Comments on: Weekend Open Thread

By: Bernie Latham

Bernie Latham — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:09:18 +0000

John McCain on Palin:
“I don’t think she quit. I think she changed her priorities.”

That’s an interesting construction, don’t you think? Very multi-purpose and handy for that. Some other possibilities:

I don’t think the Vietnamese tortured me. I think they loved their nation.

I don’t think Sanford and Ensign and screwed those other women while their Christian wives were home doing dishes. I think they expanded the parameters of family values.

By: Bernie Latham

Bernie Latham — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:54:20 +0000

Given the Times piece yesterday on Cheney’s orders to keep Congress (and all citizens) properly uninformed, blind and stupid I expect we’ll see a significant push from him and his daughter now to further misinform, blind and stupidify the nation.

By: Bernie Latham

Bernie Latham — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:24:59 +0000

A Creator with narcissism of biblical proportions.

By: AllButCertain

AllButCertain — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:51:33 +0000

I had a different formulation in mind, but same difference.

The apple

By: jzap

jzap — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:35:52 +0000

Feh. Damn censorware. . It says “ѕex”.

By: jzap

jzap — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:34:02 +0000

***

By: AllButCertain

AllButCertain — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:32:19 +0000

The wheel

By: jzap

jzap — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:23:06 +0000

The plow

By: AllButCertain

AllButCertain — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:43:27 +0000

Movable type

By: jzap

jzap — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:52:01 +0000

Washing machine

By: EricHayes

EricHayes — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:52:47 +0000

While some may argue that it was Ed Land and his Krazy Kameras, I believe this whole Instant Gratification idiocy can be directly linked to the early 1970s, when Raytheon introduced the microwave oven.

Nothing’s been the same since.

By: Tena

Tena — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:17:07 +0000

Ok, all this talk about the stimulus and whether its working after a whole entire 8 months – well Roubini thinks it is and he never thinks anything is going well:

“Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist who accurately forecast the bursting of the housing bubble and the resulting economic contraction, has become famous for his pessimism—he has been the gloomiest of the doomsayers. Which is what makes his current outlook surprising: Roubini believes that the Obama administration’s policy makers—and especially the much-maligned Tim Geithner—have gotten a lot right. Pitfalls may still abound, but he is now projecting an end to the recession, and he sees growth ahead.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/roubini

Someone want to ask Krugman HOW Obama can persuade Congress to pass yet another stimulus? I don’t think Congress will do it so what’s the point of constantly saying that’s what we need? What good will this harping on something that ain’t going to happen helpful?

Can y’all imagine the howling if more money is poured into things right now, when there hasn’t been time for the first bunch of money to really work yet? Jeeeeeeeeeeez!!!!!

By: Bernie Latham

Bernie Latham — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:58:06 +0000

Lest we forget…
“Palin the Polarizer”

“Using numbers from a post-election poll, Jones and Cox conclude that Palin damaged McCain’s brand because her style evoked the kind of polarizing politics that Americans had grown sick of–and to which, not coincidentally, Barack Obama offered himself as an antidote.” http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/07/palin-polarizer.html

By: Bernie Latham

Bernie Latham — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:20:46 +0000

Where did all the Cheney’s go?

By: actuator

actuator — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:37:07 +0000

Re Krugman’s idea for another stimulus:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124724552795524331.html#mod=rss_Today’s_Most_Popular