Dow closes below 10,000 thanks to Euro crisis
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9974.45, the first time since February that it’s been lower than 10,000. As the Wall Street Journal described it, the decline occurred as “investors’ worries about global growth resurfaced, overshadowing strong U.S. data”:
Traders said the market’s late slide was fueled in part by the euro’s decline as investors continue to wait for some sign that policy makers will take steps instead to reign in a potential spread of the euro zone’s debt crisis. The euro tumbled to $1.2193, compared to $1.2334 late Tuesday, in volatile trading dominated by market speculation about the additional fallout from the crisis….
The day’s reversal marked the third day in a row that the market has had a late-day move erasing the performance it had posted through most of the session. Traders say that even during rallies, buyers haven’t necessarily been motivated by strongly held conviction that the global economic rebound will last. As a result, they’ve been prone to take money off the table the first chance they get—an approach that fuels slides like the one Wednesday afternoon.
Republican leaders immediately demanded congressional hearings, investigations and the appointment of a special prosecutor, adding the decline to their growing list of reasons for impeaching President Obama.
OK, just kidding about that last part.
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Soothsayer
May 26th, 2010
9:02 pm
“Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they’re essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry. You know! we need to expand, expand! expand. There is no such thing as enough in our current economic model and kids are bearing the brunt of that…. So they’re isolated, they’re alone, they’re desperate. It’s a sad and lonely feeling….
The net effect of all of this marketing, all of this disorienting marketing, all of the shock media, all of this programming designed to untether us from a sense of self, is a loss of autonomy. You know, we no longer are the active source of our own experience or our own choices. Instead, we succumb to the notion that life is a series of product purchases that have been laid out and whose qualities and parameters have been re-established.”
–Douglas Rushkoff
as quoted by Charles Hugh Smith
Survival+
theyeshaveit
May 26th, 2010
9:02 pm
heathen, perhaps you have never swum in the ocean before. It is not a swimming pool. There are swells, tides, rip pulls and such and to quote Heraclitus (kind of) no one steps in the same ocean twice.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
9:02 pm
Carville is a loud mouth, hyper-opinionated, albeit very bright curmudgeon.
My kind of guy!
(I understand he lambasted BHO for not doing enough to help Louisiana…)
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 26th, 2010
9:03 pm
Josef
I’m thinking Mr. Benjamin was on the Confederate $2. Would I be right in that?
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
9:03 pm
“Theseus’s Paradox reminds me of the old man who had George Washington’s axe. As he said, “Of course, it’s had 3 new heads and 5 new handles since George had it.”
HD and josef–Which is why I don’t see how North/South differences of yore have any bearing on today. I am reluctant to accept credit OR blame for those who went before me.
“I don’t have a scientific mind; I have a mechanical mind”
Big brownie points for recognizing those skills as being different in nature, HD. Throw a complex science problem my way and I’m in hog heaven. Just don’t ask me to change the tape in the adding machine.
“I’m not down. I’m just exposing the travesty that has happened to me and my fellow middle class peeps.”
Buddy–we’ve only got limited time left in this place. Look toward the light, not the darkness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-CYWbfFoXY
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
9:07 pm
The saying means that when the economy improves, all benefit. Do you disagree, Kam?
I know perfectly well what the saying means. It was coined by laissez-faire, supply-side, tickle on types to justify the greed is good policy of the 80’s.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
9:13 pm
jnix, saw where you wrote you enjoyed the Meat Loaf. I had a feeling you would! And yes on the gallows humor.
Sooth, I saw a great article on global corporatization that reminded me of your 9:02. I wish I would have bookmarked it. TONS of examples of how they are insidiously working towards controlling every aspect of our lives from birth to death…
Wow, monster Jesse Colin Young et al, Bruno! Thanks, brother.
I wish I knew…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jrYwbYXc2o
godless heathen
May 26th, 2010
9:14 pm
So Kam, when the economy tanks, who suffers the most?
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 26th, 2010
9:16 pm
Big brownie points for recognizing those skills as being different in nature, HD.
In my mind, scientific and mechanical are entirely different. It’s true the two disciplines somewhat depend on each other but they are different. As far back as I can remember, I was taking stuff apart to see how it worked or trying to build things. On the other hand, a scientific discussion will have my eyes glazing over and my mind off to parts unknown. I took only the science courses that I had to, in school, and they bored me to death.
Of course, a side bar to that is engineering. I’ve known and worked with engineers who were brilliant but they fell into three categories. One were those who had common sense and could put their ideas to practical use. Two were those who were hyper smart bookwise and couldn’t see the forest for the trees. Category three were the ones who actually caused me the most grief. They were a pretty good mix of category one and category two but their drawback was that they were tinkerers. With them, nothing is ever finished. A guy I worked for building machines was like that. He actually built ingenious machines, theoretically of the same model, but each one would wind up different. When a person would need a replacement part for a machine they had bought, they had to send their old part in because there was no telling what was on it and the drawings were useless.
Soothsayer
May 26th, 2010
9:19 pm
So our national “politics of experience” serves three explicit goals:
1. Provide a superficially plausible simulacrum of justice, opportunity, equality, capitalism, good governance, etc., so the unskeptical/credulous will comply with the wishes of he Powers That Be and blame themselves (or a carefully designated “other group”) for whatever is awry in their communities.
2. Offer up a cornucopia of compelling of distractions via mindless “entertainments” and a broadcast media presenting a nonstop diet of “crimes, cops and docs” and a simulacrum of meaning and authenticity via social networks.
This includes a politically potent entertainment of divisive fingerpointing and rancor which works to create superficially appealing “us and them” ideologies.
3. Construct a simulacrum of authenticity bound and defined by consuming, buying and presenting an attractive avatar in the media, i.e a simulacrum of authority, “coolness” or celebrity which creates a sham Infrastructure of Self in a politics of experience dominated by hollow social networks, consuming/shopping and celebrity worship.
Since the key goal of the marketing/mass-media complex is to instill a pervasive, ubiquitous sense of insecurity in each “consumer” (how else to render someone susceptible to buying some needless item or service
than make them feel unworthy without it?), then it is predictable that the consumer responds by constructing an Infrastructure of Self of various brands and symbols of identity (tattoos, certain bands/brands of music etc.) which is an absurd simulacrum of authentic identity.
An authentic identity can only be formed by actions and deeds base on coherent internal beliefs–what was once known as strength character–and internal states (faith, rules of conduct, self-discipline, etc.) which are inaccessible to marketing.
—Charles Hugh Smith
Survival+
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
9:20 pm
“Wow, monster Jesse Colin Young”
Yeah, I had to play it three times in a row myself.
Awesome pick by the Cat……..Back at ya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_eUnxDE8YY
For HD, josef and any other old geezers on board tonight ^^^^^^^^^
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
9:25 pm
Hillbilly
Thass right! It’d be another century before one of “those people” would hold so high a post in the unified republic…reckon we can look for Kissenger on the $3:00 greenback…
Bruno–
Don’t take it so personally…
And as for your contention we should “fergit a’bout it…” The Leprachaun of the Hedge School’s lesson was thus: “Well, Jody, they wake up every day in a brand new world. Maybe that’s good, maybe it’s not. But it does explain why they keep on making the same mistakes over and over…”
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
9:25 pm
For me, one of the greatest talents in all of American music. And someone who always grabbed me right around the heart…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFowNFvmUxw&a=uH9fRbR1RLU&playnext_from=ML
(F&CK IRAQ)
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
9:28 pm
“…any other old geezers on board tonight…”
I resemble that remark…!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 26th, 2010
9:29 pm
Bruno
It ain’t my fault my get up and go, got up and went.
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
9:32 pm
So Kam, when the economy tanks, who suffers the most?
“…suffers the most” is one of those subjective kinda things. While I haven’t heard any stories about Paris Hilton crying in her Crystal, I find it easy to believe that she is complaining how she is suffering.
Let’s flip the script—when the economy is booming who is suffering? I maintain that it is the middle and lower class. As AmVet’s link shows, housing and healthcare have risen disproportionally to wages. To me, that suggests a major reason for the growth in personal debt. Did people go out and buy things on credit that they didn’t need? You betcha. But ever since the change-over from a war based economy (1942-mid 1970’s) to a consumer based economy, cheap money has fueled consumer spending. As long as full employment numbers were high, this wasn’t a problem.
Soothsayer
May 26th, 2010
9:33 pm
Politicians and marketers, of course, depend entirely on simulacra of “value” and persuasion to further their own interests, but the same can be said of the entire status quo. Thus we find media pandering to their target audiences via simulacrum “issues” to serve their own interests (selling advertisements and subscriptions) while prudently avoiding any penetrating critiques of their audience or advertisers.
The greatest simulacra are designed to foster the illusion that a system which benefits an Elite over the common good is actually serving the common good. This is the primary tool of persuasion of the State (all government at all levels) and entrenched Elites like the medical and legal establishments.
Stated another way: as the Elites’ interests diverge from those of the society as a whole, they construct elaborate simulacrums to win the society’s compliance and complicity (that is, the self-aggrandizement of I don’t care, I got mine.”)
For example, though the actual design and contracts for the construction of a massive State project will have already been decided behind closed doors, a simulacrum of “public participation” will presented to foster the illusion that the process was transparent and in the public interest. A series of “town hall” meetings is generally enough to mask the reality–an inside job all the way–with a soothing simulacrum of “democracy in action.”
—Charles Hugh Smith
Survival+
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
9:34 pm
AmVet
Jackson Brown has many a great and significant commentary, but this one still says it all to me…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnOkmGq3z3s
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
9:34 pm
“As far back as I can remember, I was taking stuff apart to see how it worked or trying to build things.”
I made an honest stab at being mechanical as a kid. I took an alarm clock apart one time, but never could get it back together. My last attempt at mechanics was a couple of years ago when I took my washing machine apart as a last resort before buying a new one. My only accomplishment was to dump about 3 gallons of water on my floor.
In a broader sense, there are 4 basic personality types which have been given different names over the years: Courageous (Artisan), Conceptual (Thinker), Compassionate (Idealist), and Conventional (Guardian). They correspond to the military skills of tactics, strategy, diplomacy and logistics.
HD–Courageous
josef–Conventional
AmVet–Compassionate
Bruno–Conceptual
Samantha
May 26th, 2010
9:39 pm
Dow goes up and down.
The real issue is that the adminstration’s only solution to anything is more government spending of money we don’t have.
Without health in the private sector, Obama can kiss his recovery good bye.
@@
May 26th, 2010
9:44 pm
When we used to make the drive to Florida for vacation, my daughter (3 or 4 at the time) would always look for cars towing boats. Then she’d say “Look, Daddy, they have a boat and we don’t.”
She still says it occasionally, just for fun.
Soothsayer
May 26th, 2010
9:45 pm
One of the key goals of the status quo’s propaganda is to convince the target audience (the U.S. citizenry) that institutionalized deception, fraud, obfuscation and looting have always been “business as usual” and thus protests are specious.
The key technique employed to accomplish this goal is to derealize U.S. history, depriving the target audience of any context that does not support the soothing contention that “everybody has always cheated, politicians have always been crooks,” etc.
Any history which suggests that the present era of fraud, debauchery of credit, State over-reach and Plutocratic excess is unprecedented or parallels moments in U.S. history which were immediately followed by financial collapse, strife and war is dismissed or expunged from the mass media.
This derealization of history has several moving parts:
1. Emphasize the present unceasingly and ignore the past as irrelevant. The “news cycle” shortens into soundbites and video snippets, eliminating any moment of relative calm for analysis or context. This could be termed induced amnesia.
2. Present a frenzy of images and emotional content that confuse and numb the audience via sensory and verbal overload.
3. Delegitimize skeptical inquiry and demands for transparency by dismissing our era’s ubiquitous fraud and over-reach as standard practice that has always been the norm in U.S. history.
This approach is effective because there is a kernel of truth in every admonishment that greed in inherent in human nature. But this appeal to greed as normal (if not “good”) masks the reality that previous eras of American history were characterized by robust negative feedbacks that limited financial fraud, deception and embezzlement.
4. Decontextualize scale. If the rentier [raunch-AY]-financial Elite pillaged $10 million in a previous period of unlimited financial looting and debauchery of credit (to grab a number from the air), then claim today’s looting of hundreds of billions of dollars–adjusted for inflation, an amount a 100-fold larger than the past sum–is “no different than the past, it’s just business as usual.”
The goal is to mask the truth that today’s over-reach and embezzlement is very different as it is two orders of magnitude greater and has reached its larcenous claws past the usual “den of thieves” on Wall Street into the heart of middle class wealth, housing and retirement savings.
—Charles Hugh Smith
Survival+
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
9:49 pm
Bruno
Interesting. I would like to disagree, preferring not to think of myself as conventional, but fact is I probably am…now, guardian, I do think of myself as that…
At the risk of going a bit overboard here by casting myself onto the 8th circle and bringing the threat of excommunication from my faith by bringing up astrology, I am a Gemini. (Hillbilly, how’s THAT for a run-on sentence!) Unmentionable says of us, “y’all have two personalities and both of them are schizophrenic…
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
9:49 pm
Here’s my JB dedication to ????????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNQ2FRzPCz8
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
9:50 pm
Samantha–
In response to your question downstairs…
The second (or first, depending on perspective) coming perhaps?
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
9:52 pm
“I am a Gemini”
Just when I was starting to like you, you had to go and reveal that. Jeeez.
You do have good company, however–both USinUK and Matilda from the day shift are Geminis.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
9:52 pm
Bruno @9:24, very, very cool…
“…and has reached its larcenous claws past the usual “den of thieves” on Wall Street into the heart of middle class wealth, housing and retirement savings.” Tragic and needless. But…greed is good.
josef I read once where Browne was heavily influenced by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and in his home prejudice wasn’t tolerated.
I was just trying to hear my song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGNdpnYYEkQ
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 26th, 2010
9:54 pm
At the risk of going a bit overboard here by casting myself onto the 8th circle and bringing the threat of excommunication from my faith by bringing up astrology, I am a Gemini.
I bow to your skill. My run-ons are no match for that.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
9:58 pm
“y’all have two personalities and both of them are schizophrenic…”
Sounds like you gotta real good (and smart) one there, friend!
More than Doctor My Eyes, that was the first JB song that laid me out, Bruno! (Always loved that Jerry Lee Lewis like piano in it.)
md
May 26th, 2010
10:00 pm
Just so it is not overlooked, along with the 300k teachers going bye bye, our current gang of misfits has seen to it to skim off the current crop of college kids too. Fed rate at .25 and loans at 6 – that is one hefty admin cost. We are screwing the kids from all angles.
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
10:00 pm
josef
There are several of us Geminis at JB’s. While I personally don’t put too much credence in this astrology thing, neither of me will ever be alone.
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
10:01 pm
“I was just trying to hear my song…”
Absolutely beautiful, Am. Thanks, bro.
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
10:07 pm
“I took my self a blue canoe…..”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOHLQg4VfqE
Soothsayer
May 26th, 2010
10:07 pm
“At the risk of going a bit overboard here by casting myself onto the 8th circle and bringing the threat of excommunication from my faith by bringing up astrology, I am a Gemini.”
Nicolaus Copernicus who died in 1543 knew that the Earth and all of the planets revolved around the Sun. Yet, he dare not state it in public lest he be burned at the stake for heresy. The Church at that time held that the Sun and all of the planets revolved around the Earth. That’s only about 500 years ago.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
10:15 pm
md, first I acknowledge that I know very little about the student loan program that you referenced earlier. (I used the GI Bill and am pretty much classically unedumacated) But I do know that the private lenders are heavily subsidized. (I think we all know what that means)
I’ve also read about some scandals in which schools were getting kickbacks to favor certain lenders. And that the federal government (you and me) has had to “buy” some of the banksters’ existing student loans to keep the money going to Johnny and Susie.
It would appear (on the surface) that once again, the “free market” has for a long, long time sh_t the bed in their responsibilities and now Uncle Sam has to clean up the mess. Whether he does or adds to it is hard to say…
(BTW, why the ____ isn’t higher education paid for like in virtually every other industrialized nation?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-3TZiyY9Sk
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
10:16 pm
Fellow Geminis?
Jefferson Davis, John Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, Brigham Young, Boy George, John Wayne… oh, what the h3ll…
http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes/star_sign/gemini
And K’chak..
And when things get boring, we can always have a discussion with ourselves..
@@
May 26th, 2010
10:17 pm
Citigroup and BofA’s stock goes up on the same day they admit to wrongdoing (hiding debt)?
That doesn’t make sense, but then I don’t have an understanding of how the market works.
md
May 26th, 2010
10:21 pm
Am,
Unfortunately, I see no difference in the two. The only difference is the skimmer.
We as a country should be investing in these kids and finding ways to make it easier – not harder. A gov’t loan should be the cost of the money plus admin costs – and that’s it – max.
Yet this crop of misfits sees the kids as a means to their end – pitiful.
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
10:22 pm
“Nicolaus Copernicus who died in 1543 knew that the Earth and all of the planets revolved around the Sun.”
Just so you and the others know, Soothsayer, Sun-centered models existed well before Copernicus–Aristarchus of Samos (310 BC – 230 BC) for example is credited with such a model. The Earth-centered model adopted by the Catholic Church was courtesy of Ptolemy of Alexandria (90 AD – 168 AD).
According to Einsteinian Relativity, however, there are no fixed reference points in space such that both models are actually correct depending upon your viewpoint.
Curious Observer
May 26th, 2010
10:22 pm
Thanks, Bruno, for the Cat song. I readily confess to being an old geezer, with 70 staring me in the face. But I’ll never be too old to enjoy the Cat. It’s sad that he’s been put on the No Fly list and can’t readily visit the states. His chief sin appears to be his conversion to Islam. I can’t imagine a more gentle soul.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
10:24 pm
“Unfortunately, I see no difference in the two. The only difference is the skimmer.”
I think we agree.
I was never a marketing guy (Gawd forbid!) but if I ever were, I’d coin the following: “We screw you so the middle man doesn’t have to!”
Short and sweet.
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
10:24 pm
AmVet..
@ 10:15
Just came on my 80s station…! Ooooooo! You and Pandora are about to put the Bruin out of the top spot in precognition….
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
10:26 pm
“Citigroup and BofA’s stock goes up on the same day they admit to wrongdoing (hiding debt)?”
Go Citi!!!!! The price dropped late in the day, however, when the government announced it was dumping back 1.5 billion shares after hours. I’m betting Obama and the boys will make a big show then give them a little slap on the wrist.
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
10:27 pm
In the discussion of the famous Pole Copernicus, what was his last act on earth?
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
10:28 pm
“It’s sad that he’s been put on the No Fly list and can’t readily visit the states. His chief sin appears to be his conversion to Islam. I can’t imagine a more gentle soul.”
CO–The only blemish I know of came about during the Salman Rushdie deal when Yusef publicly said he thought Rushdie should die for his sin of blaspheming Islam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens%27_comments_about_Salman_Rushdie
getalife
May 26th, 2010
10:32 pm
James Carville lit a fire under their a ss.
Mud is flowing thru the top kill but the only thing to stop the last leak was a relief rig.
They are trying the same things but Canada learned the lesson and require a relief rig on all drilling.
Obama should do the same and watch Carville to see what leadership looks like.
Scout
May 26th, 2010
10:38 pm
It’s all hanging by just a thread …………………
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
10:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2rDp6FnbP0
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
10:39 pm
getalife
Thanks for the report…saw that Carville one…liked what he was saying…
Oh, yeah, Copernicus was handed the first copy of his “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium,” and smiled knowing the inquisition couldn’t catch him and breathed his last…
Gotta run…two more days before break…
md
May 26th, 2010
10:40 pm
“I was never a marketing guy”
Well now is the time if there ever was one – seems the better half and I watch today’s commercials then look at each other and ask “what was that one selling”.
I don’t think it would take much to get into the field.
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
10:43 pm
“Well now is the time if there ever was one – seems the better half and I watch today’s commercials then look at each other and ask “what was that one selling”.
LOL–As kids, we would play “the commercial game”, in which you turn the sound down on the TV during commercials and try to guess what the product is based on the video only. It’s amazing how little most of the video content has to do with the product on most commercials.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 26th, 2010
10:46 pm
Well now is the time if there ever was one – seems the better half and I watch today’s commercials then look at each other and ask “what was that one selling”.
Many years ago, somebody told me, “The brightest minds in America are in advertising”. If that’s so, we’re screwed for sure.
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
10:50 pm
“Many years ago, somebody told me, “The brightest minds in America are in advertising”. If that’s so, we’re screwed for sure.”
Not sure where those minds are hanging out these days, HD, because they’re sure as heck not in Washington.
Scout
May 26th, 2010
10:52 pm
“OFF TOPIC #1″
Headline: “The heat is building on Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., and the Obama White House to “come clean” over a conversation the congressman has described – repeatedly and on the record – as a job offer in exchange for dropping his primary campaign against White House favorite Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., which if true could be a crime.”
WE NEED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR !!
Scout
May 26th, 2010
10:53 pm
“OFF TOPIC #2″
Headline (CNN): “Senior Fellow for Policy Studies Peter Sprigg argued that publicly available information from the Pentagon on sexual assaults in the military, along with other information, proves that the military currently has a problem with “homosexual misconduct.”
“Homosexuals in the military are three times more likely to commit sexual assaults than heterosexuals are, relative to their numbers,” Sprigg said. “We believe this problem would only increase if the current law against homosexuality in the military, which was enacted in 1993, were to be repealed.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/26/conservative-group-dadt-repeal-will-spawn-homosexual-misconduct/?fbid=s6DpBXAf-G3#more-106028
NOW, “IF” (REPEAT “IF”) THAT IS TRUE ………………
md
May 26th, 2010
10:55 pm
“It’s amazing how little most of the video content has to do with the product on most commercials.”
You can include audio in that sentence with many of what I have watched. Of course with today’s logic, they may be trying to get me to shake my head in disbelief.
Scout
May 26th, 2010
10:56 pm
What did the president know and when did he know it ?
Scout
May 26th, 2010
10:58 pm
I christen thee: “Senategate” !! (You heard it first here folks)
md
May 26th, 2010
10:58 pm
“WE NEED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR !!”
We need a new justice dept first, since Holder doesn’t want to do his job.
@@
May 26th, 2010
11:01 pm
I thought that OFF-TOPIC RULE went the way of the dinosaurs. Is it back?
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
11:02 pm
Scout and md:
http://dailyradar.com/beltwayblips/video/eric-holder-refuses-to-say-radical-islam/
The guy sure can tap dance, though.
Dave R.
May 26th, 2010
11:03 pm
Enter your comments here
@@
May 26th, 2010
11:04 pm
Kyle has this over at his blog. It’s about Georgia and jobs, but it reminded me of Obama’s economic policy.
Ten years ago, I sailed with three fellow UGA undergrads on a short study abroad to Antarctica. On one landing we had a couple of hours to observe penguins in the wild.
It was fascinating. One of the birds’ chief activities went like this: Patty Penguin waddled over to Paul Penguin’s nest of pebbles and stole a rock with her beak, returning home with it. Paul, perturbed, rose from his nest and stole a pebble from Peyton’s place. Peyton then robbed Peter to repay himself for Paul. And on it went.
Waddle, waddle.
Too cute!
Dave R.
May 26th, 2010
11:06 pm
@@, I agree about going off topic, but if some of us don’t start blogging about this Sestak issue, I suspect Jay and the prezbo’s cronies in the media will try to bury this issue.
For sure we’ll see five anti-Palin columns before we see one about the Sestak / Hope & Change quid pro quo from Jay.
Del
May 26th, 2010
11:08 pm
Um Um…Yeah sure…Carville is a smacked ass idiot.
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
11:13 pm
“For sure we’ll see five anti-Palin columns before we see one about the Sestak / Hope & Change quid pro quo from Jay.”
I don’t seem to recall much outrage from Jay and the Libs when Pelosi and Obama were handing out party favors during the health care vote either, Dave.
@@
May 26th, 2010
11:14 pm
Dave R.:
Everybody goes off topic. I never understood what made jay think he could keep everyone on.
If he deleted all off-topic comments, there’d be few left. That’d be a blog killer.
Blog on or off topic. Makes no difference to me.
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
11:16 pm
Damn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxcMw5PTDg
Del
May 26th, 2010
11:16 pm
It appears the time has come that obamanatiion is about to becomes totally unraveled. A failure even beyond Jimmy Carter. The S.S Lib’s are in panic.
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May 26th, 2010
11:17 pm
Boy, Russia doesn’t mince words when going up against Iran.
Don’t trust ‘em, but I prefer their approach to Obama’s.
Bruno
May 26th, 2010
11:19 pm
“Now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tRgYfQ48A0
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 26th, 2010
11:23 pm
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What did Russia say?
Off Topic #1
I post off topic as much as anybody probably with my ramblings. I think it’s selectively enforced.
Del
May 26th, 2010
11:23 pm
Joe Sestek is in serious trouble. He doesn’t have the balls to back up his allegations. What a candy $ss.
Del
May 26th, 2010
11:37 pm
I wouldn’t kid….I think it’s not unlikely that we’ll see impeachment proceedings against this president before his term is up.
@@
May 26th, 2010
11:37 pm
Hillbilly:
NYT–Iran: “Russia should not think that short-term cooperation with the United States is in its interest,” said the ambassador, Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi. “The green light the United States is showing Russia will not last long.”
A top Kremlin aide said Wednesday that Russia was guided by its own long-term interests, and that “our position can be neither pro-American, nor pro-Iranian.”
The aide, Sergei Prikhodko, went on to say that Russia rejected extremism and unpredictability in the global arena, and that “those who speak on behalf of the fraternal people of Iran” should not forget this.
“No one has ever managed to save his authority by making use of political demagoguery,” Mr. Prikhodko said in remarks carried by Interfax, a Russian news agency. “And I am sure that the thousand-year-long history of Iran itself proves that.”
Not much different than what we’ve said. It’s just that coming from Russia, it’s sounds more menacing. It’s the image thingy.
Dangling the S300s. Russia’s long-term interest is to keep our “Brazils” in a vise. Don’t you find it odd that once Russia and China signed onto sanctions, Turkey and Brazil signed off?
Oh, but to be a fly on everybody’s wall.
@@
May 26th, 2010
11:39 pm
Well, I don’t have any “Brazils”. They’re my favorite nuts though. Brazils and almonds.
@@
May 26th, 2010
11:40 pm
G’nite!
Dave R.
May 26th, 2010
11:42 pm
Del, I think it is unlikely that the House will have the testicular fortitude to impeach Hope & Change due to the political climate, however, that inability to do so, given what may be some pretty damaging information should subpoenas be issued either through Congress or a special prosecutor, will expose those in leadership for the jackals they really are, and the backlash would be significant.
I think they’re holding this one off until after November in order to minimize the electoral damage.
Scout
May 26th, 2010
11:44 pm
@@ & Hillbilly:
Jay got angry with me the other day because I was really beating up on some people with my “off topics” (due to his boring choice of threads) so he selectively said I was “abusing” the privilege and restricted me to two “off topics” per thread.
Obviously, for anyone who has been on here any length of time they know there are many more liberals on his blog and they abuse it far more than I ever do ………. I just don’t have the time.
But anyway, it’s Jay’s blog and he has the right to be fair or unfair, biased or unbiased. You be the judge.
Scout
May 26th, 2010
11:46 pm
Senategate ………. Senategate. Say it again ……….. doesn’t that have a good ring to it ?
Senategate ……………Senategate !
Del
May 26th, 2010
11:48 pm
Dave R.
His ineptitude shines darker every day.
Dave R.
May 26th, 2010
11:50 pm
If only Congress had the same zeal in investigating themselves as they do private industries . . . (sigh)
Scout
May 26th, 2010
11:53 pm
Del:
Careful now. They will have you filling sand bags.
An accidental discharge from my Remington 700 cost me 1,000 at Camp Carroll.
Del
May 27th, 2010
12:00 am
Scout,
I’m sure you know by now, that this is a far left blog. Your only solace is to pi$$ them off and hopefully upset they’re day. It seems that many on here have nothing else to do accept spend all day and night blogging. It’s really kind of weird.
Dave R.
May 27th, 2010
12:06 am
“It seems that many on here have nothing else to do accept spend all day and night blogging.”
As we sit here and post at midnight while everyone else sleeps . . .
Del
May 27th, 2010
12:07 am
Scout,
The only time I filled sand bags was in Cuba 1962. After that I got rank in the Corps. and somebody else filled them. Semper Fi
Scout
May 27th, 2010
12:07 am
Del:
HA! It is fun to mess with them isn’t it …………. kind of like those South Vietnamese P.F. guys. Went on patrol with them once and they played their transitor radios while we walked.
Del
May 27th, 2010
12:10 am
Dave R.
My goodness you’re right. Didn’t check my watch.
Dave R.
May 27th, 2010
12:12 am
Goodnight, all.
Del
May 27th, 2010
12:13 am
Scout,
I know…but we shot a few of them. Shouldn’t talk about it though.
Scout
May 27th, 2010
12:19 am
Jay, et al:
I found the website leading to the “Cadets not shaking hands with Obama” post I made Tuesday and have since “tentatively retracted” it.
I had assumed it was an editorial from the “Hot Air” news site but on closer inspection today it was actually a comment from one of the readers ……… see below:
Hot Air » Obama to West Point: You’re fighting for the New World …
“May 22, 2010 … In every other instance, Obama has ceded American leadership …….. at West Point and some cadets passed on shaking his hand. …….”
I should have read a little further first to see it was only from reader.
However, I found the follwing additional information on the same readers response and I am wondering if it is true. If so, it is very interesting but not surprising. I’ll do more research to see if I can verify it ……… see below:
Reader: “It is my understanding (from an officer that attended today,) that this is the first West Point commencement in over 100 years that has been open to the public. They had to have some way to get BHO supporters in there to applaud, as the grads actually love their country. Even so, didn’t sound like ACORN, OFA was able to shake the rafters, did it?”
Hummmmm …………… stay tuned.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 27th, 2010
12:40 am
Scout- I believe kookman went to bed, just sayin…
Scout
May 27th, 2010
12:50 am
Oh, I know. But he will read it in the morning or I will post it again.
BYW ………. I found the entire official West Point graduation ceremony tape. I will watch EVERY cadet to see if someone failed to shake his hand.
I also have a new question: It looks as though the female cadets have their choice as to wearing “britches” or “dresses” …………. WHAT’S WITH THAT??
Truth Hurts
May 27th, 2010
6:30 am
Don’t worry about that DOW.. There’s a war plan in works. Iran or Korea. Take your pick.
Also, the washington gang has that Federal Consumer protection act perculating. I’m sure that this will fix everything in that the feds will be able to keep financial records on EVERY single American.
Was it the TARP or was it a TRAP? Barney Frank knows.
Anyhow…………………………………….
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.”
Ayn Rand
Rightwing Troll
May 27th, 2010
6:37 am
I see Scout is retracting his retraction based on the anonymous blog posting of a reader who heard “from an officer there”.
Well, that certainly settles it for me…
Of course the porch dog STILL hasn’t produced his list of 3 impeachable offenses.
And not a single wingnut or teatard has produced a single tax that has been raised. The closest they been to come to that was to pint out that as a result of W and Obama’s outta control spending, it certainly seems an eventuality that some taxes will go up.
What’s that old saying about horseshoes and hand grenades?
Saul Good
May 27th, 2010
6:48 am
RWT…. I too am looking still for the 3 impeachable offenses. One would think he would have posted it by now… he’s kinda like a junkie. He gets addicted to ANYTHING that gives he and the rest of the Talibangelicals some false “hope” that they can change the outcome of the election in some way.
Rightwing Troll
May 27th, 2010
6:54 am
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.”
I agree, the years 2000-2008 were tough to watch.
Rightwing Troll
May 27th, 2010
7:04 am
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2010/05/25/new-gop-contract-with-america-to-debut-in-september.html
Another “Contract with America” for the wingnuts. I guess they feel it’s been long enough now that voters won’t remember the fact that the GOP used the first one to get what they ultimately wanted, power, and then summarily wiped thier collectives arses with that worthless piece of paper and promptly discarded it. I mean if the voters have already forgotton Newt, his philandering,and his scorched earth politics of destruction, even to the point where he’s considered a contender for the whitehouse, they certainly won’t remember, or probably care about, that worthless campaign prop. I’m curious to know how many of the Congressmen elected in 94 on the promise of term limits are still “serving” (themselves)?
Teatards and wingnuts, like bread and butter just greasier…
josef nix
May 27th, 2010
7:05 am
Jay–
Up and at ‘em…got a bet ridin’ on you today!
Normal
May 27th, 2010
7:12 am
Happy Thursday morning, y’all. Hope it will be a great one.