PANCAKES Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
DOW heading for neg. 350! Now where's the fun in that! - Megatron
"But now suddenly, John McCain says he is about change, too. He even started using some of my lines. Suddenly he says he wants 'to turn the page.' He had an ad today that he started running that he and Gov. Palin would bring the change that we need. He had this in an advertisement. Sound familiar? Let me tell you something, instead of borrowing my lines he needs to borrow our ideas," Obama said. He followed up with a dig on lobbyists, saying "if you think those lobbyists are working day and night for John McCain just to put themselves out of business, well then I've got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska."
He followed up with a dig on lobbyists, saying "if you think those lobbyists are working day and night for John McCain just to put themselves out of business, well then I've got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska."
Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Manila Bulletin Online
In an effort to promote and encourage democracy and the development and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, the United Nations General Assembly agreed to observe an annual International Day of Democracy on September 15, beginning in 2008. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first International Conference of New or Restored Democracies. In the last one hundred years, many events of significance have transpired. European empires that dominated the nineteenth century concluded their reigns and we witnessed two world wars. We saw the rise and fall of Fascism and Nazism, transformation in China, the rise and end of Communism and its fall in some parts of Europe and the world, and a shift from the economic supremacy of the West to a new economic calculation which is more controlled by Japan and Southeast Asia. These events would all lead to the beginning of the rise of democracy. Democracy has evolved over time and from the Greeks in the ancient world to the Magna Carta in England in 1215, to other time in world history. By the twentieth century, the idea of democracy had gained a reputation as the standard form of government.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first International Conference of New or Restored Democracies.
In the last one hundred years, many events of significance have transpired. European empires that dominated the nineteenth century concluded their reigns and we witnessed two world wars. We saw the rise and fall of Fascism and Nazism, transformation in China, the rise and end of Communism and its fall in some parts of Europe and the world, and a shift from the economic supremacy of the West to a new economic calculation which is more controlled by Japan and Southeast Asia. These events would all lead to the beginning of the rise of democracy.
Democracy has evolved over time and from the Greeks in the ancient world to the Magna Carta in England in 1215, to other time in world history. By the twentieth century, the idea of democracy had gained a reputation as the standard form of government.
So here's mine- Get well Ted! Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
And best wishes to you Ted, hope you are well again soon! :-)
Best wishes, Ted, get really well and soon!
By the way, what's up with techno, far easterner, stormy present, poemless, izzy, et al? Not that class attendance is obligatory... It's just kinda nice to catch a bleep now 'n again.
I think he may be recouping his strength after the Journey into Sound tour de force. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
The ditching of the support for the euro?
The new commitment to shrink the state?
I'm so sad I can't attend the Paris meetup - I really enjoyed meeting people last time - and sad that I can't participate here, though I look in briefly, and wistfully, from time to time. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
Remnants from Hurricane Ike met a cold front, and have smashed the little town I'm in to bits. And I'm in Ohio....
We had sustained tropical storm force winds yesterday with gusts nearing hurricane strength. Well over 100 kph (72 mph to be exact)
We're still without power, I'm in my campus building where they've got a diesel generator keeping the lights on.
The winds stripped trees of their leaves, and took a ton of branches down. They're saying maybe a week to get power up in town, and classes have been cancelled.
After the storm died down last night, I went out for a walk, and it was surreal. No lights, so I head into town on foot, and on High Street the only place open was the Catholic church. There must have been 2,000 candles burning in that place. People sitting in pews, and the priest was wearing this black cassock, like something out of a horror movie.
I hear that Chicago got nailed pretty hard to. Like 15-20 inches of rain. Anyone hear from Poemless? And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
AP "We want our citizens to stay where they are," said a weary Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas. "Do not come back to Galveston. You cannot live here at this time."
We do get winter storms... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Also, thanks to everyone who sent B-Day wishes. :) "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Gas, food all are not being delivered right now, but there is at least one thing that's making it into the city right. I saw a beer truck making a delivery to the liquor store.
Only good thing is that me and my bud now have a line, "We're going to the Winchester."
Something that only makes sense if you've seen Shaun of the Dead. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
here's to many more BETTER ones, and more highly creative russodiaries and ET odd'n'ends too! ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
Full Channel Tunnel services will take several months to resume following last week's fire, it was revealed today. Tunnel organiser Eurotunnel was running around a third of normal services on the 50km Folkestone to Calais link today. This severely-restricted service will continue until Thursday when Eurotunnel will announce new schedules. But a Eurotunnel spokesman said: "It will take several months before everything is back to normal. "This was a serious fire that went on for 16-17 hours and the necessary repairs will take a lot of time." All forms of tunnel traffic - passenger and freight shuttles, through-freights trains and London to Paris and Brussels high-speed Eurostar trains - were operating today.
Full Channel Tunnel services will take several months to resume following last week's fire, it was revealed today.
Tunnel organiser Eurotunnel was running around a third of normal services on the 50km Folkestone to Calais link today.
This severely-restricted service will continue until Thursday when Eurotunnel will announce new schedules.
But a Eurotunnel spokesman said: "It will take several months before everything is back to normal.
"This was a serious fire that went on for 16-17 hours and the necessary repairs will take a lot of time."
All forms of tunnel traffic - passenger and freight shuttles, through-freights trains and London to Paris and Brussels high-speed Eurostar trains - were operating today.
But I thought they needed $40bn?
Seems to have stabilized at about -50%. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
From 60 to 0 in 6 months... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
YEEHAW! Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
IG thrown $20bn lifeline US authorities were on Monday fighting a fresh fire in the crisis on Wall Street, throwing a $20bn lifeline to AIG, one of the world's largest insurers, just hours after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Bank of America's $50bn rescue takeover of Merrill Lynch. The deal between AIG and New York State insurance regulators allows the company to access $20bn of its own capital in a desperate attempt to stave off a liquidity crisis and credit downgrades.
US authorities were on Monday fighting a fresh fire in the crisis on Wall Street, throwing a $20bn lifeline to AIG, one of the world's largest insurers, just hours after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Bank of America's $50bn rescue takeover of Merrill Lynch.
The deal between AIG and New York State insurance regulators allows the company to access $20bn of its own capital in a desperate attempt to stave off a liquidity crisis and credit downgrades.
Try not to destroy the International Financial System while I'm away. OK?
;-)
But such is life - and it will keep me out of trouble for a while. You can't be me, I'm taken
I'm getting too grumpy for that sort of malarkey ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
Also RIP David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide last week and whose short about state fairs was one of the funniest things I've read in the last decade:
George Bush has said that he is saddened to hear about the demise of Lehman brothers. His thoughts at this time go out to their mother as losing one son is hard but losing two is a tradgedy
demise of Lehman brothers. His thoughts at this time go out
to their mother as losing one son is hard but losing two is a
tradgedy
you are the media you consume.
Stay out of regional banks. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
That said, my experience with them was incredibly frustrating. They were very bureaucratic and generally just dumber than catshit. I eventually wound up just using my BoA card with my American account.
The only issue I could possibly see is that I think HSBC largely does the online account thing. Not a lot of branches in the states, or at least there weren't last I looked. I don't personally like the idea of not being able to head down the road to the branch and get hold of my money. (He who gets there first avoids the FDIC headache, after all.) But I'm paranoid that way, having grown up in a household suffering a two-generations-long Depression Mentality.
And maybe they do have branches near you, which would make it an entirely different story. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
I really like etrade - their online banking is the best in the business, which I will need while on the road for a year, and the security is awesome as well as it uses a security token. So in order to steal from my account, you need my username, password, and physical possession of the security token. Nice for when you stop by that internet cafe in India...
They were very bureaucratic and generally just dumber than catshit.
Do I even need to mention this normal for UK banks?
It took six weeks and five calls to my 'relationship manager' before my bank finally sent me a slip of paper with a phone number on it when I wanted to find out what was involved in setting up a credit card merchant account.
Guess which address it got sent to. yes, the new one which they dont believe I've moved to.
and guess how many letters there are at my old address saying "Someones just tried to move your bank account" and yes that would be zero. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
AIG's been downgraded by two of the agencies. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
A respected GOP former Virginia governor, Linwood Holton, has endorsed and will campaign for Obama. This is a huge, huge, break for Obama. It doesn't guarantee him the state but comes pretty damn close.
