... that Ender was writing:

Great news on the economic front - U.S. economy grew 3.9 percent in Q3, fastest pace in 18 months well ahead the 3.1% forecast and on par with last quarter's 3.8% showing US Economy's amazing resilience in the face of the Housing slump.

Oh, wait. That was yesterday!

Then there's today, and a return to real world instead of the fantasy world some folks seem to prefer...

Big Board imposes stock trading curbs

Stocks plunge on oil, credit worries

Manufacturing growth almost stalled in October

Spending growth slowed in September

Home Prices Tumble, Consumers Shaken

Bush said it was unfair to ask Mukasey about interrogation techniques on which he has not been briefed. "He doesn't know whether we use that technique or not," the president told a group of reporters invited into the Oval Office.

Further, Bush said, "It doesn't make any sense to tell the enemy whether we use those techniques or not."

As hilzoy points out at ObWi ,

There is an easy way for Mukasey to get around the fact that he has not been briefed on what the CIA did: just define waterboarding, say whether waterboarding so defined is torture, and add that not having been briefed on what the CIA did, he doesn't know whether or not what they did meets his definition. That Mukasey has not taken this obvious route suggests that he is not motivated by his own uncertainty, but by the desire to keep people he believes have engaged in torture from being punished for their crimes.

Slavery. That's what Thomas (?) said yesterday when confronted by Foreign Service Officers who protested that:

"One of the foreign service officers characterized service in Iraq "a potential death sentence" and said "[a]ny other embassy in the world would be closed by now."

A poll conducted this month by the American Foreign Service Association found that only 12 percent of officers "believe that . . . Rice is fighting for them," union president John K. Naland said at yesterday's meeting, which was first reported by the Associated Press.

"That's their right. But they're wrong," said Thomas, who appeared to grow increasingly agitated as the questioning became more pointed.

"Sometimes, if it's 88 to 12, maybe the 88 percent are correct," Naland said.

"Eighty-eight percent of the country believed in slavery at one time. Was that correct?" Thomas responded, saying he was "insulted." Rice is fighting hard for them, he said.

OK, I hadn't heard of this one. But I just read this article over at TalkLeft by Jerilyn: House Passes Thought Crimes Bill and No One Notices? and it has me stumped.

"This is a thought-crimes bill, aimed at preventing domestic terrorism by judging the thoughts, including those expressed on the Internet, of American citizens.

If passed into law, it will also establish a co.mmission and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill specifically targets the civilian population of the United States and uses vague language to define homegrown terrorism.

More....

.... take a look at the definitions of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as defined in Section 899A of the bill. The definition of violent radicalization uses vague language to define this term of promoting any belief system that the government considers to be an extremist agenda. Since the bill doesn't specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it is entirely up to the interpretation of the government."

That could be any one of us on the liberal side. And before you more right leaning folks start applauding the bill, what's gonna happen to you if we end up with President Hillary?

Wow. On that note, it would be kinda nice to see Rush & O'Riely frogmarched off to Guantanamo. Maybe there is a silver lining.