Touring the Nation, 1.27.09

how long some Giants’ fans clung to the hope we’d keep Shock. His flamboyant style sucked a lot of folks into believing he was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Damn, first Mix, now London, both the kind of big WRs we need if we’ve seen the last of Plax. Hell, we could use another one, anyway.

My only hope for him is that maybe KG didn’t use him properly and if KG leaves, maybe…
From what I’ve seen, he has nothing but speed. Can’t seem to get clear, has bad hands, and doesn’t know what to do when he actually catches something. I strongly suspect he won’t be with the team another season. Oh well, it’s not like losing McCaffery or Jurevicious. We knew they’d be good when the Giants chose not to keep them.
London will be a keeper for Miami.

that management to a large extent probably based those decisions on the fact that, having Plax, they didn’t need another big WR.

vilma will be resigned by the saints which makes the saints second rounder (instead of their 3rd) go to the jets which leaves us w/ the saints first rounder which is pick #14 overall hel ya

Are you referring to the biggest one in history, the one the Government is running, paying off banks’ old creditors with new money coming in, taxpayer money?

“…we’re all Keynesians now.”

Federal Reserve. How many BBVers are aware that it’s not a government entity? It’s a private bank, not a public one. We don’t even know who currently owns it, although we know who the original owners were (JP Morgan, the Rothschilds, etc.) Here’s a quote from Woodrow Wilson a few years after he signed the law creating it in 1913:
“…I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled and one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world, no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the duress and opinion of a small group of dominant men.”
Jefferson’s words of opposition to a central bank were far harsher then Wilson’s. Andrew Jackson’s signature moment was his dissolution of the first central bank.
Enough, lest I extend this into a tedious rant (if it isn’t already such.)

Here’s a quote from another source, definitely non libertarian, that provides food for thought:
“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take on more and more debt until the debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to the bankruptcy of all banks, which will have to be nationalized and the state will take the road which will eventually lead to communism.” Karl Marx, of course. Looks prescient at this moment re the banks. For the most part, they’re insolvent. Right now we’re trying to get out of debt by taking on unprecedented amounts of more and far greater debt. That’s Bernanke’s theory. IT’s based on the fact that it was the only thing that wasn’t tried during the Great Depression. Will it work? I’m skeptical.
Never fear, the games will continue, a pleasant diversion from reality. We have little to say about what happens (just look at the people who make up Obama’s economic team, the same ones who got us into the mess in the first place.) So, go Cards!