I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
I guess that means we'll have more speed cameras here in the Valley of the Sun to make up for the deficit.
I made that in consulting fees to Uncle Sam last year.
w00t! first! and second!
Some guy took a pickax to a speed camera last night on one of the Phoenix freeways. However, he picked one near an overpass that a motorcycle cop was parked under. Oops.
He's now in Sheriff Joe's jail.
Post-it notes, people, Post-it notes. They block the lens but don't do any damage.
No kidding, puddin'.
Dr. Evil Black
The state police would have to issue 5,509,641,873 tickets to make $1 trillion in revenue. That's only 1000 times the number of people that live in Arizona.
I remember when a trillion dollars was a lot of money.
Dr. Evil Black
Worst. AC/DC. Album. Ever.
lucky thing the iraq and afghanistan wars are going on the parents' credit card, huh?
dt'd
Gets harder every year, seems to me, to argue with Jane Jacobs..
ProfWombat
Oh, yea.
For some reason I don't fully understand, architecture has gone off in some weird direction that has nothing to do with sensible living.
Some of it has to do with the thrill of playing with materials, having the technology to build whatever crazy shit you want. But that doesn't explain all of it; there seems to be downright disdain for human scale, fitting into existing space, thinking of the whole. Can't explain it.
Shaw Kenawe: Homepage linkie no workie.
Workie for me!
Does this work for ya?
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Do they ever actually show a football game on this NFL live thing, or is it just these boneheads talking?
The Office is on. Later.
JeffPres:
This is what I get when I clickie linkie:
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Uhoh, JP- have we been naughty?
prof wombat,
there is no reason to like lever house unless you like faceless cold modern skyscrapers
its importance is it was among the first, if not the first , modern skyscraper built in nyc
But it doesn't count because most of it is going to buy assets.
/wise men
Okay. It works now!!
Must have been my server.
fox news will be back in a moment with geraldine ferraro to discuss whether eric holder can survive.
that sounds like a good reason to go to bed.
One trillion?
Bah. Peanuts.
When we get to fifteen or twenty trillion, then maybe it'll be impressive.
And we will.
lucky thing the iraq and afghanistan wars are going on the parents' credit card, huh?
Good news. My grandkids & yours will be footing the bill on this one. The "parents" just use the card, someone else will get the bill. It's called GOP-economics.
Some of it has to do with the thrill of playing with materials, having the technology to build whatever crazy shit you want. But that doesn't explain all of it; there seems to be downright disdain for human scale, fitting into existing space, thinking of the whole. Can't explain it.
Moe Szyslak, eiditer | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 9:03 pm |
So you're saying that Versailles is "human scale" and so is Whitehall. That tarpaper shacks embody a respect for human potential and the Pyramids of Egypt represent the common hopes of humankind?
When was the period of human scale in architecture?
So does the treasury just keep cranking out bills or does this money actually exist?
"Trillion" seems like a toy word. Trillion. It just jingles and sparkles but it isn't anything real. I am becoming unstuck from reality.
If an NFL football game is broadcast on a network nobody is connected to, will anybody see it?
Wanna make some money in the market?
Buy shares in ink and paper. They're gonna be printing money like there's no tomorrow.
The debt could be eliminated overnight if we nationalize the creditors. China would make a nice 51st state.
thanks, phil... how much are you going to bill me for explaining that?
When was the period of human scale in architecture?
dolmens and menhirs
etruscan tufa tombs
I'm stockpiling wheelbarrows.
Lever house is ugly.
To be fair to Pres. Obama, I don't think he has any choice but to inflate the debt away. I don't much like it, but it beats the alternative, which is bread lines and selling apples on streetcorners.
I'm buying up liquor licenses.
Now that's what I call thinkin' ahead, larkspur.
Chimpy exchanges terrorist fist jab with Santa.
pretty soon, we'll all learn how to drop a zero or two
simple math, even UU. could do it
maybe that's why they changed the colors- so we can tell the real money from the play money?
You know what this means?
Big, steaming piles of tax cuts!
If an NFL football game is broadcast on a network nobody is connected to, will anybody see it?
it's online
http://www.nfl.com/live/landing?
...MB_Live_CINvPIT
click on companion broadcast
When was the period of human scale in architecture?
rootless-e
Oh, pretty much every American city before the invention of the automobile.
Even the outrageous large buildings of the past were outrageously large as oriented to people walking.
So you're saying that Versailles is "human scale" and so is Whitehall. That tarpaper shacks embody a respect for human potential and the Pyramids of Egypt represent the common hopes of humankind?
When was the period of human scale in architecture?
rootless-e, mysterious | 12.04.08 - 9:08 pm | #
That was gratuitously sarcastic. My apologies.
Lever house is ugly.
i think so too.
didn't the original materials deteriorate or something?
thanks, phil... how much are you going to bill me for explaining that? ~ stoat
I send my bill to Uncle Sam, he'll be collecting what's due from your grandkids. Plus interest. It's all part of the Free Market! Watch out for those late charges.
How many packs does Sherrod smoke a day?
Our kids are screwed aren't they.
I guess this means we better get those printing presses rolling, as the $100 bills ain't gonna print themselves.
It's a good thing that I'm asleep and none of this is real.
On this happy note, off to dreamland.
Sweet dreams, those of you on the night side.
Have a good day, Tom! See you in the morning.
I told you--elect Al Gore and you will have TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICITS. You did and now you do.
How many packs does Sherrod smoke a day?
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 9:14 pm
Brown? My Senator?
maybe getting back to basics will be a good thing - I despise McMansions.
Rachel is wrong. Ohio is 3rd to Michigan. California is 2nd.
feh. a trillion is nothing. it's real money when they start demanding we hand over our kittehs in payment, i say.
Yes Buckeye.
He's got a typical smokers voice.
Catsh!
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Haw!
There's a button to continue onto the site. No nudity, but I do have the word "shittin'" on there, so I figured I'd better say "yes, I might have 'adult content' on my site," just to keep from being flagged by fundies. 
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When was the period of human scale in architecture?
Sod dugouts in frontier Nebraska
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Inflate the debt away
Isn't that why we have this financial crisis?
What's in your wallet?
Gawd, it feels good to have made money, today.
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Even the outrageous large buildings of the past were outrageously large as oriented to people walking.
Moe Szyslak, eiditer | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 9:12 pm | #
Many of the buildings of the pre-auto era are designed to awe and humble the masses. The antebellum mansions of the South often exude ugliness and gross display of power and wealth - and the slave barracks did the opposite side of the coin. Or consider the message of the East Side of NY tenements which implicitly rate their tenants as stackable trash.
Not ONE pussy in tribute!
Is Rachel exhausted or stoned? She's got a crazy look tonight.
Yes Buckeye.
He's got a typical smokers voice.
HoneyBearKellyGoGiants | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 9:18 pm |
I don't know if he smokes. Don't remember seeing mentioned during all the profiles of him from 2006, when he ran for Senate.
Maybe it's the air in NE Ohio.
(Newser) – Move it, Mississippi: Louisiana is now America’s unhealthiest state, Reuters reports. An annual state-by-state report that measures factors like smoking, obesity, and health insurance coverage also put Vermont at the top for the second year in a row. The five healthiest states are:
Vermont
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Minnesota
Utah
And the five unhealthiest:
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
nothing says human scale like flying buttresses.
Inflate the debt away
Isn't that why we have this financial crisis?
el |
via Krugman, i think that's "deflate the debt away," that is, deflation benefits the already rich.
There's a button to continue onto the site. No nudity, but I do have the word "shittin'" on there, so I figured I'd better say "yes, I might have 'adult content' on my site," just to keep from being flagged by fundies.
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 9:18 pm
Big Shit Pile is definitely adult content, cuz the juveniles of Team GDumbya sure as hell don't have a fuckin' clue how to deal with it.
Who could have foreseen that professional hockey players are assholes?
Sean Avery's day in court came Thursday. Two days after telling reporters in Calgary "how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds," Avery met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in Bettman's downtown Manhattan office to explain the context of his remarks...
If only he'd used the same good judgment two days prior, when he stood in front of a bank of TV cameras and made his "sloppy seconds" remark — comments apparently directed towards Flames defenceman Dion Phaneuf, who is dating actress Elisha Cuthbert, a former girlfriend of Avery as well as well Los Angeles Kings' Jarret Stoll is engaged to model Rachel Hunter, another of Avery's exes.
nothing says human scale like flying buttresses.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari | 12.04.08 - 9:21 pm | #
a humble crenelated wall with room to put heads on pikes.
Many of the buildings of the pre-auto era are designed to awe and humble the masses.
Sure.
One of my favorite novels is "The Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis, in which a future time-traveling historian gets sent back to England but misses the mark by a few years, and ends up in the village at the onset of plague. One of the fascinating details was that not everyone who was exposed to the plague got it, and if they did, some survived it, and it was like taking society and giving it a huge sustained shake, and everything came back down jumbled. Fortunate scullery maids and stable-boys moved into abandoned castles and manors, and there's your new round of royalty.
So squatters in abandoned McMansions: that's what I think of. Desolate suburbs lit by campfires. Center city oases with full power and lots of heavily armed troops guarding them.
This could be my bronchitis talking.
Are people up there actually fretting about inflation and printing money and so forth? Geez guys, we don't have inflation, we've got Deflation, with a capital D, which could pull the economy into a death spiral. The actual cure for deflation is to spend lots of money you don't have (if you're a government), so long as you can figure out a way to keep people from putting it under their mattresses, which is what they want to do in deflationary times (since it's worth more every day!).
Hope the printing presses stuff is not serious, or I've misinterpreted it, since that's the Republicans game. They're still in love with Hoover.
Is Rachel exhausted or stoned? She's got a crazy look tonight.
Cookie Fleck '08
She's in San Francisco, who knows?
When was the period of human scale in architecture?
the point of architecture is to enclose space so that humans can congregate. or at least it has been, since the romans invented concrete.
what part of Paraguay is Preston Hollow in?
I like the Hancock Tower in Boston, the way it contrasts to and reflects the Trinity Church's heavy stone. And I loved watching the clouds reflected in the tower's face.
I find a lot of architecture exciting. And the challenge of working with the site and surroundings fascinates me.
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Is Rachel exhausted or stoned? She's got a crazy look tonight.
Cookie Fleck '08
Sound like she as a code.
Is Rachel exhausted or stoned? She's got a crazy look tonight.
Cookie Fleck '08
I had not noticed her having bags under the eyes either, before. I read that she works extremely hard and long hours in preparation.
I really like Rachel.
Yeppers and- darned if I can remember what the genetic link was that saved some from the plague...
CTheGee: what part of Paraguay is Preston Hollow in?
Hey!
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Moe - have you read Alexander ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Chr...opher_Alexander
Rachel is wrong. Ohio is 3rd to Michigan. California is 2nd.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Michigan is first in something? Must be bad.
Enough is Phaneuf!
For dinner I had goat cheese, red onions, cucumber and roasted walnuts on a baguette.
Geez. I read an article about the $1 trillion deficit like, two weeks ago. I debated about blogging on it but I didn't think it was newsworthy. Should've known better ...
Of course, by now it must be about $1.1 trillion or so ...
Nope, ChiDy, I was the one who said "inflate the debt away."
If the rate of inflation were 100% next year, then my current mortgage debt of $100K would become in effect 50K.
This assumes that my salary would keep pace with inflation (and in fact it will not, due to a shitty contract the union ratified today. But that's another story.) But many people's will, to an extent.
In 100% inflation, a 2009 buck would be worth only half of a 2008 buck. But the 100K debt does not specify what era of bucks are to be used to repay it. I can throw 2009 bucks at it. Each one would have only half the purchasing power of this year's model, but they count just as much to retire my debt.
I'll check him out, rootless....
Enough is Phaneuf!
Ah, yes.
I've changed my tagline in tribute to Sean Avery. 
And that's why deflation is good for creditors -- they're paid in big dollars. Inflation, bad -- they get paid in little dollars.
For dinner I had speedbeef vegetable soup. Umm.
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I begin earning money again on Saturday. At least a little bit.
Starting training for a part-time gig teaching LSAT review courses ...
Sinfonian: I begin earning money again on Saturday. At least a little bit.
Starting training for a part-time gig teaching LSAT review courses ...
Awesome!
I'm Photoshopping For Food, which is the web equivalent of busking in the subway, I reckon. 
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Of course, by now it must be about $1.1 trillion or so ...
We'll print more!
And that's why deflation is good for creditors -- they're paid in big dollars. Inflation, bad -- they get paid in little dollars.
David in NY
That's my take as well. (I am not an economist.)
The reason why the printing presses is that the govt is going to be spending a hell of a lot of money that at the moment doesn't exist. So they'll print it up. They'll make jobs to repair the infrastructure, build the SUPERTRAINS, fix the New Orleans levees, and put a lot of dough into a lot of people's pockets. And that in my opinion is what they should do. The cost is inflation. But that seems to me a small price to pay to stave off unemployment and deflation and people starving.
congrats Sinfonian.
does this also mean you can hop on the Gator bandwagon, too?
I think my daughter had to drop about 5Gs to prep for the Mass. bar- don't know how much of that was for the prep class- but sounds like a lucrative trade for a lawdog.
Many of the buildings of the pre-auto era are designed to awe and humble the masses.
I read them differently, I guess, especially the old public buildings -- courthouses, city halls, libraries, etc.
They make me feel someplace important, lasting, worthy of respect. And I -- perhaps foolishly -- imagine a culture more inspired by the values they convey than the tacky public buildings that have often replaced them. Of course, that's part of the symbolism of a lot of the post modern buildings that I appeciate intellectually and sometimes even aesthetically.
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Good luck, Sinf!!
i love it too sparkle plenty :D
so this is christmas?
david, i'm just clocking in while i wear down ms. thing in a running game of fetch the mouse. you and i are on the same page re deflation v inflation. but either way, people like me are fuqued. feh, she's ready to go to bed. so, sleep well, friends.
Many of the buildings of the pre-auto era are designed to awe and humble the masses.
i have never felt intimidated by scale. in fact, it inspires me.
don't know why.
I read them differently, I guess, especially the old public buildings -- courthouses, city halls, libraries, etc.
I think a lot of American architecture has been consciously "civic minded" and democratic. I like the old courthouses too. But some buildings are made to show power.
so this is christmas?
21 shopping days 'til $3 trillion!
But that [inflation] seems to me a small price to pay to stave off unemployment and deflation and people starving.
Oh good, I couldn't tell if you had a real problem with it. In this circumstance, printing money is great, if you can be sure it won't just go into people's bank accounts to deflate (gain in value). Got to keep it moving, but that's against peoples instincts.
Democrats: Obama Needs Hands-On Economic Approach
He's not the President! He has yet to be sworn in.
scale seems like such an elastic concept, which is what I took away from Rem Koolhas's "S,M,L,XL" (one of my all time favorite books, btw) and the notion of scale itself becomes the keystone, so to speak, for architecture as a profession. an originary notion that all else depends on.
Well, it's not a gig really worthy of celebration and congratulations, but thanks anyway.
And, mrs. i, I'll never hop on the Gator bandwagon. I'm a Gator Hater from way back, long before I ever worked for That Other School.
Evening all.
Been gone most of the day -- anything irksome going on I should be aware of?
Ah, I see we have another exciting Thursday NFL game going on.
I'm being facetious. It's 24-0 Chargers, and they just intercepted, too.
It's so pleasant when we agree. A trifle boring, perhaps ...
Where are the trolls, anyway?
I think a lot of American architecture has been consciously "civic minded" and democratic.
Well, that'd be the Greek influence, I suppose.
For me, I've got a love/hate relationship w/ post-modern architecture. Still takes me a long time to warm up to it.
lsat review courses? oohh, hottie law babes all over 21.
scale seems like such an elastic concept
it is an elastic concept. scale compared to what? but we are having this conversation in the context of human scale, generally defined as under ten feet in height.
And that's why deflation is good for creditors -- they're paid in big dollars. Inflation, bad -- they get paid in little dollars.
David in NY
Which is why Volker makes me a bit worried. He favored finance with his anti-inflation policies and now we all think it's the worst thing possible, when some inflation can be good for ordinary folks who pay back loans with cheaper dollars than the borrowed.
Seems to me we lost the Feds mission to serve the interests of the whole society back then and it's been downhill since.
Of course, I have absolutely no comprehension of the global aspects of any of it.
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Interesting scale talk, however. I never thought of Chartres as out of scale. Maybe ill-proportioned big things seem not in human scale, but if you get the proportions right and say, have little chapels off the enormous naves, to metaphorize, size isn't necessarily the problem.
anything irksome going on I should be aware of?
Canada is on hold.
lsat review courses? oohh, hottie law babes all over 21.
notaboomer, shitpile guarantor
Yeah, and me no longer eligible. Great timing.
If I get seven $5 customers a day, me and the kittehs will be just fine.
If not... well, let's not think that way.
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Working on my Christmas cookie party on Saturday.
What to bake? What to bake?
I'm mulling over whether to add peanut butter cookies to the menu.
Canada is on hold.
Hey, Parliament! You can go on home now.
this
http://images.tomshardware.com/2...0/
oracle_hq.jpg
and
http://www.destination360.com/eu...dsor-
castle.jpg
seem to me to be very different from this
http://www.panoramio.com/photos/...ginal/
61493.jpg
Canada is on hold.
Moe Szyslak, eiditer | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 9:41 pm | #
I expect nothing else from the land that brought us Gino Vanelli and that weird bowling.
Chartres is my all-time favorite cathedral. I sang there with my college choir in 1987 and returned the next year on a vacation.
In completely unrelated news, Raiders QB JaMarcus Russell just got carted off the field with an injury -- looks like to his leg(s). Wow.
I just realized something: I never ate dinner tonight. Hunh.
1/3 worked, rootless-e.
In celebration, I did get ONE customer, today (Noam Sane; what a trooper!), on my first day of bidness. THANK YOU!
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mmmmmm christmas cookies
roll cookies with frosting
my daughters and i are going to bake goodies from my mother's treasure trove of recipes this holiday.
Yeah, and me no longer eligible.
well you could be a holder in due course. rrrooowwwrr.
I must be a pretty big sports junkie if I'm sitting here watching some meaningless NFL game between two teams more than 2,500 miles from me.
Why is c-span even televising these "congressional hearings" with the big scumwad automobile manufacturers if a bailout is a foregone conclusion?
Do they just want to make me sick?
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoram...edium/
61493.jpg
I made bourbon flavored bacon today.
well you could be a holder in due course. rrrooowwwrr.
notaboomer, shitpile guarantor
I don't know if I'm defeasible, though.
noam sane can haz insane xmas cards.
Jeffraham have you considered hawking your wares at the new Kossack Networking Community website?
My friend and I have been doing this for years. Her son's in the Air Force, so we send about 20 dozen cookies to him every year.
We're scaling back this year, but I'm still backing some "must haves" tomorrow night, just because...
Chartres is my all-time favorite cathedral. I sang there with my college choir in 1987 and returned the next year on a vacation.
wow, you lucky. what an experience that must have been.
i'm a fan of sainte chappelle myself.
For Jeffraham: http://kossacksnetworking.ning.com/
notaboomer: noam sane can haz insane xmas cards.
What's insane about it? A puppeh wearing a Santa hat...?!
Geez...
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I must be a pretty big sports junkie if I'm sitting here watching some meaningless NFL game between two teams more than 2,500 miles from me.
Sinfonian, sloppy seconds
Or, Bored.
Somebody here was championing Amiens, or Reims, or Rouen or somewhere as the best. Reims (which I confuse with Rouen), I think.
sj: For Jeffraham: http://kossacksnetworking.ning.com/
Oooooh -- thanks! Thanks very much!!
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wow, you lucky. what an experience that must have been.
i'm a fan of sainte chappelle myself.
Kidnap
It was an amazing tour. 29 concerts in 38 days, throughout Europe. We also sang in, among other places, Notre Dame, Westminster Abbey, and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, (then) East Germany, where J.S. Bach was organist and where he's buried.
We're scaling back this year, but I'm still backing some "must haves" tomorrow night, just because...
the big deal here will be the pineapple turnovers she used to make
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
20...e_n_148585.html
Frank, shrewd and quick-witted, also poked fun at Obama's calls for a "post-partisan" governing environment in Washington. Frank predicted that regulatory legislation aimed at preventing abuses related to subprime mortgages and credit cards stood a much better chance next year, when Democrats have greater majorities in the House and Senate.
"It is a grave mistake to assume that parties are irrelevant to this process," he said. "My one difference with the president-elect, about whom I am very enthusiastic, is when he talks about being post-partisan.
"Having lived with this very right wing Republican group that runs the House most of the time, the notion of trying to deal with them as if we could be post-partisan gives me post-partisan depression," Frank said.
I love you, Barney Frank!
there's 3 johnny mathis shows in december in california pa rum pa pa pum.
http://johnnymathis.com/mathisTour.html
Suzie K,
Share that pineapple thingy!
Please and thanks.
Yeah, and me no longer eligible. Great timing.
Sinfonian, sloppy seconds
You're always eligible.
It was an amazing tour.
i guess. what great memories, what an irreplaceable experience that must have been
We also sang in...Leipzig, (then) East Germany, where J.S. Bach was organist and where he's buried.
Sinfonian, sloppy seconds | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 9:48 pm | #
That must have been...daunting.
Fuck Xmas.
Sleepy.
Buenas noches.
That must have been...daunting.
steve simels
I once sang under six feet of dirt. But only because I was trapped in a coffin, and BURIED ALIVE!!!
What's insane about it?
i meant insane in the best way possible. like these cards are so amazing you'd be insane not to get some.
John Maynard Keynes is usually seen as the inventor of the liquidity-trap theory. In his view, financial actors fear the possibility of suffering capital losses on non-money assets and thus hold money (liquid assets) instead. For example, the fear of default on loans can inhibit lenders from lending except to extremely credit-worthy customers. These fears are most likely after a financial crisis such as that associated with the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Further, if nominal interest rates are extremely low, there is no place for them to go but up. That implies that bond prices will likely fall in the near future, causing capital losses
That must have been...daunting.
steve simels
I sang a solo there, within arm's reach of the organ Bach played. Years later, I described this on my first appearance on That Game Show.
Immediately after that broadcast, of course, my blogfather Wes called me and asked, "So, what was it like being able to sing while touching Bach's organ?"
i'm a fan of sainte chappelle myself.
Kidnap
Much as I liked Dave Chappelle I had no idea the pope was such a fan.
Fuck Xmas
that's like having a war on terrorism.
Till tomorrow, youse guys...
Hunh.
WASHINGTON – Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in the deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting of Iraqi civilians could face mandatory 30-year prison sentences under an aggressive anti-drug law being considered as the Justice Department readies indictments, people close to the case said.
Charges could be announced as early as Monday for the shooting, which left 17 civilians dead and strained U.S. relations with the fledgling Iraqi government. Prosecutors have been reviewing a draft indictment and considering manslaughter and assault charges for weeks. A team of prosecutors returned to the grand jury room Thursday and called no witnesses.
Though drugs were not involved in the Blackwater shooting, the Justice Department is pondering the use of a law, passed at the height of the nation's crack epidemic, to prosecute the guards. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 law calls for 30-year prison terms for using machine guns to commit violent crimes of any kind, whether drug-related or not.
The people who discussed the case did so on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose matters that are not yet public.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liq.../
Liquidity_trap
It has been suggested that the Japanese economy in the 1990s suffered from a "liquidity trap" scenario. This diagnosis prompted increased government spending and large budget deficits as a remedy. The failure of these measures to help the economy recover, combined with an explosion in the Japanese public debt suggest that such a fiscal policy, may not have been adequate. (Much of the government spending followed a stop/go pattern and involved spending on unneeded infrastructure.) Nobel Prize winning American economist Paul Krugman suggests that what was needed was a central bank commitment to steady positive monetary growth, which would encourage inflationary expectations and lower expected real interest rates, which would stimulate spending.
cash is king?
noam sane can haz insane xmas cards.
That puppy grew up to eat a pair of $100 shoes.
"So, what was it like being able to sing while touching Bach's organ?"
Sinfonian, sloppy seconds | Homepage | 12.04.08 - 9:53 pm | #
Noam Sane: That puppy grew up to eat a pair of $100 shoes.
Thank you again for giving me the opportunity.
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Fuck Xmas.
it's the most wonderful time of the year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ver...ar_architecture
Vernacular architecture is a term used to categorize methods of construction which use locally available resources to address local needs. Vernacular architecture tends to evolve over time to reflect the environmental, cultural and historical context in which it exists. It has often been dismissed as crude and unrefined, but also has proponents who highlight its importance in current design.
"In his view, financial actors fear the possibility of suffering capital losses on non-money assets and thus hold money (liquid assets) instead. For example, the fear of default on loans can inhibit lenders from lending except to extremely credit-worthy customers. These fears are most likely after a financial crisis such as that associated with the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Further, if nominal interest rates are extremely low, there is no place for them to go but up."
This implies that the "economic stimulus package" was given to the banking industry in a genuine attempt to free up liquid assets, rather than simple theft.
What a shame that the Palm Beach County GOP is having trouble running a white supremacist off of their executive committee.
Is a trillion like a terabyte?
A terabuck?
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Thank you again for giving me the opportunity.
Not only that, in the eyes of my wife, I actually accomplished something today. So cheers all around.
vicki
i found it! :::DDD
it's going to take a little time to transcribe
i will email it in a bit
ot: is turducken still safe to eat 7 days later?
it's the most wonderful time of the year.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
-bbblleeeaaagggghhhhhhh-
(flushes toilet)
Noam Sane: Not only that, in the eyes of my wife, I actually accomplished something today. So cheers all around.
This makes me happier than you can know!
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Josh coined the phrase "pro-depression Republicans" today. Very catchy.
Not only that, in the eyes of my wife, I actually accomplished something today. So cheers all around
I am simply weeping with joy.
My choir toured France a few (okay, ten) years ago, singing at Notre-Dame de Paris, Chartres, et Saint-Sulpice, etc., but the highlight for me was singing Mass at Mont-St-Michel -- just us, the five monks, and a few other tourists. The church at the top of that rock is a very high narrow Gothic and Romanesque structure, open to the sea air, and as our sopranos went higher and higher, a bird up in the ceiling joined in.
I'm having my own war on Christmas, over here.
DuaneV: I am simply weeping with joy.
Make fun, if you must, but I have $240 in the bank, and my $600 rent + electric is due on 12/19.
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Josh coined the phrase "pro-depression Republicans" today. Very catchy.
Noam Sane
Naomi Klein calls it the shock doctrine in her book on the rise of disaster capital.
This implies that the "economic stimulus package" was given to the banking industry in a genuine attempt to free up liquid assets, rather than simple theft.
DuaneV, Wittol
But was it? Who was explaining on telly just tonight that if the problem is that lenders don't trust borrowers to pay their debts, they won't loan money to them, regardless of how much money they have to lend.
Which would make it theft. And so far, the lending isn't taking place.
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I'm having my own war on Christmas, over here.
I prefer police actions.
Just a driveby [test] checking out the new Acer... it seems to work. Not overly attractive, but $599 w/ $199 rebate? Closeouts at ShopNBC can sometimes be good...
All bats and good dogs and cats have a good evening, off to get some real AV stuff [haz McAfee]
Oh, by the way, I would like to express my disdain for all products HP at this point.
sorry DuaneV, but we are solid Saturnalia partisans around here.
go Saturn
go Saturn
go Saturn
I said that back in June. It was obvious.
They are still cheating somehow with the numbers. The Treasury has borrowed $1.2 trillion since April. Where is that in the numbers reported?
Bloomberg counted over $2 trillion already spent on the bailouts including the $150 billion spring stimulus. This week the SF Examiner counted $3 trillion.
Yet the Feds H41 balance sheet reports don't show any monetizing. It's a puzzle. The $1.2 T borrowed since April isn't all being reported by the CBO in the deficit numbers. Educated guesses on how much has been spent are double or triple the 1.2 yet there is no evidence on the Feds balance sheet where that money came from.
It should be noted that all that most of that money spent was not appropriated.
It's impossible to overstate how extreme this all is.
Naomi Klein calls it the shock doctrine in her book on the rise of disaster capital.
A thesis refuted by a more credible leftist.
http://leftbusinessobserver.com/....com/
Shock.html
Naomi Klein calls it the shock doctrine in her book on the rise of disaster capital.
DuaneV, Wittol
I've only skimmed her book but I've been wondering if the shock doctrine can't be used for good, too.
In the turmoil we're in now, couldn't we take advantage of it to skip some steps in universal health policy and get to single payer that much sooner? Like by taking the auto industry in toto into a government health care plan?
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stoller:
http://tinyurl.com/5f66e9
If we have to pick just one issue where we raise a stink about and have something done, it's a public internet.
No, first no more torture.
Iraq?
Damn. I can see this is gonna go just like the Spanish Inquisition sketch.
But it really is a big deal--staying internationally competitive with oligopolies throttling the net won't be easy.
A thesis refuted by a more credible leftist.
Credibility has nothing to do with it. If it did, Doug Henwood would be a household name.
(and I like Henwood)
duane's nuts roasting on an open fire
jack abramoff ripping off casinos
you've tried carol behind the standing choir
rich folks messed up the eskimos
everybody knows
Up to 70,000 Residual Troops in Iraq Beyond 2011?
just bring home all the troops - those left behind will be sitting ducks. Duh!
if these stupid bastards in DC can't figure out that letting the autos crater is not in our best interests as a nation, I hope the resulting implosion in our manufacturing base creates a singularity point that pulls the whole world in - which it will. as for us in the mitten, we're fucked plain and simple. the current estimate for just one Auto BK is a chain reaction with a 475K job loss in 3 years (in MI alone), $30-60B in wealth destruction, et al. good night irene. time to gtfo...
Didn't assholes Reid and Pelosi notice the only Republican doing photo ops with them was banker turned robber Paulson?
sheetses.
A thesis refuted by a more credible leftist.
One who failed to sign his name to his critisism of Ms Klein.
Very credible, indeed.
Many of the buildings of the pre-auto era are designed to awe and humble the masses.
Jumping in late, so forgive me if this point has been made:
Many pre-auto structures, such as the great cathedrals, were the product of the labor of the masses. Damn near the entire city went to work on a cathedral. It was a point of civic pride, a symbol of their collective devotion. There's nothing like that today.
(OTOH, Versailles and the pyramids seem to have been built to rub the masses' collective nose in it. Kind of like, say, Trump Tower.)
is it official yet that bush did for the US exactly what he did for Harkin: run it into the ground?
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damn this woman on lehrer can twist logic
"this bill does nothing to stop people who are about to lose their homes to forclosure. But it will help new homebuyers, which will reduce inventory and in the long run, help these people who lost their houses."
if these stupid bastards in DC can't figure out that letting the autos crater is not in our best interests as a nation...
letting GM/Chrysler/Ford go under is republican twofer:
1) kills a big union
2) devastates an entire blue state population region with the ensuing likely result that a non-trivial amount of the population disperses.
Being that reid/pelosi is a republican cover operation, my bet is that they stick it to the Midwest.
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What's the difference between a socialist, a socialite and a capitalist?
A socialist wants to seize the means of production, a socialite wants to produce the memes of the season and a capitalist causes production to have seizures.
how much is that in Pi3ces of Eight?
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