2011 archive
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
Dustbiters 0
The FDIC has not yet exhausted the supply of responsible fiscals to honor by taking away their business licences.
Two more banks shot (and it’s still early yet):
Second Round:
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Rosemount National Bank, Rosemount, Minnesota
Superior Bank, Birmingham, Alabama
Nexity Bank, Birmingham, Alabama
Nexity?
And finally
Aside:
The Bugs Bunny cartoons used to feature the Last National Bank. At the time, they thought it was a humorous concept.
A Picture Is Worth etc. 0
Margaret Carlson comments at Bloomberg (emphasis added):
Facebook Frolics: Taking You for a Ride Dept. 0
The BBC describes how social networks make money by selling users to the highest bidder. A nugget:
The promise of matching people with products makes social networks attractive to advertisers, and Facebook deals add location into the mix. Users check in on their mobiles and get special offers in return.
If you spend much time on social networks, you should read it. It might help you spot the manipulation.
11th Dimensional Chess? 0
Peter Bergman thinks that President Obama has given Republicans enough rope for them to hang themselves.
Me, I’m not so sure. I’ve learned never to discount the power of crazy.
The Republican War on Truth 2
The editorial page editor of my local rag has an excellent column on corporatist and Republican efforts to debunk scientific fact.
I can’t excerpt or summarize it adequately.
All I can say is go read it.
Twits on Twitter 0
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Barney Fife on Steroids 0
DelawareLiberal reports.
Pig in a Pokey (Updated) 0
The Ridley, Pa., police have kidnapped a pet pot-bellied pig who wandered away and won’t tell anyone where he is because, in their minds, he’s a farm animal.
They have porked him in a hiding place.
I fear the sty in their eye prevents them from behaving other than pettishly.
One could say that this swine flew the coop.
Afterthought:
This is silly and stupid (and I’m not referring to my post). Also cruel.
A six-pound pig that lives indoors and uses a litter box is no more a farm animal than a pet rabbit is a wild beast.
Addendum, Two Days Later:
The pig is out of stir and no longer in danger of stir-fry:
As officials clammed up, the “Where is Steve?” rallying cry was quickly getting attention on Facebook, and a friend of Maguire’s and Broadhurst’s started printing T-shirts with the slogan.
Apparently, the pressure was too much for Ridley officials.
And little Steve made it wee, wee, wee, all the way home.
Lint Filter Fail 0
H/T Susan for the pic.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Republicans: Wimmens Is Icky 0
What else explains their attack on womens’ health. From the San Jose Mercury-News:
(snip)
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte runs 32 health care centers in California, including eight in Santa Clara County and several others around the Bay Area, plus two in northern Nevada. It saw 243,531 patients in 2010, 89 percent of whom qualified for Medi-Cal. That means their income was less than $22,350 for a family of four.
Shaun Mullen addressed this belief in ickiness of women very nicely in a post last week. A nugget:
Let that concept sink in for a moment: These haters actually believe that a woman will falsely say that she was raped in a dark alley or knocked up by an uncle in order to get a free abortion. The perversity of this notion is . . . well, pornographic.