Nightly Ramble:Bailout Mania And Minutiae; Take the Gloves Off, Senator; More

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read in the ‘sphere…  The Nightly Ramble….

Lots to cover today, as always and as dictated by events, most of it to do with the bailout which at this point (About

I’ll have much more on the bailout bill in tonight’s Ramble  but for now the thing is moving too fast for me to track. 

Drudge and Memeorandum seem the best aggragators at the moment.

The bailout bill is due up for a vote today. Lawmakers are supposed to be at it at 8 this morning, and the President is speaking this morning on the subject.

I think I’ve found the best indicator possible in

By way of Gateway Pundit:

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Obama Goon Squad Shuts Down Macsmind Blog

Macsmind blog is down.
Obama goon squads:
This is MacRanger of Macsmind. As you know I was hacked by operatives of the Obama Campaign

The WSJ, this morning:

Top U.S. policy makers emerged from hours of tense negotiations with a clear message just after midnight Sunday morning: A deal to bailout U.S. financial markets has been agreed on and all that remains to be

This one, courtesy of McGehee.

I say again, why on earth is anyone… anyone… voting Democrat?

The Democrats fought against fixing the problem with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Over, and over and over again. Watch this vid offered by the GateWay Pundit.

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Now, that’s just devastating all by itself. Fannie and Freedie were mismanaged

Got some work done on tuning the server cache for the right sidebars.  They were rebuilding far more frequently than needed, and that was costing serious page resolution time. It’ll take some more work I’m sure, but we’re much closer.

CNN is reporting:

Paul Newman, the legendary actor whose steely blue eyes, good-humored charm and advocacy of worthy causes made him one of the most renowned figures in American arts, has died of cancer at his home in Westport, Connecticut.

Last night, The Anointed One tried to claim that he’d never said he’d meet with the leaders of North Korea, Iran Cuba and so on without preconditions.

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That’s what he says now. But what is the comment that the

McCain won.  Obama spent far to much of his time being defensive, and stammering, and leaning on pharses like ‘since the great depression’.  Add to that, the meme that Obama’s been pushing, along with the leftie blogs,  all week as

Not 30 seconds in, and Obama has already invoked “The worst ________ since the great Depression”

Third rail warning.

Good news Bit, old white guys have been vindicated.  The late Washington Mutual’s last ad, video:

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WaMu’s last press release:

WaMu Recognized as Top Diverse Employer—Again Company ranks in top ten of Hispanic Business’ Diversity Elite

IN case nobody noticed, the markets were up today… DJIA almost 122 points up

Should we point out I wonder that Banking Committee chair Barney Frank’s ex-boyfreind worked at Fannie Mae?