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To: bentway who wrote (361760)	12/7/2007 1:42:17 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1575282

Chris, > So, you think without this manipulation, we'd be in recession now, or soon? Given that the nature of the free market is cyclical, we're due for a recession sooner or later. I don't think Bush really needs to spring a new "HOPE plan" every month. Just cut interest rates and maybe hold the line on federal spending, especially now that he can use the excuse of confronting a Democrat Congress. Open up more domestic drilling of oil, etc. Anything to give off the impression that he will keep this economy alive and thriving while he's in office. As for Bernanke, he'll just go along with what the administration wants, all the while "blowing the whistle" on the dropping dollar, deficits, SS, etc. Either way, he's in an unenviable "damned if you do, damned if you don't" position. All my WAG, of course. Tenchusatsu

To: bentway who wrote (361760)	12/7/2007 1:49:40 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575282

OL "the equine visaged Thomas" Helen Thomas Says You Bloggers are 'Dangerous' By Warner Todd Huston \| December 7, 2007 - 04:52 ET I don't know... I don't feel that dangerous. But, gee, I guess I am? Well I might be, at least according to Helen Thomas, one of the most uncivil "reporters" in all of journalism. Apparently she has proclaimed that citizen journalists and bloggers are "dangerous" on a HuffPo blog of December 4. HuffPoster Seema Kalia reported an exchange with the equine visaged Thomas where she raised alarm over her fear of the common American citizen and that terribly annoying Internet thingie. Yes, folks she thinks that if you are a blogger or Internet writer you have no sense of "ethics" and you are "Dangerous." One wonders if she really knows any journalists at all if she thinks they show any sign of "ethics"?