When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

— John Maynard Keynes

"I attempt to change the facts to conform to my narrow mind".

- Average Teahadi

So it's been pouring rain for the last few hours. I took a quick look outside, and the streets are starting to flood. Some parts past the curb of the sidewalk and encroaching into people's yards. I may make a preemptive run on sandbags tomorrow. My feet are soaked.

I'm just incredibly bowled-over by the fact that "Conservatives" are trying to edit our own American history (which many of them consider to be the only worthwhile history in the entire world) to suit the needs of one of their most stupid representatives ever, to the point of even nodding and agreeing to complete and utter nonsense.

I'm not amazed that some would go that far, only that so many others would agree to letting them do it and parrot the line over and over again.

Paul Revere never rode to warn the British. That's like saying that the French resistance passed messages over the radio to the US forces to warn the Germans that we'd be landing at Normandy.

re: #3 Summer

I'm just incredibly bowled-over by the fact that "Conservatives" are trying to edit our own American history

Thank you, I appreciate the effort. Upding.

re: #2 Slumbering Behemoth

So it's been pouring rain for the last few hours. I took a quick look outside, and the streets are starting to flood. Some parts past the curb of the sidewalk and encroaching into people's yards. I may make a preemptive run on sandbags tomorrow. My feet are soaked.

Watch-out for frogs.

:)

perhaps palin ought to be invited to deliver a series of lectures on american history so that we could all learn many more such "interesting" things

I learned something yesterday. You know how our Cat Overlords seem to disappear. Or for no apparent reason, jump up and run into another room after something?

I've often supposed that they live simultaneously in two different quantum realities. Being so superior to us, they can do this and affect both at their whim.

Temporal and Spatial Quantum Entanglement explains CATS.

Don't you agree?

re: #5 ggt

Well, we gots toads, not frogs, but I'll watch out just the same.

Typically for this time of year, we would be in the high 80's to low 90's, with average rainfall being 0.23 inches for the entire month of June.

We hit 0.79 inches tonight in just a few hours.

re: #8 Slumbering Behemoth

Well, we gots toads, not frogs, but I'll watch out just the same.

Typically for this time of year, we would be in the high 80's to low 90's, with average rainfall being 0.23 inches for the entire month of June.

We hit 0.79 inches tonight in just a few hours.

Holy trenchcoats Batman!

re: #6 engineer dog

I can't wait for this election season to kick into full gear, the internet truly has primed the pump, the depravity and idiocy of the modern Republican party will be glorious to behold, an ant-farm of dipshits visible to anyone with an internet connection

A whole bunch of morally bankrupt scumbags who dream themselves as King, doing a song and dance to appeal to functionally retarded conservative voters in hyperspace

re: #7 ggt

I learned something yesterday. You know how our Cat Overlords seem to disappear. Or for no apparent reason, jump up and run into another room after something?

I've often supposed that they live simultaneously in two different quantum realities. Being so superior to us, they can do this and affect both at their whim.

Temporal and Spatial Quantum Entanglement explains CATS.

Don't you agree?

Occam's Razor: "Cat's are fucking stupid".

re: #11 Slumbering Behemoth

Occam's Razor: "Cat's are fucking stupid".

If they are so fucking stupid, how come they don't do shit and we do everything for them?

re: #10 WindUpBird

an ant-farm of dipshits

there's a vivid phrase!

re: #7 ggt

I learned something yesterday. You know how our Cat Overlords seem to disappear. Or for no apparent reason, jump up and run into another room after something?

I've often supposed that they live simultaneously in two different quantum realities. Being so superior to us, they can do this and affect both at their whim.

Temporal and Spatial Quantum Entanglement explains CATS.

Don't you agree?

i like to say "dogs have mass; cats have velocity"

re: #9 ggt

Holy trenchcoats Batman!

Word! I'm just happy I don't have to drive anywhere tonight. Last time I got stuck in this kind of downpour, water was over my headlights even as I straddled the peak (center) of the road. My car stalled several times (submerged exhaust), and I had to wait for large trucks "speed" by and maybe make it a block within it's wake before the water rushed back towards the center.

Took me hours to get just a few miles.

re: #12 ggt

If they are so fucking stupid, how come they don't do shit and we do everything for them?

Who is "we"? I don't do anything for cats. Think about that for a second.
;)

re: #12 ggt

If they are so fucking stupid, how come they don't do shit and we do everything for them?

For several millenia, they earned their keep in Egypt, as natural predators of mice and rats, helping to preserve the harvests. It was a serious crime for any human to harm a cat. Guess they just got used to that.

re: #16 Slumbering Behemoth

Who is "we"? I don't do anything for cats. Think about that for a second.
;)

I am we!

re: #18 ausador

I am we!

You're just mad 'cuz you're not smarter than a stupid cat.

/and before anyone start's getting butthurt, I am yanking at you cat lovers' collective chain. All meant in good, ribbing fun.

re: #8 Slumbering Behemoth

Can you believe the first day of summer is in a few weeks? I finally got A/C to combat the 100+ degree summers, and I've had the heater on all May and (so far) the first part of June.

re: #20 3CPO

Were you at, vaguely speaking.

/Love the avatar, BTW. I may run again in '12. I assume I can count on your vote?

re: #21 Slumbering Behemoth

Livermore, CA. Not my idea, mind you.

Of course you can count on my vote, in a non-Euclidean kind of way. Why vote for a lesser evil?

I just cannot believe that little bastard upstairs brought a hooker into Vito and Theresa's condo while they were out of town. He has a young wife and a kid whom he is already separated from because he likes to be a "player" and can't keep it in his effing pants. Bringing an "old whore" into their home is surely going to strain things a bit more than they already are, which would be good thing actually. They need to stop supporting his philandering and partying.

Nothing happens here that everyone doesn't know about, a small condo building is like a small town. Everybody knows everyone elses business, judging by the doors I heard open and close upstairs I will have a few witnesses. Unfortunately that also means I need to do damage control in the morning and make sure they know that I am not the one who brought the hooker here.

Gee, and here I thought that once I got out of high school alive I would leave this kind of shit behind me forever...

re: #22 3CPO

I'm out in the SJV, somewhere not far from Fresno. I should be close to sweating my balls off by now, but instead they are water logged.

Not that I'm complaining, but when the streets near my place start flooding, I get nervous.

re: #21 Slumbering Behemoth

It's been raining here for days, and my SO, the weather guru, says it will continue. Where are you, generally speaking?

I grew up in Dublin. But now I sweat it out on the Rock.

re: #23 ausador

Bringing an "old whore" into their home is surely going to strain things a bit more than they already are...

The First Rule of Fuckin' With Breezies is that you never bring them home. That stupid kid ain't no player, he's a victim in waiting.

re: #24 Slumbering Behemoth

Ah, Fresburg! My honey is from Reedley.

We just moved here from Dublin (Camp Parks). Dear god, are there any decent restaurants in this hellish area?

re: #26 BigPapa

You live on Alcatraz, or am I being naive?

re: #26 BigPapa

I grew up in Dublin. But now I sweat it out on the Rock.

They closed Alcatraz decades ago. What are you doing? Building an Evil Genius lair?

re: #28 3CPO

Ah, Fresburg! My honey is from Reedley.

We just moved here from Dublin (Camp Parks). Dear god, are there any decent restaurants in this hellish area?

I've worked in the kitchen's of fine restaurants and low budget pizza joints, and they all have one thing in common...

Trust me, there is no such thing as a "decent" restaurant.

re: #31 Slumbering Behemoth

I've worked in the kitchen's of fine restaurants and low budget pizza joints, and they all have one thing in common...

Trust me, there is no such thing as a "decent" restaurant.

You mean restaurants don't wear underwear?

eeeek, I had NO idea.

re: #31 Slumbering Behemoth

I've worked in the kitchen's of fine restaurants and low budget pizza joints, and they all have one thing in common...

Trust me, there is no such thing as a "decent" restaurant.

Do you still work in the restaurant world?

The Big Rock. Hawaii. Sheesh!

I remember when the only thing by Camp Parks was Santa Rita. Now it's mega sprawl. But yeah, there's lotsa places to eat.

re: #32 ggt

You mean restaurants don't wear underwear?

eeek, I had NO idea.

I only wish that were the case.

re: #33 Alexzander

Do you still work in the restaurant world?

NO SIR! I'd rather be a janitor.

Wow, what a day for LGF.

And what a day for Palin's sycophants. A bad day for them. But when you're detached from reality and make your own, you never have a bad day.

re: #31 Slumbering Behemoth

I've worked in a hotel bakery and a family owned restaurant, and both places were like finely tuned, sterilized, gestapo-run training camps.

I've also cocktailed at the Peppermill. I don't know what possesses some people to gamble with their lives like that. It's not like the food even tastes good, for crying out loud.

I view being in foodservice as a sacred trust, almost as important as marriage.

re: #37 3CPO

I view being in foodservice as a sacred trust, almost as important as marriage.

High five!

I took that shit pretty seriously whenever I worked in a restaurant. I likened it to getting behind the wheel of a car. Both activities are privileges that could put the lives of others at risk, and they should be taken very seriously.

But the kind of nasty, unsanitary things I've seen assholes do over the tiniest of perceived slights...

Like I said, I'd rather be a janitor.

Just the first time, well no...err...actually the second time (maybe, not entirely sure, she might just have been crazy) since I moved back here from Alaska that I have run into a hooker personally.

Protip: If you want to "help" a hooker buy her a damn meal, pick her up, take her to Denny's or Village inn, it doesn't have to be a 4/5 star restaurant and buy them whatever the hell they want off the menu. They don't get full meals all that often (pretty much never for street girls) and need the nutrition. Seriously, it might cost you what, $20.00 tops?

In Anchorage I used a simple method, I would ask her if she had eaten yet today, followed by "do you want to?" I never, not once, ever got turned down, I guess a free meal always trumps the idea of making $20.00 turning a trick in the same amount of time.

re: #36 BigPapa

Wow, what a day for LGF.

Page Views: 171,492
Visits: 142,357

That's a lot of traffic for a Sunday.

re: #40 freetoken

Page Views: 171,492
Visits: 142,357

That's a lot of traffic for a Sunday.

"Circling the drain of irrelevancy".
/

re: #35 Slumbering Behemoth

Just stay away from cleaning the surgical suite in a hospital. Not a fun thing.

re: #42 dell*nix

Just stay away from cleaning the surgical suite in a hospital. Not a fun thing.

I once took a janitor job at a place that researched every nasty disease out there, with the exception of one of the three strains of e-bola.

Long story short, I quit after the second night. I couldn't shake the idea that I might end up as patient zero in a Stephen King novel.

enjoy the morning!

re: #43 Slumbering Behemoth

I worked at an high/ultra-high vacuum equipment supplier for quite some time. One of the things we did was rebuild ion pumps for the national labs. Part of my job was to open up the pumps, determine what needed to be done to rebuild it, quote the customer, arrange for the rebuild with a third party, etc.

We got one pump in for "arsonic" cleaning. The saleswoman who took the order was pretty dim, I figured she meant "sonic cleaning" which was one of the steps in the process. Turns out the customer wanted "arsenic" cleaning. No one had told me that the pumps were ever exposed to toxic crap, I wore gloves after that.

But biohazards! Man, that is some scary shit.

re: #44 ggt

enjoy the morning!

I'll let you know if my bed is floating.

It is June 6th. 67 years ago was the allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy and the beginning of the end of the 3rd Reich.

re: #43 Slumbering Behemoth

That is the stuff nightmares are made of.

re: #34 BigPapa

I'm going to be in Hawaii for a few days next month. We'll be in Honolulu, which my husband says is a cultural wasteland. (I've never been.) Any recommendations for restaurants/entertainment/sights?

re: #45 3CPO

There is important work and research that must be done in those areas, but it can be done without me.

Despite my innate awesomeness, I can sometimes be forgetful and/or clumsy.

re: #47 EdDantes

It is June 6th. 67 years ago was the allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy and the beginning of the end of the 3rd Reich.

An event worthy of being commemorated with a drink. Cheers!

re: #51 Slumbering Behemoth

I'll drink to that!

*hic*

I don't know why it would be called a cultural wasteland.

Try the Polynesian Cultural Center on the way to the North Shore.

Waikiki is cool for a day or two. There are so many restaurants there it's hard to pick. After a day or two I'm good for a few months and crave the North Shore, or come home to the Big Island. North Shore is quiet, if you can kick it up there it's a good vibe.

re: #51 Slumbering Behemoth

An event worthy of being commemorated with a drink. Cheers!

I've raised a few glasses already in the memory of those brave men who stormed those beaches. Cheers!

re: #53 BigPapa

I should have made myself more clear. He referred to it as the "Las Vegas of the Islands," with nothing interesting to do. That just means he doesn't have the inside scoop. When visiting any large city, it's difficult to sift through the tourist chaff to get to the local wheat.

We'll be there on business this trip, so probably no chance to get about. But I'll keep the North Shore in mind for future trips since it costs us next to nothing to get there.

re: #49 3CPO

I'm going to be in Hawaii for a few days next month. We'll be in Honolulu, which my husband says is a cultural wasteland. (I've never been.) Any recommendations for restaurants/entertainment/sights?

I hear there might be some cool beaches nearby. Might just be one of those urban legends, though. You know how people talk.

re: #54 EdDantes

And I've raised a few to the brave Jeff Revere who went all over New England ringin' those bells and firin' off those shots to warn those invadin' British that we stalwart Americans were goin' to be exercisin' our God-given second amendment rights, because those, also, too, were heady times.

Reagan!

Yeah, lots of action in Waikiki but you get bored pretty quick.

If you got time to hang, kick it on the North Shore. Or go to the Polynesian Cultural Center, it's not campy. Most people rave about it.

re: #56 Slumbering Behemoth

Rumormonger!

(I'm a redhead, recovering from my first skin cancer surgery. Don't know that I'll be getting too much beach time in. I'd love to go snorkeling, but maybe I'll just sit under an umbrella with a book...)

re: #58 BigPapa

Thanks for the info!

re: #60 3CPO

Years ago, for work, I visited Oahu a few times. Spent the afternoons/evenings on Waikiki. Can't really give you any cultural recommendations, as all my time was spent chasing nearly unclad females on the beach... one was a German tourist, I believe. Another was one of those corny-tourist-trap picture-takers - cute she was.

Anyway, that served as the "sights" I visited in HI.

re: #53 BigPapa

Do you realize I am actively hating you right now? Waves of distilled hate, focused like a laser. Right at you. You may not notice it yet, but these hate lasers are burning your socks. Right now. A little. Can you feel it yet? Does it hurt? I hope it hurts. Soon, anyway.

/I was born and raised in the Bay Area, yet it has been far too long since I've so much as smelled the ocean air.

re: #63 Slumbering Behemoth

Oh, honey. You have got to get out. Go tide-pooling at Point Lobos. See the otters romping the waves, pick up some abalone shells, hear the sea lions barking, poke the sea anemones. Your soul will thank you for it.

Moldy Oldy for the graveyard shift:

re: #61 freetoken

Those sound like some pretty good sights, just not altogether up my alley. But I can appreciate your point of view!

re: #64 3CPO

Oh, honey. You have got to get out. Go tide-pooling at Point Lobos. See the otters romping the waves, pick up some abalone shells, hear the sea lions barking, poke the sea anemones. Your soul will thank you for it.

Used to do that so much as a kid. Tell you what...
You buy, I'll fly. Or drive. Whatever.

re: #65 freetoken

Moldy Oldy for the graveyard shift:

[Video]

The Del Viking are not moldy!

re: #67 Slumbering Behemoth

Is it gas money that's holding you up? We actually have a spare $50 Arco gas card lying about the place, keep forgetting to use it. Seems like a small price to pay for someone's soul...

re: #68 EdDantes

The Del Viking are not moldy!

Fair enough. However, they do qualify as "oldie".

re: #70 freetoken

Fair enough. However, they do qualify as "oldie".

Indeed , young man.

re: #71 EdDantes

Heh, I'm not that young.

There are people here born after Elvis died.

Nytol.

re: #63 Slumbering Behemoth

Do you realize I am actively hating you right now? Waves of distilled hate, focused like a laser. Right at you. You may not notice it yet, but these hate lasers are burning your socks. Right now. A little. Can you feel it yet? Does it hurt? I hope it hurts. Soon, anyway.

I don't have socks they don't work well with flip flops. So refocus them lazers.

re: #72 freetoken

I am so old that if you knew how old I am you'd say, "Gee, you're really old."

re: #75 EdDantes

But you're not as old as Elgar (b. 1857):

re: #69 3CPO

It's "money" money that's holding me up. Or the lack there of, to be more precise. But you are far too kind. I appreciate that, but I would suggest you not be too open about yourself or your personal details when posting here, and offer things only to those you truly trust.

There are freaks that obsess over this website, it's proprietor, and those of us who post here. Freaks that tend to indulge in adolescent revenge fantasies. Genuine stalkers that devote their time to combing through LGF comments for just about anything.

I do not say this to hinder you with fear, but to arm you with awareness. It's nothing new in the history of the internets, but the LGF haters seem to have the singular focus of a man about to be hanged.

Anyhow, g'nite all.

re: #77 Slumbering Behemoth

You're very sweet for giving me that advice, but let's just say "I've been around." Don't believe everything I write, I'm about as easy to pin down as Jell-O. Believe the feelings I express, but not necessarily the gritty details. I'm not above being purposefully misleading when it comes to commenting in a public forum.

And you know what? I would totally send you a gas card. If you used it to visit the coast, I'd love it. If you used it to get to work, that's good too. If you used it to visit your crack dealer, well it was yours to spend as you pleased. My gifts are given without strings.

She's totally hot.

I love a good Coloratura.

Oh no it is spreading!

A "Total gym" infomercial just came on the TV and Chuck Norris is now wearing Donald Trumps hair! OHH NOES!

re: #81 ausador

Oh no it is spreading!

A "Total gym" infomercial just came on the TV and Chuck Norris is now wearing Donald Trumps hair! OHH NOES!

/Simulated hair type thingie is probably a better description than hair I guess.

Throw out all your tin foil hats they are useless now...

You obviously don't know a thing about modern mind control. It is not done using satellites or radio broadcasts. Not directly anyways. That is obsolete technology and the old standby of aluminum foil shielding is useless. Now it is done using subliminal messages in your cell phones combined with minute doses of psychotropic molecules that readily bind to acetylcholine receptors. The agents are ingested and absorbed in the small intestines but are masked in the body by metabolites of aspartame or fructose.

[Link: www.calguns.net...]

Ice!
It's very late here, how are you?

re: #84 Floral Giraffe

Ice!
It's very late here, how are you?

Floral! Hi! I'm great, how are you? Just sent Jimmah off to work with his thermos of coffee. ;-)

re: #84 Floral Giraffe

Can't keep my eyes open, late.
*smooch* for you & Jimmah!
ZZZ time for me.

re: #85 iceweasel

WOOT! Thermos of coffee!

Good grief.
Bye now!

re: #86 Floral Giraffe

Can't keep my eyes open, late.
*smooch* for you & Jimmah!
ZZZ time for me.

Take care, cutie. Smooch right back at ya!

Morning, all

What Not To Do In Iowa

Is speaking Chinese on the campaign trail a plus? Former Utah governor, ex-ambassador to China, and current GOP presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman is about to find out. On Friday, Huntsman appeared before a national audience of evangelical activists convened by former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed. [...]

Huntsman had other plans apparently, launching into his speech with a demonstration of his Chinese fluency. As his first introduction to the foot soldiers of the Republican Party, it didn't go over very well. As languages go, Chinese is not the most elegant to the English-speaking ear, and it seemed to be especially jarring to the nearly all-white crowd of evangelicals, who listened with shock. You could almost see the elderly Christians from Wisconsin thinking "Manchurian Candidate."

[...] Americans think even less of the Chinese than they do of the French, [...] Polls going back decades show that many Americans, especially Republicans, take a dim view of the Chinese, a phenomenon that some researchers attribute to 19th Century anti-Chinese immigration laws. In 1999, a survey conducted by the Anti-Defamation League found that 34 percent of those who responded admitted they wouldn't want to see a Chinese-American person elected president, a figure the group had never encountered in similar surveys of attitudes towards blacks or Jews.

Americans really don't like the country of China, [...] A January Pew survey found that 36 percent of Americans had an unfavorable view of China, and the percentage of Americans who see China as the country posing the greatest threat to the US nearly doubled over the past two years, eclipsing North Korea, Iran, and Afghanistan. Views of China are even bleaker among Republicans, especially those who are tea party sympathizers. More than 70 percent of Republicans Pew surveyed believed that China is an adversary or a serious problem for the US.

Huntsman's Chinese connection clearly triggered many of these feelings among the members of the religious right listening to his speech Friday in DC. [...] after Friday's performance, it was hard to imagine that the governor-turned-ambassador was going to win over a lot of Iowa GOP caucus goers by showing up at their barbecues and exclaiming, "Ni hao ma?"

YELLOW PEOPLE!!

Seriously, I expect the Tea Partying crowd to look increasingly for foreign scapegoats as time goes on.

re: #91 freetoken

As a San Franciscan (at least former), that's so weird to me. To me, the ideal of middle-class American immigrant are Chinese. They are the most solid citizens, and they're pretty damn conservative.

The GOP is great at alienating those who would otherwise be allies.

re: #92 Obdicut

As a San Franciscan (at least former), that's so weird to me. To me, the ideal of middle-class American immigrant are Chinese. They are the most solid citizens, and they're pretty damn conservative.

The GOP is great at alienating those who would otherwise be allies.

Look what they have managed to do with the Latino vote, and with black fundamentalist Christians.

Well I've got my leather chaps on, and with every other swinging dick in the northeast, ride my motorcycle in the Americade this week.[Link: www.americade.com...]

re: #94 Shropshire_Slasher

Looks like fun. I need a vacation.

re: #95 Obdicut

Come on up, dudes don't usually ride together, but for you, I'll make an exception ;)

re: #96 Shropshire_Slasher

Thanks, man, but I swore off motorcycles after a couple of near-misses. I'll just hangglide along while drinking heavily instead.

Morning Lizardim. Looks like a slow day today.

Good morning honcos & honchettes.

I baked my Super Awesome To Die For Cheescake yesterday. I had the cookbook on the counter, and Zedushka comes by and takes a look at Jaunte's cover art. "Reality Bites, what the heck is that? Some kind of 'Far Side' cartoon book?" I said, "It's a recipe book." "Well, why did you get such a recipe book?" "I contributed to it," I said.

He shook his head, "My wife, contributing to a 'Far Side' cookbook."

Yes, the cheesecake is super awesome. Tonight I'll make the blintzes and maybe a cheese kugel. Must go shopping this afternoon to buy the salmon filets and the 5-lb. brisket. What kind of wine? I already have a light sparkly Bartenura Malvasia, and a dry Yarden Merlot.

My son and his family are driving in from New York to spend the holiday with us.

re: #99 Alouette

So four ladies meet to play mah-jongg.

"Oy," says the first.

"Oy, veh is' mir," says the second.

"Oy, veh, gevalt," says the third.

"I thought we said we weren't going to talk about the children," replies the fourth.

Greetings from 36,000 feet over Ohio. (Wi-fi on planes is great!)

I bring you this morning's Krugman, and in honor of Keynes, note that the GOP just killed the nomination of another Nobel prize winner in economics to the Fed's Board of Governors.

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

Sample:

What’s in a name? A lot, the National Republican Congressional Committee obviously believes. Last week, the committee sent a letter demanding that a TV station stop running an ad declaring that the House Republican budget plan would “end Medicare.” This, the letter insisted, was a false claim: the plan would simply install a “new, sustainable version of Medicare.”

But Comcast, the station’s owner, rejected the demand — and rightly so. For Republicans are indeed seeking to dismantle Medicare as we know it, replacing it with a much worse program.

I’m seeing many attempts to shout down anyone making this obvious point, and not just from Republican politicians. For some reason, many commentators seem to believe that accurately describing what the G.O.P. is actually proposing amounts to demagoguery. But there’s nothing demagogic about telling the truth.

Start with the claim that the G.O.P. plan simply reforms Medicare rather than ending it. I’ll just quote the blogger Duncan Black, who summarizes this as saying that “when we replace the Marines with a pizza, we’ll call the pizza the Marines.” The point is that you can name the new program Medicare, but it’s an entirely different program — call it Vouchercare — that would offer nothing like the coverage that the elderly now receive. (Republicans get huffy when you call their plan a voucher scheme, but that’s exactly what it is.)

Morning ladies and germs.

So I'm looking at CNN this morning and I see that Breck Girl's plea arrangement fell apart because they're demanding "alternatives for incarceration such as a halfway house". That is, no jail time. Justice wants a feeble 6 months as it is for pleading guilty. Must be nice.

Here's a piece on the Peter Diamond nomination. I gather that the GOP doesn't think a Nobel in economics, centering on unemployment and the labor market, is appropriate for a Fed Governor.

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

Sample:

LAST October, I won the Nobel Prize in economics for my work on unemployment and the labor market. But I am unqualified to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve — at least according to the Republican senators who have blocked my nomination. How can this be?

The easy answer is to point to shortcomings in our confirmation process and to partisan polarization in Washington. The more troubling answer, though, points to a fundamental misunderstanding: a failure to recognize that analysis of unemployment is crucial to conducting monetary policy.

In April 2010, President Obama nominated me to be one of the seven governors of the Fed. He renominated me in September, and again in January, after Senate Republicans blocked a floor vote on my confirmation. When the Senate Banking Committee took up my nomination in July and again in November, three Republican senators voted for me each time. But the third time around, the Republicans on the committee voted in lockstep against my appointment, making it extremely unlikely that the opposition to a full Senate vote can be overcome. It is time for me to withdraw, as I plan to inform the White House.

The leading opponent to my appointment, Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the committee, has questioned the relevance of my expertise. “Does Dr. Diamond have any experience in conducting monetary policy? No,” he said in March. “His academic work has been on pensions and labor market theory.”

But understanding the labor market — and the process by which workers and jobs come together and separate — is critical to devising an effective monetary policy. The financial crisis has led to continuing high unemployment. The Fed has to properly assess the nature of that unemployment to be able to lower it as much as possible while avoiding inflation. If much of the unemployment is related to the business cycle — caused by a lack of adequate demand — the Fed can act to reduce it without touching off inflation. If instead the unemployment is primarily structural — caused by mismatches between the skills that companies need and the skills that workers have — aggressive Fed action to reduce it could be misguided.

re: #103 garhighway

the unemployed are losers

it is about growing the economy and cutting taxes.

re: #103 garhighway

Here's a piece on the Peter Diamond nomination. I gather that the GOP doesn't think a Nobel in economics, centering on unemployment and the labor market, is appropriate for a Fed Governor.
[snip]
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They probably asked him about Paul Revere and he made the mistake of knowing and stating the correct history.

re: #103 garhighway

Wow. The GOP seriously are objecting to a guy who's focus is on jobs.

But they're all about job creation.

What loons.

Anywho. Later again.

I found my phone's charger, so everyone can stop looking for it.
And good motning honcos.

re: #106 Obdicut

Wow. The GOP seriously are objecting to a guy who's focus is on jobs.

But they're all about job creation.

What loons.

Their approach to job creation is: if we're real nice to the super rich and give them tax breaks, they might hire some new low level employees in the U.S. instead of India and China.

re: #109 Alouette

Their approach to job creation is: if we're real nice to the super rich and give them tax breaks, they might hire some new low level employees in the U.S. instead of India and China.

Their approach to job creation is: if we are not nice to rich people and give them bailouts and tax breaks on top of it THEY WILL MOVE ALL OUR JOBS TO CHINA AND OUR ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE.

re: #110 ralphieboy

We gave bailouts to rich people?

re: #110 ralphieboy

Their approach to job creation is: if we are not nice to rich people and give them bailouts and tax breaks on top of it THEY WILL MOVE ALL OUR JOBS TO CHINA AND OUR ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE.

I want to throw a shoe through the radio every time that "American Petroleum Industry" ad comes on where they threaten to raise gas prices and stomp on the working class unless they get more tax breaks to maintain their record-breaking profits.

At least NPR does not run the American Petroleum Industry ads, that is, not at the time I have been listening.

re: #111 Cannadian Club Akbar

We gave bailouts to rich people?

Were poor people in charge of AIG and Lehmann Brothers?

re: #114 ralphieboy

Were poor people in charge of AIG and Lehmann Brothers?

No. they were in charge of GM and Chrysler.
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re: #113 Alouette

At least NPR does not run the American Petroleum Industry ads, that is, not at the time I have been listening.

Now that I looked it up, I've seen the TV ads. Not sure who the woman in the ads are, but I know she's an actress. And hawt.

re: #114 ralphieboy

Were poor people in charge of AIG and Lehmann Brothers?

To be fair, we didn't bail out Lehman. Paulson was in his "avoidance of moral hazard" phase (which lasted exactly one day) and let them die.

Which, in retrospect, we probably a mistake. It made the problem a lot worse.

re: #117 garhighway

To be fair, we didn't bail out Lehman. Paulson was in his "avoidance of moral hazard" phase (which lasted exactly one day) and let them die.

Which, in retrospect, we probably a mistake. It made the problem a lot worse.

You mean they weren't too big to fail yet?

So Rince Priebus is trying to take after Ronald Reagan's famous killer line from the Carter debates by asking "'Are You Better Off Than Before Obama?".

Which will have the unfortunate side effect of leading people to ask "Were you better off before GW Bush?"

re: #118 ralphieboy

You mean they weren't too big to fail yet?

From what I read, Paulson thought that if simply stood tough, the private market would bail out Lehman and he could climb back up on his "champion of the free market" horse. Which was clearly (in retrospect) a mistake: letting Lehman fail caused the credit markets to completely seize up, with no one, not even GE, able to get credit.

To be fair, he thought he had a deal worked out where Barclays would buy the Lehman "good bank" and a consortium of US banks would pony up the cash to bail out the "bad bank". It would have worked had not the UK regulators torpedoed the deal. (Which was probably better for the UK in the long run, as Barclays got to buy the Lehman jewels out of bankruptcy anyway, but with less risk.)

So the Invisible Hand was too deeply stuck in the Invisible Pockets to pull itself out to lend a hand?

re: #121 ralphieboy

So the Invisible Hand was too deeply stuck in the Invisible Pockets to pull itself out to lend a hand?

Maybe the invisible hand was in the invisible pocket touching the invisible wiener?
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This is a link to a photo album that has been circulating by email. It is 200 photos of scenes from Normandy, 1944, paired with recent photos. I had no problems viewing from Linux/FireFox3.

[Link: www.6juin1944.com...]

re: #123 Decatur Deb

This is a link to a photo album that has been circulating by email. It is 200 photos of scenes from Normandy, 1944, paired with recent photos. I had no problems viewing from Linux/FireFox3.

[Link: www.6juin1944.com...]

Saw something on Discovery Chanel or History Chanel. The average age of the men that invaded was 18-22. I was a total turd at that age.

re: #124 Cannadian Club Akbar

Saw something on Discovery Chanel or History Chanel. The average age of the men that invaded was 18-22. I was a total turd at that age.

By that age I had ruled with an iron fist over a dozen planets.

re: #124 Cannadian Club Akbar

Saw something on Discovery Chanel or History Chanel. The average age of the men that invaded was 18-22. I was a total turd at that age.

I wasn't

But it sure as hell has been a bumpy downhill ride the following 35 years!

re: #125 Varek Raith

By that age I had ruled with an iron fist over a dozen planets.

Yea. HUD Planets.
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re: #98 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizardim. Looks like a slow day today.

..or perhaps not.

Breitbart has more Weiner pics apparently.......

[Link: www.powerlineblog.com...]

re: #126 sattv4u2

I wasn't

But it sure as hell has been a bumpy downhill ride the following 35 years!

And you've been married for how long?

re: #119 ralphieboy

So Rince Priebus is trying to take after Ronald Reagan's famous killer line from the Carter debates by asking "'Are You Better Off Than Before Obama?".

Which will have the unfortunate side effect of leading people to ask "Were you better off before GW Bush?"

What happens if we get into a genuine downward patch, where in fact we're always worse off each 4 years than we were the previous 4?

This can happen. In fact, times of that nature are all but inevitable, mixed in with intervals of growth and progress. What with climate change, our own economic folly, and the conflict between the reality of how much we produce and how much we're in the habit of consuming, it will be a real stroke of fortune/real achievement if we can manage to avoid a decade or two of declining real gross national consumption.

Governments in democracies aren't used to campaigning on the slogan

Vote Joe. It coulda been worse. The Great Mitigator will cushion our Fall.

Jimmy Carter was the last president to advance this perspective on history in his defense. It failed, spectacularly. That he was as wrong as could be does not prove that the next time around, some president may be right that we're stuck and we have to take our medicine.

After Dunkirk, Winston Churchill promised the people only blood, tears, toil, and sweat. What else could he say? That victory was right around the corner?

re: #124 Cannadian Club Akbar

Saw something on Discovery Chanel or History Chanel. The average age of the men that invaded was 18-22. I was a total turd at that age.

My dad was 22--his squadron did interdiction bombing of the approaches to the beachhead, but he went down on a raid the month before.

Nature Break

re: #129 Cannadian Club Akbar

And you've been married for how long?

22

((late bloomer,,, didn't get married till I was 35,,, then another 5 years till we had our son))

re: #129 Cannadian Club Akbar

re: #133 sattv4u2

22 YEARS

((late bloomer,,, didn't get married till I was 35,,, then another 5 years till we had our son))

pimf

re: #130 lostlakehikerAll but the most frothing right wingers are aware that Obama inherited the financial collapse, he was not on deck when it hit.

And besides calls to ban abortin and defund the EPA planned parenthood, what have we seen in real alternatives from the GOP to improve the situation?

re: #133 sattv4u2

22

((late bloomer,,, didn't get married till I was 35,,, then another 5 years till we had our son))

Just a question: Why do men say "We had"... or "We're pregnant"? Not sure if I'm telling any secrets here, but "We" were there for the fun part. Just sayin'.
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re: #123 Decatur Deb

This is a link to a photo album that has been circulating by email. It is 200 photos of scenes from Normandy, 1944, paired with recent photos. I had no problems viewing from Linux/FireFox3.

[Link: www.6juin1944.com...]

I was there last June, right about the time of the invasion. It sends a chill down the spine to see the newsreel footage of guys going ashore into the guns up on the bluffs, and think, that's it, that's the place, that's what I saw.

And the realization clicks in that it must have taken uncommon valor to cross that sand, going toward the people who were trying to kill you and who were racking up quite a score on your buddies right and left.

It can't have been much easier up on the bluffs. Here you are, a few lonely guys in some forlorn concrete bunker, and this swarm of ants with rifles just won't stop coming. It's limitless, and out at sea it has destroyers, cruisers, and battleships. You've got your MG and a few grenades. You know how this movie ends.

re: #136 Cannadian Club Akbar

Just a question: Why do men say "We had"... or "We're pregnant"? Not sure if I'm telling any secrets here, but "We" were there for the fun part. Just sayin'.
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She had

But I paid!! (and continue too)

Hence ,,, WE!!

Drudge spinning really hard for Palin;

"Experts back historical account..."
[Link: www.bostonherald.com...]

But read the article, only one historian and look at what he says;

Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, “Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting,’ and the British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing — she was right about that — and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.”

Patrick Leehey of the Paul Revere House said Revere was probably bluffing his British captors, but reluctantly conceded that it could be construed as Revere warning the British.

“I suppose you could say that,” Leehey said. “But I don’t know if that’s really what Mrs. Palin was referring to.”

McConville said he also is not convinced that Palin’s remarks reflect scholarship.

“I would call her lucky in her comments,” McConville said.

Now look at the other "expert", he's NOT a historian!!!

But Cornell law professor William Jacobson, who asserted last week that Palin was correct, linking to Revere quotes on his conservative blog Legalinsurrection.com, said Palin’s critics are the ones in need of a history lesson. “It seems to be a historical fact that this happened,” he said. “A lot of the criticism is unfair and made by people who are themselves ignorant of history.”

How can you write an article like this asking ONE historian, and one who clearly says he doesn't think she meant what he explained there. Also one who is not commenting about her "clarification" which actually makes things worse!!!

Irresponsible journalism!

re: #138 sattv4u2

She had

But I paid!! (and continue too)

Hence ,,, WE!!

I suggest everyone who's in the vicinity of sat get the hell out of dodge.
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re: #136 Cannadian Club Akbar

Just a question: Why do men say "We had"... or "We're pregnant"? Not sure if I'm telling any secrets here, but "We" were there for the fun part. Just sayin'.
/

I was there for the delivery, to lend moral support. And it was welcome.

re: #136 Cannadian Club Akbar

Just a question: Why do men say "We had"... or "We're pregnant"? Not sure if I'm telling any secrets here, but "We" were there for the fun part. Just sayin'.
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"We" were there for the whole process. I even helped my wife deliver the baby, as much as I could do considering she was the one doing all the work.

re: #139 ElCapitanAmerica

You didn't highlught
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, “Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting,’ and the British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing — she was right about that — and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.”

I could give a rats ass less about this whole thing, but I would consider a college history prof a "historian", no?

re: #139 ElCapitanAmerica

She could've just said "I misspoke", but instead she doubled down on it, partly because she knows that there are legions of people like this willing to go to great lengths to back her up...

Mornin' lizards...looks like Breitbart and Wolfe's Weiner photo was cropped and rotated...imagine that.
[Link: www.dailykos.com...]

And, like Sarah Palin defending her retelling the ride of Paul Revere, Breitbart is still digging his hole with a promise of new information today...according to above-linked diary...I don't bother reading his tweets directly.

re: #143 sattv4u2

Article says "EXPERTS", in the plural, it also says he thinks she technically got it right by luck (kind of a polite way to say; "I don't think she knows what she was talking about").

Also yesterday she said that "part of his ride was about warning the British", when that was not his mission at all.

How can you write an article saying experts agree with her, when he doesn't really say that and they only talk to one relevant expert?

re: #146 ElCapitanAmerica

Article says "EXPERTS", in the plural, it also says he thinks she technically got it right by luck (kind of a polite way to say; "I don't think she knows what she was talking about").

Also yesterday she said that "part of his ride was about warning the British", when that was not his mission at all.

How can you write an article saying experts agree with her, when he doesn't really say that and they only talk to one relevant expert?

And the part about the ride being to assert our Second Amendment rights? I haven't many people trying to defend that little taste of hallucinogenic history. That one was whacked even by Sarah's standards.

re: #145 darthstar

Um. Why does it look like there is a pocket in the FRONT of those briefs? I wear boxer briefs and they look nothing like those. (I just looked)

Wingnuts rewriting American history to cover for Palin's ignorance.
How...
Un-American.

re: #148 Cannadian Club Akbar

Um. Why does it look like there is a pocket in the FRONT of those briefs? I wear boxer briefs and they look nothing like those. (I just looked)

Comes in handy at the farmer's market...good place to hold a zucchini.

re: #146 ElCapitanAmerica

Again, I could give a rats ass less about this whole thing, and you can interpret the history professors response as he thinks she technically got it right by luck and be dismissive of him but I read the same quote by him as saying "Palin technically ((but perhaps not articulately) got it right"

re: #150 darthstar

Comes in handy at the farmer's market...good place to hold a zucchini.

Huh. I always put zucchini in the back. No wonder I can't get a date.
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re: #151 sattv4u2

Again, I could give a rats ass less about this whole thing, and you can interpret the history professors response as he thinks she technically got it right by luck and be dismissive of him but I read the same quote by him as saying "Palin technically ((but perhaps not articulately) got it right"

Uh.
Watch what she said.
She got most of it WRONG.

re: #152 Cannadian Club Akbar

Huh. I always put zucchini in the back. No wonder I can't get a date.
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Maybe a prune or a plum!

re: #151 sattv4u2

Again, I could give a rats ass less about this whole thing, and you can interpret the history professors response as he thinks she technically got it right by luck and be dismissive of him but I read the same quote by him as saying "Palin technically ((but perhaps not articulately) got it right"

I'm not dismissing the history professor, I'm saying the article says EXPERTS ... I only see one relevant expert (I don't consider a law professor blogger an expert on American History), and the one expert is qualifying his comments big time.

re: #152 Cannadian Club Akbar

Huh. I always put zucchini in the back. No wonder I can't get a date.
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I was about to relate a similar joke involving the fellow who is told to stuff a potato in his Speedo shorts to attract women...

re: #151 sattv4u2

Again, I could give a rats ass less about this whole thing, and you can interpret the history professors response as he thinks she technically got it right by luck and be dismissive of him but I read the same quote by him as saying "Palin technically ((but perhaps not articulately) got it right"

The "luck" part is not me interpreting what he said, it is what he said (cue Twilight Zone music);

McConville said he also is not convinced that Palin’s remarks reflect scholarship.

“I would call her lucky in her comments,” McConville said.

Mornin' lizards...looks like Breitbart and Wolfe's Weiner photo was cropped and rotated...imagine that.
[Link: [Link: www.dailykos.com...]...]

And, like Sarah Palin defending her retelling the ride of Paul Revere, Breitbart is still digging his hole with a promise of new information today...according to above-linked diary...I don't bother reading his tweets directly.

Looks like Breitbart was sitting on photos before the infamous twitter pic

Breitbart story about more pictures

So...strange coincidence. Breitbart is sitting on a stash of compromising photos of Anthony Weiner, and then a story erupts about the transmittal of a pic of Anthony Weiner. Either this is a classic "bimbo eruption" and Weiner is toast, or an elaborate setup.

Breitbart claims more upcoming Wiener pics....

BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com were approached regarding this information more than a week prior to the separate, independent event of Friday, May 27, 2011, when a link to the now-infamous “gray underwear” photograph appeared publicly on Rep. Weiner’s Twitter feed.

re: #156 ralphieboy

I was about to relate a similar joke involving the fellow who is told to stuff a potato in his Speedo shorts to attract women...

I know that one.:)

re: #158 BryanS

Looks like Breitbart was sitting on photos before the infamous twitter pic

Breitbart story about more pictures

So...strange coincidence. Breitbart is sitting on a stash of compromising photos of Anthony Weiner, and then a story erupts about the transmittal of a pic of Anthony Weiner. Either this is a classic "bimbo eruption" and Weiner is toast, or an elaborate setup.

Or.
Breitbart really likes Wiener.
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re: #155 ElCapitanAmerica

I'm not dismissing the history professor, I'm saying the article says EXPERTS ... I only see one relevant expert (I don't consider a law professor blogger an expert on American History), and the one expert is qualifying his comments big time.

Okay,, not to parse ,, BUT

History Prof,,, expert.. I would say so

Person associated with The Paul Revere House?? Again, I would say so, at least for that time period

As for the law prof,, I have no idea what he does on his blog and/or spare time, so perhaps he is oen too

I would call Charles an expert on running a blog. But I would also call him one on programming and guitar playing!

re: #155 ElCapitanAmerica

I'm not dismissing the history professor, I'm saying the article says EXPERTS ... I only see one relevant expert (I don't consider a law professor blogger an expert on American History), and the one expert is qualifying his comments big time.

If you were trying to be polite, as you knew you were going to get quoted, but also didn't want to get ridiculed by your entire department, you'd probably qualify your remarks as well. This could be a professor who says, "You won't get an A in my class, but knowing that Paul Revere made some sort of informational tour on horseback will get you a C...minus."

DSK (IMF perv) just plead not guilty in court, according to my radio.

re: #164 Cannadian Club Akbar

DSK (IMF perv) just plead not guilty in court, according to my radio.

and BBC. Did you expect otherwise?

re: #158 BryanS

Looks like Breitbart was sitting on photos before the infamous twitter pic

Breitbart story about more pictures

So...strange coincidence. Breitbart is sitting on a stash of compromising photos of Anthony Weiner, and then a story erupts about the transmittal of a pic of Anthony Weiner. Either this is a classic "bimbo eruption" and Weiner is toast, or an elaborate setup.

I'm guessing a setup. Patriotusa76 mentioned this on twitter a week or two before he "discovered" the pic on Wiener;s twitter feed. Maybe the pic is real and Breitbart got a hold of it and posted on Wiener's twitter feed to get the scandal started.

re: #135 ralphieboy

All but the most frothing right wingers are aware that Obama inherited the financial collapse, he was not on deck when it hit.

And besides calls to ban abortin and defund the EPA planned parenthood, what have we seen in real alternatives from the GOP to improve the situation?

The GOP hasn't got any traction with calls to scale back medicare and social security. One way or another, those programs, and much else, are going to be scaled back. But perhaps the only way it can happen is with a tacit agreement to falsify the inflation numbers and index payments to an unrealistically low adjustment for inflation. And a tacit agreement to call real, and useful, but hugely expensive, medical care "experimental", and deny it.

The scale of the hole we're in is so big that only deep cuts in the big-ticket spending programs, and genuine tax increases, but not across the top of the Laffer curve, can do the job. This, all the more so because we must make enormous investments in infrastructure. So consumption spending must fall even faster than overall spending. Perhaps some of these tax increases could be replaced by borrowing, but only if it's borrowing against real assets, e.g. the toll revenue stream from turnpikes, or the ticket revenue from railroad trips...if rail transport even makes sense in the U.S.

The government is just about out of credit of the "honest I'll pay it back" sort.

Penny ante cuts such as PP cannot save a drop of money compared to the size of the deficit. GOP opposition to tax increases extends even to modest restorations of previous rates, and that doesn't help matters either.

(The Dems want the letter of the old tax law reinstated, but since the dollar has sunk a long ways since the old law was in force, the real tax rate on inflation adjusted income would be far higher now than it was then.)

Looking back, the GOP isn't the only place to point a finger when looking at the collapse. Was it red states that saw the most extravagant runups in housing prices? Was a policy of easy money for Fannie and Freddie assailed by Barney Frank?

re: #165 ralphieboy

and BBC. Did you expect otherwise?

No. I also don't expect this to go to trial. He'll plea or the prosecution will drop the charges.

re: #166 Killgore Trout

I'm guessing a setup. Patriotusa76 mentioned this on twitter a week or two before he "discovered" the pic on Wiener;s twitter feed. Maybe the pic is real and Breitbart got a hold of it and posted on Wiener's twitter feed to get the scandal started.

I doubt the pic is real, but perhaps whoever provided it provided a whole stash of them. Fauxtoshopping is nothing new to these types.

re: #166 Killgore Trout

I'm guessing a setup. Patriotusa76 mentioned this on twitter a week or two before he "discovered" the pic on Wiener;s twitter feed. Maybe the pic is real and Breitbart got a hold of it and posted on Wiener's twitter feed to get the scandal started.

Could be...I was wondering the same thing. Or even possibly Breitbart is getting played. Or Weiner is a pathetic perve with poor impulse control. Or all of the above.

re: #166 Killgore Trout

I'm guessing a setup. Patriotusa76 mentioned this on twitter a week or two before he "discovered" the pic on Wiener;s twitter feed. Maybe the pic is real and Breitbart got a hold of it and posted on Wiener's twitter feed to get the scandal started.

This has been my theory. The posting was probably done by somebody associated by patriotUSA or whatever his name is, no coincidences there, they fabricated that.

But based on Rep. Weiner's response, the picture has to be real.

Now, the question about the picture is what is the context of it.

This explains why he didn't want to do a "formal" investigation. How embarassing the picture is depends if this is pre or post marriage and to whom he sent it.

heh

Weiners,,,, Botched history,,,,crappy financial outlooks

Makes me look forward to the doctors appt I have in an hour or so

It'll be fun, FUN I tell ya!!

I watched 60 Minutes (rerun) last night. Boy that Leslie Stahl was annoying. She showed a clip of an East Jerusalem man being hit (but not seriously injured) by a car during a protest about an archeological dig.

The video clearly and definitively showed the young man that was hit threw a softball-sized stone smack in the center of the driver's half of the window. Right before the driver got distracted and hit him. Surrounding the car were other people with rocks wearing masks. The car stopped for a moment, then proceeded.

What did Leslie do? She criticized the man, who was one of the principals of the archeological organization, for not stopping (though, she admits, he did report this to the police later), and reassures us that the rock-throwing man who just attacked the driver with a lethal weapon was ok!

What would Leslie do if a group of people surrounded her car and started throwing large rocks at her? I'd presume she'd get out of the car and hug them!

Anyway, I saw this dig last April. The King David tunnels in the city of David! Worth a visit.

Image: 5567098682_228cfff6b1_z.jpg

re: #169 thedopefishlives

I doubt the pic is real, but perhaps whoever provided it provided a whole stash of them. Fauxtoshopping is nothing new to these types.

THE PIC IS REAL! THEY"RE ALL REAL! WEINER IS OUT THERE TAKING PICTURES OF HIS PENIS AS WE SPEAK!

re: #172 sattv4u2

heh

Weiners,,, Botched history,,,crappy financial outlooks

Makes me look forward to the doctors appt I have in an hour or so

It'll be fun, FUN I tell ya!!

"Are ya using the whole fist, Doc"?

re: #161 Varek Raith

Weiner was entitled to a private life, especially before he entered public service. There may be a cache of embarassing photos, but I believe Weiner that he wasn't the one who tweeted them!

re: #173 reuven

Leslie Stahl is an idiot.

re: #175 Cannadian Club Akbar

"Are ya using the whole fist, Doc"?

"Moon River ,,,"

re: #172 sattv4u2

heh

Weiners,,, Botched history,,,crappy financial outlooks

Makes me look forward to the doctors appt I have in an hour or so

It'll be fun, FUN I tell ya!!

Just remember what Paul Revere told the British when he said they couldn't take our Credit Default Swaps from us: "My cock is huge! My cock is huge!"

re: #168 Cannadian Club Akbar

No. I also don't expect this to go to trial. He'll plea or the prosecution will drop the charges.

The prosecution isn't going to drop charges. They have a lot of evidence. They can't allow it to be public settled fact that in NYC, the Great may do as they like with the Small.

DSK is going to have to face the music.

re: #167 lostlakehiker

Penny ante cuts such as PP cannot save a drop of money compared to the size of the deficit. GOP opposition to tax increases extends even to modest restorations of previous rates, and that doesn't help matters either. Absolutely agree.

(The Dems want the letter of the old tax law reinstated, but since the dollar has sunk a long ways since the old law was in force, the real tax rate on inflation adjusted income would be far higher now than it was then.)

Looking back, the GOP isn't the only place to point a finger when looking at the collapse. Was it red states that saw the most extravagant runups in housing prices? It was the "sand states": Cal, FL, NV, AZ. No distinct political trend there. However, I seem to recall that "red states" seem to do better when it comes to being beneficiaries of federal aid. Was a policy of easy money for Fannie and Freddie assailed by Barney Frank? Really? Blaming Fannie and Freddie for the credit crisis? You ought to review Greenspan's testimony on the topic: 48 pages, give or take, and two paragraphs about Fannie and Freddie. Nobody pointed a gun at Countrywide, New Century and the other non-bank originators that fueled that bubble. They did it in concert with the securitizers and the rating agencies. Fannie and Freddie were way back in the pack when it comes to contributing to the credit crisis. WAY back. Anything to the contrary is revisionist.

re: #167 lostlakehiker

Looking back, the GOP isn't the only place to point a finger when looking at the collapse. Was it red states that saw the most extravagant runups in housing prices? Was a policy of easy money for Fannie and Freddie assailed by Barney Frank?

It was under Clinton that the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed, a Depression-era law designed to separate commercial and mortgatge banking. It was under Bush that banks were allowed to speculate wildly on mortgages.

re: #162 sattv4u2

Okay,, not to parse ,, BUT

History Prof,,, expert.. I would say so

Person associated with The Paul Revere House?? Again, I would say so, at least for that time period

As for the law prof,, I have no idea what he does on his blog and/or spare time, so perhaps he is oen too

I would call Charles an expert on running a blog. But I would also call him one on programming and guitar playing!

You know what I merged the historian and the guy from the Paul Revere house into one guy. OK, I got our experts "plural" now.

Still hold the law professor is not presented in the article as a historical authority or even that relevant.

But yeah, it was bugging me that I only saw one expert when they 're two. I still think they're being extremely generous.

re: #182 ralphieboy

And, ironically, Glass-Steagal had little to do with this. It was still bad to repeal it, don't get me wrong, but it wouldn't have stopped the meltdown, just eased it a very little. What was, and is, needed, is regulation about new financial instruments such that they can't be used without a proper risk assessment.

Good luck getting that into law.

re: #143 sattv4u2

But she didn't say that. She said Revere was wringing the bells and firing shots.

That's untrue.

She said that he warned the British-- he didn't, he lied to them in order to make them think that we had more people than we actually did.

Revere, by that point, had already achieved the main purpose of his trip-- warning Hancock and Adams.

Nothing she said, even by luck, lines up with reality.

re: #145 darthstar

The cropping and rotation could go a long way to explain how and why that photo didn't show up in the database of known cameras (including the EXIF relating to the known photos taken from Weiner's Blackberry).

People at big government excited about the pictures!!!

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twgilmour 91p · 4 hours ago
OUCH!! I waited up all night for this. I'll be looking for more later.
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CPeony 109p · 2 hours ago
Andrew Breitbart and Sarah Palin......holding the brilliant light which will guide our way back to the Founding Father's holy grail.

re: #186 lawhawk

The cropping and rotation could go a long way to explain how and why that photo didn't show up in the database of known cameras (including the EXIF relating to the known photos taken from Weiner's Blackberry).

Uh, yeah. Once the EXIF data is stripped, it's gone forever. Image data is image data, and there's no real way to match it back to the original source without the proper tags.

re: #185 Obdicut

But she didn't say that. She said Revere was wringing the bells and firing shots.

That's untrue.

She said that he warned the British-- he didn't, he lied to them in order to make them think that we had more people than we actually did.

Revere, by that point, had already achieved the main purpose of his trip-- warning Hancock and Adams.

Nothing she said, even by luck, lines up with reality.

I think she said Revere was ringing the bells.
:-)

At any rate - I listened as much as I could stand to listen to her, and I read the transcripts, and she was obviously doing her usual say-too-many-words-and-hope-something-comes-out-right schtick. She had no clue what she was talking about, just her usual incoherent babbling, that sounds like it ought to make sense, but when you take a good look at it, doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Gah.

re: #123 Decatur Deb

This is a link to a photo album that has been circulating by email. It is 200 photos of scenes from Normandy, 1944, paired with recent photos. I had no problems viewing from Linux/FireFox3.

[Link: www.6juin1944.com...]

Happy D-Day...I can't wait to hear Sarah tell us about this one.

Good morning lizards!

re: #187 ElCapitanAmerica

People at big government excited about the pictures!!!

Founding father's holy grail? I thought Monty Python and some rabbit protected that grail.

re: #190 darthstar

Happy D-Day...I can't wait to hear Sarah tell us about this one.

"We just pulled up to the shore and kicked some Nazi ASS"!!!
/

re: #190 darthstar

Happy D-Day...I can't wait to hear Sarah tell us about this one.

She'll tell us about Teddy Roosevelt taking Omaha Beach to warn the Germans that we were coming!

re: #189 reine.de.tout

It reminded me of [Link: shitmystudentswrite.tumblr.com...]

The rebel and onion armies showed grose negligence by having many of their battles right inside national parks, like Gettysburg.

re: #194 garhighway

She'll tell us about Teddy Roosevelt taking Omaha Beach to warn the Germans that we were coming!

Ah, the rough-riders of Normandy...yes, now I remember.

re: #194 garhighway

She'll tell us about Teddy Roosevelt taking Omaha Beach to warn the Germans that we were coming!

I thought Nebraska was land-locked.

re: #190 darthstar

Happy D-Day...I can't wait to hear Sarah tell us about this one.

We landed on the beaches of France to warn the Germans that we were going to exercise our 2nd Amendment rights on them.

So is Utah. Must've landed on the shores of the Great Salt lake

re: #196 darthstar

Ah, the rough-riders of Normandy...yes, now I remember.

She might say that we warned the Germans we were going to come on in there at Normandy and preserve our right to freely assemble.

re: #195 Obdicut

The 3rd story is lovely. Just lovely.

re: #195 Obdicut

It reminded me of [Link: shitmystudentswrite.tumblr.com...]

LOL! The battle was right inside the the national park! LOL.
Great link.

A couple of others from that link:

Darwin’s theory of natural selection is also known as survival of the fits

and this:

I broke it off with the guy I was seeing and proceeded to sleep around with a few guys. A couple months later I noticed things growing on my vagina and I was scared

I would have been scared too.

re: #194 garhighway

She'll tell us about Teddy Roosevelt taking Omaha Beach to warn the Germans that we were coming!

She'd be sorta close since one of Teddy's sons was a Brig. Gen and landed at Utah in the first wave. (Asst Div Commander of the 4th Infantry.)

(Played by Henry Fonda in _The Longest Day_)

over 10,000 people on lgf now. The Palin Wiki story seems pretty popular.

Yikes - more than 10,000 people online!

re: #204 Killgore Trout

over 10,000 people on lgf now. The Palin Wiki story seems pretty popular.

No wonder the hamsters are gasping for air.

The economy still sucks! 100 listings on Ebay with only 11 sales! Come on people!! Geez

re: #204 Killgore Trout

re: #205 Charles

I don't feel special now.:(
/

re: #205 Charles

Yikes - more than 10,000 people online!

Very, very cool. Is registration open?

re: #205 Charles

Yikes - more than 10,000 people online!

That explains the performance...I'll drop off for a while...good luck with the traffic. That belt seems to be slipping over there and I see smoke coming out of the engine. Nothing a couple whacks with a wrench won't fix.

re: #208 Cannadian Club Akbar

re: #205 Charles

I don't feel special now.:(
/

People are reading your comments!

YOU ARE FAMOUS!

OMG I AM FAMOUS TOO!!!

Only Protestant jesus can save us now...
[Link: www.salon.com...]

re: #206 thedopefishlives

No wonder the hamsters are gasping for air.

here too.

re: #211 iossarian

People are reading your comments!

YOU ARE FAMOUS!

OMG I AM FAMOUS TOO!!!

SALMON BASEBALL!! (let 'em figure that one out)

re: #212 ralphieboy

Only Protestant jesus can save us now...
[Link: www.salon.com...]

Catholics welcome as long as they're not the brown foreign-looking liberation theology type.

re: #204 Killgore Trout

over 10,000 people on lgf now. The Palin Wiki story seems pretty popular.

I was trying to make a page on this but the server can't handle all the traffic. So here goes as a comment:

LA Times publishes desperate attempt to defend the Fair Sarah's reading of American History, complete with Palinesque jeering, "Now Who Looks Stupid?" headline.

[Link: latimesblogs.latimes.com...]

Result: complete and pathetic fail.

Meanwhile in that left-wing rag Forbes, E.D. Kain cringes and says that Palin is proof that the American educational system is broken. (Her fans, clearly, are secondary proof of the same axiom):

[Link: blogs.forbes.com...]

Check this out:

A scathing review of the new Sarah Palin biopic from the film reviewer of non other than the New York Post!!

[Link: www.nypost.com...]

The best part:

But its tone is an excruciating combination of bombast and whining, it’s so outlandishly partisan that it makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln and its febrile rush of images — not excluding earthquakes, car wrecks, volcanic eruption and attacking Rottweilers — reminded me of the brainwash movie Alex is forced to sit through in “A Clockwork Orange.” Except no one came along to refresh my pupils with eyedrops.
I’d sooner have watched a Michael Moore movie.
Any Michael Moore movie.
Even “Canadian Bacon.”
If you’re hopeful (or worried) that this movie is the secret trigger for a Palin relaunch, don’t be.

Strong words for the magazine equivalent of Fox news.

[Link: blogs.forbes.com...]

Entertaining comments IN CAPS, as always.

re: #205 Charles

Yikes - more than 10,000 people online!

I think you've been slashdotted.

[Link: politics.slashdot.org...]

According to right wing blogs I'm now under "suicide watch," because Andrew Breitbart has a new "scoop" on Anthony Weiner. Aren't they cute?

If you go to Breitbart's site, he's posted two of these "shocking" pictures already. (Hint: they're not even close to being "shocking.")

Hang on, we're going over the rapids...

re: #219 ElCapitanAmerica

I think you've been slashdotted.

[Link: politics.slashdot.org...]

Ow, that's going to leave a mark.

Charles, back off that ledge!

How're the hamsters holding up?

re: #220 Charles

According to right wing blogs I'm now under "suicide watch," because Andrew Breitbart has a new "scoop" on Anthony Weiner. Aren't they cute?

If you go to Breitbart's site, he's posted two of these "shocking" pictures already. (Hint: they're not even close to being "shocking.")

So far he's released pictures about him with his cats, and another with Weiner showing a sign that reads "me".

A real journalism outlet would have written a story about this, I still don't get the point of these latest pictures.

Yfrog is doubling down again:

After confirming that our email upload feature has not been compromised in any way – it is now active again (from 5 pm PST today). We appreciate your patience as we work to assure user safety and security. Please always maintain secure passwords and do not share email secret PINs with anyone. Please contact us at is-support@imageshack.us with any questions, if you want your PINs changed or disabled.

[Link: yfrog.com...]

Also:

The Daily claims that the fact the Weinergate tweet was sent from tweetdeck eliminates the theory that it was sent using the yfrog email 'feature.' I'm not familar with tweetdeck myself so I cannot comment on that.

[Link: www.thedaily.com...]

re: #225 ElCapitanAmerica

He may have actual explicit pictures of Weiner, and be working his way up to it.

Or he just has 'intimate' pictures of Weiner with his cats. That is rather intimate, after all.

Yes, if the tweet came from Tweetdeck, that does eliminate the yfrog email hack as a possible method.

Still doesn't prove Weiner actually sent it, though -- Tweetdeck is a free app with millions of users.

LGF trying to stay up in the middle of a Slashdotting. Get ready Charles, this is what separates run of the mill "webmasters" vs "web Admirals" :-)

We're doing fine right now, but the server hamsters are giving me dirty looks.

re: #230 ElCapitanAmerica

LGF trying to stay up in the middle of a Slashdotting. Get ready Charles, this is what separates run of the mill "webmasters" vs "web Admirals" :-)

Business Insider posted a link to LGF. Did that bring a bunch of traffic here?

re: #226 Alexzander

Yfrog is doubling down again:

[Link: yfrog.com...]

yfrog security infrastructure was still broken as of last wed. Haven't checked their new version yet because, I can't find where you get the external email.

BTW I got a message from the CEO and he lied to me, says they don't support MMS (they sure as hell did last week).

Linking a pic just because I want to eat a bit of Breitbart's bandwidth.

Image: IMG00165-20101119-2106.jpg

re: #232 NJDhockeyfan

Business Insider posted a link to LGF. Did that bring a bunch of traffic here?

Not even close to other sources.

re: #233 ElCapitanAmerica

yfrog security infrastructure was still broken as of last wed. Haven't checked their new version yet because, I can't find where you get the external email.

BTW I got a message from the CEO and he lied to me, says they don't support MMS (they sure as hell did last week).

Heh. I wonder if that was a clear use of tense on behalf of the CEO. "We dont support MMS"*

*=today.

Either way it looks like the yfrog controversy is no longer part of the weinergate story/drama/mystery.

re: #234 darthstar

Linking a pic just because I want to eat a bit of Breitbart's bandwidth.

Image: IMG00165-20101119-2106.jpg

Are those pics his big scoop? Pretty lame.

re: #231 Charles

We're doing fine right now, but the server hamsters are giving me dirty looks.

Here, take a +1 cattle prod of shocking.
That'll learn em!

re: #234 darthstar

Linking a pic just because I want to eat a bit of Breitbart's bandwidth.

Image: IMG00165-20101119-2106.jpg

Can we be sure whether or not that's a picture of Weiner's pussy?

re: #237 Killgore Trout

Are those pics his big scoop? Pretty lame.

His headline is "Weinger using double entendres!!!" Because apparently the image had a message that said ; "me and the pussies"

re: #237 Killgore Trout

Are those pics his big scoop? Pretty lame.

They do tell us something about Weiner...he's a normal human being who behaves like a lot of other normal human beings.

re: #239 JasonA

Can we be sure whether or not that's a picture of Weiner's pussy?

Dunno. It looks Persian to me.

re: #237 Killgore Trout

Are those pics his big scoop? Pretty lame.

He might have more, and have inverted his normal pattern of 'release edited, terrible-seeming stuff first, then have it revealed as fake'. It's a possibility. I'd hate to think the Brietbart is actually capable of learning, but he might be.

They better have something better than pictures of him at home. At the moment the whole thing looks like a total violation of privacy.

Ah, much better.

re: #242 Decatur Deb

Dunno. It looks Persian to me.

IRAN CONNEXSHUN!

re: #246 darthstar

IRAN CONNEXSHUN!

Image: Persian_Models_Wow.jpg

re: #237 Killgore Trout

Are those pics his big scoop? Pretty lame.

His first post claimed he has "graphic" pictures. We'll see. I suspect he's posting these mild pics just to get people to jump.

re: #245 Cannadian Club Akbar

Ah, much better.

Lots of traffic. Hopefully they're all clicking the ads and buying Palin cardboard cut-outs, too...then Charles will be rolling up in a Bentley in no time.

Whew - that experience was like trying to fit into a suit jacket that had been hanging in my closet for 5 years....

Nice sailing, Admiral Charles.

re: #248 Charles

His first post claimed he has "graphic" pictures. We'll see. I suspect he's posting these mild pics just to get people to jump.

He said some were "too graphic" to post...meaning they probably don't exist.

Five members of the Fogel family were brutally stabbed to death in their home in the West Bank settlement of Itamar on the night of March 11th. The murderers killed Ehud and Ruth Fogel, along with three of their young children, Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, 3 months old, before fleeing the scene.

[Link: www.haaretz.com...]

Real men kill children. Not.

re: #247 Varek Raith

Image: Persian_Models_Wow.jpg

Persian model--Dow.