Say No to Sycophantism

apple LOL!

2010-09-18T17:08:00.001-05:00

http://gawker.com/5641211/steve-jobs-in-email-pissing-match-with-college-journalism-student

digg comment threads still funny

2010-03-06T20:59:00.001-05:00

"
a.. Example: My aunt accidentally changed her windows theme, making the
colors different. Or in her words, "wrong". So I get a call at 3 am with her
shrilling screaming and literally bawling crying about how her computer is
broke / it's wrong / "EVERYTHING I BUY IS ***** IT ALWAYS BREAKS IT'S
WRONG!!! IT'S REALLY BROKEN!!! IT'S WRONG!!" and she continued to sob for
another 5 minutes until I hung up on her. Next day I went and fixed it. By
changing the theme back to windows 7 default. Good times.
b.. "
c.. src: http://m.digg.com/security/Wave_of_Ransom_Malware_Hits_Internet

my judgment sucks

2010-01-28T10:28:00.000-05:00

"
Hunter's pregnancy: According to Young, Hunter called him in May 2007 to say
she was pregnant. Young says that when he informed Edwards, the senator told
him to "handle it," to which he replied: "I can't handle this one." Young
writes that Edward unloaded on Hunter as a "crazy slut," said they had an
"open relationship," and put his paternity chances at "one in three." Young
says that Edwards asked him for help persuading Hunter to have an abortion.
Young writes that Hunter believed the baby to be "some kind of golden child,
the reincarnated spirit of a Buddhist monk who was going to help save the
world."

i used to like this guy.....

fantasy world flame wars

2009-07-22T19:23:00.001-05:00

"joe the dirt Wed, Jul 22, 09 at 01:01 PM
O my god Twilight iz so much beder dan harry potter iz. Do u think dat dis
grl iz hot? Vampires r much coolr dan wiches r. Wiches r dum. Edward 4 lyfe.
Twighlight rulz, harry potter iz 4 baybees.
"
src: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20235659_20235667_20292269_10,00.htmlv

disclaimer: i don't read ew. this was purely an accidental google news click
:), and i'm a more amused person for it.

world war II

2009-07-22T17:23:00.001-05:00

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=World%20War%20II&defid=3821558

LOL - real reason Palin resigned

2009-07-03T17:41:00.001-05:00

http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq345/NellaSelim/Bullwinkle1-1.jpg

via kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/3/749663/-Alert!-The-Real-Reason-Why-Sarah-Palin-is-Resigning!

evolution of "the blogs"

2009-07-03T14:37:00.001-05:00

quoting Ezra Klein:
"The blogosphere grew up and it got a job, or, to be more specific, lots of
jobs. That made it less fun, but, like a frat house legend who now goes to
work every morning, probably more useful to society."

src:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/07/blogospheric_navel-gazing.html

matt taibi on goldman

2009-07-03T07:13:00.001-05:00

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_bubble_machine

Fascinating morning reading. Quoting:
"The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's
everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire
squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood
funnel into anything that smells like money."

p.s. at $140ish a pop gs is a solid buy imo.

LOL @ twitter

2009-06-24T10:40:00.001-05:00

quoting from digg comment thread:

a.. "OMG im going to go twitter about this article about twitter on
twitter! Then i'm going to twitter about my twitter on twitter that i
twittered about twitter twitter twiTTER TWITTER OMG TWITTER!!!!! God ppl
STFU about twitter already. Worse then a bunch of 12 year old girls at a
tween concert."

digg still has its moments.

src:
http://m.digg.com/political_opinion/How_To_Run_A_Protest_Without_Twitter

Obama knows how to cook keema...and daal?

2009-06-22T12:57:00.001-05:00

"'What can you cook?'

'Oh, keema . daal . You name it, I can cook it. And so I have a great
affinity for Pakistani culture and the great Urdu poets.'

'You read Urdu poetry?'

'Absolutely. So my hope is that I'm going to have an opportunity at some
point to visit Pakistan,' said Mr Obama."

Keema is spicy ground beef. Daal is lentil soup. I was born in India and I
don't even know how to cook this stuff. It's not easy, and for those of you
who've had bad keema, you know what I'm talking about. Oh...and the bit
about urdu poetry is even more difficult to believe. I'm a native speaker of
urdu and I don't understand classical urdu poetry. It's a different
language. It's like reading Milton, or Chaucer, or to a lesser extent
Shakespeare. It's not every native speaker's cup of tea, let alone somebody
who doesn't even claim to speak the language.

Source:
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/12-beat-extremists-you-can-says-obama--bi-04

wsj on twenty20 cricket

2009-06-17T15:13:00.001-05:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124518640926720403.html

quoting:

"This is, as Mr. O'Neill puts it, "the moment when the colonized element
finally has its vengeance on the main."

bye bye california?

2009-06-11T12:09:00.001-05:00

"Without immediate solutions from the governor and legislature, we are
less than 50 days away from a meltdown of state government," Chiang said in
a statement.

carol bartz death watch

2009-04-21T20:52:00.001-05:00

i dont like this woman, in case you couldn't tell from my post when she was
hired at yahoo. quoting:

"
Yahoo's engineering focus "was sort of scattered to the winds. There were
engineers in almost every country, and way too many product people. We had
one product management person for every three engineers," Bartz said. "We
had a lot people running around but nobody fucking doing anything!"

src: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10224492-93.html

best press secretary ever

2009-03-27T09:38:00.001-05:00

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/27/713536/-Weekend-LevityRobert-Gibbs-Greatest-Hits-Edition

i'm no fan of illegal filesharing via torrents but...

2009-02-27T11:52:00.001-05:00

information wants to be free.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-witness-wife-overwhelmed-with-flowers-090227/

2009-01-26T16:15:00.001-05:00

"Three years ago we were shopping at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, and in
2008 we were at the food bank," Nikki says. "We've had to make huge changes
to our lifestyle. 'Cutting back' has been our mantra."

shouldn't have been shopping in those places in the first place. i'm
guessing they made a combined ~$125k per yr (i'm pulling that out of you
know where, so feel free to trash. i've got nothing else to go by.) people
in our country think that's rich. sure, compared to most other families in
the world, that's filthy rich.

here's the problem: whole foods is designed for somebody who makes $125k per
month, not per year. unfortunately, its marketed towards the latter segment.
we need to change the way we fundamentally think about _EVERYTHING_ in life.
here's a start: families who make $125k per year need to be shopping at food
lion and walmart, not whole foods and trader joe's.

ha ha ha pt. iii

2009-01-26T11:59:00.000-05:00

ok, so this is getting old.

* Thain says "completely transparent" with Bank of America

* Thain says Bank of America involved in setting bonuses

* Thain to reimburse for office renovation costs

src: http://uk.reuters.com/article/marketsNewsUS/idUKN2636540020090126

why is ken lewis still a ceo?

ha ha ha pt. II

2009-01-23T21:45:00.001-05:00

boa shareholders suing against merrill purchase:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D95T40381.htm

HA HA HA

2009-01-22T15:14:00.001-05:00

John Thain resigns from BOA:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/thain-resigns-bank-america/story.aspx?guid={68B22C8E-B3A9-45BD-8345-6575EC9A9DA1}&dist=msr_2

big surprise!

yahoo!?

2009-01-18T19:00:00.001-05:00

new ceo:

"I see this as a company with enormous assets that, frankly, could use a little management," Carol Bartz said after Yahoo Inc. announced her selection as chief executive."

right, lets start with getting ms back on the table so that your position becomes unnecessary. i don't really have anything against this woman. heck, i know nothing about her. but this comment just invites ridicule. watch as she alienates the board, the investors, the rank-and-filers, and then everybody else, and then fades away.

inauguration!

2008-12-28T16:07:00.000-05:00

READ

2008-12-13T22:34:00.001-05:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/12/mumbai-arundhati-roy

more bailout

2008-12-10T16:30:00.001-05:00

http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan1v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx

outrageous!

2008-12-09T17:09:00.001-05:00

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16306.html

yes. this is probably the worst kind of slimebag article: pretend to be
reasonable, yet equate a non-question (Obama WAS born in Hawaii, he DOES
have a certificate of live birth etc.) with a perfectly reasonable question
(Bush WAS awarded the 2000 election by the SCOTUS, which CHOSE to end the
Florida recount and made President a man who had lost the national popular
vote by a reasonably wide margin.)

Screw David Horowitz.

2008-11-27T10:50:00.000-05:00

mms://a779.l2584224778.c25842.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/779/25842/v0001/reflector:24778

beating a dead horse, uncensored

2008-11-15T08:28:00.001-05:00

"I'm like, okay, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere - this is
what I always pray - don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open
door is, even if it's cracked open a little bit, maybe I'll plow right on
through that and maybe prematurely plow through it." --Gov. Sarah Palin to
Fox News's Greta Van Susteren

hooray for tall people

2008-11-14T11:44:00.001-05:00

"... In the U.S. population, about 14.5 percent of all men are six feet or
taller. Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, that number is 58 percent. Even
more striking, in the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men
are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six
foot two or taller. ..." - Malcolm Gladwell, Blink

beating a dead horse

2008-11-13T11:09:00.000-05:00

shorter sarah palin: i will run in 2012 if God tells me to.

STOP BLAMING BLACK PEOPLE FOR PASSAGE OF PROP 8

2008-11-08T19:29:00.001-05:00

They're barely 5% of the CA electorate. Thank you.

NC IS BLUE!

2008-11-06T12:57:00.000-05:00

According to NBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27575817/

"NEW YORK - President-elect Obama is the apparent winner in North Carolina,
a symbolic triumph in a state that hadn't voted for a Democrat in more than
a generation.

Until today the ballot count in North Carolina was still too close for a
call. An "apparent winner" call by NBC News means enough votes have now been
tallied to indicate that a candidate has won the race, but the results may
well depend upon a potential recount or final official tallies."

And I can now sleep in peace. All of us here on the ground in NC worked too
hard to lose by a few thousand votes. It would have broken a lot of hearts,
even with a landslide. This makes it so much sweeter. I'll write a detailed
post about the NC ground game and how well it was run, right up until 730 PM
election day. It absolutely made the difference here.

classy

2008-11-05T14:47:00.000-05:00

"At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the
boys' club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark
Salter went to her hotel room to brief her. After a minute, Palin sailed
into the room wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair. She
told them to chat with her laconic husband, Todd. "I'll be just a minute,"
she said."

That and other gems from the first of I'm sure many stories to come of its
kind: http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581/page/1

OBAMA WINS

2008-11-04T23:01:00.001-05:00

THE NETWORKS JUST CALLED IT. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WILL BE THE 44th PRESIDENT
OF THE GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

LARRY KISSELL WINS

2008-11-04T22:53:00.001-05:00

BYE TO HATER ROBIN HAYES!!

FOX CALLS VIRGINIA!

2008-11-04T22:43:00.001-05:00

ITS OVER! BRING ON THE MLK SPEECH! HOLD NOTHING BACK BARACK!

ITS OVER

2008-11-04T21:24:00.001-05:00

OHIO CALLED FOR OBAMA! HELL YEAH!!!!!!!

PREDICTION

2008-11-04T08:20:00.001-05:00

look what liddy dole has wrought!

2008-11-01T17:29:00.001-05:00

sully

2008-11-01T14:44:00.001-05:00

"The more I think about it the more this election day feels like one giant
collective, global puke. That Bush-Cheney thing never quite settled with us,
did it? We'll feel a lot better but a lot more tired once the last heave is
over."

somebody please wake me up when the real andrew sullivan is back. you know,
the one who thinks the clintons are the most evil people in the world, and
bill clinton is the anti-christ. i fully expect sully to come around on
palin and endorse her candidacy in 2016.

src:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/awaiting-the-po.html

joe biden sends custom emails!

2008-10-31T20:50:00.000-05:00

Our records show that you live in Orange County. Early voting closes this
Saturday, November 1st. Your closest Early Vote location is:

Seymour Senior Center
2551 Homestead Rd
Chapel Hill
Open Oct 16 to Nov 1, Mon-Fri, 12pm-7pm; Sat, Nov 1, 9am-1pm

ground game

2008-10-31T17:54:00.001-05:00

From Sean Quinn over at 538, a must-read post:

"For some time at the outset, we were willing to give Republicans the
benefit of the doubt. They convinced us they were really working, and that
we had just had unfortunate timing. It wasn't until the pattern of "just
missed it" started to sound like a drumbeat in our ears that we began to
grow skeptical. We never "just missed" any of the Obama volunteer work,
because it goes on nonstop, every day, in every office, in every corner of
America."

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/big-empty.html

Blame it on Bush?

2008-10-31T13:54:00.001-05:00

NO! Blame it on kos!

gone fishing....

2008-10-30T12:56:00.000-05:00

and back just in time to vote!

Obama on Maddow

2008-10-29T12:07:00.001-05:00

Here's the thing about being a Democratic Presidential nominee: you're quiet
frequently attacked from the right (baby-killer, terrorist-lover,
gun-stealer, tree-hugger etc. etc.), but nobody ever questions you from a
leftist (read: democratic) perspective. I've been hoping that this will now
start to happen with the Olbermann/Maddow juggernaut on MSNBC, but so far
I've been beyond disappointed. Olbermann acts like a complete fox-newsish
sycophant when talking about any Democrat except Hillary Clinton (and no I
have no love lost for Hillary). His interview last month with Obama was
behind-licking at its very worst.

But, I've always thought that Maddow has been the more balanced, the more
sane, and the less-blowhardish of the two, and part of that has obviously
been due to necessity: Olbermann paved the way for Maddow to be more civil,
because Olbermann had to fight for his spot and Maddow followed his
coattails. But I have high hopes for Maddow's interview tonight. I hope she
asks questions like the following:

1. "Senator, you've visited churches and synagogues during the course of
your campaign, why have you not visited a mosque?"
2. "Sir, is there something wrong with being a Muslim in America?"

Obama's a politician, probably a once-in-a-generation type politician, and I
love him. I understand he's playing to win, and by distancing himself from
muslims he thinks he has a better chance of winning. I get that. But that
doesn't mean that he shouldn't be asked about it and be forced to make clear
what is right and what is not. The right (except Colin Powell) thinks that
it's perfectly dandy for Obama to distance himself from Muslims and cast
them as the "other". The left stays silent on the issue. Democracy and
religious freedom are the losers.

campbell brown

2008-10-27T22:26:00.000-05:00

She's on The Daily Show right now. Campbell Brown being portrayed and acting
like some kind of bias-free paragon of straight journalism is absolutely
retarded. It makes me puke. But such is life. Stewart needs to ask her how
being married to Dan Senor, a senior Bush advisor, affects her job.

Bye Hulk!

2008-10-27T17:21:00.001-05:00

"But the senator is also known for his orneriness. On days when he was
spoiling for a fight in the Senate, Stevens often wore a tie bearing the
angry comic book hero the Incredible Hulk. He even referred to himself as "a
mean, miserable SOB."

Ted Stevens GUILTY: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6088781&page=1

atlas dead

2008-10-26T17:20:00.001-05:00

"There's something in Ayn Rand's works that appeals to everyone at some
point in their lives. Everyone wants to identify with the specialness of
Dagny Taggart or Howard Roark or John Galt. Everyone feels, at some point in
their lives, as if they are the true hub of the universe.
Then rational people grow the hell up and get over it. There's no more
substance to Rand's objectivist view than there is in a child fantasizing
about being a fairy princess, and even less to admire.

John Galt is dead. We can only hope he stays buried."

src: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/26/18615/754/931/640790

I couldn't have put it better myself. I fell in love with Roark, Galt,
Dominique, Dagny, Hank, Frisco, and the rest of the capitalists--as-atlas
gang in 8th grade [yes, you are allowed to call me a nerd]. Rand's books are
inspiring. Her characters are inspiring. I could still re-read The
Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged or We The Living and thoroughly enjoy it.
These books, however, just don't have any basis in reality, and people who
think so are subjects of a mass delusion.

rejection, revulsion, reversion

2008-10-25T23:43:00.001-05:00

"I am not sure whether I want them to follow Frum's advice. I really would
like history to record that in 2008, the people rejected George W. Bush and
all his pomps and all his evil works."

Amen.

src:http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/10/25/184213/44

whack!

2008-10-24T12:06:00.001-05:00

"But respecting McCain's service to his country does not outweigh all of
McCain's negatives now. Especially his biggest negative -- his smalltown,
evangelical, xenophobic, intellectually lazy, uninformed, anti-science
running mate who came out swinging at the GOP convention, snidely insulting
anyone who doesn't share her background and beliefs."

Six choice adjectives to describe Palin. Excellent.

src:
http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/23/jewish_vote/permalink/c6fb239adff165730d6322dc3086225f.html

Dying gasps

2008-10-24T11:33:00.001-05:00

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6620

takedown

2008-10-23T10:49:00.000-05:00

Walter Shapiro and Mike Madden give us an epic takedown of the most
egregiously stupid gasbag conventional wisdom from this season:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/23/campaign_myths/

palin, clothes, and an irate donor

2008-10-23T08:13:00.001-05:00

"I'm not one who says a candidate shouldn't wear fine clothes," he added. "I'd
just like to think they were successful enough in the private sector to have
afforded their wardrobe with their own money, not the party's or the
campaign's, which is really our money as contributors."
src: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14840.html

MUST WATCH: Muslim McCain fans challenge intolerance at rally

2008-10-21T10:20:00.001-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl2EndLZv7w

Personally, I have absolutely no idea why Muslims would still support the
Republican party as it exists today. I understand that a lot of us did in
2000 (I didn't, because W. seemed a little too incurious and dumb), because
let's face it, we're at heart extremely conservative about these so-called
"moral" values (anti-abortion, anti-gays, anti-sex, etc. etc.), so on face
value, we're perfectly aligned with movement conservatism. Until we realize
that movement conservatism is very similar to Bin Laden's Islam. The
ultimate end-goal of movement conservatism is theocracy, and in this case, a
Christianist theocracy in which there is no room for other religions.

For those who are not aware, movement conservatism's original boogeyman was
not Islam, but Judaism! You only have to read about Nixon's and Kissinger's
rants against Israel and Jews to get a very clear idea of the modern
Republican party's heritage. Some Muslims, in a misguided attempt of
thinking "any enemy of the jews is my friend", have been unflinching
Republicans since. Little do they realize that the enemy of any religion is
our enemy, because the demonization of any single religion is only a
stepping stone to the demonization of all religions save for the one
endorsed by the party in power.

dark finance humor

2008-10-17T10:16:00.001-05:00

From Peter:
Q: What the difference between today's investment bankers and pigeons?
A: Pigeons can still make a deposit on a BMW.

From Sidd:
I went to an ATM today, and it asked to borrow a twenty till next week.

From monta's ankle:
I went to fill up my gas tank and I couldn't decide between leveraged and
unleveraged.

From Rob Dawg:
Went to Best Buy to get a toaster and they gave me a free bank with purchase

via: CR [calculatedrisk.blogspot.com]

who won the debate? judge for yourselves

2008-10-16T07:03:00.001-05:00

watch and learn

2008-10-09T13:15:00.001-05:00

john cleese celebrates hannity

2008-10-09T07:26:00.001-05:00

Ode to Sean Hannity

by John Cleese

Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You're a profanity
Hannity

Damn straight.

obama fashion

2008-10-04T12:31:00.001-05:00

Hilarious

2008-10-04T11:40:00.002-05:00

Jon Stewart hits this one out of the park and crashes some windshields too.

dumb

2008-10-02T21:07:00.001-05:00

This is the most vacuous debate I have ever seen. Enough said.

for real

2008-09-29T09:24:00.000-05:00

rearing of a head

2008-09-28T19:54:00.001-05:00

palin and russia, redux (or threedux?)

2008-09-25T13:16:00.001-05:00

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4478156n

Perhaps third time's the charm. You decide.

multi-task!

2008-09-25T12:56:00.001-05:00

via Jessica Hagy: http://indexed.blogspot.com/2008/09/busy-busy-busy.html

Protect!

2008-09-24T13:34:00.001-05:00

why i love cr comment threads

2008-09-22T16:39:00.001-05:00

Nude writes:
FutureNewsNetwork - "The U.S economy burned to the ground today, in large
part due to a battle between both Congress and the President over whom was
going to hold the firehose. Officials blamed the start of the fire on a
faulty Electorate."
Nude | 09.22.08 - 5:12 pm | #

via:
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/calculatedrisk/8195546327046984900/?a=15340

big shitpile

2008-09-20T22:49:00.001-05:00

So last week after the bank of america - merril lynch shotgun marriage, I
said that nobody really has an appetite for the [relatively worthless]
mortgage-backed securities now collectively known as big shitpile. Well, it
turns out somebody does have an appetite for it, and a large one at that.
Who? You. And Me. Yes. We're going to pay $700 billion and more to goldman,
and to morgan, and to merril, and to citi, and to wachovia, and all their
bastard children, in order to eat shit.

As usual, Atrios is very succint:

"The $700 Billion Underpants Gnomes

Step 1) Buy $700 billion of big shitpile at inflated prices

Step 2) ..

Step 3) Profit!!

-Atrios 21:47

Comments (311) "

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2008_09_14_archive.html#6722502820758517529

invent!

2008-09-20T22:42:00.001-05:00

Taxpayer Owners

2008-09-20T00:47:00.001-05:00

End of a, shall we say, very eventful week. We (you and me, and everybody
else who is a US taxpayer) now own the two largest mortgage issuers in the
country, and the largest insurance company in the world, with plans for
acquiring toxic assets of the remaining largest investment banks in the
world.

At this rate, they're going to need new machinery at the U.S. mint. Quote of
the week:

And New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, the ranking Republican on the Senate
Budget Committee, told Politico Friday that a "majority of the Republican
Conference will understand about the risk to the nation" and work quickly
with the administration to address it.

"The situation is so dire, we can't get wrapped around our ideologies,"
Gregg said. " We have to be bold and be flexible. If you just take an
ideological position, the disruption [to the economy] will be enormous."

There you have it folks. Trust a republican to give up his principles at the
very moment when we desperately need them to protect ourselves from further
descendance into a fascist tunnel. The mind boggles, but the body is tired
and unresponsive.

Our country's foremost energy expert

2008-09-19T18:43:00.001-05:00

"Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you
know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense
of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic
markets that need that oil first," Palin said. "So, I believe that what
Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a
degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the
energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our
domestic markets first."
- Sarah Palin, Energy Expert and University of Idaho graduate in sports
journalism

short sales banned? here's what happens

2008-09-19T11:54:00.001-05:00

blast from the past

2008-09-19T11:27:00.001-05:00

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DC1631F935A35751C0A966958260

rescue!

2008-09-19T10:32:00.001-05:00

why i love cr comment threads

2008-09-19T10:30:00.001-05:00

El Cliffo writes:
"My 10 year old car is valued by the market at $6000. I don't want to accept
this market value."

Your first mistake is calling it a "car." You should call it a "Special
Investment Vehicle."
El Cliffo | 09.19.08 - 11:29 am | #

via:
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/calculatedrisk/2658304468487360697/?dt=1221855276#592738

currency snark..

2008-09-17T11:47:00.001-05:00

peAkcredit writes:
The US $ has just been arrested for loitering on the world scene with no
visible means of support.
peAkcredit | 09.17.08 - 12:50 pm | #

via CR comment thread:
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/calculatedrisk/5786026735197194359/?dt=1221687939#585743

Lost faith in currency

2008-09-17T11:26:00.001-05:00

Green line is price of gold. Today. You think people might be losing faith
in paper? heh.

sequestered!

2008-09-16T14:00:00.001-05:00

re: collapse of shadow banking system

2008-09-16T00:40:00.001-05:00

wow, what a weekend, and what a monday. dow down 504. merrill sold to boa
for ~50bil, in what is undoubtedly an extremely good deal for merrill
shareholders. speculation that boa is already regretting the deal, possibly
didn't perform all the due diligence they should have, didn't take a look at
all the bad paper at merrill. lehman dead, repurcussions far and wide,
earliest of which being reported: florida pensions and state education fund
money. more to come undoubtedly.

i saw vids of lehman employees going in with empty duffel bags and coming
out with full ones, truly sad. aig is still on the brink of collapse, even
though a private cash injection of ~75bil from goldman et al. has been
arranged by the fed. the market doesn't seem to buy it though, stock
continues to tank. roubini was on teevee today saying "i told you so,
goldman and morgan are next within 3-4 months".

most alarming news of the day? fed changing rules allowing deposit-taking
banks to use deposits to finance their investment banking arms. violating
one of the cardinal rules of banking post-depression: dont screw with your
despositors' money. truly shocking, but these are the times.

change you can't believe in

2008-09-15T14:59:00.001-05:00

hurricane ike news blackout

2008-09-14T23:46:00.000-05:00

this is something i've been wondering about all day: prior to ike making
landfall early saturday morning, this was being billed as the greatest storm
since 1900. we know that the storm surge was pretty huge. but there's almost
next to nothing on the news channels regarding casualties, overall cost of
damages, etc. its almost as if there were a "blackout". well, there may be:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/14/22830/8407

lehman dies

2008-09-14T14:19:00.001-05:00

RIP.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/business/15lehman.html?hp

Just 2 months ago, we were hearing how "different" Lehman was from Bear
because, well, "its different!!!". Now we know a liquidity crisis is a
liquidity crisis, and lehman just owned a little bit too much of big
shitpile for it to be an appetizing meal for, well, anybody.

drill baby drill

2008-09-13T19:06:00.001-05:00

h/t kelley74ny at kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/13/194152/695/135/597863

potter movies

2008-09-13T11:32:00.001-05:00

click image to enlarge.

mcpalin simpson

2008-09-13T00:42:00.001-05:00

if only.....

what is the bush doctrine?

2008-09-11T20:43:00.000-05:00

ouch

2008-09-11T10:13:00.001-05:00

i'm in class and wamu and lehman are dying before our eyes. wow.

lipstick + pig = palin?....not

2008-09-10T16:17:00.001-05:00

LIAR!

2008-09-09T11:31:00.001-05:00

where's the beauty?

John McCain is a LIAR

2008-09-08T19:17:00.000-05:00

New Obama ad, finally. I was beginning to lose hope.

Clinton/Gore 08

2008-09-08T07:20:00.001-05:00

Perhaps its time to re-label yourself

2008-09-07T21:32:00.000-05:00

Palin

2008-09-07T13:42:00.001-05:00

A little more than a week into the Palin nomination, and here are my
thoughts:

1. Obama should not directly engage Palin. Brings him down to her level,
which is really no level at all. Female surrogates should go after Palin
with the heaviest kitchen sink they can find. Doesn't matter if they cry
sexism or meanness or whatever, it won't matter with the voters. Voters
don't like whiners, as Hillary Clinton found out at the end of her primary
campaign.
2. Palin is a distraction. The election is not about her. It's about John
McCain, and what an irresponsible, incompetent, lying sack of shit John
McCain is. Let's drill that message. For example:
a. John McCain says Barack Obama is "elitist", but he's the one who owns
7 houses and a private jet.
b. John McCain says Sarah Palin sold a government-owned jet on eBay and
made a profit, but she actually didn't sell the jet on eBay, she sold it to
a businessman at a $600,000 loss to the state.
c. John McCain says he will reduce your taxes, but he will really reduce
rich people's taxes. You? not so much. John McCain doesn't care about you.
d. John McCain says he will tell the lobbyists that change is coming.
Somebody ought to tell John McCain that his campaign employs over 100
lobbyists, including chief strategist Charlie Black.
e. The DNC ads tying John McCain to George Bush with the 90% voting
record are excellent. They should be playing non-stop in every swing state:
VA, NC, OH, PA, FL, CO, NV. I have to be honest, here in NC I've been seeing
a lot more McCain negative ads than Obama ads. This has got to change. I'm
hoping that there's a strategy behind this, and the Obama people are just
waiting for the right time for a knockout punch.

Bottom line: the campaign is about the economy, and about what a lying sack
of shit John McCain is. Let's not get distracted by Ms. Congeniality.

creepy

2008-09-07T10:22:00.001-05:00

must...not...eat...my...shoes

2008-09-05T20:38:00.001-05:00

john bush

2008-09-05T13:32:00.001-05:00

YO!

2008-09-05T01:01:00.001-05:00

comedy gold

2008-09-04T23:34:00.000-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6ZnHTWWErM

Freud hates Republicans.

VP Losers on IM

2008-09-04T19:46:00.001-05:00

http://www.236.com/news/2008/09/02/if_they_imd_loser_vps_1_8648.php

get off my lawns!

2008-09-02T17:35:00.000-05:00

Palin

2008-08-29T14:06:00.001-05:00

tucker bounds of mccain campaign just said "she has more accomplishments" to
her name than Barack Obama. seriously? a journalism graduate from the
university of idaho has more accomplishments to her name than the first
black president of the Harvard Law Review? A 20-month mayor of a 9000-person
town in Alaska has more experience than an 8-yr Illinois state legistlator
representing a district with 20 times as many people, and a 4-year United
States senator who has actually run one of the most successful national
campaigns in U.S. primary history and received over 18 million votes, as
opposed to being picked by an old Senator just to stay in the race?

Yeah.

why i love atrios comment threads

2008-08-28T11:39:00.001-05:00

We're just lucky Anna Nicole's baby wasn't caught doing drugs during the
convention, we'd be pre-empted entirely.
Windowdog | 08.28.08 - 11:21 am | #

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