HULK SMASHED
The invisible handjob, of course.
My head hurts.
The answer?
Nope. They don't.
Helping those who are doing fine seems to be the operative principle.
Often, when I'm in a kindergarden giving one of my save the world speeches, little kids will come up to me and ask, 'How can I save the world? I'm just a little kid', and I tell them, 'kill your parents'. True, it's drastic, but very effective.
The invisible hand never gets tired.
from below:
The idea that McCain or any soldier is more of a patriot or hero that a Chomsky, Vidal or NTodd for that matter is pure nationalistic jingoism. McCain flew off aircraft carriers to kill and maim innocent children, mothers and fathers. And then he went back to have steak and eggs. And when he did get shot down, the civilians just about tore him apart. As would many Americans if one of the 9/11 hijackers had parachuted into Times Square.
The economy would be fine if everybody would just marry beer heiresses.
I was under the impression there would be no math AND light posting this weekend.
::not complaining::
Economics: (1) the science of predicting what will happen last year, given the data from 2+ years ago. (2) a religion which worships a single commandment called "the free market"
Charlotte Allen for Fed Chair!
I tried searching yesterday, but came up with nothing useful.
I like the word, but can someone give a good definition for "glibertarian?"
Too early for that much math. But I think they also forgot those pesky little details like title search and appraisal to make sure that government loan isn't going to cover a not so reduced mortgage on a burned out shell with many attached liens.
There were a lot of numbers in that post. I was promised no numbers.
And when he did get shot down, the civilians just about tore him apart. As would many Americans if one of the 9/11 hijackers had parachuted into Times Square.
leibniz♘☮
And one should not forget that McCain still suffers from the trauma of that event...He's shown impaired judgement and an inability to control his temper. Not sure we need this guy near "the button".
Krugman's blog post basically says that the Fed is playing the market.
From the Charlotte Allen Q&A linked down-thread:
"Charlotte Allen: .... Women aren't a historically oppressed minority; they're half the population or more!"
That, my friends, is the problem. She has no historical context. She takes what she has for granted and assumes women have always had these rights.
She's a dumbass.
I like the word, but can someone give a good definition for "glibertarian?"
Matt Lauer?
I like the word, but can someone give a good definition for "glibertarian?"
William F Buckley
Participation will therefore not be attractive to those whose mortgages that already exceed the value of their homes. [sic] But for the vast majority of other homeowners, the loan-substitution program would provide an attractive opportunity.
Ignoring the fact that the entire proposal is stupid and rooted in bad math, I'm not so sure the implied situation("most people aren't upside down") is even true.
I think a *staggering* percentage of mortgages are upside down right now. With many, many, more to come.
There were a lot of numbers in that post. I was promised no numbers.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
This will make your head explode
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
That, my friends, is the problem. She has no historical context. She takes what she has for granted and assumes women have always had these rights.
She's a dumbass.
John?!? Is that you??
That's a lot of math and stuff. But is the idea that they're going to solve the mortgage crisis by, er, making more loans?
Ignoring the fact that the entire proposal is stupid and rooted in bad math...
More coffee. I read this as "rooted in bad meth."
"Charlotte Allen: Sure, there might have been a few more--and in fact there were many more in Hildegard's time, when there were learned abbesses all over Europe."
Most of whom, unfortunately, were burned at the stake for being witches under the patriarchal Catholic church.
Let's try some chalice economics now that we've seen how well blade economics works.
Troll-free/Dem campaign free, OMG, I love you guys.
(That was like talking about a shutout, wasn't it. Sorry)
New puppy post for those who need a break from all the numbers:
http://roselandbianca.blogspot.com
There were a lot of numbers in that post. I was promised no numbers.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
The first person who says "math is hard" gets liberated!
I like the word, but can someone give a good definition for "glibertarian?"
Glib because they think they know everything about economics and that liberals are just do-gooders who don't understand that people just have to suffer to make the economy work right.
Don't forget that glibertarians are definition shifters.
Beautiful pooch, Snugglebunny
I like the word, but can someone give a good definition for "glibertarian?"
A believer in the doctrine that all economic problems can be solved by some simplistic and completely unrealistic invocation of the free market, some corporate welfare, and a heaping helping of scorn for the poor and helpless.
Good morning.
I'd define a glibertarian as someone who puts forth ridiculously simplistic free-market no-regulation fairy-tale answers to complex real-world problems; such answers always be delivered in an exceedingly patronizing manner.
Of course the libertarians have no idea how the real world functions, just as the creationists have no idea how the universe and evolution really works.
There is little, if any, difference between the devout libertarian and the devout Maoist of the "Cultural Revolution" era. Both worship(ped) an idealized image of their ideological leader, both ignore(d) the fact that the real world refuse(d) to function as they want it to.
Except that the devout Maoist of the "Cultural Revolution" era grew up, recognized what an utter ass he'd been, and would prefer to forget all about his misspent youth.
The libertarian just buys another large caliber gun and fantasizes about what he's going to do to all those damned islamofascists and their socialist fellow travellers. And then wipes the spooge off the latest issue of GUNS AND AMMO magazine.
Why do I get the image of a bunch of folks looking at Krugman and Calculated Risk and saying, WTF? I was told there would be no math.
My son's definition of a glibertarian on a college campus--libertarians on financial aid
Well then Charlotte Allen is an asshole.
What is she, 55? Guess she missed the entire ERA era (heh) I remember distinctly at age 8.
But what I don't understand about the glibertarians is that this isn't a market failure, it's a feature! When people have to sell off their houses (and railroads and utilities), the 'better' people just buy them up. Then, next time they land on one of your hotels on Boardwalk, they can just quietly exit the 'game'...
Or they can come after you with pitchforks and torches when they find out you palmed Park Place on turn 3 and printed $18000 on your color copier at work before the game started...
See? I was right. Matt Lauer.
And why does my TV have a USB port?
And the paper work, oy!
"Charlotte Allen: .... Women aren't a historically oppressed minority; they're half the population or more!"
Southern Beale, you missed her cleverness. Women can't be an oppressed minority because they're not a minority!
Heh. Fucking. Heh.
Why do I get the image of a bunch of folks looking at Krugman and Calculated Risk and saying, WTF? I was told there would be no math.
noblejoanie | 03.08.08 - 11:40 am | #
Norbert Weiner's description of economists as superstitious cargo-cultists using mathematics as a magic wand, still has a lot of truth in it.
leibniz: 'Peace hath her victories no less renowned that those of war': Milton
You know what's heroic? Getting out of bed in the morning when you're 82 and poor, to go to the food store, in the snow, so your 85 year old demented husband won't starve today. Showing up for work as an inner city teacher. Answering a fire alarm. Organizing a union. Raising kids. Overcoming addictions.
Life is heroic. Preferably, life which gives something to somebody else, rather than takes something from them.
I believe I'm not the first to so conclude...
I like lattes.
Or they can come after you with pitchforks and torches when they find out you palmed Park Place on turn 3 and printed $18000 on your color copier at work before the game started...
This is the part they seem to forget, largely because FDR saved their ancestors from it. I still think it may come to some pitchforks before this is all over, as in, they realize that there are consequences to treating other humans like shit.
I like lattes.
Don't tell that union steward in Ohio!
And why does my TV have a USB port?
Any USB port in a storm....
Making fun of libertarians relieves our psyche, otherwise we might feel bad that the last of the only two candidates to actually oppose military intervention in foreign lands either just or is about to drop out. We can rest assured that whoever we pick will likely murder millions if he or she thinks it can save us 50 cents a gallon on gasoline.
And why does my TV have a USB port?
Zap Rowsdower
If it's like my LCD, the port is for upgrading or fixing the firmware.
I like lattes.
NTodd, McGuffin Hitler
...and nice abs...what?! Oh...nevermind...
Don't tell that union steward in Ohio!
I'm glad I didn't mention the dirty knife!
OK, I can haz some errands to run. It's been truly lovely to chat here w/o having to scroll by endless "your candidate sucks" posts. You Moonbats have a lovely Saturday morning.
rootless: hadn't heard that one, but it makes perfect sense. Read a good book a few years ago, 'Descartes' Dream' by Philip Davis and Reuben Hirsch, that made the point, over and over again, that mathematical reasoning is commonly resorted to in situations where people have no business applying it, to give their arguments a veneer of precision that, when you look at the assumptions governing their work, is wholly unwarranted. Worth checking out if you're interested in this stuff; easy reading for a layman.
...and nice abs...what?! Oh...nevermind...
LOL.
Time for me to putter about aimlessly.
Y'all take care of your good selves, and thanks for the morning hrumphs and ha-ha's.
I believe I'm not the first to so conclude...
Charles Bronson said something along those lines in The Magnificent Seven.
I'm going to invest in wheelbarrows before I need one to get one.
Just caught up with the thread below:
'...it presented a different, albeit very non-PC take at a time when women and politics is a riveting topic in this country.' So saith Pomfret.
Can we all agree that anyone who says he's not being politically correct is, in the next breath, going to say something racist, sexist, homophobic, or, more generally, simultaneously stupid, bigoted and hurtful?
The locution shouldn't be, 'at the risk of being called politically incorrect by sanctimonious elitists'. It should be, 'at the risk of demonstrating myself to be a bigoted asshole'.
no wheelbarrows necessary in the age of plastic cards.
Hecate,
Get a load of this, which made me think of you.
“If you were to predict the future on the basis of school achievement alone,” Pinker writes, “the world would be a matriarchy.”
Warning: "Difference feminism" discussed ...
That, my friends, is the problem. She has no historical context. She takes what she has for granted and assumes women have always had these rights.
I think it's more that she assumes that her relatively untroubled existence is the norm. She needs to meet more women. It's not just sex, it's also race, class, economic status. She's your typical smug wingnut who's saying, "My life doesn't suck, what's YOUR problem?"
A.
Can we all agree that anyone who says he's not being politically correct is, in the next breath, going to say something racist, sexist, homophobic, or, more generally, simultaneously stupid, bigoted and hurtful?
Yes.
From the WTF files:
Padded lampposts are being deployed in a London test to protect people walking and textmessaging at the same time.
.
Chai lattes are good.
Liquor, firearms, toilet paper, batteries: these are the true commodities that will grow tremendously in value once the shit hits the fan and the american dream of driving everywhere to live a suburban existence becomes the nightmare of no fuel no food teeming masses of destitute and desperate folks flocking towards the cities in search of revenge.
Can we all agree that anyone who says he's not being politically correct is, in the next breath, going to say something racist, sexist, homophobic, or, more generally, simultaneously stupid, bigoted and hurtful?
And simultaneously expect to be rewarded for being soooo daring?
It's not the racism, sexism or homophobia that bugs me as much as the self-absorption because the last causes the first three.
A.
Hi Athenae! Wanna come herald the apocolypse with me!!
Mike | 03.08.08 - 11:53 am |
You're a ray of sunshine today.
Norbert Weiner's description of economists as superstitious cargo-cultists using mathematics as a magic wand, still has a lot of truth in it.
In many ways, psychologists (e.g. Kahneman) have had more to say recently about economics than economists.
I just want to play on the puter, drink beer, and have sex.
Is there a job that meets those descriptions?
Oh yes girls are rising while boys slink into nihilism with video games beer sex. Young women are the new men. Much better suited for social networking.
and then there's this. you gotta wonder at the geniuses at BoA who ok'd the purchase:
The Wall Street Journal
FBI Investigates Countrywide
U.S. Scrutinizes Filings On Financial Strength, Loan Quality for Fraud
By GLENN R. SIMPSON and EVAN PEREZ
March 8, 2008; Page A3
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing subprime lender Countrywide Financial Corp. for possible securities fraud, according to law-enforcement officials and finance-industry executives.
Federal investigators are looking at evidence that may indicate widespread
fraud in the origination of Countrywide mortgages, said one person with knowledge of the inquiry. If borne out, that could raise questions about whether company executives knew about the prospect that Countrywide's mortgage securities would suffer many more defaults than predicted in
offering documents.
Another potential issue facing the company is whether it has been candid in its accounting for losses. People familiar with the matter said that
Countrywide's losses may be several times greater than it has disclosed.
http://groups.google.com/group/
m...28ec93db4928d18
Fuck yeah, Starbuck.
Gotta go make an appointment to get a tattoo. Love you lovely moonbats!
A.
wow trifecta, by sheer coincidence...
shits
Gotta go make an appointment to get a tattoo. Love you lovely moonbats!
Remember: my mullet is more dirty blonde than anything!
Padded lampposts are being deployed in a London test to protect people walking and textmessaging at the same time
Paging Monty Python.
The image of Brits bouncing off lamp posts into one another like bumper pool is amusing.
She needs to meet more women.
I don't wanna meet her.
Great post on a de facto moratorium on coal power plant construction at FDL:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/0...invisible-hand/
owls!!!!!!
Bet they got that plan from Japan. A couple decades of deflation later...you end up in exactly the same place.
MarketWatch is getting real:
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/...e&
dist=printTop
Doom. And it is GW Bush's fault. (Yes, they say so.)
djmm
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