John Adams

There's a statute of limitations on criticizing presidents? Especially the guy who the current Repubs hold up as their flag-bearer?

And? Does that somehow exempt him from criticism? His "big tent" was the death knell for any Republicans who tried to stop the government from spending what it budgeted.

Fool. Substitute your first question mark for an equal sign and your second for an exclamation point and you have a T-shirt.

No. They were all practitioners of facism, under whatever name they chose to brand it, much like the Republican party is socialist but go by a different name.

Ammadimajab will brain anyone who hurts an American diplomat in Iran--he wants to show the world how civil Iran is.

I am shocked that Geddy Lee still hits most of those falsettos. Most men lose that ability over time.

Yeah--it's not over and we'll see. Sometimes people can look back on something like this and say it was necessary. Let's hope it's that kind of correction and not an S&L sort of near disaster or a 70s long-term malaise.

Wiki-all-knowledge defines facism "as authoritarian nationalist political ideologies or mass movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence and seek to achieve a millenarian national rebirth by exalting the nation or race, and promoting cults of unity, strength and purity." Japan and Germany typify this definition. Only some sort of leather-patch-elbowed intellectual would argue the finer points that Germany and Japan were not facist. I hope you got your stojans and giggles.

You're being melodramatic. Remember the S&L crisis? This is a cakewalk compared to that nightmare. Over 900 banks failed in a year over that. Talk about clustereffs. Remember the 70s inflation? This too shall pass. The mortgage bust was absolutely necessary. Housing prices will return to earth and we'll all live through it. Banks will weather this storm.

An interesting historical note but irrelevant. If you're going to be strike out and be wrong, you might as well swing for the fences. Both Japan and Germany were the very definition of fascist states in WWII. There's really no argument that they were not, even if they labeled themselves otherwise at that time.

You'd be crying like a baby now, but especially if you were 16 like him.

In bear markets, all the goldbugs come out and do their "I told you so" dance. Then when the economy picks up, they all say, "gold is set for a big rise"...and they do that for 7 years until it finally happens and then they say "I told you so" again. I worked closely with a few gold bugs for about 15 years and they were annoying as !@#$. Like a guy who goes to the casinos, they claimed to always be making a killing in gold, and yet the price of gold is usually pretty steady and the casinos seem to make money--so someone's lying. If you own gold right now, it's a nice safe place to be. If you're like Chef and me, you stick with the balancing method and weather the storm, knowing that now's the buying time and soon (we hope) will be the growth time.

East Brady is dreamy.

That would be a great way to put an end to communist China. Whatever rose from those ashes would be a different flavor than what is there now. And if you're an Obama-maniac, there's be no better way to bring manufacturing/China jobs back home than melt down our economy.

Is there some passable etymology for "jew"ing someone?

These daydreams: What do they mean? They keep haunting me. Are they warning me?

Interesting. I'll start using it daily with our black employees.

Well, the etymology of that one makes it suspect.

It's your thing. That's fine. I'm just grumpy--not because I'm getting poor in the market (I am but am well-diversified so I'll live.), but because of all the people crying about the sky falling. I hope to get a ton of bargains.

What was it...1987 or something when the Dow dropped 22% in one day? 1 day 20+ %!?!?! All the chicken-littling is what drives this sort of panic. Man up. I have no interest in your silver if the dollar goes belly up.

Oy vey with the Alas Babylon scenarios. Fannie and Freddie are a Frankenstein monster of a govt and private co. combination. There are always going to be issues.

It's a bear market and now everyone sees collapse? Jesus H! I agree with Phil Gramm. Stop being such a bunch of whiners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average I also agree with Phil's nephew Lou: "You say it's urgent, So urgent, so oh oh urgent, Just wait and see...."

I am late to the Geico party but chiming in. For better coverage across the board, I'm paying 900$ less per year for 2 cars. Insurance is such a scam. My previous insurance agent, who I'd been with for 11+ years said, "If you switch out of the auto policy, you'll lose the x% discount we give you on your home policy." I asked him if he wanted me to shop that policy too and he STFU.

He's such a buttnugget.