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Haven’t posted because nothing has changed. And the trajectory of likely developments along a course we’ve all covered together, yes?
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Bridge To Nowhere?
Detroit was always going to get something. It’s never been a serious question. Only how much on what terms. A transition bridge loan for the political transition appropriately is lowest common denominator thinking from exhausted and discredited political and economic elites. Whether even this truncated gesture actually serves a viable purpose beyond symbolism is material [...]
Brits Say The Funniest Things (Pt. 1 of a Series)
Outgoing British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir David Manning hints that rumors of the death of American power have been greatly exaggerated. While not Churchillian in his buck up, suck up utterances, Manning managed not to blame us for stealing all the good BBC shows and often ruining them. Or for exporting the worst of [...]
Overheard: Undecided Voters From An Undisclosed Location In Nevada
Grey Alien Type A #1: She’s [Angle] got a point. He’s pathetic. Has to man up and grow a pair . . . You look kind of Asian to me, too. Grey Alien Type A #2: Don’t harsh your unmotivation on me. Any Democratic Senate Majority Leader jabbers meaningless insider geek stuff. It’s smart Democratic [...]
A Glimmer Of Hope
President Obama’s speech today brought smiles to the Bunker. How nice to remember them again. Admittedly, he gives er, good speech. And his policies to date are more cautious and Warlord-lite than we secretly hoped for despite our skepticisms during the primary and his appellation of ‘Boy King’. So as a summary of his first [...]
Migration Update: Expect to have a test migration of the entire site (everything, including comments, images, etc.) underway soon. It’s a little more complicated than usual just given the idiosyncratic nature of the public and back end of things.
Per the ideas in this thread, an e-book might be a good second step. Some of the art would have to be recreated in that event for a number of reasons, but that also could be an opportunity. Will open an Administrative Post before anything starts rolling to give folks a heads up.
@Dr Leo Strauss
Sometimes he just shows that deep down he is so full of s*** and it bothers him because he knows she should rise above that.
@RedPhillip
Thanks for the feedback on 1.0 Philip. Agree that capturing what we’ve all built here has to include everything to get the snapshot. The server conversations are not time sensitive but need to happen. Whatever eventually unfolds, anything that happens has to include everything.
@Tbilisi Hi, the book/e-book, Tbilisi, strikes a chord now. Didn’t focus on some earlier nudges. Would like something that belongs to all of us available to all of us.
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Look on Newt’s face priceless.
I haven’t had occasion to mention it yet, but I too have found great value in working my way through Bunker 1.0. I was and am struck by the degree of perspicacity in so many posts and comments, and hope you find a way to keep everything available. If nothing else it will serve as proof that not everyone went blindly into collapse and ruin. (Besides, I haven’t made it all the way to the end of Bunker 1.0.)
Tuttle? Surely you mean Buttle, because the Ministry of Information doesn’t make mistakes.
@DrLeoStrauss
Re: A key question remains how to archive/preserve the collective record. Your comment about going deeper into the 1.0 pool underscores it.
Good Doctor, have you considered putting it all into a book? Preferably a leather bound illuminated manuscript, or failing that an e-book so at least you could make an income selling data on exactly what we are reading and for how long.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-july-28-2011/moment-of-zen—newt-gingrich-s-campaign-t-shirts
@Sam Lowry A cold one raised one back, Sam, and to all our gang. From whichever Center we find ourselves.
Thanks for the kind words. They also apply to you and everyone. Whatever we all built together here for the Reality Based Community, it’s a living record of the tumultuous now. If some conversations started with a private e-mail or other exchange? The fruits are still here.
Your note’s also timely. Mulling external reasons to migrate server/re-configure things. A key question remains how to archive/preserve the collective record. Your comment about going deeper into the 1.0 pool underscores it.
Appreciate your thoughtfulness. Glad we, like Tuttle, are in this together.
But is it smug condescension if you’re right? It sees like a reasonable reaction to a nation of people willfully refusing to see reality. So while it’s not a pose that will likely win people over, at this point what will? I mean, this is a nation where people accept without question what is little more than a modified version of the Underpants Gnomes business model as a viable economic system (1. Tax cuts/free trade/mercantilism! 2. ??? 3. Prosperity!). Among other things.
FWIW, I’ve been reading STSOZ 2.0 for a little more than 2 years (I’ve gone through a good bit of the archives as well as those in Bunker 1.0), around the same time I found Kevin Phillips’ “American Theocracy”. Quite serendipitous if I do say so. Like pimping, getting people out of the cave ain’t easy, though. Thank you for creating this outpost in the Reality Based Community. I’ll be sure to hoist a cold one in your honor from the mess hall in the Michelle Bachmann re-education center ’round about 2013.
Remix because initial presentation a bit lazy. Blink today more hamster wheel.
Not sure how we would work the Hill full time w/ social media now. On the one hand, volume of info now available mind boggling. OTO, 75-80% of all lobbying is ‘defensive’ and requires below the radar/no fingerprints ingress/egress.
Frankly, of the several major pieces of legislation we played non-trivial part from XP PC first draft to POTUS signature not sure we could succeed in today’s environment. It’s not Heston screaming madhouse but more like trapped in a room with hornet swarms.
All leading to significant contemplation about this blog and the undeniably smug condescension. Much like a calvary officer riding to the front in 1939.