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Sniffle...
I feel like the Grinch looking down on Whoville...about to strike....
Muahahahahahaha!
Nostrovia,
TARP the moth#rf#cker!
Merry Christmas, CR. I wish you a slow news day tomorrow.
Now that is classy! Very nice.
To CR and all the posters here:
Have a very Merry Christmas and may all the joy of the season be with you and yours.
J.
Not good enough, CR. I need a terrifying graph showing ice skate rental rates (seasonally adjusted, of course) cliff diving. Also, an excel image of a pig on roller skates might be nice.
Manhattan really is the center of the universe--hopefully it will be in better shape next year.
Wish me luck (flying out of O'Hare tomorrow).....
Merry Christmas, Festivus, Hanukkah, or Happy Shorting, Everyone!
Merry Christmas every one. Cheers!
Remember, Axial Tilt is the Reason for the Season! Merry Xma$, and happy hunting finding stocks available for shorting! Tanta for Pulitzer Queen!
el lurko writes:
\tNot good enough, CR. I need a terrifying graph showing ice skate rental rates (seasonally adjusted, of course) cliff diving. Also, an excel image of a pig on roller skates might be nice.
el lurko | 12.24.08 - 7:07 pm | #
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Sadly, I agree with the above. I feel like such a scrooge-ish nerd now.
Good LoL moment for me tho...
Merry Christmas to all here! What a nice surprise this post was, even though I live a mile away from there! Thanks for the endlessly brilliant writing!
Buy a building, CR.
Now is a great time to buy NY CRE!
Or have fun:
YouTube -
C
repost from dying thread:
citizen energyecon,
Good tidings to you also. You're always patient with my often discourteous posts.
I keep forgetting to ask, do you ever post at TheOilDrum.com? If so, what handle? I find that place has become an unbearable circle jerk of doom over the last year.
Unlike here - the circle jerk of esteemed dialogue!
Franklin D. Schwarzenegger Museum of Disposable History where I dazzle and amaze the children of tomorrow with the edutaining puppet shows of yesterday.
"And that's how Jesus wrote the Constitution," says me.
"Tell us more tales of your savage time!" says one a the disembodied floatin brains.
"Well back in the ol days we didn't have your fancy Senatrons and Congressbots," says me. "We hadda pick our presidents the ol fashioned way, with a money-eating contest. The first candidate to swallow half a billion dollars without throwin up would be King of all Florida!"
"Intriguing!" says the second brain. "Now battle Clone Lincoln... to the death!"
"Raaarrrrr!" says Clone Lincoln.
Watching the British high street implode
Daily Kos: Watching the British high street implode
We don't actually make much of anything here anymore. The mines are almost all closed, the motorcycle and auto plants are gone or foreign-owned, agriculture has disappeared to the extent that finding food grown in Britain is a surprise. I spotted a squash today that was grown in Tonga! The British government has staked our future on two industries: finance/banking, and the service industries. In case no one noticed, one just melted down.
And the other is imploding on the busiest shopping week of the year.
Oh yeah: my "safe" pension is, I've recently learned, heavily invested in shopping mall real estate.
Bah humbug indeed!
England's economy will ultimately be America's economy.
Merry XMAS
XOXOXO
Am having an 80s fest, apologies all round, here's the Psychedelic Furs commenting on the long-run sustainability of the Indian growth boom:
YouTube -
C
Small world. 10 miles away would be nice. We're just starting Christmas morning in a very un-decoupled Hong Kong (before the kids are up, loading thin stockings and a pigmy tree).
Best wishes to CR and to the many posters here who keep me thinking.
Merry Christmas and may your bungholes be filled with joy!
I'm on my MIL's machine with IE and I don't see the picture,...is it ice skating? With our favorite ice skater or no?
Fine, then.
Here's your pig on roller skates.
YouTube - Miss Piggy Rollerskating
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Merry Christmas : (3 parts)
YouTube - Santa's Workshop (1/3)
YouTube - Santa's Workshop (2/3)
YouTube - Santa's Workshop (3/3)
Think about it !
CR and Posters:
Merry Christmas to you all. Hope you all get nice things from Santa tomorrow.
Peace Out!
Sincerely,
Tom Servo
Anak - do tell me about the HK situation. Am very interested. I've posted here numerous times about Hang Seng, and in particular H-shares Financial going south.
Looks bloody.
C
Merry Christmas to my fellow CR bloggers!
Anak,
Have some Dim Sum for me. Hmmm good!!
kung hé fat tsoi
All the best, CR, to you and yours.
Very nice post!
A self-organizing gas manifesting collective behavior and non-local spooky action up close, faster than U.S. intelligence. Best wishes to all elements in the CR plasma.
@sdtfs -
Live, bird's eye view of Rockefeller Center. Includes Christmas tree with lights, ice skaters, passers-by taking flash photos, flags flying (blustery evening) - just gorgeous.
City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in holiday style...
Uncle Sam, Helena Handbasket, you are now man and wife. You may now kiss the bride... oh you already did, and more... ok fine. Proceed.
Time to book your ejector seat reservation:
YouTube - Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reservation (audio)
Merry Christmas Eve folks!
C
Okay, stop blogging already and go to your friends and family.
Happy Holidays to all.
CR, take a break.
"Okay, stop blogging already and go to your friends and family."
Sorry no can do. I spent the last year warning them what was coming and now they won't speak to me. (:
Time to book your ejector seat reservation:
Up goes frazier?
Off to pool.
Merry Christmas
A highly evolved, self-organizing gas, manifesting collective behavior, magnetic personality, electric moments and non-local spooky action up close, faster than U.S. intelligence. Best holiday wishes to all elements in the CR plasma.
We celebrated the reason for the season on the 21st. These newbies and their newfangled holidays are amateurs.
Much better to view it this way than to jostle through the tourists - Merry holidays all!!
.......Nikkei opens 25th.....the rest of Asian markets close.....instead they celebrate emperor's birthday.....wonderful people.....banzai....
Merry Christmas, CR, and good cheer to all (even the other Scrooges like me here).
POIC, we had a little Christmas party in our office yesterday. You'd not be surprised to learn that HK'ers prefer dim sum to boozing. General theme of conversation is that we're lucky to have a snack however tiny.
Cpointer, hope for the Hang Seng among the retail masses has been badly dented of course. I thought the coup de grace would be the corp governance issues raised by the Citic Pacific fiasco with AUD accumulators. These "I'll kill you later" instruments are all over the monied classes' personal accts, and there's gearing everywhere, so this could well be a terminal confidence killer.
Yesterday, walking with my kids through Central, we encountered two knots of Lehman minibond or suchlike protesters (one group at Citi, one at DBS) masked and dressed in mourning (white). Daughter noted that blood money vampire bankers means that money is kind of like blood. A couple of demogogic politicians are taking the bait and championing their cause. Even showing up at shareholder meetings. Pointless.
A year or so back the poster sK (signed off as "K", where did he ever go anyway?) noted that he expected soon to see matchstick people wandering around in a bleak L.S. Lowry landscape in the UK. At that time HK was still quite buoyant; six months ago the clerk at our provident fund shop couldn't believe I wanted to shift everything to bao ben (most conservative option). Now, HK has entered Lowry land.
If even the well off, ungeared locals are gloomy, it's only because Chinese want everybody to fa tsai in order to have a good year... they know from experience that broadly based prosperity is the best start for a healthy society.
Kids are up, and it's time for presents. Hv enjoyed your posts.
Feliz Navidad !
My Christmas eve:
\tArrived up at my cabin yesterday, terrible drive, very cold and icy, got the cabin toasty then had a rest before todays duties. Today I pulled my snowblower off the truck, went down to the lake and cleared off A nice sized skating area. Took my shovel and scraped it down to the ice. Drilled a hole with my ice auger, fired up my water pump and flooded my rink. Had lunch then hauled a cord of pine down to the fire pit beside my skating rink. Then fired up the pump again and gave my rink another flood for that nice smooth finish. Not bad for an old man in -20c weather, good thing it warmed today! The children arrived with the grandchildren and we had a nice t-bone dinner. Then it was time to mosey down to the lake, get a huge bonfire going and spend the night skating under the stars and sitting around the fire. The only thing more beautiful than -25c, clear skies filled with stars would have been a good northern light show. Oh well you can't have it all. Well have to get my rest, tomorrow is the traditional 25km snowmobile ride. Hope to see lots of wildlife then end up back at the cabin for the big turkey dinner. Thank the lord for the four beautiful seasons that I have enjoyed all my life.
Seasons greetings to all at CR, hope you are all in good health and are with friends and family for the seaso
Happy Holidays to all!
Happy Holiday CR and fellow commentators.
Happy holidays to everyone here. I rarely post but am here a LOT. CR and Tanta,, and all here have hopefully saved some of my family and friends from much suffering. Thanks to all!
No more money for the Wall Street crooks.
Happy Holidays
Just got back from church, watching It's A Wonderfulr Life, having a hot chocolate. All in all a nice Christmas Eve. Peace on Earth, good will towards men to all.
Anak - have enjoyed yours too. I also thought CITIC burning a couple of bil on AUD trade would have some impact, which is partly why Ive been posting incredulous numbers ever since on Hang Seng.
Your info about protests is gold- pse continue.
I have kids too. We're hoping for some snow over the next 7 days. May well get it.
Best regards - and here's some rocknroll for the season, and the decline of the market:
YouTube -
C
That we might be redeemed FROM our sins, not IN our sins...
That we might have eternal life through redemption and resurrection...
That we might partake of reward and punishment according to the intents of our hearts and deeds of our lives...
That we may obtain mercy through forgiveness.
That by being humbled and made good through obedience, we might make better spouses, parents, neighbors, and citizens.
God bless us everyone.
Will have the laptop on at DILs for U$D/JPY FX trading from 1pm pst tomorrow 12/25 to 2pm pst Friday 12/26, and to watch for overseas events, while family and friends continue to regard financial events as a curiosity, even with jobs now at stake and home values approaching half of loan amounts.
Hey, Canadian watching with Popcorn - fabulous post. Do you have a place in the woods? My folks used to live in Hudson just outtta Montreal, so we we were amazed at the guys on the lake getting their Oldsmobiles out and towing shacks to the middle of the river to fish for piss ass perch, good for nothing but liquid stock.
Seemed like an equivalent to test cricket in the UK - days on end where nothing happens. Brit zen.
C
great/appropriate timing (Xmas Eve) for the following announcement:
GMAC Granted Bank Status as U.S. Seeks to Save GM
NOTE that Cerberus and Pimco are big big winners in this deal -
Santa pays a visit to Bill Gross of Pimco and Cerberus
The ice skating reminds me of a Bill Murray movie a long time ago... wasn't there a scene in "Scrooged" with ice skating? Can't remember!
Scrooged - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Merry Christmas Everybody!!
may the almighty inspire us to see ourselves in each other
peace...
merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah
Does ice form starting at zero and is there a seasonal adjustment?
Best to you and yours.
Merry Christmas!
Have a good Solstice-Related Holiday, everyone. "Peace" in whatever language or hidden code you prefer. Or "Profit" if you're like us and have decided that Lakshmi might offer better value for your religious dollar.
Counterpointer:
Its a life lesson for you. When you get to be my age and look in the mirror and you see...well...a dipshit....well...you know you have failed.
Mmmmm skating - be a gas to skate at Rockefeller on Christmas. Anyone here ever do it - can you just show up & lace up & go?
Merry Christmas CR & everyone.
They have got a zamboni out there resurfacing right now. Kind of like hockey half-time!
They have got a zamboni out there resurfacing right now. Kind of like hockey half-time!
Doc at the Radar Station | 12.24.08 - 10:17 pm | #
Strangest resurfacing I have ever seen - they did like a star pattern prior to the circling the boards. Odd.
Canadian with Popcorn - I very much doubt that you have failed. At the very least you have shared your experiences and posted some seriously quality stuff, which is all a public good.
You don't get a dollar or a loonie out of it true, but your contribution is of wisdom, and a sharing from men, to men. I don't mean to be genderist but it works.
More work together in 09, eh?
C
Canadian watching with popcorn | 12.24.08 - 9:10 pm | #
I can honestly say that, after a couple years here, I haven't envied any of the bigwigs that post here on occasion, but I just felt a twang of envy reading your comment. What a life and it seems that you're aware enough to realize just how fortunate you are. Props to you for that.
Counterpointer, thanks for the music as I covered the posts.
Anak, your daughter seems to have her head on straight.
To all the other commenters, I do try to read all the posts I can, even if I don't reply. I hope you've all gained from being a part of this virtual community and that these days to come are good to you and yours.
CR, enjoy the holidays and stop posting for a while. Take a break, man. "Smile, mon, be happy (with or without ganga). Leave the live feed up for a few days. The world will just keep on turnin'.
Last, but with a slight tear, I really hope Tanta's family can get through the day. She had such a huge impact on so many people that you should be forever grateful that you personally got to know her. My heart goes out to you because I know how tough the holidays can be, especially the first time around.
Meanwhile, the days ARE getting longer. It's time to celebrate.
Hmm...a day without Schaedenfreude...whatever will I do? Meh...I'm making dinner (a date of sorts) with a Croatian - raised Communist she says, so why not a date on Christmas day?
A wonderful, merry Holiday to all my fellow travelers on CR - it's an honor to share your company...I'm lifting a glass of cheer to all of you.
Oh, and I realize CSC may not be out there, so I am CSC to celebrate his(?) wit.
dryfly, I think the extended resurfacing may have to do with the fact that it is about 36 degrees F! Needs to be a tad colder for good ice, maybe.
Best to all, Lothar the Rottweiler.
This place is amazing.
Oh, and in inclement driving conditions, a nice Subie is always a good choice.
Happy Holidays everyone and thanks for the fishing lessons!
dryfly, I think the extended resurfacing may have to do with the fact that it is about 36 degrees F! Needs to be a tad colder for good ice, maybe.
Doc at the Radar Station | 12.24.08 - 10:27 pm | #
I believe they refrigerate like for indoor ice - so if 36 deg F they should get great ice [w/ refrigeration]... my guess is the sheer number of people using it and small size of the rink - makes it tough to get the ice smooth on one pass.
But really don't know - looks like a totally good time though. We have outdoor rinks all around us and used to skate a lot when the kids were younger. My boys both played youth hockey and lived on the rink.
dryfly
yeah
when i was a kid i skated at rockefeller center
back then, and assume now, you buy a ticket and skate away!
if youve ever watched that nbc morning news program... this is the place with the golden prometheus statue sitting just out of view of the camera for this live shot
back then, and assume now, you buy a ticket and skate away!
mock turtle | 12.24.08 - 10:34 pm | #
That might have to go on my 'bucket list'.
Never had the opportunity to ice skate. Watched a couple of hockey games. Fell into a farm pond once when I had to break the ice so cows could get a drink. Good thing I was right at the bank and could crawl out!
Thanks to NORAD, my 3 y/o was able to track Santa and we watched A Christmas Story. Can't think of a better way to spend Chistmas Eve.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Festivus or whatever you may or may not celebrate.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all.
sportsfan - thanks dude.
Market appraisal just doesn't get better than than this:
YouTube - IGGY POP and the STOOGES "search and destroy"
C U in the 2009 bloodbath...
Merry Christmas!!
C
Counterpointer, you got me on that one, even though I don't do markets.
Peace, shalom, I can't do Arabic or Chinese characters, but the sentiment is still there. Life goes on.
Notice that they are skating counter clockwise. As if they are trying to turn back the clock to a year ago or more...Wouldn't touch NY real estate for at least 10 years.
Mare egrets moose to all and to all spakonya noche.
hank to ppt: cr is a tough crowd
hank to kashandkarry: cream rises to the top
hank to tarpy: you go girl
hank to W: one hand washes the other
hank to hank: gonna regrow that afro
hank to timmy: no, I don't think that putting a collie
on the dollar bill would restore confidence
merry christmas and happy holidays to all
Happy holidays to all. Just got back from a get together with the neighbors and a grand posole smorgasbord. Yum. Grandkids coming tomorrow. I sure am grateful to be living in southwest New Mexico. Wouldn't want to be anywhere else at this point. Have fond memories of living in snow country, but that was then.
Canadian watching with popcorn writes:
My Christmas eve:
So true on the seasons. Your story created a powerful image. It took me back many memories, especially shoveling the lake to play in the moonlight. Life is about doing what we love.
Best wishes from Texas ya'll...
Does one say Merry Christmas to Conjure?
2008 Year in Review | Funny Video Animation by JibJab
JibJab 2008 Year in Review
It must be December - snow is falling, children are writing letters to Santa and we're dragging 2008 through the mud in our all-singing, all-dancing, all-out year-in-review. Baby New Year '08 takes you on a tour of all of the good, bad, and worse the past year had to offer, all at breakneck speed. We're giving society a primo wedgie - everyone watch, point and laugh!
2008 Year in Review | Funny Video Animation by JibJab
JibJab Merry Christmas
great little video! 13K miles away makes me miss NYC so much!
happy tidings and all to all
My Mortgage Pig T-shirt arrived the other day, so I'm ready for the Holidays. Merry Christmas everyone!
Canadian, magnificent comment.
Best wishes to all for the holidays and maybe we can figure out how to make next year something special in a good way.
oops... I did it again! wrong handle...
I hear the waves lapping up against the beach... what time is it?
beer o'clock!
I've had a great roll here on CR since last July. Learned a lot. Had I had some of this info in my brain say 8 years ago I would not have left so much tech profit on the table - sigh - , hell, I was a bond guy, what did I know about stinkin' equities?
my thanks to Rob Dawg, nullpointer, Counterpointer, EvilHenry(now AWOL), and his Mom, MrM, mp, rich, Anonymous, lawyerliz, of course CR, and the greatly missed Tanta and finally the irrepressible Jas... (oddly, we share a similar trait... I'm in this group called Democrats Abroad - got in for other than political reasons, yes as always there was a girl in the picture - everytime Obama makes a questionable appt. like Hillary or Geithner or Summers I toss up some commentary... I was told the email list was for organizing, hmm... many of them think he really can turn water into wine! As Batman once said, "poor deluded creatures".
all the best
I remain a
stillborn and inbred American Dope...
DCD
My disgust salivates, upper lip lifts and tongue pushes puff of putrid smell of rotting lung, nose, brain, fuck,... I have to quit smoking.....
Merry Xmas to all-
I continue to learn from many here, and contribute as I can.
The thanks are too many to mention.
It was a satisfying, if scary year. I hope next year is less satisfying... and suprises to the upside.
-and to all a good night :^)
Amazon.com: ponies: Toys & Games
Ponies...
Happy holidays.
Skated at Rockefeller Center a few times when I was a child & visiting my grandparents, who lived on W.72nd St. Usually go back to the city once a year--recharge on all the intensity.
YouTube - New York State of Mind Billy Joel photo montage october 2007
A-mouse,
very rarely post at TOD, use this handle when I do...
I hope all of you were well enough behaved for Santa to bring you some cheer this year!
OT - cooking a prime rib is pretty dang easy, and a real crowd pleaser!
Merry Christmas, to all you grouchy bears.
Pretty cool feed. Someone has a posh pad in NYC.
And to all a Good Night!
Guts, vomit lower throat, vodka, ass, burn, nose, putrid, fuck...I have to quit drinking
聖誕快樂 新年快樂
And I've just finished with the Christmas eve services and the final wrapping of the presents.
The turkey went into the oven two hours ago at a lower temperature so that we can have a brunch after the kids are through the gifts.
This is the one Christmas that I'll remember as the holiday in which the now maturing kids kicked to help the old man practice for a tough choir piece, sing pick-up carols for their grandmother's cell phone voice recorder - in astounding harmony - and the inlaws stayed in the now-completed basement. And we managed to figure out harmony for this particular piece...
YouTube -
Trust me, it gets looks at the mall...
And I actually wondered tonight, how to pray for those whom I've never met and nothing more to go on than a pseudonym. Regardless, I think that what was rendered will work.
Thanks to everyone who posts here and has offered snark, commentary and lucid analysis.
And thank you, CR, for hosting this interesting experience...
Merry Christmas.
Happy Cristmahanukwanza, all y'all. I challenge anyone to find a site where you learn more than CR. I'm very, very thankful for the opportunity.
And remember this: CR will never be able to put up a post titled, "Enjoyment of One's Family - Cliff Diving." Or, "Time Spent With a Cocktail and Cigar Underwater." The gravy in all this might not moisten the horse meat and rotten potatoes, but it's still gravy.
Merry Christmas to CR et al!!
Just checking in from my iPhone as I'm heading the sleigh over to the west coast of the US. I love CR!!
-Santa
That last comment was me.
China has said it is to allow some trade with its neighbours to be settled with its currency, the yuan.
It has begun...
Central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan was quoted by the South China Morning Post as saying: "The US dollar is unlikely to be stable next year and later.
"And the likelihood of the United States issuing more money in the near future adds to the depreciation risk in US-dollar-denominated assets and trade settlements."
Merry Christmas to all including the 7 visitors currently online.
Governor Zhou, I have but one thing to say;
Hoocoodanowed?
YouTube -
All the present you need.
Happy holidays, everyone!
Merry Christmas all you Christ-cult practitioners!
It was a dark and stormy night. I'd driven out into the snow storm but returned early. I stood at the door listening to the quiet roar of wind through trees, like a distant waterfall.
The market was complacent, seemingly satisfied by the November collapse. Then a door opened, betrayed only by a single squeak -
China to Begin Yuan-Settlement Trials - WSJ.com
"China to Begin Yuan-Settlement Trials"
The city slumbered on, unaware of that tiny change.
why must it all be so desperate
pooki(Unrated) writes:
why must it all be so desperate
All you spacemen gather round
This is what we done found
Barraccuda with their brides
All barking mad and hog tied
Levitation, silent prayer
The stick people and the dancing bears
Hack their heads off, crawl inside
All you see is idiotic pride
Six times underneath the knife
All the naked apes and pond life.
The retail industry could be looking at its biggest contraction in 35 years, according to Burt P. Flickinger, III, managing director of consulting firm Strategic Resource Group. He estimates that 160,000 stores will have closed in 2008 and predicts that an additional 200,000 will shutter next year. In March and April of 2009, Flickinger expects 2,000 to 3,000 malls to shutter.
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Calif. (SFH) Median Resale Price Down 52% In 18 Months
Date_________________\t\tNov-08\tMAX (May 2007)\tLoss From max
\t\t\t\t\t
Calif. (SFH) Median Resale\t\t$285,680 ---- \t$594,530 --- \t\t51.95%
At list part of the decline is due to mix of homes being sold now versus before the Crisis. All other data support the fact that prices in California, as a whole, are down more than 40% from the peak prices. In 90% of the zip codes, prices are down between 20-65% from the peak. We are headed for 50-80% decline from the peak in 95% of the zip codes by 2010.
Going forward, the worst hit zip codes are likely to be the high-priced zip codes in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties and some in L.A. Area. 2009 would be the year when these areas catch up with the rest of CA and in 2010 they would the leaders.
Latest report at:
Page Not Found!
Jas
Merry Christmas Wishes to All
BOOK TV Alert -- Susan Jacoby: The Age of American Unreason
Some may wish to watch rebroadcast on BOOK TV (12:00 P.M. Eastern, 9:00 A.M. CA):
Susan Jacoby: The Age of American Unreason
She merely serves softballs!
The Age of Propaganda replaced the Age of Reason in the West some time after the WW I. We are dealing with mucho macho dopes among the "educated" in America and most of the world that has copied America. History shows us where this road leads todisaster.
Jas
Merry Christmas to all, and thanks CR for all you do! Also, best wishes to Tanta's family and friends! Here's to an interesting 2009!
On the final day of Christmas, the news did bring to me:
Yuan currency peg broken, and a bailout plan for GMAC!!!
Merry Christmas to you and yours, CR........keep up the good work in '09 and God Bless.........
why must it all be so desperate
"I see no desperate here".
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Merry Christmas and Blessings to all
well, it didn't take long for some of us to tire of social interaction
back to the safety and solitude (one and the same?) of the series of tubes
pooki, it's probably true that many of us would rather go to a "Party" full of CR alumni, than meet with relatives or hang out at some public New Year's gathering full of strangers.
I think Housing Bubble blog or HousingPanic actually did some kind of meetup once. Maybe we should schedule one for the middle of 2009. Perhaps that will be the signpost of when the "bottom" is in... all the CR nerds coming out of the shadows, into the open air...
happy holidays everyone.May G-d give you a large trading range.
well, it didn't take long for some of us to tire of social interaction
On Being Sane In Insane Places
"Thus, notions of normality and abnormality may not be quite as accurate as people believe they are"
" how many patients might be sane outside the psychiatric hospital but seem insane in it not because craziness resides in them, as it were, but because they are responding to a bizarre setting"
Do I live in a sane society? Are the realtors & brokers who promoted the housing bubble sane?
Are the Wall Street traders who built up $600 trillion in derivatives sane?
I think not.
But they are "normal".
o! Broward, you just get a preachy sometimes
The man called "Jesus" was born in August, not December. Christmas is corporate propaganda, nothing more. The Santa Claus image that we accept today was created by Coca Cola in the early 20th century. Red suited in Coca Cola's corporate colors.
Happy Holidays to all my gloom and doom friends! I spent a long night at work with drunken rednecks last night and had to rush home for a dose of CR where intellectuals reside as a balm to my soul...Special prayer today for LawyerLiz's Mom...
BH: BTW, FWIW, I read somewhere that the worldwide notional value of derivatives is bumping mighty close to one quadrillion US.
Merry Christmas. I got $25 billion from TARP for Christmas! Bank of Elvis is now open.
Ha Elvis, you can give cats out instead of toasters!
just snagged this link from another site:
Hawthorne Village - Collectible Christmas Villages, Nativity Scenes, Wreaths, & Tabletop Trees
I really want to see the numbers on this beauty, if this thing sold, then we're a long way from the bottom, if it didn't then we're still a long way from the bottom.
Comrade Kristina writes:
Ha Elvis, you can give cats out instead of toasters!
hep cats
It's very beautiful
Thanks, CR
BTW, for all the talk about holiday sales being down - there was one place I stopped by yesterday, that was doing brisk business, with cars waiting to find parking spots.
The liquor store! :-}
pooki(Unrated) writes:
well, it didn't take long for some of us to tire of social interaction
Note: You're posting.
I'd like to take this moment to make a spirited appeal for the return of Evil Henry Paulson.
EHP if you're reading this, miss your commentary.
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Merry Christmas!
"I see no desperate here".
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Broward Horne
Why do I get the feeling someone is about to throw a torch and let loose a deluge?
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Broward Horne
Why do I get the feeling someone is about to throw a torch and let loose a deluge?
Tsk, tsk, old nerds. I remember playing "Star Trek" by sneaking into Bonner Hall @ UCSD, silly little grid of asterisks and vector based photon torpedos.
I'm still stunned. Russia has only $132 billion in currency reserved. Plus they have....lots of nukes.
Oh Sh*t!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I'd like to take this moment to make a spirited appeal for the return of Evil Henry Paulson.
EHP if you're reading this, miss your commentary.
Comrade Byzantine_Ruins | Homepage | 12.25.08 - 11:59 am | #
Second that! Come back EHP. We all miss your great insights.
Conjure thinks December PCE will surprise to the downside.
Just saying.
It strikes me that the Corporations are our new kings. With the latest few trillions "bailed out" to them, with the taxpayers on the hook including future generations, we commoners are as financially as far down from the multi-national corps as a peasant was from King Louis the 16th.
Actually farther, but who's counting? One explanation may be that a "billion" or "trillion" dollars is outside my wise countrymen's imagination. To most it's like, a lot of 1000's or something, right?
Thank you for our new Conservative era, those who supported the insanity. We are now going back to the old days, and most have no more conception of the "Old Days" than they do a trillion dollars.
Just my holiday thoughts. Thank you again, Conservatives, it has been quite a ride.
Anonymous writes:
The man called "Jesus" was born in August, not December. Christmas is corporate propaganda, nothing more. The Santa Claus image that we accept today was created by Coca Cola in the early 20th century. Red suited in Coca Cola's corporate colors.
Anonymous | 12.25.08 - 11:03 am | #
Well, not that simple, you see.
Santa, or his history has a lot more meat included. Legend this big, hopefully, can not be generated by mere corporations.
Santa Claus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Legendary personas do not get 'created'.
"Special prayer today for LawyerLiz's Mom..."
Amen.
"The Santa Claus image that we accept today"
Legends are created by corporations all the time
From previous post:
Correction to prior post...
USAJOBS - The Federal Government's Official Jobs Site
Another source for govt. jobs
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Apply for a job
Hey, the Feds can print money that they pay you. Can not say that for local and state govs.
For you 1099 ers, the Feds pay vacations, pensions, sick leave, etc. All those things that you left when you went independent. Positive, you do not have to pay both portions of the SS taxes...
Well, just trying to offer some how on the holidays...
Where is that bottle of whiskey?
Just like in "real life," I am transfixed by the Zamboni...
>I'd like to take this moment to make a spirited appeal for the return of Evil Henry Paulson.
EHP if you're reading this, miss your commentary.
\t Comrade Byzantine_Ruins<
Seconded.
Broward at 10:56.
That's a great article from 1973 on bogus psychiatric labeling. Those pseudopatients had guts. After "Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) they might hace had second thoughts. Before Economics I considered Psychology for an undergraduate major. The pseudoscience was much worse. They try to prove genetic bases for schizophrenia with statistics, when they don't even start with an agreed upon definition of the condition, which can not be objectively diagnosed. Throw the scientific method out the window, like the water fountain in the film...