{original image: AFP / Saul Loeb }

via Bloomberg:

Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression.

The Fed increased its existing currency swaps with foreign central banks by $330 billion to $620 billion to make more dollars available worldwide. The Term Auction Facility, the Fed’s emergency loan program, will expand by $300 billion to $450 billion. The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are among the participating authorities.

The Fed’s expansion of liquidity, the biggest since credit markets seized up last year, came hours before the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry. The crisis is reverberating through the global economy, causing stocks to plunge and forcing European governments to rescue four banks over the past two days alone.

Fucking brilliant. Pfft.

In listening to Sarah Palin’s first one-on-one interview with Charles Gibson last evening, twice she made reference during the course of the interview that during times of making major decisions, there is no room for “blink”.

Well, uh….blink!

A senior campaign official says that McCain will NOT debate — no matter what — if Congress hasn’t reached an agreement on a bailout package.

Shucks. Sarah’s boss blinks. Whatever shall she do. Well, obviously, she won’t blink, right?

Then again, maybe she will. Here’s a happy little photograph of the hyper-religious uterus-monger campaigning….AFTER her boss said the campaign was suspsended.

{AP Photo / Matt Rourke}

Well, I guess “great minds” blink alike.

{via HuffPo: McCain blinks again}

Well, at least the one thing we can rest assured of between now and November is that their eyes are well-lubicated.

{original: AFP / Nicholas Kamm}

{the real off-camera interview}

(original image: AFP / Mandel Ngan)