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Friday, February 06, 2009

ROCK'EM SOCK'EM BARACK'EM

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ROPE-A-DOPING THE GOP

AFTER TAKING THE HITS ALL WEEK, ALI, UH, OBAMA COMES OUT SWINGING, AT LAST!

YOUTUBE: "THE UNTOUCHABLES"
"The Chicago Way"
"What are you prepared to do? If you open the ball on these people, you must be prepared to go all the way. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you put one of his in the morgue. That's the Chicago way... The Lord hates a coward."



Americans Cheer As President Goes Into Combat

Us Yanks, we love politics, but only when it's a blood sport. The Chicago way is fine with us. Most of my fellow New Yorkers would agree with this: If the other guy brings a tire iron, you bring a baseball bat. If the other guy brings a knife, you bring a gun. If the other guy brings a bucket of horsesh*t, you bring a firehose. Obama cut loose with the Presidential firehose yesterday, flushing obstructionist partisan Republican horsesh*t right down the DC drains, where it belongs.

Reminding us why they lost the election, career conservative failures have dithered and whined and pissed and moaned and bitched and complained all week like the bunch of little sh*ts they truly are and always have been. The take away: The extreme right wing in Washington doesn't give a crap about the American people. All they care about is their rich foreign buddies and the crooks on Wall Street who own their pimply white saggy old Republican asses. They have no answers, no solutions, no way out of the mess they created. They have only horsesh*t.

It's time they were handled as they have so richly f**king deserved for hundreds of years now: These descendants of slavers and slumlords, Tories and Nazi's, bankers and brokers, torturers and mass-murderers of innocent women and children around the world. They need to be beaten to the ground and stomped out of existence, once and for all. The Lord hates a coward. Batter up!


BLOOMBERG
"U.S. Economy: Jobless Rate Soars and Payrolls Plunge by 598,000"
Attention Republicans: Look out the f**king widow!!!
' The unemployment rate reached the highest level since 1992 and payrolls tumbled in January, with millions more likely to lose their jobs before a stimulus and emergency-lending programs temper the U.S. economy’s freefall. '


YOUTUBE: CNN: PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH ON ECONOMY
"President Obama's Famous Presidential Speech on the Economy - 2-5-09.- AWESOME SPEECH - Part-1"
"It is time to get something done here in Washington. Don't come to the table with the same tired arguments and worn ideas that helped to create this crisis. This is not a game."


YOUTUBE: ROPE-A-DOPE
"MuhammadAli-George Foreman comments pt1"
Hang on the ropes and take the punches, let your opponent wear himself out.

YOUTUBE: ROPE-A-DOPE
"MuhammadAli-George Foreman comments pt2"
Wait till your opponent is all punched out. Then BAM! Knockout!

WASHINGTON POST: OBAMA OP-ED PIECE 2/5/09
"The Action Americans Need"
Counterpunch.
' By now, it's clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression. Millions of jobs that Americans relied on just a year ago are gone; millions more of the nest eggs families worked so hard to build have vanished. People everywhere are worried about what tomorrow will bring.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives -- action that's swift, bold and wise enough for us to climb out of this crisis.

Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more people lose their jobs, their savings and their homes. And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.

That's why I feel such a sense of urgency about the recovery plan before Congress. With it, we will create or save more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, provide immediate tax relief to 95 percent of American workers, ignite spending by businesses and consumers alike, and take steps to strengthen our country for years to come.

This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending -- it's a strategy for America's long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, health care and education. And it's a strategy that will be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability, so Americans know where their tax dollars are going and how they are being spent.

In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis -- the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems; that we can meet our enormous tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures; that we can ignore fundamental challenges such as energy independence and the high cost of health care and still expect our economy and our country to thrive.

I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change. They know that we have tried it those ways for too long. And because we have, our health-care costs still rise faster than inflation. Our dependence on foreign oil still threatens our economy and our security. Our children still study in schools that put them at a disadvantage. We've seen the tragic consequences when our bridges crumble and our levees fail.

Every day, our economy gets sicker -- and the time for a remedy that puts Americans back to work, jump-starts our economy and invests in lasting growth is now.

Now is the time to protect health insurance for the more than 8 million Americans at risk of losing their coverage and to computerize the health-care records of every American within five years, saving billions of dollars and countless lives in the process.

Now is the time to save billions by making 2 million homes and 75 percent of federal buildings more energy-efficient, and to double our capacity to generate alternative sources of energy within three years.

Now is the time to give our children every advantage they need to compete by upgrading 10,000 schools with state-of-the-art classrooms, libraries and labs; by training our teachers in math and science; and by bringing the dream of a college education within reach for millions of Americans.

And now is the time to create the jobs that remake America for the 21st century by rebuilding aging roads, bridges and levees; designing a smart electrical grid; and connecting every corner of the country to the information superhighway.

These are the actions Americans expect us to take without delay. They're patient enough to know that our economic recovery will be measured in years, not months. But they have no patience for the same old partisan gridlock that stands in the way of action while our economy continues to slide.

So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.

The writer is president of the United States. '
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: "HENRY V"
"Saint Crispin's Day Speech"
A message from 410 years ago.
' If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. '
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

BARACK OBAMA VS. RUSH LIMBAUGH ON BAILOUT BILL

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LIMBAUGH SPONSOR BOYCOTT: LATEST LISTS

NEW: ADVERTISERS UPDATED CONTACT INFO FOR THE LIMBAUGH SHOW

Stop Rush Now: Fresh Emails, Phone Numbers, Names & Addresses

Please write these sponsers, underwriters & advertizers today and tell them to dump rush:


Dear Sir or Madam,

Please stop supporting Rush Limbaugh's efforts to tear this country down and ruin our economy. I will not buy your product again until you withdraw all advertising from the Rush Limbaugh radio show and websites.

Thank You,

[Signed]

[Dated]





LEFT IN ALABAMA
http://www.leftinalabama.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3319
Would you boycott Limbaugh's sponsors?

SPONSOR EMAIL ADDRESSES:

otherinfo@overstock.com

investor.relations@autozone.com

ctasher@geico.com

tward@geico.com

cfernandez@geico.com

jminshall@geico.com

contactmarketing@geico.com

investorrelations@selectcomfort.com

advertising@hotwire.com

info@lifequotes.com.au

Feedback@RegionalHelpWanted.com


OTHERS
Some sponsors can only be reached through their websites. Here are the links:

http://www.lumberliquidators.com/custserv/contactus.jsp

http://www.oreck.com/customer-service/contact-oreck.cfm

http://www.blue-emu.com/contact.html

http://www.eharmony.com/advertising/contact


MR. L:
And here are Mr. L.'s email address if you want to cc him and let him know exactly how you feel about him.

rhl@eibnet.com

rprivate@eibnet.com

rush@eibnet.com

70277.2502@compuserve.com





RUSH WENT TOO FAR.SYNTHASITE.com
http://rushwenttofar.synthasite.com/

boycott rush limbaugh sponsers

Rush Has Gone Too Far Boycott His Sponsers
Its time to act email or call his sponsers

Overstock.com
1-800-989-0135
(customer comments and service email)
otherinfo@overstock.com

eharmony
300 N. Lake Ave., Suite 1111
Pasadena, CA 91101
media@eharmony.com
Web contact form
626.795.4814
FAX 626.585.4040

Inverness Medical (maker of stresstabs)
51 Sawyer Road
Waltham, MA 02021
1-800-899-7353 weekdays, 8 am. - 6 p.m. (Eastern Time.)

Onstar
Online comment form
Contact Us
Use the links on this page to contact us online at anytime or push the blue OnStar button to speak to a trained Advisor, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For assistance with technical concerns, call 1.888.4.ONSTAR (1.888.466.7827), Monday-Friday, 6 a.m.-Midnight (12 a.m.) EST.
Online:
Send us an email
By mail:
OnStar Subscriber Services
P.O. Box 430627
Pontiac, MI 48343
You can submit a request in writing for documentation of your OnStar service record. OnStar will respond to you within 12 business days upon receipt of your written request. Send your written request to:
OnStar Corporation
Attention: Records Request
P.O. Box 430627
Pontiac, MI 48343
By telephone:
1.888.4.ONSTAR (1.888.466.7827)
TTY Users Only (Deaf, hard-of-hearing, or speech impaired):
Send us an email: TTY@onstar.com
1.877.248.2080

Hotwire Corporate Headquarters
333 Market Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94105
advertising@hotwire.com
1-877-HOTWIRE (468-9473)
415-343-8400

Sleep Number Bed
1-800-438-2233

The Neptune Society of Northern California
Stewart Enterprises
12070 Telegraph Road #107
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners
Oreck Corporation
100 Plantation Road
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123
Online contact form
1-800-289-5888

Smart & Final
Customer Relations
PO Box 512377
Los Angeles, CA 91001-0377
(Heard on KFI 640 in Los Angeles)

Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee
9151 Grapevine Hwy.
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Phone (800) 733-1110
(web banner ads on rushlimbaugh.com)

AutoZone Inc.
P.O. Box 2198
Memphis, TN 38101
Phone (901) 495-7185
Fax (901) 495-8374
investor.relations@autozone.com

UPDATED - Citracal - Mission Pharmacal
Bennett Kennedy - Citracal Product Manager
Mission Pharmacal
P.O. Box 786099
San Antonio, TX 78278-6099
Phone:(800) 531-3333

Blue-Emu
1-800-432-9334
Contact Us

Red Lobster
customer comment form: CLICK HERE
Or Write to:
P.O. Box 593330
Orlando, FL 32859-3330
Guest Relations Hotline
1-800-LOBSTER (1-800-562-7837)

Lumber Liquidators
Toll Free: 877-645-5347
Contact Us

Avacor (hair loss treatment)
(customer comments email)
comments@avacorusa.com

Lazerguide® (golf instruction tool)
PO Box 807
New Hudson Michigan 48165
1-877-266-6430 (toll free)

Mission Pharmacal Company
10999 IH-10 West Suite 1000
San Antonio, TX 78230
Telephone: (800) 531-3333

General Steel Metal Buildings
1075 South Yukon, Ste. 250
Lakewood, Colorado 80226
Toll Free: 1-888-98-STEEL
Phone: 303-904-4837
Fax: 303-979-0084

Life Quotes, Inc.
32045 Castle Court
Evergreen, CO 80439
1-800-670-5433
info@lifequotes.com.au

Select Comfort Corporation
6105 Trenton Lane N
Minneapolis, MN 55442
Phone: 763-551-7000
Fax: 763-551-7826
investorrelations@selectcomfort.com

RegionalHelpWanted.com, Inc.
1 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 506
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
800-365-8630
845-471-5200
Feedback@RegionalHelpWanted.com

The Swap Shop CLICK HERE
3291 East Sunrise
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
swpshop@aol.com
Phone - 954.791.$WAP

Pfizer Inc
235 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
212-733-2323





DAILY KOS.COM STORIES
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/15/114/75092/695/630864

Now is the time to Boycott Fox and Rush!
Below is a list of contact information and advertisers on the Rush Limbaugh Show.

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/...

http://www.topplebush.com/...
Contact Information:
Show Call-in Number 1-800-282-2882
Show Fax Number 1-212-563-9166
If you would like to contact Limbaugh at his PRIVATE email addresses, you might do so on AOL/Compuserve at:
70277.2502@compuserve.com or
rhl@eibnet.com or
rprivate@eibnet.com
Rush's public email address is:
rush@eibnet.com


Geico
Ted Ward - VP Marketing tward@geico.com
Marketing Generic Email contactmarketing@geico.com
Christine Tasher - Director, Public Relations ctasher@geico.com
Celeste Fernandez - Public Relations Specialist cfernandez@geico.com
Janice Minshall - Assistant VP, Communications jminshall@geico.com
1-800-947-AUTO



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Monday, December 22, 2008

NO BLESSED OBLIGE? NOT OUR NOBLEMEN!

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BANKERS & BROKERS & BUREAUCRATS ARE NOT LIKE US

THEY ARE UNANSWERABLE. THEY HAVE NO OBLIGATIONS TO ANYONE. THEY SPIT ON YOUR PETTY LEGALITIES. PTUI!

YOUTUBE: MEL BROOKS
"The French Revolution (from The History of The World Part 1)"
Keep your eye on the Count de Monet.


You Filthy Peasants, You! How DARE You Question Your Lords & Masters!!!???

You'll be lucky if they even LET you eat cake, now! They may choose, instead, to cut off your credit lines altogether. They know that many of you technoserfs have been living on plastic, even eating off it, for years. You are as helpless and dependent upon the Lords of Finance as a newborn babe is on his mother's teats.

Suck as ye may, little people, there will be no milk-money for you today. Your tax money went for limousines for our Wall Street princes, the Big People. Limousines and private jets, that they might not have to mix with commoners (that's you) in traffic, or at the airport. Your tax money bought them mansions and memberships in exclusive private country clubs where persons of your smelly ilk can only dream of the luxuries, unless you have a job shining shoes or cutting the grass there, you smelly ilk, you. Phew!

Without such employment, you would be arrested and carted off to a jail built with your own money, if you ever so much as tried to approach these aristocratic domains, and you know it, you low-born swine. Just ask any cop: They only enter such precincts by invitation or appointment. They know which side their bread is buttered on, and it ain't your side. Even if it is your money that buys the butter.

What's that? Why don't your Senators and Congressmen call them to account? HAH! Did you say "your" Senators & Congressmen? Do you think that you own them? Do you think they would ever take a call from you? HAH! And you expect them to call the rich and powerful, on your behalf? How would they dare to? The rich and powerful do not take calls from mere politicians. When they call a politician, it is the politician who snaps to. There will be no calling to account here, my good fellow. Your tax dollars will not be spent trying to find out what happened to your tax dollars in the $700 billion bailout, my dear chappie. Your tax dollars will be funneled right back into the pockets of a select few politicians by the bankers & brokers liege, and the investigation will disappear, mon cher petit homme. Voila!

If you don't like it, you can always vote for change. But you can see how well that works. Try sending an email to one of those addresses where you sent a campaign contribution just a month or so ago. Try responding to the new requests for money by the winners of the recent elections. Try asking them what has happened to your money, and what is going on with the bail-out. Let me know if they give you a meaningful answer. Or any answer at all.

In some grubby foreign country, the peasantry might arise under such circumstances. Ordinary people might march in the streets, and refuse to work until their questions had been answered, and the injustices were made right, and their hard-earned money was returned, or spent on them. No business at all would be done until the people were satisfied. But what are we talking, France, here? They're democrats with a small "d," you stupid peasant. They have socialism for the poor, not the rich, like us. And besides, they're French! Phew!

Relative deprivation, anyone? No, you won't ever hear any tumbrils rolling, or heads, either. Life will go on as always, only worse. Unless, of course, you are born to the purple, and live on the receiving end of public moneys. But that's a real fairy tale for you, ain't it? You cap-doffing, forelock-pulling, knee-bending, flag-saluting peon, you. HAH! I laugh in your common face! HAH! PEASANT!

YAHOO NEWS
"Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret"
Moi? Je refuse a reponder!
' It's something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where's the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation's largest banks say they can't track exactly how they're spending the money or they simply refuse to discuss it. "We've lent some of it. We've not lent some of it. We've not given any accounting of, 'Here's how we're doing it,'" said Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for JPMorgan Chase, which received $25 billion in emergency bailout money. "We have not disclosed that to the public. We're declining to." The Associated Press contacted 21 banks that received at least $1 billion in government money and asked four questions: How much has been spent? What was it spent on? How much is being held in savings, and what's the plan for the rest? None of the banks provided specific answers. "We're not providing dollar-in, dollar-out tracking," said Barry Koling, a spokesman for Atlanta, Ga.-based SunTrust Banks Inc., which got $3.5 billion in taxpayer dollars. Some banks said they simply didn't know where the money was going. '

YAHOO NEWS
"AP study finds $1.6B went to bailed-out bank execs"
It's good to be the king, hunh?
' Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals. The rewards came even at banks where poor results last year foretold the economic crisis that sent them to Washington for a government rescue. Some trimmed their executive compensation due to lagging bank performance, but still forked over multimillion-dollar executive pay packages. Benefits included cash bonuses, stock options, personal use of company jets and chauffeurs, home security, country club memberships and professional money management, the AP review of federal securities documents found. The total amount given to nearly 600 executives would cover bailout costs for many of the 116 banks that have so far accepted tax dollars to boost their bottom lines. '

CNN MONEY
"How to spend $350 billion in 77 days"
Money? What money? Oh, THAT money! Dunno.
' In two-and-a-half months, the Treasury has used up half of the money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Here's how it came and went so fast. President Bush has grudgingly allowed General Motors and Chrysler to drive away with the last few billion bucks in Treasury's TARP till, which boasted $350 billion a mere 77 days ago. How did it all slip away so fast? The money pot -- intended to save the teetering financial system -- was formally proposed in a three-page missive that Treasury sent to Congress on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 20. Over the course of two weeks, lawmakers debated the potential moral, ethical and financial hazards of handing over unprecedented power and unprecedented sums of taxpayer money to the Treasury. Their responses ranged from gobsmacked to apoplectic. One cause of Capitol Hill's bailout rage: the Treasury has not used TARP money to help prevent foreclosures. Democratic lawmakers, who crafted the legislation and purposefully included language about foreclosure prevention, beg to differ. They have said repeatedly they will not release any more TARP money until the Treasury commits to use some of it to help troubled homeowners. Second, lawmakers are not happy Treasury has given so much capital to banks without requiring them to lend more and do more to oversee how the banks are using the money. Paulson has said Treasury told TARP recipients that it expects them to lend. "But it's not practical or prudent for the government to say 'make this loan, don't make that loan,'" he said Thursday, speaking at an event in New York. '

ABC NEWS
"Why Isn't the Bailout Working?"
Why isn't Congress working?
' Fed Remains Mum on Billions Already Sent to Banks. The word "bailout" was one of the most-searched-for terms on the Internet this year. It's been all over the news. It's been discussed everywhere from Congress to American living rooms. But what happened to that money that was already handed out? What happened to that first chunk of change from the $700 billion bailout that was supposed to increase lending? The plan didn't exactly work. The Dow has dropped 2,000 points since Congress approve those confidence-restoring funds. But there's more. While the media focuses on those billions of dollars, the Federal Reserve Bank is quietly committing trillions of dollars and in return getting collateral from the banks. But they aren't saying what exactly that collateral is. "We have been asked to engage in oversight for the $700 billion that Treasury may be authorized to spend," Warren said. "But the Federal Reserve Bank is out there now, committing trillions of dollars." "We don't even know, in the case of the Fed, to which institutions it's going, much less to what use it's being put," she said. '

THE TIMES OF LONDON
"Henry Paulson - US economy still unstable"
Mea culpa? Nope "It's Congress's fault."
' Henry Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, has warned that the American financial system remains unstable and indicated that the world's largest economy will not return to growth until well into the next administration. Speaking in New York last night, Mr Paulson said that while he was "rooting for the next Administration", the new President faces a long road of "stability, recovery and then repair - this situation is going to take longer to unfold". '
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Saturday, November 22, 2008

PART OF THE PROBLEM NOW PART OF THE SOLUTION?

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OBAMA NAMES ANOTHER CLINTONIAN BUSHCO REAGANAUT TO HIS CABINET

NY FED CHAIRMAN OK'ED DERIVATIVE "EXPERIMENT" & LEHMAN BROS FAILURE THAT STARTED CRISIS

WALLstreetWHORE copyright 2008 Cosanostradamus blog me no blog

But Obama Thinks He's A "Kewl Guy," So . . .

People keep saying wait and see, give Obama a chance, he's not even inaugurated yet, give him a chance to govern, benefit of the doubt, didn't make this mess, needs time to fix it, be patient, yatta-yatta-yatta. But every day brings a new old guy into the Obama Cabinet, a "new" remnant of the right-wing Carter-Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush years. How are THEY going to effect CHANGE when they are the very people whose numb-nuts notions caused the problems that now urgently require change? Would you let the surgeon who cut off the wrong foot operate on the other foot? Yes? Then you should work for Obama, too.

Is this really the kind of "experience" we want in this crisis? Are the fears on Wall Street that they will be called to account all we care about? I say hang the motherf*ckers, don't hire them. With a few hundred economic "experts," bureaucrats, brokers and bankers swinging from the lamp-posts of Wall Street, maybe they might get the message: Our economy is not their f*cking playground. Our jobs and homes are not their piggybank. Our country does not belong to them.

What Obama is doing instead is giving these criminals and bumbling incompetents the green light to keep right on gambling, stealing and screwing up. He's telling them that not only will there be no punishments, there will be tax-payer funded rewards. In effect, there is absolutely no difference between the Obama Administration and the last forty-three Administrations, as far as economic policy goes: The rich will always get richer, and the poor will always get poorer. The rest of us just have to bust our asses to stay out of poverty, or steal our asses off to join the rich at the hog trough.

To them it is all a game, or an academic exercise. To us, our economy, our economic system, our way of doing business is our life, and our death. Suicides and murders are up; and as the economy gets so worse, so will the violence. Families will be destroyed, children abandoned, education and careers will end, businesses will close their doors forever, whole towns will be wiped out. But to our financial elite, those are all just statistics.

Maybe they should be forced to live among us, to experience first-hand the pain their little games have caused us. Maybe if a heartbroken mother breaks down in tears right in front of them, or a disillusioned child forces one of them to witness the depths of his or her bitterness at the destruction of all their dreams, hopes and plans, or an angry father kicks their ass, then they'll get it.

The first qualification of any candidate for Treasury Secretary, or Fed Chairman, head of the FDIC or the Council of Economic Advisers or the heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the SEC should be that they spend a year working in a factory and living in a cheap apartment with some other workers. Let them live the consequences of their own actions, like any convicted sociopath. Otherwise, they will just never understand. And nothing will ever change.


NY TIMES
"For Treasury, Geithner Said to Be Choice "
He broke it. Now he'll fix it? Is the gene pool THIS shallow?
' But people close to Mr. Obama say that he clicked with Mr. Geithner during a recent private meeting. The two men are the same age, 47, and Mr. Obama is closer temperamentally to the low-key and almost boyish Mr. Geithner than to the more tightly wound Mr. Summers. Mr. Summers, who will be 54 on Nov. 30, is universally described as brilliant, but is also renowned for being arrogant, occasionally rude and sometimes difficult to work with. In choosing Mr. Geithner, Mr. Obama would signal both a change at the Treasury Department and continuity in its economic rescue efforts. With the current Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., and Mr. Bernanke, Mr. Geithner — who as head of the New York Fed is the central bank’s eyes and ears on Wall Street — has been part of a troika that has struggled this year to contain the credit crisis. Along with Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke, Mr. Geithner has come under criticism for the original construction of the $700 billion bailout plan, which had to be overhauled and has so far failed to remedy the financial crisis. But his association with the current administration’s policies is balanced by his close connections to the centrist Democratic policies of President Bill Clinton and Mr. Clinton’s best-known Treasury secretary, Robert E. Rubin. Mr. Geithner served under Mr. Rubin as well as Mr. Summers at the Treasury Department in the 1990s, and rose to be under secretary for international affairs. Michael Froman, Mr. Rubin’s former Treasury chief of staff and Mr. Obama’s classmate at Harvard Law School, is heading the economics personnel search for the transition. Mr. Froman’s head-hunting deputy is Mr. Rubin’s son, James Rubin. The Rubin wing of the Democratic Party has long been disparaged by liberals and union leaders as being too concerned with balanced budgets and free trade. But much of the ideological tension in the party has dissipated as the economy has weakened, and Mr. Obama has signaled that he intends to spend what it takes to get the economy back on track. Mr. Geithner also seems to fit Mr. Obama’s emphasis on “post-partisanship.” Associates say Mr. Geithner is an independent, though he was a Republican when he first was a staff member at the Treasury Department in the late 1980s under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush. After college, he worked in the New York-based international consulting firm headed by Henry A. Kissinger. After leaving the Treasury Department, Mr. Geithner worked at the International Monetary Fund until he was hired in 2003 as president of the New York Fed. As the bank’s president, Mr. Geithner has had a seat on the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets short-term interest rates. He spent two years studying the complexities of the new credit derivatives that spread financial risk, but also exacerbated the economic downturn when the credit squeeze set in. “The fact that the banks are stronger and risk is spread more broadly should make the system more stable,” Mr. Geithner said in an interview in early 2007. “We can’t know that with certainty, though. We’ll have a test of that when things next threaten to fall apart.” The test began later that year as the housing credit crisis took hold. Working closely with Mr. Bernanke, Mr. Geithner early this year engineered the $30 billion bailout of Bear Stearns. Since September, the two of them and Mr. Paulson together have steered the government takeover of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, bailouts of American International Group and a number of financial institutions, and the design of the $700 billion bailout program. Mr. Geithner has also had a part in some high-profile missteps, including the government’s decision to allow Lehman Brothers to fail; some experts say that destabilized markets and helped to spread the financial contagion globally. '

WASHINGTON POST
"A Treasury Contender Schooled in Crisis"
He was for it before he was against it. Too late!
' For the Obama administration, Geithner's appointment would offer a sense of continuity at Treasury. He has, after all, worked closely with Paulson and Fed chairman Ben S. Bernanke. But with continuity comes baggage. As president of the New York Fed -- one of 12 regional outposts that regulate banks and help set the nation's monetary policy -- Geithner has been the central bank's chief emissary to Wall Street as it has disintegrated. In speeches during the years leading up to the crisis, Geithner repeatedly raised concerns about frailties in the financial system -- pointing out, for example, weaknesses in the settlement and clearing systems by which financial transactions occur and the absence of oversight in the market for obscure financial products known as derivatives. But many of those speeches ultimately concluded with Geithner suggesting the financial system was becoming more stable rather than less. He did not wage aggressive campaigns on Wall Street or Capitol Hill to step up regulation. "The changes in credit markets that have accompanied the latest wave of innovation in derivatives and the large role played by leveraged financial institutions in those markets may exacerbate some of the traditional sources of challenges in financial markets," Geithner said in a 2006 speech in Hong Kong. But, he continued, "On balance, we believe these changes in the financial environment are likely to come with substantial benefits in terms of overall market efficiency." In fact, derivatives and leveraged financial institutions have been major reasons for the financial crisis, which is the most severe since the Great Depression. '

BUSINESS WEEK
"Geithner: Obama's Likely Treasury Choice"
Oh, good: No business experience or education. Well, not NO experience. Just some very BAD experience.
' "As much as you want some fresh ideas in there, I think at this point in time, having some continuity in there is a good thing," said Frederick Cannon, chief equity strategist at the research firm Keefe Bruyette & Woods. "The main thing the markets need is confidence." Still, Geithner's key role in the government's response to the financial crisis in recent months has garnered him his share of criticism. Take, for example, this passage from the recent issue of Institutional Risk Analyst, an influential newsletter written by managing director Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics: "We have only two things to say about Tim Geithner, who we do not know: AIG and Lehman Brothers. Throw in the Bear, Stearns…fiasco for good measure. All of these 'rescues' are a disaster for the taxpayer, for the financial markets, and also for the Federal Reserve System as an organization. Geithner, in our view, deserves retirement, not promotion." With a bachelor's degree in government and Asian studies from Dartmouth College and a master's in international economics from Johns Hopkins, Geithner may not be an academic economist or an ex-Wall Street banker or corporate executive, a break with the recent past. At the same time, he is no stranger to handling economic crises that are international in scope. Critics warned that the move could encourage greater risk-taking by financial firms newly confident of a government bailout should they falter. Joseph Mason, an associate finance professor at Drexel University, told American Banker in May that the deal "opened a Pandora's box" and Geithner's role suggested that he is prone to "ideas that are just not always completely articulated or thought out." Geithner, however, has been unapologetic about his actions last spring. He has said the distress sale was the "only feasible option." '

PORTFOLIO.COM
"The Man Who Saved (or Got Suckered by) Wall Street"
Ah! No WONDER Wall Street loves him! He's their bitch!
' Geithner was the central figure in that drama. It was Geithner’s Federal Reserve bank, not the Treasury, that came up with the $29 billion loan that made the deal possible or, more precisely, acceptable to J.P. Morgan. Geithner brought the parties together, hashed out the details, and demanded answers when things got shaky. It was a heady role for a noneconomist who has, to put it kindly, only on-the-job training in the financial markets and who relies on an A-list inner circle. Officially, his advisers include the board of the New York Fed, which counts several heads of financial institutions as members. Unofficially, he has built an impressive career with the help of a number of kingmakers, including some with a financial interest in the industry he oversees. Thus Geithner reports to a board that is composed of people who are not only under his purview but would also benefit from any potential bailouts. The structure of the New York Fed’s board bears more than a passing resemblance to that of the New York Stock Exchange in the bad old days, when member firms, regulated by the N.Y.S.E., were heavily represented on its board. '
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

ALT BAILOUT

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IS THIS ANY WAY TO RUN AN ECONOMY?

YOU BET IT AIN'T

Bad Behavior Rewarded, Good Behavior Punished. Whatever Happened To That Freakin' Protestant Ethic? Or Any Ethics At All?

I used to get into arguments with my Micro & Macro Economics professors in college back in the 70's. Even then, you could see that the stock market was a casino. It was more often ruled by emotion than logic, rumors rather than facts, opinions and snow-jobs instead of hard-nosed researchers and skeptical investors.

Old, established, successful, reliable companies were frequently under-valued, and not invested in by either Joe Sixpack or many of the "Masters of the Universe." Brand new shiny flashy fly-by-nights got all the attention, and sucked up a lot of the cash, never to be seen again. They were just sexier, I guess, like the hot young thing compared to the faithful but frumpy spouse. Human nature, I suppose.

My profs insisted that humanity had nothing to do with Wall Street. It was all cold logic and careful analysis. The fundamentals were sound. This was their Bible: You were required to memorize it and live by it unquestioningly, regurgitating it on demand, like the Baltimore Catechism I had to imbibe whole in order to become a "Soldier in the Army of Christ," as we young Catholics were called after our Confirmation (a sort of goyischer bar mitzvah).

It required the acceptance as incontrovertibly true of certain basic precepts upon which the whole elaborate structure of the One True Faith was founded. The whole vast megillah was all based on faith, blind acceptance of the basic precepts and first principles, however flawed. I couldn't quite swallow it. Too many internal inconsistencies and contradictions of reality just stuck in my throat. Bottom line, I'm not a believer. In anything.

My devout Chicago-school economics prof's penalized me for that. These were the years when Michael Milken at alia were matriculating at colleges and universities all over the country. They would graduate, ultimately, to Wall Street and the Fed, corporate suites and boardrooms, clawing their way to the top by coming up with schemes and scams that put clever accounting ahead of sound business practices. The tactics resulted in huge rewards for their practitioners, and multiple failures of companies, industries and whole sectors of the economy. Adherence to a religion without a God or any moral or ethical principles brought immediate, enormous earthly rewards.

Young punk MBA's and insanely creative CFO's & CEO's made hundreds of millions for themselves by screwing loyal workers out of their pensions, steadfast investors out of their life savings, suppliers and business partners out of their businesses, government out of their duly owed taxes, and customers out of the quality goods & services upon which they had come to rely. It was the end of Life As We Knew It. And it continues today.

It's all about the bling-bling now. Racist conservative assholes enjoy excoriating gang-bangers for their morality, or lack of it. But, really, they're just trying to grab the big brass American Dream-ring, by any means necessary, just like the extremely white boys in the Lower Manhattan hood. Some may say that Wall Street is copying Compton these days, but it's really the other way around.

The way you make it in the world today is not "working hard and playing by the rules." It's ignoring the rules and screwing everybody you can. That started on Wall Street, long before the current crop of Crips and Bloods was born, yo. And it is absolutely no different, only a lot worse due to its' much greater size and wider effects. Wall Street drive-bys are hitting the whole world today, not just one neighborhood. In the words of somebody, the world is a ghetto.

Like the real, original ghettos in Europe, where Jews were walled in and later exterminated, we are all trapped in this new planetary economic ghetto. Every criminally stupid move the bankers, brokers and CEO's make causes harm to the whole rest of the world, now: Millions of families will suffer the effects of the latest debacle from the "Greed is Good" crowd.

What's a brother to do? Well, you wouldn't know it from reading the corporatist mainstream media, but there are alternatives to continuing supply of our money to the money-junkies. Back in the 70's, we the taxpayers bailed out Chrysler Motors to the tune of $1.2 billion. At the time, many believed that the money should have been given to the workers to start new businesses.

We might have had a dozen Hewlett-Packards or Apple Computers, Famous Amoses or Mrs. Fields Cookies sprouting in garages around Detroit, instead of one big corporate white elephant that is still in danger of extinction, with the subsequent loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in one fell swoop when it does croak. Better to spread the dough, and the risk, around: More legs for the economic stool might result in fewer collapses. But the parasites who rule the world make their fortunes on these collapses and upheavals. The Hell with the rest of us.

So I say, the Hell with them. If the Ritchie Riches of the world can't or won't bail each other out, then let them disappear. Let's just make that $700 billion available to small and medium sized businesses nationwide in a new public credit market, where the profits go back into our infrastructure: Health care, mass transit, schools, etc, instead of mansions in Malibu and the Hamptons. Let's start taking responsibility for ourselves, and running our own lives, our own economy. Because this system now just ain't working, yawl.

Oh, and there are alternatives, primed and ready to go. We don't have to give Goldman-Sachs Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a blank check for his buddies back on the Street. Check it out before you sign that check, voters:


YAHOO NEWS SEARCH
"BAILOUT ALTERNATIVES"
Here's what we could have done.

GOOGLE NEWS SEARCH
"alternative bail-out"
Some more ideas before we throw away $700 billion+++?

SEEKING ALPHA .COM
"An Alternative Bailout Proposal"
Or, we could eat the rich. You first.
' Here is an alternative plan; take the $700 billion and recapitalize the banks and insurance companies buried in the toxic waste. Specifically exclude the hedge funds; their investors all certified they were big boys who could take their lumps when they got in. Take an equity stake in return and dilute the existing stockholder's equity. Forget congress capping executive compensation, let their shareholders do it as payback for the dilution of equity. Force a mark to market and get all this garbage off everyone's balance sheet. Then take the equity stakes taken in compensation and put it in the social security trust fund (if there really still is one) to reduce the load on the grandchildren we are asking to pay back this debt. The core mortgage securities are not as worthless as currently thought. The CDOs and CDS's are what will require the bulk of recapitalization. But there will be hard equity in the social security trust fund which will more than return the investment and it will be that: an INVESTMENT. Put a steel fence around it to keep congress' hands off. There is a huge universe of possible solutions available when talking about throwing this amount of cash at the problem. If all we did was borrow another trillion dollars to pay everyone's mortgage down, it would have the same bailout effect and would stimulate the largest refinance activity in years. The banks would be back in the black by the end of the year and the unemployment rate would drop as loan officers were called back to work. On top of that, consumers would have cash to spend their way back to an integer GDP. '

MOTHER JONES
"Five Alternative Bailout Plans"
Here's the gamut as of yesterday.
' (1) The Planners: The Republican Study Committee, a group of some of the most conservative Republicans in Congress. The Plan: Two-year suspension of the capital gains and dividend taxes to "encourag[e] corporations to sell unwanted assets." The Problem: It won't work. Over at Time, Justin Fox says the RSC plan "seems to be a joke," and explains that it would just make matters worse by actually discouraging banks from unloading bad mortgage-backed securities. (2) The Planners: Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and some House Republicans. The Plan: Instead of having the Treasury buy mortgage-backed securities outright, insure them and charge premiums, paid to the government. The Problem: It almost certainly won't work. Marc Ambinder has a great explanation of why, but a commenter at Time sums most of it up in a sentence: "Writing insurance requires either a long history of past events or, at a minimum, knowledge of present market prices." There is neither a long history of past events nor a knowledge of present market prices in this case. In fact, as Ambinder points out, there's not even a market for the products that would be insured. That's the fundamental problem, and insuring them wouldn't fix it. (3) The Planner: Our own James K. Galbraith, an economist. The Plan: Prop up the FDIC. Eliminate the "pointless" $100,000 cap on deposit insurance, put a half-trillion dollars in the FDIC fund, give it extra funding for more employees, and keep another $200 billion in reserve. (There's more in Jamie's article, but the FDIC part is the heart of the plan.) The Problem: It may good policy, but so far, there are few takers in Washington. And there's no major political constituency advocating for it in the way that Wall Street is calling for a buy-me-out bailout. (4) The Planner: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Ver.). The Plan: Make the rich pay for the bailout. Impose a temporary surtax on incomes over $1 million. Pass an economic recovery package that puts people back to work. Then re-regulate and break up any companies that are "too big to fail." The Problem: See #3. (5) The Planner: Hedge Fund Gazillionaire John Paulson. The Plan: Buy Wall Street. No, seriously: Paulson thinks taxpayers (or, more specifically, the Treasury) should buy huge amounts of senior preferred stock in banks. Kevin has more on this, which he points out essentially means nationalizing troubled banks. The Problem: This plan essentially means nationalizing troubled banks. Conservatives will be queasy about it; even Kevin Drum, a liberal, is queasy about it. '

CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY
"Group of Democrats Says Alternative Bailout Plan Could Interest GOP Members"
Progressives approach conservatives with low-cost proposal.
' Under the alternate proposal, Wall Street would pay for its own bailout over time through a fee imposed on securities trading. Such an approach would essentially wipe out the underpinning of Paulson’s plan, which would be funded by taxpayers. “I have very little confidence in Mr. Paulson,” DeFazio said. A rough working draft of the proposal released Tuesday lists five major points. It would: • Require the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to suspend “mark to market” accounting principles, which some say have worsened the crisis and could undercut bailout efforts. • Require the SEC to permanently restrict naked short sells, the practice of selling a stock short without first borrowing the shares or ensuring they can be borrowed. • Require the SEC to restore “the up-tick rule” permanently. The agency approved a temporary block on short sales without an up-tick in the market on Sept. 19. • Require the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to implement a certificate program that would allow the agency to cover banks’ short-term capital needs with promissory notes. • Increase the FDIC insurance limit on deposits to $250,000 from $100,000. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made a similar proposal Tuesday. Rep. Marcy Kaptur , D-Ohio, who was among those announcing the alternative plan, proposed an additional provision: the creation of an emergency financial crimes office within the Justice Department that would investigate any criminal acts that led to the current economic crisis. '
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Monday, July 14, 2008

A TRILLION HERE, A TRILLION THERE

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PRETTY SOON WE'RE TALKING REAL MONEY

TEN TRILLION IN MORTGAGES OUTSTANDING JUST IN THE UNITED STATES

MEAT FANNIE MAE




Five Trillion Guaranteed By You, The Taxpayer, Through Fannie Mae (FNMA) & Freddie Mac (FHLMC)

Do the math: How many of those mortgages are no damned good at all? How many homeowners/ mortgagors have simply walked away from homes they paid too much for, with loans that have become too expensive? How many borrowers are not now, or never were credit-worthy? How many properties were not correctly (or honestly) appraised, or have become devalued far below their appraised value? How many mortgage bankers and brokers have pushed these bad loans off on someone, and then dumped the results on the Federal government, a.k.a., You? Better get your calculator out.

Here's what a trillion looks like. Picture all the stars in the sky, all the fish in the sea, every grain of sand on a beach. Imagine a time before human beings even existed, before the dinosaurs, before the Earth was even formed, before the cosmos came into being; or, in the future, long after the universe has ceased to exist; more years than that, even. Think of how many cells there are in your body. Now you're up in the trillions. That's how much you owe China and Japan and Singapore and a bunch of other foreign countries, as of this morning, and for the rest of your life, and your children's lives, and your grandchildren's lives. Here's what the numbers look like. Get ready. Open your wallet. GO!


A TRILLION
1,000,000,000,000
EQUALS
A BILLION
1,000,000,000
TIMES
A THOUSAND
1,000

AND

A MILLION
1,000,000
TIMES
A MILLION
1,000,000
EQUALS
A TRILLION
1,000,000,000

OR

TEN BILLION PLUS TEN BILLION PLUS TEN BILLION . . . A HUNDRED TIMES:

10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 +
10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000 +


A TRILLION DOLLARS!!!

THE GUARDIAN
"Welcomes but warnings for Fannie, Freddie rescue plan"
' Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee $5 trillion of debt, close to half the value of all U.S. mortgages. Foreign central banks, mostly in Asia, hold $979 billion of the bonds and mortgage-backed bonds sold by the agencies. "At the end of the day, the holders of agency debt are significantly in overseas hands and foreign central banks. They had to do this because confidence could weaken further, and that would be very, very bad for the dollar," she said. Both Freddie and Fannie said they were adequately capitalised but welcomed government support. The Treasury said it would temporarily raise its line of credit to the two mortgage financiers, as well as purchase equity in them, a step never taken before, if needed. The Fed said Fannie and Freddie could have access to its emergency cash. '


By which they mean YOUR money...


Let's see . . . One school costs $200 million, that would be five thousand really big, fancy new high schools; one hundred in each State.

One hospital costs $500 million, so you could have built two thousand pretty nice new hospitals, forty in each State.

One solar photovoltaic electricity system, $50,000 for every one of the 100,000 households in America, eliminating most of the consumer demand for electricity generated by oil, coal, gas, nuclear and hydroelectric power plants. And you'd have enough left over to buy everybody a hybrid car, cutting demand for gasoline by up to 50%.

But NOOOOOO!!! You had to go and give all that dough away to a bunch of speculators who lost money in the secondary mortgage market!! STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!
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HONOLULU, HAWAII: MEDIA: NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES

| HONOLULU ADVERTISER | HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN | HONOLULU WEEKLY | PACIFIC BUSINESS NEWS | HAWAII MAGAZINE | HONOLULU MAGAZINE | MIDWEEK | PENNYSAVER | SPOTLITE HAWAII |


HONOLULU, HAWAII: MEDIA: TELEVISION STATIONS

| ABC KITV4 (oc6) | CBS KGMB9 (oc7) | FOX KHON2 (oc3) | MYNETWORKTV KFVE5 (oc5) | NBC KHNL13 (oc8) | PBS KHET11 (oc10) |


HONOLULU, HAWAII: RADIO STATIONS

| NPR KHPR 88.1 FM | NPR KIPO 89.3 FM | UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII KTUH 90.3 FM | LOCAL KSSK 92.3 FM/ 590 AM | HAWAIIAN MUSIC KINE 105.1 FM | "JAWAIIAN" KCCN 100 FM | SPORTS KKEA 1420 AM | TALK KHNR 690 AM | TALK KHVH 830 AM | TALK KUMU 1500 AM |


HONOLULU, HAWAII: GOVERNMENT & MILITARY

| CITY & COUNTY OF HONOLULU | STATE OF HAWAII | HAWAII MILITARY | HAWAII VISITORS & CONVENTIONS |


HONOLULU, HAWAII: INFO & SERVICES

| CAREER-BUILDER JOBS | HONOLULU CRAIGSLIST JOBS & HOUSING | HONOLULU WEATHER | UH SPORTS | HONOLULU MAPS | HONOLULU TRAFFIC | OAHU WEBCAMS | DA BUS | HAWAII.COM-tourists |


HONOLULU, HAWAII: HOTELS, SHOPPING, RESTAURANTS, NIGHTLIFE, CULTURE

| WAIKIKI HOTELS | OAHU RESTAURANTS | OAHU SHOPPING | OAHU NIGHTCLUBS | MELE.COM-Hawaiian Music | HAWAIIAN MUSIC STORE | DANCING CAT RECORDS | HAWAIIAN BOOKS | HAWAII ART | HAWAIIAN FLOWER LEIS |


HONOLULU, HAWAII: MUSEUMS & HISTORICAL SITES

| HAWAII HISTORY | U.S.S. ARIZONA MEMORIAL | BATTLESHIP MISSOURI MEMORIAL | HAWAII CULTURE | HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS | THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM | BISHOP MUSEUM |




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