Jul
5
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Stephanolpous: your stimulus package sucks
Biden: oh but everyone thought Bush was merely a disastrous president instead of creating the worst economy since cavemen traded furs for sex
Stephanolpous: but Paul Krugman says you
need a new stimulus bill - bigger badder and uncut!
Biden: for god’s sake half the congress says
it’s too big and now you say it’s too small - how many nobel prizes has Krugman won?
Stephanolpous: one
Biden: oh right
” The Bobblespeak Translations: This Week with George Stephanolpous with Joe Biden - July 5, 2009
“Gone are Hank Paulson and Neel Kashkari; in their place are Treasury chief of staff Mark Patterson and CFTC chief Gary Gensler, both former Goldmanites. (Gensler was the firm’s co-head of finance.) And instead of credit derivatives or oil futures or mortgage-backed CDOs, the new game in town, the next bubble, is in carbon credits — a booming trillion- dollar market that barely even exists yet, but will if the Democratic Party that it gave $4,452,585 to in the last election manages to push into existence a groundbreaking new commodities bubble, disguised as an “environmental plan,” called cap-and-trade. The new carbon-credit market is a virtual repeat of the commodities-market casino that’s been kind to Goldman, except it has one delicious new wrinkle: If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices will be government-mandated. Goldman won’t even have to rig the game. It will be rigged in advance.”
Matt Taibbi
“So I think, with all due respect to Max and his hard work, it’s the wrong strategy. I think the strategy should be to say to all 60 members of the Democratic caucus that even if you don’t want a public plan in the final bill, you should commit to ending the Republican filibuster. You don’t need 60 votes to pass legislation. You need 60 votes to end the filibuster. And if we do that, we can get a strong public plan that will be real change.”
Bernie!!!
Jul
3
“To the left, I think, she embodies a sort of comfort with ignorance that they think characterizes most/all conservatives.”
Hot Air’s Allahpundit, via FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Why (Some) Liberals Hate Sarah Palin
RT @incanus77: The fact that the headlines are now “Why Is Sarah Palin Resigning?” just goes to show how effective a communicator she is.
Jul
2
RT @testobsessed Trying to test the depths of the code thru the UI is like peering through the shower head to examine pipes in the basement
“As it turns out, the way that the human brain goes about the task of “remembering the past” is actually very similar to how it goes about “imagining the future.” Deep down, these are activities with very different functions and outcomes — predicting the future is a lot less reliable, for one thing. But in both cases, the brain goes through more or less the same routine.”
Remembering the Past is Like Imagining the Future | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine
“If your search discloses no trees or snow, the parachutist’s “five-point landing” is useful to remember even in the absence of a parachute. Meet the ground with your feet together, and fall sideways in such a way that five parts of your body successively absorb the shock, equally and in this order: feet, calf, thigh, buttock, and shoulder. 120 divided by 5 = 24. Not bad! 24 mph is only a bit faster than the speed at which experienced parachutists land. There will be some bruising and breakage but no loss of consciousness to delay your press conference. Just be sure to apportion the 120-mph blow in equal fifths. Concentrate!”
The Free Fall Research Page: Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips by David Carkeet
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Alan Moore says “Stuff leaks in from the future.”
Alan Moore talks about sleep deprivation.
Alan Moore says that craft becomes less conscious.
” Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair « Mostly on McSweeney’s!
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