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I'm with you and MillMan.

The power of the WHEEEEE mantra wears off distressingly quickly.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 02:35:03 PM EST
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[Jerome's WEEEEEE™ Technology]

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 03:59:28 PM EST
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[Drew's WHEEEEE™ Technology]

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 05:40:20 PM EST
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Ah, but what news will Monday bring?  What world will we wake to?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 06:12:49 PM EST
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It will still have people, animals and tangible things in it.

If the people wake up and realise that the financial world was never more than dreams, shadows and wishful thinking, I wouldn't necessarily see that as a bad thing.

Minimal collateral damage between here and there would be a good thing, of course.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 07:36:21 PM EST
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Simply the fact that this phrase is now part of our lexicon shows how far we've fallen.  Imagine what the anthros will write in a hundred years.

I stand on using the meltdown as a cathartic purge, that we bring the true meaning of the word vision back into daily practice.  

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 08:00:15 PM EST
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A certain level of Brit snarkiness may possibly have not come across there.

Vision is good. We've been twitching inside collective nightmares for far too long now.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 08:44:04 PM EST
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