Like, a uniform.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.costumesofnashua.com/CNWebSite105/Active905/Pages/CostumeRental/MilitaryUniform/Pics%20Military/MilitaR90985SA.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Buffett 2012
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Never will happen. The profile for billionaire prez candidates runs more along the lines of Perot or Trump type egocentrics. Buffett is just too even-tempered to be tempted.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
no, Morbius, no.
― the widening gyre (remy bean), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://sharkysoceanisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/50255_2211687417_315_n.jpg
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
getting all riled up reading this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jSX6nyxKL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg
am i crazy for thinking marxist/anarchist thought and praxis is way less crazy than anything else out there right now?
― puerile fantasies (Matt P), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
whatever that means. it's a good book imo, at least so far.
i can't believe they [ain't] takin warren's wealth
― cloud computing, robotics, 3G wireless connectivity, Skype, (history mayne), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Fox News (the gift that keeps on giving) on Mr. Buffett:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201108150031
― Friedrich das Wunderhahn hat den traurigen Clownporn sehr gern (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Can't believe how hard this story about an unemployed dad abandoning his 11-year-old is hitting me.
"There are no jobs for architects..."
http://www.startribune.com/local/south/128464413.html
― Hey T-Paw, mow my lawn! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 26 August 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
that is depressing but that guy, assuming he is an architect, probably could have found work somewhere in the country; he sounds like he has some other very serious mental health issues going on.
― akm, Friday, 26 August 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, totally. It's not strictly economy-related, it's being a single caregiver, unemployed, home repossessed. Sending the son to the neighbor is the craziest part; he's either so depressed he's not thinking clearly -- or he's a complete asshole.
― Hey T-Paw, mow my lawn! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 26 August 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
Morro Bay and Carmel? I note this guy is ending up in some reasonably high-flying areas.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 August 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
he's either so depressed he's not thinking clearly -- or he's a complete asshole
i had typed a nearly identical post, so i'll just say otm
― slow mo desaturated rapha vids featuring quirky bikedorks on steel (Hunt3r), Friday, 26 August 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
posted a link to dean baker's free (!) new book 'the end of loser liberalism: making markets progressive' already on the rolling US politics thread, and here's a repost
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/books/the-end-of-loser-liberalism?utm_source=CEPR+feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cepr+%28CEPR%29
since it's fundamentally an economics polemic about things like hiking inflation from 2% to 4%, weakening the dollar to boost exports (and job growth) and instituting more euro-style work sharing programs. since he called the housing bubble way back in 2002, he has credibility to burn. it reads like an econ 101 textbook/greatest hits of all the bad policy decisions by the federal reserve since the republican revolution of '94, without sparing democratic sins, either. a nice refresher for fans of our sweet and steady financial slide and a decent primer for anyone curious about why congress is arguing about deficits like a bunch of dumbshits instead of stimulating us back to decent employment rates. and it's free (!)
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 1 September 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
and it's free (!)
liberal academic elites don't know shit about making money
― Gukbe, Thursday, 1 September 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe they have bigger fish to fry.
― Aimless, Thursday, 1 September 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
those goddamn hippies wouldn't fry a fish
― Gukbe, Thursday, 1 September 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
Heed the old wise saying: Give a man a fish and he will have a raw fish. Teach a man to fry a fish and he will eat some fried fish.
― Aimless, Thursday, 1 September 2011 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
Jimmy Buffet for Corpse
lately I been thinkin - I think I got it sorted - too much technology and iLife is making there not be the need to make products anymore like newspapers and batteries that arent rechargable and working from home - thats why the economy is in the badgerbox!
― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/the-fallacy-behind-tax-holidays/
― dayo, Sunday, 11 September 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/us/14census.html
― Aerosol, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
The recession continued to push Americans to double up in households with friends and relatives, especially those ages 25 to 34, a group that experienced a 25 percent increase in the period between 2007, when the recession began, and 2011. Of that group, 45.3 percent were living below the poverty line, when their parents’ incomes were not taken into account.
“We’re risking a new underclass,” said Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research and Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Young, less educated adults, mainly men, can’t support their children and form stable families because they are jobless.”
According to Republican talking points, some of these folks are deliberately staying poor to avoid paying income taxes.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
So Bank of America is getting ready to shed 30,000+ jobs. Looks like the primary reason is the mortgage mess they got into. I wonder how many of those jobs will be replaced by more robosigners?
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
awful for the people that are losing their jobs, but would be kind of awesome to interface with a robot to renegotiate a mortgage. or do anything. coz robots are awesome.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, September 13, 2011 1:59 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
The thing is Republicans have such a strong, irrational hatred of taxes that they can actually believe this.
― Jews Did Irene (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
That article is depressing.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
If mo money equals mo problems, then less money surely equals less problems. Q.E.D., Republicans.
Some of the practicalities of unemployment never hit me until I heard an NPR interview with a I want to say Greek guy, in Greece, who talked about how he literally couldn't afford to marry his longterm girlfriend, because that would mean living together, expectations of starting a family, someone staying home with a kid, etc., all of which was beyond his financial means. It was kind of sad.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/us/politics/in-granholm-book-cautionary-economic-lessons-from-michigan.html
“Everything that is hitting the country hit Michigan first,” Ms. Granholm said in an interview, reflecting on eight years in office in which the state’s economic crisis overshadowed all else. Her response to the crisis, she said, was to cut spending, cut government jobs, cut taxes — the very approach now being promoted elsewhere, particularly after Republican victories in statehouses around the country in 2010.“We tried all of those prescriptions, too,” said Ms. Granholm, whose final term ended with the start of this year. “We did everything that people would want us to do, and yet it didn’t work.”She added: “Laissez-faire, passivity, tax cuts, hands-off does not work. And, really, that’s the lesson from this laboratory of democracy which is Michigan.”
“We tried all of those prescriptions, too,” said Ms. Granholm, whose final term ended with the start of this year. “We did everything that people would want us to do, and yet it didn’t work.”
She added: “Laissez-faire, passivity, tax cuts, hands-off does not work. And, really, that’s the lesson from this laboratory of democracy which is Michigan.”
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Sunday, 18 September 2011 12:08 (twelve years ago) link
exacerbated by the fact that they bought out Countrywide in early 2008.
― soul ma cosa nostra (Eisbaer), Sunday, 18 September 2011 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
Young, less educated adults, mainly men, can’t support their children and form stable families because they are jobless.
The more usual formulation of this sentence in the past replaced the word "jobless" with "landless". This shows how much times have changed. But, never fear; this situation will ensure an oversupply of cannon fodder for the Imperial stormtroopers, so what we lose in terms of a productive economy we gain in the ability to grab booty from less powerful nations.
― Aimless, Sunday, 18 September 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
post this on the politics thread just now -- krugman crediting the GOP's 'innovation'
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/new-developments-in-the-political-business-cycle/
It’s hard to see the GOP letter threatening Ben Bernanke if he does anything to help the economy as anything but an attempt to invert the political business cycle, pressuring the central bank to ensure a weak economy in the year before the election.
say it ain't so!
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
So the CR spending bill just failed unexpectedly in the house; the government funding expires Sep 30. I have no idea what this means beyond a vague memory of the "Shutdown" WW episode.
― stet, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
whoops.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
lol America?
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
This situation is what whips (second in command to the speaker) are for. If Boehner can't or won't whip his members into line, then you may as well hang tinsel from his ears and use him as a Christmas tree.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
philanthropy stories always make me feel better (just a little bit)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2011/09/21/george-kaisers-10-billion-bet/
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC19fEqR5bA
this is going viral i think
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
it was suggested that it was a hoax?
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
where?
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
in the comments at least. i guess there's a rumor that he's a yes man but i don't think so.
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
guardian looking into it.
― Rory's new misogynist car (Gukbe), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the yes men are denying involvement and saying this guy is just "a trader being more honest than usual"
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
it doesn't even seem particularly controversial? if it is a fake, they shoulda gone beyond, well, "a trader being more honest than usual"
― iatee, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i mean the outrage is kind of surprising me? like, i thought we already assumed this was how these slimeballs think
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. There is nothing he says that is contrary to reality, as experienced by a trader. He exagerates when he says Goldman Sachs runs the world, but to a trader that perception is spot on. He could be wrong about the depth of the next crash, but he has probably placed most or all of his bets on that outcome and therefore believes in its truth and has expressed his faith in the most sincere way a trader may do so.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
he was re-interviewed by another bbc outlet last night, and was if anything even more irritating/assholish. same basic points made tho.
― yeah, niche-y, that's what i meant (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
it's definitely a "let them eat cake" moment
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
"you have savings in the bank you are worried about losing? you should be shorting stocks!"
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link