For Thursday, October 23, 2008

"And Now a Word from Alan Greenspan..." image licensed under Creative Commons by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

So, apparently Crazy Al is admitting to the biggest error in the history of banking and finance, or even the biggest error ever made. And this is the worst image we could find of him on flickr.com? OOPS!!! We were wrong! We did a search on photobucket and found much viler, nastier stuff there, but not so much. irenegade7 is probably the worst of these. But, because children might be visiting this site, we won't be providing any links to that. But, we did think we would find much nastier and troubling images and lampoons of Crazy Al.

Is Crazy Al genuinely crazy for taking responsibility for the blunder(s) that might send the entire world into a global recession if not depression? Who talked him to taking the biggest fall in the world? We never thought of Crazy Al as the biggest patsy in the history of the world. So, Al, apparently it was a hands-off, largely unregulated, freewheeling banking and finance industry led by our you, our corporate leaders and our government "leadership" into global financial freefall? Is this Russia's "big chance" to take over and run the world economy? No, of course not, we didn't think you would think that. Wouldn't that just tickle Mr. Putin pink? Er, no pun intended there.

Greenspan admits ‘mistake’ that helped crisis

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27335454/

Financial crisis 'like a tsunami'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7687101.stm

CNNMoney:Ten Most Wanted: Culprits of the Collapse

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/17/most.wanted.culprits/index.html

Foreclosure activity rises 70 percent

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27329406/

U.S. jobless claims surge in latest week

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27336301/

Laid Off? Here's What You Need to Know

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Consumer/story?id=6089553&page=1

Newsweek: The bad news about your job

http://www.newsweek.com/id/165219

Police face cuts as economy falters

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/23/police.economy/index.html

Massive Secret Uranium Shipment Revealed

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/23/world/main4540071.shtml

McCain Battles Palin Backlash

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/23/politics/washingtonpost/main4540272.shtml

New Details On Palin Shopping

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/23/link/main4541213.shtml

Campaign Drags Feet on Sarah Palin's Medical Records

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palins-medical.html

Obama "Can't Imagine" Using McCain Tactics

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/22/earlyshow/main4539871.shtml


Machines change Dem vote to GOP vote

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Obama defends 'crisis' comments

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7685576.stm

McCain: Obama says ‘anything to get elected’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27336640/

First Read: Battlegrounds swing to Obama

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/23/1583632.aspx

Newsweek: NRA's misleading anti-Obama ad

http://www.newsweek.com/id/165307

Russia moves 'to boost market'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7686376.stm

China Arrests 6 Over Tainted Milk Scandal

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/23/world/main4540906.shtml

Haiti storm damage 'eye-popping'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7685844.stm

Soil health 'threatens farming'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7685643.stm

Sick economy has patients skimping on meds

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27325050/

France 'captures Somali pirates'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7686806.stm

Pirates: We'll kill crew if NATO attacks

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/23/Somalia.piracy.ap/index.html

'Get the smokers' A day with an anti-cigarette hit squad in Delhi

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7682218.stm

Effective Anti-tobacco Ads Should Either Scare Or Disgust Viewers, Study Reveals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081022135811.htm

Black Outs in Oil Rich Venezuela

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6092591

News blogger detained in Nigeria

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7686119.stm

Musician defends Sony game song

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7686590.stm