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The Fed Gets in Bed with AIG

by Derek Posted on September 17, 2008

Another day, another eighty-five billion dollars. If you’ve had your back turned, or your earbuds in, or you’ve been transfixed by Sarah Palin’s boobs the last week or two you may not have noticed the Federal Reserve opening its checkbook. $85 billion for insurance behemoth AIG, $70 billion more to feed into the market so that credit won’t totally evaporate, and last week’s credit lines of up to $100 billion each to bail out mortgage guarantors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Congratulations, fellow taxpayers – for the low, low price of $350 billion we are now the proud owners of three huge, insolvent companies.

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Top Ten Palin Baby Name Ideas

by Derek Posted on September 6, 2008

Oh, I know – here’s the big bad liberal blogosphere ganging up on poor Sarah Palin and her family. I’m aware that my man Barack Obama said that candidates’ families are off limits, and in principle I think he’s right. In practice, however, the GOP and Ms. Palin have decided to have their cake and eat it, too. They’ve continued to play the victim card, and calling anyone who questions anything about her a sexist liberal media vulture (like that big meanie Campbell Brown), even as they flew in the teenage daddy-to-be/shotgun groom from Alaska to join them in front of the cameras and pass around a Downs Syndrome baby as though he was the Stanley Cup. So let’s not pretend that I’m the one keeping the Palin clan in the spotlight. [... READ ON ...]
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