What is wrong with Connecticut?

The Republicans chose to run a non-entity against Lieberman in 2006. And Dodd is the Banking Chairman. What else do you expect?

Rob Dawg writes:
The legions of motivated directionless angry workers will become the new fiscal infrastructure monkeywrenchers. Expanding foam insulation in the night deposit slot comes to mind.

Jesus christ, it's like you were there at the table listening in. "Monkeywrenching" as protest was exactly the topic of discussion.

Housing Tax Credit

Housing subsidy paid for by your taxes

just stick the tax credit in the 1000 page health bill at the eleventh hour.

Yeah, but I'm not ready to play at that level yet.

.....damn.....I just figured out what "STFU" means.......I didn't realize you guys were so crass......LOL

.

"I believe they will be the cause"

No Mel, you'll get it yet with extensive instruction. The person holding the weapon will be the cause. Not a network.

Wait...what? (Or, in the vernacular, wait, whut?) I thought Georgia was chock-ful-o-good-old Free-Market, Capitalist, Socialist-hatin' real 'mericuns who won't stand for a communist government takeover of the eCONomy...Isaakson in particular is a rabid cheerleader of this crowd.

"

Wait...what? (Or, in the vernacular, wait, whut?) I thought Georgia was chock-ful-o-good-old Free-Market, Capitalist, Socialist-hatin' real 'mericuns who won't stand for a communist government takeover of the eCONomy...Isaakson in particular is a rabid cheerleader of this crowd.
C"

Didn't you get the memo? It's only socialism if it helps the "other" group. When it helps your group it's just the good lord lending a helping hand.

....LOL........I don't get out much.......

When it helps your group it's just the good lord lending a helping hand.

Aaah...Divine Intervention...now that will sell down in Gee-oww-gee-ah.

"I like how the White House economic team is still formulating an opinion about the program. "

You know that whole thing where you wet your finger and stick it in the air to see which way the wind is blowing?

@BG - the polling isn't in yet...finger still in the air.

BSR--Assassination is being advocated--not too subtly--righteous indignation is being fanned--it doesn't take too much for some people to become heroes. "Uppity" Blacks have a serious problem with violent "crackers."

Pull my finger, pull my finger..

...but them I'm not going to like the wind that blows...

that whole thing where you wet your finger and stick it in the air to see which way the wind is blowing?

So stick a finger in Volcker and see which way he blows?

Ok, I deleted the Barney Frank reference because I am not that evil

Here is why you should pay up, km4.

We are living in uncharted waters in a huge, complex world. Things are going to happen in the years and decades ahead that nobody can fathom. Good things and bad. But economies and people will survive. You picked the wrong number. A million jobs is a small number in a world that will soon have 10 billion people.

Even if you qualify it to the U.S., we will look back in ten years and be able to identify several industries that created 10 million jobs over some time period. You didn't qualify any time period. Nobody can prove for sure what those industries will be.

But the odds are overwhelming that at least one of the industries mentioned by someone on this board will be in that group.

It was just one of those stupid blowhard bets to make.

Sometimes, when people make stupid bets, they kind of slink away in shame.

Other times, they stand up and take it like a Clinton.

"What is wrong with Connecticut?"

Oh please dont get me started. It is somewhere between plastic trophy wives to the beverages sipped starting at 3pm....

Ok, I deleted the Barney Frank reference because I am not that evil

Yes, but are you still beating your wife?

ducking & running...

Oh, and Broward: really, dude, come on out of the closet! And hey, ewwww...you must aspire to sexier than Volcker!

Ok, really, d&r....time for another beer!

FOX is funneling that UE unrest--and it's racist.

What's wrong with drinking at 3 pm?

Mel, give me a link that assassination is being advocated!

FOX is talking up guns and ammo for the angry mob--I believe they will be the cause of an assassination attempt.

I've been reading and hearing a lot of things lately that take me back forty-odd years. The similarities between then and now are genuinely spooky. The same "us" versus "them," the same hatemongering.

Glenn Beck is particularly scary, wishing for people to be killed.

Mel writes;
"FOX is funneling that UE unrest--and it's racist. "

Are you going to make me turn it on to see what you're talking about?

Bond Girl - nothing assuming you have sent someone to collect the 1.98 children and dont have to drive home from the work pit at 5pm

Americans Plan to Limit Household Spending, Survey Shows (Version 2)

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By Mike Dorning

Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Americans say they plan to maintain their spending patterns as they are uncertain about the direction of the economy over the next six months. Some Americans were puzzled when asked about which way they thought the wind was blowing for them. Thelma Matthews, when asked, replied "It is an ill wind that blows no good or some such shit."

Only 8 percent of U.S. adults plan to increase household spending, almost one-third will spend less, and 58 percent expect to “stay the course,” according to a Bloomberg News poll. More than 3 in 4 said they were waiting on anther rebate check.

Respondents were divided over whether the economy will get better, stay the same, or just generally fall apart and leave them living under a tree on the next overpass.

Watch the Daily Show clips of Beck and Hannity--they are inciting dastardly racism--violent racism--historic racism.

Glen Beck was turned down for the job he really wanted and has never been the same since. What job you ask? Towel boy for the Harlem Globetrotters.

Nova

What choice do they have?

The housing tax credits will never end until they end badly IMHO.

Beck is an instigator. He knows damned well that there are sickos out there who would like to make his dreams come true for him.

Who cares?
It's not like Obama is some great savior from the sky.

Are you ****ing serious?

You can't be serious about that.

There was a visual communications dude on HuffPo in the weekend opining that "Bury Obamacare" was none-too-subtle death imagery.

C

Biden does not have the abs for the job.

Nova

What choice do they have but to limit spending? Income are falling faster than prices so far.

Yeah, president Biden scares me too. Pelosi maybe?

Mel,

Which one - I missed it! Thats why there is a quote feature!

Number-3 TV show behind Rush? Mel, I didn't see anything striking of racism or assasination in that article.......and with 6-fuzzy channels and no satellite or cable I guess I'll just have to miss it.

That's getting harder to do. I've got fairly good credit and half of my cards have been canceled. I'm thinking that for anyone in the 60th percentile or below access to consumer credit is probably a serious problem.

I'm really quite amazed that anyone at this point still defines themselves as Republican or Democrat.

Bond Girl, there is a difference between weak and being abusive.

Me too, Bond Girl

The chaps are chafing your ass tonight, eh Broward?

Obama's a charismatic guy and a great machine politician. He was a really skilled community organizer and knows how to use organizations like ACORN to his advantage. I don't think he was manufactured by anyone, but I do think he's a lousy president - on the same level as Herbert Hoover. The republic would survive his loss. That being said, it's not like there is anyone good in the line of succession.

You don't wish that on anybody, and you sure as hell don't wish it on your country.

I can't even listen to political commentary, or news, or clips of politicians talking anymore. So the idea of someone surviving an episode of Glenn Beck is more than my brain can handle.

Glen Beck is like a dumber, more extreme and much less funny version of Rush Limbaugh.

I'm a registered democrat because in my district the democratic primary matters more than the general election.

Anyone who still believes he was a better choice than the old man is unquestionably an idiot and should seek professional counseling.

This sentence represents among the worst, yet most popular, strains in Internet argument. It says nothing about the question at hand, and, with slight variations, appears in thousands arguments made each day on online forums. We have all seen "Anyone who believes xxxx is clearly retarded/delusional/deranged" enough times for it to be a mark of disgrace on the person saying it. Yet it persists.

Just found some stunning dystopian Washington DC pix on io9 - imagine nova narrating American Apocalypse in the background. Pick a chapter, any chapter...!

Future Washington

There are other cities too if you track back a bit, but this seemed more in keeping with TEOTW meme.

C

I'm a socialist and I have been soooo lonely since the 1960's

Until now, you mean.

• But Paul Begala, a former Clinton advisor, said there was one worrisome difference.
  "The undertone of potential violence is stronger now than it ever was before," Begala said. "I don't remember anyone ever bringing a gun to President Clinton's meetings."*

Clearly Begala doesn't visit the outback of Utah where we bring guns to church. No big deal about having a shootin' iron strapped on. Keeps everyone real polite.

You need to set your expectations lower, nova.

You need to set your expectations lower, nova.

Any lower and I will start listening to the BeeGees

Until now, you mean.

Bond Girl - make no mistake these are NOT socialists. It isn't owned by the 'collective'... its owned by Goldman Sachs, JPM & hedgies... a very different animal. If we get real socialism from this you'll know...

There is no one CT.

There is suburban CT, small-town CT, depressed CT (Hartford, Bridgeport) and rural CT. It's not as East Coast as you think.

Dodd is vulnerable the next time he runs in 2010. Apparently, he gets reamed as a hypocrite in the new Michael Moore movie, which will probably be more mainstream than any other Michael Moore movie.

Michael Moore Takes on Reaganomics and Congressional Democrats in 'Capitalism' - washingtonpost.com

nova,
YouTube - Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive ( 1977 )

---Oh The Horror.

Had I been the marshal, the gun toter at the Obama rally would have been escorted out of town. Constitutional rights are one thing, stupidity is another.

Think of this from the point of view of Secret Service, who allows it. Stupidity? Hardly. It has to be political calculus by the White House. They seem to be paranoid not to appear as anti-gun.

It was a joke, but what we have now is no less messed up.

Bond Girl,

Are you British?

Hoopajoops LTD (homepage, profile) wrote on Wed, 9/16/2009 - 6:31 pm

Jesus christ, it's like you were there at the table listening in. "Monkeywrenching" as protest was exactly the topic of discussion.

I've got lots of good ideas. Most are even mostly legal. First we need to print up millions of ultrasticky labels. Enough so it looks organized and traceability gets muddled. The Alice's Restaurant Approach.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters today that President Barack Obama’s economic team is looking at the tax credit and “evaluating the impact” on new home sales.

Well they only have to look at Calculated Risk to see the impact and they don't even need a calculator. CR do you think you could make it any easier like creating a Seasame Street like Youtube video, maybe put in a funny cat or two. I hear the administration really likes youtube videos.

I think they mean 'political impact'...

Most are even mostly legal.

A lot of our purely theoretical discussions about economic disruptions ran along those lines. I brought up the rampant counterfeiting in south american economies of the US notes. One of my friends who is a skilled graphic designer wondered about printing bogus $5 and $10 bills by the hundreds and distributing them around a single small town in conspicuous places as "lost" currency to undermine the system, or to even provide a small local "stimulus" boost. I accused him of being a mini federal reserve.

YouTube - Arlo Guthrie/Alice's Restaurant 

So is this worth my 18 minute investment of time?

Yup.

Explains the proper handling of garbage.

This thread reminds me of the Group W bench.

NW

If anyone ever sees me carrying a weapon, I won't be polite.

Frankly, I'd prefer that you shoot me rather than rip my throat out with your(or Conjure's) teeth.

BEWARE OF THE CHIPMUNK

HomeGnome (homepage, profile) wrote on Wed, 9/16/2009 - 7:38 pm

YouTube - Arlo Guthrie/Alice's Restaurant
So is this worth my 18 minute investment of time?

More of a cultural imperative.

It's been noted that many commenting here are on strike, refusing to participate in certain aspects of the economy until there's a level field, transparency and honest refs. There really does exist here in the country the founding fathers saw and exploited. Consent of the governed is being tested sorely and like all the other recent stressed aspects of society this one does not have an elegant failure mode.

BEWARE OF THE CHIPMUNK

The Chipmunk ate the damned cat's lunch today.

Can you believe that?

I've still got the trap out, and have baited it with cat food, which I now know he enjoys, but the situation is about to escalate.

Do you have a pet chipmunk?

Chipmunks are like bank failures. There's no such thing as just one.

Do you have a pet chipmunk?

Sorry, Bond Girl, I'm not going there. I am not, so to say, going to "take the bait."

Let someone else tell the story.

Hey mp, maybe it is pregnant.

Who cares?
It's not like Obama is some great savior from the sky. - BH

Broward is froward.

I'm late to the party but this probably fits:

Jesus H. Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse

Ssshhh. Don't let Mrs. mp hear you talk like that - she might get the wrong idea about what mp has been up to lately.

Just because you had sheep when you were younger doesn't make it normal.

And with that

You missed the fun last night, Bond Girl:

Comment by mp from thread 'Credit Cards: Most Institutions Report higher Write-Offs in August'

Starts about 15-20 posts down.

Concern? You don't get it, soon you are going to have more chipmunks running around. Soon your place will be overrun, infested even. You will open a drawer to get socks and get little fuzzys. You are doomed. Call in an airstrike or run. It's over . Dien ben phiu and you are the French.

Do we have the wit and the wisdom to restore an environment of price stability without impairing
economic stability? Should we fail, I fear the distortions and uncertainty generated by inflation
itself will greatly extend and exaggerate the sense of malaise and caution . . . Should we succeed,
I believe the stage will have been set for a new long period of prosperity.1
—Paul Volcker

The Reform of October 1979: How It Happened and Why
http://research.stlouisfed.org/conferences/smallconf/lindsey.pdf

close?

Nope. I spotted him a couple of times. Son of mp saw him having a go at the cat's lunch.

I've got other problems I've got to deal with tomorrow but, if the cagey little creature isn't gone by Friday at 0800, Operation Chipmunk will launch automatically.

There will be nothing Chipmunk can do to stop it.

It will be glorious.

I've got other problems I've got to deal with tomorrow but, if the cagey little creature isn't gone by Friday at 0800, Operation Chipmunk will launch automatically.

There will be nothing Chipmunk can do to stop it.

It will be glorious.

mp will be firing up the generator and running some wire

YouTube - Zapped Squirrel

Now I really must go

"It will be glorious"

Praise to our fearless leader Comrade Mp and praise to the glorious revolution!

I'm not sure I would have been able to sleep knowing that a chipmunk was running free in my house.

yogi: yesterday, you said that there has been no female african-american senator. Carol Moseley Braun?

Do we have the wit and the wisdom to restore an environment of price stability without impairing
economic stability? Should we fail, I fear the distortions and uncertainty generated by inflation
itself will greatly extend and exaggerate the sense of malaise and caution . . . Should we succeed,
I believe the stage will have been set for a new long period of prosperity.1
—Paul Volcker

I had the privilege of sitting next to Mr. Volker at a conference the summer before last, and even at his advanced age he remains a physically impressive man. I'm no shrimp, but even at 82 he's still a couple of inches above me (although I think he's lost a couple of inches from his 6'7" peak).

I'm not predisposed to being infatuated by someone simply because they're famous, but I got starry-eyed with Volker the first time I saw him.

He's such a class act. He came and sat next to me at a session, near the back in an ordinary chair, to listen to a local speaker discuss some economic issue of minor importance--agricultural commodity forecasts or something. The organizers quickly scrambled to bring a big cushy chair in for the old man, but he gave them the most wicked glare I ever witnessed and seemed genuinely embarrassed to be given the attention. He completely ignored the chair and refused any sort of special treatment.

It's too bad he doesn't have the stamina for 18 hour days of running between meetings anymore, as we could surely use a straight talker or two these days.

I'm not sure I would have been able to sleep knowing that a chipmunk was running free in my house.

My wife can't sleep if there's a spider in our room. If there was a chipmunk we'd be spending the night in a hotel.

Thanks, nova....

I think Nova just shortened the poor thing's life.

If wife of mp can have a pet kitty, why can't kitty of wife of mp have a pet chipmunk?

Nice try, but won't work.

I will get the link. What was really gross was the cases of the fuzzy creatures crawling into peoples mouth who were sleeping with them open. Some were quoted in the link about what it did to their breath. Of course thay had to write it as their tongues were gnawed off

I wonder if you can train a chipmunk to use a litter box.

No, but they will use a straw when drinking if raised properly

Dr. Paul does not regard Greenspan as the smartest of the Fed Chairmen he met. "I had the most interaction with [Paul] Volcker. He was more personable and smarter than the others, including the more recent board chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke" (p.48).
Ron Paul's Battle for Financial Sanity :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website

Glen Beck has footage of a group of chipmunks trying to arrange transport for some human trafficking. I think they called themselves acorn or something...

No, but they will use a straw when drinking if raised properly

Is that so they don't drown in the toilet? Sounds like good training.

I was just thinking about his view on inflation and that his statement would be nice, if the term collusion, or fraud, or something related to the systemic collapse would be on target:
(Should we fail, I fear the distortions and uncertainty generated by fed collusion
itself will greatly extend and exaggerate the sense of malaise and caution)

I appreciate that quote. I think the thing that impressed me was not his fame or size, but in how he approached the times we were in. This was during the summer of 2008, before the fall fannie mae and freddie mac, but after the collapse of bear sterns. Instead of setting out some prescribed path, the bulk of his speech was on identifying the information that was missing, recognizing that our current models don't really account for any of this, and--in all fairness--identifying his own personal shortcomings in dealing with the times we were in.

Honestly, it was a breath of fresh air to hear someone who had once been in the inner circle discussing the opacity and paucity of information available to the discussion.

up thread several were speculating whether or not fox news personalities were beating the drum against obama hoping to motivate mass popular uprising or possibly even insurrection or violence

then a poster said "obama is dangerous to this country and people', or 'dangerous to the republic" or is a" communist or socialist"

that is the very kind of statement that fox people want repeated and agreed to

kennedy agreed to remove us missiles in turkey pointed at russia and refused to invade cuba
some thought he was dangerous to the country

johnson committed almost 700 thousand troupes to vietnam and spent the treasury dry with guns and butter
some though he was dangerous

nixon instituted price controls and wanted to drop nukes on vietnam a russian client state which could have ignited ww3...some thought nixon was dangerous to the country

ford made a dieing declaration contained in his biography that the government hid evidence of the kennedy assassination and of course ford was a leader in that regard (hiding the evedence)...some think ford was dangerous to the country

carter tried to be more progressive than even his own party, and was seen as weak because he wanted to negotiate instead of fight and wear a sweater while funding alternative energy ...some thought carter was dangerous for the country

reagan ran against carter pushing deregulation and decrying the national debt which was at 750 billion when reagan took office and more than doubled by the time reagan left having built a 500 ship navy etc...some thought reagan was dangerous

george bush was a cia director and probably a spook much of his life and some people thought it was dangerous to have an ex spy as president

clinton was a young inexperienced leader (and an experienced playboy) who recognized gay rights and tried to negotiate deals between arabs and Israelis some thought clinton was dangerous to the country

some believe bush 2 did not respond sufficiently to warnings in his daily briefing and from prominent sources that an attack was imminent and then launched a war of choice against a tyrant that had nothing to do with the 911 attack...some thought bush 2 was dangerous to the country

and on and on

fight the political fight all you want.disagree with this president all you want (my feelings about obama are mixed some good some bad)

but leave the crazy talk about the president to fox news and the wing nuts, because hatred and fear and name calling fester and with enough hatred and fear violence will erupt

im old and seen too much of it so everybody please keep it constructive

I heard that chipmunks believe in peak oil, ground squirrels dream about mass transit, and gophers like high density dwellings. Not to stir anyone's animosities or anything.

im old and seen too much of it so everybody please keep it constructive

will do, mock.

I'm not predisposed to being infatuated by someone simply because they're famous, but I got starry-eyed with Volker the first time I saw him.

I am, in general anti-Central banker, but I have great respect for Paul Volcker.

He seems to be a lonely voice of sanity in the financial Cuckoo's Nest.

Thread tune?

cat power - maybe not
YouTube - Cat Power - Maybe Not

I got starry-eyed with Volker the first time I saw him.

Starry-eyed?

Here's what gets me all starry-eyed:

YouTube - Helene Grimaud Chaconne in D minor -1-

I respect Volcker, but I don't get all starry-eyed.

mock turtle,

There was a lengthy discussion here a couple nights ago, perhaps last night, about how this is an economics blog and politics is not to be mentioned unless absolutely necessary to make a point.

What I took from that discussion, among resolving myself to speak more about policy and less about raw politics, was that it was okay for self-styled conservatives to bash liberals, but it was never okay to bash conservatives as being Republicans who will uniformly vote unanimously against anything a Democratic President or Congress tries to accomplish, even though that is precisely what they do, because they do it out of their conviction and not out of politics.

It was an interesting exercise in hypocrisy, . . . but then, they do that so well.

They even convinced a lot of people (though less than the majority) to vote for George Bush. That's a testament to how well they do what they do.

It's not really about politics, is it?

it was actually a crosby tune which he was shopping around before CSN came together.

if I ever get to make a jim jones movie, i hope to have it prominently featured. i can't think of a better song to capture that unique combination of idealism and escapism.

Doc - you might like this. A little tune to lead into end of the week trading and quad witching... Is a Chinese Burn coming?

YouTube - Curve - Chinese Burn

Video looks like places I know in Mongkok.

C

The majority of kids I see today are all attention deficit, but many are very bright and have hope for the future, which is great -- however, the old timers like Volker set the benchmarks! It is sad to see the distortion in place today with our leadership and I guess all one can do is join the kids and have hope that change will come about....

Most of my day is involved in politics these days, Doc, and the one thing that I've noticed (bearing in mind that I'm a member of the younger generation) is that political discourse has become fabricated to such an extent as to become almost meaningless. This is nothing new, of course, as there have always been PR communications majors spinning every subject for a politician, but it appears that the inmates have taken control of the asylum. A communications person should be a member of a politicians team, but they should be given equal weight to a strong staff policy analyst. What I'm seeing for many politicians is that their analyst often is a communications or public affairs grad as well, and has little education in actually working through the nuts and bolts of a policy. The entire staff is often simply a group of public affairs and communications officers, which is why everything coming out of most political offices these days is nothing but generic tripe with no substantial innovative policy.

My desire is that this current generation, at some point, escapes this trap of banality and latches on a politician who is real and surrounds themselves with practical sage advice. It's probably a fool's hope.

Great rant. The stuff that the right wingnuts say during a Dem presidency isn't any different than what the left wingnuts say during a Rep presidency. Everyone remember "The Death of a President"?

Except we have damn few leftie nutters left [pun not intended]... you may say 'Oh yes we do!' but we don't - not like the leftie nutters we had in the 60s & 70s [weatherman, sds, symbianese, panthers - etc.]. We got some rightie nutters that nutty right now in the Beck camp [more puns - how fun] but the lefties were almost all either crushed or co-opted - I vote most were co-opted.

If we get your depression you'll get real lefties again - maybe even real communists - you'll then see what I mean. Today's crop of left aren't even good seed stock for what will come. That is IF we see real hardship.

AB: 9 squirrels relocated so far this year.
Or maybe one relocated nine times.

Great rant. The stuff that the right wingnuts say during a Dem presidency isn't any different than what the left wingnuts say during a Rep presidency.

False Statement, TJ and the Bear, more of the Republican bullshit machine.

Democrats overwhelming supported President Bush's request for authority to use combat troops "as a last resort."

Democrats in general support Republican Executives. Republicans not only never support Democratic Executives, but uniformly side with their gang and give no support, while obstructing and lying about what they are doing.

Tell me again how this is an economics blog and politics has no place because Democrats are as unpatriotic during a Republican Presidency as Republicans are during a Democratic Presidency?

It's false. It's just part of The Big Lie.

I suppose it would be, if FRNs were money.

Counterpointer,

I actually changed the original video to a more mellow thing; I'm trying to tone it down a bit, but as I listen to yours, it reminds me of something; maybe a little like that chick from Canada: check it, they ripped her off: YouTube -

Here's what gets me all starry-eyed:

I should have put that into context, mp. My current employment often has me in contact with people who are in the public eye, and one quickly develops a bit of an immunity after a while. In terms of meeting public officers, Volker is one of the few who drew out that kind of response, whereas normally I studiously avoid that sort of personage and seek out their staff members, who are much more valuable to me anyway. It's not like I developed a giant man-crush on him.

It was a slightly-smaller-than-giant man-crush.

Or maybe one relocated nine times.

You have to move them a long way away to be sure they aren't coming back in the same hole - for us the cat takes care of it.

Also - this late in the year [could have frost this weekend] relocating them away from their winter stash is more cruel than just killing them now - instead of a quick death now they will starve then freeze to death without their stash and it is too late in many cases for them to get enough together... well that is unless you place them near somebodies bird feeder [like ours - the squirrels get so fat off the sunflower seeds & cracked corn they can hardly climb back up the trees].

why you did not attribute the statements you quoted to their authors? Like this:

People who actually listen to Glen Beck long ago stopped thinking for themselves.

BSR, if you are indeed out of the Fox loop, spend a little time here

Or maybe one relocated nine times.

Nope, sdtfs. Relocation wasn't a euphemism for discreet termination away from Mrs.B's glare. They were transported several miles away to the woods next to the supermarket. There haven't been any seen here in a couple of months.

Anything Baroque for me.

Hey, I don't care what she plays.

"Or maybe one relocated nine times."

pure racism. All chipmunks look the same to you? (:

Doc - LOL! They might have had it not been done over 10 years earlier...

There's mellower stuff too if yr interested in hunting around the tubes for it.

C

looks like i'll be buying calls again, tomorrow

**Bullshit, sportsfan, you're just so far to the left you can't see it any other way. *
*
Not true. I love being a self-styled liberal, since others thought that was a term of derision, but in reality I have some rather conservative views.

My point is simple. I have live through a lot of Presidents. Nixon, Reagan and Bush the Lesser all shit on the Constitution. Ford was a caretaker and I actually liked Bush the Elder.

I never believed that the Red Threat was ever any problem to Americans. Communism was never an option. Fascism is always right around the corner and my experience shows clearly that Republicans embrace fascism.

They have no respect at all for the individual or individual rights, with the sole exception of the right to bear arms, which I don't need them for, it's already in the Second Amendment.

And I certainly don't need their religious bullshit, though they drag that out all the time.

Because I also would die for the First Amendment, though I doubt they would.

I can't thing of anything more important, when one is done with war, than to make peace with one's enemies.

Hear that, mp? You and little Thelonius are gonna have to make pax.

Either that, or stop putting out cat food. Cats get hungry, cats hunt.

".......if you are indeed out of the Fox loop"???

barfly, I wouldn't watch Fox if I could. The website you linked to though causes pause, just because of its single direction headlines.

Last week we had Sen. Harry Reid stop by town for a visit. Instead of going to the only building in town that could handle the citizens (who btw were waiting for him - many with pickets), He went around the block, snuck into an old non-used town building, handed a few people awards (for a photo shoot), and minutes later blew town and didn't say a single word to the hundreds waiting. This in my mind is reprehensible - REGARDLESS what party he's from - he's an elected official! The Washingtonians are an elitist selfish deceitful arrogant bunch of hypocrits that wouldn't know self-sacrifice if it crawled up their ass and died.

....I'm an equal-opportunity rantor - btw, today was a momentous occasion - this was the first time a successful recall has been undertaken in Nye County. One of our County Commissioners has to face a special election in October for also being a hypocritical idiot. We'll vote him out in October.

...stop putting out cat food. Cats get hungry, cats hunt.

I told my wife those exact words.

"Oh, the poor cats," she said.

No, the clock is ticking on Operation Chipmunk.

He won't know what him.

BSR, I linked that site to give you a chance to hear these people speak in their own words, a lot of which sound like your words, to my ear.

The Washingtonians are an elitist selfish deceitful arrogant bunch of hypocrits that wouldn't know self-sacrifice if it crawled up their ass and died.

See . . . BSR and I agree about some really important things, like, for example, the power elite who work for the financial elite and not for us.

barfly, BTW, you did a yeoman's job defending your principles. I was just too tired to do more than read a little and go to sleep.

Insurance regulators looking at decreasing use of rating agencies in capital guidelines
Regulators of Big Bond Buyers Challenge the Raters - WSJ.com

Interesting note, bondgirl but did you catch what the state regulators were planning on replacing the ratings agencies with? I'll readily admit that I didn't go through it with a fine-toothed comb as it's getting late and I need to stay awake for a few minutes to finish something yet. Rating systems for insurance is something that needs to be chewed on before lunch, not near midnight

i can't wait for september auto sales numbers.

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They will do what ever needs to be done to get us through the holidays. I say it all goes down in Feb.

5 months

Makes sense.

The American Rapture has been postponed.

We return to regular programming of the American Ream.

C

/nytol

Thanks, Sportsfan. It's easy to do when you know where you stand.

btw, thnx, barfly for the link -I'll peruse it when I have an fresh head.

sdtfs (profile) wrote on Wed, 9/16/2009 - 8:31 pm

I heard that chipmunks believe in peak oil, ground squirrels dream about mass transit, and gophers like high density dwellings. Not to stir anyone's animosities or anything.

Hey, they're just dumb animals. Of course they are going to fall for stuff like that. BTW, twas I in yesterday's thread that mentioned my ground squirrels turning a stacked stone wall into a condohell.

sportsfan

i more than half liked bush 1

G H W bush did some very smart things for the us esp in terms of foreign policy and budget

bush one was right about "voodoo economics" and i can see how he gets along with clinton (bill)..politically they have a lot in common and some differences

obama has got to push thru banking regs, improved oversight, and get some perp walks going on the bankstas or he will probably loose my vote

Any more takers?

32 hours, 30 minutes.

Question... Is there any way to evict a tenant of a property that is to be sold (in CA)? I have repeatedly been told absolutely no but am curious how a bank can do it after a foreclosure.

Beck, Hannity & Limbaugh only exist because of Rupert Murdoch...

Blame the mouthpieces if you'd like, but the real evil is behind the scenes paying for the puppets~

Speaking of which, Jim the Realtor was going to have a cash-for-keys offer for the barefoot, hairy-belly tenant in that REO video from a week or so ago. Wonder how that's going.

MP,

Your going to have to kill the thing. Try rat glue or snap traps.

Good luck with the wife.

Rupert Murdoch doesn't care what any of his employees say, as long as they get ratings. That's his sole concern. If he thought that "Air America" types would make him more money, that's who he'd be backing.

Next leg down. End of extend and pretend. Double dip. Dow crash. Dollar collapse. Any or all - pick your poison.

Being an old Marine (Marines are never ex-Marines, btw),

BSR, I'm just an old fogey, formerly a member of the U.S. Army (I think we do get to be ex-Army). LOL.

I thought Bush the Elder got a bad deal. IMO in effect he was held to pay for the Reagan years.

Re: no new taxes: I saw your comment on Nye County Commissioner. My area in San Bernardino County is represented by one Anthony Adams (R). In order to get elected he had to sign the "no taxes" pledge or whatever it is that EVERY Republican State Senator or Assemblyman had to sign. He was one of the three who then supported the tax hike earlier this year. The recall effort started immediately and, whatever it's outcome might be, the simple fact is that the Republican Party will not nominate him for reelection in 2010.

I just find that totally unacceptable in a democracy. California has lots of gangs. You swear your allegiance and, if you violate that, you can die (that night). The fact that a major political party runs the same way is, to me, scary.

Blame the mouthpieces if you'd like, but the real evil is behind the scenes paying for the puppets~

Say what you want about the man, but I really appreciated Ted Turner's comments from a few months ago that CNN's Headline News was unwatchable now. I used to love headline news 3 or 4 years ago, when all they did was rotate top news stories hour after hour. Then I found I had to shut it off for an hour in the evening during Nancy Grace. Then a couple of hours. Now it's completely useless to me and I haven't watched it in ages.

What baffles me is that there is a group of people who respond to that crap, and it's large enough to swamp the people who are actually watching for unbiased news.

This will, of course, result in the need for a political cover-up, which I have already formulated.

Frame the cat - that would be double good.

Obviously BG & I think alike [wrt to felines anyway]...

I'm a born and bred pessimist and see the glass as perpetually draining onto the table -- however, there are hints and allegations that there are seeds sitting upon the fallow fields. Perhaps if there is a killer frost and harsh winter, spring will come and the children of the Earth shall ... hmmm .... yah know, I try to buy into that shit, but it doesn't feel right!