I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
WooHoo!
A mustache you can believe in.
2 month extension = 1/3 Friedman unit.
Suck on that for two months.
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called shoes.
Change WE can believe in, eh?
Oh man Tommy's has to suck on that... looks like a shoe hit him in the haid
Ordered one of those Seagate refurbed 500GB barracudas from Woot for $79, then in drugged generosity gave it to my linuxing son, who discovered it was actually 750GB and he now has over a terabyte of fixed disk storage on his desk.
Probably scheming ways to use it for gaming advantage.
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They must have some spare change hidden in a cookie jar somewhere, like maybe a couple billion dollars to slide by on.
Mean Mr. Moustache.
Gloat, gloat!
hows that go? a rising tide floats all boats....
well i guess it works the other way too....
(Haloscan tells me this is a repost)
My first laptop (or whatever we called them back then -- I think just portable computers) had a 10 MB hard drive and must've weighed about twenty pounds.
Toonscribe
This was my first one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mac...intosh_Portable
Wish I had kept it for my museum collection.
Friedman needs to find a NYC cabbie to quote about what it'll mean to the world's economy.
Like the guy with the mustache at the end of Bullwinkle.
Lots of stuff taken for granted for a long time, that the formerly wise just might find provocative of reconsideration of basic assumptions about the world.
Friedman's probably awaiting the FedEx delivery of a new tortured metaphor to beat us over the head with, describing his wife's fortune's tenuousness in the flat, warm, crowded world...
Looks like Friedman's financial world is flat.
Let's just call this costumed torso blogging.
Maybe Tom can get a job driving a cab.
i'm a rat bastard for this, but 
Will the moustache of understanding say that a mall bailout is necessary where an auto bailout is not?
Marcellina: it does seem odd, from the picture, that the outfit's hard to don/remove...
When I was a reporter, they broke out these Radio Shack portables for us to use that had nine-line dot matrix screens and acoustic couplers for sending data. It was so amazing, I didn't know what to think.
I still have my original IBM 5150 with two 360K floppy drives.
Floppy drives, heh.
Killer CGA monitor.
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ProfW, it's worse than a snowsuit!
Marcellina: it does seem odd, from the picture, that the outfit's hard to don/remove...
ProfWombat | 12.20.08 - 10:39 am |
and too bad, too, 'cause it looks so great on you, you could wear it all the time.
When I was a reporter, they broke out these Radio Shack portables for us to use that had nine-line dot matrix screens and acoustic couplers for sending data. It was so amazing, I didn't know what to think.
"Yeah, we just got a Mojo Wire, does a page every three minutes--"
My 12 yo just put her guinea pig on my shoulder. It's sitting there, equanimitous, warming my neck and making contented pig noises...
NO Pastors! No Priests! No CEO'S!!!! This is an outrage!!!
"For a second time, President-elect Barack Obama has used his radio address to break news, this week announcing four members of his science and technology team.
In the address, Obama announces that he has chosen Dr. John Holdren as assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology; Dr. Jane Lubchenco for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration administrator; and Drs. Eric Lander and Harold Varmus as co-chairs of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology."
For a second time, President-elect Barack Obama has used his radio address to break news, this week announcing four members of his science and technology team.
In the address, Obama announces that he has chosen Dr. John Holdren as assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology; Dr. Jane Lubchenco for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration administrator; and Drs. Eric Lander and Harold Varmus as co-chairs of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology.
For a second time, President-elect Barack Obama has used his radio address to break news, this week announcing four members of his science and technology team.
In the address, Obama announces that he has chosen Dr. John Holdren as assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology; Dr. Jane Lubchenco for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration administrator; and Drs. Eric Lander and Harold Varmus as co-chairs of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology.
http://
thepoliticalcarnival.blog...address_20.html
Yanno, as all of this financial disaster scenario unfolds and begins to bite the haves and have mores in the backside, it occurs to me that there might just be something akin to a Platonic Justice.
133 Mhz Intel w/Windows 98+.
ina, that'll get me 20 more hits for sure! 
and too bad, too, 'cause it looks so great on you, you could wear it all the time.
ina, cinnamon girl
And there's a lot of us who'd help you in and out of it
Marcellina-
What production requires that slippery-looking costume?
In the address, Obama announces that he has chosen Dr. John Holdren as assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology; Dr. Jane Lubchenco for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration administrator; and Drs. Eric Lander and Harold Varmus as co-chairs of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology.
Wait a minute: Real Scientists?
Bastard!
ina: yup; absolutely. I come for the discussion, camaraderie and chance to vent, but I stay for the chicks...
That is so weird... sorry for posting the same freaking story four times 
i guess i'll try again: the girls were inspired to draw comics (scroll down for pics).
and if you leave a comment, simels won't drink your chardonnay...
Romeo and Juliet. Dark, chrome-and-gray, somewhat futuristic production. I am the nurse.
No, I mean Progressive Labor Party. I associate revolution books with Bob Avakian (a name I had not recalled in many years until you mentioned Revolution Books). Might be a false association though.
Sadly, my real favorite NY book store seems to no longer exist. Books Scientific was off union square - you had to know where it was to find it.
rootless-e, complex |
You were right.
Bob Avakian
Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA
Click here: For the full listing of works by Bob Avakian available online
http://revcom.us/avakian/index.html
ina: yup; absolutely. I come for the discussion, camaraderie and chance to vent, but I stay for the chicks...
ProfWombat
i think it was ruth who said, 'intelligence is hawt!'
Wait a minute: Real Scientists?
Bastard!
Supreme Commander Thor | 12.20.08 - 10:42 am | #
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I know! Why what next? I am askaird
Is Blogger acting up or is my lousy ISP getting ready to crash?
I am about to go from late to very late.
So good by and good day to all.
ina: good looks are fine, but it's intelligence and empathy which are both necessary and sufficient, and hardly exclude the former...
Romeo and Juliet. Dark, chrome-and-gray, somewhat futuristic production. I am the nurse.
She's taken the poison! Stomach pump, stat!
i think it was ruth who said, 'intelligence is hawt!'
She said something like: This is an intellectual discussion. Can we help it if intelligence is hawt?
Worthy of replacing HULK SMASHED, imho.
Repost: From the NYT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dick Cheney's lawyers are asserting that the vice president alone has the authority to determine which records, if any, from his tenure will be handed over to the National Archives when he leaves office in January.
That claim is in federal court documents asking that a lawsuit over the records be dismissed. Cheney leaves office Jan. 20, potentially taking with him millions of records that might otherwise become public record.
''The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records, how his records will be created, maintained, managed and disposed, and are all actions that are committed to his discretion by law,'' according to a court filing by Cheney's office with the U.S. District Court on Dec. 8.
good looks are fine, but it's intelligence and empathy which are both necessary and sufficient, and hardly exclude the former...
Truer words were never spoken..... er..... typed.
I still have my original IBM 5150 with two 360K floppy drives.
Floppy drives, heh.
Killer CGA monitor.
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QuentinCompson,
Remember your DOS commands?
cd/ c:
copy/file
or something like that
the rcpusa maybe the successor to PL. had a friend who was a PL member in the 1970s who's fondest memory was of the chants
a chicken in every pot
an ice-pick in every trot
I think of that when I see the neo-cons on TV sometimes.
'The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records, how his records will be created, maintained, managed and disposed, and are all actions that are committed to his discretion by law,'
You gotta admit, he's got a lot of nerve.
The Dick has spoken.
All obey.
Normally I am sympathetic to people's financial losses but in this case - Friedman, suck on that!
Cheney's got nothing if not chutzpah. Above the law, unaccountable to the end. And, makes you wonder what treasures lie within his documents...
''The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records, how his records will be created, maintained, managed and disposed, and are all actions that are committed to his discretion by law,'' according to a court filing by Cheney's office with the U.S. District Court on Dec. 8.
Gimlet | 12.20.08 - 10:47 am | #
What I wouldn't give to see that bastard frog marched off to Gitmo.
''The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records,
Not only is the son of a bitch evil, but he knows he's evil.
a chicken in every pot
an ice-pick in every trot
I think of that when I see the neo-cons on TV sometimes.
rootless-e, complex
Heh.
I'm glad that actual hospital nurses don't have to wear outfits like that, even though it is very beautiful.
For some reason after lurking on this thread I want to go rent some old romantic movies for the weekend instead of decorating and making more cookies.
I just posted this at the GR Press site under the comments section about what local pastors think of Rick Warren giving the inaugural invocation:
Separate church and state.
I used to be a practicing Catholic, but over the years, the meanspirited hearts of people across all religions brought me to a place in life where I've decided to no longer practice religion. Very few people actually walk Jesus' talk.
I'm sick to death of all the righteous fools who write the public pulse and beat their one-issue drum to make a case for a political candidate. I don't freakin' care to read what anyone who believes that their way is the only "right" way has to say about anything.
WRT Rev. Warren, it's an insult to gay people to have him give the invocation. Obama knows this, too, but he's more concerned about issuing an olive branch to try win people over than he is about elevating the folks who are already in his camp to the status of equal.
As to the Press, I quit subscribing because of all the hate letters published in the Public Pulse (that, and the endorsement of McCain - stupidest move EVER). For the life of me, I can't understand why the editor gives so much deference to one-issue Ivans and Inas who quote the Bible to make their "righteous" points about abortion and teh nasty gay. I. DON'T. CARE. There are hundreds of creation myths out there; the fact that The Press gives so much play to the Christian myth is insane, unfair, and BORING.
the entire basis of federalist legal reasoning is love of monarchy and the leader. What they will do when the President orders the out-of-office ex president to give up public documents is insist that the aura of godly power adheres to former executives.
So how will Friedman respond to "His Wife is Flat Broke" - will he get a new wife?
Cheney's got nothing if not chutzpah. Above the law, unaccountable to the end. And, makes you wonder what treasures lie within his documents...
ProfWombat
More balls than brains.Commonly known as "hubris".
''The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records, how his records will be created, maintained, managed and disposed
OK. In a matter of weeks, he will no longer be Vice President. What then?
Faneuil Hall? Toorist trap. Doan know anyone who actually shops there.
Although the Durgin Park experience - "We insulted your grandfather, we insulted your father, and now we're going to insult you" - remains sublime...
''The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records, how his records will be created, maintained, managed and disposed, and are all actions that are committed to his discretion by law,''
Seems obvious.
Addington, Yoo, Gonzo, former SC nominee Harriet Miers
Vicki, that's righteous.
Dilemma:
I just joined a gym so that I could start to work off the 15 lbs I have gained in the last year, eating a certain person's excellent home-cooked food and drinking elitist chardonnay. The gym is 1/2 mile from my apartment.
However, it is crappy outside ... cold, wet, icy-slushy.
I'm having a hard time motivating myself to go.
Not only is the son of a bitch evil, but he knows he's evil.
Toonscribe
I wonder how much of the $700 billion ends up in his pocket?
For some reason after lurking on this thread I want to go rent some old romantic movies for the weekend instead of decorating and making more cookies.
"You've Got Mail"?
Although the Durgin Park experience - "We insulted your grandfather, we insulted your father, and now we're going to insult you" - remains sublime...
Heh. Next time I'm in town I should walk into Durgin Park and ask if they have WiFi.
OLD, Marcellina.
Romantic OLD movies.
Faneuil Hall? Toorist trap. Doan know anyone who actually shops there.
Although the Durgin Park experience - "We insulted your grandfather, we insulted your father, and now we're going to insult you" - remains sublime...
bill buckner | 12.20.08 - 10:53 am | #
Fanueil Hall used to be cool ... of course, I'm talking 35 years ago.
according to a court filing by Cheney's office with the U.S. District Court on Dec. 8.
Gimlet
And to add insult to injury, he'll use the taxpayer's dime to defend this position.
I'm having a hard time motivating myself to go.
The living room floor is a good place to exercise. Afterwards, you can have a bowl of ice cream and watch movies.
If Cheney is prosecuted will he stage a Ken Lay?
Romantic OLD movies.
ms fahrenheit/stop the wars
The Dirty Dozen. ahhh.
Thanks Gromit.
I kept saying it, but no one listens, and no one cares.
'The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records,
Not only is the son of a bitch evil, but he knows he's evil.
Toonscribe | 12.20.08 - 10:51 am | #
And he enjoys it.
Don't mind Faneuil Hall much, but I could never go there again and it'd be fine. My favorite shopping venues these days are neat small town centers, like Concord MA, Portsmouth NH. Stores owned, mostly, by real people...
We're on a budget this X-mas, so we won't be buying any new tree ornaments and most of the old ones are broken.
We'll be decorating it with found cigarette butts and sardines. And anchovies. They're shiny.
(From below) -
Wombat - I want me one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/89gpx6
(Would really solve the knocking-over-piles-of CDS at every turn
problem quite nicely.)
Marcellina
I think there was some double entendre there that I am ignoring.
Tom, maybe you can ride on a bus now instead of in a fancy taxi. There's more people on a bus whose opinion you can take a sample of.
I can't understand why the editor gives so much deference to one-issue Ivans and Inas who quote the Bible to make their "righteous" points about abortion and teh nasty gay
gulp!
are there inas who quote the bible? i did not know that.
Remember your DOS commands?
You only need about a dozen. I DOS daily.
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Hee hee!
Actually, the thing I love most about that film is Meg Ryan's bookstore.
bill b: Staples has 500 GB drives for under $100. It's just amazing to me.
The living room floor is a good place to exercise. Afterwards, you can have a bowl of ice cream and watch movies.
GWPDA yclept Damaged Historian | 12.20.08 - 10:55 am | #
That's what I'm thinking, too ...
Sorry Ina. I had to use an "I" name.
1 If X=2, then Y=4
2 GOTO 1 Jackass
... by real people...
They tote guns, misquote the Bible and eat squirrels?
Did Al Franken win yet?
Friedman's probably awaiting the FedEx delivery of a new tortured metaphor to beat us over the head with, describing his wife's fortune's tenuousness in the flat, warm, crowded world...
CSPAN replayed a talk he gave back in October this morning. The title of his book you refer to, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded", was emblazoned across the screen while Tommy lectured us on the inability of the government to achieve launch speed to blast off to the next level or some such.
Tommy is a silly son of a bitch.
And, makes you wonder what treasures lie within his documents...
ProfWombat |
The greatest source of evidence at Nuremberg against the extermination camp managers was the fantastic sets of 'books' they proudly kept to demonstrate their efficiency.
Cheney's gonna destroy everything.
.
Remember your DOS commands?
C:ZAP
Fanueil Hall used to be cool ... of course, I'm talking 35 years ago.
Brooklyn Girl, PC |
hard to believe it was almost 30 years ago that i worked in the hebert's candies satellite store there...
ina: anybody can quote the Bible, to any purpose whatever. Slavers, civil rights workers, missionaries, conquerors, nurses in inner cities, bigots, advocates for the poor and unempowered, anybody...
Sorry Ina. I had to use an "I" name.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
hard to believe it was almost 30 years ago that i worked in the hebert's candies satellite store there...
ina, cinnamon girl | Homepage | 12.20.08 - 11:00 am | #
Hebert's!
The three junketeers weigh in: (link via Swampland)
A Chance for Consensus on Iraq
by John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham
Ambassador Crocker has done heroic work in forging constant and unprecedented cooperation between the U.S. Embassy and the military -- precisely the kind of close civil-military partnership that is at the heart of successful counterinsurgency. To ensure that this collaboration continues, we believe it is imperative to appoint an individual of the greatest possible skill and proven ability -- preferably, someone who can be in Iraq before Ambassador Crocker departs.
and I nominate Joe Lieberman (so hurry up, CT state senators and pass the new law calling for a special election for replacing sitting senators)
Bysiewicz and legislative leaders call for special election to fill future U.S. Senate vacancies in Connecticut
ina: anybody can quote the Bible, to any purpose whatever. Slavers, civil rights workers, missionaries, conquerors, nurses in inner cities, bigots, advocates for the poor and unempowered, anybody...
ProfWombat
oh, i know. it was just odd seeing my name in that context.
Okay, breakfast calls.
Have a nice morning.
C:FORMAT
I blame Connecticut.
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Cheney can't destroy everything. Too many places it could be cached, too many people with memories, too much cash moved here and there. And, as Obama takes over and the public perception of Bush/Cheney malfeasance grows by an order of magnitude, he'll find fewer and fewer people on his side in concealing it, while people will think the worst, rather than the best, in the absence of information.
There's already a consensus on Iraq: we get our people out as fucking soon as possible. Period.
Faneuil Hall is great for young folk--reasonable food, reasonable prices, atmosphere of which the young are tolerant.
By now, though, I've outgrown it; I want to sit down and think, or talk, at more leisure...
C:/SHOES
s
h
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and for you proactive types, SHOES!
There's already a consensus on Iraq: we get our people out as fucking soon as possible. Period.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a consensus on what "as soon as possible" means.
shoes!
ms.f My Gal Friday?
OLD, Marcellina.
Romantic OLD movies.
ms fahrenheit/stop the wars |
i have two old movies on my amazon wishlist, 'it happened one night' and 'the philadelphia story.' i'd love to have them on dvd.
the kind of close civil-military partnership that is at the heart of successful counterinsurgency.
They have made a desolation and called it peace.
Is that Caratacus as quoted by Tacitus?
And, as Obama takes over and the public perception of Bush/Cheney malfeasance grows by an order of magnitude, he'll find fewer and fewer people on his side in concealing it, while people will think the worst, rather than the best, in the absence of information.
ProfWombat |
The question then becomes how hard will President Obama push DoJ et al to pursue this record and prosecute based on the evidence.
I suspect if Bush tries some all inclusive pardon it may actually motivate any investigations.
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ina: both will amuse you, and also appall you. Women have come a way since then.
Saw 'It Happened One Night' fairly recently. Colbert is still gorgeous. But being carried across the water, and having her butt slapped?
...he'll find fewer and fewer people on his side in concealing it, while people will think the worst, rather than the best, in the absence of information.
ProfWombat
It's been pretty successful an awful lot of times, Kennedy assassination, Bush and TANG...
Hey, kids - it's 1976 on the 10@10 marathon!
And you can listen to Dave Morey's last show here.
By now, though, I've outgrown it; I want to sit down and think, or talk, at more leisure...
Which is why it exists (mostly) for me as Gateway to the North End...
Dilemma:
I just joined a gym so that I could start to work off the 15 lbs I have gained in the last year, eating a certain person's excellent home-cooked food and drinking elitist chardonnay. The gym is 1/2 mile from my apartment.
However, it is crappy outside ... cold, wet, icy-slushy.
I'm having a hard time motivating myself to go.
Brooklyn Girl, PC | Homepage | 12.20.08 - 10:53 am
Auntie GWPDA's recommendation sounds good.
When I move within the month my new apt building will have a little workout room in the first floor apt, and then I will have no excuses, since I won't even have to go outside, or be suitable for public viewing.
Tom's world is flat. Flat broke.
C:FORMAT
The Kenosha Kid
Had a supervisor, that was the only command he knew. He used it once, on my main data disk.
They might need a good lawyer or two as well...
A complaint has been filed against General Growth alleging that during the Class Period, defendants made false and misleading statements about the Company’s access to financing. Specifically, the complaint alleges that defendants represented that General Growth had the ability to refinance billions of dollars in debt that was coming due in the fall of 2008 and spring of 2009 on acceptable terms. In fact, the complaint alleges, General Growth did not have access to such financing. Further, the complaint alleges that defendants failed to disclose that the Company’s President/Chief Operating Officer and its Chief Financial Officer had received loans from the Chief Executive Officer’s family trust in violation of the Company’s own Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
http://www.kaplanfox.com/investi...tes.php?&
id=209
Hey Tom this is what a flat world feels like! Sucks doesn't it!?
I'd take the properties except I just bought a double decaf mocha at Starbonks. If only they'd said something sooner.
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