2009 archive
“. . . for the Wages of Sin Is–a Newspapr Column!?!” (Updated) 0
It is beyond appalling that the legal apologist for Bushie torture and concentration camps is rewarded with a newspaper column.
Given that the field of principled, moral conservatives with personal and political integrity is very small, the Shrinquier, if it wanted someone to join Santorum and Ferris, both of whom give intellectual lightweights a bad name, could have done a lot better than this.
I think I shall be sick.
Addendum, the Next Day:
Will Bunch weighs in.
Iraq To Get Zombie Banks 0
Oh, my goodness. Citi is helping Iraq learn how to do banking.
That’s like learning how to hunt roadrunners from Wile E. Coyote.
Via Harry Shearer.
Stray Thought 0
It is difficult to type with a cat on your lap.
Sins in Our Name 0
From the New York Review of Books. Read the whole thing.
The most pernicious evil is evil done in the name of good.
Dream Jog Job
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“Pay for performance.”
What goddamn performance?
Man, I’d love a job like that, one where I could get even a little bonus, say, just a measly $500k, for destroying equity, running a company into the ground, and generally being incompetent.
Only on Wall Street or in Congress, I guess.
Narcolepsy 0
The wrong time to take a nap.
Earmarks 0
Please make the lies go away:
Only one problem — he never made any such promise. That was John McCain, as Keith Olbermann pointed out last night on Wednesday..
As you’ll see in this video, during the campaign President Obama actually said that while he supported earmark reform, he believed a line-by-line review would show that some earmarks were for good programs and some were for bad programs.
Via Atrios, who documents that the MSM has fallen for this one too.
Twits on Twitter 0
Where I come from, you can’t take a cellular phone into the court house unless you are an employee. I asked one of the guards why, and he said it was because of the cameras and the recorders in the phones, not because of the telephones themselves:
The motion seeking a new trial was filed Thursday on behalf of Russell Wright and his company, Stoam Holdings. It claims juror Johnathan Powell sent eight messages — or “tweets” — to the micro-blogging Web site via his cellular phone.
Via RawStory.
Mark to Market Once More 0
James Saft on Reuters (emphasis added):
“Adjusting” or suspending fair value accounting, even if you swear up and down that this time it’s even more fair will erode rather than build trust and repel rather than attract capital.
(snip)
The problem facing the banking industry is not just solvency on some accounting or regulatory basis, it is solvency on, for want of a better phrase, a solvency basis. Thus banks are unwilling to do business with one another and investors unwilling to lend banks money or invest in them. They do not reliably know who is bust and who is not.
Folks, underneath all the Wall Street double-speak and the complexities of double-entry bookkeeping, this stuff really isn’t rocket science.
The banks are like the guys who keep feeling that radiating pain in their chests and down their right arms.
They’re trying to force the doctor to diagnose it as heart burn, when it’s heart attack.
Stray Thought 1
I commend the Telemarketing Firm whose CallerID says “Telemarketer.”
I’m still not answering the call, but I appreciate the honesty.
Everyone Wants $1,000,000,000. Everyone. 0
Searing Truth 1
Somehow, “Willis Tower” just doesn’t have any ring to it.
“Birthism” 0
It’s not a joke. It’s a bill.
These are the people who put the “nut” in “wingnut.”
It is not good to take a day off from the net to straighten up the house. Coming back and finding all that assembled stupidity all at once is just too much.
Jesus.
Penny Stocks 0
Penny-ante shenanigans.
Poling Place 0
This is cute.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society.” Not. 0
I see that bumper sticker from time to time, usually attached to a beat-up vehicle driven by an old white guy.
My first thought is always, “Drop the stupid S. O. B. down at 56th and Market for a week. If he survives, see if he’s singing the same tune when the week’s over.”
Politeness does not spring from the muzzle of a gun. Bullets spring from the muzzle of a gun.
Field Negro has more.