Today is the next critical step in the road to the passage or failure of The Bailout Bill. This is the day the Senate takes up the matter of the legislation with Senators and presidential candidates Barack Obama, John McCain, and Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden expected to attend for the voting process.
According to the Huff Post, the new version of the bill has tax reductions in it to gain more Republican support than the last version.
The vote takes place tonight.
Average Voters Don't Get It
What's upseting to me is how many people just plain don't understand the problem we face. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said it best when he observed that "Commerce could stop", and Russian president Vladimir Putin claimed that “Everything that is happening in the economic and financial sphere has started in the United States. This is a real crisis that all of us are facing," the former president told a government meeting in Moscow.
“And what is really sad is that we see an inability to take appropriate decisions. This is no longer irresponsibility on the part of some individuals, but irresponsibility of the whole system, which as you know had pretensions to (global) leadership."
What's galling is that Americans don't seem to understand how their finances are tied to Wall Street and the World Economy.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Ralph Nader - Presidential Candidate On The Bailout Bill
http://www.zennie62.com - Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader took time to talk with me specifically about what kind of form he would like to see the Baillout Bill take before he could support it.
Nader appeared today at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California as part of a California and Bay Area event swing which saw the consumer crusader take in 10 events in one day.
On CNN iReport
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Sarah Palin and Katie Couric - More From Their Interview
You've just got to see this video to get the idea that Governor Sarah Palin sometimes doesn't think about what she's saying. If we make it out of this election in one piece, Palin will become a permanent Saturday Night Live skit
AN OBAMA MINUTE - 10/6 @ Noon
Check it out. This is the power of grassroots organizing at its best. A group of people from across the country have come together to bring back the Obama Minute. Here is it's fundamental message:
Imagine all of the things you can do in a minute - nearly boil an egg, lie about weapons of mass destruction, make out on a first date, ignore a national travesty (Katrina), break a leg, minute rice, change a bulb, read someone's mind, lose $700 Billion, RAISE $1 MILLION and support Barack Obama in an Obama Minute. Oh and get those clowns out of office!
The first Obama Minute, in April, raised over $250,000 from 5000 people. This time 4300 address books and more are being leveraged.
It is about One Moment and One Strong Voice.
YouTube streamlines its video uploader, bumps size limits
Over the weekend YouTube quietly began testing a new uploading tool for users to publish their videos. The tool now allows users to begin plugging in information fields about the video while the upload is happening, much like Viddler, Vimeo, and others have offered for years. The company is testing the new player with a small number of its users.
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Microsoft Should Look To Ask.com For Commercial Ideas
Who needs Jerry Seinfeld when you’ve got a pole-dancing babe? Ask.com, the search engine formerly associated with a butler named Jeeves, is running an advertisement that features a voluptuous young woman doing acrobatic moves on a stripper pole under the heading “What are the best aerobic workouts?”
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The 25 Most Influential People on the Web for 2008
Each year, we turn to readers and BusinessWeek staff for the Best of the Web list, asking them to contribute names for a list of the Internet's movers and shakers. Take a look at the slide show to see which people have the most impact on the Web these days.
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