Jellybean boom

By John McDaid | Monday, 14 July 2008

IndyMac goes down in the third largest bank collapse in US history, Fannie and Freddie get bailed out an infusion of government cash and Budweiser agrees to put some mayo on its Freedom Fries. (The title of that WSJ blog post, "Patriotism has its price — $70 a share," says it all.)

Good thing any fear and loathing you might feel is just us being a nation of whiners...

Or this would be the start of the end of the world as we know it.

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Comments

Viking

Mon, 07/14/2008 - 9:41pm

No, the start of the end of the world as we know it was the day G. W. Bush was deemed to have won the election.

John McDaid

Tue, 07/15/2008 - 6:00am

Hi, Viking...
Absolutely right. There are flexpoints in history, spots where the curvature of the line changes, and the day of that Supreme Court decision will go down as one of the darkest turns we have ever taken as a nation. Thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars later, we are only beginning to see the fruit of this poisoned tree; the echoes, I'm afraid, will be with us for years to come.

Because now, we are a country that starts wars. That tortures people. That suspends habeas corpus. That wiretaps our citizens without warrant. That's where we live. Just a Supreme Court decision away from the real America.

Cheers.
-j