Gangs of Somali pirates armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades have been hijacking ships and holding crews for ransom… Even a super-tanker! The UN chief says pirates are estimated to have been paid between $25/ 30 million in ransom. The brazen bandits are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars — even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages, transforming their poor villages into boomtowns.

Mickey Cohen would be proud of these marauders; terrorizing the high seas and raking in the ca$h.

We are at the beginning of the greatest financial disaster the world has ever seen!!! That’s right, Apocalypse NOW!!! If McCain/Palin–Bush acolytes repackaging themselves as “mavericks”–were to be elected, there’s no hope.
Fear-monger McCain is erratic & unbalanced–an OLD POLITICAL HACK. His big push is desperate smears & pimping those winking women: Palin & now his heiress wife.
During the debate, he kept saying– “I know how to fix that!” “Oh, I’ve done that before!” Does he mean tricks learned during his involvement in the Keating Savings & Loan scandal/Fed. bailout, and that old chestnut Bush couldn’t get thru–privatization of Social Security???
NOT ONCE DID MCCAIN GIVE A REAL SOLUTION, JUST NON-ANSWERS!!!
I’m so glad Obama spanked him on singing Bomb, Bomb,Bomb Iran.

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN HISTORY! LET”S WAKE UP ON NOV. 5 WITH A SOLUTION: VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!!

I hope the American people rise to the occasion & ELECT HIM. Unfortunately there are so many ignorant people–& THE RED SIDE IS FULL OF DIRTY TRICKS.
You can’t count McCain out: Karl Rove is behind him. Now that Sarah Palin is in the picture, all I can say is one word–MELANOMA. It’s extremely serious. For that reason alone, I thought he was irresponsible to run. If elected, this female, a creationist, who doesn’t believe man has anything to do w/ global warming, could be one skin cancer away from the Presidency. Will she soon tell us the world is flat?

that’s what the US govt. will begin doing.
Re: the economic catastrophe–THE SMOKE WON’T CLEAR EASILY — & IT WAS ALL CAUSED BY GREED.
Literally as Rome burned & the market crashed, top Brit artist, Damien Hirst sold 223 works– all made in the last 2 years–at London’s Sotheby’s. Unprecedented, his clear-out sale of formaldehyded sharks & shiny butterflies ( previewed from the Hamptons to Delhi) fetched $198,000,000+. Is this where the billionaires are parking their spare change?

Amid the complete devastation on Galveston Island, the old mob-owned supper/gambling club, the Balinese Room, is gone. Run by Texas boss, Sam Maceo, in the 40s& 50s you could lose your shirt there, in style. Sorta like Wall St.–but with good food & Sinatra entertaining!