I mean crying. Not anymore, though. Everybody is dying except for me. I think God is trying to tell me something. Lebron is next.
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August 12, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Katya's Mother
Spell ‘Crying’ correctly and maybe she’ll talk to you again, you undereducated, lazy American, Brahman bastard. My lovely daughter too good for you.
August 13, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Bif
Hitchens’ prospects for survival sound pretty grim, but you never know.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/09/hitchens-201009
August 14, 2010 at 4:22 am
Bunn Bunn
Nothing like terminal cancer to focus the mind. I expect that some of the best writing of Hitchens’ life is about to happen. “Why me?” Yeah, like the man says… why NOT me?
August 14, 2010 at 1:17 pm
dave
i guess that i had heard of christfer hitchens at some point or another. the name wasn’t a complete surprise to me. but until he made this cancer annoucement last week, or so, i had never paid any attention to him, or his writing. so anyway, iread a couple of articles he wrote; all i could think was something like, yeah, why not you? and why not sooner? maybe i just picked out the wrong stuff or something, don’t know.
August 14, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Dr. Doom
I don’t know who “Lisbeth Salander” is, or her GFs, but I wish the photographer would not censor the best parts of their bodies. Nice looking girls. Noticed they are engaged in their favorite pastime, yapping
August 14, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Dr. Doom
JR, did you edit the thread with all the comments about Nudge, dave, jhoon rhee, Frank Lloyd Wright, etc.? I noted that dave stopped commenting. Hope we didn’t cross some line.
fuck you, dave. we were just kidding.
love, doom & JR
August 14, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Dr. Doom
ah, dave’s back.
August 14, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Bif
She’s checking out her own pixilated tits. Who wouldn’t.
August 14, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Nudge
getting pixellated has got to hurt :(
August 14, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Autonomous Unit
c hitchins probably smoked and drank whiskey at the same time. this is bad- the smoke’s toxins are dissolved by the alcohol, and are absorbed into the esophagus easier. lower proof is better.
I have no data to support this assertion.
On a related note, I realized I was an atheist three days after I had a catheter snaking from my groin to my right cardiac artery. Days after I had survived the proceedure, i realized I hadn’t prayed, or bargained with any invisible friend in the sky. Although my condition and the procedure had only a 2-5% chance of killing me, that was enough to concentrate my mind. that feeling has left me now.
August 15, 2010 at 3:43 am
Bunn Bunn
I for one remain impressed by anyone who can have some semblance of a normal life (albeit as a quasi-public figure), drink and cavort with regularity (or at least successfully perpetuate an image of this), and throw around enough eloquence and wicked phrase turning to bluff the lazy into accepting his point of view (typically without resistance) or, alternatively, charm otherwise natural-born critics crippled by a soft spot for anyone who is exuberrant, creative in arranging and presenting thoughts, determined to include himself as one of the characters driving the narrative, and obviously very much in love with writing (complete sentences, although sometimes deploying curious punctuation). Anyway… I’ve pulled the long languishing “god is not Great” by C.H. from a nearby bookshelf. (AU, I don’t think monkeys are designed/evolved to remain on “high alert” for too long without a chance to decompress, look at some pixilated boobies, drink a bottle of Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter, or whatever. You’d end up like wombatmissle impersonating a Harvard TA-on-crack kinda meltdown. I have no idea what I’m talking about; I just dream this stuff up.) Mrs. H recently discovered Total Wine & More, a newly-opened veritable booze Valhalla or so she says and with very good prices. I guess things do just keep getting better all of the time, overall, until death says you’re done, that is. So I’m dedicating the rest of this year, insofar as I might find myself properly exploiting precious opportunities to live, to The Hitch.
August 15, 2010 at 6:12 am
charles
Great post thanks.
August 15, 2010 at 8:07 am
dave
http://www.slate.com/id/2262520/
yeah, i just thought it was kind of silly for him to question chavez’s sanity because he consults simon bolivar’s remains and, say, dosen’t believe in the moon landing. why not question, let’s say, obama’s sanity for consulting with economists and, poportedly anyway, believing in some gibberish, as interpreted by his 9 black robed high priests, contained in a 250 year piece of parchment, often called the constitution, or something like that.
of course, i just happen to have a couple of different cats and dogs and such buried in my backyard. i dig up thier bones and use them to devine the future on a regulat basis. so maybe i’m biased in some way.
August 15, 2010 at 8:17 am
dave
i’ve not read his book about god; but defending atheism as a position has always, well, at least for a long time, seemed kind of silly to me. how does one defend a a non-belief, and why would one want to? let’s say i don’t believe that rabbits eat meat; but all my nieghbors do. what do i do, perform experiments demostrating that rabbits don’t eat meat? they’d just say, if they were true believer’s in meat eating rabbits, that i had the wrong rabbit, that i had corrupted the rabbit, that the rabbit was frieghtened at the time, etc. the excuses are endless. so why would one want to go through the excerise? it all depends on the literary market at the time, i guess. nothing wrong with that.
August 15, 2010 at 8:26 am
dave
there’s never been a shortage of the smug, yet somehow eloquant, profering thier opinions. christopher hitchens will be reborn. that’ll show him a thing or two, i guess.
August 15, 2010 at 8:46 am
dave
charles, i lked some of your photos. they looked like you snapped the shutter while you were falling off a chair. i use that same technique at times, especially after injesting 6 or 7 shots of majorska. which i haven’t done in a while, so that’s now on my list of things to do.
August 15, 2010 at 8:52 am
dave
god, but i do love jerking off to the sight of pixelated tits.
August 15, 2010 at 9:38 am
dave
obama ostensibly believes that the chevy volt offers some sort of solution to detroit’s problems, and maybe to the economy, whatever that is, as a whole. what’s fucking lunier than that? he should go dig up thomas jefferson, or even fucking andrew jackson, maybe warren harding, don’t know which.
August 15, 2010 at 10:56 am
Bunn Bunn
“why not question, let’s say, obama’s sanity for consulting with economists and, poportedly anyway, believing in some gibberish, as interpreted by his 9 black robed high priests, contained in a 250 year piece of parchment, often called the constitution, or something like that.” — dave
You needn’t concern yourself about BHO believing in the constitution. To him it’s an obstruction, unless of course the majority of the black robed purported interpreters come down in furtherance of his leftist ideological society reshaping/destroying agenda. Then he’ll wrap himself in the flag, claim to believe in god, and dig up the bones of Ronald Reagan just to rattle the cage of any conservative foolish enough to doubt his lethality.
To be clear, dave, I’m no atheist. But I’m not a follower of any known conventional faith either.
“there’s never been a shortage of the smug, yet somehow eloquant, profering thier opinions. christopher hitchens will be reborn. that’ll show him a thing or two, i guess.” — dave
Yeah, I reckon he acutely appreciates the humor of it all, even the high likelihood of his own replicability.
August 15, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Dr. Doom
AU, speaking chemically, ethyl alcohol and water are two great solvents, but water is likely the better of the two, being very polar, and recall we Earthlings are practically made of the stuff. That being said, alcohol does help solubilize some compounds, like toluene, that are otherwise difficult to dissolve in water. It really comes down to what exactly are the carcinogenic compounds of interest here. This is not rocket science, it’s chemistry.
August 15, 2010 at 1:03 pm
dave
yeah, i just thank god every day that i’ve never been been eloquant enough to be smug about much of anything.
August 15, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Dr. Doom
JR, maybe you should rename the site “pixelated tits”. I’ll bet it will increase viewer traffic.
August 15, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Dr. Doom
JOKE:
‘Of course I won’t laugh, said the nurse. I’m a professional. In over twenty years I’ve never laughed at a patient.’
‘Okay then,’ said Pete, and he proceeded to drop his trousers, revealing the tiniest ‘man thingy’ the nurse had ever seen.
Length and width, it couldn’t have been any bigger than an AAA battery.
Unable to control herself, the nurse started giggling, then fell to the floor laughing. Ten minutes later, she was able to struggle to her feet and regain her composure.
‘I am so sorry,’ she said. ‘I don’t know what came over me. On my honor as a nurse and a lady, I promise it won’t happen again. Now, tell me, what seems to be the problem?’
‘It’s swollen,’ Pete replied.
She ran out of the room.
August 16, 2010 at 7:18 am
dave
yeah, well, as a leader for a society of slaves, at least obama looks the part.
August 16, 2010 at 7:31 am
dave
the one thing about this society, meaning the US as a whole, that always fucks with my brain, is that all the slaves, black, white, yellow, etc., but mostly the white ones, i guess, tell each other stories about how free they are. this is changing as many of them, especially the white ones, are turning up as surplus property these days. back in the day, at least the black people knew that they were slaves. i don’t think obama had much of anything to do with this. in fact, i don’t see where obama has much of anything to do with anything. maybe i’m wrong.
August 16, 2010 at 7:39 am
dave
i kinda veiw prostelizing atheists in the same light that i view prostelizing theists – god? who gives a fuck?
August 16, 2010 at 7:40 am
dave
tiny dicks are always funny, no exceptions, ever.
August 16, 2010 at 7:53 am
dave
August 16, 2010 at 8:19 am
GB
This fella’ Myers has some interesting things to say:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
I think most people are practicing atheists whether they call themselves atheists, believers or agnostics (such as myself).
August 16, 2010 at 9:24 am
dave
it’s proselytizing – fucking moron.
http://mbvtravel.com/burials-in-tibet-not-for-sensitive-souls
August 16, 2010 at 11:01 am
Dr. Doom
bunch of bird lovers in Tibet. in America, we’d shoot the bastards.
logical conclusion: Americans love microbes.
August 16, 2010 at 1:56 pm
GB
I know you’re kidding Doom, but avian scavengers really do a great service to mankind and I think most people recognize that. Black vultures and turkey vultures are protected species here in NYS.
August 16, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Dr. Doom
actually, Americans don’t love most living things, with exceptions like GB.
microbes get a break because they are tiny and usually have the last laugh, so to speak. embalming fluid and those food preservatives in our bodies only last so long.
August 17, 2010 at 5:30 am
Nudge
Dave wrote: “i don’t think obama had much of anything to do with this. in fact, i don’t see where obama has much of anything to do with anything. maybe i’m wrong.”
No, you’re correct, but try explaining that to any of those Faux Nooz-fed losers busy shrieking about the ground zero mosque, immanent “socialism” (hoo ha ha ha ha ha), or “the rise of the welfare state” (another thing worthy of making you fall to the floor in paroxysms of laughter).
August 17, 2010 at 7:35 am
dave
yeah, that myers guy is so fucking rational, it’s down right scary. that motherfucker got’s him some answers, kinda reminds me of some theists i know.
August 17, 2010 at 7:38 am
dave
yeah, i’ve always thought that socialism was alive and well in the us. just about everybody gets thier steady supply of trinkets and calories from the marketplace. what’s more fair than that? obama just needs to sit back and relax, i’d say.
August 17, 2010 at 7:41 am
dave
the brits also proved thier love of microbes by supplying them with all that oil in the gom. too bad those fucking freeloading shrimp, fish, dolphins and whales and such are gonna take advantage of those hard working microbes, lazy cocksuckers.
August 17, 2010 at 7:59 am
dave
personally, i’d have to call myself a pantheist with strong animist tendencies. i’m also down with ancestor worship, whatever that might be called, for whatever that’s worth, kinda like hugo chavez. so fuck you christopher hitchens, you and you fucking eloquant self, and your fucking cancer, think you’re so fucking special. well i’m going down to walmart right now and get me some motherfucking cheesewhiz and a whole packet of hang up naked girl air fresheners for my car. there ain’t a goddamned thing you can do about it niether, cause i’m a ‘merican, by god.
August 17, 2010 at 8:04 am
Bif
“…i don’t see where obama has much of anything to do with anything.”
I also think this is true.
August 17, 2010 at 11:10 am
Dr. Doom
The economy must be real bad alright, because the MSM are once again dragging out all the bullshit about same-sex marriages (who cares?), black mommas killing their babies in cars (really, that’s their own business), and iffn who-cares mosques near ground zero, as if the muslims were actually responsible for 911, ho ho, ha ha.
Tell you what, I’ll really shake ‘em up when I propose we bury the body of Dick Cheney at ground zero, heh heh. But, most being clueless, only a few of us will get the joke.
Maybe we can do it Tibetan style, with thousands of hungry pigeons in place of those buzzards. I’ll sharpen some long knives.
August 17, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Nudge
Dave wrote: “i’ve always thought that socialism was alive and well in the us ..”
Well, it would certainly seem so if you listen to the whinging of the uber-rich, who use their large media conglomerations as propaganda dispensaries. But if we really did in fact have socialism in our country, here are some of the things you would see:
- Guaranteed 6 week minimum vacation for every worker regardless of seniority. With socialism comes some focus on us regular working people.
- Guaranteed 12 months maternity leave.
- Making it very hard for foreigners to take domestic jobs, because again, there’s some focus on the rights of workers in that socialism thingie.
- Comprehensive cradle-to-grave national healthcare system.
- State-subsidized education, from K through university (or trade school) with emphasis on applicant qualities and not Daddy’s trust fund.
- Comprehensive public transit system so that it’s not necessary to personally own a motor vehicle just for necessary travel.
- A gradual redistribution of wealth from richest to everyone else.
- Ongoing laws to limit the power of corporations ~ see the United States as a fine example of what happens when this /doesn’t/ get done.
Dave, everything here is going the opposite of how it would be under socialism, especially with the rich getting richer while the rest of us get poorer.
August 17, 2010 at 7:14 pm
GB
“…and a whole packet of hang up naked girl air fresheners for my car. ”
Dude, you don’t have a car, remember?
August 17, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Bif
Nor does he eat cheez whiz. Just humor him and go with it.
August 18, 2010 at 3:01 am
Bunn Bunn
Nudge, all of that sounds fine and dandy, if you’re talking about small-to-mid-sized countries (places like Sweden or Finland, for example) that sort of actually perpetrate a semi-serious ongoing effort at facilitating orderly immigration, fastidiously decline to (significantly) participate in the international punch-pulling military coalition du jour, etc.
dave, I’ve just about had it with you trying to act like you’re all so not eloquent and shit. Fuck you! You’re practically the greatest communicator I’ve ever known.
As usual, I seem to be the last conservative in the building. You indeed are a curious lot. Invariably above the fray. Reflexively anti-corporatist (except for Bif and sometimes JR).
APB: The big scary evil fucking corporation is just another entity. And robots are going to have legal rights before long too, you jackoffs! So wake the fuck up.
No, I’m not going for the bait. If you want your own personal OEO, look elsewhere.
Oh yeah, BHO has nothing to do with nothin’. No siree. Signing all dem billz was nonvolitional.
But ultimately, you all are right. And I’ve said this shit before. It is YOU who have everything to do with what happens, much more so than this or any previously elected embarrassment. And no, this is not a concession that all politicians are the same. That is complete and utter crap. The longer you self-congratulatory over-groomed progressives continue to stroke yourselves and believe that someone could actually care enough about you to have it in for you, the dumber you’re going to look when your ability to persist in mispredicting end times proves to have greater staying power than you. But that’s what you want, obviously!
August 18, 2010 at 3:54 am
Dr. Doom
Heh? Have you been chewin that loco weed that Holmes keeps in a big jar under the sink in the master bedroom?
“To the contrary, the longer you self-congratulatory over-groomed progressives continue to stroke yourselves and believe that someone could actually care enough about you to have it in for you, the dumber you’re going to look when your ability to mispredict the end proves to have greater staying power than you. But that’s what you want, obviously!”
I had to read that sentence about 3-4 times. I’m hoping if I break it into sections, I’ll understand it better.
Realizing of course you are directing this to the obviously inferior-minded others (progressives, tsk, tsk), I’m wondering if one’s expiration prior to their misprediction of the end, which had some merit due to it’s staying power, will make the author of those thoughts appear dumb, when in fact that’s what said author wanted in the first place?
As pour moi, I think poor BHO is about as trapped as a presidential mouse can get. Events are now clearly in control, and all he can do is roll with the punches and keep up the appearance that he is still doing his many master’s bidding. He’ll live longer that way.
August 18, 2010 at 5:24 am
Nudge
Oh, wait, is this the ghost of “If you’re not with us, you’re against us” reappearing as “If you doubt that anything RushBeck says is true, then you’re the biggest BHO fan ever”? Hope not.
August 18, 2010 at 5:24 am
dave
gb, i have my father’s old car these days, a 1991 buick century.
August 18, 2010 at 5:30 am
Nudge
Actually we DO have socialism here, but only for the very richest (lower tax rates) and for corporations. You’d have to be a GoldmanSachs, a Shell Oil, a General Motors, or a Bank of America to benefit from the socialism. And the wealth keeps getting redistributed /to/ them not from them.
Faux Nooz & the PeeParty do a good job appealing to all the anger addicts and latent racists out there, many of whom are boomers who’ve just decided they’d rather turn the clock back to 1950 again. The ground-zero mosque nonsense is just today’s version of stem-cell rights or don’t-ask-don’t-tell or “gadzooks, people, we’ve got a socialist menace on home soil, quick, call Joe McCarthy” .. but at least it does a good job distracting the faint-of-mind.
August 18, 2010 at 5:35 am
dave
at certain population densities people form hiearchies, that’s what they do. actually, people always form hierarchies, no matter the population of the group; they’re just not institutionalized. there always have been “rich” and “poor”, “elite” and “common”, patricians and plebeans, etc. also, there will always be a lot more commoners than aristocrats. these are laws, no different than f=ma, or something like that.
August 18, 2010 at 5:41 am
dave
Oh yeah, BHO has nothing to do with nothin’. No siree. Signing all dem billz was nonvolitional.
bho, can sign bills and laws and shit till the fucking cows come home. but nothing changes the social effects of ducan’s shrinking “e” (per capita energy availability).
August 18, 2010 at 5:44 am
dave
actually, i think it’s really liebeg who has the last laugh, if you want to get all reductionist and shit.
August 18, 2010 at 5:56 am
dave
personally, i see the US as some type of commercial oligarchy. this is niether good nor bad, it just is. anybody who thinks that these oligarchs are going to somehow willingly redistribute thier wealth, power and influence because of some fucking laws, or constitution, or some other stupid shit, is plain old fucking nuts. everything changes.
i think that the beauty of the US system lies in the fact that anyone can become an oligarch here. of course, anyone can win the lottery also. i know that i buy my tickets every week.
August 18, 2010 at 5:58 am
dave
i think it was one of the medicis who first said something like: “money buys power. power protects money.”
August 18, 2010 at 6:08 am
dave
yeah, the europeans used a rising “e” in slightly different ways, for a lot of good reasons, than the US did. but as “e”, along with the availabilty of a lot of other shit, shrinks, they’ll get back to thier real business of producing famines, plagues and hacking eachother to death in imaginative fashions. god, but i wish i could be there for that show.
August 18, 2010 at 6:16 am
Nudge
Dave wrote: “personally, i see the US as some type of commercial oligarchy”
On the HBB they call this Corporate Capitalist Communism .. good label. Crony capitalism on roids.
August 18, 2010 at 6:24 am
Nudge
“i think that the beauty of the US system lies in the fact that anyone can become an oligarch here. of course, anyone can win the lottery also. i know that i buy my tickets every week.”
Yes. The chances of any one of us being the next Bill Gates / Warren Buffet are about the same as having twin meteorite strikes on your dwelling during the same lightning storm. But that’s OK, one-in-gazillions is all it takes to keep the Horatio Alger myth alive.
August 18, 2010 at 7:53 am
dave
well, both bg and wb were outsiders at one time, now they’re on the inside. niether of these guys are particularly outstanding in anyway that i can see. although i’m sure they’re not dumb, and they probably have a level of drive and ambition, and probably some connections, that i’ll never have; so good on them. like i said, it can happen to anyone in the US. i’ll stick to buying lottery tickets myself, and energy issues.
August 18, 2010 at 7:55 am
dave
oh yeah, i forgot about good old random luck.
August 18, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Bunn Bunn
@Doom — an “ability to persist in mispredicting end times” necessarily implies that end times (whatever that might be) have not yet arrived. That someone, and this may or may not apply to you, might want said condition of mispredicting — and thusly its attendant implications — to perpetuate, e.g., up until their personal demise, doesn’t seem entirely preposterous to me. I suppose it could be argued that a “final misprediction” could constitute setting a date beyond actual arrival of end times, in which case, therefore, what someone might want could be either end times or a lack thereof. Under this “final misprediction” scenario, it is of course still a misprediction, although it might not be what the prognosticator wanted in hindsight (as he or she is swept into the malestorm). If someone makes the correct call, when then it isn’t a misprediction at all. Does that help?
August 18, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Bunn Bunn
As for myself, I’m setting up an arrangement whereby messages from me will continue to be rolled out and transmitted periodically after I have gone to my grave and into perpetuity. I will outlast you all.
August 18, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Dr. Doom
Bunn, thanks for that clarification. Seems to me a good prognosticator would advertise the end for most but those few well-prepared ones, e.g., those with their sailboats at the ready in a relatively safe haven (i.e., likely not Long Beach Harbor, CA, or Boston Harbor, for that matter) and have the physical, not monetary, means to reach the sailboat in a comfortable amount of time and appear to be going on brief vacation, but not returning anytime soon.
I know of a certain very rich person that has his yacht parked at his tourist hotel (with few tourists staying there, but full local staffing and a chain name, to keep up appearances) in Fiji, ready to take him and his to their private island sanctuary, should he feel it is time to bug out. Meanwhile, the well-trained crew makes occasional “practice runs” to Colombia for “provisioning”, etc. Very hush-hush, but also hiding in plain sight, for those who can see.
August 18, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Dr. Doom
“As for myself, I’m setting up an arrangement whereby messages from me will continue to be rolled out and transmitted periodically after I have gone to my grave and into perpetuity. I will outlast you all.”
Rod Serling wrote about you in a Twilight Zone episode called “The Old Man in the Cave”. The old man turned out to be a very robust computer, i.e., not running Microsoft Windows.
August 18, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Uncle Remus
Seriously Nudge, do you watch Fox News? Do you listen to Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh? You persistently screech about them, suggesting either a) you watch or listen to them or b) you parrot somebody’s talking points.
August 19, 2010 at 7:17 am
dave
August 19, 2010 at 7:31 am
dave
August 19, 2010 at 5:28 pm
MOU
Why do we hide tits? They are a thrill only because they are hidden. An ankle used to be a thrill in the Victorian era, not now.
This question is related to the atheist question.
August 19, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Dr. Doom
MOU, enlarged sweat glands are sexy. Think how moron beautiful women would be to have three or four pair, like dogs!
August 19, 2010 at 7:50 pm
GB
“Why do we hide tits?”
I think I know the answer. I ran a couple of 5K trail races recently and pondered the same question. The ladies tell me its not about covering or hiding them – its to keep the tits from flopping excessively.
August 19, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Dr. Doom
GB, that sounds right. the last thing most women want is long, sagging tits. gravity is not their friend. BTW, i note that the girl’s tits above have been depixelated! thank you, god!
August 20, 2010 at 5:11 am
Nudge
GB wrote: “The ladies tell me its not about covering or hiding them – its to keep the tits from flopping excessively.”
Bingo. Hence the sports bra (which doesn’t leave much to the imagination) I wear while on the bike. It’s not exactly comfy but it does keep them from going all over the place.
UR: I don’t watch Faux, but unfortunately I get exposed to it occasionally due to some social obligations. It’s left on, very loud, blaring away for maybe 4-5 hours in a row, repeating the same nonsense. Why, it’s as if certain entertainers delight in (or make money by) keeping some of our more easily-misled citizens riled up about certain topics. I’ve gotten Faux Nooz fans spitting, apoplectic, and going all ad-hominem in under 5 minutes just by asking them where that “socialism” is. So far none of them have been able to explain how it’s any different from a classic crony-capitalist oligarchy.
Somebody please wake me up when we make it very hard for foreigners to get jobs here (so as to protect work for our own citizens) and do those other socialist reforms mentioned upthread. Until then, we’re just living in the heart of the beast.
August 20, 2010 at 8:58 am
dave
what dross. jhk should stick to nonfiction[sic]. trying to read this only makes me think of a diarama composed by a (fucking)retarded third grader: some kind of hodgepodge of popsicle sticks, yarn, pipecleaners and elmer’s glue thrown into a shoe box. is it just me? can someone actually read this without retching?
http://kunstler.com/blog/2010/08/vacation-special—-excerpt-from-the-witch-of-hebron.html
August 20, 2010 at 9:00 am
dave
oligarchies suite me just fine. just so long as i get my fair sare(tm) of the crumbs, i’m happy.
August 20, 2010 at 9:16 am
dave
“fare share” is my personnal trade marked slogan and future campaign pledge. you are NOT free to use it without prior approval, especially if you’re a dirty fucking immigrant coming over here to take MY fucking shitty $8/hr job, or if you’re a telemarketer in mumbia, or if you’re making sneakers for $0.10/hr in china, then you need to eat shit and die you fucking cocklickers.
that’s it, instead of national socialism, i’ll run on the dieoff platform. that’ll go over real big in peoria and saratoga springs.
August 20, 2010 at 9:23 am
dave
yeah, what would kunstler’s “chore man” roger lippy (no, i’m not making this shit up, kunstler did it for me) do without national socialism?
August 20, 2010 at 9:34 am
dave
anyway, the closest thing i can think of to national socialism, was german national socialism. all good citizens were secure within the warm embrace of the motherland and master race. both nieztchie and i approved, me moreso than frederick. fucking god is dead afterall, something had to take his place, vacumes and all that. anyway, that worked out pretty good, for the liberal capitalists(commercial oligarchs if you prefer). the fucking red communist mortherfuckers had a field day too.
second in line is fidel’s cuba; and i do give them a lot of credit for holding on as long as they have.
anyhoo, the ultimate plan for the redistribution of wealth belongs to the dieoff party. who wants to get in on the ground floor?
August 20, 2010 at 9:38 am
dave
europe as it stands today, is something of a hybrid(capitalistism without some of the hard edges). the dieoff party will straighten that shit out soon enough. remember, i’m the only one you can trust.
August 20, 2010 at 10:01 am
dave
while “fare share” will be my personnal catch phrase, i’m thinking of “drink globally, fuck locally”, as a party slogan. pretty fucking good, huh?
August 20, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Dr. Doom
dave, i want to be treasury secretary in your new “dieoff” administration. i have no qualifications, but neither does the monkey running it now. i also have no wall street connections, but hope to make some.
August 20, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Dr. Doom
Nudge, you should post a picture of your sports bra so we can all see what you are talking about.
August 20, 2010 at 7:04 pm
dave
doom, you can be the commandant, no, “minister of resource distribution”. you know something about rocks and shit, right? of course you do.
August 20, 2010 at 7:06 pm
dave
i will be the official taster, no, yes, taster of young pussy.
August 20, 2010 at 7:25 pm
dave
but don’t worry, all minister will get plenty pussy, you have my solem word on that.
August 20, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Dr. Doom
dave, you are send me all the “ugly” ones and those with attitude, i don’t mind, really. you’re the boss.
August 20, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Dr. Doom
dave, you can send me…. damn these typos.
August 20, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Dr. Doom
it is incipient glaucoma blindness, or have those girls’ tits gotten all blurry and pixelated again? it must be that blind watchmaker up to his tricks, again.
August 20, 2010 at 8:18 pm
EEofDC
Uh-oh… I disappear for awhile and the joint turns into morbid pit!
August 21, 2010 at 8:01 am
dave
i’ve long worked by the theory that there 3 types of dancers: those who cannot dance to the beat, those who can be trained to dance to certain beats, and those who cannot help but dance in time to the music.
August 21, 2010 at 8:10 am
dave
i’ve often thought that castro’s success, and the beauty of the cuban system, lay in the fact that he never tried to industrialize. cuba was basically an agrarian peasent society before socialism, and it simply remained as an agrarian peasent society after socialism, only with more or less western style medicine, i guess, western medicine without all the bells and whistels, something like that.
August 21, 2010 at 8:18 am
dave
of course, i’m old and well addicted to wonder bread and velveta, so i no chouce but to just stick with my capitalist overlords. maybe the technocrats have a better offer, don’t know.
August 21, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Dr. Doom
my father was in category 3. my mother was/and still is/ in category 1. my father did most of the talking, except he’d shut up and listen if nice music was playing. this was then a cue for my mother, being quite tone deaf, to begin talking. whereupon my father, and later myself, would shout “please be quiet and listen to the fine music”, except sometimes, in our frustration, we were not so polite about it.
August 21, 2010 at 4:58 pm
GB
Actually, women cover/hide tits for different reasons. There’s a girl I know who is in her early twenties who is a kick ass trail runner (much faster than me). she is about 5′ 3″, petite and has very small tits. Having small tits works to her advantage in competitive running. She simply wears a tank top when she runs. She would probably run sans shirt if she could, but its not legal. Maybe these silly rules and laws will change in the coming dieoff administration. Meanwhile i will keep trying to catch up to her during the workout runs so I can chit chat with her, but it isn’t easy.
August 22, 2010 at 5:16 am
dave
yeah, i’m no fred astair, it can be frustrating to try to dance with someone who just can’t.
August 22, 2010 at 5:18 am
dave
the greatest tragedy of my life is that i can’t run, at least not for any real distance, anymore.
August 22, 2010 at 5:23 am
dave
yeah, all these silly rules will go right out the window when the dieoff party takes over.
August 22, 2010 at 5:30 am
dave
,and thank god for that.
August 22, 2010 at 9:01 am
GB
Yeah, I can’t dance tango. I tried but its too much for me. I can put one foot in front of the other, though. The important thing is to keep moving, I guess.
So, its raining today. Can’t sit outside and listen to the acorns fall. What to do? Watch Judge Judy? I can’t wait until I get to be a senior citizen and I can pull my pants up around my armpits and watch the same the same Andy Griffith Show episode over and over again and each time it will be a new show to me…thank god for electricity.
August 22, 2010 at 11:42 am
Bunn Bunn
GB, try tackling her before she can build up too much of a lead. Say it was an accident. Doom can tell you how it’s done.
dave, great and learned comments about Eurosocialism and whatnot. Too good for this thread in any case.
Nudge et al., I can only add the following probably not original thought: If BHO were president of the world rather than the U.S., the assessment would be that he is doing a far better job at “redistributing wealth” than most lefties care to give him credit for. America First — otherwise what is left to redistribute? Maybe ironically, we have to be substantially like-minded on matters of sovereignty, enforcing immigration laws, fiscal responsibility, etc. But my Plan B is to get in on the ground floor with the DieOff party. Hopefully, one of the ministerial posts is still available. I’ll be polishing up the old CV and dreaming dreams of oligarchical things.
August 22, 2010 at 2:13 pm
dave
yes, if the world could only wrap its’ colective brain around MY dieoff exegesis, we’d all be better off. just remember “drink globally, fuck locally”, or vice versa, it really dosen’t make much difference.
i just wish that someone else would comment on the kunstler exerpt from the witches of heron. is it unreadable? or is it just me?
August 22, 2010 at 2:16 pm
dave
Yeah, I can’t dance tango.
well, i really don’t believe that’s true. although it is very tru that ny salsa throughly fucks with my brain. “ok, dance on 2″; wtf is that all about? why not dance on 1?
August 22, 2010 at 2:49 pm
GB
I agree. Dancing salsa on 2 is weird. It should be outlawed or something.
August 22, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Dr. Doom
here ya go, dave, reprinted from Nudge’s blog:
August 15, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Doom’s review of JHK’s new novel exerpt posted on CFN:
It reads well. We learn that some older couples still enjoy sex, that break-ins still happen in the post-collapse UPL, that old man Bullock (from WMBH) is still quite a polished Samurai swordsman from his younger days in Japan, and that Jimbo’s party crashers are an especially dumb lot, some of whom, upon learning of the imminent demise, will throw up food that they were, just moments before, ingesting ravenously. Amazing. Incredulous, even. I guess it can take all kinds to make a raiding party, and these guys were just Viking/Vandal wannabes on the run.
Then, they all get hanged in the end. Surprise! Oh, and they did it Roman style–think Spartacus’ band’s ending on the Apian Way. That last part was nice. Next, I’m sure Bullock’s farm will post skulls on poles ala Heart of Darkness. Buga buga, y’all.
August 22, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Dr. Doom
i guess if Jimbo reads here (not bloody likely) he’ll cancel my free copy of his book.
August 22, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Dr. Doom
Bullock, bull’s pen, literally. Usage implies the character would be the male farm master, bullish, as someone who takes charge of situations. Jimbo’s character name choices are a bit over drawn, simplistic. I like dave’s suggestion of a grade school diorama.
August 22, 2010 at 8:26 pm
MOU
We are all in attendance at the dieoff party. The ground floor is the destination.
August 22, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Bif
Man this place is gunki.
Hi MOU.
Wow have I been bad. Over the last three days I have played golf, gone to a AAA baseball game, and went to the track at Saratoga. There I won the ‘exacta’ in the 10th race which was frucking awesome and means I broke even on the day including the cost of drinks, a program, and a Romeo & Juliet cigar.
August 22, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Dr. Doom
gunki monogatari?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunki_monogatari
so, you like smoke fine cigars? i had an Arturo Fuente “Hemingway” last night by the pool. it makes me a better writer.
August 22, 2010 at 11:20 pm
MOU
Hi Bif,
I lurk, therefore I am. I am not useful here just yet, but then again, I am not sure what that would mean. So I just am.
Doom,
I have had the occasional cigar. Used to smoke and drink with the guys in settings where I was the only woman. Cigars and weed were the norm. It was a lot of fun.
August 23, 2010 at 6:08 am
dave
gunki? no unnerstan.
i smoke a cigarette now and then. but i hate cigars. they really taste like shit. they kinda look like turds too. so if i put one in my mouth, i think that i’m chewing on a smoky piece of shit.
usefull? that whole concept is way overrated if you ask me.
August 23, 2010 at 6:12 am
dave
http://imgs.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/ybenjamin/2009/10/12/schwarzenegger-with-cigar.jpg
August 23, 2010 at 6:53 am
dave
well doom, i guess you were able to read it. i couldn’t. so that says something for it, i guess.
August 23, 2010 at 10:58 am
Bunn Bunn
I find myself crashing through panes of sugar glass over and over again — seemingly for no particular reason. Most people can’t not look at it. Does that translate into usefulness? At a minimum it helps some unlucky monkey kill a few seconds before moving on to the next diversion. Digging slightly deeper, is being virtually the sole beneficiary of your own utility now a crime? The aforedescribed version of purported utility most assuredly is powered by a motive, compulsion, or reason, albeit a pointless and certainly meaningless one.
JHK’s latest?$? Nahhh… haven’t read it.
August 23, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Bif
I think I understand bunn. JR, maybe its time to organize a retreat and revisit the mission statement. From there we can break it down into goals. Goals will be achieved through accomplishing set and measurable objectives. Each objective should have a clear strategy. Alright everyone, break up into groups and lets get this thing down.
Maybe not, I’ve been to those visioning workshops. Holy god.
Doom, yes I really do appreciate a fine cigar. But I try to stay away. However there are circumstances when a cigar really hits the spot. A good woman is a good woman, but a good cigar is a good smoke. Dave a good cigar is in no way a smoky turd. Thats just crazy talk.
August 24, 2010 at 12:02 am
Dr. Doom
dave, are you interested in hearing a true story about Arnold and a cigar he once lit in a Japanese restaurant?
well, of course you are.
as told to us by our good friend Sally, who is Japanese from Japan, who was once working in a CA Japanese restaurant that served food, drinks, sushi bar, etc. so, one evening in comes (pre-governator) Arnold with some friends, and Sally is chosen as one of their waitresses. Sally was not even clued at the time about who he was, not being a big action movie fan. hard to believe, but she said so.
she said they were very loud, drinking heavily, and generally obnoxious. then, after they finished eating, Arnold pulls out a fine cigar (i guess like the one pictured above) and begins to smoke it. the restaurant is small and officially nonsmoking. so Sally asks him to please put out the cigar. Arnold ignores her and continues to smoke. so Sally gets the manager, and he and she tell Arnold that his smoking is offending the other customers, and that he please put out the cigar, or leave the restaurant
so Arnold and his friends leave the restaurant in a huff, still puffing, and don’t bother to pay their bill. so Sally yells after them to “get out and never, ever come back”. the end.
August 24, 2010 at 6:46 am
dave
yeah, ahnold, just another cigar smokin’ asshole.
yeah, bif, i’ll still take a maralboro over a cigar any old day. ya know what else i hate? chaw. there’s no deneying that that shit tastes like shit. and then you see people spitting the juice into a cup all day. so they end up with a styrofoam cup full of shit juice. remides me of smoking a cigar.
August 24, 2010 at 6:56 am
dave
one time i was talking to this indian woman, from india. i told her i was a mets fan, profession baseball. she says to me something like: “oh, you mean the american spitting contest?” “yeah”, says i, “there’s no deneying that. but ya shoulda seen them back when they used to chew tobacco on the field. it was like playing in a bowl full of goose shit, much more interesting.” i think i kind of lost her at that point.
baseball, chaw, and spitting out shit juice all day are all very usefull activities. don’t ask me why, but they are.
August 24, 2010 at 8:01 am
dave
so, when I watch this little film, all I can think about is an anecdote about everybody’s favorite german, except for the nazis that is, big mistake on thier part, i guess, schopenhaur. Anyway, one time, some asshole reminded him of socrate’s famous dictum, “the unexamined life is not worth living.” to wich s repleyed, something like, “yes, true, but the examined life is even worse.”
August 24, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Dr. Doom
saw the first 9 minutes. reminds me of Forrest Gump, with the plastic bag playing Tom Hanks. heckofajob, bag.
August 24, 2010 at 3:06 pm
dave
yes doom, i’m glad that you pointed this out. the works of both hanks and shopenhaur point inexorably to the futility of all human endeavor.
August 24, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Dr. Doom
BTW, JR, Bif, and anyone else here who follows oil production, its spillage, fascist corporate-government cover-ups, collusions and conspiracies, D3PO has been having some fun with the so-called “experts” on TOD over at this link: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6868#comments_top
I note that they are smart enough (so far) not to take the considerable bait that D3PO has given them. JR would be proud, assuming he could still give a shit.
Re: TOD experts, you make your bed, you get to sleep in it.
August 24, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Bif
Doom, I met Simmons and his wife at a cocktail party a few years ago. We probably chatted for 15 or 20 minutes. He struck me as a genuinely good and likable guy. Soon after that I read his book about Saudi. Good book. But as far as this spill goes, I’m telling you I think he was off his rocker. I think he quit taking his meds and went cookoo. I don’t believe he was “onto something”, or that his claims are true, and that extraordinary events in the GOM are being covered up by the government. Its BS IMO.
I should say however that I do beleive the Gulf is polluted more than the administration or BP are representing to the public.
August 24, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Bif
If I recall, we started off talking about funny shit, but it soon deteriorated into ponderings about hydrokinetics and OTEC.
It was soon more than I could bear, and I faked interest while scanning the room to locate the best looking women. As luck would have it there were at least several.[Not true. I was an attentive listener]
August 24, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Bif
We never once spoke of petroleum or peak anything.
August 24, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Dr. Doom
Bif, I think “Lake of Undersea Oil (& Methane Gas)” that Simmons was talking about = 22-mile long undersea plume of oil + dissolved gas that marine scientists are measuring there.
He was worried about a storm upwelling that “lake of oil” to the surface and affecting coastal areas. There may also be some legitimate concerns there, as well. It would depend on the depth of the plume(s) and the storm intensity.
He clearly got the toxicity of methane gas wrong. However, if there are primary sulfides in the oil, or secondary reduced sulfides from seawater sulfate (a major anion in seawater) by the organics in the crude, then any H2S present in the exsolved gas (say, upon upwelling) is extremely toxic.
I don’t know about the seafloor seeps, other leaking wells stuff. Only time will tell on that. It is plausible, however. The capping formation is apparently highly fractured in that area.
So, Matt may have seemed a blathering idiot, but he was very likely being fed information from others in the background who had a handle upon this stuff. Some of it was being lost in translation. His expertise was in banking, not geology or chemistry. But I believe he was an honest man, perhaps also courageous to be taking on the BP-USA consortium.
August 25, 2010 at 9:10 pm
dave
“Lake of Undersea Oil (& Methane Gas)” that Simmons was talking about = 22-mile long undersea plume of oil + dissolved gas that marine scientists are measuring there.
so, what the fucks the difference if it gets burnt and pumped into the atmosphere, where various residue can get knocked out by precipitation and then washed into thr gom, or, let’s turn it into various nitrogenous componds, put on the land and then wash away the top soil along with excess n into the gom and create zero oxygen dead zones the size of new england. fuck matt simons, i say we just pump in directly in the the fucking ocean where it belongs, cut out all the imtermediate bullshit. i’m glad matt simons is dead, who cares about another piece of shit banker one way or the other.
August 25, 2010 at 9:12 pm
dave
marine scients should measure my shit. they might learn something.
August 25, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Dr. Doom
dave, matt was one of the “good” bankers, if there is such a thing.
ya, it’s amazing all the crap we flush in the GoM and then turn around and eat the shrimp, fish and oysters that grow in it. small wonder cancer is on the rise.
August 26, 2010 at 12:53 am
Bif
Thats a good point dave. The hypoxic dead zone in the GOM is big and itself an artifact of our producing and using petroleum, and has been going on for years.
August 26, 2010 at 1:03 am
Dr. Doom
Just as long as two wrongs don’t equal a right, I agree, Bif.
August 26, 2010 at 7:22 am
dave
small wonder cancer is on the rise.
but never fast enough it seems.
August 26, 2010 at 7:28 am
dave
yeah, bif, i’ve always thought that the most efficient way of using that oil was to let it flow directly into the gom. the results of burning it and using it to kill stuff in other ways are way too diffuse. we need to concentrate our efforts.
August 26, 2010 at 6:32 pm
MOU
Doom’s mind goes to conspiracy easily, the rest of you not so much. I’m with Doom on this. All that oil did not just “disappear” as they claim. There is not some new bacteria, popped up out of nowhere, eating the shit. I am insulted they think I should believe this crap. FDA is NOT testing for dangerous chemicals in the seafood because there is no need, they do not expect to find dangerous chemicals. I could go on and on. NOAA researcher had to retract his “all clear.” I could go on and on. This stinks to high heaven.
August 26, 2010 at 7:38 pm
EEofDC
Another Major Oil Spill Will Dirty the Oceans in 2011.
The Surprising Way to Profit
We are 100% sure that this prediction will come true. How do we know? Because it happens all the time! Since 1960, more than 1,000 huge oil spills of at least 10 million gallons have occurred in the waters of 112 nations. That’s more than one per month. Here are the hot spots:
Gulf of Mexico — 267 spills
Northeastern U.S. — 140 spills
Mediterranean Sea — 127 spills
Persian Gulf — 108 spills
North Sea — 75 spills
Japan — 60 spills
Baltic Sea — 52 spills
United Kingdom and English Channel — 49 spills
Malaysia and Singapore — 39 spills
Atlantic Coasts of France and Spain — 33 spills
Korea — 32 spills
There have been eight major oil spills in oceans and rivers this year alone. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is simply the worst and got the most media attention. In 2010, we also saw the Yellow River oil spill in China… the Port Arthur oil spill in Texas… the Great Barrier Reef oil spill off Australia… the Red Sea oil spill in Egypt… the Xingang Port oil spill in the Yellow Sea… the Barataria Bay oil spill in Louisiana… and the Talmadge Creek oil spill in Michigan.
More spills are unavoidable. Oil drilling is an increasingly risky business. The scarcer oil gets, the harder it is to produce and transport it.
Oil companies are drilling in deeper waters, as we saw with BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill. They are also extracting dirtier oil from places like the Alberta oil sands that have to be transported over long distances. That leads to problems such as the ruptured pipeline in July in Michigan.
The $37 billion BP is spending to clean up the mess it made will end up well beyond the Gulf Coast. Across the country big clean-up companies have won hefty contracts to decontaminate the Gulf. In Washington “spillionaire” lobbyists are being paid huge sums to influence lawmakers on the cleanup.
August 26, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Dr. Doom
EE, that’s an interesting article. First, the BP GoM spill absolutely dwarfs those other oil spills listed, probably all of them combined. If they are listed as “major” spills, then the BP GoM spill was gargantuan. So, the article’s premise – -that the BP GoM spill was just another major oil spill– is flawed from the start.
We’d better not have moron spills this big, as the oceans may be able to handle it. See any Jeremy Jackson video on YouTube.
Finally, why the crack about Washington spill lobbyists being paid huge sums? Aren’t you guys and gals always paid pretty well for your work? It wasn’t the victims fault that DC operates the way is does with lawyers and lawsuits. Also, does $37 billion seem like a large sum for this catastrophe? If that’s all that BP gets off paying for the damages, I’d say they did pretty well. This all seems like placed propaganda by the BP-US government collusion, part of our evolved fascist government in the 21st century USA.
August 26, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Dr. Doom
“….,as the oceans may NOT be able to handle it.”
August 26, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Bif
EE. Not to argue the main point of the above, but until the deepwater horizon accident the spill volume in US waters between 1990 and 2010 was really pretty small. In fact the national oil spill cleanup fund was so seldom tapped that they stopped putting money into it for a number of years.
August 26, 2010 at 11:33 pm
dave
haha, conservation of mass. it dosen’t matter if it gets dumped directly into the ocean, or ends up as a parking, or spit out a tail pipe, or applied as fertilizer, it all ends up fucking up one thing or another, that’s progress.
there’s been plenty of oil eating bacteria in the gom for millions of years at this point. they just got a little exta lunch. wich means some phytoplankton got some more to eat, wich means some shrimp got more to eat, etc, just like dumping corn into a feedlot.
August 26, 2010 at 11:40 pm
dave
let’s see, chewing up millions and millions of acres of prarie, killing off absolutely every living thing out, to grow corn, and doing it repeatedly, year after year, and then washing the residue down rivers, to kill them, and into the ocean to kill that, and doing it all with oil, that’s ok. but leaking a couple of miilion barrels directly into the ocean, and giving the criters there a feast, oooh, that’s when the boogey mans come out. what fucking turds, those are conserved also.
August 27, 2010 at 12:50 am
Dr. Doom
ah dave, nobody said fucking up the midwest to grow corn was such a good idea. the underlying problem is too many people, and too many of those trying to live ‘the good life’ ala the american way, the euro way, the japanese way, the chinese way, etc.
August 27, 2010 at 7:02 am
dave
ah dave, nobody said fucking up the midwest to grow corn was such a good idea.
so, who’s out there calling it a conspriacy, at least within the mainstream? who’s calling it for the fucking disaster(at least to everything except the corn and the fucking monkeys who eat it, i guess. the funny thing is that microbes always win in the end.) that it is? the point is that spills in the ocean are just as much part of the industrial system as growing corn in iowa, or paving i95 in ct is.
i mean shit, if not a single drop of oil was spilled during exploration and drilling, where would all the oil go? well, in my mind it would just go to fucking other stuff up in other places, maybe into a jet plane of some rich asshole, or maybe just into createing more walking talking biomass in the form of more dumbshit monkeys flinging shit at each other while they rattle the bars of thier oil built cages. so i say, just dump it into the ocean were it can maybe do some good for a change, or at least not do so much harm, i guess.
but you’re right. if one part of indstrialism bothers you, but others don’t, who the fuck am i to point out that they’re just different aspects of the same phenomenon?
August 27, 2010 at 7:11 am
dave
oil coated beaches from the panhandle to cape cod, might, but i doubt it, provide enough negative feedback to industrialism for the fucking monkeys to actually question thier place within the system. but knowing monkeys for what they are, i’d have to say that they’d just try to find someone to blame for thier own stupidity. so it would have to be turned into a government conspiracy or blamed on an evil corporation, or something like that. that’s the way they work.
August 27, 2010 at 7:15 am
dave
so i hope matt simon’s magical lake of undersea oil does exist. and i hope it fucks up a lot of beaches and and that shit loads of the marine megafauna that monkeys are fond of wash up dead on those same beaches. then the oil gusher will have actually, maybe, but i doubt it, done some good.
August 27, 2010 at 7:55 am
dave
but please understand that i have no moral issues with either industry(as a whole) or it’s byproducts. like every other (fucking)monkey out there, i just want my “fare share”(tm).
August 27, 2010 at 8:57 am
dave
the underlying problem is too many people, and too many of those trying to live ‘the good life’ ala the american way, the euro way, the japanese way, the chinese way, etc.
haha, yeah, more people and certain lifestyles are the root problem. they lead to more oil. but more oil, of course, could never lead to more people and the maintainance of certain lifestyles. you’re sounding like a fucking economist now.
August 27, 2010 at 9:11 am
dave
one of the major byproducts of oil has been fucking monkeys; so of course they want more oil. the economists nailed that one right on the fucking head. they’re clever monkeys.
August 27, 2010 at 9:13 am
dave
personally, i love it that industry has resulted in plenty of girl by products for me to fuck thier assholes. grammer sucks.
August 27, 2010 at 10:58 am
Dr. Doom
ack! you called me an economist. you’d better apologize for that remark, or it’ll be *you* stuffed upside down in an ice hole this winter!
August 27, 2010 at 10:59 am
Dr. Doom
“so i hope matt simon’s magical lake of undersea oil does exist. and i hope it fucks up a lot of beaches and and that shit loads of the marine megafauna that monkeys are fond of wash up dead on those same beaches.”
careful what you wish for. that undersea plume is for real.
August 27, 2010 at 11:10 am
Dr. Doom
so dave, speaking of too many people fucking up the Earth, last night i got an invitation to speak at a marine technology conference in China, Dailong, I think. so i innocently use Google Earth to check out where it is. then, to my disgust, i see that it is a port city among an entire Yellow Sea coastal area totally greyed out by sprawl, only Chinese sprawl is like high-rise condo sprawl.
so, since it is totally disgusting, even viewed from space, i think i’ll pass on the invitation to go there, eat their lovely contaminated chinese food, and get sick afterwards for a couple of weeks afterwards for my effort.
August 27, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Bif
Well a “plume” is one thing, a giant “lake” is another.
August 27, 2010 at 4:31 pm
dave
ack! you called me an economist. you’d better apologize for that remark, or it’ll be *you* stuffed upside down in an ice hole this winter!
nah.
August 27, 2010 at 4:39 pm
dave
careful what you wish for. that undersea plume is for real.
what would be best is if it got sucked into the tampa/st.pete/clearwater desalt plant and like a million fucking monkeys got oil in thier coffee one morning. of course a fucked up desalt plant would just be a bonus. i can just see bho on good morning america blaming the terrorists, or maybe dick cheney, right now. if only i could see tony hayward hung naked upside down from an oil rig with seagulls pecking his balls, my life would be complete. even the little people have dreams.
August 27, 2010 at 4:43 pm
dave
as far as the china trip, i’d have to say that it all depends on how many prostitutes are being supplied, and what thier screening protocal is. yes, my mind is single tracked. the neural parthways are well worn.
August 27, 2010 at 9:35 pm
EEofDC
“Finally, why the crack about Washington spill lobbyists being paid huge sums?”
Doom-
It was the tail-end of a piece written by one of the members of a small association of investment publishers (mainly east coast) run by a client of mine. They’re all overly prone to hyperbole. Just wanted to see what you guys thought.
Washington the seat of the US government and empty stage for every screw-loose idiot that has an axe to grind, and DC the Residential City are two completely different worlds that rarely, if ever, intersect.
August 28, 2010 at 1:21 am
Dr. Doom
dave, you have a point about those chinese whores. they must be good at sex, look how many of them there are. maybe worth a second look at that invite.
bif, one man’s 22-mile long plume is another man’s vast undersea lake. have you ever driven around a 22-mile long lake? maybe upstate NY is loaded with them.