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October 25, 2013

DOOM: First tingling, then burning, then blinding pain
— Monty

Another nasty bite-sized nugget of DOOM, my groovy babies. One more day in His Majesty's Happy Kingdom.

Print, baby! Print until those presses catch fire!

The luckiest generation. The great mistake of liberalism was in assuming that this historical anomaly was the norm, and would continue to be so forever. (Also, bear this in mind: luck favors the well-prepared.)

Americans are accumulating debt faster than savings. But it's been that way for a long time now. Americans have been under-saving for fifty years or more.

Teh Krugman, Village Idiot: Â“DonÂ’t worry! Be happy!Â” Don't get close to the strange little man with the beard, Timmy, I don't think he's quite right in the head. maxresdefault

Posted by: Monty at 10:11 AM | Comments (165)
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1 And, taxes will go up.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 25, 2013 10:14 AM (IXrOn)

2 What's that cat doing? Looks like it's hunting or something, but what's with the tongue?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:15 AM (sByIH)

3 I feel sorry for the children being born today. Innocent victims.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 25, 2013 10:15 AM (IXrOn)

4 FUBAR

Posted by: Infidel at October 25, 2013 10:15 AM (O/fK8)

5 Krugman gives Hobbits a bad name. He should be excommunicated from the Shire.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:16 AM (4df7R)

6 Hacking up a hair ball. Yep, that pretty much describes the current state.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 25, 2013 10:16 AM (IXrOn)

7 Yes, we've had some technical difficulties deciding on which post gets to go first. DOOM won. As it always does.

Posted by: Monty at October 25, 2013 10:16 AM (G8OwX)

8 Cross-Eyed Kitteh

Posted by: Ian Anderson at October 25, 2013 10:16 AM (OiYJp)

9 doom, cont... I swear this was written by a Moron. Fess up! The Fall of Barack So thick with cynicism, and moron/ette speak. http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/the_fall_of_barack.html

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 25, 2013 10:17 AM (IXrOn)

10 Hmmmm. The cute widdle bears that will rip off your face are also appropriate here. We hashed out the debt v. savings topic earlier and right now saving is for suckers. The obvious will result due to that.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 25, 2013 10:17 AM (VtjlW)

11 Are you not entertained?

Posted by: Barkus Aurelius at October 25, 2013 10:18 AM (8ZskC)

12 The only things certain in life are death, taxes, and the failure of socialism.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 25, 2013 10:18 AM (APlZl)

13 Afternoon Rons. If you have firefox, go download the Lightbeam add-on. Right now. Real time graphic representation of all the third party sites that monitor your activity at each site you visit. And how they all interact with each other. Cool shit.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 25, 2013 10:18 AM (da5Wo)

14 Miley Kitteh!!!

Posted by: EC at October 25, 2013 10:18 AM (GQ8sn)

15 Jeanne Sha-fucking-heen can take her g-ddamned letter to the Preezy and shove it up her pinched asshole. *SPIT* I can't wait to vote against her next year. I don't care if I end up voting for some Luap Nor lackey who doesn't have a chance in hell -- I'm voting against that bitch.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:18 AM (4df7R)

16 http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/the_fall_of_barack.html

Perfect.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2013 10:19 AM (B/VB5)

17 We hashed out the debt v. savings topic earlier and right now saving is for suckers. The obvious will result due to that. So what's the answer for that? Buy durable goods instead of saving? Or should you be playing the market with your savings? By playing the market I mean putting it into a Spider Fund or something. The market's overinflated, so doesn't that mean there will be an eventual crash?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:19 AM (sByIH)

18 Tingling? Burning? Could be dandruff, seborrhea or psoriasis

Posted by: Bigby's Oven Mitts at October 25, 2013 10:20 AM (3ZtZW)

19 14 Miley Kitteh!!! Posted by: EC at October 25, 2013 02:18 PM (GQ8sn) I'm not even sure what drug to say Miley's on. So I'm going with "all of them".

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 25, 2013 10:20 AM (da5Wo)

20 14 beat me to it.

Posted by: scottst at October 25, 2013 10:20 AM (IX7iP)

WAITING FOR THE FLOOD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ilw1YUWhyE

Posted by: LOVE AND ROCKETS at October 25, 2013 10:20 AM (OiYJp)

22 First the tingling, then the burning, then the excruciating pain The clap FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:20 AM (xZxMD)

23 *crickets*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 25, 2013 10:20 AM (GjPnA)

24 Researching Obamacare Plans has made me certain of the doom. It's bad. Really, really bad. A few lucky people in a few lucky locations get off with cheap insurance, but most of it is ridiculously expensive and has ridiculous deductibles. For low income Americans, the deductibles are often 1/3 to 1/4 of their yearly income. More affluent families are often hit with even higher deductibles, and monthly premiums that are higher than most mortgage payments. So much doom. There's a huge reason Obama hid that price information behind an impenetrable registration wall.

Posted by: Lauren at October 25, 2013 10:20 AM (ELdpj)

25 If you have firefox, go download the Lightbeam add-on. Right now. Real time graphic representation of all the third party sites that monitor your activity at each site you visit. And how they all interact with each other. Cool shit. Ghostery should block all those third party monitoring sites. Although I've heard it doesn't catch everything.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:21 AM (sByIH)

26 Like I said on the last thread Monty I'll give Krugaton a blank check if he agrees to let me pistolwhip him when we lose currency reserve status and the game ends...

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:21 AM (9jfyN)

27 France is in the shitter. I think we did them a disservice by liberating them from the Germans.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 25, 2013 10:21 AM (8ZskC)

28 Only 3+ more years of Obama to go!

Posted by: steevy at October 25, 2013 10:21 AM (zqvg6)

I posted this earlier in re the Americans aren't good with their money article:

" Currently, workers with retirement savings accounts put aside more than 11 percent of their pay for retirement - 5 percent in their own accounts, and 6.2 percent in social security."

No, they are putting aside 5 percent of their pay for retirement, and paying a 6.2 percent tax.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 25, 2013 10:21 AM (Eskni)

30 Show us on the doll where the evil little Krug-Troll touched you, Timmy...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars [/i] [/b] [/s] at October 25, 2013 10:21 AM (XV8KK)

Tingling? Burning?

A Jedi craves not these things

Posted by: Bigby's Oven Mitts at October 25, 2013 10:22 AM (3ZtZW)

>>What's that cat doing? Looks like it's hunting or something, but what's with the tongue?

.Hairball.

Posted by: Registered Voter at October 25, 2013 10:22 AM (kYfFr)

33 Yeah, kitteh, I know how you feel.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 25, 2013 10:22 AM (zF6Iw)

34 You know that annoying know it all idiot stock character? Everyone should just start casting Krugman.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at October 25, 2013 10:22 AM (659DL)

35 What's that cat doing? Looks like it's hunting or something, but what's with the tongue? Ralphing a hairball. "Whuuuuurrrrr, whuuuuurrrr, whuuuuuuurrrrrr, cough, ralph!"

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:22 AM (xZxMD)

36 We hashed out the debt v. savings topic earlier and right now saving is for suckers. The obvious will result due to that. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 25, 2013 02:17 PM (VtjlW) Representative government is doomed because people are stupid. Unrepresentative government is doomed because people aren't *that* stupid. Hmmm. Nothin', divided by nothin', carry the nothin'...

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 25, 2013 10:22 AM (qyfb5)

37 First the tingling, then the burning, then the excruciating pain

What, 30-odd comments in and no Sandy Fluke sock? I'm disappointed.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 25, 2013 10:24 AM (zF6Iw)

38 NothinÂ’, divided by nothinÂ’, carry the nothinÂ’Â… Wait! I think you have something there. If we make sure that people have nothing. Then we divide what they have by nothing. Everyone will have infinite wealth!

Posted by: Your Above Average Liberal, To Whom Math is Magic at October 25, 2013 10:24 AM (QF8uk)

39 Big part of the problem is an electorate that is, and I am being kind here, full of idiots. You have communists like Harry Reid run as a conservative Democrat every 6 years and the people believe what he says, while ignoring everything he does. And this goes for all Democrats and several Republicans too. If the electorate is that stupid/lazy/gullible, well fuck it, what can you do?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at October 25, 2013 10:24 AM (0LHZx)

40 Representative government is doomed because people are stupid. Unrepresentative government is doomed because people aren't *that* stupid. Hmmm. Nothin', divided by nothin', carry the nothin'... Divide by zero & cross streams! What's the worst that could happen???

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:25 AM (xZxMD)

41 Wait a minute--is that Krugman's pussy? The one he loves to stroke?

Posted by: Caliban at October 25, 2013 10:25 AM (DrC22)

42 Ahhhh....

A fresh hit of MontyDOOM to send me off in to the weekend!

Posted by: Cranky J. Anne at October 25, 2013 10:25 AM (ZrCni)

>>The market's overinflated, so doesn't that mean there will be an eventual crash?

.The market can't crash. QE Infinity and Beyond!!!!!!!

Posted by: Registered Voter at October 25, 2013 10:25 AM (kYfFr)

44 Hacking up a hair ball. As opposed to the phrase Barky hears so often, "Racking up an air ball."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars [/i] [/b] [/s] at October 25, 2013 10:25 AM (XV8KK)

45 Representative government is doomed because people are stupid. Unrepresentative government is doomed because people aren't *that* stupid. --- Yeah but we make it up in volume.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 25, 2013 10:26 AM (APlZl)

Oh Monty, dear, dear Monty. How you tempt and taunt with your doom. You wily tease. A bit here, a taste there, but never the full serving of all encompassing doom that we crave. You wait, savoring our desperate thirst for more. When, oh dear sweet Monty, when will you fill us with your delicious doom?

Wait, was that controversial?

Posted by: madamemayhem at October 25, 2013 10:26 AM (S2RnE)

47 Representative government is doomed because people are stupid. Unrepresentative government is doomed because people aren't *that* stupid. ALMOST NO GOVERNMENT! -Libertarians answer But, what about the fact that people are stupid? THEY'LL BE SMARTER WHEN THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES! But what about all the stupid people who have consequences now, but wallow in their failure? THEY'RE NOT MY PROBLEM! We're trying to have a society here. FASCIST! *ponders*

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:26 AM (sByIH)

48 Unrepresentative government is doomed because people aren't *that* stupid. *points at TFG, SJL, Maxine Waters, Corrine Brown, Hank Johnson, Detroit, California, Al Franken and numerous other examples* Tell me again how people aren't *that* stupid?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 25, 2013 10:26 AM (da5Wo)

49 Hacking up a hair ball. As opposed to the phrase Barky hears so often, "Racking up an air ball." *Golf clap* I lol'd. Loudly.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:27 AM (xZxMD)

>>>If the electorate is that stupid/lazy/gullible, well fuck it, what can you do?

Its why I'm pretty much convinced nothing much will change until around 2024

Posted by: Bigby's Oven Mitts at October 25, 2013 10:27 AM (3ZtZW)

51 The decline and fall of France.

Seven pages! Can anyone sum up?

Posted by: Waterhouse Montoya at October 25, 2013 10:27 AM (Lw+sl)

52 Looks like that cat got to the end of Michelle Owebama's landing strip.

Posted by: © Sponge at October 25, 2013 10:27 AM (xmcEQ)

53 Whoa, we get Doom Fridays now? I feel ... I feel ... doom?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at October 25, 2013 10:28 AM (0wHyk)

54 CATS

Posted by: Null at October 25, 2013 10:28 AM (P7hip)

55 Paul "ID4" Krugman?

Posted by: EC at October 25, 2013 10:28 AM (GQ8sn)

56 Its why I'm pretty much convinced nothing much will change until around 2024 I'm pretty much convinced of that nothing much will change until we lose the next war we fight. There, I said it.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at October 25, 2013 10:28 AM (659DL)

57 The decline and fall of France. Seven pages! Can anyone sum up? Nork rocket test?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:28 AM (xZxMD)

58 51 The decline and fall of France. ------------------------------ Seven pages! Can anyone sum up? Posted by: Waterhouse Montoya at October 25, 2013 02:27 PM (Lw+sl) I can do it in two words: They're French.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 25, 2013 10:29 AM (da5Wo)

59 Hah. Ron Johnson is going to introduce a bill called the Â“If you like your health plan, you can keep it actÂ”. (Link in sock.)

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at October 25, 2013 10:29 AM (QF8uk)

60 DOOM: First the tingling, then the burning, then the excruciating pain

Tuesday, in other words.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at October 25, 2013 10:29 AM (RD7QR)

Hacking up a hair ball.

As opposed to the phrase Barky hears so often, "Racking up an air ball."

I suspect Barky's hacked up a few hairy balls in his life, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 25, 2013 10:29 AM (zF6Iw)

Seven pages! Can anyone sum up?

France has been a basket case for centuries, with the exception of brief periods of Bourbon rule, and when a Corsican dictator ran things.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 25, 2013 10:29 AM (Eskni)

63 The decline and fall of France.

Seven pages! Can anyone sum up?

It's a look into America's future. It isn't pretty.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 25, 2013 10:29 AM (8ZskC)

Looks like that cat got to the end of Michelle Owebama's landing strip.

When the anchovy paste is all gone, the smell finally hits you.

Posted by: Toby the Cat at October 25, 2013 10:29 AM (OiYJp)

65 56 Circa,

or win depending....

yeah I think we're gonna eat a nuke befor I'm 50.

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:31 AM (9jfyN)

66 Nothing really matters much It's DOOM alone that counts

Posted by: The one-eyed undertaker who blows a futile horn at October 25, 2013 10:31 AM (zoehZ)

67 I can do it in two words: They're French.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 25, 2013 02:29 PM (da5Wo)

Me, too: Asian youths.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:32 AM (4df7R)

68 63 cicero,

yup...fuck this guy in particular

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:32 AM (9jfyN)

69 *ponders* Posted by: bonhomme at October 25, 2013 02:26 PM (sByIH) Yeah I don't think that's the right word for that.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 25, 2013 10:32 AM (qyfb5)

70 Americans are accumulating debt faster than savings. But it's been that way for a long time now. Americans have been under-saving for fifty years or more.

We Americans do not like to live within our means, so why should expect our elected officials to run the government within theirs?

Posted by: OregonMuse at October 25, 2013 10:33 AM (xm1A1)

71 No, they are putting aside 5 percent of their pay for retirement, and paying a 6.2 percent tax.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 25, 2013 02:21 PM (Eskni)

With another 6.2 percent "employer" tax contribution. Fictions and obfuscations to hide the amount taxed from us.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at October 25, 2013 10:33 AM (0wHyk)

72
Twice the DOOM this week? What have we done to deserve this bounty?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2013 10:33 AM (TIIx5)

73 or win depending.... yeah I think we're gonna eat a nuke befor I'm 50. Depending on where we eat it, it could be a win....

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:34 AM (xZxMD)

74 Me, too: Asian youths. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 25, 2013 02:32 PM (4df7R) I merely besmirched a single country, you went for an entire continent. *high five for the overachiever*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 25, 2013 10:34 AM (da5Wo)

OK, 'rons and 'ronettes, I'm out for the weekend. Stay safe and happy. BTW, if anybody happens to win some sweet lottery cash, I'd like one of these in red, please:

http://tinyurl.com/kppzof5

See you all on Monday.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 25, 2013 10:34 AM (zF6Iw)

76 Oh Monty, dear, dear Monty. How you tempt and taunt with your doom. You wily tease. A bit here, a taste there, but never the full ~~serving~~ Monty of all encompassing doom that we crave. You wait, savoring our desperate thirst for more. When, oh dear sweet Monty, when will you fill us with your delicious doom? Wait, was that controversial? Posted by: madamemayhem at October 25, 2013 02:26 PM (S2RnE) FIFY

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami -GO CARDS!!!! at October 25, 2013 10:34 AM (bCEmE)

DOOM: First the tingling, then the burning, then the excruciating pain

Then you get the wimmen!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 25, 2013 10:35 AM (zF6Iw)

78 "When, oh dear sweet Monty, when will you fill us with your delicious doom?" I'm beginning to think that maybe I've twisted you good folk with my DOOM-ish tales. It seems a bit...outrÃ©...to look forward to being horrified, disgusted, frightened, and/or enraged. I'm beginning to think I should start telling fart jokes or something.

Posted by: Monty at October 25, 2013 10:35 AM (G8OwX)

79 "Shep Smith's Office Romance" http://tinyurl.com/n59954d It's a boy!

Posted by: Caliban at October 25, 2013 10:35 AM (DrC22)

80 70 Americans are accumulating debt faster than savings. But it's been that way for a long time now. Americans have been under-saving for fifty years or more. well monetary policy punishes those who save. as for me i'm waiting for hyper inflation to pay my credit card debts. I only owe about $8k and i intend to pay that back with worthless paper. provided the currency and the banks who issued the cards survive the collapse.

Posted by: Vote Lord Humungus 2016 at October 25, 2013 10:36 AM (HEa5q)

81 DOOM: First the tingling, then the burning, then the excruciating pain Then you get the ~~wimmen~~ penicillian!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:36 AM (xZxMD)

82 Yeah I don't think that's the right word for that. Hey, I've had that exact conversation with Libertarians. The best and the brightest Ls probably can come up with very wonderful arguments, but that's how the rank and file understand it.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:36 AM (sByIH)

83 But what about all the stupid people who have consequences now, but wallow in their failure?

The correct libertarian answer is "get the government out of the way of the consequences so they hit good and hard".

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2013 10:37 AM (B/VB5)

84 "Me, too: Asian youths. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 25, 2013 02:32 PM"

Street mimes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2013 10:37 AM (knoK7)

85 73 rickb223,

uh well maybe...I'm a cold war baby I know what they can do but am not thrilled they are being mainstreamed

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:37 AM (9jfyN)

86 OK, 'rons and 'ronettes, I'm out for the weekend. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 25, 2013 02:34 PM (zF6Iw) Lucky, lucky, lucky...

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 25, 2013 10:37 AM (qyfb5)

87 I'm not even sure what drug to say Miley's on.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 25, 2013 02:20 PM (da5Wo)

If she were better looking I would be enjoying her descent into porno with much more gusto.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2013 10:37 AM (oJ5Fd)

88 I'm beginning to think I should start telling fart jokes or something.

Posted by: Monty at October 25, 2013 02:35 PM (G8OwX)

I'm confused. I thought all references to Paul Krugman WERE fart jokes.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:37 AM (4df7R)

89 "Me, too: Asian youths.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 25, 2013 02:32 PM"

Street mimes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 25, 2013 02:37 PM (knoK7)

Too bad they can't mime setting cars on fire.

Posted by: EC at October 25, 2013 10:37 AM (GQ8sn)

90 I can do it in two words: They're French. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 25, 2013 02:29 PM (da5Wo) Too bad you weren't in the last thread.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 25, 2013 10:38 AM (VtjlW)

91 then the biting the handle off the urinal.

Posted by: Heywood Jablowme at October 25, 2013 10:38 AM (jsWA8)

92 78 Monty,

so you're taking Jay Carney's job then Monty?

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:39 AM (9jfyN)

93 Legal Insurrection's/William A. Jacobson's obamacare: to let it burn, or not to burn post Should we rescue Democrats from their Obamacare disaster? http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/should-we-rescue-democrats-from-their-obamacare-disaster/ always a good site to visit daily

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 25, 2013 10:40 AM (IXrOn)

94 @ ATC:

Was reminded of you when I saw this animated GIF:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/m5ytnos

(BC complained that it wasn't short enough to be you, but it captures your Noble Spirit methinks.)

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at October 25, 2013 10:40 AM (0wHyk)

I merely besmirched a single country, you went for an entire continent.

*high five for the overachiever*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 25, 2013 02:34 PM (da5Wo)

Hey, go big or go home, that's my motto.

*high five!*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:41 AM (4df7R)

96 ...time to put on some tunes and make some pizza dough... cya's later (with a TGIF drink in hand)

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 25, 2013 10:41 AM (IXrOn)

97 (BC complained that it wasn't short enough to be you, but it captures your Noble Spirit methinks.)

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at October 25, 2013 02:40 PM (0wHyk) /i]

I believe BC's comment was that the .gif girl can't be AtC because .gif girl is too tall.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:41 AM (4df7R)

98
I have started to wonder if accumulating a massive amount of personal debt may be the way to go. If you knew the timing of the eventual collapse, there would be no creditors to actually come collect. Unfortunately, we may be like Japan and have a lost generation from here on out for the next 20 years or so.

But still, 2nd look at Partying Hearty til the wheels fall off?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 25, 2013 10:41 AM (nKUHR)

99 2 What's that cat doing? Looks like it's hunting or something, but what's with the tongue?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 25, 2013 02:15 PM (sByIH)

The cat is doing a miley right?

Posted by: just a citizen at October 25, 2013 10:42 AM (Nx76m)

100

I'm lobbying Merriam-Webster to add a new definition to the word sycophant: a commenter on Krugman's blog.

Posted by: MacGruber at October 25, 2013 10:42 AM (sWgE+)

101 Don't worry, ya'll. The US has it's own currency and borrows in it, so we totally can't be like say, Weimar or the US in the early 70s or anything. Krugman is a damned nitwit.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at October 25, 2013 10:42 AM (659DL)

102 The cat is doing a miley right?

Posted by: just a citizen at October 25, 2013 02:42 PM (Nx76m)

I'm twerking it!

/twerk

Posted by: Mewly Cyrus at October 25, 2013 10:43 AM (0wHyk)

103

While in China, we rode in a taxi from the Hard Rock CafÃ© back to our hotel. The driver was insane, spoke no English, had one hand on the steering wheel in a position to stay on the horn, and drove by the rule "where the front end fits, the ass end follows". The boy spawn and I were in the back seat expecting to die in a fiery crash at any moment. I started laughing and couldn't stop. The boy looks at me, in horror and says "Mom, stop that, this is serious and we are in real danger here." I kept laughing and said " So? If we are going to be killed in a taxi in Beijing, sitting there being terrified won't change it. If I'm gonna be horribly mangled in a foreign country, then I will laugh about it, cause crying, screaming and wailing ain't gonna help."

Posted by: madamemayhem at October 25, 2013 10:43 AM (S2RnE)

104 But still, 2nd look at Partying Hearty til the wheels fall off?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 25, 2013 02:41 PM (nKUHR)

----

Meh..... Im still trying to pay off having Aerosmith play at my "End of the World Party".

Posted by: Mayan Calander at October 25, 2013 10:43 AM (nELVU)

105 monetary policy punishes those who save.

I'll have you know my HSA account made 44 cents last quarter. FORTY-FOUR CENTS.

And I'll have to report them on my income tax so the FSA can get 13 of them.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 25, 2013 10:43 AM (/kI1Q)

106 Legal Insurrection's/William A. Jacobson's obamacare: to let it burn, or not to burn post Should we rescue Democrats from their Obamacare disaster? If you have to ask the question, you've already lost......

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:44 AM (xZxMD)

107 101 circa,

a face unpunched(sadly) - the Paul Krugman story

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:44 AM (9jfyN)

108 Was reminded of you when I saw this animated GIF: http://preview.tinyurl.com/m5ytnos (BC complained that it wasn't short enough to be you, but it captures your Noble Spirit methinks.) Posted by: ConservativeMonster at October 25, 2013 02:40 PM (0wHyk) Well, if you assume that I am standing on the Awesome Stepstool of Awesomeness, then it's dead on.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at October 25, 2013 10:44 AM (VtjlW)

109 I have started to wonder if accumulating a massive amount of personal debt may be the way to go. If you knew the timing of the eventual collapse, there would be no creditors to actually come collect. That's the high-risk plan. I think the medium risk plan is to inflate your savings with the market.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b] at October 25, 2013 10:44 AM (sByIH)

110 Krugman channels the devil when he writes. What a piece of shit he is!

Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at October 25, 2013 10:45 AM (V3kRK)

111 I'm lobbying Merriam-Webster to add a new definition to the word sycophant: a commenter on Krugman's blog. No shit. THEM WINGNUTS DON'T UNNERSTANT ECONOMICS AND HOW GOVERNMENTS CREATE WEALTH AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS EVILE AND STUFF. P.S.: Income Inequality P.P.S.: And the Middle Class

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at October 25, 2013 10:45 AM (659DL)

112 One of the best performing hedge fund managers of the last decade says the market will soon drop 40%. http://nws.mx/17iKKFz

Posted by: MTF at October 25, 2013 10:46 AM (Wp/g8)

113 "What's that cat doing? Looks like it's hunting or something, but what's with the tongue? Posted by: bonhomme" Michael Jordan cat

Posted by: IreneFingIrene at October 25, 2013 10:47 AM (X7MMs)

114 P.P.S.: And the Middle Class

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at October 25, 2013 02:45 PM (659DL)

P.P.P.S.: .....annnnnnd......... SOCIAL JUSTICE!!!

Posted by: fixerupper at October 25, 2013 10:47 AM (nELVU)

115 112 MTF,

won't be allowed to happen....

they'll starve us all first

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:47 AM (9jfyN)

116 @bonhomme

I think that's the right approach. My feel is that the market isn't actually bubbling, just that that's an effect of the inflation our betters say doesn't exist. With nowhere to park money where it'll even maintain it's value, the market's the only place to put it.

Barring gold/silver/whatever.

Posted by: Clownf*cker at October 25, 2013 10:48 AM (XiVKO)

117 One of the best performing hedge fund managers of the last decade says the market will soon drop 40%. What's the over/under line on that 40%?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:48 AM (xZxMD)

118

>>One of the best performing hedge fund managers of the last decade says the market will soon drop 40%.
.

I pulled everything the wife and I have in our TSP (401K) accounts into the G fund. We are slowly losing ground, but I don't care, cause the market is gong to seriously auto correct when the QE nonsense stops. And at some point it has to stop.

Posted by: Registered Voter at October 25, 2013 10:48 AM (kYfFr)

119

12 The only things certain in life are death, taxes, and the failure of socialism.

Thank you Walrus, you made my day, and did so succinctly.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at October 25, 2013 10:49 AM (oDCMR)

120 Barring gold/silver/whatever. LCB. Lead, copper & brass.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:49 AM (xZxMD)

121 118 Registered Voter,

not offered in offense....

read up on the Ukraine...that imaginary number will be propped up and we will fall first

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:50 AM (9jfyN)

122 When, oh dear sweet Monty, when will you fill us with your delicious doom? Please be gentle, respect us in the morning and use a condom, for cryin' out loud. Or not. Whatever suits your fancy...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars [/i] [/b] [/s] at October 25, 2013 10:51 AM (9WUFT)

123
I think that's the right approach. My feel is that the market isn't actually bubbling, just that that's an effect of the inflation our betters say doesn't exist. With nowhere to park money where it'll even maintain it's value, the market's the only place to put it.

----

Yeah .... right now the market is up on liquidity and balance sheets.... not on fundamentals like market share, future earnings and PE ratios.

Once the Fed even thinks about reining in QE, the markets gonna crater, cause that the only thing pushing the market higher.

Posted by: fixerupper at October 25, 2013 10:51 AM (nELVU)

124 120 rickb223,

chunky soup, water purification, 1st aid and hydroponics

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:52 AM (9jfyN)

125

and hydroponics

...and rolling papers.

Posted by: garrett at October 25, 2013 10:52 AM (OiYJp)

126 chunky soup, water purification, 1st aid and hydroponics Covered, except for hydroponics.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:52 AM (xZxMD)

127 123 fixerupper,

a lot of us warned when Ben Bukakke cast his vote in June that QEleventy Forever was on that the Market and Govt were in a death embrace....

every time they crank back the market sells off

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:54 AM (9jfyN)

128 Go on! Save yourselves!

Posted by: toby928© at October 25, 2013 10:54 AM (QupBk)

129 "Shep Smith's Office Romance" http://tinyurl.com/n59954d It's a boy! Posted by: Caliban at October 25, 2013 02:35 PM (DrC22) An he went to Pedd State University. Imagine that.

Posted by: © Sponge at October 25, 2013 10:55 AM (xmcEQ)

130 At least our government healthcare website works.

Posted by: France at October 25, 2013 10:55 AM (8ZskC)

131 128 toby928th,

thee's no safety boys....no spot better than the others

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:55 AM (9jfyN)

132 Why are they called "the greatest generation" when they raised the spoiled, self indulgent, drug addled, politically correct, socialist loving idiots who have now taken over the country and wrecked it?

Posted by: cool breeze at October 25, 2013 10:56 AM (A+/8k)

133 129 Sponge,

ws he a tight end

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:56 AM (9jfyN)

134

Krugman, Village Idiot-

We are highly offended and incensed by this characterization. We do have standards after all.

Posted by: Village Idiots and Dufuses, Local #2673 at October 25, 2013 10:56 AM (N/Sup)

135 @fixerupper

Meanwhile, your cash is losing value at an astronomical rate because of the zeroed out interest rates coupled with hidden real inflation.

I agree the market will take a hit, but on the total it's probably still better than the real losses of value that most "safe" savings instruments provide.

Posted by: Clownf*cker at October 25, 2013 10:58 AM (5npD/)

136 132 Why are they called "the greatest generation" when they raised the spoiled, self indulgent, drug addled, politically correct, socialist loving idiots who have now taken over the country and wrecked it?

Posted by: cool breeze at October 25, 2013 02:56 PM (A+/8k)

Hey, we get all the credit, not the parents.

Posted by: the public schools and universites and college of America at October 25, 2013 10:58 AM (Nx76m)

137 First the tingling, then the burning, then the excruciating pain Now for the bad news...

Posted by: Herr Doktor Obamele at October 25, 2013 10:58 AM (FcR7P)

138 132 Why are they called "the greatest generation" when they raised the spoiled, self indulgent, drug addled, politically correct, socialist loving idiots who have now taken over the country and wrecked it?
Posted by: cool breeze at October 25, 2013 02:56 PM (A+/8k)

Pride comes before the fall.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at October 25, 2013 10:58 AM (0wHyk)

139 134 VI+D Local 2673,

Imagine our shame....

//local 812

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 10:58 AM (9jfyN)

140

chunky soup

***

Mmmm. Cream of Hobo (Cajun style). My favorite!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 25, 2013 10:58 AM (N/Sup)

141 Nood up!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2013 10:58 AM (xZxMD)

142 But Krugman has a Nobel prize!!!! And so does da Zero. Both completely deserved you know. Heh.

Posted by: maddogg at October 25, 2013 10:59 AM (xWW96)

143 140 Seamus Muldoon,

I'm a sirloin burger guy....

I hate beans and rice I am stocking up on both

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 11:00 AM (9jfyN)

144 11 Are you not entertained? Posted by: Barkus Aurelius at October 25, 2013 02:18 PM (8ZskC) Heh......

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 25, 2013 11:00 AM (ppqGu)

145

>>a lot of us warned when Ben Bukakke cast his vote in June that QEleventy Forever was on that the Market and Govt were in a death embrace....

every time they crank back the market sells off.

.Heck when the Fed even mentions that at sometime in the future they might ease back, the market tanks. I remember reading one market analyst saying the DOW can't exist now above 10,000 without the Fed constantly buying up stuff.

Posted by: Registered Voter at October 25, 2013 11:01 AM (kYfFr)

146 51 The decline and fall of France. Seven pages! Can anyone sum up? Posted by: Waterhouse Montoya at October 25, 2013 02:27 PM (Lw+sl) --------------------------- 1. Socialist Frogs. 2. Capitalist, fiscally responsible Krauts. 2. During the last summit of Euro leaders, the French representative fell asleep in the meeting and nobody even noticed.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 25, 2013 11:01 AM (dfYL9)

147

112 One of the best performing hedge fund managers of the last decade says the market will soon drop 40%.

I don't disagree with this estimate. As soon as cash can earn real interest then the equity market implodes. Given we have been printing more money that earns nothing and borrowing roughly 40 cents on each dollar spent by the Government an estimate of an equity market overvalued by 40% doesn't sound too outlandish. Add to this the amount of Asian and European investors looking for something of a safe harbor relative to their home markets and you have a toxic stew awaiting an inflexion point. What triggers America to offer interest on deposits is the real question. Given our $17T debt we have no real reason to do it. Given Germany's control over European growth via their support of the Euro they have no real reason to do it. Given China's unknown and unknowable amount of leveraged debt they have no real reason to do it. Its a bit like the Cold War Nuclear Standoff known as Mutual Assured Destruction. Who wants to pull the trigger? So we shall all sit in the same boat and go nowhere seems to be the answer.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at October 25, 2013 11:01 AM (oDCMR)

148 ws he a tight end Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 02:56 PM (9jfyN) I'm sure he was at one point, but I guess his current status would depend on the size of Shep Jr.

Posted by: © Sponge at October 25, 2013 11:02 AM (xmcEQ)

149 Krugman believes in the magnifier effect. Probably 'cause he views every little thing through a magnifying glass, out of necessity. IYKWIM

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 25, 2013 11:03 AM (N/Sup)

150 145 registered voter,

all this started with Clennis' Plunge Protection Team

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 11:07 AM (9jfyN)

151 So thick with cynicism, and moron/ette speak.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/the_fall_of_barack.html

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 25, 2013 02:17 PM (IXrOn)

Heh...never occurred to me. He named his dog after himself "B-O"

Poor dog.

Posted by: dananjcon at October 25, 2013 11:09 AM (wmU4G)

152 In the last two weeks or so the guy on Coast to Coast has had two excellent interviews. One with Peter Schiff and the other with John McAfee they are well worth your time. I've noticed that the coast to coast guys are doing more investigative journalism type interviews and moving away from the out there stuff. I'm thinking people are like me, they turn the out there stuff off and listen to Red Eye Radio. I guess they realized they had to up their game.

Posted by: just a citizen at October 25, 2013 11:10 AM (Nx76m)

153 132 Why are they called "the greatest generation" when they raised the spoiled, self indulgent, drug addled, politically correct, socialist loving idiots who have now taken over the country and wrecked it? Posted by: cool breeze at October 25, 2013 02:56 PM (A+/8k) The "Greatest" had the opportunity to do that being determined that their children would not have to go through what they did, both the depression and the war. The Boomers, (of which I am a fringer; I actually consider myself a "Lost" or pre-Xer. I have absolutely nothing in common with Boomers) by and large, were bestowed with all the goodies and a deficient sense of responsibility. They didn't learn the hard lessons or were distracted by the shiny 60's and were easy targets for the ascendent left. My parents were Silents (born 1929). They imparted the frugality of growing up in the Roosevelt Depression very/b] firmly.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 25, 2013 11:11 AM (ppqGu)

154 Dammint....end of thread barrel....

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at October 25, 2013 11:12 AM (ppqGu)

155 Former Enron Financial Adviser Paul Krugman

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at October 25, 2013 11:12 AM (QupBk)

156 153 98ZJUSMC,

Gen X recoiled from the boomers, the millenials are their vote magnifier in my experience.

Gen X should have fought the hippies harder

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 11:14 AM (9jfyN)

157 http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/the_fall_of_barack.html

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 25, 2013 02:17 PM (IXrOn)

**

"Barry is America's Fredo -- without the love. "

Oh dear... another potential dog whistle/cross hair moment.

Posted by: dananjcon at October 25, 2013 11:16 AM (wmU4G)

158 152 just a citizen,

coast to coast went twilight zone b/c libs wanted to blame Art Bell for Oklahoma City IIRC

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 11:17 AM (9jfyN)

159 What options do insurance companies have if the exchanges aren't providing a sustainable mix of enrollments?

Cancel those offerings, forcing those who did enroll back into the exchange? Can they do that mid-year, is having your policy cancelled by the vendor a qualifying event? Does the IRS get a shot at you if your coverage is cancelled?

My guess would be that in each segment the choices will drop off as certain offerings get withdrawn, this could either sustain those plans that remain or crush them faster is the mix is sick.

They will be receiving increased revenues from all of the other Ocare mandates, and an unknown cost environment. So that side should be solvent, but risky.

I guess they will eat their losses in implementing Ocare interfaces - tax write-off baby.

I am going to assume the 'Pubs don't give in on the sequester cuts, so that will put additional downward pressure on the exchange. Coupled with the inevitable security and privacy fiasco that will happen, that should dampen any hope of a late surge in enrollments.

Posted by: Jean at October 25, 2013 11:27 AM (CMlD4)

160 158 152 just a citizen,

coast to coast went twilight zone b/c libs wanted to blame Art Bell for Oklahoma City IIRC

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 03:17 PM (9jfyN)

Well I don't listen much but I wanted to hear Schiff and the McAfee interview was much better than the interview the previous week that I was sent in an email. That George guy is a good interviewer so he got a great interview out of both of them. The first interview of McAfee was not as productive as the interviewer talked too much. I've heard of Art Bell and I've been meaning to try and listen to some of his programs but time has been my enemy lately.

Posted by: just a citizen at October 25, 2013 11:35 AM (Nx76m)

161 I'm beginning to think that the republicans shouldn't vote with the dems who are afraid of losing their seats, maybe force them to implement it on schedule. But the dems play so many mind games that might be exactly what they want.

Posted by: just a citizen at October 25, 2013 11:38 AM (Nx76m)

162

Shut up. Sit your monkey ass down. Chill out.

Shit. I know shit's bad right now with all that starvin' bullshit. And the dust storms. And we runnin' out of French Fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.

Posted by: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho at October 25, 2013 12:05 PM (Xp1rX)

163 162 President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho at October 25, 2013 04:05 PM (Xp1rX)

Brwando 2016

Posted by: sven10077 at October 25, 2013 12:09 PM (9jfyN)

164 Yes, we Boomers are the luckiest generation. And my liberal friends and family cannot imagine that our affluence and safety and upward mobility represents anything less than the natural order of things.

I washed my tin foil to use again, I always had a roommate when I traveled, I owned little cars. In this terrible time of change, the bad kind of change, I'm sure glad I lived like my parents.

Posted by: PJ at October 25, 2013 02:23 PM (ZWaLo)

165 Brwando/Electrolytes 2016...Cause I am magic and can hear what plants think. + I swear to use machine guns in all my House Of Representin' speeches and shit.

Posted by: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho at October 25, 2013 05:29 PM (rSifo)

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