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Lawmakers steamed over ritzy AIG retreat after bailout Story Highlights Crippled insurance giant spent $440,000 on a posh retreat for its executives Days after bailout, executives enjoyed spa treatments, banquets, golf outings Former AIG CEO Robert Willumstad: "It seems very inappropriate" "Those executives should be fired," Barack Obama says in presidential...

Folks, The article below doesn't mention the message boards, yet, but I guess we better look for new addictions if they take down the message boards also, huh? Sounds like an AOL monetary crises, and if we have a repeat of 1929, stock up on TP, Ramen noodles, and learn to work the message boards with semaphore, drums and smoke signals.... Click here: Silicon Alley Insider ...

McCain faces conservative backlash over mortgage plan Story Highlights GOP candidate meets resistance from within own party on mortgage plan McCain proposes government buying and refinancing bad mortgages Editorial: Plan a "gift to lenders who abandoned any sense of prudence" McCain hopes plan will resonate with moderate and undecided voters By Alexander Mooney ...

U.S. TAPPED INTIMATE CALLS FROM AMERICANS OVERSEAS, 2 EAVESDROPPERS SAY They say government monitors transcribed and passed around embarrassing information for their own enjoyment. By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October 10, 2008 WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence analysts eavesdropped on personal calls between Americans overseas and their families back home and ...

FOX NEWS' FAUX DOCUMENTARY SETS NEW LOW Sean Hannity's Sunday report, 'Obama and Friends: The History of Radicalism,' relied on innuendo and guilt by association to label the Illinois senator a dupe of the shadowy forces of the left. By James Rainey, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October 10, 2008 Now and then, Fox News makes a stab at living up to its "fair and balanced" tag ...

Palin's future, according to Garrison Keillor GARRISON KEILLOR SYNDICATED COLUMNIST We are a stalwart and stouthearted people, and never more so than in hard times. People weep in the dark and arise in the morning and go to work. The waves crash on your nest egg and a chunk is swept away and you put your salami sandwich in the brown bag and get on the bus. In Philly, a woman earns ...

Massive US military budget passed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFaTn5-nSyo

Use of 'Sticky IEDs' Rising in Iraq http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2008/10/08/AR2008100803568.html?hpid%3Dtopnews& sub=AR 10/09/08 AFP: Iraq may face spike in violence before elections Recent major security improvements in Iraq risk being undermined by a surge in violence ahead of provincial elections...

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb McCain Obama gaining in 5 battleground states, polls say

Weren't eight years of Pain a la Bush enough for us? EJECT: McPain and the Dragon Lady! ELECT: Obama and Oh-Biden!

In article < 20081002181824.23743.00061724@mbucky-d04.news.aol. com.aol.com >, dougieg@aol.com (DougieG) writes: ><div class="bgColoredPost"><div style="">>>By "a majority of the rest of the >planet" I presume you mean the MSM and the Obamacratic campaign (hardly >worthy of seperate mention)?<< > >So MSM is now the Democratic equivalent of Fox News? I guess that depends in large ...

Okay, I guess I'll Start. I thought Biden won hands-down. But I also thought Palin basically held her own and didn't dig herself into a hole like she did with Couric. Unfortunately for the McCain campaign, that's not good enough. The poll taken by CNN right after the debate shows 51% thought Biden won, while 36% said Palin. Biden's answers were direct, clear and substantive. He really...

In article <20081002103645.11666.00016317@mbucky-m04.news.aol .com.aol.com>, mikelomax@aol.com (Mike Lomax) writes: > It has really been bizarre watching you morphing into Jon Floyd these last >few months. The only thing that has morphed is my impression of many here, from actually believing that they represented open-minded believers and appliocants of critical thought, to understanding that ...

Shar >>I would have little problem with her as president.<< Then you're letting your personal feelings for her blind you, especially if you actually think she's more qualified than Obama.

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb McCain Obama gaining in 5 battleground states, polls say