November, 2008 archive
Gullible’s Travels 0
Wow! Visit the Inauguration like a President.
Of General Motors.
- Private jet for arrival and departure
- Private in-room dinner for four, prepared by a personal chef with entertainment by political satirist Mark Russell
- Private breakfast served daily
- Personal concierge and chauffeur available 24 hours a day
- Entry for four to “A New Birth of Freedom” inaugural events on January 20
- $44,000 shopping spree from the Lambros Jewelry Inauguration Collection
- Pre-inauguration makeover by Elizabeth Arden’s Red Door Salon & Spa
- Commemorative inaugural photo album with a personal inaugural photographer
- Personalized President and First Lady cologne and perfume
- Presidential puppy of guests’ choice upon departure
Via Wait! Wait!
Bushonomics: You Can (Food) Bank on It. Not. 0
I was hungry, and you did not feed me:
The decision to close the seven-month program, which provided food to people who showed up at one of two warehouses, came when the Food Bank ran out of grant money just as it was seeing an increase in demand.
The Bush Midas touch.
If I Go Off-Line Tonight . . . 0
. . . it’s because I left the wrong door open and the cat is in the network service entrance, with the modem, the router, and the primary hub.
Last time I did that, she turned off the modem.
I don’t need bugs.
I have a cat.
Maybe I’ll Be Sending the Next Mortgage Check Overseas 1
The pirates would buy Citigroup with new debt and their existing cash stockpiles, earned most recently from hijacking numerous ships, including most recently a $200 million Saudi Arabian oil tanker. The Somali pirates are offering up to $0.10 per share for Citigroup, pirate spokesman Sugule Ali said earlier today. The negotiations have entered the final stage, Ali said.
“You may not like our price, but we are not in the business of paying for things. Be happy we are in the mood to offer the shareholders anything,” said Ali.
Via Delaware Liberal.
Well, That’s a Real Pi–Oh, Never Mind 0
Reuters:
But the glitches were not unexpected and will hopefully be ironed out in time for the visiting shuttle Endeavour crew to bring home its first samples, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.
Hope they have a couple of bags of lime.
The Day in Review 0
From Josh Marshall:
Post-Turtle 1
Received via email:
A 75-year-old Texas rancher recently explained this term to a country doctor.
The conversation turned to the US election, and Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential candidacy, and the old rancher observed: “Well, ya know, Palin is a post-turtle.”
The bemused doctor asked what a post-turtle was, and the old man replied: “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a post-turtle.”
The rancher continued: “You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t belong up there, she doesn’t know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumbass put her up there to begin with.”
H/T Alison.
Stray Thought: George W. Bush Presidential Library Dept. 0
I don’t think there is a Little Golden Book of Torture.
Blame Game 1
The poor man’s not even in office yet, but . . .
Then, again, what would else can we expect from this bunch. Look at their record.
Avoiding responsibility.
It’s a Republican thing.
Bushonomics 0
Truth.
Will Bunch (emphasis added):
In a way, Reagan was the grandfather of the financial bailout in America. Because it was Reagan who pushed to deregulate the savings-and-loan industry, back when credit default swaps were still a gleam in the eye of the Lehman Brothers.
”All in all, I think we hit the jackpot,” Reagan said on Oct. 15, 1982, when he signed into law a bill that lifted many restrictions on the savings-and-loan industry, giving thrifts the power to make larger real-estate loans and compete with money market funds. Some jackpot. It turned out that the deregulation of the S&L’s unleashed a corrupt rush into risky and often corrupt real-estate dealings, often involving insiders, and the nation’s thrift industry teetered on the edge of collapse just months after the Gipper left the Oval Office in January 1989. Within months, Reagan’s hand-picked GOP successor, George H.W. Bush, was forced to push through a bailout package with a value of $160 billion – which would be a lot of money now but was a huge amount of money 19 years ago. This is what Craig Shirley calls “Reagan’s legacy of small government and deregulation.”
(Gee, sort of sounds familiar, doesn’t it.)
No reconciliation.
What Goes Around . . . 0
. . . comes around.
Public Service: Linux One, Windows Zero 2
Someone gave the Bellefonte Cafe a computer.
It was a Windows 2000 box with a bad case of BSOD.
I brought it home, threw CentOS on it, and took it back this morning. According to Second Son, they have their internet turned on and are happily computing away.
I need to head back over there and set up CUPS and they’ll be good to go.
Regular readers might ask, “Why not Slackware?”
Slackware requires you either to know or be willing to learn a little about what goes on under the hood. You don’t have to be able to do a ring job, but you do need to be able to check the oil.
W. Tomato Juice 0
A recipe for the times:
1. Take seat in diner.
2. Order 1 glass water.
3. Empty two packets ketchup in glass of water.
4. Stir.
5. Drink W. Tomato Juice.
6. Leave restaurant before server comes to take order.
Following Up . . . 1
. . . to this post.
There is still no evidence that any information found in the searches was put to any public use.
Those who would claim that this is Misuse of State Power, as opposed to misuse of office–seemingly in the form of succumbing to curiosity–by state employees, are still without evidence.
Let alone without proof.
Now I Know What That New Building Is 1
The one at Marsh and Silverside.
It’s a TD Bank.
I don’t think I’ll ever see the inside, though.
Not after reading this.
“Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?” 0
You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time, All of the People Some of the Time . . . 0
. . . but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
We’re starting to get a handle on who the “some of the people all of the time” crew is.
Shamelessly Stolen(tm) from Atrios.
