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November 11, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Uncle Remus
Uh huh, Smoot-Hawley Part Deux: The Evisceration
F’ing idiots. Extend and pretend goes nuclear.
A trade war on top of Ben’s currency pixelation could really skew the price of Russian and east European ammo, dammit, much less basic commodities – wheat, sugar, rice etc.
Merry Christmas my ass.
November 11, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Uncle Remus
Oh yeah, Happy Veterans Day.
November 11, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Bif
Yeah, dump a fresh new pile of $600B right now and oil goes to $100 in two second is my guess. I’m gonna go top off the tank and cut a couple more cords of wood tomorrow. Maybe buy a case of toilet paper while I can afford it.
November 12, 2010 at 2:28 am
Dr. Doom
Hats off to those that serve. Thank you all.
November 12, 2010 at 2:30 am
Dr. Doom
Bif, the SPAM-o-meter is clocking $3.59 per can at the local Safeway. Next to food, gasoline is still cheap.
November 12, 2010 at 2:34 am
Dr. Doom
Oh, and did anyone notice that it took a whole week for gold to go from over $1300 to over $1400 per ounce?
Thanks, Ben.
November 12, 2010 at 8:43 am
dave
ha, i’ve long maintained that john dolan is the war nerd. i think that bunnbunn used to dispute this.
http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/11/02/gary-brecher/
November 12, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Uncle Remus
But Doom, BIG dip today. Might you be buyin’?
November 12, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Uncle Remus
dave, I say we take it to the Hamptons.
November 12, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Uncle Remus
BTW, the Austrian coins are just lovely.
November 12, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Bif
Christopher Hitchens On Suffering, Beliefs And Dying
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130917506
November 12, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Bif
Lads, pitch forks and torches! To the Hamptons!
November 12, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Uncle Remus
Hey, one of those guys in the background in on an iPhone.
November 12, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Dr. Doom
I just love those torch light parades! And folks out walking their dogs.
November 12, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Bunn Bunn
i’ve long maintained that john dolan is the war nerd.
No shit. I never disputed that. The worst kept secret on the internet. Some people were saying that Mark Ames was The War Nerd… that’s what I was disputing, if memory serves.
November 13, 2010 at 7:35 am
dave
No shit. I never disputed that. The worst kept secret on the internet. Some people were saying that Mark Ames was The War Nerd… that’s what I was disputing, if memory serves.
and here i am thinking that i had special knowledge of sorts.
November 13, 2010 at 7:36 am
dave
remus, i’ve long maintained that violence is the only answer.
November 13, 2010 at 9:57 am
Howard Effing Beale
dave, it is unlikely things will change on their own volition. And we have generations practiced in the art of martial destruction.
November 13, 2010 at 10:00 am
Uncle Remus
Jesus Howard, you have a half finished post on your own board, but you find time to come over here? WTF.
November 13, 2010 at 10:42 am
Uncle Remus
I can haz oil, plz?
“According to a new paper by two researchers at the University of California – Davis, it would take 131 years for replacement of gasoline and diesel given the current pace of research and development; however, world’s oil could run dry almost a century before that. ”
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/131-number-years-replace-oil
November 13, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Dr. Doom
Remus, pay us moron, and we’ll promise to work faster.
November 13, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Uncle Remus
Uhhhh, no.
Oh hey, seems like the budget situmination has struck here in my beautiful wide spot in the road. Seems the city council deems it prudent to layoff some of the local gendarmerie. Spotted a flyer in my local bagel joint to show up at an upcoming council meeting in support of finding “other revenue sources” to prevent this catastrophic and clearly public-safety endangering abomination. Uh-huh.
Maybe I’ll see if Mish can do a phone-in while I hold the phone to podium mike.
I am guessing cutting everyone’s pay so that all can remain employed is off the table. Let the F.U.D. flag fly.
November 13, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Bunn Bunn
“I don’t want to be fooled by pretty words. Just tell me a good story”
- Dino De Laurentiis
DDL was a great example of the old school whatever it takes kinda dude that Homey seems to be aspiring to of late. Really though… the key point of this article, as I see it, is not being above deploying creativity in your day-to-day problem solving.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/11/dino-de-laurentiis-the-last-emperor-of-hollywood-producers.html
November 13, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Bunn Bunn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
Ever work for Big Blue, Uncle Remus? (Don’t answer that question.)
F.U.D.? Maybe. How about simply musical chairs?
November 13, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Bunn Bunn
Meanwhile here in The Golden State…
“… the budget which Schwarzenegger had signed 35 days ago already had fallen $6.1 billion into the red because of optimistic assumptions that had proven incorrect.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1112-state-budget-20101112,0,3772260.story
November 13, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Bunn Bunn
I can’t wait to see what Moonbean comes up with, that is, after he returns from what I hope for him was a rejuvenating week of vacation.
November 13, 2010 at 4:53 pm
dave
yeah gov moonbeam. you shouldn’t dis him. he used to fuck linda rohndstat when she was prime pussy, i think. i don’t know who he fucks these days.
November 13, 2010 at 4:54 pm
dave
honestly bunnbunn, i could be wrong, but i think that you’re about to be taxed to fucking death. what’s the only way out of that dilema? stop making money, i think.
November 13, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Uncle Remus
Any northern/southern CA secessionist rumblings over there yet Bunn?
November 13, 2010 at 5:21 pm
dave
fud has always been one of my favorite tactics.
November 13, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Uncle Remus
Musical chairs no doubt, but definitely FUD to keep the local public safety gravy train on the tracks.
I’ll answer your IBM query – no. But my father worked for a few years at First Interstate Bank (should be a familiar name from CA’s past) in their data processing and played, from what I recall, a significant role in the banks big iron acquisitions, at least for the Arizona facilities. The IBM/Amdahl situation played itself out on a somewhat smaller scale with the IBM/Compaq dust-ups in the mid 80′s.
November 13, 2010 at 5:23 pm
dave
dave, it is unlikely things will change on their own volition. And we have generations practiced in the art of martial destruction.
there are stories about volition. just like there are stories about god.
November 13, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Dr. Doom
I’m confused, I thought Moonbeam had already been governor of CA for two terms. I guess it was only for one term, so he can once again? Arnold is out after two terms, correct? Not that he wanted the job anymoron.
Anyway, agree with dave, Moonbeam used to bang Linda on a regular basis when she was prime stuff, the bastard. I’m still envious.
November 14, 2010 at 2:23 am
Dr. Doom
Here’s a nice summary put-down of our former midget president: http://www.truth-out.org/a-small-fraction-a-man65077
I see he’s hawking a book. Wonder who wrote it for him.
November 14, 2010 at 9:59 am
Bif
“We Are the Defenders of the Cheeseburger”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33167527@N05/3103555730/sizes/z/in/photostream/
November 14, 2010 at 10:17 am
dave
soft apacolypse – i like that concept.
November 14, 2010 at 10:20 am
dave
yeah, well a cheesburger is no less an american cultural icon than the constitution, mom, or apple pie. it is something worth dieing for, unless you got something else in mind.
November 14, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Dr. Doom
so the guy doesn’t like the hypocrisy of starbucks. me too, and that fact that they made their business empire by selling cheap beans (mostly from guatemala) and roasting them well. the profit is simple = price of good beans – price of cheap beans (sold as if they were good beans) made into coffee. mark ups on all things made as liquid are huge, as water is also usually cheap, and the diluted result impresses the monkeys as a worthwhile purchase. the best example is any sized soft drink, and this is where most of the profit is in fast food restaurants.
the fact that coffee contains caffeine, which is physically addictive, also helps their business.
November 14, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Dr. Doom
so i asked a starbucks employee where they were dumping their coffee grinds. she said they just dumped them in the trash. around here that goes into a land fill. that’s a lot of coffee grinds that could be composted, instead, like we do at casa del doom. some ecologically-minded company.
November 14, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Uncle Remus
Doom, I just mix the grounds right into the soil. It’s part of the worm union workplace rules.
November 15, 2010 at 3:10 am
Bunn Bunn
Preaching to the choir on the inherently conflicted purported ethics of international capitalism. But I do really like that RSA art. Interesting that they brought Oscar Wilde of all people into the fray.
Anyway… obviously the time is right to launch a new franchise of caffeinated beverage dispensing outlets. I can picture it now: BB’s PC-free Arabica Blend… we take pride in mercilessly grinding third world laborers (most of whom have nothing better to do anyway) to provide you, the real producers of the world, with the finest carbon-footprint indifferent ingestible stimulants legally available without a prescription.
We all know that Oscar Wilde would have given his last sandwich to a starving waif whose situation would be just the same (with hunger returning as always yet again) tomorrow. You really have to wonder about guys like Bill Gates. Having that much money probably is a great burden for people as wrapped up as tightly as he is in promoting various strains of would-be do-gooder corporate collectivistic culture and whatnot.
November 15, 2010 at 6:49 am
GB
For example, does anyone think that organic apples that cost twice as much as GMO apples are really any better?
I think this RSA guy makes some points but is a little confused about apples.
First if all, I have never seen a GMO apple for sale. Ever. I’m not sure one has ever been created. Secondly, organically grown apples are generally superior in taste to non-organic. Yes, they are. No doubt. I currently grow 8 varieties of apples organically. There is no comparison to store-bought in flavor. Mine have more flavor and are sweeter. It has to do, in part, with the chemical fertilizers and very often the commercial irrigation inducing faster, steadier growth of the end product: bloated and insipid fruit. Most folks will never know (or care) what they are missing.
November 15, 2010 at 8:16 am
dave
i dump my coffee grounds onto a little patch og ground outside my back door.
November 15, 2010 at 8:26 am
dave
yeah, i think that that guy makes a little too much out consumerist redemption through consumption, as a movement. most people i know really don’t give a fuck. they’ll drink dunkin’ donuts coffee just as soon as they’ll drink starbucks. in fact some of them prefer dunkin’ donuts to starbucks. dd’s coffee just tatses like brown, slightly bitter, water to me.
you west coast and mid-pacificers probably aren’t familiar with dd. everybody knows starbucks; so they must be doing something right, from a perverse corporatist perspective anyway.
only joking, all living things, given adequate resources, will grow to the limits, and beyond, of thier respective niche. we all, sadly, pc or otherwise, share the same agenda.
November 15, 2010 at 8:36 am
dave
no, take that back. there’s nothing sad about it.
November 15, 2010 at 11:22 am
Uncle Remus
Guilt, he’s talking about guilt.
“consumerist redemption through consumption”
It’s the “buy in”, redemption by proxy is the cover story, the endorphin spritz to offset the nagging inadequacies of American Way of Life (TM).
November 15, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Dr. Doom
the guy’s a good drawer–artist, but his agenda is a bit off. listen to dave and bill catton, they know the true story, fellow cargo cultists, err, americans. let the wisdom and wry humor of the bunn one and uncle remus carry the day and entertain us all as we slip down the slope toward the cliff’s edge, that moment being when we have to queue up in line at the local filling station for our weekly allotments, in the daylight hours. (almost forget the spelling of queue, been awhile since the 70s).
meanwhile, enjoy your extra free time and our empire’s twilight moments.
November 15, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Uncle Remus
So, who wants popcorn?
November 15, 2010 at 3:45 pm
dave
yeah, i think that in order to feel guilty about something, one must take pleasure from the guilty act. wich also, unavoidably, leads to feelings of moral superiorty upon denuncition of said acts. the ramifications can not be unraveled by the human brain. they can only be felt, as in , this feels good, but this feels even better.
November 15, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Dr. Doom
UR, lots of butter, easy on the salt.
yeah dave, my personal definition of tragedy is feeling guilty for something you either didn’t do or did poorly. i guess i’ll go to my grave regretting not banging melissa mullens back in senior year high school. she was a tramp, but a damn good looking one. there was a moment when she was interested in my attentions, but i chickened out. then again, with my luck, she would have gotten pregnant (by somebody) and yours truly would have been stuck with the tab and the guilt.
that, and not buying gold when it was only $400 an ounce. that was about a thousand dollars an ounce profit ago.
November 15, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Uncle Remus
Doom, you want that butter layered?
“in order to feel guilty about something, one must take pleasure from the guilty act”
Define pleasure in this context.
November 15, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Bunn Bunn
I think that to feel guilt (in its purest deadliest form) your typical monkey has to have experienced a substantially contemporaneous feeling or sensation of having betrayed his better self in some way. Lesser degrees of guilt (perhaps not even genuine guilt) I think tend to involve perception of wrongfulness or at least inappropriateness of (in)action as defined by someone else’s standards. Such externalities of course might be brought crashing down upon the bad actor, thusly, and maybe ironically, inspiring a middle realm of guilt (quasi-guilt) very much resembling a person kicking himself in the ass for not having properly anticipated particular consequences. Then there are certain wretched beings, heroically and/or tragically, who find themselves susceptible to various and sundry irrational expectations that take on strawman-like guilt-engendering lives of their own.
A miracle (not sufficiently reported in my view) is the dismantling of ineffectual frameworks and subsequent discovery of heretofore concealed commonalities.
p.s. — I think homey whom I overheard the other day canceling his WSJ subscription is, for better or worse, fully at peace with the personal total war concept.
November 15, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Bunn Bunn
Lesser degrees of guilt (perhaps not even genuine guilt) I think tend to involve perception of wrongfulness or at least inappropriateness of (in)action as defined by someone else’s standards.
Case in point: Eliot Spitzer
November 15, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Dr. Doom
damn, layered butter sounds extra good there, remus.
regarding MSM, i feel like canceling my subscription to Time, but am hanging in there with them so far. i almost cried this am watching what was left of the dignity of the Today show hosts ebb away, singing karaoke to each other. that used to be a serious news infotainment program, now reduced to a bunch of ass-clowns yucking it up on camera. chet and david must be rolling in their graves.
kunstler’s right about americans devolving into a clownish society locked in mass delusion. perhaps the elites figure they can handle them better as self-absobed simpletons, mere cattle. self-awareness running rapidly in reverse.
November 16, 2010 at 7:30 am
dave
guilt – feeling bad cause you fucked your nieghbor’s wife while she was drunk.
regret – feeling bad cause you didn’t fuck your nieghbor’s wife while she was drunk.
basically, one might feel guilty about violateing some social taboo. i think a taboo is always social in that it is imposed by some interpersonal exchange. the exchange may or may not involve society, or even large segments of society. taboos, to the best of my knowledge, always involve the denial of something that might be considered pleasureable. pleasure, of course, can involve anything from eating shit(literally), wich is taboo across the board, but people still do it, to eating cheeseburgers, wich is a more trendy taboo. i think.
rerget is a much simpler emotion, in my mind anyway. as in, fuck, i didn’t do that while i had the chance; taboo or not.
of course there’s a lot of gray between the two, i think.
November 16, 2010 at 7:34 am
dave
if, for example, you feel bad cause you didn’t jump into the water to save a drowning person(not that i, personally, bepending on the circumstance, would feel bad about something like this). can this bad feeling be considered guilt or regret?
i’d call it regret.
November 16, 2010 at 7:46 am
dave
i think that in certain extreme cases guilt can become generalized in that one might feel guilty all the time for feeling any pleasure at all. one could also be consumed with regret, and become unable to feel pleasure at all.
November 16, 2010 at 8:57 am
dave
no, it ake that back. because it was more pleasureable to not jump into the water than to jump in the water, and, supposedly you continue to take pleasure in life, while the drowned person does not, if you had bad feelings, they would be guilty.
November 16, 2010 at 9:00 am
dave
if it was a hot girl that you were having sex with, then they would be regret.
if it was your brother, you might feel remorse.
like i said to begin with, feeling cannot be teased apart by the human mind.
November 16, 2010 at 9:30 am
Wo Fat
Sex is illusion. Exists only in mind.
November 16, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Uncle Remus
Ah, you’ve met the woman in Red then I take it.
November 16, 2010 at 10:28 pm
EEofDC
oops! Didn’t mean to come busting into the philosophical lockeroom so abruptly…
Thought you would have a good laugh with this:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-to-Switch-Party-by-Michael-Collins-101114-821.html
November 16, 2010 at 10:39 pm
EEofDC
Oh, and Doom, Govenor Moonbeam was a pretty hot piece back in the early ’70s, I might add. Now he’s just as saggy as all the rest of the old guys. An acquaintance of mine, originally from a long line of SF Republicans, who passed away in February this year used to be GM’s baby-sitter.
November 17, 2010 at 3:48 am
Dr. Doom
He might as well make the switch, that asshole.
November 17, 2010 at 8:33 am
dave
yeah ee, i don’t know, but i always picture you writing in your diary: “dear diary, i killed 15 hardons today. it was good. your freind, ee.” or something like that.
http://www.viceland.com/int/dd.php?id=1594
November 17, 2010 at 8:37 am
dave
really, serious biddness, when’s the last time you got laid?
November 17, 2010 at 10:59 am
EEofDC
“but i always picture you writing in your diary:”
Whatever floats your boat, dave…
November 17, 2010 at 11:54 am
Dr. Doom
dave, my 95-year-old mother wears those same flesh-colored undies. you are right, they are disgusting.
November 17, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Uncle Remus
TFMI
November 18, 2010 at 5:31 am
Bunn Bunn
Here’s to Uncle Remus… trapped in a world he never made (Editor’s note: Howard the Duck homage to ye who be ill informed) and, thankfully, UR, likewise, is utterly incapable of merely blending in.
I’m a bit concerned about Jim and this latest talking point regurgitation of his about the so-called Tea Party folks/idiots allegedly being a bunch of anti-Semites, John Bircher’s, etc. Doom, JHK might be generally correct about conservatives today lacking a William F. Buckley sort of public intellectual capable of articulating what they stand for, but in the great tradition of those plagued by longevity, JHK has become so brainwashed by his foolish fantasy of, continued self-identification with, and reflexive ceaseless automaton-like promotion of a progressivism (actually asserting with a straight face that John Stewart [the comedian] is the most respected Walter Cronkite type person presently on the scene today and, for the record, one of his “peeps”) that to hear him say another word about Americans being ass clowns or whatever is just about more than I can take from that shameless yet still ambulatory case of rapidly progressing brain rot.
November 18, 2010 at 5:37 am
Bunn Bunn
November 18, 2010 at 8:30 am
dave
November 18, 2010 at 8:44 am
dave
November 18, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Uncle Remus
“JHK might be generally correct about conservatives today lacking a William F. Buckley sort of public intellectual capable of articulating what they stand for,”
It would seem the goals of public education have been met. Where the fashionably articulate progressives (progressive – what a stupid fucking label) such as JHK go wrong with their genetically-predisposed-to-failure view of society and the fantasy world they would have us exist in is that they associate inarticulate with thoughtlessness.
I enjoyed reading and listening to Buckley, but from a fly-over perspective, he had about as much in common with rank and file conservatives as Sarah Palin.
As for articulation, it is as much about the ability to put thoughts and ideas into words as it is the audience to listen. Anymore, if you don’t say what people think they want to hear, they are not listening.
The vacuum of pretense.
November 18, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Dr. Doom
Speaking of JHK, here’s a link to an recent interview: http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/straight-talk-jim-kunstler-coming-cluster/47864#new
In it, he calls Obama a “bounder”, which is an interesting descriptor. Here’s the definition:
bounder (ˈbaʊndə)
— n
1. old-fashioned , slang ( Brit ) a morally reprehensible person; cad
I still prefer my personal descriptor of Obama as a Judas Goat, working for the elite PTB.
November 18, 2010 at 4:49 pm
GB
I totally refudiate your position, Bunn.
November 18, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Uncle Remus
GB, that’s not helping…
November 18, 2010 at 5:04 pm
GB
I refudiate you too, Remus.
November 18, 2010 at 5:05 pm
GB
I’m not even sure what i said. Can someone help me?
November 18, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Dr. Doom
GB, I think you misunderestimated the meaning of your words:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5603828/sarah_palin_refudiate_word_needs_definition.html
November 18, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Bunn Bunn
Hmmm… me thinks yet another gwaduate of the Elmer Fudd School of the Oratory Arts is on the ruse.
November 19, 2010 at 12:35 am
Uncle Remus
Palienated
November 19, 2010 at 12:41 am
Uncle Remus
Oh hey, any you kids scoop up some o’ that ground floor opportunity GM IPO today? The bots had a field day with it.
November 19, 2010 at 12:55 am
EEofDC
Remus,
ROTFLMAO
Good One…
November 19, 2010 at 1:01 am
Uncle Remus
Got this one from Mish’s site.
“Union officials say they are doing all they can to prevent the layoffs, but contend the city has forced them into a corner. And one union official said older officers wouldn’t give “a dime” to prevent the layoffs.”
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/facing_layoffs_young_newark_po.html
Same thing happened with an outfit over in Tulsa. Choice between everybody taking a cut and saving jobs, or sacrifice some to maintain the status quo for the rest, status quo baby.
[sung while reloading magazines or cleaning weapons]
Zippity doo dah, Zippity aye,
My oh my what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine coming my way,
Zippity doo dah, Zippity aye.
STFU Gomez, you’re just jealous ‘cuz you can’t sing. And where the fuck are we? You do realize it’s DARK and this most certainly is not Kansas? Goddammit, kill the lights and hand me my night eyes.
November 19, 2010 at 1:24 am
Uncle Remus
“How great is this? Every state in the US, as identified by their major TV show:”
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/tv1.png
Yeah, whatever. Does DC = Ren & Stimpy?
November 19, 2010 at 1:26 am
Dr. Doom
Remus, I thought we were “Gilligan’s Island” out here….
November 19, 2010 at 1:36 am
EEofDC
U R on a roll, UR!
Definitely not R&S–much too sardonic for the D of C…
I’d say “The West Wing” or that failed Clooney show, “K Street”… much more appropriate for the self-important carpet(gas)baggers that infest our fair city.
Just a little fond reminiscence of the early ZK days…
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/64477298/
November 19, 2010 at 1:50 am
Uncle Remus
You know Doom, I actually stream the new Five-0 only because I want to be sure to catch your walk on.
November 19, 2010 at 1:55 am
Uncle Remus
It’s like a long chamber of commerce promo with a plot, local color and product placement. Except the really big dood. Dayam.
November 19, 2010 at 1:58 am
Uncle Remus
“Definitely not R&S–much too sardonic for the D of C…”
That’s not fucking possible.
November 19, 2010 at 5:38 am
Dr. Doom
UR, it’s just a matter of time before my walk on. Meanwhile, look for me on the National Geo Channel in 2011.
November 19, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Uncle Remus
Boo-yaahh.
10 Ways How TSA Is Making The World A Better Place
http://olegvolk.livejournal.com/919747.html
November 20, 2010 at 8:50 am
dave
fox news or npr? you decide.
i made damn sure that my kids watched plenty of r&s when they were growing up. my(our) generation was deprived, so i made sure that my kids would never suffer like i did.
November 20, 2010 at 4:32 pm
dave
so, i really don’t understand taleb. the whole fucking world wants a free lunch. so, the fed and it’s minions come up with ways to get a free lunch; and now they want to extend that run. so, what else should they do? and how does that not comport with the ways of the world? and, to top it off, he provides the answers to his own dilemas. bernanke et al, will not be punished as a result of of the feds current actions, at least not immediately. we all get punished in the end.
November 20, 2010 at 4:54 pm
dave
this is bernanke’s job, to make sure that his bosses’ stay rich and get richer. everybody with even half a brain should know that.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01182008/watch.html
November 20, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Bif
Condoms no longer make Baby Jesus cry! Black Swan!
Note to self: Buy latex futures! Buy Buy Buy!
November 21, 2010 at 1:54 pm
dave
ironically, i prefer wearing a condom while doing anal.
November 21, 2010 at 1:55 pm
dave
i don’t like poo on my dick.
November 21, 2010 at 2:11 pm
dave
a day in the life of a thermodynadic dissipative structure.
thier complaining is the worst.
November 21, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Dr. Doom
Poor bastard is addicted to oil and nicotine. At least give one of them up.
November 21, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Bunn Bunn
Yeah dave, thanks for the Bukowski. Always the right choice, especially on a not-so-lazy Sunday.
I mean when you’re living in a time when Americans are willing to make someone who can’t even prove he was born in the country the blooming President, why not a pope of former Hitler Youth pedigree?
With Catholicism already being on shaky ground as it is, this is no time to be setting up the flock for trial by technicality-based dogma, if you will.
For example, if I touch myself whilst in a state of latent sleep is said act less or more a sin than if a sodomite has his partner put the condom on for him? Where does one find ethics or at least revenue opinions on such matters?
Just sayin (as we used to say).
November 21, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Dr. Doom
This Pope-finally-approves-rubbers-for-the-flock deal is a very subtle recognition by the church that the world has reached Peak Oil.
November 22, 2010 at 1:32 am
Bunn Bunn
That and the Baby Jesus maybe now has bigger and better thngs to cry about.
November 22, 2010 at 7:15 am
dave
popes, preists, preachers, politicians, most cops(but not all, i have some good friends that are cops)…always give me the creeps. but this guy is just extra creepy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/pope_benedict.jpg
November 22, 2010 at 8:36 am
dave
i’m just glad that i’m not a dancing chicken, i guess.
November 22, 2010 at 8:55 am
GB
Its OK if you want to tell us about that encounter you had with the priest when you were an altar boy, dave. We are here for you.
November 22, 2010 at 11:13 am
GB
I have some dance moves like that dancing chicken when I’m out on the floor showing my stuff.
November 22, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Dr. Doom
“i’m just glad that i’m not a dancing chicken, i guess.”–dave
yeah, but you’d be immortal, dave. thousands of years from now, long after we’re dead and forgotten, they’ll find that chicken’s video in some time vault, and even those four-eyed quadriplegic ape-men will get some major laughs at that chicken and will wonder about the sanity of its instructor.
November 22, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Bif
Yeah. Thats the problem. The line for what gets you into heaven (or hell) keeps moving. Turns out having condom use on your rap sheet may not preclude you from getting through the pearly gates neccessarily, but you better have a good story ready never-the-less, so as not to hold up the line. That’s a situation where you DON’T want to be asked to step aside for more detailed screening. Also, the jury is out as far as any retroactive dispensation regarding condom use, i.e. for those who were denied heaven on these grounds, possibly at least affecting the status of those on the bubble in the higher levels of purgatory.
Unrelated, but holy smokes, one thing I got from reading these books about the Vikings recently is they really hated the whole Christianity thing with a passion. They would go pretty far out of their way to stick it to some monk or nun, digging up and pissing on the bones of the saints, that sort of thing, even worse. Worst of all was the “blood eagle” style of execution by torture, reserved for captured Christian kings and those of the highest religious authority. If in turn if a Viking was captured alive by the Christians they would practice their own form of payback, by baptizing the heathen right before sending him to hell by execution.
November 23, 2010 at 6:34 am
dave
Its OK if you want to tell us about that encounter you had with the priest when you were an altar boy, dave.
i’ve worked long and hard at repressing those memories.
November 23, 2010 at 11:15 am
Dr. Doom
“one thing I got from reading these books about the Vikings recently is they really hated the whole Christianity thing with a passion.”
Bif, I got a tour once of the old cathedral at Durham. They had a lot of holy men buried inside, with the usual depiction of the deceased as a carved motif on the sarcophagus. Upon inspection, I noted the hands of most were missing, and there were hack marks in the marble on the arms and sometimes the faces. When I asked my host about these, he replied that the Vikings used to raid the place and do those sorts of desecration. Makes sense in line with what you’ve read about them.
November 23, 2010 at 1:56 pm
GB
I’m making a kale soup today with kale, garlic and assorted hot peppers from the garden and sausage, onion and potatoes). This soup is so powerful and nutritious. If I can make it just right I believe it would give me the strength to rule over all that I see. Or at least keep me healthy.
November 23, 2010 at 5:52 pm
dave
November 23, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Bif
GB, small coincidence, I made kale soup today too. It was very good, but yours sounds better with sausage and garlic. Mine was a poor man’s version with potatoes and onions but no meat.
Doom, your observations in Durham are consistant with the behavior I read about. Those Viking dudes were the Hell’s Angels of the north. They thought those holy joe Christians were just a bunch of pussies and it pissed them off. Heathendom resents a pussy like nothing else I guess.
November 24, 2010 at 5:32 am
thal
Heathendom….I wonder. Is the dom the same referencing to Christendom, Islamadom, Shintudom, Kale-cooking-dom, or is it more a mathematical expression more closely resembling domain with attendant RANGE? e.g. I am Hindudom therefore my range of expression encompasses killing you if you disagree with my peaceful ethos.
Personally, I’m all for anarchydom. Let the bad blood boil along with the kale. It’s a good recipe. And you get fed healthy.
November 24, 2010 at 8:31 am
dave
anarchy is all about sorting out the next hiearchy.
November 26, 2010 at 9:39 am
Uncle Remus
November 26, 2010 at 5:16 pm
GB
So today is Black Friday? I don’t know what a credit score is or how to use a credit card and I don’t care to know. I didn’t go shopping today, but my favorite retail store is the Salvation Army store. I don’t think they take credit cards, anyway.
November 26, 2010 at 5:34 pm
dave
everybody wants to be sexy.
November 26, 2010 at 5:34 pm
dave
evrybody wants to be sexy.
November 26, 2010 at 7:21 pm
dave
excellent cover by the acid drinkers.
November 27, 2010 at 1:43 am
Dr. Doom
Fuck that weirdo SLA hippe commie bullshit, dave…
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=GY-mTbv38Io&feature=related
November 27, 2010 at 1:43 am
Dr. Doom
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=haZPPBJC8Ic&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=MLGxdCwVVULXdRYcHXYalrpetz0pu2JJb7
November 27, 2010 at 8:19 am
dave
yeah, hard to argue with LR.
November 28, 2010 at 10:06 am
dave
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=w29BaEk0sC0&feature=related
November 29, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Uncle Remus
“What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on?”
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/c6Agr.jpg
November 29, 2010 at 8:04 pm
EEofDC
I may have posted this when you were off on sebatical earlier this year, Doom… kind of an interesting mixture.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=cmHX7wzx2ps&feature=fvw