Chris Farris

Last month Secretary Paulson and President Bush went before the American people and said (I’m paraphrasing) “OMG, the world is about to end. Drastic action is needed. There is no time to look at alternatives. There is no time to build consensus among experts. My small cadre of experts tell me the world is about to end, therefore we must ignore all the other experts who say otherwise and pass the brash and expensive bailout package NOW NOW NOW or the world will end”.

And by and large, the fools in the GOP, both elected leaders and grassroots, fell for it.

By that logic, we should pass a massive Carbon Tax. We should not question whether or not carbon is causing climate change. We should not have debate. We should not study the effects of this Carbon Tax to see if it will make the problem better, or hurt our economy in such a way that we’ll be unable to mitigate the effects of rising sea levels. We need not listen to the climatologists who say that Carbon is not responsible, or that the issue of Climate Change is not the impending doom that other experts say it is. If we don’t act NOW NOW NOW the world will end as we know it. Therefore Senator Obama, when you take office in January, the GOP will be solidly behind whatever hair-brained scheme of carbon-taxation your administration proposes. The consequences of inaction are too grave. Senator Isakson & McCain will support you. You might have to make your case to Senator Martin though.

While I’m thinking about it, Governor Perdue, you should pass a massive tax hike. Georgia faces at catastrophic budget shortfall of almost 1.6 Billion dollars. Tapping our reserves will weaken our AAA bond rating. All you have to tell the Georgia GOP is that the consequences of losing our AAA bond-rating are so dire, that it would be the end of life as we know it. Georgia Republicans will be happy to support your massive tax hikes. You don’t need to worry about finding so-called experts to make your case. Just sound really scared at the prospect, and have your budget director sound really confident that his tax-hikes will work. Lt. Governor Cagle and Speaker Richardson will fall right it line.

Finally, to the Commissars on the Gwinnett County Soviet. The ignorant masses here on Peach Pundit don’t seem to be too willing to pass the Constitutional Amendments on the ballot allowing for TADs and IDDs. You need to quickly tell your subjects that failure to approve those amendments will mean that their property values will fall. In fact, the reason their property values are so low right now is the fact that those amendments haven’t already passed. The people who elected you are too stupid to understand the concept of causation vs correlation. They will believe that lie if Comrade Bannister repeats is enough times. If the voters of Gwinnett County don’t approve TADs and IDDs then there will be nothing stopping 10 billion Mexicans from taking up residence in Gwinnett. All the street signs will be re-printed in Spanish, and all the phone menus will say “Press 1 for Spanish and press two for English”. The terrified bigots in Gwinnett will gladly pass whatever emergency measures you need.

We no longer need rational debate in this country. We no longer need to consider alternative proposals. As long as our elected leaders scream the sky is falling, the GOP will fall right in line.

See you all in the labor camps. Obama Macht Frei

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Ahead of the Bell: Wells Fargo shares upgraded - Forbes.com

NEW YORK - Robert W. Baird & Co. analyst David George on Tuesday upgraded shares of Wells Fargo & Co. to “Neutral” from “Underperform,” citing the San Francisco-based bank’s strong balance sheet.

Shares jumped $1.85, or 5.6 percent, to $35.10 in premarket trading. The stock has ranged from $20.46 to $44.69 over the past year.

Though Wells Fargo is not completely sheltered from credit risks, George said, the bank will likely benefit from a “flight to quality,” given its strong credit ratings, healthy capital position and willingness to lend in a difficult environment.

Wells Fargo holds my note. Looks like there is credit available to those who are worthy. The chickenlittles screaming about a lack of credit are the same who believe that deadbeats should be able to buy $300k homes with zero down and no income documentation.

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This is probably the first time in the past eight years that a majority of Congressional Republicans voted against the President.

About fucking time.

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I just got an offer to switch my Auto Insurance to AIG via AAA.

Marginal Revolution: Facts about banks

…the total liabilities of Deutsche Bank (leverage ratio over 50!) amount to around 2,000 billion euro, (more than Fannie Mai) or over 80 % of the GDP of Germany. This is simply too much for the Bundesbank or even the German state to contemplate, given that the German budget is bound by the rules of the Stability pact and the German government cannot order (unlike the US Treasury) its central bank to issue more currency. The total liabilities of Barclays of around 1,300 billion pounds (leverage ratio over 60!) surpasses Britain’s GDP. Fortis bank, which has been in the news recently, has a leverage ratio of “only” 33, but its liabilities are several times larger than the GDP of its home country (Belgium).

Bail that out suckas!

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“The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct…” — John McCain

That sir, is because it take a majority of the house and 2/3rds of the Senate to remove the President.

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Here is some of the weird stuff I found.

Apparently there are no poems about me. I'm hurt.
I'm apparently a legal director for Sun Microsystems in Washington DC.
Buy my latest album. Its edgy acoustic Christian Pop
Yeah, I've been working out
Lets talk about shooting things at long range
My wife's name is JOYCE
Err. I mean Laura

http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/

There is an RSS feed if you want to add it to your friends list.

There is a wikipedia entry for treecats

I believe him:

Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown reports: At a press avail in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama on Palin: “Back off these kinds of stories.”

“I have said before and I will repeat again: People’s families are off limits,” Obama said. “And people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics.”

On charges that his campaign has stoked the story via liberal blogs:

“I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us,” he said. “Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired.”

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“Change” is not a guy who has been a Senator longer than I’ve been alive. Heck, McCain was still in Hanoi when Biden was elected to the US Senate.

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Credit crunch may take out large US bank warns former IMF chief - Times Online
In an ominous warning, he added: “We’re not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we’re going to see a whopper, we’re going to see a big one — one of the big investment banks or big banks,” he said.

Oh please let it be Bank of America, please let it be Bank of America.

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Testing posting via the iphone client

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Garlic Futures are going up
"Oh My God, They Killed Chef", "You Bastards"
Doh!

Soviet Zombies and a buff Gorbachev. What more do you need?

iPhone 2.0 and the AppStore is really what the iPhone needed. No I didn't drop $400 to get the new model, i just upgraded my new one to the latest firmware. I've now got an Italian Phrasebook; I can take pictures and immediately upload them to my facebook account, and I've finally got an AIM client.

Now I just need an SSH client and I'll be set.

Woot!

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html

He won't stop sending me emails about the new 3G Phone. 

The worst part of the Zombie war will be all the  liberals who want to give the undead Habeas corpus rights.

Nothing beats coming into work to find the database has crashed.

I swear these computers are out to get me. They know I'm on to their plans for a robot uprising and they are trying to silence me!