We think we control the vertical. Try hard with the horizontal. We, however, know for sure about the Goldilocks thing.
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The Imperial City And The World
We think we control the vertical. Try hard with the horizontal. We, however, know for sure about the Goldilocks thing.
Follow here for your conditioning. Watch and believe . . .
Sheen gathers over a million Twitter followers in a day. He opened a Twitter account with the help of Hollywood product placement company Ad.ly. The company, doing this ‘pro bono’, specializes in celebrity endorsements. Sheen is open about his motive: money. After all, Kim Kardashian earns $10,000 per contractual tweet. Depending how fast he types, not a bad gig.
Meanwhile, Newt’s debut for the Big Dance 2012 is mess. For his last chance at the brass ring one would think 12 years was enough time to get basics down. So how bemusing to see Newt remains Newt — strategic trial balloons leaked and then immediately knocked down by his own people. The right hand is not talking to the righter hand. To wit, nobody coordinating tying up his financial matters before showing ankle to the press. His Fox contractual implications not considered. etc.
His big moment today? Walked back so far, it’s beyond feeble. He can only announce an intention to set up an exploratory committee.
For those who’ve spent time with him, vintage Newt. Disorder, confusion and last minute scramble to assemble an after the fact narrative. Same as it ever was. Can’t wait for the campaign. Really.
Bob Gates is a frustrated man. It’s March 2011 and he’s *again* a lonely voice warning Congress, Obama and other audiences against mounting military operations in a third Muslim nation. Both Gates (and some military, to be fair) warn that a ‘no fly’ zone is not a simple speech but a complex military operation. It can only be established after destroying Libyan radars, AAA, air field infrastructure, etc. And that’s not mentioning calls to insert American ground troops in the midst of another Muslim civil war. The Boy King? Perhaps for diplomatic maneuver room he leaves the door open to no-fly requests from a motley assortment of ‘provisional opposition leaders.’
Gates surely must know the way to jam Obama is to play on his Goldilocks Syndrome. That means manipulation of the extreme options to ensure his compulsion to compromise lands the U.S. where *you* want. A problem? Everyone else knows the game and they get a vote, too.
So any bets which will last longer? Newt’s campaign? Khadaffi’s stand? Or Sheen-mania?
What’s not to love? Especially when you see how I party. It was epic. The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards just look like droopy-eyed armless children.
I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available because if you try it you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.
I got tiger blood, man. My brain….fires in a way that is — I don’t know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.
Charlie Sheen (Feb. 27, 2011)
I like it. My wife hates it. Does that surprise anyone?
James Carville’s commercial for Miracle Whip (Feb. 2011)
Everybody on the outside kept claiming I was a sociopath. I asked her [his therapist], ‘Am I a sociopath?’
Bernie Madoff (Feb. 2011)
Not just because everything would be ‘classy, world class, the best.’ We expect that from our presidents. And get over the hair. Nixon? Carter? Reagan?
America deserves Trump because they are both two of a kind: highly leveraged while pretending to be solvent and wealthy. Trump knows how to negotiate with creditors when in default. When you owe a bank $75,000 you’re in trouble. When it’s $2.2 billion, they’re screwed. The coming bankruptcy will be history’s largest. Who better than the Donald?
Plus, with Trump America can welcome Roger Stone back into the limelight. A former dirty trickster for Nixon he was later one of the founding members of Black, Manafort & Stone (Atwater didn’t want to become a lobbyist). He has lingered in the shadows since.
Imagine Trump selling off toxic collateralized debt on QVC: ‘These historic collectors items are the best, only these instruments are fit to bear my name. And you know I insist on everything being the finest in the world. Order now and Ivanka will also add a special edition of ‘Trump Cologne’, the classiest cologne. Call now before we sell out of these premium, unique investments and a piece of American history.’
We could go on, but surely you see the inevitability?
What do the unpaid contributors and their commenting audience get from the AOL deal? Apparently permission to keep on doing what they do, still unpaid. As true serfs, they will thank the Manor Born for that permission. Better to get some publicity — they think — than toil in some ‘not part of the conversation’ twilight.
All of us probably know someone or perhaps some have posted items/comments on that site. What we’ve found talking to acquaintances is a weird passive resentment being used mixed with pride that their item is posted. Like a sweating serf beaming after receiving a nod from the carriage as it enters the gates.
Hats off to Arianna for using all those people so ruthlessly and profiting off them so blatantly. With a few minor exceptions, the people we know who post items there deserve that unseemly existential resignation. Some deserve more. We can’t wait to see how the circus will set up shop under AOL. So many serfs wanting to be found.