Some other 'events'

NEW YORK (Marke****ch) -- In the most dramatic round of layoffs seen to date in the battered U.S. financial sector, Citigroup Inc. said Monday it plans to cut about 50,000 additional jobs as part of an effort to help stem huge losses sparked by bad investment and lending decisions.


SAN FRANCISCO (Marke****ch) -- Technology stocks failed to gather any positive momentum Friday after Sun Microsystems Inc. announced plans to lay off as many as 6,000 workers in a cost-cutting move to help deal with the slowing economy.

Roma no se hecho en un dia or Rome wasn't built in one day. The same thing is true with the government failure. Yes you fall off the cliff in a moment, but it takes place after a long and careless journey.

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Originally posted by Rough Neighbor:
Perhaps later, to be honest. I would like to see her taking on the Cabinet post from Michael Chertoff. Her antitrust, business, and federal procedures background would do a lot of good for the country in the short term. She's relatively young.

Other names with just as resplendent careers are there anyway, Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Elena Kagan, the dean of Harvard Law School.

This is one of the election-related issues I cared the most about. It was apparent that a McCain victory would shift the court to the right in a very radical manner when you consider the names of the three Justices potentially retiring in the next few years. Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg.

I do know about Sotomayor, and I know she's a very pragmatic judge. That's, by chance I guess, the same philosophy shared by Stevens, a "real life" type of Justice.

God knows I'll miss Justice Souter and his eloquence, those heated exchanges in that deep, sophisticated tone. However, his resistance to TV coverage is something I cannot completely agree with. We already have some audio coverage, so why not allow a "picture" to go with it? It's rather silly to resist the coverage if you ask me, but I do understand the Court is about tradition and that must be respected.

Justice Ginsburg's retirement could again leave the Court with just one seated woman. To me, it was only the retirement of O'Connor that made possible the recent Carhart opinion, it's sad, but points of view can be drastically different between male and female Justices.

While I think it's going to be a difficult process of selection, I'm confident Obama will make the right choice because he seems to be open to actually evaluating the credentials of possible nominees based on their judicial careers and performance, and because he knows the law and knows what the actual job of a Justice is. This is a good, refreshing change.

Diane Wood, Sotomayor, many others. Anything would be better than the Harriet Myers catastrophe! So I'm optimistic.

RN Honey...missed ya.

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Originally posted by a9b3h5:
RN Honey...missed ya.

Exact opposite here, sorry. Rabies for Monday? Oh, very tough!

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Originally posted by Rough Neighbor:
Roma no se hecho en un dia or Rome wasn't built in one day. The same thing is true with the government failure. Yes you fall off the cliff in a moment, but it takes place after a long and careless journey.

I see the excuses are already being formulated. Is this the reason for the Roman stage? For later reference when things don't rebound? "Rome wasn't built in a day." The new chant.

At least it's better than those banging their chests who shamelessly face the crowd and claim to have thought no evil, said no evil, and had done no evil and got punches in their tummies and kicks on their buttocks. But due to their ignorance and dullness just looked back and wondered what in the world hit them!

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Originally posted by SonofMicheal:
Ron Paul is the best. Rest will sell the country. .

This is one of my favourites. Mccain's politically incorrect/racist jokes and statements are totally inappropriate. Imagine , just to get an offensive ethnic joke in ... Presidential candidate

Ron Paul makes sense and was the best fit for this country.. I agree.



Ron Paul Straight talk... Mccain Foul talk

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Originally posted by Rough Neighbor:
At least it's better than those banging their chests who shamelessly face the crowd and claim to have thought no evil, said no evil, and had done no evil and got punches in their tummies and kicks on their buttocks. But due to their ignorance and dullness just looked back and wondered what in the world hit them!

'At least' isn't good enough. We don't even know what 'at least' is at this point. Your guess is as good as mine. I supposed when the messiah speaks again he may clue us in on what 'change' means.