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Wonders Never Cease - Ann Coulter is a DeadHead

2012-01-02T21:21:00.000-06:00

(For those who somehow don't know, Deadheads are the fans of the Ronck'n'Roll band The Grateful Dead.) ‘Deadheads Are What Liberals Claim to Be But Aren’t’:An Interview with Ann Coulter I never cared for her unceasing defense of all things GWB, but more and more, I agree with much of her writings. Some great quotes from this interview: chicks love Bobby ... Oddly enough, I like the music. No

Believing the Impossible, part II

2011-12-29T17:22:00.000-06:00

More Liberal "brain" exercise: You must simultaneously believe: That states passing laws to enforce existing federal immigration law violates Federal supremacy AND Sanctuary cities and counties that ignore immigration law, and refuse to cooperate with ICE, do not violate federal supremacy. .

KafkaTrapping - "Subconscious Racism"

2011-12-29T10:08:00.000-06:00

On a forum I no longer visit, a black woman attributed opposition to Obama to: deep ceded (sic) racism that appears to be at a subconscious level for some white people in this country, especially older white men.I'll ignore hereafter that the woman committed both ageism and sexism in her bogus accusation. I immediately understood the inherent, vicious, evil in the argument attributing political

The Problem With Liberals...

2011-12-21T23:24:00.002-06:00

The Problem With Liberals is not just what they take from Karl Marx. Perhaps more harmful is what they take from Lewis Carroll: "Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six

LMAO!

2011-12-14T16:11:00.000-06:00

New Default Assumption: Charges of "White Racism" Are FALSE Until PROVEN Otherwise

2011-12-04T14:02:00.004-06:00

I've had it. I'm through listening to Liberals or non-Whites - and especially non-White Liberals - accusing me and every other White person of racism againt non-Whites just because they disagree politically with said Whites. This is CRAP. This must stop. I am sure that I am not the only one. Blacks and/or Liberals have completely desensitized me - and I'm sure many others - the charge of

Quote of the Day

2011-11-25T21:03:00.000-06:00

(So I'm off a few days....) MaxedOutMama says: We seem to be in the everything-goes-splat mode.

"White Girl Bleed A Lot" - Much More on Black Racist Violent Mobs

2011-11-08T16:28:00.001-06:00

(Warning - site opens playing a noisy video) "White Girl Bleed A Lot" Race Riots are Back: White Girl Bleed a Lot. A New book from Washington Post-award winning reporter Colin Flaherty Race riots are back. Along with widespread racial crime and violence. In hundreds of episodes in more than 50 cities since 2010, groups of black people are roaming the streets of America -- assaulting,

It's SATIRE (and NOT): BLACK WOMEN LOSING RIGHTS TO Name Their Children Stupidly

2011-11-08T16:10:00.000-06:00

From Essence, this is Satire BLACK WOMEN LOSING RIGHTS TO THEIR CHILDREN'S NAMES (DETROIT)- In a decision that’s expected to send shockwaves through the African-American community—and yet, give much relief to teachers everywhere—a federal judge ruled today that black women no longer have independent naming rights for their children. Too many black children—and many adults—bear names that

Media Bias Again

2011-10-22T20:15:00.001-05:00

Just a little bit of bias evident in the MainStreamMedia. By way of Bob in L.A. at NOFP, who got it from Ace of Spades who got it from Via Networked blogs:who got it from....... .

A Black Woman Tells Other Black Women: Get Out of the 'Hood NOW

2011-10-22T14:36:00.002-05:00

Last Call To Evacuate Black Residential Areas Before The “Peace Walls” Go Up (Note: The author of this piece, Khadija Nassif, can be seen in numerous places on her blog denouncing "Faux News" and "racist" Tea Partiers. She and I would probably be on the opposite sides of most political arguments. She was a Black Nationalist, until she realized that Black Men were more of a threat than an

The Knockout Game: Racial Violence and the Conspicuous Silence of the Media

2011-10-22T13:21:00.003-05:00

The Knockout Game: Racial Violence and the Conspicuous Silence of the MediaBy John T. Bennett By now, almost everyone has seen one of the semi-amusing videos of black teen mobs rampaging through a store. ... Most Americans have heard of recent violent "flash mobs," which are the bands of black teens that attack mostly white victims and white businesses, as even the New York Times once

"CSA Pride", History and Ignorance

2011-10-21T19:24:00.002-05:00

From the news: Confederate flag causes race war “We’re just standing up for what we believe in,” Wayne Matthews said. He’s one of the students who helped pass out t-shirts before school Wednesday morning. His mother made 32 Confederate flag t-shirts and stacked them up in the back of her trunk. ... Matthews said this has nothing to do with race; it’s about his right to freely express himself

You want Racism? HERE is racism - BLACK RACISM!

2011-10-21T17:38:00.000-05:00

BLACK MOBS BEATING THE CRAP OUT OF WHITE PEOPLE FOR FUN - OR INTIMIDATION The "Main Stream Media" sometimes call them "flash mobs" - but these are not the flash mobs of years past. Old-style flash mobs involved people - mainly white - converging on some place for harmless activities, such singing or dancing to silly songs. But the current mobs are all Black - they may or may not use social

Media Bias Matters Very MUCH - and - Racism Redefined

2011-10-07T22:52:00.004-05:00

This post comes from a running argument I tried to have with Liberals, nominally about the Tea Party and Republicans. First for your consideration: Few signs at tea party rally expressed racially charged anti-Obama themes A new analysis of political signs displayed at a tea party rally in Washington last month reveals that the vast majority of activists expressed narrow concerns about the

Not Quite Quote of the Day....

2011-09-25T22:40:00.000-05:00

....only because I missed it by 3 days. From Steve Sailer: Breaking News! Pakistan not actually on our side But the point is that we must continue to engage with Pakistan because they are the front door to the real prize: Afghanistan, with its strategically crucial resources of gravel, scree, unbridged torrents, furious holy men, gay warlords, and Pashtun proverbs, such as "When the flood

Scientists Do the Darnedest Things!

2011-09-24T23:34:00.000-05:00

So I've been off of here for quite a while. Here is an interesting nugget: Lap dancers earn more when they are most fertile “BECAUSE academics may be unfamiliar with the gentlemen's club sub-culture, some background may be helpful to understand why this is an ideal setting for understanding real-world attractiveness effects of human female oestrus.” No doubt readers of The Economist are

It's ALREADY in Free Fall

2011-04-18T23:55:00.004-05:00

This image is of "Indoor Skydiving": The lady shown is being pulled to the earth such that she would eventually achieve a "terminal velocity" of 120 mph downward. But it doesn't happen in this case because a giant fan beneath her is producing a updraft of 120 mph, which balances the forces, so she gets to "freefall" in one place. If the wind stops, she drops like a rock. So what are we to

A Droid 2 Is Like A Trophy Wife....

2010-09-28T19:21:00.000-05:00

...after you marry her. It looks really nice. When it does what you want, it's wonderful. It's high maintenance. At random intervals, it becomes totally unresponsive for no visible reason. My previous philosophy in phones was small, cheap, and simple-bordering-on-stupid. But I saw one of these on the train, and said, I want. So I figured: "Why not? It's not like it's real money anyhow -

I Can't Draw Muhammed...

2010-05-22T18:00:00.001-05:00

...because I can't draw anything. [deleted text was here] Anything beyond a crude network diagram on the back of an envelope is beyond my artistic skills. So this borrowed drawing will just have to do instead. It says it all anyhow. UPDATE: I took out some very offensive text in deference to my recollection of some seemingly totally "Americanized" Muslims I have known. The picture and

I Got Your Recovery Right Here....

2010-05-16T14:49:00.001-05:00

This graph from here at Jesse's Café Américain: (click for larger image in new window) And his pithy analysis: The recent 'recovery' in the SP 500 deflated by gold is instructive. This should help those who see no recovery in the real economy, but were confused by the amazing spike in the US equity market. It was a monetary phenomenon. And his further analysis here of why banksters,

Enough "PC" Chatter

2010-04-30T21:28:00.005-05:00

They aren't "undocumented workers". They aren't "Illegal Immigrants". They aren't even "Illegal Aliens". They are INVADERS. Their numbers are variously estimated at 12 to 20 million. The U.S. military had 6 million troops in World War 2. This is an invasion - they are the enemy - and those that support, enable, or aid them, in any way, are TRAITORS. The crime of Treason is defined in the

I'm FAMOUS!

2010-04-24T18:13:00.005-05:00

Armed and Safe says: "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable". By that standard, I'm good! The ADL, which is acting as a tool for the administration in the same usless fasion as the SPLC, has released a report, found here, entitled "Violent Voices: Anti-Government Extremism Takes on New Intensity". In Chapter "IV. Daring to

Lines Not To Be Crossed

2010-03-30T20:59:00.005-05:00

These are perilous time. Let our "leaders" know that there are travesties they dare not commit.[W]henever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience and are left to the common refuge, which God hath

Obama's Cousin Disses Obamacare

2010-03-19T10:49:00.003-05:00

Obama's cousin is a doctor, and the points he raises are nightmarish.Saw this on Hannity, who linked to the text here, including this bombshell:As one example, consider the implications of Obamacare's financial penalty aimed at your doctor if he seeks the expert care he has determined you need. If your doctor is in the top 10 percent of primary care physicians who refer patients to specialists

Far-reaching and Potentially Devastating Ramifications

2010-03-01T16:30:00.009-06:00

The title is a quote from Customs and Border Protection Area Port Director Rolando Suliveras Jr. on the seizure of 30 TOY GUNS.Yes, Airsoft toy guns. Our tax dollars hard at work were, baby!Of the same seizure, BATFE Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons. "With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun," Crenshaw said.But

IowaHawk Soars Again

2010-01-13T20:59:00.001-06:00

So I stroll out of the loo, real casual-like, with my nuts on fire, and headed back to my seat to blow out the fuselage.

How To Win Friends and Influence People

2010-01-09T07:02:00.004-06:00

Rolling Stone addressing skeptics of Man-made Global Warming:Wow, I just love it when they get all technical and eveything!My answer:ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate!

Best IRC Q/A Ever!

2010-01-08T11:26:00.001-06:00

Gotta love the enthusiasm:<+FarmDad> ok a poll for the gals ... does the " Gspot " exist ?<+breda> YES<+Snigs> YES<+Wing> YES

Solar is GOOD! NO, Solar is BAD!

2009-12-25T15:39:00.002-06:00

Senator Feinstein nixes solar project in the Mojave - which had been fast-tracked by Bush. Really - I can't make this up!Of course, DiFi has practically patented hypocrisy:When asked earlier why she carried that .38 Smith & Wesson concealed in her purse while promoting gun control for the rest of us, Feinstein answered, “I know the urge to arm yourself because that’s what I did. I was trained in

Newest Best ClimateGate One-liner

2009-12-07T20:07:00.002-06:00

Courtesy of the mighty IowaHawk:It's not really rocket science. Well okay, I suppose it's really not science at all.

Missing the Point

2009-12-07T19:37:00.003-06:00

Today's EPA ruling - that so-called "greenhouse gases" are to be regulated by the EPA as hazardous atmospheric products - is *not* because of Copenhagen. Nor is it "in spite of" ClimateGate.This potentially disastrous piece of mischief is because of ClimateGate.'Cap and Trade' has been stalled in the Senate; with ClimateGate, it's chances of passage had probably dropped to nil. This went double

Ouote of the Day

2009-12-05T14:45:00.002-06:00

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience

Irony Of The Day

2009-11-28T10:07:00.002-06:00

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. - Frankin D. Roosevelt, 15 March 1941Wonder if Obama/Pelosi/Reid have heard that one?

Best ClimateGate One-liner...

2009-11-28T10:00:00.001-06:00

so far.Phil Jones – ‘I did not have statistical relations with that data’

AGW Follies

2009-11-24T22:54:00.002-06:00

A bunch of "scientists" tried to fake Global Warming and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

Quote of the Day

2009-11-22T20:14:00.002-06:00

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." - Claire Wolf, "101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution"Make that 102: "Million Gun Owner March"So, folks, what you doing 4/19/2010?

Nobels For All

2009-10-12T10:03:00.002-05:00

Here's mine: Available here.Be sure to try the "Republican" option for maximum "humor"..

Who Knew? Birds Can Dance!

2009-09-27T08:45:00.004-05:00

They've got moves, they've got rhythm.See here for article and 2 videos. The first, larger video is overlong, but see especially 0:50 thru 1:00, where they digitally increased the beat of the BackStreet Boys song, and the cockatoo kept up, even simplifying it's dance steps as needed.Also, here, where snowball gets it on to "Edge of 17".I'm jealous. Damn birds dance better than I do! (I'm a

Warped Genius

2009-09-18T21:20:00.004-05:00

(click for larger image)From xkcd.

Better Words Than I Had

2009-09-17T18:57:00.004-05:00

I have been thinking for some time that Obama is the worst of all worlds: the Obama/Geithner "reaction" to the on-going corruption-fest that is our financial system is at least as inept and evil as was the Bush/Paulson approach, Obama has negated few if any of the civil rights concerns raised by the AUMF/MCA - but in addition we have the left-wing wackitude of a Nanny State as played by Kathy

I'm A Birther And Proud Of It

2009-09-16T19:41:00.006-05:00

Where is the real, long form, vault copy birth certificate?If it were in Hawaii, as Obama and all his mouthpieces in the MFKAMS* insist, would not any sane person have exerted the minimal effort needed to have a copy released?Is there any way to draw any conclusion from Obama's own behavior, other than: the thing DOES NOT EXIST?* Media Formerly Known As Main Stream..

Image of the Day

2009-09-16T19:13:00.004-05:00

From Sharp As A Marble..Jimmy Carter and Maureen Dowd: STFU..

CREEPY

2009-09-04T21:06:00.006-05:00

How creepy is it that Barack Obama wants to talk to our kids?Choose one:Any friend of Bill Ayers is OK by me.Creepy as in strangers offering candy.Creepy as in Hitler/Stalin/Mao indoctrination.Too creepy for words in any known language.I'm leaning towards 4..Of course, maybe the poor guy is just looking for an audience that hasn't yet figured out that he is completely full of shit. Boo Hoo..

Why I Gave Up and Went with an XP Desktop at Home

2009-08-30T13:10:00.005-05:00

From http://xkcd.com/619/..

In Memoriam

2009-08-29T19:58:00.003-05:00

(Screen Capture from Something on Youtube)

Bad Move by Paul Krugman

2009-08-07T18:07:00.003-05:00

Play this:Or see here if the embedding doesn't work.I guess anybody can get a Nobel prize these days - at least in Economics. Must be why they call it the dismal science..

Mortgage Disaster, pt 2: Failed Refutation

2009-06-28T13:42:00.004-05:00

Carl at NOFP tries to "refute" my Mortgage Disaster post and fails - mostly because the facts speak for themsleves.Says Carl:If you look at page 23, T2 says that the largest sector, by value, at risk is prime mortgages. Commercial real estate is second. Neither of those are the type of transactions of which you complain. The debate centered on responsibility for the mortgage crisis: GSEs vs.

Mortgage Disaster: Who Did It, and When

2009-06-07T09:47:00.017-05:00

Who Did ItThis presentation has been making the rounds. It has some amazing graphics: An Overview Of The Housing/Credit Crisis And Why There Is More Pain To Come(NOTE: In the following, clicking on any image will casue a larger version to open in a new window.)As to who did it, this chart is the most concise and specific thing I've seen yet:The GSEs may have been active during the bubble, but

Fed to Hire former Enron Lobbyist to "Buttress its Image"

2009-06-05T09:54:00.004-05:00

This is just too f'in beautiful.From Bloomberg:The Federal Reserve intends to hire a veteran lobbyist as it seeks to counter skepticism in Congress about the central bank’s growing power over the U.S. financial system, people familiar with the matter said. Linda Robertson ... headed the Washington lobbying office of Enron Corp., the energy trading company that collapsed in 2002 after an

Favorite New Meme: "Green Chutes"

2009-05-29T23:26:00.002-05:00

While various government and stock shillmeisters speak of green shoots, in the commentariat at Calculated Risk: butter wrote on Sun, 3/15/2009 - 6:39 pm Bernanke said he sees green shoots, or maybe he meant green chutes Chutes is right, as they lead rapidly downward.And Green is right, too - because Obama's cap-and-trade monstrosity would be the

Hen-House, Meet Fox - You'll Get Along Great! (Updated)

2009-05-25T11:30:00.012-05:00

Carl at NOFP posted this some time ago, on the subject "Banking, Opacity and Financial Securities, Part II " in which he plumbs this paper from Goldman Sachs and then asks:Might Goldman Sachs's four principles be the central element of what I've sought (with no responses to date), "the minimum prohibitions necessary to impose on commercial banks to stop the financial system from [collapsing again

Graphic of the Day

2009-05-21T16:25:00.003-05:00

From The Religion of Peace site:

3 Days Of "Islamic Peace"

2009-05-21T16:17:00.003-05:00

the last 3 days listed from the attacks list at Religion of Peace:Date Country City Killed Injured Description 2009.05.20 Afghanistan Kabul 2 0 Two Americans are murdered in a Mujahideen bombing. 2009.05.20 Iraq Baghdad 35 72

New Blog in Blog Roll

2009-04-20T06:24:00.002-05:00

Adding GoldmanSachs666.com to blog roll.That blog is run by investment advisor Mike Morgan. See Barry Ritholtz here for more information..

Still More Pirates to Kill

2009-04-12T18:35:00.004-05:00

Our Navy did a fabluous job today. The right men with the right training and the right gear can do miraculous things, and the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, along with the execution orf the swine holding him, are all good things.But the bigger question is: Why are the crews of these boats trying to fight off pirates, who have AK-47s, using waterhoses?Because some dipshit CEO listens to

Why I'm Not in the Stock Market, Part 2

2009-03-14T19:23:00.003-05:00

At 5:06, Cramer:What's important when you're in the hedge fund mode is not to do anything remotely truthful.Un-fucking-believable, from beginning to end.

Obama is earning this Depression

2009-03-05T21:40:00.006-06:00

From a post by joe shmoe, Commenter at the Calculated Risk blog:The Fed and Treasury are playing a shell game with the corpse of AIG, so as to avoid naming the counterpartiesties. The bail-out is to save the system or Europe, they claim, and because the counter-parties would be stigmatized they cannot be named.Here is the way re-frame the issue and get out of the trap: By not naming individual

Yes, Deficits DO Matter

2009-02-23T08:43:00.002-06:00

From Bloomberg:Treasuries Fall on Speculation U.S. to Increase Citigroup Stake Anybody who's ever accumulated debt on credit cards, which then increased their interest rates by large amounts, knows this situation. Lots of debt at high interest rates means that just paying the interest off becomes a significant part of of expences, slowing the day when principal can be paid and draining funds from

Barry Ritholtz Explains Stimulus

2009-02-14T10:36:00.003-06:00

Barry Ritholtz has the best explanation I've seen so far:Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers. Q. Where will the government get this money?A. From taxpayers. Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?A. No, they are borrowing it from China. Your children are expected to repay the Chinese. Q. What is the purpose of this

This Atrocity Brought to You by The War On Drugs

2009-02-07T09:07:00.003-06:00

Mayor and wife terrorized, dogs killed over weed PLANTED BY THE SWAT TEAM.It doesn't get much worse than this. Local thugs, properly "annointed" as cops, committing the worst imaginable abuses of due process and individual rights. Not to stop terrorism. Not to stop musrder, rape, battery or any other violent crime. No, this is done ostensibly to prevent the hideous crime of people burning a

The Fallacy of the Fallacy: Post hoc ergo propter hoc

2009-01-16T09:37:00.005-06:00

.This comes up often in arguments with deregulationists. They say: just because we made these 5 or 6 major changes in the financial system and then went into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, it does not prove that those changes caused the crisis. The more erudite throw the latin phrase from the post title out. The more bombastic will sputter along the lines of:You connect

Thomas Jefferson is Always Relevant

2009-01-11T21:24:00.003-06:00

Courtesy of Wikiquote:On Banks, Letter to William C. Rives, 1819:Certainly no nation ever before abandoned to the avarice and jugglings of private individuals to regulate according to their own interests, the quantum of circulating medium for the nation -- to inflate, by deluges of paper, the nominal prices of property, and then to buy up that property at 1s. in the pound, having first withdrawn

Deregulation Damned Again

2009-01-11T20:33:00.003-06:00

The Madoff scandal is yet another manifestation of the deregulationist foolishness which reached it's peak in the Bush administration, but has been ongoing since Reagan.The SEC is the case study in this, as it's complete failure - in fact, refusal - to regulate is behind some of the most egregious problems we face. This piece summarizes the longer piece here, describing how the Bush appointees

QOTD (sort of)

2009-01-09T22:12:00.003-06:00

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. - Woody Allen, Side Effects, 1980This came to mind while reading comments at Calculated Risk. It's getting hard to tell the comments from a survivalist's blog - all talk of where to buy gold

Why I'm Not in the Stock Market

2009-01-05T13:27:00.003-06:00

(Click for larger image - as if that would help)Cognitive Dissonance, writ large. Anybody who can explain this to me (without resorting to the voodoo nonsense of "Technical Analysis") - please do.

40 year old poetry

2008-12-24T23:48:00.002-06:00

Jim Morrison, "Five to One", 1968...Your ballroom days are over, babyNight is drawing nearShadows of the eveningcrawl across the years....

It's not JUST Sub-Prime - and it Never Was

2008-12-14T20:32:00.003-06:00

For those who have missed the memo, CBS's 60 minutes has nice pictures and graphs. Video at:Alt-A and Option ARM Loans to be bigger mess than SubprimeFor those of you that still like your blinders: just keep waiting for that 2nd-half 2009 recovery..

Dilbert on MBS - Priceless

2008-12-13T13:26:00.000-06:00

You just can't beat this:

CRA Myth Demolished - AGAIN

2008-12-12T10:11:00.002-06:00

Barry Ritholtz demolishes the "CRA caused this" myth yet again. Some relevant snippets (the whole thing is a good read):As the prior post on foreclosures shows, the concentration is mostly middle class and upper middle class white suburban neighborhoods...California leads the nation in foreclosures. The state’s foreclosure activity was up 51% from a year ago. These are not CRA communities, they

The Coming Stupidity Crunch

2008-12-11T23:30:00.002-06:00

Watchers of the Stupidity industry tonight expressed grave concerns on the future supplies of stupidity.One industry watcher, who wisshed to remain anonymous, stated: "Einstein thought that stupidity was infinite, but, really, we doubt that anything is truly infinite. However, we thought we had enough for the next 100 years until this Congress started trying to 'fix' things."The first ripples of

Words to Panic By

2008-12-05T23:34:00.003-06:00

The Second Coming - W.B Yeats, 1919Turning and turning in the widening gyre,The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.And that's only the first stanza. In the 2nd

THUD! (No, it's not the stock market.)

2008-12-05T22:10:00.010-06:00

(UPDATE: I got the original link to the whole interview from the comments section of the excellent Calculated Risk blog, evening of 12/5 or maybe even 12/4. Amazing stuff in the comments there, as well as the postings.UPDATE2: Hat tip to CR commenter "Hawley Smoot" for the orginal link.)This is the sound of veteran news reporter and interviewer Charlie Rose having the living shit shocked out

Guns Don't Kill People - Judges and Parole Boards Kill People

2008-12-03T11:00:00.003-06:00

Regarding the likely murderer of the mother, sister and nehew of Jennifer Hudson:Here we see:Balfour was out on parole from the Illinois River Correctional Center on attempted-murder, carjacking and stolen-property charges, for which he had been sentenced to serve seven years.Here we see:Family members told police that Balfour, 27, paroled for an attempted murder in 2006, had threatened his

"The American soldier is a beautiful and worthy heir to those who liberated France and Europe"

2008-11-29T19:53:00.004-06:00

Praise for the G.I. - from the French, no less! (Who else would call G.I.s "beautiful"?)A must-read.From Orion Hood by way of Bill Whittle.

My Lame Attempt at Good Will Wishes for Obama

2008-11-09T15:06:00.002-06:00

I wish I could write something for this, but after the thuggish behaviour of Obama and his supporters during the primary caucuses, I cannot.So I'll link to Bill Whittle doing it instead..

What is the "Bill" So Far?

2008-11-09T14:27:00.006-06:00

In a comment to a previous post, reader obloodyhell made this point (among others):One thing to realize -- 700 billion sounds like a hell of a lot -- but, at least up until a couple months ago -- it was about 20 days output for the nation.Not to attack OBH, [ at least not now ;) ], but simply to note: if only it were just $700 Billion.The $700 Billion is just the Emergency Economic

Obama's Massive Caucus Fraud - And the Democrats's Shame

2008-11-04T20:26:00.005-06:00

Words fail me. I'm so goddamn disgusted and depressed.Obama stole all the caucuses he "won" in the primary. These tactics bring to mind nothng so much as the Nazis and the Brown-Shirts in the 1920s and 1930sAnd Hillary had to know it was happening as early as the Iowa Caucus in January, and certainly by Super Tuesday, yet failed to make a campaign issue of it. Party unity and winning was more

Happy Halloween - Just Another 3 Days of Radical-Islamic Murder

2008-11-01T19:11:00.008-05:00

Just the last 3 days of infamy from the list at The Religion of Peace.Date Country City Killed Injured Description 10/31/2008 Pakistan Mardan 8 25 A suicide bomber walks into a home and detonates himself, killing at least eight other people. 10/31/2008

I'm Bored....

2008-10-22T22:44:00.002-05:00

So I'll just post this pic again:I will never get tired of posting this pic. Anytime somebody wants to defend Bush on anything, I just point to this. Further words are superfluous..

When you're in a hole, STOP DIGGING

2008-10-12T09:03:00.002-05:00

Well, this puts the lie to the myth that new executive branch regulation would improve the performance of the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.From Bloomberg (hat tip comments of Calculated Risk):Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Federal regulators directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to start purchasing $40 billion a month of underperforming mortgage bonds as the Bush administration expands its options to

"One cannot rule out a systemic collapse and a global depression"

2008-10-10T07:21:00.003-05:00

The title - "one cannot rule out a systemic collapse and a global depression." - comes from Nouriel Roubini's article yesterday:The world is at severe risk of a global systemic financial meltdown and a severe global depressionAlthough long called Doctor Doom, and long predicting the chaos in the financial markets, he has previously predicted only a long, severe, recession...until now. The fact

All Roubini All the Time

2008-10-08T12:15:00.003-05:00

This partial screen shot from finance.yahoo.com main page:Now if only our government would get a clue.I've been reading Nouriel Roubini for a year or more and he's been talking about the "systemic meltdown" at least that long. Other economists used to call him Doctor Doom. Now they just call him to find out what's next.He was wrong on one call though: he thought it would take another 6 - 12

Treasury Bailout: A Den of Thieves

2008-10-06T13:32:00.005-05:00

Paulson picks Neel Kashkari as interim head of the bailout program.The 35-year-old Kashkari is a former Goldman Sachs Inc. banker, the investment giant once headed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The new office was created by the emergency legislation enacted Friday to fund the largest government bailout in history.How much does it take to see the pure grab for taxpayer gold that this "

My Opinion on What McCain Should Do to Win

2008-10-05T14:51:00.006-05:00

As of now I'm for McCain. I think the arguments that convinced me may convince others. So here is what I think that he should do:Emphasize, that even with all the trouble in the econcomy, the number one issue is the war on terror, which means the war on Islamic Fundamentalism. This should be in every speech by McCain, Palin and every surrogate. It should be in many, many TV ads.Continue to

An Explanation of the Senseless Bailout?

2008-10-05T07:32:00.004-05:00

Once more from Economic Disconnect, Sinister Side to the Bailout Hysteria:It has been well documented by Mish and Market Ticker (who has a great video up tonight; it is a must see) that the darkside to this money grab may have more to do with foreign creditors than is being spoken about. China, Japan, Saudi Arabia and many others were duped into buying tons of the mortgage backed AAA rated toxic

Throw the Bums OUT!

2008-10-04T19:31:00.003-05:00

I'm not any sort of artist. This is what I came up with. Free for use however you like. Please acknowledge sourse if not to inconvenient.The plan - from Economic Disconnect :Folks, we were screwed royally on this past bill. Every single poll, every single person I talked to was firmly against this action. FIRMLY. The Congress decided they knew so much more than their constituents....if [

Pelosi: NOW we're going to have hearings!

2008-10-03T19:18:00.004-05:00

From CNN:Following the passage of the economic bailout bill Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said congressional hearings are planned to find the causes of the crisis and to determine "where we go from here."...."We were dealt a bad hand; we made the most of it," Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Friday.How nice. After letting yourselves be scared like little sissies into handing the most

FUCK CONGRESS! FUCK BUSH! FUCK PAULSON!

2008-10-03T12:46:00.000-05:00

FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!

It's the Audience, Stupid!

2008-10-02T22:17:00.002-05:00

I play guitar. I suppose I could claim semi-pro status, as I have been in a band that got paid for gigs, but that was the exception more than the rule.I'm good enough that sometimes people will tell me they like what I do. I'm lousy enough that I've thrown the guitar in the corner in frustration.But over the years I've been through enough cycles of rehearsals and gigs with a few bands that I

How the Paulson Plan HURTS CREDIT MARKETS

2008-10-02T11:37:00.004-05:00

In a previous post on the corrupt and wrong-headed Paulson "Swindlers Bailout Act of 2008" I wrote:Still unaddressed is the impact on the credit markets - or the impact on the dollar- of $700 Billion of *additional* US borrowing.Today in a post at Naked Capitalism, one of Yves Smith's readers makes this issue more explicit:Much of the working capital market, for decades has come via money market

More on the Idiotic "CRA-and-GSEs-Caused-This" Meme

2008-10-02T09:02:00.006-05:00

Barry Ritholtz in this article puts more nails in the coffin:These memes have become a rallying cry -- cognitive dissonance writ large -- of those folks who have been pushing for greater and greater deregulation, and are now attempting to disown the results of their handiwork.• Did the 1977 legislation, or any other legislation since, require banks to not verify income or payment history of

House was Right to Reject the Fatally Flawed Paulson Bailout

2008-10-01T08:25:00.004-05:00

The modifications made to the original Paulson 3 page diktat were cosmetic.Time to shit-can this plan and start over - this time with help from respected outside economists - not just discredited hacks like Paulson and Bernanke.See here for information from a real expert, Nouriel Roubini on how various bailouts work - and why the Paulson plan is one of the worst possible ways to do it. Roubini

Right Wingnut Myths 2: The Democrats Prevented GSE Regulation

2008-09-30T16:35:00.002-05:00

The ignorant right has been huffing glue again. They are screaming about how many times the Democrats defeated plans to regulate Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.Newsflash: The GSEs have been under Executive Branch Regulation since at least 1992.Until Paulson put them in conservatorship, the GSEs were regulated by HUD and OFHEO - both part of the Executive Branch.From OFHEOs FAQ:How is oversight of

Right Wingnut Myths: "The CRA Caused the Subprime Crisis"

2008-09-30T14:56:00.017-05:00

A table regarding Community Reinvestment Act loans and Subprime loans:CharacteristicCRASubprimeInterest RatelowHIGHDefault RatelowHIGHTimeframeMostly before 2003Exploded after 2005Issuersall by Regulated Banksat least 3/4 by enitites no fully regulated by CRALocationby law, Neighborhoods where bank deposits were takenMuch in vast new construction such as the Inland Empire and exurban Phoenix,

It's Not A Coincidence!

2008-09-29T10:37:00.006-05:00

Notice how you never see these two guys together?Of course this comparison is unfair. One is a vile bloodsucking creature draining life from the living to the dead. The other is a movie character.

Is it Naive for Obama To Meet Ahmedinijad?

2008-09-28T23:27:00.006-05:00

Everbody on the right is all up in arms about what could happen if, as President, Obama met the madman who is president of Iran.Could it be possibly be any worse than this? HOW?Thinking George W. Bush can conduct foreign policy - now THAT is naive!UPDATE: Oh, but there were pre-conditions for this - no tongues!.

More Evidence Against the SEC "Regulation"

2008-09-28T19:15:00.003-05:00

All those who think this nothing to do with the finanical crisis, hands up? Yep, the usual neo-theo-con morons.Leading up to its collapse, Bear Stearns was participating along with other major investment banks in a “voluntary” oversight program begun in 2004 designed to consolidate supervision. The idea was that voluntary regulation of these banks was the only way to effectively govern their

The De-Liberative Definitive Presidential Debate Review

2008-09-26T21:07:00.005-05:00

They both suck donkey dick.I hadn't done enough drugs, so I couldn't take it. Literally. I could feel I.Q. points being sucked out of my skull as I listened.I don't know what mixture of meth, coke, smack, ibogaine, weed, alcohol and glue huffing it takes to take either of these guys seriously. Maybe enough Valium to render me unconscious would have allowed me to leave the TV turned on, but

Hank Paulson as "419" Scammer

2008-09-23T13:41:00.002-05:00

See Here.Hilarious, except that it is true.