Three hard hitting op-ed pieces in the NY Times.....(Palin-centric)

[Aviation Pro]

Rich, usual brilliance; Friedman, I'm shocked; and Dowd, I'm gasping, welcome to the party, pal.

The Palin-Whathisname Ticket by Frank Rich

Making American Stupid by Thomas Friedman

Bering Straight Talk by Maureen Dowd

[firedupdem]

1. 3 Very Good Articles! Thanks! I'm sending those to everybody

on my contact list!

[orleans]

2. bookmarked. thanks. n/t

[Amonester]

3. K&R

"McCain talks about how he would build dozens of nuclear power plants. Oh, really? They go for $10 billion a pop. Where is the money going to come from? From lowering taxes? From banning abortions? From borrowing more from China? From having Sarah Palin "reform" Washington — as if she has any more clue how to do that than the first 100 names in the D.C. phonebook?" - Thomas Friedman

May I say: "rigth on the money?"

:thumbsup:

[BobbyZimmerman]

5. Alternative energy

Well nuclear power is alternative energy.  I suspect the
private sector will invest in the plants if the red tape and
taxes don't interfere with the bottom line.

[Amonester]

6. Perhaps Lehman Brothers will be "interested" (as long as...)

should the Bush/McCain gang succeed to "privatize profits (bonuses) and socialize loses (writedowns)" as they do so well. Or maybe, Mao Wu Inc. from Macao will.

(Smells fishy)

[BobbyZimmerman]

9. You are right

as far as socializing the losses. I would like to know why the
government always bails out failing businesses (fannie mae,
freddie mac) Chrylser in the 70's etc.
All it does is increase our taxes and encourage business
leaders to be reckless and unaccountable.  The practice
dillutes capitalist principles, traits and dynamics that make
it a sucessful economic model.

[BobbyZimmerman]

4. So witty

Maureen was too cerebral for Michael Douglas

[EC]

7. While there read the

Op ed letters from Chafey and Feldman and the rest, they're bolstering Obama's bona fides for the position of POTUS. They're all good...

[jannyk]

8. 3 Great Reads - thanks!