via garychapelhill @ The Confluence.
Copy, paste and email all your friends. Let’s make it viral!
From: Henry Paulson [mailto:henrympaulson@gmail.com]
Date: 9/30/2008
Subject: URGENT Dearest OneBright Greetings Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent and important business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had a crisis that has caused the need for a large transfer of funds of $700 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
I am working with renowned Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of Treasury in January. As a Senator of my blelegeaured and beautiful country, you may know him as the dear leader of the American banking deregulation movement of 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. All you must does is send a blank check. We will be receiving 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 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 transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive you’re information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Wonderful salutations to you cherish friend from Republic of America.
Yours Faithfully,
Minister of Treasury Paulson
141 comments ↓
First?
osaka – Oh no !!! Are we doing magick again ? !!! Last time I went out naked and chased the chickens around the pastures under the full moon during the primaries , and I haven’t seen them since !!!!!
Love it. Make it viral!
dang it
Texas,
Between the bees and the primaries, you must be saving a lot on your clothing bill!
just.words – shhhhh – don’t tell anyone else about the bees !!!!!!! lol Thank goodness my neighbors are far away !!!
just sent it to 20 people.
get it out there!
can’t believe I actually made it into the top ten.
The bee story would be a lot funnier if I weren’t deadly allergic to them. I have to carry 2 epi-pens in case I get stung and then rush to the hospital for more adrenalin.
Clinton: ‘It Sounds Dire, But Commerce Could Stop’
Says She Understands The Concerns Of ‘Innocent Taxpayers,’ But A Possible ‘Recession Impacts Everyone’
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/hillary.clinton.senate.2.829183.html
just words – so you know – Hillary WON that night that I was chasing chickens , and Kim was running naked with a frozen chicken , and Snowtiger grabbed some Bratwurst , and carrie apparently had a frozen rump roast !!! Magick works !!! Still…. I have always had a sneaking suspicion that I was really the one actually bare a**ed in the weeds …. hmmmmm
TexasTigress
I just spent gillions of time back tracking through all of the comments to find your post quoting my first post. I had no idea what to expect. I can’t remember what I said this morning.
You are one funny PUMA and very special at that. Watch out Dances will be all over you if she knows that you got a compliment and she didn’t.
no get to work and send this letter to you email address book.
Mama
sly – you will never be first if general Hospital is on !!!! lol
Mama – I already sent it !!!!
murphy on 09.30.08 at 3:35 pm more good times above.
take it upstairs!
oh, and vote in our Poll!
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Murphy I am a dope I posted my name on the poll comments, Is this just an internal poll?
TexasT I know it sucks
what are we suppose to do copy and paste that letter and sent it to who??? I’m brain dead today
Don’t forget to correct the typos first before sending it out.
Sly – yes – send it to everyone in your contact list .
I wish it had Obama in there instead of Graham .
That’s great! well done!
Pumas, read this when you have a chance, it’s interesting.
One Big Happy Anti-Capitalism Family (by Uppity Woman)
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/30/one-big-happy-anti-capitalism-family/#more-5156
OK- I am not always the brightest bulb- I don’t get what we are supposed to do above?? copy and paste the text into an e-mail to our friends?
Help please
21 GOSUEF4HIL
That’ll work.
ROLLING STONE ARTICLE!!!
We were blogging about Mike Tiabbi’s article in Rolling Stone last week, I think he compared her to Gidget- does anyone have the link to the article? I googled and cannot find it-
I actually got a response from ReportSexism@yahoo.com
and I want to send the link to them, I don’t knnow why I didn’t include it when I sent my first e-mail,, I get so pissed i just don’t think clearly- so if anyone has that link- please post
sly – what’s the zip code for Delaware Oh. ?
One last request-
Someone explain to me why McCain is dropping like a stone in connection to the failed bail out?
Someone explain to me when the Republicans are going to really push back on Frank and Dodd for their ignoring the impending crisis- when McCain wanted to do something back in I think it was ‘06?
My kool-aide drinking husband had no idea when I brought it up, he continues to blame Bush (at least we are in partial agreement there) but he thinks the democrats are blameless- so please explain this to me- I don’t see out of the same glasses the rest of America seems to-
ok hubby is home so now we’ve got to go get my car that broke down at the mall on my way home from taking mother-in-law to doctors… cross your fingers and hope it works (the car)…
43015 TexasTigress.
gosue..
mccain says one thing,mccain accuses obama..
obama says one thing,obama accuses mccain..
the dumb s..t sheeple out there believe obama because obama is winning the battle of credibility and his stuff is sticking and mccains aint thanks to the idiot GW and his cretins neo cons who have blown any credibility for the GOP candidate in 2008
thats twice that stupid SOB GW screwed mccain!!!
Good luck, slyt2!
#29 kat in your hat thank you… Texastigress it’s post#27 bye for now …
bye sly !!! bbs !
Let Us Pray … to Obama? (by Mo Rocca)
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/30/let-us-pray-to-obama/
Someone on the Confluence pointed out this must have come from the BO campaign since it uses the name of former McCain adviser Phil Gramm (“Mr . Phil Gram”).
Wouldn’t it be better to rewrite it using the name of current Obama adviser Franklin Raines, who is in all those videos that keep disappearing from the web?
What do you think would happen if someone painted and hung a nude portrait of Barky in a bar?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-talk-naked-sarahsep30,0,4944201.story
@ #33 Nijma:
Yup. That’s the first thing I noticed.
DANCES – may have figured out the smiliaries that all of us have had with the last THREE NOW threads that people can not sign on – each and EVERY one of us have used the media center to send emails to the newspapers – what happens to me is that I go into the newspaper media part and all of a sudden – a screen pops up and starts to download ADOBE ACROBAT – downloads it and then I continue on – maybe this is the problem.
It really is too funny though. It must be harder for a speechwriter to use bad grammar than for a singer to intentionally sing off key.
atypical…
sarah is more woman than obama could ever have and more man than obama could ever be
Can I ask for a prowl?
I have just heard that Nancy Pelosi will not allow an investigation of what happened at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go forward.
No matter what our political beliefs are, I firmly believe that this is one subject that must be investigated.
I am calling my federal representative and my local newspaper and anyone else I can think of to call for an investigation to be convened as soon as possible.
I am hoping that other Pumas will findi this important to do.
Thanks.
From: Henry Paulson [mailto:henrympaulson@gmail.com]
Date: 9/30/2008
Subject: URGENT Dearest One
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Don’t tell me you actually BELIEVE that Paulson has a GMAIL account?
#39 PumaPal
I’m in!
elect2009.. i believe paulson actually has some knee pads too
#23 GOSUEF4HIL
While you’re reporting sexism:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-talk-naked-sarahsep30,0,4944201.story
Henry Paulson, our illustrious Treasury Secretary pushing a wall street bailout, was appointed to that position by President Bush in May of 2006. Prior to that time, Paulson was Chairman of Goldman Sachs.
The perceptions of Paulson’s allegiance to Wall Street and his lack have started to surface regarding his role in the current economic crisis. While his interests do seem more aligned to Wall Street than to Main Street, his actions may have a much more personal interest.
When Paulson left Goldman Sachs, he beneficially owned over 3.2 million shares of Goldman Stock. His last SEC form 4 filed in April of 2006 outlines his ownership interests.
http://www.secinfo.com/dnFu6.vG3.htm#1stPage
In the initial stages of the economic crisis, there was much hand wringing over which companies were worthy of rescue and which were not. The government decided to allow Lehman brothers to fail and file for bankruptcy, while concluding that the giant insurer, AIG, was too big to fail. An $85 billion rescue package was promptly awarded to AIG to allow them to continue their existence.
But the events leading up to AIG’s rescue are very enlightening.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/business/28melt.html?em
“Two weeks ago, the nation’s most powerful regulators and bankers huddled in the Lower Manhattan fortress that is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, desperately trying to stave off disaster.
As the group, led by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., pondered the collapse of one of America’s oldest investment banks, Lehman Brothers, a more dangerous threat emerged: American International Group, the world’s largest insurer, was teetering. A.I.G. needed billions of dollars to right itself and had suddenly begged for help.
One of the Wall Street chief executives participating in the meeting was Lloyd C. Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, Mr. Paulson’s former firm. Mr. Blankfein had particular reason for concern.
Although it was not widely known, Goldman, a Wall Street stalwart that had seemed immune to its rivals’ woes, was A.I.G.’s largest trading partner, according to six people close to the insurer who requested anonymity because of confidentiality agreements. A collapse of the insurer threatened to leave a hole of as much as $20 billion in Goldman’s side, several of these people said.”
So the only private sector attendee at the the AIG deliberations with the New York Federal Reserve just happened to be Paulson’s successor at Goldman Sachs. And, as it turned out, Goldman Sachs stood to lose $20 billion in the event of an AIG failure.
But who else other than Paulson had in interest in insuring Goldman’s interests were protected here? Well, here’s another surprise – the one and only Jim Johnson. Yes that Jim Johnson, the former CEO of Fannie Mae, the former head of Obama’s vice presidential search committee, and the current Obama campaign adviser. That Jim Johnson:
http://www2.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/about-us/leadership/board-of-directors.html#JamesA.Johnson
“Mr. Johnson has been a Vice Chairman of Perseus, L.L.C., a merchant banking and private equity firm, since April 2001. From January 2000 to March 2001, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Capital Partners, a private investment company. From January through December 1999, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Fannie Mae, having previously served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from February 1991 through December 1998 and its Vice Chairman from 1990 through February 1991. Mr. Johnson has been a director of Goldman Sachs since May 1999. Mr. Johnson is on the boards of the following public companies in addition to Goldman Sachs: Forestar Real Estate Group, Inc., KB Home and Target Corporation.”
For the record, Johnson has 44,600 stock options in Goldman Sachs, with another 15,864 restricted stock units (page 35 http://www2.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/investors/financials/current/proxy-statements/2008-proxy-statement.pdf)
So, Paulson has a direct financial interest in the AIG bailout by virtue of his stock ownership in Goldman Sachs. The Obama campaign could not suffer another Jim Johnson scandal if Johnson, after running Fannie Mae into the ground, also turned up on the Board of Directors of another threatened financial institution.
My, oh, my!
puma pal #39 — good idea. got any links to the story?
36 Gogandalf
Oh, that’s interesting!
I’ll check the files when I get home from wack (c.kat in your hat). A pdf file might automatically initiate the acrobat reader download in order for you to read the file.
I’ll also transcribe those files to a word doc. just in case that is the problem. Good job, sleuth!
doesnt mccain understand that his supporters are getting antsy and want him to take the gloves off and start hammering obama on his history
#44 Grizzly…great story…actually a sick story, but great you posted it. This will be made into a movie one day. Hopefully, we will be able to afford going to see it.
#42 osaka puma on 09.30.08 at 4:20 pm
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I just think this is very childish to actually pass this along? What in hell has happened here?
elect2009..arent you off the election by one year?
#48 CTKEY on 09.30.08 at 4:30 pm #44 Grizzly…great story…actually a sick story, but great you posted it. This will be made into a movie one day. Hopefully, we will be able to afford going to see it.
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Thank you! I had a theory this morning and did a little digging (well it did take some time). I was wondering that if Paulson was the Chairman og Goldman, he must have some stock tucked away. “Some” indeed. At over $100 a share, that is quite a nest egg to protect.
I sent this out to my contact list – a PUMAil, so to speak!
osaka ? You are just proving my point.
What has happened here?
FYI: When does the next POTUS take office?
DUH!
Andy Martin, who wrote “Obama, the Man Behind the Mask” has a website: ContrarianCommentary.com He holds sidewalk news conference every day and more. He also sends out e-mails every day if you are signed up. I sent John McCain one of his letters today that stated if McCain doesn’t go on the offensive, he is dead meat. Also, that MCCain should take the lead and vote NO on the new bailout as it is still a giveaway. I’m not posting his e-mails as they are extremely lengthy but go to his website. ContrarianCommentary.com Read what he says about the debate between O & McCain.
the election is in 2008 isnt it?
elect2009.
inauguration is in 2009 my friend.the election is in 2008
Kind of off topic, but on my mind. This is from a Samantha Powers interview back in March.
“Obama has talked a lot about the importance of moving away from electocracy,” she says, trying to move on to more comfortable territory, and suggesting that the way people actually live is more important than the “reification of elections”.
“In terms of how radical the shift will be, I think it’s very hard. There’s going to be a huge foreign service and civil service that he will inherit, senators and congressmen who have already been elected. So I think he is one guy, trying to steer this ship of cacophonous agendas into a new place.”
http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2008/03/barack-obama-interview-power
lady: I read Mr. Martin and I was quite disappointed in how he talked about McCain.
ladyhawke..hope sarah goes agressive on obama biden on thursdays debate..
#47 Osaka- I don’t know what McCain is waiting for, Dick Morris on Fox just said he will be down by 12 points next week if he doesn’t get moving.
It makes me sick, to think this guy who bumped Alice Palmer off the ballot, stole the election from Hillary is now going to be president- a guy who hasn’t earned a g-damn thing in his life- he is using this economic disaster to his advantage- why the hell doesn’t the rNC and McCain camp start running commercials about his connection to Fannie and Freddie and Dodd’s and Frank’s? WTF??
I am ready to pull out my hair, tomorrow is October- we had better get a surprise or I may have to support Nader
New Rebub. ad. Not enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9j_epTmr2c&eurl=http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/09/rnc-launches-new-ad-worse.html
gosue.. im nervous i admit..
obama has been scoring points the last week or so without any counter pounches by senator mccain..
were waiting forsenator mccain to start punching back like ROCKY
#60 atypical – no, you are correct- this ad is not enough- it is lame!
Are they trying to hand him the election?
His campaign is bussing voters by the busload to register and vote early in Ohio, I cannot believe McCain is being this f***ing passive about this- he is 72 years old- this is his LAST chance, he should take off his gloves and fight this guy like he really wants the presidency- BO just wants it because he wants it- I thought McCain wanted it to do something meaningful-
DISGRACE, DISGRACE, DISGRACE!
#61 osaka puma- were waiting forsenator mccain to start punching back like ROCKY
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I feel like we’re waiting for Gadot and you know how that ends…
55 osaka puma on 09.30.08 at 4:41 pm
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your point?
Did you mean sake puma?
Just for YOU:
Sakatini
1 oz Sake
2 oz Vodka
dash Dry Vermouth
Stir in glass, strain in chilled glass, garnish and serve.
Not sure what is going with McCain, but it may be they are waiting until after Sarah debates to go at it. They could also be waiting for a bailout to pass first. IMO.
Sarah needs to just remain standing against Biden. I hope they let her be herself and just let her loose.
We should call the McCain camp and express our thoughts of him needing to step up on his fight for presidency.
Get out the punching bags…
or has someone done this already?
UPDATE ON REZKO:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/09/_antoin_tony_rezko_arrives.html
It’s getting really good.
Be sure to look at the comments on this section.
would you please being disrespectful to mccain because obami get a slight gain in some damned polls
you can take all your demo lawyers obama. m. obama, b. clinton. and yes im sorry h.clinton and put them in a can and kick em all down the street
@#39 PumaPal:
Where did you hear Nancy Pelosi does not want an investigation?
good link elect2009
almost popcorn time?
@ #67:
I know! Sing like a canary Rezko! Let the cat out of the bag! Rat ‘em out! Spit it out, man!
squeal, Rezko, squeal!!!
New video ad by The Denver Group:
http://tdg.typepad.com/democrats_for_principle_b/
Murphy did you get my email?
re#64
elect2009…
thats my elect2009 I wanted to hear!!!
kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 4:59 pm squeal, Rezko, squeal!!!
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It’s either squeal now, or squeal later. He’s a shoe in for the Ned Beatty slot in the Penitentiary’s Deliverance Reenactor’s Club.
Good afternoon Pumas.
RIP33 – think that is a good idea – go ahead and call McCains camp and report back your progress – good idea.
sistermoon..
we all want senator mccain to win.. so much so that were just worried sick he is not fighting back enough..
#57 elect2009 Andy supports McCain, he is just trying to light a fire under his feet! I think there were several occasions during the debate that McCain could have nailed him and he didn’t. I think McCain did good but he could have delivered the knock-out punch.
“Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was ‘Shot At’ in Iraq”
“When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about “landing under sniper fire” in Bosnia, she was accused of “inflating her war experience” by rival Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign.
But the campaign has been silent about Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, telling his own questionable story about being “shot at” in Iraq.
“Let’s start telling the truth,” Biden said during a presidential primary debate sponsored by YouTube last year. “Number one, you take all the troops out – you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at. You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die.”
Read the rest of the article: http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/30/unlike-clinton-biden-gets-pass-saying-shot-iraq/
I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU POSTED THAT HERE!
What’s wrong with Murphy?
Now we’re helping Obama win??
I’ve worked so hard to defeat Obama.
Now you slap me in the face?
Phil Gramm .. spreading Obama propaganda here?
Can you throw in the keys to the whitehouse too?
Please change the name above it makes us look stupid.
It’s NOT FUNNY. I’ve spent countless hours working and you think it is a joke…can you tell I’m upset??
candy poem.. i m just curious does your name have anything to do with the famous “Candy” poem of the 60’s??
78 Gogandalf
I would love to but my phone is not working at the moment (lots of phone issues lately). Ughhhhhh
Can someone do this for us?
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call the McCain camp and express our thoughts of him needing to step up on his fight for presidency.
Get out the punching bags…
I remember when Kerry was running, I was going crazy because he just let the media and those 527’s trounce him. He ran a lousy campaign and didn’t stand up for himself. I actually called his office and told them he had better start fighting back, that I was supporting him and he wasn’t convincing me about anything.
rlp33.. whats the number?
i have unlimited national calling on my cell phone.. i’ll call
MURPHY,MURPHY,MURPHY did you get my email?
ladyhawke..i remember that and i was frustrated too at that time about kerry
Gallup Poll Analysis for Caracal Carrie
I sent a detailed analysis of Gallop Poll Dem/Repub sampling to Caracal Carrie for posting on her site. I did find an error in my previous calculations indicating the bias for BO was 30%, it was actually around 23% for the week of September 15-21.
They have been sampling more Democrats than Republicans for all of the last two months. This is shown in the following as the factor B, for
Dems = A x Ind + B x Repub
Week A B
9/15-21 0.08 1.23
9/8-14 0.07 1.12
9/1-7 0.07 1.17
8/25-31 0.04 1.24
8/18-24 0.02 1.33
8/11-17 0.05 1.24
8/4-10 0.01 1.18
The most disturbing thing is an obvious correlation between McCains numbers and the bias in the sampling.
What is the news on Rezko??
86 osaka puma
This is the # I have. Not sure if there are any others.
Please let us know what they say. Thank you!
Phone
(703) 418-2008
Re: Post 89
This may be more readable
Week– A— B
9/15-21 – 0.08— 1.23
9/8-14– 0.07— 1.12
9/1-7– 0.07— 1.17
8/25-31 – 0.04— 1.24
8/18-24 – 0.02— 1.33
8/11-17– 0.05— 1.24
8/4-10– 0.01— 1.18
I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU POSTED THAT HERE!
What’s wrong with Murphy?
Now we’re helping Obama win??
I’ve worked so hard to defeat Obama.
Now you slap me in the face?
Phil Gramm .. spreading Obama propaganda here?
Can you throw in the keys to the whitehouse too?
Please change the name above it makes us look stupid.
It’s NOT FUNNY. I’ve spent countless hours working and you think it is a joke…can you tell I’m upset??
tennessee puma, you have mail.
what are you talking abuout nhforhillary?
I have an idea…why don’t we invite both candidates to a people debate. then we can throw all the corruption questions at O and see how he answers…
ladyhawkke #85
I TOTALLY AGREE!!! I so want to prevent Obama from getting into the White House but I am soooooo frustrated with the McCain campaign. Obama is holding rallies everyday — he was in Nevada today. Where was McCain? The last GOP rally was on Monday in Columbus and there is none listed coming up soon in the McCain website. WHAT IS GOING ON???
Dick Morris said it right this afternoon on Fox — McCain is losing this election as we speak… And Morris is a McCain supporter!!!
I have not met a single person in my workplace who is voting for McCain — I am alone! And I am in Texas!
I hate to be so pessimistic but I am beginning to think that unless a miracle happens, Obama is going to be the 44th POTUS
:(:( What a tragedy!
hispanic4hillary — that’s what Town Hall Debates are all about. Are you surprised that BO always, always declines to participate in Town Halls?
It is entirely the same as George Bush.
Obama is a Bubble Boy.
big time.
Now that is an idea….. : )
They ought to do that… Why don’t they have a debate where to “people” ask the questions.
FULL MOON RISING
If we want Rezko to sing we need to put him in a cell with some big thugs that will dress him up in pink in the cell and they can do what ever they want with him…and I am sure he will talk…guards just look the other way…hahaha
I agree, if a person supports Mccain they don’t want to hear about Phil Gramm
Murhphy…maybe we can write to the O camp and ask them to set up a people debate so he can defend his accusations if he wants people to speak the truth…
Who knows..maybe McCain has something up his sleeve and he is waiting until the last minute to let it loose….. just a thought
#104…I sure hope he does because I am about to loose it..
@#95 murphy:
An Obama supporter wrote that post you posted.
We’ve been trying to get it out to the media about Obama’s huge connections to ACORN, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Franklin Raines, et al.
Phil Gramm is what the Obama supporters refer to as McCain’s connection to this economic crisis.
They also ignore that McCain co-sponsored a bill in 2005 called the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act to warn against this disaster.
All the videos pumas have been posting on ACORN and this economic crisis have been making the rounds online. I’ve been posting stuff like this:
O’S DANGEROUS PALS
BARACK’S ‘ORGANIZER’ BUDS PUSHED FOR BAD MORTGAGES
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09292008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/os_dangerous_pals_131216.htm?&page=1
Barack Obama & Friends Caused U.S. Economic Crisis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbkEAR2GgiA
#82 nhforhillary
MURPHY
I, too, have been here as a proud PUMA for a long time and I share your concern about this post.
It strikes me as a complete misfire. If it is meant to be sarcastic, it misses. If it is meant to inform, it misses.
I would not put my credibility on the line by forwarding this material and questioned what MURPHY’s intentions were.
Check out the new ad on Mccains site using Bill Clinton to talk about freddie and fanny
Another good video linking Obama to the mortgage mess:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiEWCnpNnBQ
#106 kat in your hat
I posted that first article.
I saw that…
A democrat on a repulican ad…
hmmmmm – Who can reach outside of their own party?
McCain!
#110 The banana post? The front blog post?
Anyway, murphy was asking nhforhillary what she was talking about.
It was already mentioned on posts #33 and #35.
From : http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-limits-constituent-e-mails-to-prevent-crash-2008-09-30.html
“By Jordy Yager
Posted: 09/30/08 01:16 PM [ET]
The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill.
As a result, some constituents may get a ‘try back at a later time’ response if they use the House website to e-mail their lawmakers about the bill defeated in the House on Monday in a 205-228 vote.
“We were trying to figure out a way that the House.gov website wouldn’t completely crash,” said Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the Chief Administrative Office (CAO), which oversees the upkeep of the House website and member e-mail services.
The CAO issued a “Dear Colleague” letter Tuesday morning informing offices that it had placed a limit on the number of e-mails sent via the “Write Your Representative” function of the House website. It said the limit would be imposed during peak e-mail traffic hours.
“This measure has become temporarily necessary to ensure that Congressional websites are not completely disabled by the millions of e-mails flowing into the system,” the letter reads.
Ventura likened the problem to a bottleneck scenario on a highway, where multiple lanes of traffic converge into a smaller set of lanes. In that situation, some cars get to move forward while others have to remain at a standstill.
“What we had to do was basically install the digital equivalent of a traffic cop,” Ventura said. “It was a question of inconveniencing everybody or inconveniencing some people some of the time, while servicing other people the other half of the time.”
Member offices began to notice an overwhelming number of e-mails last week as the economy roiled and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, or “bailout package,” became of interest to millions of Americans. All the clogs in the traditional e-mail service have since been resolved, according to the CAO.
However, Ventura ventured that the problems on the House website might not be resolved until the economic package was finalized.
“We think we will see this spike [in Web traffic] until when and if another bill is hammered out,” Ventura said. “There’s going to be a lot of interest in this all week.”
The error message in its entirety reads:
“The House of Representatives is currently experiencing an extraordinarily high amount of e-mail traffic. The Write Your Representative function is therefore intermittently available. While we realize communicating to your Members of Congress is critical, we suggest attempting to do so at a later time, when demand is not so high. System engineers are working to resolve this issue and we appreciate your patience.”
thank you kat in your hat #106
also nijma #33.
good idea to change the name to Raines.
either way, no one in Washington or in DC is getting out of this clean.
I have one foot inside the bail out plan and one foot outside of it.
I honestly don’t know what would be the best idea.
I get skeptical when Bush wants something, and even more distrustful of the bail out because of the democrats, Fannie and Freddie and ACORN.
It’s like…we would be helping Obama both ways. Course, I don’t know if we would really get hurt without a bail out either.
It just plain sucks because I do not have faith in the government at all anymore.
The photo on the front page of the Drudge looks like Obama and Biden are gonna make out…………
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Hello everyone,
I’m including an article from the conservative magazine “American Thinker.” That line, “Now it’s our party: we bought it, we own it, and we are going to take it back” is a perfect illustration of the attitude that made the corruption in the Democratic Party primaries possible. After all, how dare HC think she could have any say in the Democratic Party when she isn’t even part owner. What was she (and we as her supporters) thinking, that we live in some kind of democracy?
I saw George Soros on the BBC about a week ago and he didn’t look too pleased. I would think he would be ecstatic. He now pretty much owns the Democratic Party and if things go as he planned he will get to control the most powerful country in the world. Oh well, I guess some people don’t know how to enjoy their success.
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“How allies of George Soros helped bring down Wachovia Bank”
American Thinker
9/30/08
“The Sandlers have started to invest their billions of dollars politically, in the manner of George Soros, sugar daddy of many far-left wing groups and an early and prominent supporter of Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Soros has developed an empire of so-called 527 groups, putatively independent political activists groups that have influence within the Democratic Party. These 527 groups include the Center for American Progress, MoveOn.Org, Human Rights Watch, Media Matters and a slew of other like-minded groups .
This set of political organizations also includes the International Crisis Group, whose foreign policy staff is likely to contain the embryonic future of the State Department in an Obama Administration . Eli Pariser, who heads MoveOn.Org, boasts about his group’s role in the Democratic Party:
‘Now it’s our party: we bought it, we own it, and we are going to take it back.’
They have already done so, in large measure.
The top four donors to these 527 groups in the last Presidential election cycle (2004) were Soros, Peter Lewis of Progressive Insurance, Steven Bing, and Herbert and Marion Sandler . Collectively they gave 78 million dollars to left-leaning 527 groups. That was just in 2004. They have become much more ambitious over the last few years.” http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/how_allies_of_george_soros_hel.html
#116 BillieJo
Much needed (and welcome) comic relief!
I e-mailed our paper today because of a vicious letter
about John McCain. This dip actually said, ” What has McCain done? He got shot down costing us a $50M plane. Then he spent 5 years as a POW. Big Deal.”
I went crazy and really let him have it. My husband won’t speak to me for two days or so. Sorry, but I stand up for my principles.
There are only two signs that I have seen: one in front of my Doctor’s office, and on the way back from the hospital there was a small sign. What is going on? This is the most important election in my lifetime.
Three or so threads down, I said how upset I was that the “bailout failed”. Most of you were very happy. I still do no understand that.
You think it will just hurt the billionaires? They have so much money, they won’t even notice.
It is the middle class that will take the hit on this. I look at this through my daughter’s eyes. She has a mortgage. What if the bank that holds her mortgage and many others fail? She won’t be able to find a bank to refinance it…
What if the bank that holds my granddaughter’s college fund fails? She just started college in September.
I feel we are headed for a BIG depression..
John, if you have an October surprise, you better let it out now. They are blaming John for the defeat of the bailout. His party caused it to fail.
John’s numbers are dropping like a rock. We are going to end up with that inexperienced nobama as President. Maybe he’ll give his terrorist friend a position in his cabinet.
My friends, this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
86 osaka puma
Were you able to call?
#115 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 5:39 pm I have one foot inside the bail out plan and one foot outside of it.
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I know how you feel. But yesterday my husband was reduced to part time since the bail out didnt go through. The company wants to hold onto its money, so ALL employees went part part time, (1-2days week).
So I guess I am now for it. We are in new construction, it has been though for us for about a year now.
I just watched McCain’s ad in Pennsylvania using Joe Biden’s Gaff about NO CLEAN COAL PLANTS IN AMERICA. COAL represents thousand of jobs in Penn., Ohio and Michigan.
Ads cost big money, and you have to reserve the BIG money for the last week or so.
The Ads will come out about Ayers, Wright, etc. when they have the maximum punch.
What you think about, you will create. STOP FREAKING OUT.
A day after the Ohio Supreme Court and two separate federal judges cleared the way for voting to begin, more than 800 people walked in to the Hamilton County Board of Elections to cast their ballots.
http://www.wlwt.com/politics/17592491/detail.html
Russ Limbaugh is out there everyday fighting for McCain. His show has between 14 and 20 million listeners per week…
McCain is a very smart politician. Remember he was not expected to get this far.
Murphy…can you solicit to the big Repub donors and you can send it to other PACS to pay for advertising time???? We can tell them its for advertising against O…and they m ight open their checkbooks…with quite a few zeros at the end…just a thought…
hey guys… i was wonderin… does anybody know if Chelsea is campaigning for Obamessiah?
I think the “viral email” Murphy posted is funny and has potential for a good viral email we can send out (w/some changes)… but I just don’t see how this one can help us in trying to defeat BO.
Phil Gramm is (was?) a campaign adviser for McCain that some (esp the Left) blame as a main culprit the financial crisis (the subprime meltdown)… so the “letter” seems to be kind’a “anti” McCain, by implication.
I’ll read it more carefully later when I have more time… but is there something I’m not seeing here?
It just doesn’t seem to help in our efforts to defeat BO.
UPDATE: I was about to post this and saw that others have made a point similar to mine.
I SUGGEST WE TAKE IT AND MAKE A FEW CHANGES THAT IMPLICATE BO & HIS FINANCIAL ADVISORS & cronies AND DONORS (Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae) IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS… AND SEND IT OFF VIRALLY
Hey I’m back nothing much happened while i was gone I see.
#116 BillieJo
“The photo on the front page of the Drudge looks like Obama and Biden are gonna make out…………”
Were is Obama and Biden? All I see is a vase.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/optical_illusions/images/faces.gif
I am clueless why the polls are going towards Obama in the economic crisis. Like what has BO ever done, besides the 90 bil+ in earmarks, to improve the economy??? Are they going on his improved income on his tax returns?
kat in your hat #115
same here.
slypuma — nope — a rawther quiet day.
excitement building for the VP debate I think.
new thread up — apologies to any offended by the Banana Republic viral email.
take it upstairs!
#131 shasta2001
Anger. Stupidity.
But hay,.. I am working off of survival and revenge so pobodies perfect.
Fox reaming ACORN
Good. More Obama, ACORN, Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson on Fox News right now.
Boston Herald PROUDLY endorsing MCCAIN !
We need something bigger than this new Repub. ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9j_epTmr2c&eurl=http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/09/rnc-launches-new-ad-worse.html
I’m glad the Herald endorsed McCain too. They have seen the light! lol
http://princessejen.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/the-puma-movement/
We’re all in big trouble. McCain has CRS. And Obama had DKS.
GYPSY – TEST TEST TEST – you can see I can get into this thread but not FIREWALL – Oh give me strength..
Gypsy as you can see above Gandalf did a post on this one as well – explaining to Dances – that all of us that had this problem had used the media action center – wonder if there is a virus somehow in that – but then why would it work on one thread and not on another….
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