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Irony Defined – In The Technical Sense
2010/10/08 By 28 Comments
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A Covert Wet Kiss For Wall Street
The Administration’s much ballyhooed ‘financial overhaul plan’ is remarkably timid. And internally self-contradictory. As noted, for all the posturing, Geithner ran from SEC reform, executive compensation and insurance regulation. Sure, the ‘systemic risk’ approach touches large ‘too big to fail’ entities and requires registration by venture capital firms, private equity and hedge funds — although [...]
Thoughts On Boston’s Crisis, The New Tribalism And Participatory Meaning
Events in Boston last week illustrate how technology shapes our personal identity. And how little we understand the process. Boston shows us a foretaste of the new tribalism that relies on ephemeral situations and adrenalin to create a sense of belonging. It will change what it means to be an American. What Is The New [...]
Running Into A Brick Wall, Audaciously (Revised)
Many have predicted that Obama’s fiscal recklessness squandered finite, borrowed time and money. Sprinkled across hollow facades. Under this appraisal, Obama deficits, woefully inadequate stimulus, etc. -collectively they shot one of — if not the last — chits of the U.S. financial ‘supremacy’ meme living off inertia. Regardless, the financial world is all too clear [...]
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It’s been a bad run for Israel lately. Consider the events over the past two years that have led up to this moment. The war on Gaza, initially justified by Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, was grossly disproportional and resulted in war crimes against Palestinians that completely overshadowed the casus belli. Since then, the [...]
If I die of vanity
Promise me
Promise me
They bury me
Some place I don’t want to be
You’ll dig me up
And transport me
Unceremoniously
Away from
The swollen city breeze
The garbage bag trees
Whispers of disease
Acts of enormity
And lower me
Slowly and sadly and properly
Get Ry Cooder
To sing my eulogy
At the hundredth meridian
Where the great plains begin
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To be refudiated !
Doc – do you recall they review of her PhD these re Chezchos/USSR we posted a while back? It was from 1985 and basically pointed out everthinging in her dis was wrong and it was based entirely on Soviet propaganda from a defector who had re-defected.
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Just excerpts. Our nieces still have their Barbies if we feel like getting the full scoop.
Watching Condi Rice at N. Press Club – Have you read her memoir?
Huckabee? Doubt Obama believes that. He prob thinks Romney – but since Romney has a chance, he’d rather have Huckabee.
He also wants to elevate Ryan – as a future social sec foil.
This WH retinue must reprove basic political competence to regain benefit of the doubt. These Obama town halls with the ‘Twilight’ vampire generation . . .? One gains new appreciation for McChrystal’s exasperation and dismay but not his poor judgment venting to a reporter.
Baker’s article was about 3 or 4 times longer than it needed to be – Baker focused a lot on pseudo stuff that beltwayers like. Also, Baker has no real reason to think FinReg had bipartisan potential, but he pretends – so he can be fake balanced and shake his head at partisanship on both sides. This is where Baker becomes a bore –
All of this is irrelevant – Reagan’s polls were low – but when the economy improved his numbers improved- Obama’s numbers will also improve with a better economy. Clinton’s bad numbers were more about the kulturwar – But when he had a foil and a booming economy, his numbers improved – Recall Bill Bennett expressing disappointment in America for giving Clinton a pass on Monica while the economy boomed.
Everyone comes up with reasons why Carter or Reagan etc have this or that poll rating – but that reason is just something that comes after the economy determines basic popularity levels.
Peter Baker lost us right in the beginning when he says Obama sat in a leather chair that was reupholstered – not just refurbished. So we have this image of a leather chair with upholstery piled on top of it.
This is simply baffling. Bueller? Bueller?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/magazine/17obama-t.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all
Dimon says move on:
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/13/dimon-downplays-foreclosure-mess/?section=magazines_fortune&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/magazines_fortune+(Fortune+Magazine)&utm_content=Twitter
The whole secret money thing is the only thing that has really got FNC hosts in a defensive and angry rage –
As uncle pat said — it’s working. Rove will never reveal his donors. They will just angry.
Anyway, there is some unspoken reason why Todd is so upset over this. This whole money issue must affect him in some indirect way. There’s some reason – we think this is a great issue for Dems if they really push it. The idea of just letting the whole secret money thing slip is somethings only a that insider ilk that likes to lose would think ok.
Uncle Pat, Donny Deutch and Tina brown all think the WH foreign/secret money message works – Yet, C. Todd keeps rolling his eyes and falsely says the WH lost the fact debate – There is zero doubt the Amcham received fuingible money – Ofcourse he was backed up by the weak and uninteresting Charles Blow. Blow is just not an interesting writer. But anyway – we think that the most interesting part was Willie Geist acting surprised that Fred Hiatt sides with Rove.
Not to make too much – but we have to walk back what we said about MoDo – We just read her article in full and she us actually nuanced in her review of O’D. We made the mistake of reading a winger’s angry out of context quote – But MoDo does that all the time herself.
This was the performance that Dowd mocked re O’Donnell – Have to say we were surprised by how well O’D does here (though we think her thoughts are mostly all derivative). We doubt Dowd could understand Tolkein better since she does not seem to know Tolkein is a well regarded scholar and writer. O’D's intern has zero web presence, but she is rather smart – something does not add up:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/179705-1
We knew we were right to see something wrong about C Todd’s action the other day because we saw FNC & Friends and Fox all day screaming bloody mayhem over this Amcham issue – which is a slam dunk. The pushback was angry and squeaky all day – so they know it is a good issue against the GOP. But this is exactly the kind of thing the masochistic dems flinch at – Predictably Sulliven complains against demagoging the Chamber, but supposedly the Chamber should be allowed to just attack wout paying a price. If RFK were around, T. Donahue would in some secret prison by now.
It’s just venal tropism. In Barbour’s case, he’s got so many chits in this town. And when he is not spouting stuff ‘everyone knows’ he doesn’t believe in public, he’s a fairly practical pol.
MSNBC should unleash Eugene Robinson on the matter. His penetrating, relentless, steely-eyed insight will shed the missing incandescent light and banish all doubt.
That was the wrong link – meant to give the link to Hamm’s spot on Bill Maher.
Leo – you’re Movement anthropology is usually spot and you know how insecure and culturally obtuse many of the figures are – Esp, the love/hate/obsession with pop culture:
http://ht.ly/2QFsW
NB – how the conservatives react – upset that one of their fictional heroes (who they imagined as some sort of Republican in the show) lets his mask slip and speak something commonplace. Hamm does not seem flighty and/or in any way a caricature celeb liberal. Also – note the other McCain project some of his own masculine insecurities (a recurrent theme on his blog) onto Hamm.
Leo, have you read The Secret History of MI6? Colbert is having fun now.
Palin’s FB page has become a nasty bulletin board – with suggestions of violence from commentators directed at real and perceived liberals
“relentless hatred of the enemy that [should] impel us over and beyond the natural limitations of man and transform us into effective, violent, selective, and cold killing machines”.
~(Che Guevera telling his mororcycle journey pal David Mitrani what the revolutionary left must cultivate.)
Also – C. Todd is constantly touting H. Barbour to the point of airbrushing away Barbour’s daily attacks against Obama over the spill – Again, if Todd were a R that would make sense, but he is a liberal Dem.
“Young man, if I had I been but a few years younger, I would have loved nothing better that to have served under your command in this great venture.”
~Winston Churchill to Kremit Roosevelt (1953)
(upon hearing of joint CIA-SIS success in overthrowing Iran’s Mossadegh – an operation
still paying dividends.)
Who was that masked Man? He left this lead bullet behind.
the trippiest thing I’ve seen on The Toobz.