I have a very pessimistic view of life.  I feel that life is - is divided up into the horrible and the miserable. Those are the two categories, you know. The - the horrible would be like, um, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else. That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life - you should be thankful that you're miserable because you're very lucky to be miserable.

A quote from Niklas Luhman:

The programme strand of news and in-depth reporting is most clearly recognizable as involving the production/processing of information. In this strand the mass media disseminate ignorance in the form of facts which must be continually renewed so that no one notices.

The narrative of the meltdown is now hardening...

 In these hearings Democrats  are blaming  poor supervision, excess executive compensation and incompetent boards and only ask questions about this.

ALVY'S VOICE-OVER
After that it got pretty late.  And we both hadda go, but it was great seeing Annie again, right?  I realized what a terrific person she was and-and how much fun it was just knowing her and I-I thought of that old joke, you know, this-
this-this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy.  He thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" And the guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much how how I feet about
relationships.  You know, they're totally
irrational and crazy and absurd and ...
but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it
because, uh, most of us need the eggs.

The reality of this race is that Mr. Obama is in control. His nationwide buys have been climbing a systematic 20% a week since the beginning of September, while Mr. McCain's have flatlined.

Neither Obama nor McCain expressed any interest in that.

Their priority seemed to have been raising the FDIC guarantee from $100,000 to $250,000.

We are goin' down. All engines have flamed out and there is nobody in the cockpit. Our so called leaders are running around spouting what ever they think will benefit themselves. They don't have the competence to find real solutions, but even if they did they'd lack the courage to implement them.

Depression is looming,  Boomers reaching retirement and their 401Ks have tanked big time. Most American's biggest net worth comes from their home equity. That's about to disappear.

Global warming which could leave this planet uninhabitable if the worst scenarios come to pass (such as the  sudden release of the methane held in the oceans) inevitable now without money to fund fixes.

The potentially poisonous melamine was introduced into our food supply to make watered down milk appear to contain an acceptable amount of protein in order to increase profits.  It's a perfect example of what's gone wrong with our global systems.