I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
segundo?
Dritte?
Got Cinematic Titanic?
The reproduction of the class system in the United States
Dritte?
There are medicines for that
This housing stuff is so confusing.
It must be good news for Republicans.
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If I were president I would sign an executive order banning the gimlet. And those little teeny onions.
I see TKK is back in form.
Hey! Our president is planning another world trip to make new friends, influence more people, and (probably) to embarrass the hell out of us again.
The leaders of France and Australia have both paid surprise visits to Afghanistan to meet their forces stationed in the country and to hold talks with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, met Karzai for talks in Kabul and visited some of the 1,300 French troops stationed in the Afghan capital.
He said France was committed to Afghanistan but said the nation was engaged "in a war against terrorism, against fanaticism that we ... must not lose".
Meanwhile Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister, visited Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province, where Australian troops are stationed.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...1282A876C9A.htm
I see TKK is back in form.
he's the fastest F5 on the net.
There's a trick to it.
Reading about this is like watching a train wreck in slow motion--at least until last year. Now it's like taking speed.
That filing cabinet in West Virginia with the social security trust fund doesn't look so bad anymore.
If I were president I would sign an executive order banning the gimlet. And those little teeny onions.
Douglas Watts
Gives Watts the Gimlet stare!
short sheeted!
"which made it seem a lot nicer."
that's cool.
i guess i could write myself a check.
this year we did mark a milestone: for the longest time i was hoping to break $30k in the business checking account. the number itself didn't mean much...you can have a lot of cash and no inventory paid for, etc, but there were so many times i'd take checks and deposits to the bank hoping to break the 30k barrier and come up juuust short. so it became a psychological thing...
this year we finally hit 30, and at one point almost hit 40k.
From below:
The thing I like about Greenwald is he has a very good eye for the truth. It's so easy to get wrapped around the axle by frustration with things as they are. (Never happens to me, of course, much. [/sarcasm]). Greenwald's main point was that NONE of the "major" candidates has said "boo" about establishing explict curbs on the extentions to Executive power made by Bush. While it would be fun to watch a Dem do a full-throttle Unitary Executive number on the R's, the whole fuckin' process just moves us closer to Imperial Governance. One wrong election and we'll have an American Putin.
"There's a trick to it."
--The Kenosha Kid
At the least, you could share. 
There's a trick to it.
And yet you still seem to enjoy your undeserved victories.
The big shitpile is not going away. The stock market was up yesterday, and everybody seems to be frantically searching for the 'this is the bottom moment'. We are still vastly closer to the beginning of this thing than the end. By the time it is all through the money center banks will have the likes of China, UAE, Saudi's et all holding significant ownership stakes. People have not even thought of the political instability this will engender. Inflation is spiking in the Arab world and China, and that inflation is being imported via pegs to the US Dollar. The citizens of countries like Saudi Arabia will not stand down like this. The vast poor are being assraped and their clerics are already issuing a fatwa on the US Dollar and at some point they will do some crazy shit. What I can't bear is to hear the morons here stateside whine about Islamic terrorists when the profigate bitches are themselves economic terrorists.
the hydrogen attaches itself to the carbon that already has the most hydrogens, except, of course, when it doesn't...
yoda: there is an exception to every rule. even Markivnikov's, apparently.
happy solstice to you...
One wrong election and we'll have an American Putin.
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we'll have ?
Posted this at the end of a thread a couple of days ago.
In 1999 my rent in San Diego got kicked up 50% (new owner), decided to buy. Got a really lovely place with a view for tens of miles from Mt. Palomar to the sea for $240 K. All at a standard 30 yearer at 6.7%. Did about $30K improvements. Got tired of being a suburban homeowner, sold it in 2001 for $405 K, and moved back into town to rent. Had I held on to it, by spring of 2007 might have been worth $700, maybe more. But I got my cut before the bottom fell out.
The point is I'm a lousy capitalist. Wasn't out to make money, but did. And what is that property worth now? Maybe A$500 if anyone would buy it.
Moral of the story? I don't know. But I guess it's the Murkan way, if you can get away with it.
fokowi: back atcha, dude
The privileged think they have a god given right to get more than they paid for for their homes, even in the worst market in decades? Color me shocked.
this year we finally hit 30, and at one point almost hit 40k. - jdw
Sounds like Plutonism is just around the corner. Prepare to be eaten.
Once the people who inherit money are counted for, who can afford a home that costs $600,000 on a median salary? The median price for pre-owned homes in LA last year was $590,000.
It's literally madness.
Dill is one of the best words in the English language. Wasn't there a character in To Kill a Mockingbird named Dill ?
How many mockingbirds named Dill could there possibly be?
"Dill is one of the best words in the English language."
i'm partial to the 'oo' words, like plook and spoo and bamboozle.
JEFFCO!
I got my Cinematic Titanic email this a.m.
oh, fer cute.
(just pic)
How many mockingbirds named Dill could there possibly be?
JeffCO |
By definition all mockingbirds are named Dill.
And still Monkeyman prattles on about home ownership becoming more accessible to millions of Merkins. Nuts.
Why do these fucking peasants think they're guaranteed to make money? Don't they know that only their plutocrat/developer overlords are entitled to guaranteed profit?
I was shocked . . . SHOCKED . . . to see a two-bedroom apartment advertised in one realtor's window for only $476.5K.
Granted, I didn't check out what neighborhood it was in, but still.
For NYC, that's cheap.
Fuck California, its Governor, and its fiscal emergency. All self-inflicted. Even though its a blue state, I'm sick of it. Its self-congratulatoriness rivals that Texas.
i'm partial to the 'oo' words, like plook and spoo and bamboozle. - jdw
You're in good company. The German teacher at high school, thought the most beautiful sounding word in the English language was "spitoon".
By definition all mockingbirds are named Dill. - 1Watt, Hermit
Stop the dillery, please.
and 'cooter'. really love that one..
"Dill has many ideas for new ways to spy on Boo Radley and to try to get him to come out. He's also well-known for telling tall tales and changing them often."
i'm partial to the 'oo' words, like plook and spoo and bamboozle.
jdw | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 2:49 pm |
Speaking of Bamboozle, any new pics of the furballs?
Or even any old pics of the furballs?
My favorite word in German is frohlocken -- fro (as in to and fro) low (accent here) + kin. Means to rejoice and dance. A hoot of a word!
A godddamned shitty apartment in Beirut costs 1500 Amerikan dollars
Southern California prices continue to be bizarrely out of whack. There's a smallish ranch-style home with attached garage and not much yard on the corner of a main thoroughfare through the Arcadia, Temple City, El Monte area of the San Gabriel Valley. There's nothing special about the house.
It's had a "For Sale" sign on it for about 10 weeks now. The initial asking price was $775,000. A month ago the price dropped to $725,000. Right now it's at $679,000.
I'm guessing the owners are going to have a long wait for that sale.
JEFFCO! I got my Cinematic Titanic email this a.m. oh, fer cute.
!!!
Me too - and normally I'm not a fan of pandering, but it's always cute when you do it.
I used to live there Diane. Right off that thoroughfare.
My favorite word in German is frohlocken -- fro (as in to and fro) low (accent here) + kin. Means to rejoice and dance. A hoot of a word! - tweedles
Frohlocken-A, Baby!
and normally I'm not a fan of pandering, but it's always cute when you do it.
Usually, that's McCain's furview.
"Speaking of Bamboozle, any new pics of the furballs?"
nope, sorry, and i deleted the old page to make room for our trip log....
i'm partial to the 'oo' words, like plook and spoo and bamboozle.
You must love the Hoodoo Gurus.
i'm partial to the 'oo' words, like plook and spoo and bamboozle.
jdw
Ook!
Only a moron would think of his primary residence as an 'investment'.
Liquidity. Nope.
Transactions costs? LOL.
Cash flow? Yeah, into, not out of.
Case closed. You by a fucking house to live in.
The sheep emulated their false shepherds, and now they have no pasture. The wolf is smiling.
i'm partial to the 'oo' words, like plook and spoo and bamboozle.
Were you a fan of Don Martin, Mad's maddest artist?
Usually, that's McCain's furview.
I see people are already on the bamboozling, so that doesn't bear repeating.
I used to live there Diane. Right off that thoroughfare.
trifecta
While I'm devastated I don't get to have you as a neighbor, I'm glad you're living in a safer place for toddlers.
Sheesh...the speeds on that road are usually well over 50 mph.
financial commenter on NPR pointed out that the mortgage tax deduction, that makes home ownership possible for a lot of people. also encourages people to buy more house than they can afford so that their deduction is bigger.
I sometimes wonder if other country's citizens share this American obsession with spending/losing money so they pay less in taxes
Turkey launching bomb runs every 3 hours on Iraqi Kurdistan.
I miss In N Out though desperately Diane. Right up Santa Anita by the 210.
*sigh*
Case closed. You by a fucking house to live in.
And yet despite your closing of the case, people continue to act otherwise!
I see people are already on the bamboozling, so that doesn't bear repeating.
It's ursine of the times.
"Speaking of Bamboozle, any new pics of the furballs?"
nope, sorry, and i deleted the old page to make room for our trip log....
jdw | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 2:57 p
So, what about the trip pictures?
It's ursine of the times.
watertiger |
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12.22.07 - 3:02 pm | #
a Major constellation of linguistic fireworks
Thayers ursine!
Then they come up to Oregon and drive our real estate prices up.
That Ron Paul sure is a lightning rod. He's partially responsible for the following match-up:
Thrilla in Vanilla: Klein vs. Greenwald
.
I miss In N Out though desperately Diane. Right up Santa Anita by the 210.
*sigh*
trifecta
Poor lad, I understand completely. I had to stop driving for health reasons, but I have actually taken the bus to get one of their double-doubles on more than one occasion.
How devoted is that?
I sometimes wonder if other country's citizens share this American obsession with spending/losing money so they pay less in taxes
Boulder home prices shot up in the 90s in part due to CAians moving here and being motivated by the tax structure to buy big and use their house as a piggy bank.
sorry for lack of replying, wuz making cocktails for my mum (Cuba Libre) and dad (dry martini)
and for moi a Cosmopolitan
i iz Cocktail Queen this Xmas I do all my families drinks
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in the third confirmed cross-border offensive by Turkish forces in less than a week, a statement posted on the military's Web site said.
The military said the bombing lasted nearly a half-hour on Saturday afternoon, and was followed by shelling from inside Turkish borders. It did not say how deep into Iraqi territory the warplanes penetrated, or which areas were shelled.
It vowed to continue military operations on both sides of Turkish-Iraqi border "no matter how the conditions are."
It's ursine of the times.
[Torn between feeling Petulant and wanting to be a Prince]
"Were you a fan of Don Martin, Mad's maddest artist?"
nope, dunno who that is. i also like voodoo, goo, pooter and dabbadoo.
"So, what about the trip pictures?"
what's yer email addy? i'll send ya the url...
Then they come up to Oregon and drive our real estate prices up.
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 3:03 pm | #
Yeah, but as I told the Oregonians when we moved there in 1990 and they were bitching about us pricing their kids out of the market.
"The next time some Californian offers you a full price cash deal for your house you just go right ahead and turn him down".
You know, it wasn't that long ago that Congress contemplated doing away with the mortgage deduction.
Amerikans lived in 1000 sq foot spaces in 1950. There were more of them per unit then too. Nowadays, the fatties 'need' 2.5 times that. Like goldfish, they wax fatter the bigger a bowl you put them in. Then they extend this 'personal' space into the public sphere...waddling soccer moms driving Hummers to the private school. I flip these bitches off all the time on the way into the Vatican. Pigs pigs pigs. Covetousness and mimetic desire. Keeping up with Jonses.
Another scenario to watch
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Christian Democratic Union—CDU) and Federal President Horst Köhler have both publicly criticised the millions paid out in compensation and severance payments to executives responsible for major failures in their companies. Merkel warned that one should not dismiss the growing popular discontent over exorbitant salaries as a mere “envy debate.” However, she then went on to reject such legal measures as a minimum wage. Köhler declared that social peace was an “important competitive component.”
What is the source of this sudden concern for social justice after years of intensified labour flexibility and welfare and wage cuts?
Evidently, the ruling elite is fearful of a social explosion. According to a poll conducted by the Bertelsmann Institute, only 15 percent of the population believes that economic relations in Germany are fair. One year previously, this figure stood at 28 percent. The day-to-day experience of millions of people over years is now confirmed by official statistics: the gulf between rich and poor has widened dramatically in the recent period.
"Were you a fan of Don Martin, Mad's maddest artist?"
nope, dunno who that is. i also like voodoo, goo, pooter and dabbadoo.
"So, what about the trip pictures?"
what's yer email addy? i'll send ya the url...
jdw | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 3:05 pm |
bobalice2932@yahoo.com
I hope these are the italy pics, and not, say, pics of Des Moines.
Lets not forget what this Holiday Season is about for us Democrats, dudes in Ass-less Nun habits fisting and felching each other in Union Square. Oh and don't forget defecating on the Nativity scene!
"I sometimes wonder if other country's citizens share this American obsession with spending/losing money so they pay less in taxes"
haha...that never made any sense to me. pay x number of dollars a year in interest so you can deduct to what amounts to a fraction of it.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has left the Anglican Church to become a Roman Catholic.
His wife and children are already Catholic and there had been speculation he would convert after leaving office.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, who led the service to welcome Mr Blair, said he was "very glad" to do so.
But ex-Tory minister Ann Widdecombe - herself a Catholic convert - said Mr Blair's voting record as an MP had often "gone against church teaching".
Last year, Mr Blair, who is now a Middle East peace envoy, said he had prayed to God when deciding whether or not to send UK troops into Iraq.
And one of Mr Blair's final official trips while prime minister was a visit to the Vatican in June where he met Pope Benedict XVI.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/71.../uk/
7157409.stm
[Torn between feeling Petulant and wanting to be a Prince]
I'm not going to beret you for blowing raspberries.
Wait. That came out wrong.
waddling soccer moms driving Hummers to the private school. I flip these bitches off all the time on the way into the Vatican. Pigs pigs pigs. Covetousness and mimetic desire. Keeping up with Jonses.
Hmm.... Bukowski or bukkake?
dudes in Ass-less Nun habits fisting and felching each other in Union Square. Oh and don't forget defecating on the Nativity scene!
Democrat values voters | 12.22.07 - 3:07 pm | #
What the hell is the Republican Congressional Caucus doing in Union Square?
I hope these are the italy pics, and not, say, pics of Des Moines"
nope, poland and germany...on it's way!
Picked up a Newsweek in some waiting area and saw a "whatever happened " article titled
Turning the Page on Mark Foley
What the hell is the Republican Congressional Caucus doing in Union Square?
rootless-e |
12.22.07 - 3:08 pm | #
field trip. they have been selling out to K-Street for years to save up enough $$.
Democrat values voters
We've finally hit the bottom of the barrel when it comes to trolls.
I'm not going to beret you for blowing raspberries. Wait. That came out wrong.
I-I
couldn't say what I wanted to saaaay...
You know, it wasn't that long ago that Congress contemplated doing away with the mortgage deduction.
Diane C. Barking-Mad
I think it was Clinton's 93 budget/tax bill that eliminated the deduction for auto loan interest (?), people who didn't itemize were rushing to buy new cars before the law took effect, 'cause they had heard on the news that it would save them money on taxes
Then they come up to Oregon and drive our real estate prices up. -ErinPDX
From an unused monologue - early nineties:
"So we sold the house and moved up here. We'd hope to buy Yamhill county, but we got into a bidding war with the Japanese who wanted it for a golf course."
ass less nun habits, well thats a new one
i hear its a must have item for Republicans every where
We've finally hit the bottom of the barrel when it comes to trolls.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 3:10 pm | #
Just when you think they have hit bottom, they find a shovel and start digging.
"The next time some Californian offers you a full price cash deal for your house you just go right ahead and turn him down".
therealhellkitty
Atrios can still claim the trophy for having the most stupidest trolls on the internet
Oh and don't forget defecating on the Nativity scene!
Crap! I knew I forgot something!
My Xmas is incomplete till I creche and burn.
Don Martin was an artist for Mad magazine who was known for his use of "sound" effects...
http://www.jlcomicart.de/images/...ges/
DonM211.jpg
http://www.oreillynet.com/digita...-martin-
sfx.jpg
http://www.nachshon.org.il/~itzs...html/
cave1a.htm
What the hell is the Republican Congressional Caucus doing in Union Square?
rootless-e
Larry Craig said "Road trip!"
I think that people's reflexive critiques of "isolationism" need some reality checking. We currently have hundreds of military bases worldwide plus a huge covert and special forces system and everything from military aid to torturers to economic blackmail of recalcitrant clients. All the Democratic candidates, except Kucinich, support continuation of this apparatus of empire.
I think that the good that even Hillary Clinton would do by defusing the march to internal fascism would outweigh the harm done by continuing this system, but I do not agree that her policies are "more realistic" or more sensible than Paul's.
I hope these are the italy pics, and not, say, pics of Des Moines"
nope, poland and germany...on it's way!
jdw | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 3:09 pm
Recieved!
Purty!
You got to go and see the fall colors, hopefully cheaper prices and fewer tourists?
therealhellkitty
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 3:11 pm | #
True story.
Let's not forget what this Holiday Season is about for us Democrats
Lot of prezzies and good eats.
We've finally hit the bottom of the barrel when it comes to trolls.
I was thinking yesterday that I am a values voter. My values include social justice, freedom from legal discrimination, gender pay equity, stuff like that. I vote for people more likely to increase them. Why am I not included by the media in the Values Voters category?
Watching Key Largo on AMC.
Good movie. Bacall is beautiful.
ass less nun habits, well thats a new one
What's black and white and red all over?
Lot of prezzies and good eats.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 3:15 pm | #
AND the chance to continue the War on Christmas! the gift that keeps on giving. I'm giving loohfah's to all my friends this year.
Larry Craig said "Road trip!"
Terry C - Democratic Bitch | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 3:13 pm | #
From the Electric Kool Aid Acid Trip
to the Republican Congressional Toilet Stall and Underage Instant Messaging Road Trip in just 40 years.
ass less nun habits, well thats a new one
i hear its a must have item for Republicans everywhere
Lady Moonbootica, Employed
Amazing how the very people who hate sex and are always railing about how dirty it is are the ones whose tiny minds come up with the most perverted idea imaginable.
therealhellkitty
That's why i was laughing and bo was right on as well. Have heard it a million times. Another version is the old person whose property taxes go up as a result of the influx from CA. And with no sales tax, it hurts. The problem is real, but we decided long ago that if you can't beat em, join em. jdw, we have 2 houses and the interest pretty much wipes out any tax liability. Our little way of joining NTodd.
where do you live now, realhellkitty?
Maybe the plumbers don't have as a secure a future as Atrios thinks.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/
20071...using_social_dc
The noisy, dusty camp sprang up in July with 20 residents and now numbers 200 people, including several children, growing as this region east of Los Angeles has been hit by the U.S. housing crisis.
The unraveling of the region known as the Inland Empire reads like a 21st century version of "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck's novel about families driven from their lands by the Great Depression.
As more families throw in the towel and head to foreclosure here and across the nation, the social costs of collapse are adding up in the form of higher rates of homelessness, crime and even disease.
While no current residents claim to be victims of foreclosure, all agree that tent city is a symptom of the wider economic downturn. And it's just a matter of time before foreclosed families end up at tent city, local housing experts say.
"They don't hit the streets immediately," said activist Jane Mercer. Most families can find transitional housing in a motel or with friends before turning to charity or the streets. "They only hit tent city when they really bottom out."
Christmas to me is three things 1) family b) booze and c) nice treats
and my Christmas came early with me being offered a job
"You got to go and see the fall colors, hopefully cheaper prices and fewer tourists?"
yes. and most of the german part paid for, which was sweet!
Why am I not included by the media in the Values Voters category?
JeffCO |
12.22.07 - 3:15 pm | #
Wrong set of values. You need to believe in torture, rendition, Creationism, the suspension of Habeus Corpus, be a total paranoid reactionary loonatic (good oo word there), hate gays and brown people and support the troops with yellow ribbons.
And that should kinda piss people off cuz it isn't fair to renters.
Irrational fear of homosexuality ain't much of a value.
where do you live now, realhellkitty?
ErinPDX |
12.22.07 - 3:18 pm | #
Central Texas in the Hill Country.
Irrational fear of homosexuality ain't much of a value.
What about rational fear of elephants?
You want buyers for your homes (after they fall maybe another 30% anyways)? Then open the borders and stop persecuting immigrants.
Linda Chavez knows from Valyooze:
Right-Wing Pundit: Give The CIA Official Who Destroyed The Torture Tapes ‘A Medal’
Prominent conservative commentator Linda Chavez writes that Jose Rodriguez, the CIA official who reportedly undertook the destruction of the torture tapes, “deserves a medal.” Chavez — President Bush’s once-failed Secretary of Labor candidate — writes:
In the next few months, [Rodriguez’s] name will likely be dragged through the mud, and he will be vilified as a rogue official engaged in a massive cover-up. I think he deserves a medal. […]
Rodriguez’s lawyer says that his client sought and received legal clearance to destroy the tapes. Even though he is likely to become a scapegoat, what he did was right. He protected not just his men but all of us. I, for one, thank him.
residential plumbing isn't the only kind. There is plenty of retrofit and new work in industrial plumbing and commercial construction.
Is that chart of San Diego housing prices a Laffer Curve? (I know it's not a Bell Curve, 'cuz teh stoopids are at the far right - not the far left.)
Linda Chavez knows from Valyooze
Ah, another beneficiary of Affirmative Action who's made a career out of railing against it.
Ronnie RayGun's little double token.
Take away the Mortgage Deduction. NOW.
Raise the Fed Funds rate. NOW.
You begged for asset inflation and you got it. Now it is going the other way while commodity inflation is taking off. You are fucking the poor worldwide and your iniquities will not go unpunished.
What about rational fear of elephants? NTodd
How did the elephant hide in the strawberry patch?
How Republicans justify torture:
By the time the CIA interrogated Zubaydah and al-Nashiri, the East Coast had been hit not only on Sept. 11 but by a series of anthrax attacks that killed 11 people and injured 17 others (a case that has yet to be solved.) Sniper John Allen Muhammad, a convert to the Nation of Islam, and his sidekick, Lee Boyd Malvo, had also gunned down 10 people and critically injured three others in the Washington, D.C., area in a monthlong rampage.
Irrational fear of homosexuality ain't much of a value.
Richard
I hate fundies.
And that's very rational.
support the troops with yellow ribbons.
I always that it was telling that those things are magnets. Something as permanent as a sticker would be too much of a commitment.
How did the elephant hide in the strawberry patch?
Berry carefully?
What's black and white and red all over?
I know this one. It was told to me by a nun.
You are fucking the poor worldwide and your iniquities will not go unpunished.
Pape Clement
And remove the tax exemption for churches!
I see we have someone here who needs to lighten up a little.
Take away the Mortgage Deduction. NOW.
This homeowner wouldn't mind, but that would certainly fuck up the housing shit even more.
What about rational fear of elephants?
Are they white or pink?
The rising tide that lifts all boats is only an illusion. It is accomplished by throwing the dead bodies of the poor into the water, the resulting displacement raising the chestthumping lumpeninvestariot. I'm pretty certain those people are going to hell.
support the troops with yellow ribbons.
I always that it was telling that those things are magnets. Something as permanent as a sticker would be too much of a commitment.
Richard
I haven't been seeing too many of those ugly things.
"You are fucking the poor worldwide and your iniquities will not go unpunished.
Pape Clement"
sell me an indulgence!
is the 13 month inventory representative of what is happening around the country?
Are they white or pink?
I'm cool with the pink ones.
Berry carefully?
Painted his toenails red.
I always that it = I always THOUGHT that it
Jim, Collieresque | 12.22.07 - 3:24 pm | #
There's that characteristic "me decade" relativistic morality of Republicans - these things made me afraid, justifying what we did to someone unrelated. It's oversimplification, but there is some truth in our era as a battle between the Hippies and the Yuppies - even the "christianism" of the right is fire-and-brimstone added to New Age bibble.
I haven't been seeing too many of those ugly things.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 3:26 pm | #
still for sale at the Wal-Marts here in TX. don't know how well they sell though.
Painted his toenails red.
Gaiii.
Take away the Mortgage Deduction. NOW.
Why not add a rent deduction applicable even with the standard deduction?
From CNNMoney.com:
Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein will take home nearly $68 million in restricted stock, options and cash, making it the largest bonus ever given to a Wall Street CEO.
Blankfein was awarded $26.8 million in cash and $41.1 million in restricted stock and stock options, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission issued Friday.
With this year's bonus, Blankfein shatters the record he set a year ago, when he was awarded $54 million.
See how it all works out in this perfect information world?
I'm pretty certain those people are going to hell.
Pape Clement
Why wait, I have the "Subtle Knife".
See how it all works out in this perfect information world?
Echidne |
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12.22.07 - 3:28 pm | #
Didn't Goldman Sachs just post it's first loss since 1928?
I know this one. It was told to me by a nun.
Echidne | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 3:25 pm | #
Are you sure it was a nun and not a Republican in Drag? They now have these convenient habits with hats that can refold into white cones and black outfits that can be reversed to make white sheets, so it is easy to go from the Party to the Klan meeting and vice-versa.
I'm with Hecate on those ugly ribbon magnets.
They don't even say "PLEASE support the troops" or "WE support the troops."
Just "Support the Troops", as if they're ORDERING people to do so.
Why not add a rent deduction applicable even with the standard deduction?
JeffCO
Minnesota has a "renter's credit" tax deduction, it's very nice and very playfield-leveling.
still for sale at the Wal-Marts here in TX. don't know how well they sell though.
therealhellkitty
I haven't been seeing them on very many cars lately.
Just "Support the Troops", as if they're ORDERING people to do so.
Terry C - Democratic Bitch |
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12.22.07 - 3:30 pm | #
It's a very directive group.
Didn't Goldman Sachs just post it's first loss since 1928?
therealhellkitty | 12.22.07 - 3:30 pm | #
No. They bet right on the subprime market (even while selling shitpile to customers) and made out obscenely.
Didn't Goldman Sachs just post it's first loss since 1928?
They went arse up in 1929, being one of the worst players in that new innovation then: leveraging. I'm sure they had terrible returns for quite a few years in the early thirties. But yes, they seem to have not been yet caught up in the new round of innovations, though they could be just hiding it better for all I know.
The deaths of two homeless men in the Paris area have reignited controversy over the number of people sleeping rough in France this winter. A man, believed to be in his sixties, was found dead on a wooden pallet in the Place de la Concorde in the heart of Paris. Another man, 62, was found dead in his car in Vanves, just west of the capital.
With temperatures falling below zero every night this week, the deaths have provoked new quarrels over the alleged failure of successive governments to provide lodgings for France's alleged 200,000 homeless people.
One pressure group, Les Morts de la Rue (the dead on the street), claimed that at least 200 people, between 18 and 80, had died prematurely while sleeping rough in France in the past 12 months.
Government embarrassment over the issue has been deepened by the revelation that one of the most senior officials dealing with the homeless problem had been renting a large, subsidised apartment owned by the city of Paris. Jean-Paul Bolufer, the head of the private office of the Housing minister, Christine Boutin, was ordered to resign after a newspaper revealed that he was paying ¿1,200 (£870) a month rent – a quarter of the market price – for a 190 square metre apartment in an upmarket area of the Left Bank.
http://news.independent.co.uk/
eu...icle3276241.ece
Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein will take home nearly $68 million in restricted stock, options and cash, making it the largest bonus ever given to a Wall Street CEO.
Bring back Andrew Carnegie, please!
At least he left libraries and his steel built REAL things.
Just "Support the Troops", as if they're ORDERING people to do so.
God bless America!
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12.22.07 - 3:31 pm | #
Ok. I'm thinking of another company.
Xmas Pressies - Lady Moonbootica, Employed
Did no one get you a ticket to the Xmas Who premiere?
Ok. I'm thinking of another company.
therealhellkitty | 12.22.07 - 3:33 pm | #
morgan-stanley.
Bring back Andrew Carnegie, please!
At least he left libraries and his steel built REAL things.
Roadmaster, Milwaukee Office
Don't forget Homestead as part of his legacy.
Just "Support the Troops", as if they're ORDERING people to do so.
God bless America!
JeffCO
God DAMN its leaders.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/xl4k0nPq.jpg
Ok. I'm thinking of another company.
therealhellkitty
there were a couple of stats like that. Morgan Stanley had it's first loss since the mid-thirties, and at least one other big money Borg, maybe Goldman
I have been sitting here for 17 minutes at the NY Sports Grill in the Jetblue terminal. I had to stop a waitron to request a menu--that was after 10 minutes waiting. I put the damned thing down, I'm trying to make eye contact, and nothing. Do they want my money? Do they want a tip? It's not like this place is busy, with plenty of empty tables.
Fuck.
Did no one get you a ticket to the Xmas Who premiere?
JeffCO | 12.22.07 - 3:34 pm | #
alas no
The reproduction of the class system in the United States
NTodd, Pinked Out
Still wearing pink?
Bring back Andrew Carnegie, please!
Pointless trivia: When JP Morgan died with a net worth equivalent to about one billion in today's $$, Carnegie said "And to think he wasn't even a very wealthy man!"
morgan-stanley.
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Thank you. NTodd, do you have any road flares with you? That usually get's their attention.
In their great stupidity, the Amerikan sheeple give Lloyd Blankfein a pass because as a captain of Wall Street he navigated his firm through the subprime crisis (so far). Goldman Sachs is the toast of the street - the only firm not posting huge writedowns. How did they accomplish this? By shooting at other peoples trades (shorting the CDO's and MBS's et al - often the same shit they themselves had packaged and sold to other money centers. A great game of toxic hot-potato. Boy, are they laughing their asses off now, but once again, these boys are all going to hell.
my brother works for JP Morgan, he will be working in the Settlements Department come 2nd Jan
but he has been doing temping there for a year or so
. I put the damned thing down, I'm trying to make eye contact, and nothing. Do they want my money? Do they want a tip? It's not like this place is busy, with plenty of empty tables.
There's a NY Sports Grill in Paris?
I have been sitting here for 17 minutes at the NY Sports Grill in the Jetblue terminal. I had to stop a waitron to request a menu--that was after 10 minutes waiting. I put the damned thing down, I'm trying to make eye contact, and nothing. Do they want my money? Do they want a tip? It's not like this place is busy, with plenty of empty tables.
Fuuuuuuck. Good thing I'm delayed.
Serbia has signed a US$230m (£116m) deal with Iraq to sell weapons and military equipment, the defence ministry said yesterday.
It did not specify the weapons but Serbian military experts believe they include Serbian-made assault rifles, machine guns, anti-tank weapons, ammunition and explosives.
Iraq's defence Minister Abdul-Qadir al-Obaidi visited Belgrade in September and November to discuss boosting military ties with Serbia.
His visit was the first by a top Iraqi official since the fall of the dictatorial regimes of Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic, who had maintained close ties.
Yugoslav construction companies built much of Iraq's military infrastructure, such as air bases and command bunkers, during the 1970s and 80s
http://news.independent.co.uk/
wo...icle3276284.ece
"You got to go and see the fall colors, hopefully cheaper prices and fewer tourists?"
yes. and most of the german part paid for, which was sweet!
jdw | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 3:19 pm |
Sweet!
Someday I must visit Germany and England, the ancestral homelands.
But not before doing/acquiring more info on the ancestors.
In the meantime, I'm seriously considering a tour to Croatia and Bosnia next October. I've studied the region for 14 years, I figure that it's about time that I visit it.
Still wearing pink?
Green, so maybe I blend.
And after I made that non-double post that haloscan assured me I had made, she took my order after I stopped her with an armful of dirty dishes. Yes, I threw dirty dishes at her.
She's really apologetic and wicked hot.
"Do they want my money? Do they want a tip?"
waitstaff clueless or having a bad day..
wave money.
I have been sitting here for 17 minutes at the NY Sports Grill in the Jetblue terminal. I had to stop a waitron to request a menu--that was after 10 minutes waiting. I put the damned thing down, I'm trying to make eye contact, and nothing. Do they want my money? Do they want a tip? It's not like this place is busy, with plenty of empty tables.
Fuck.
NTodd, Pinked Out
hey nt i was at that jet blue sports bar in september and had the same experience of being ignored while others were being accommodated. i did finally blurt out to one of the eye avoiders that i wanted food and drink and it got better quickly. but soon you will be in the television controlled jet blue cabin environment. no matter how hard you try, a television screen will be sucking your brin toward it.
More than 1 million air passengers face a miserable start to the new year after staff at Britain's largest airport owner voted for a wave of strikes next month.
BAA runs Heathrow and Gatwick plus five other UK airports, which it will shut if unions go ahead with planned 24-hour walkouts from 6am on January 7 and 14, followed by a 48-hour strike on January 17. The industrial action will affect at least 1.3 million passengers, who will either have to book flights from alternative airports or journey by other means, while travel from BAA airports will also be disrupted on the days immediately after the strikes.
Unite represents 5,800 BAA staff, and the union called the strikes because the airport group closed its final salary pension scheme to new entrants. Brendan Gold, Unite's national aviation secretary, said: "Without doubt, in my view, it will result in the closure of those seven airports during that timeframe [and cause] a huge amount of disruption."
BAA was holding out for an amicable solution to the dispute yesterday and asked for the "understanding of passengers" as it continued talks with union representatives.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
busine...ustry.transport
A quick perusal of the great John Kenneth Galbraith book on the crash of '29 will reveal that nothing has changed. Same players, same motives, same result for the poor and middle class.
I have been sitting here for 17 minutes at the NY Sports Grill in the Jetblue terminal. I had to stop a waitron to request a menu--that was after 10 minutes waiting. I put the damned thing down, I'm trying to make eye contact, and nothing. Do they want my money? Do they want a tip? It's not like this place is busy, with plenty of empty tables.
Fuck.
NTodd, Pinked Out
Did you wear a BIG American flag pin on your lapel?
Do they want my money? Do they want a tip? It's not like this place is busy, with plenty of empty tables.
Went with a friend to a retro diner that just opened here. Burgers (real and veggie) came out stone cold. Sent them back. Manager apologized. Came out 10 minutes later bearing slightly less stone cold, but obviously the same burgers. Finally decided to go back and make one personally, which came out fine. Comped us the entire meal, but the waitress wouldn't make eye contact with us again. Which was not easy b/c we were in booths and she was working all the ones around us. It was kind of funny.
She's really apologetic and wicked hot.
NTodd, Pinked Out
Be careful. She's gone to get the taser.
"In the meantime, I'm seriously considering a tour to Croatia and Bosnia next October."
thru business, i just met a couple folks in croatia...looks very nice!!!
gonna have to go into maximum suck-up mode...
How did they accomplish this? By shooting at other peoples trades (shorting the CDO's and MBS's et al - often the same shit they themselves had packaged and sold to other money centers.
I can't believe that some of their customers who got shitpile from them are not already planning on suing for fraud. So the execs need bonus now, and then will walk away from the unfolding fiasco.
A quick perusal of the great John Kenneth Galbraith book on the crash of '29 will reveal that nothing has changed. Same players, same motives, same result for the poor and middle class.
What changed were the regulations in the 1930's, but new holes have been gnawed in that net and neither the Clinton nor the Bush administration dared to close them.
This year the number of first-time buyers fell to the lowest level since 1980, according to figures out today from Halifax. They reveal that an affordability crisis is now affecting every part of Britain.
An estimated 300,000 first-time buyers entered the market in 2007, 44% fewer than in 2002, when there were 532,000 buyers. Average prices paid by first-time buyers jumped to £175,093 in 2007, up 15% on the year and almost double the price paid just five years ago.
Halifax, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, revealed that first-time buyers cannot afford to purchase the average house in 96% of towns in Britain. Even the cheapest properties, terraced homes, are now beyond the reach of buyers in 71% of towns, it said.
Large parts of Britain have house prices which are 10 times the average local incomes. Henley-on-Thames, home to Tory MP and London mayoral hopeful Boris Johnson, has house prices which are 13 times the income of local first-time buyers. Those in search of an affordable home need to head to the Shetland Islands, one of only three locations in Britain where prices are 3.5 times local incomes or less.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
busine...ket.houseprices
the waitress wouldn't make eye contact with us again. Which was not easy b/c we were in booths and she was working all the ones around us. It was kind of funny.
JeffCO
Good thing for her that you didn't mention the dirty fork.
bank run, later bats..
She's really apologetic and wicked hot.
NTodd, Pinked Out
I know the place.
Remember, it's the Fox Sports Bar.
i bet if those collyfoorneeans went to plumbing college instead of ucla and berkeley they wouldn't have such a sense of entitlement. and i hear blogging does not require a college degree either.
bank run, later bats..
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12.22.07 - 3:42 pm | #
are you sure you should say those words given the existence of the shitpile?
There's a NY Sports Grill in Paris?
Yeah. I'm on my way to stalk mimi.
Good thing for her that you didn't mention the dirty fork.
Actually, I left her a generous tip on the entire comped bill.
Christine Boutin, was ordered to resign after a newspaper revealed that he was paying ¿1,200 (£870) a month rent – a quarter of the market price – for a 190 square metre apartment in an upmarket area of the Left Bank.
Holy shit! That's 2045 sq.ft. in Paris on the Left Bank!
Remember, it's the Fox Sports Bar.
Heh, I deliberately avoided the Fox Store in IAD when it was the closest place to my gate with water. But I'm not so motivated now.
Someone could make a lot of money designing and building low/mid income housing with energy-saving features. Maybe faster now than selling McMansions, since they seem to be unaffordable at the moment.
Wireless sucks here, too. JetBlue hotspot is flaky at best, and even my phone's data connection has dropped once or twice. I hate this place. I hate it. I hate everything about it.
Ah...she brings my wine. She's awesome.
Blair’s Catholicism: The practical upshot
NTodd, grading all done, I hope?
Yeah. I'm on my way to stalk mimi.
I read in the Tao of Sex that one should not attempt to hide one's jade stalk in a batshitcrazy cavern.
A small hedge, which I have employed (loathesome as it is given who is Treasure Secretary) is to open a Treasury Direct account with the US Treasury and link it with your bank account(s). You need not have a lot of money to do this, as the minimum ammount is 25dollars. Any hint of trouble, transfer money into the Treasury Direct account.
"In the meantime, I'm seriously considering a tour to Croatia and Bosnia next October."
thru business, i just met a couple folks in croatia...looks very nice!!!
gonna have to go into maximum suck-up mode...
jdw | Homepage | 12.22.07 - 3:41 pm
There are places I want to go in Croatia that aren't on the 'tourist' map: Vukovar, Knin, etc.
But I could handle tourist Croatia quite easily:
Plitvice:
http://images.google.com/images?...images&
ct=title
Hvar:
http://images.google.com/images?...images&
ct=title
Dubrovnik:
http://images.google.com/images?...y-revision&
cd=1
Tony Blair to 'do God' in a new (and totally unexpected) manner
NTodd, grading all done, I hope?
Heh, I finished about 18 minutes late. Let's just say some students got the benefit of the doubt from me and should be happy with their scores.
I read in the Tao of Sex that one should not attempt to hide one's jade stalk in a batshitcrazy cavern.
So long as I withhold my Chi, I should be fine.
She's really apologetic and wicked hot.
NTodd, Pinked Out
The Mexican place across from the F*x Sports Bar is serviceable.
The pick of the litter is the Oasis massage / day spa place toward the 1 - 6 Gates.
Eat a hot dog while getting your feet rubbed.
You owe me beverage for serving up such a ripe straight line.
So long as I withhold my Chi, I should be fine.
That is an advanced skill for men.
You by a fucking house to live in.
That is absolutely right. Still live in the only house I've owned. Bought it to raise my family. It has probably lost 100K in value the past two years but I'm still ahead of the game.
So long as I withhold my Chi, I should be fine.
OPE sproings internal.
I put the damned thing down, I'm trying to make eye contact, and nothing.
maybe go back to wearing pants in public?
That is an advanced skill for men.
I actually got pretty good at that. But now I'm pretty fucking lazy.
Ahem.
maybe go back to wearing pants in public?
Part of nonviolent resistance is disrupting usual behavior patterns and social practices. I will continue to fight the good fight without pants, and you can't stop me.
Heh - caller on Wait Wait this week referred to Joementum.
NTodd would have to paralyze me first.
OPE sproings internal.
[spits pure grain alcohol and rainwater on keyboard]
Part of nonviolent resistance is disrupting usual behavior patterns and
social practices. I will continue to fight the good fight without
pants, and you can't stop me.
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12.22.07 - 3:53 pm | #
You are going to Maine without pants and you expect to have a jade stalk when you return? Popsicle toes!
coming to you live at the hyatt in Minneapolis...and on my iPod. So go slow.
A NAPKIN WOULD BE NICE!
I actually got pretty good at that. But now I'm pretty fucking lazy.
NTodd: takes the Sting out.
scratch that - NTodd would have to tase me, anesthetize me, and put out my eyes first.
NTodd would have to paralyze me first.
You'll change your tune once you see my taser unit.
Oh mimi, you know you still want me, you minx.
scratch that - NTodd would have to tase me, anesthetize me, and put out my eyes first.
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12.22.07 - 3:55 pm | #
why do I like the idea of a remake of "Boxing Helena"?
pfft. Remember, I have dated a lot of men over 6 foot six...
Don't tase me bro!
NTodd would have to paralyze me first.
Limiting yourself to a pair o lies would be an improvement.
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the U.S.S. Pritzky has sailed my friend
pffft, yourself, you Old Maid.
sorry, I think you spell it Pritsky
There could be enough computing ability in just one brain cell to allow humans and animals to feel, a study suggests.
The brain has 100 billion neurons but scientists had thought they needed to join forces in larger networks to produce thoughts and sensations.
The Dutch and German study, published in Nature, found that stimulating just one rat neuron could deliver the sensation of touch.
One UK expert said this was the first time this had been measured in mammals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/healt...lth/
7151920.stm
be well NTodd
The SS Meme sank long ago, you psychotrollop.
Going DOWN
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An inquiry should examine Tony Blair's role in the scrapping of an investigation into a major arms deal, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has urged.
The then-PM had said the decision to stop the probe into the BAE deal with Saudi Arabia was taken due to national security, not commercial, concerns.
But in a letter released during a legal case, Mr Blair refers to "concern" over ongoing business negotiations.
Mr Clegg said the revelation confirmed his "very worst fears" about the case.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/busin...ess/
7157914.stm
yo, roadie! Getting the guilt trip from zapette right now.
thanks for the dirty fork sketch, jeffco. mmmm carol cleveland.
Oh, cool! Another episode of the Eschaton Bickersons!
Starring NTodd Ameche and Mimi Langford!
NTodd is going down again...he's such a slut.
You see Moon, THAT's how you flirt with a guy
Starring NTodd Ameche and Mimi Langford!
I'm more a Honeymooners kinda bickerer.
Moon - don't listen to her. The best way to flirt is tell a man he's very smart, then take off all your clothes. Always gets my attention, anyway.
You see Moon, THAT's how you flirt with a guy
But you are a guy.
Right, Butler?
....could be enough computing ability in just one brain cell to allow humans and animals to feel....
I wonder how many cells are firing when you are wildly in love.
Don't worry Moon, I'm not trying to turn you into me
Starring NTodd Ameche and Mimi Langford!
Neither one wants to open their closets.
Didn't Goldman Sachs just post it's first loss since 1928?
Actually, they were smart enough to bet against the sub-prime stuff.
How Goldman Sachs defies gravity
While the credit markets went sour, one investment bank made a huge, shrewd bet - and seems to have won big.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/20/...rtune/
index.htm
Moon, you realize you should take everything NTodd says with a grain of salt, right?
YAY, A NAPKIN!
don't worry I iz not paying any attention to what the psychotrollop. is saying
instead I'm watching the original Three Tenors, Channel 4 is showing the original concert
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Moon - you realize you should take everything mimi says with an ocean of salt, then run far, far away, right?
Apropos of nothing, here's a rerewhore of my last post at CodePink. At least it's my last one until Feb. NTodd
Why can't I find the part about all the hippychick sex?
Why the fuck does butler mess with Moonbootica?
What a frapping scumbag.
instead I'm watching the original Three Tenors, Channel 4 is showing the original concert
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12.22.07 - 4:04 pm |
It isn't the Christmas concert is it? That was painful to watch.
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Moonbootica, have you noticed this obsessionTodd has for me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d...h?
v=dm2Y80jSHi0
I guess if AB is most of the trolls, and NTodd responds to most of the trolls, he could see that as obsessed. Of course, then someone is obsessed when they react when you poke them in the eye with a stick.
ntodd,
I'm upstairs from mannys & oceanaire. Want something?
Don't worry Moon, I'm not trying to turn you into me
mimi, barren woman
As if you could.
I wonder if Atrios just blew up the servers providing the Irving Renter Blog?
Go to the analysis section to get some serious discussion of the rent or buy calculations.
Merry Whatever You All
"the Irvine Housing Blog is a 5th column"-Jim Cramer
1100 sqare feet selling for $625,000? I should sell my basement.
I live in California, so I'm getting a kick out of these responses.
kinda harsh there, atrios. there are PLENTY of people around here who wondered when the shoe would drop.
the only problem with the whole ``they're getting what they deserve; don't buy a place to make money'' is that it's been working that way for the last 30 years give or take a coupla recessions. this recent madness, though -- completely out of hand, and the crap loans and the crappier thinking going into them have driven a lot of it. plus in some areas, like Irvine, there hasn't been rampant development, the schools are top flight, unemployment has always been minuscule in all of Orange County, spoiled USC grads with cushy jobs and trust funds everywhere you look, the city and south county are a move-up for thousands ... whatever. reserve the schadenfreude for the flippers and loan thieves.
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