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From Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish. My comment: the Republican Party apparently is trying to incite the assassination of Barack Obama. No party has sunk this low into gutter politics in my memory. Sarah Palin has crossed a certain red line by a mile. - Sean McBride

Also: the style of incitement is reminiscent of the kind of rhetoric that was used against Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin in the months leading up to his assassination. McCain and Palin are trying to smear Obama as an anti-American terrorist and traitor. - Sean McBride

If people took the time to STFU sometimes, they would be able to sense these things too....lol - Rahsheen™

I've grown up with animals and they always seem to know when you're down...amazing! Even my horse would come along side and rub on my and sorta hug me against its body by wrapping his neck around me ...soo cool! My cat licked my tears when I was a child. Dog howled when I was mourning....they know - Susan Beebe

Now if they could sense the turns in economics... Though our cats sold all their stocks last year, so maybe that was a sign... - Jemm

not bad, ace - Josh Haley

Excellent, I've seen this photo just below the McCain one, lol - Kol Tregaskes

LOL - Melissa

This is the win. - Monique via fftogo

haha - Nicholas Kreidberg

hah - Glen Campbell

Sorry, I can't hear you through all the noise...what are you trying to say? - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Rahsheen is right about signal/noise. It's highly subjective and depends on context. What's noise for one person is another's delight. And vice versa. - mel maverick mcb

HUNH?! - Akiva Moskovitz

Too funny! You can now add "have a million-dollar smile if your brain goes south while communicating in your social network" :-D - JodyC

LOL, my mind went completely blank. It was hilarious to me too - Bwana McCall

and give someone the benefit of the doubt! - Nice Fish Films

"McCain is behind in all the battleground states and he’s sinking like a stone. Meanwhile, McCain is not only losing by an average of about 8 points, well outside the margin of error, but Obama is over 50 percent now in most polls. Let me just condense 30 to 35 years of experience and tell you that’s a killer. McCain is losing in all the battleground states. He pulled out of Michigan on Friday, which we talked about briefly. Michigan is not a place, Michigan is a state of mind. Michigan is a key demographic. It is white working class voters. If you cannot compete in Michigan and announce it to the world, you cannot compete in Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania." - Sean McBride via Bookmarklet

"On a day when the Dow has dipped below 10,000 for the first time in four years, Obama has a real opportunity to take McCain's Ayers gambit and use it as yet another example of McCain being out of touch." - newsjunk.com

Yes it is. Obama is basically saying McCain has a way of messing up the USA. - Mike Reynolds

well recent history would beg to differ. We were better off before deregulation. Enron. Worldcom. And now the entire subprime crisis. When oversight was eliminated, look what happened. - Victor Ganata

Like #4. 10/06/2008. - Robert Scoble

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Thank you Robert for being a leader with this great cause. Edwin- you consistently prove that you can't go wrong by doing the right thing for the right reason. - Nice Fish Films

Oh I don't know if I've formally introduced my two kids here in this room. On the bottom (left) is Bruno, my lovable lazy boy. Bella, on the right, is my crazy princess. When my husband and I decided to get a puppy, he insisted on a boxer and we got Bella. About a year later, we adopted 2 1/2 year old Bruno from a rescue. They complete our household. - Carmen via Bookmarklet

My girlfriend and I thought about getting a boxer this time around. They're great dogs. - JodyC

Awwww! Bruno's face is too much. I think I'm in love w/ him now. - Ayşe E.

Before this is all over, John McCain will fling his own feces at the audience while Sarah Palin applauds. They'll still lose. - Chris Baskind via Bookmarklet

Loved Chris' comment! - JodyC

""Possibly inaccurate" on an obviously true story (like an AP story, etc) is when a reputation control firm is being paid to bury the article quickly." - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Instructions: Post anything that can make someone smile. Spread the word. The web can be full of smiles if everyone gives a hand :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

I have some great pics of China will post them on my blog in about a month, when I'll come back to Japan. I still have Xian, Chengdu, and Lasha to do! - Igor The Troll

I'll play along. It was a great idea yesterday and still a great idea! - JMShoes

Bust my buffers! - WorldofHiglet

+1 Sean for the political humor. - Hutch Carpenter

Sarah Palin is causing Confusion And Delay - Eric Rice

""You have one conspicuous difference between this and the 1929 break," he said, using a common Wall Street euphemism to avoid saying "crash." "In the '29 break you had [President] Hoover and [Treasury Secretary] Andrew Mellon contracting all the way. They believed that it wasn't the role of the government to get involved. This time, the government is moving heaven and earth to reverse the cycle," he said." - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet

You wouldn't even be able to get your money out of the bank and you'd be starving on the streets right now if not for the FDIC. Not all socialism is an evil. - Victor Ganata

Like he said during the 1929 market crash the Prez and Treasury Sect did not do any anything...this time it is a little different. We have Bernanke, who is steeped in the economic history of 1929 depression and spent time understanding what went wrong and why. Guess we need to repose faith in him like Warren Buffett and others have done. But the troubling question is that with this bailout money...how will the plan be executed and distributed? That is the key... - kamla bhatt

Economists are overwhelmingly socialist also. - eggsy

it is not just economists...http://elections.foxnews.com/2... - George Lee via twhirl

Yes, but what does Obama think of the Dutch? - Glen Campbell

“I thought about this all weekend,” Cramer told Curry. “I do not want to say these things on TV. Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week. I do not believe that you should risk those assets in the stock market right now.” [I don't listen to Cramer, he's a tool; but a lot of other people do.] - Anthony Citrano

@Alan: the last 25 years saw the dawning and maturing of the information age--namely the internet--that revolutionized bellwether companies and created a whole new tier of wealth for many of us, perhaps many on this feed ;). That skewed the chart a bit to the positive side. My contention has been that the market was TOO positive on the halo effect of the internet and it caused a great deal of irrationality in wall street valuations. Trace how the dominoes have fallen and you can see that it goes [cont.] - grant

...to Reaganomics, deregulation in the 80s, Greenspan being too liberal with the rates for the wrong reasons, and of course greed. YMMV but that's my story and I'm stickin to it. - grant

"Deregulation became the order of the day not just in the United States but around the world. The second big idea was America as a promoter of liberal democracy around the world, which was seen as the best path to a more prosperous and open international order. " found via Atul Arora. (thanks, Atul!) THIS IS A MUST READ - Mona N. via Bookmarklet

I like that he points out the importance of the cultural exports, and the damage GWB has done to them. People used to want to emulate the US. After GWB, not so sure. - Robin Barooah

But it's not just GWB. He didn't help the situation any, but it started with Reagan. - Mona N.

1 in 4 mammals at risk, very sad to read.:-( - Kol Tregaskes via Bookmarklet

very sad indeed. - SoN9ne