in evolution anyway…so it’s a moot point.

This just in from the Bush administration’s deregulation generals…”Taxpayers…we screwed up, and it will cost YOU a total of $900BN. This is money that we don’t have, but we’ll sell more of our soul to the global markets in order to pay for it. And just so do you don’t worry your hearts about wealthy executives feeling any real pain for their stuplidity, we’ll be sure that Robert B. Willumstad (CEO of A.I.G.) will get his $8.7MM severance package…even after we threw in $85BN to save his company. Furthermore, a mediocre apology goes out to the millions of homeowners loosing their properties to foreclosure…we won’t be saving you or your jobs, we, the Republicans, only worry about the rich, and if you’re in foreclosure…you’re not rich…so go pound salt.”

I saw this car the other day…’no idea what it is…but damn cool. If you know…let me know. =)

The ice man has cometh for Lehman Brothers, and it ain’t a pretty sight. I hope the deregulation lobbyists & Alan Greenspan are pleased with themselves. Expecting the mortgage industry to behave for the good of all is like pulling out the stoplights & being shocked there are occasional drag racers & roadkill. It’s a bad year to be a banker in NYC. The frenzy of greed had to end sometime…given all the smart Ivy Leaguers with influence somewhere, you’d think somebody would notice the trouble brewing…but I guess by then the monster was out, and who was going to make an attempt at squelching that freight train.

No, it’s not a new strip club. It’s all in who you know, and who you work for. If you work for the U.S. government, and you happen to be in TIGHT with the energy industry…and you’ve a knot you need busted, you might get your wish…and maybe a few other fringe benefits: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/10/oiil.scandal/index.html