"Taxi to the Dark Side" on HBO Tonight

Check your local listings for times. The Academy Award winner for Best Documentary of 2008, by Alex Gibney, who wore an orange ribbon on stage when accepting the award, is being shown tonight on HBO. See it!

A Diane Arbusian Moment

Diane Arbus is famous for her photographs of freaks. Stan Honda of AFP-Getty Images was channeling Arbus in this photo of Palin with Kissinger.

"Rising up from a source deep in my subconscious. I saw a woman fully aware that she was out of her league, scared out of her wits, hanging on for dear life. I saw this in the sag of her back in her serious black suit, in the position of her hands, crossed modestly atop her knees, and in that 'Mad Men'-era updo, ever unchanging, like a good luck charm."

-- from "Poor Sarah," by Judith Warner in the New York Times, September 25, 2008.

Bailing out regular folks not in Obama's plans

From "Mortgage help for bankrupt homeowners dropped"
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and DAVID ESPO, Associated Press Writers

"WASHINGTON - House Democrats say the idea of letting judges rewrite mortgages to help bankrupt homeowners avoid foreclosure won't be a part of the $700 billion financial industry bailout.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told Democrats at a closed-door meeting Friday evening the provision would be a deal-breaker for Republicans who she has said must deliver substantial votes for the rescue plan. That's according to several lawmakers who attended the session.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama had said earlier that the measure didn't belong in the bailout."

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Obama says the measure doesn't belong. Regular folks don't merit a bailout. The plutocracy gets in trouble because regulations controlling their actions were lifted so the "free market" can do its "magic," and the plutocrats act heedless of the consequences, making obscene amounts of money, and when the joy ride is about to crash and burn the government comes to their rescue.

This is what an Obama presidency will look like!

The "Miami Model" in the Twin Cities

See this article, "Twin Study: Repression at the Republican National Convention."

Poisoned Legacy: the Bush Regime, the Democrats, the Mass Media and the American People

Go here to read this piece by me. It went up at Counterpunch first, but the CP version doesn't display the links within it that the one posted now at World Can't Wait does.

Subject: Urgent Message from Minister of Treasury

[Courtesy of David Swanson]

Dear Excellent Friend:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion USD. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gramm, lobbyist for UBS, who (God willing) will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a former U.S. congressional leader and the architect of the PALIN / McCain Financial Doctrine, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. As such, you can be assured that this transaction is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully,
Henry Paulson
Minister of Treasury
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20220

PS: Ignore anything you read at http://afterdowningstreet.org.

Vets Occupy the National Archives - Right Now!

See this on YouTube here.