Who benefited from the bailout?

So, we had this billion dollar bailout for financial institutions that got in trouble after the financial markets had been deregulated.

Some people who worked for those bailed out companies have made MILLIONS of dollars from their work over the last couple years.

Their work has destroyed the Global Financial System, resulting in a Stock Market crash, the devaluation of the U.S. dollar, and a change in our status as a global leader and power.

Also, the American taxpayer is now on the hook for money they never had anything to do with.

Doesn't seem fair to me.

Who benefited?

Why have they been allowed to benefit? If there is truly an open and free economy, then those companies that haven't done well for themselves should be allowed to go out of business. Not be rescued by the American taxpayer.

I certainly didn't benefit from the wild currency and debt speculation... but somebody has... and that simply is not fair to the rest of the country.

Tijuana off-limits to U.S. Marines

For tens of thousands of U.S. Marines in Southern California, new orders from the brass amount to: Baghdad si, Tijuana no. Tijuana saw its bloodiest year ever in 2008 with 843 killings, compared with 337 the previous year.

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Presidential Gatling Gun-Equipped Suburban

Barack Obama's getting a Cadillac-styled new Presidential Limo tomorrow. While nice, we're more interested in the Gatling gun-equipped Suburban that follows Cadillac One. Here's video of the bullet-spraying Chevy in action.

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U.S. military report warns 'sudden collapse' of Mexico

EL PASO - Mexico is one of two countries that "bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse," according to a report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security threats.

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McClellan: George W. Bush Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame

11/15/08 Scott McClellan on C-SPAN Book TV

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FBI informant testifies suspect refused to plan attack

Um... Couldn't we be spending time and money investigating the people that actually DO want to harm our country? What is wrong with these people?

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Prop 8 Protest Rally Silver Lake - Conflict - No to Proposition 8 - No to Hate

Prop 8 Protest in Silver Lake - Conflict with proponents of proposition 8 which denies marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples in California. Three guys with bullhorns and signs also attended the rally of over 20,000 people. Mounted police officers do a fantastic job of protecting the free speech right of both the marchers and the counter-protestors. Liquid is tossed towards the three "Yes on 8" men, while 3 more guardian angel nun-drag queens tell the crowd to move along and if you just ignore them, they'll go away. Scenes of the crowd passing by are not the same group over and over, I stayed in one place, and never really could show how many people were really there.

Prop 8 Protest Rally in Silver Lake - Gathering - No to Proposition 8 - No to Hate

Prop 8 Protest in Silver Lake - Gathering before marching down Santa Monica Blvd, up Vermont, then back East on Sunset Blvd. Equal rights advocates are angry that the Mormon Church spent $70 million to deny the right-to-marry to this very vocal minority group.

Sarah Palin's clothing + maintenace = $150,000 in 2 months

Joe Six Pack can relate to this, of course. "If Edwards had gotten one of his legendary haircuts every singe week, it would still take him 7.2 years to spend what Palin had. Palin, in the end, had received the equivalent of $2,500 in clothes per day."

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BREAKING: Head of GOP Voter Reg. Outift Arrested

Head of California GOP voter registration outfit charged with voter registration fraud, according to CA Sec. of State's office. The firm, YPM, also under investigation in several states for allegedly illegally switching thousands of registrations from Democratic to Republican...

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Army brigade "homeland" tours start Oct. 1

3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army.They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control.

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McCain Lie Counter

An electronic encyclopedia that provides the opportunity for anyone to review the raw facts and research of John McCain's record. McCain's lie tally! with references!

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Jon Stewart Annihilates Sarah Palin's Media Surrogates

Jon Stewart at his absolute best running circles around cable news douchebags.

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Alex Jones New Movie Just Realeased: Fabled Enemies: 1 of 15

Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas is the latest film to question the events of September 11th 2001. Instead of the focus being on physical anomolies surrounding the attacks, it focuses on a vast intelligence network and how they were able to succeed almost 7 years ago.

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911 Clues EVERYONE MISSED

A very interesting look at 'eyewitnesses' on 9/11.

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Preparing for an urban WMD attack

On Saturday, the San Francisco Fire Department, along with a group of other public and private agencies, ran a large simulated biological attack on the unsuspecting populace. Why are they running these drills? What are they preparing for? What if martial law was declared before the November elections? This could be the ultimate "October Surprise"!!!

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Ohio National Guard to conduct Homeland Defense/Homeland Sec

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on the latest "exercises" taking place on our homeland. Not that anything could happen to us during a military exercise. Hah!

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"W" the trailer

How To Handle The Jerk Next To You On An Airplane

1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case.
2. Remove your laptop.
3. Start up
4. Make sure the guy who is annoying you can see the screen.
5. Close your eyes, join your palms together, tilt your head up to the sky & move your lips as if praying
6. Then hit the link

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Top Dems to Mukasey: Fork over the 9/11 memo

Letter demands Bushie AG turn over memo outlining Executive's super-duper terrorism-fighting powers, explain how government failed to possibly prevent 9/11 by lawfully intercepting call they knew was coming through.

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