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What baffles me is the supposed IT difficulties from switching between email systems. I could perhaps buy that it loses you a day’s worth of email but 400 days spread over 2 years? Just how long did it take to install Outlook.

It’s called “let’s say something that makes us look like a bunch of bumbling idiots, but we all really know it’s a lie so we can claim ignorance when lots of data is missing.” Kinda like a claim of lost time from alien kidnapping … why are there no emails from June-August 2005?

It’s all too little, too late, all for show. If Congress, the courts, etc. were serious about their actions, they would have resolved this record retention issue years ago, considering how important it is and how easily things can be made to disappear. It’s so easy to erase your tracks, so who’s to say that the government doesn’t do the same? I think anyone would be foolish to believe they get 100% of the data when info is turned over by the government.

Actually, assigning blame just to the above is ridiculous. Go back to FDR. Hell go back to whoever started manipulating markets in the first place. Well. I’ll settle for Paulson’s head on a pike.

Anyone who has ever opened a history book. Bread and Circuses has been the downfall of republics before. The great experiment is over, we’re watching the death throes and fighting over the carrion.

Now if we could only create a new system where congressmen who steal from the public like this can be legally shot down dead.

I am not a doomer. After Katrina, I saw that I could not depend on anyone else. I have provisions stocked away and protected. The difference between me and doomers is that I can see (and actually want) the eventual recovery. The country may not hold it’s previous place of power in the world, but is that a bad thing?

No one is getting re-elected delivering this news. So, BAILOUTS for all industries!!

At some point, this scheme (US Gov) crashes. My guess is we’re at that point. This is real “head for the hills with a truckload of MREs”-type bad. Who could’ve guessed that almost a century of expanding the New Deal to include pretty much anything/one that could deliver a Congressman a vote would lead us to this point? Hmmm? Oh…every single libertarian you say? OK. Do we let the Democrats and Republicans jump aboard and claim they never supported all this swill? I vote no.

No way America squirms out of this and learns a lesson without major tragedy/disaster/crisis. The pain for the sins of the past horrible government waste must be paid and there’s just no way politicians will vote to experience pain. Instead, they’ll try to “help”–only deepening just how much has to be paid. Think about it, in the last 6 months Washington has put us on a path to spend about $8-10 trillion over the next few years. ADD TO THAT all the new spending that will happen over the next few years (since government only gets bigger and bigger). Bailouts, foreign aid, war, more war, health services, etc.

I’ve had enough! Next time, I promise to vote…that’ll show ‘em.

This is bad, bad, bad, bad.

MRE=meals, ready-to-eat

Go to the Market-Ticker website. Karl Denninger has been writing about this stuff for several years now. (This economic crisis did not SUDDENLY happen). He tends to be a bit over the top at times, but he gives lucid explanations. You’ll have to read through the archives. Grab a pot of coffee and settle in for a long read.

No real “Economic Crisis for Dummies” available. Some of this crap is not understood by the people that engineered it.

#9 | Geekfather | November 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am
The PATRIOT act. They didn’t read it, rushed it through, made bad laws and decisions. They had no oversight and we, the people, paid for that.

The TARP bail-out act. They didn’t read it, rushed it through, made bad laws and decisions. They had no oversight and we, the people, will be paying for that.

Cowards and traitors, all.

We are a nation of laws. That they are badly written and randomly enforced doesn’t negate the premise.

Personally I have almost 10 years of emails archived at my workplace available on demand. Email is relatively small and disk space is cheap.

The TARP bail-out act. They didn’t read it, rushed it through, made bad laws and decisions. They had no oversight and we, the people, will be paying for that.

Cowards and traitors, all.

So, what stops the Bush Administration from classifying the email tapes as TS/SCI so that they can’t be accessed by most courts and most members of Congress?

The judge could rule that that was obstruction of justice, since they didn’t have a prior classification nor did they probably fit the definition of material that is qualified for being classified TS/SCI. Generally speaking, anything at TS or TS/SCI has to present a very serious threat to the United States or its allies if revealed. On the order of people getting killed in the field at the very least for it to be at that level.

I’m gonna’ have to buy a wheelbarrow to carry around my wallet.

Criminal was $700 billion. This is Dr. Evil making up numbers.