1

First...and sexy!

 

2 We can haz the gallows and public hangings?

3 Ug. More 6 hour meetings for the rest of the week.

4 via tweetdrudge    Full-Face transplant man goes public! http://cli.gs/GGVqb #tcot

5 I'm not sure if Slu reads comments or is looking for ideas ..

... but ...

a photoshop of the "Obama Rising from the Sea" with an oil-soaked unicorn in the background would be nice.  Putting some oil on "The One" works, too.


The worst thing about the oil spill?
It makes walking on water that much more difficult for Obama.

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6 WE'RE STILL AFLOAT HERE IN GUAM!!!!!

7 *yawn* Did they catch that white mid-40's white Tea Party racist healthcare bomber or anything?

8 6 WE'RE STILL AFLOAT HERE IN GUAM!!!!!


Not for long

9 Needs assessment

10

Posted by: maddogg at May 04, 2010 09:18 AM (OlN4e)

According to Bloomberg and Geraldo, no.

11 Healthcare bomber all day today.

12 I gotta tell ya, this is the most awesome picture I've ever seen in a news story:

Phillies fan Tasered on field.

13 differentiated instruction

14

Gabe

Ya gotta post Rosalyn Carter on Fox & Friends this morning.

15

According to Bloomberg and Geraldo, no.

If those two had U-235 for brains and you combined them, you wouldn't have enough fissile material to blow your nose.

16 From the sidebar:

Cuccinelli, a Republican who is separately suing the federal government over regulation of carbon emissions, issued the school a civil subpoena late last month probing "possible violations" of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act by the former U.Va. professor. Mann, now a professor at Penn State, is famous for creating the controversial "hockey stick" graph charting a spike in global temperatures.
Its about time. This is the best thing that could have happened.  But notice how the paper had to stick in that bit about a "Republican".

Yes this is pure political.

17

16 And this professor says he is being "harassed". Well, he was "harassed" with a boat load of my money.

18 America is causing these terror attacks, by being so mean and hateful.

19 Anyone gonna keep track of when Bloomberg, Geraldo, and all the other random MSM operatives and LIb pols start apologizing for their smears and jumping to conclusions reagarding the Times Sq. bomb. I'm curious to know how long after the Gov't knew they were looking for a 30 year old Pakistani, did it take for them to tell the MSM that the "white guy in his forties" was a red herring. Did they (Holder, Obama, Bloomy, etc.) deliberately wait until there had been a full day of news cycles implying "teabaggers" were responsible before they grudgingly revealed that, as usual and as virtually every sane person suspected, it was a Muslim terrorist ?

20 Prolific use of buzzwords in a meeting mean the speaker has no ideas, no clue, no brains, and nothing worthwhile to say. Instant nap inducer.

21 when will geraldo be held accountable for his stupid statements? he has always been a joke.....

22
Mann is guilty of Bernie Maddoff level fraud.

23 21 Prolific use of buzzwords in a meeting mean the speaker has no ideas, no clue, no brains, and nothing worthwhile to say. Instant nap inducer.

You have to think outside the box.

24 Prolific use of buzzwords in a meeting mean the speaker has no ideas, no clue, no brains, and nothing worthwhile to say. Instant nap inducer.

Just wait until he starts the Pareto analysis on the whiteboard for that "needs assessment".  Just don't snore while napping.

25

Prolific use of buzzwords in a meeting mean the speaker has no ideas, no clue, no brains, and nothing worthwhile to say. Instant nap inducer.

Listen carefully:  Synergy.

26 Mann is guilty of Bernie Maddoff level fraud.

The warmies have stolen ten times more than Madoff. They have spent billions on these bogus studies.

27

taylork, beware of falling low-hanging fruit.

 

Happy day, happy day, the first in 3 weeks I haven't felt weak and sick in the morning. I am finally getting over the evil flu...

28 We need a new paradigm if we're gonna cross-platform this indirect productivity booster. So let's get pro-active and use a global approach.

29

differentiated instruction

Is that like the blog having more than one voice?

30 single school culture (I have no idea what that means, but I'm pretty sur it means that they want the black students to not beat up the asian immigrant students anymore)

31
Islamic terrorism doesn't fit the narrative.

32

 America is causing these terror attacks, by being so mean and hateful.

We need to have a meeting about this. Ohhh taylork....

33

From an article posted today on Politico:

This is what a terrorist can look like: a balding white man in his 40s. Thanks to an alert street vendor and an NYPD officer who ushered in local and federal law enforcement, the Times Square would-be bomber was a bust. So far. They saw the parked car, engine running, hazards blinking, driver departing — in other words, they profiled behavior, not people. Take note, Arizona.

BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA, EAT A DICK POLITICO!

34 needs assessment
Posted by: taylork's meeting buzzwords at May 04, 2010 09:21 AM (4yrb2)

I dare you to yell out "Just reconfigure the main deflector array to emit an inverse tachyon beam!"

35

During the Duke Lax case the libtard professors did not feel like their jumping to conclusions was wrong because they insisted that their world view was correct. The lax boys, because of the american culture, were guilty because they fit into the lefty meme.

The lebtard teabagger bomber theory would still be correct in this case even though it was in actuality a wacky packy because the meme still fits in their minds. It just happened to be not a racist anti-health tea bagger. The fact that it wasn't is just accidental. The tea baggers just haven't gotten caught yet--everybody knows they really want to blow up NYC.

 

36

Via Insty, a Tapscott piece that tells us what we already know: most people think that Bammer's so-called "National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform" is a smokescreen for tax hikes, not spending cuts. Nor are the citizens wrong. Bammer has run  up a huge deficit with the help of a compliant Congress, but the bill is coming due pretty soon, and it's going to be ugly. Bammer remembers his "no new taxes" promises on the stump very well, but he also knows that higher taxes are an absolute necessity to keep his statist boat afloat. What to do? Answer: appoint a "bipartisan commission" and have them recommend ugly tax hikes. This way he can claim that the tax hikes weren't really his idea.

It's such an obvious ploy that absolutely no one is being taken in by it, but at this point the Democrats must figure that the midterms are going to be an epochal disaster no matter what they do, so they might as well try to run the table before the elections come around. AP over at Hot Air made an interesting prediction that any vote on a tax bill would happen after the elections but before the new Congresscritters are seated, ostensibly to give the defeated Blue Dogs time to "vote their consciences" before they head home. It sounds plausible to me -- it's a variant of the "they can only hang you once" theory.

 

37

PITTSBURGH (AP) - An off-duty Pittsburgh police detective is charged with choking a fellow motorist and threatening him with a gun after a minor collision.

State police say Det. Bradley Walker kicked another driver's car then broke a window to reach in and grab the man by the throat in an apparent road rage incident Saturday night in Pittsburgh. Investigators say Walker then pulled his car in front of the alleged victim's car and brandished a handgun.

 See, they were right when they said things like this will happen with these illegal immigrant laws. He probably suspected him of being an illegal immigrant.

38 Yesterday, I made a buzzword bingo sheet. I have 4 marks so far.

39

Another gem from the politico article:

If, as seems unlikely, the bomb is linked to South Asian or Middle Eastern terrorists, questions will again arise as to whether the Department of Homeland Security is doing all it can do to keep us safe. If, as I believe is much more likely, the bomb was placed by a right-wing lunatic, it seems to me that questions need to be raised as to whether the right-wing media bear some responsibility for stoking the delusions of such people through their relentless and often unfounded attacks on the Obama administration and the federal government.

BWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!

40 #16  Its about time. This is the best thing that could have happened.  But notice how the paper had to stick in that bit about a "Republican".

Of course.  After all, only evil Rethuglicans want to stop carbon-emission bs because they hate Gaia.

Not surprised that Penn State let Mann off.  I should try some of his research tricks and see if I get away with academic misconduct.

41 Not surprised to hear where the Times Square Bomber came from and where he was living. After all, CT is the Humpback State.

42
Obama promises to keep his boot on the throat of these Islamic terrorists....oh wait...he's talking about an oil company, my bad.

43 Listen carefully:  Synergy.

First they must develop a mission statement before they can have synergy.

We will be proactive in identifying the needs of our customer and address those needs using a balanced approach with synergies between our customers and workers.

Solutions will be in keeping with the finest successful models while using new paradigms in best practices.

44 #44  First they must develop a mission statement before they can have synergy.

Right, but before "first" they need a special commission to write their mission statement.

45 "across the lines"

46

If, as seems unlikely, the bomb is linked to South Asian or Middle Eastern terrorists,

Whoever wrote this should be airlifted to Waziristan wearing nothing but Danish cartoons of Mohammed.

 

47

#44

Damn Vic,

That brings back bad memories from six sigma

 

48 That brings back bad memories from six sigma

It should, that is the generic bullshit that every "consultant" comes up with for $150.00/hr.

49 Obama gonna speak at 11 AM. I wonder if the NYPD "acted stupidly" by pointing the finger at a "balding 40-ish white man".

50

I used to sit through weekly meetings with all department heads when I worked for an aerospace company. Three hours of buzzwords, excuses, meaningless blather. Struggle to stifle the yawns and stay awake. Complete waste of time, but it was part of the plant manager's reason for existence, I suppose.

Much better now, my current employer uses the time to inspire us with the latest "management fad techniques" she just trained in. Usually takes an hour for that. Then follows that with another hour of admonishments to be more productive, and oh yeah, what is most important is all that fucking paperwork. Paperwork is required by the government in aerospace, but here it's just a passionate pass-time.

51 infrastructure

52

it seems to me that questions need to be raised as to whether the right-wing media bear some responsibility for stoking the delusions of such people

So let me get this straight. If we criticize our own government, somehow that 'causes' terrorists to plant killer bombs?

Really, really can't see the link beween the two. Or maybe that's just me.

53

From The Sun UK:

A MUM-OF-FOUR was trapped in her bed for SIX MONTHS by her massive boobs.

Julia Manihuari's chest grew to a gigantic N cup after the birth of her third son seven years ago - leaving her unable to move.

The 29-year-old said: "It was awful. If I tried to get up I would faint because my breasts were so heavy."

54 #53 So let me get this straight. If we criticize our own government, somehow that 'causes' terrorists to plant killer bombs?

Really, really can't see the link beween the two. Or maybe that's just me.

That's because you're blinded by your "teabagging" ways.  "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" is so outdated and busted.  The new hotness is following everything this Administration does without question.

55

The 29-year-old said: "It was awful. If I tried to get up I would faint because my breasts were so heavy."

Did she have Elephantitus?

56 Professional development on the core curriculum with rigorous use of effective solution strategies and ongoing monitoring of results. This will help synergize the new action plan items with the currnt research driven instruction.

57

@ #40 - Olivia Fig Newton

Someone should FedEx Politico a giant serving of crow, garnished with arugula.  Ditto Mayor Bloomberg and the rest of the Mouth-Off-First, Think (Much) Later Liberals.

58

So let me get this straight. If we criticize our own government, somehow that 'causes' terrorists to plant killer bombs?

Look, if you can't see that "Obey the Constitution" and "Kill the Infidels" are innately the same rhetoric, then I can't help you.

59 Oh man, the buzzword stuff is great. In college I took a senior elective on Agile Programming. The class had some merit, we did rapid prototyping of software and eventually made some fun little programs for kids with disabilities at a local hospital as a final. But 'Agile' Programming is just another fad development strategy at its core. We did take a class trip to an Agile Programming confrence in Boston, and wow that was a joke. Buzzword city, very little of the panels had anything to do with Agile so much as "hey, use our software to maximize your paradigms!".

60

#47

The idiot who wrote that article is Christine Pelosi, attorney, author and Democratic activist 

61 upscale don't forget he insinuated the disappearance of mccain with the adios amigo quip.....

62

The idiot who wrote that article is Christine Pelosi, attorney, author and Democratic activist

And daughter of you-know-who.

63 Two words for you: predator drones. Just glad he didn't bring me into this...I love the Jonas Brothers.

64 Robert "Five Head" Gibbs wants everyone to know that Obama was briefed on the bombing investigation SIX times yesterday.

65
Jonah Goldberg cuts through the bullshit:

To which I say, stick it up your memory hole Mayor. 

66

Yes this is pure political.

Everything is political.

67 We had a writing board in a hallway at my old job that was covered with "meeting speak". Some were from meetings and some were made up. The challenge was to tell which was which.

68 Robert "Five Head" Gibbs wants everyone to know that Obama was briefed on the bombing investigation SIX times yesterday.

That's correct. At the 2nd, 4th, 8th, 9th, 12th, and 17th holes.

69

What Andy Levy tweeted to Bloomberg about his quote:

“Please find out what Shahzad Faisal has against health care reform. Our city is counting on you!”

70 Robert "Five Head" Gibbs wants everyone to know that Obama was briefed on the bombing investigation SIX times yesterday. He meant to say I CHANGED my briefs SIX times yesterday b/c of the bombing. He didnt write it down on his hand, what a jackass.

71 Mal, you'd think 3-4 times would have been enough to make him understand.

72

Robert "Five Head" Gibbs wants everyone to know that Obama was briefed on the bombing investigation SIX times yesterday.

So that's like a three thousand percent increase over Sunday, right?

73

Robert "Five Head" Gibbs wants everyone to know that Obama was briefed on the bombing investigation SIX times yesterday.

Where? On the front or the back nine?

74 To accomplish this purpose, the template includes elements found by educational research and professional practice to be essential to the success of plans to improve student's academic performance.

75 If Greg Craig hadn't screwed up the Gitmo closure, then we would be living up to our most cherished values and the terrorists wouldn't want to kill us.

76

Posted by: Emperor Barry the Fore at May 04, 2010 09:59 AM (4OL2Z)

heh. Great minds think alike...

77 Drill down using the benchmarks to see the achievement gap.

78

From the headlines at HA:

Faisal is a naturalized American citizen who is originally from Pakistan. He recently returned from Pakistan after spending five months there. While the exact movements of Faisal are not yet known, US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal believe he spent time in al Qaeda or Taliban training camps in North Waziristan.

79 6 hour meetings???

WTF can you do for 6 hours?  much less a whole week of 6 hour meetings..

80 Notice how terror attacks in NY appear more important to the MFM than attacks on jetliners over Detroit.

81 Let's take this offline.

82 Reform by using best practices.

83

@12, that Phillie Phanatic looks like Jon Stewart.  How awesome that would be....

84 Contessa Brewer is trying to figure out who is the leader of Teabaggistan and is he the guy that cooks all that smelly curry stuff late at night when she is trying to sleep.

85 In Pockeestahn, the most promising bombers get full ride scholarships. Students that don't buckle down and get serious, get booted out and sent to Connecticut and shit.

Hope this dude enjoys spending the rest of his life in prison for building a bomb that had no chance of detonating. What a dumb ass. Stay in school kids.

86 Update:  Went over to Politico for a good laugh over the bomber article, and couldn't find it!  Now, I rarely go to Politico, so I may not be adept at navigating their site.  However, it looks like the old Memory Hole is still in business.  Hey, nobody here never said nothin' about middle-aged white males.

87 Excuse me, are there any communities I can help organize? This new job seems a little more complex.

88 Primary Day here in NC. Of course, they have pretty much permanently open polls around here, so I guess the day doesn't matter much. Anyway, I'll be voting for Judges for the first time. Never lived in a State that had an elected Judiciary. It's a new "non-partisan" primary. (engineered by Dems who couldn't win when they had a "(D)" next to their names, of course). Ought to be exciting.

89

12

Several Phillies placed gloves over their faces and appeared to be stifling laughter at the wild scene.

Shane had to be one of them. What a game - Chollie gets thrown out and then some nitwit kid gets tased by T.J. Hooker wannabe.

Just another night at CBP.

90 6 hour meetings???

WTF can you do for 6 hours?  much less a whole week of 6 hour meetings.


Live blog union stupidity.

Anything productive? Nope, nothing.

91 Drill down to find the achievement gap(again).

92

If, as seems unlikely, the bomb is linked to South Asian or Middle Eastern terrorists, questions will again arise as to whether the Department of Homeland Security is doing all it can do to keep us safe. If, as I believe is much more likely, the bomb was placed by a right-wing lunatic, it seems to me that questions need to be raised as to whether the right-wing media bear some responsibility for stoking the delusions of such people through their relentless and often unfounded attacks on the Obama administration and the federal government.

Her writing style reveals a lot about her "thinking" process.

93 Small group instruction for target skills and stratgies will be infused in the core curriculum.

94 @12
With all the recent events that resemble (or are) acts of terrorism, how tiny does your brain have to be to create an incident at a ballgame? 
Mike Golic was wringing his hands over "what might have happened" to the guy who got tazed.  Jeesus, what about what might have happened to the players and other fans? 

95 @91, so you're saying my portfolio -- boned.  It's been sinusoidal for the last week.  Sell in May.... 

96 Bloomy is talking again. On Fox.

97 Excuse me, are there any communities I can help organize?

This new job seems a little more complex.

Posted by: BHO at May 04, 2010 10:05 AM (eoYse)

Oh BO, don't be so glum. I'm sure Michelle will let you help trim up her "down there" hair, if you really want something to do.

98 Contessa Brewer is a dirty, dirty whore.

99 via HLN:

Pentagon reveals exactly how many nuclear weapons the US has in its arsenal.

Obama hopes it will encourage other nations to reveal theirs.  (prepare to be disappointed)

100 Already warned against "backlash". He's a fraud, a failure and a fool. Recall his ass, NYC.

101 Politico article is still up: http://tinyurl.com/384edy5 It's actually quotes from several different people... unlike Pelosi's daughter's, some a fairly lucid.

102 Justice Department Presses Times Square Bomber on Possibly Tea Party Sympathies and Opposition to Arizona Immigration Law

103 Politico article is still up:

http://tinyurl.com/384edy5

It's actually quotes from several different people... unlike Pelosi's daughter's, some a fairly lucid.

Posted by: FreakyBoy at May 04, 2010 10:10 AM (uKraB)

Yep, I realized that after posting.

104 Leadership teams will develop criteria.

105 So, let me get this straight:

Scott Brown makes a joke about how his daughters are available.  That's it.  That's the extent of it. He gets raked across the coals.

Barack Obama makes a joke about his daughters being molested by a famous group of teen idols, and then bringing down a secret military strike on them, and...

...crickets.

106 Ahhh.. "union stupidity"..  now that 'splains a lot!

107 Monty you need to "bone up" on things.

Read a great article on American Thinker that puts our debt at 71 trillion. Peter Schiff just flat out told China they are boned. You ain't getting back your two trillion. Fahgetabout it. We are insolvent.

Anyone else investing in our debt. Boned. Ultimately the pensioners will get boned too. There simply will not be any money to pay them.

108 After listening to NPR for 2 hours this morning, I've decided it's time for people who support enforcing the immigration laws to do two things.

1. Support the businesses, cities and states that are being boycotted and let them know that we support them.

2. Actively boycott those cities and businesses that are boycotting Arizona.

We outnumber them...  It's time.

109 #91  In the end, there will be only chaos!

The EU was a mistake to begin with.  The Eurocrats thought they could make a super-state to rival the US.  Never a good idea to mix shards of iron with clay.

110 The tea baggers just haven't gotten caught yet--everybody knows they really want to blow up NYC.

I'd rather blow up Chicago.

111

Bloomy is talking again. On Fox.

Posted by: Lincontf at May 04, 2010 10:09 AM (qSRHZ)

Did anyone ask the asshole if he found out if the Pakistani was upset over healthcare?

112 I'd rather blow up Chicago.

Violent hat-mongering tea bagger. That's the kind of thing that will lead to terrorism....oh wait, my bad I'm thinking about radical Islam.

113 Already warned against "backlash". He's a fraud, a failure and a fool.
Recall his ass, NYC.

Posted by: Lincontf at May 04, 2010 10:10 AM (qSRHZ)

And the Nazi Nanny also said that it's foreigners who make New York great.  Bloomberg needs to be shipped off to one of the foreign lands he loves so much.  Pakistan would be a good place for the dipshit.

As to New York, they voted him in, they deserve him and everything that comes with him.  Everyone knew, full well, what a pathetic shitbag Bloomberg is ... but they voted for him, anyway.

114 Where art thou progress...that I might say...I told you so? Sleeping late this a.m.?

115 Take note, Arizona!

116 LMAO!

117 Bingo!

118

The Eurocrats thought they could make a super-state to rival the US. 

In the beginning it was simply intended to lash Germany and France together so that the Teutonic "third time is a charm" tendency would be dampened.

And then they overreached and the synergies did not materialize. 

A lot of lessons learned to take away from that.

Not an effective paradigm.

119 Students with disabilities will be mainstreamed to maximize content...

120 Did anyone ask the asshole if he found out if the Pakistani was upset over healthcare? Posted by: TheQuietMan That's the trouble with TV News; it's way too polite and restricted by insane protocol. Just once I'd like to see a host or guest go off on TV and call bullshit. "Are you fucking retarded?" should be the new model.

121 #116  I'd rather blow up Chicago.

Only because you find their soil not satiating enough for your kind, dirt-stealer.

Is this a glimpse of the future?

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Angry Greeks took to the streets Tuesday and unfurled banners at the ancient Acropolis, the country's most famous monument, to protest harsh new austerity measures as strikes began across the country.

122

It's been sinusoidal for the last week.

The stock market has done pretty well, but the bond market has been in the dumper. I think that's what caught a lot of analysts by surprise, in a way -- they figured out how to "game" the major stock markets to keep the numbers up, so investors expressed their ire in the bond and commercial-paper markets. Which is what caused the Greek disaster over the past couple of weeks.

As many, many people have pointed out: the problem isn't debt, per se; it's spending (specifically with regard to entitlements). Lots of Western nations are spending as if they expect a doubling of their GDP within five years, when in fact the best growth most can hope for (if any) is in the 3-5% range.

Analogy time:

Let's say you earn $20,000 per year but spend $19,000 of it on various things. That leaves only $1,000 for investing or saving. If you only make $15,000 per year but also only spend $10,000, that leaves you $5,000 to invest. The latter income is much lower in absolute terms, but can result in higher savings and investment depending on how the spending part of the equation is managed. This matters if both people lose their jobs -- the latter person would be much better positioned than the former because more money has been laid away or invested. More net income does not always equate to more wealth over the long term.

Out-of-control spending is a killer, particularly on a sovereign scale. It's far better to have a $500B government with $500B in debt than a $1T government with no debt at all.

 

123

12 I gotta tell ya, this is the most awesome picture I've ever seen in a news story:

 

That's pretty cool!

124 Where art thou progress...that I might say...I told you so? Sleeping late this a.m.?

Posted by: Lunatic Fringe at May 04, 2010 10:19 AM (uFdnM)

You said you wouldn't - to which I replied that I wouldn't either ... which is why I haven't said, "I told you so."  This guy obviously did not act on his own.

You don't actually think that the guy gets US citizenship, rushes back to Pakistan for 5 months, and then comes back to the US to blow up a bomb ... all on his own?  Come on, Lunatic, I know that you know better than that.

125 I'd rather blow up Chicago.

Chicago seems to be blowing up on its own.

126 Man, I'm starting to feel like that chicken...

127 From Newsbusters: Katie Couric fretted “many” of those illegals “no longer feel welcome.”

128 US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal believe he spent time in al Qaeda or Taliban training camps in North Waziristan.

I am kind of amused that they think NYC is sufficiently like Waziristan that their training will be relevant.  That's some bad planning.

129 I just saw some Neo Nazi flags in the pictures of the flooding in Nashville.

130 Hahaha, Monty. Come on, you know damn well that even the United States, with its enormous debt, wouldn't qualify for entrance if they applied.

Posted by: Upscale Community Organizing Thought Criminal at May 04, 2010 10:08 AM (IhHdM)

 

Would we really want to join the kind of club that would have us as a member?

131 Deficit spending will save us all. Just ignore Greece, their problem was that they didn't spend enough.

132 Meetings should never run more than one hour. I am lucky that I own my own (tiny, so so money making) company so I carefully watch the meeting run times. Max 2 hour meetings if we are reviewing products. We had a few years where my business partner had ZERO meetings. That does not work well, either. So, on balance, consider that too many meetings is better than no meetings at all. Its sad that those buzz words actually are useful but like top 40 songs end up being more annoying than enjoyable. Our main buzz words are profit, price, cost, and quantity.

133

A thousand bucks says Barry takes credit for this as "jobs saved and created":

http://tinyurl.com/34seprb

Washpo

134  I just saw some Neo Nazi flags in the pictures of the flooding in Nashville.

Posted by: Mjim at May 04, 2010 10:25 AM (V8B//)

That town used to be such a nice place till those damn Teabaggers took it over,

135

Never a good idea to mix shards of iron with clay.

They saw how successful America was with the federal model, and wanted all the benefits of a monetary union but without giving up national sovereignty. Well, all of us skeptics knew at the time that this was impossible: America's model works because America's economic model is much more fluid: if you don't like the lay of the land in New York, you can haul ass for Alabama; if you find Georgia not to your liking, you can head out for Ohio. American workers can work in any state. Not so in Europe -- the economies and labor markets of the EU nations are too sclerotic to make a single monetary policy work. It worked only as long as the global economy experienced no significant disruptions; at the first sign of real trouble, the Euro shit the bed. As we all knew it would.

 

136

Katie Couric fretted “many” of those illegals “no longer feel welcome.”

One of these days zombie Ed Murrow and zombie Eric Sevareid are going to go hungry looking for brains at CBS News.

 

137 137 Deficit spending will save us all. Just ignore Greece, their problem was that they didn't spend enough.

Posted by: Paul Krugmen's hollow head at May 04, 2010 10:26 AM (4yrb2)

 

FINALLY!  Somebody who understands that we had to spend all that money to keep from going bankrupt!

138 Bloomberg needs to be shipped off to one of the foreign lands he loves so much.  Pakistan would be a good place for the dipshit.

I've read the dietary restrictions he's forcing on New Yorkers come from his own insecurity about his weight.  So Pakistan would be perfect--no high-fructose corn syrup, no transfats, no foie gras, minimal pastries...

139 My butt hurts (not so much a buzz word as much as it is factual).

140 Iceland needs to kick it up a notch.

141 OT, but happy STAR WARS day.

And May the 4th be with you.

142 Think about this morons;

if the Greeks are rioting over cutbacks and unions losing wages, just think how it is going to be in places like Detroit when the Peggy Joseph's get their welfare and subsidies cut.

I have predicted that our collapse will start in those inner cities and spread outward to the 'burbs.

143 Progress...you are in fact a gentleman. This dipshit was enroute to Dubai.

Now prosecutors hate loose ends. Detest embarrassing moments in the court room. Investigators will stick an electron microscope up this dude's ass. There is a slim chance that someone else was involved and if so, they will find them. A minor player or two. If that.

This fucking thing has amateur hour written all over it. Real terrorists build real bombs. The kind that go off.

144 SI Vault Photo (1986): Mr. T and Refrigerator Perry hang out on the set of "The A-Team"

145 Posted by: Monty at May 04, 2010 10:27 AM (4Pleu)

This is just one more replay of Europe trying to copy the US, but doing it in an exceedingly dumb and insidious way that really preserves nothing but the shallowest of characteristics that they were trying to copy.  We saw this start with the French Revolution which, even having had the American Revolution and our consequent Constitutional structure as their guide, the French decided that they were going to do it "perfectly" - even if it went against the actual spirit of the US Constitutional structure and style.  So France, in their stupid effort to out-America America, goes through the nastiest political takeover of the modern era (the paradigm for all murderous purges after) and end up with a dictator.  The EU will be the same.

Meanwhile, here in America, we have the Democrats thinking they are the second coming of the French Revolution, because dems are just too dumb to learn from history, voting in a person with no American sensibilities, whatsoever, who holds us and our institutions in utter contempt.

Very sad, pathetic stuff.

146 just think how it is going to be in places like Detroit when the Peggy Joseph's get their welfare and subsidies cut.

I suspect that's going to be the last thing our moral and intellectual betters *snort, guffaw* consider as a solution.  a)  it's raaaaaacist.  b) they crave the power over people's lives.

147 I suspect that's going to be the last thing our moral and intellectual betters *snort, guffaw* consider as a solution.

It will not be done as a "solution". It will be done because they are bankrupt. They will either cut the payments or the payments will cut themselves as the money becomes worthless.

148 Question: Do you think the mood of the country will put a little damper on all of the Cinco de Mayo happy horseshit tomorrow? It has nothing to do with the U.S. to begin with. 

149 Somebody's got to run the concessions up in here.  Entrepreneurial capitalism FTW!


my "e" key doesn't always work. That and my regrowing severed finger tip make it hard to type.

150 155 Question: Do you think the mood of the country will put a little damper on all of the Cinco de Mayo happy horseshit tomorrow? It has nothing to do with the U.S. to begin with. 

Posted by: Pocono Joe at May 04, 2010 10:40 AM (dQaOH)

That's Cinco de Cuatro, you teabagging racist wingnut.

151 Great, now they're talking about the various hat's they wear.

152 Progress...you are in fact a gentleman.

As are you, Mr. Fringe.

This dipshit was enroute to Dubai.

Now prosecutors hate loose ends. Detest embarrassing moments in the court room. Investigators will stick an electron microscope up this dude's ass. There is a slim chance that someone else was involved and if so, they will find them. A minor player or two. If that.

Yes, that is entirely possible - though I still think we will find that he had help either gathering some pieces, loading, scouting, ...  It might be that much of the "intelligence" was done earlier and part of whatever went on when he was in Pakistan.

This fucking thing has amateur hour written all over it. Real terrorists build real bombs. The kind that go off.

Posted by: Lunatic Fringe at May 04, 2010 10:32 AM (uFdnM)

I'm not so sure about this part.  This attack was actually par for the course for jihadi and arab terrorists.  Carlos the Jackal used to screw up his operations all along the way.  Dud bombs.  Missed kills.  All sorts of problems.  Even the 9/11 cells were pretty pathetic in how they organized and carried out their plot.  We would have broken the whole thing wide open if Moussaoui's computer had been looked at, and there were several times the 9/11 plotters had run-ins with police and just did creepy, suspicious things.

This is why jihadis usually stick to suicide missions.  They just aren't competent enough to carry out normal, non-suicide operations.  If this Pakistani had been on a suicide run that bomb would have gone off, for sure.

We'll see what information comes down about all this, though I really don't trust the feds to do a good job on this - having seen the crap they came up with for the other terrorist attacks.

153 158 Great, now they're talking about the various hat's they wear.

Posted by: taylork's meeting buzzwords at May 04, 2010 10:46 AM (4yrb2)

Pansies.

154 IN America the national guard aren't unionized...so we will have no problem. In Greece even the military is unionized. Also, cut cop pay at the very end...not at the beginning.

155 I'd rather blow up Chicago.

Chicago seems to be blowing up on its own.

Posted by: Mal at May 04, 2010 10:24 AM (Z+qzA)

You want to really torture someone? Put them in Chicago traffic.

156

Another interesting post about how the public pension debacle is different from the Social Security and Medicare issues. Upshot: the public pension funds have the assets (mostly), but get the interest-rate calculations wrong; SS and Medicare get the interest-rate right, but don't have the assets.

This is the problem with public-sector pensions. Most assume a completely unrealistic rate of return between 7.5 and 8.5 percent, when in reality the rate of return is likely to be more in the 5-6% range. (This is a big difference; don't be fooled by the seemingly-small disparity. Even half a percentage difference in return means billions of dollars more or less in the fund.) Most public fund managers insist that returns in the 9% range over 30 years are not only possible but likely, given past performance, but I think they're whistling past the graveyard. America experienced an age of explosive growth that is very unlikely to be sustained in the coming decades for a number of reasons: more global competition, a globalized market, high debt-to-GDP ratio, an aging workforce, and huge entitlement burdens (which means a correspondingly higher tax burden).

 

157

AP crying a river for poor widdle Barry

WASHINGTON – Unpredictable and tough to solve, the stack of problems on President Barack Obama's desk is growing unwieldy. It's presenting him with a tough juggling act.

Two wars, a financial crisis, lingering high unemployment and an exhausting battle over health care. And that was just the start.

Now throw in an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and an attempted car bombing in Times Square.

Poor poor widdle Barry things are just soooooo difficult for him. Maybe he needs to spend more time golfing or on vacation

158 They haven't been supporting inclusive practices enough.

159 Huh.  Apparently you can take the U.S. Citizenship test in Chinese (third last paragraph).  WTF!?

160 96 Drill down to find the achievement gap(again).

Posted by: taylork's meeting buzzwords at May 04, 2010 10:08 AM (4yrb2)

I see what they are tryign to do. they're going to drill until they reach China, steal the best preforming students, and instantly increase the grade scores.

161 Social justice math!

No wonder India's kicking our ass.

162 84 - BINGO!

163

Happy Star Wars day!

 

May the fourth be with you!

164

Global Warming Causes Mental Illness, Cancer.

niehs.nih.gov/health/docs/climatereport2010.pdf

Believe!

 

165 ref nuking oil leak There is no problem that cannot be solved by the use of high explosives - some Marine.

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