Holy shit
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Brad
Woof.
We’re looking at two 450-point drops in the Dow in the span of three days. That’s pretty goddamn bad. Hopefully, Americans will figure out that eating moose doesn’t qualify you to fix this bloody mess.
Looks like peeps may be getting it. Palin Warrior Princess of the Alaskan National Guard is slipping in teh pollz and John’s inability to take off his rose-colored economy glasses seems to be rattling the cages of all but Ringo the Gringo.
There goes my retirement…
mmmm… bloody moose.
In the face of real world issues, the little popularity games played by the Republicans don’t seem so relevant anymore.
Finally maybe we’ll be able to deal with the awful threat of how dangerously over-compensated our American workers are compared with their admirably efficient Chinese rivals.
As horrible as it sounds, I’m loving this week because it viscerally represents everything that is wrong with neoconservatism. What a clusterfuck it is. Neocons bailing the precious unregulated free market using tax dollars they don’t have. The government is already over $400 billion in debt and the Congressional Budget Office (according to its latest report) projects the nation will add more than $2.3 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years. Oh yes…I’m lovin’ it. More please.
(The only person I pity is Obama because he’ll inherit this mess and as soon as he’s in the neocons will be rewriting the history of GW Bush, worst president EVAR.)
Eating moose, no. But field-dressing a moose — that’s another thing. Surely anyone who can field-dress a moose, or anyone who can pick a field-moose-dresser for VP, can get Lehman Bros. and AIG together and tell them to stop the bullshit.
I’m not worried, if it works for Paris Hilton, by God it will work for me!
Hey, hoh, customers are cancelling orders all over the place where I work! Hold on to your hats.
How soon before Bush tells Americans to keep shopping! Har.
field-dressing a moose — that’s another thing
A fine thing indeed, because we’re going to need someone to teach the nation how to kill and process all manner of wild game. Rats won’t just be for fucking anymore. I wonder what the modern equivalent of an apple barrel will be?
If she could field dress a mousse, I’d give her some credit…
Perhaps we need someone who can gastrate a goat. Or sacrifice some virgins. Whatever works.
Tee-hee.
They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob,
When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job.
They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead,
Why should I be standing in line, just waiting for bread?
Yip Harburg
How soon before Bush tells Americans to keep shopping! Har.
Dear Leader: They hate us because we can buy a house…
Staffer mutters something in his ear
Dear Leader: uhhh…uhhh..what I meant was, fool me once…uhhh…shame on…shame on you. Fool me twice, fool me–won’t get fooled again.
Is there a page in the Neocon bible on nationalizing companies that fail in the marketplace? I somehow missed that in all the other social darwinist gibbering . . .
(tapping foot)
Well?
Where’s my bailout?
Well, that closes right about even with the week of Nov. 13, 2000.
Way to grow the economy, Georgie.
AIG may have some assets of value. Nobody wants to own near 80% of you, Carly.
I know! Let’s privatize Social Security! Nothing could possibly go wrong with that plan!
Eating moose doesn’t qualify you? What the fuck are we going to do, then?
Oh, right.
What, did you blow through the $45 mil already?
One money market broke the buck, which is bad. No other money market has done that since 1994.
And just in case someone hasn’t noticed, the Alaska AG tells the rule of law to go fuck itself with a chainsaw.
My favorite,
’cause, y’know, I always thought that the people of the State were the AG’s clients. Silly me.
The government is lots over $400 billion in debt. It’s more in the 9.6 trillion range.
Shorter Sarah Palin: “L’etat, c’est moi.”
Me!! He should have picked me, not that stupid moose-dressing MILF! Can she drive a multi-billion dollar corporation into the ground and get fired like me? No, she can’t!
Well, I showed him!
Um, could you squeeze another bag of blood into my pan, please?
The 400 B is just a minor cashflow problem. The 9.6 T is how we’re gonna get out of this mess. Call China and tell them we want to put it all on Red! I don’t care if vig goes to principal- it won’t matter! I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shine. Come to Daddy on an inside straight. I got no chance of losing this time. No, I got no chance of losing this time.
My fundament is sound.
Let’s not throw the poisoned baby out with the tainted milk.
The government is lots over $400 billion in debt. It’s more in the 9.6 trillion range.
I believe you’re thinking of the national debt, which…yes.
Man, I wish I was too big to fail. *Sigh*
Btw, I didn’t mean to say “the only person I feel sorry for is Obama.”
I pity the 50% of the electorate who didn’t vote for Bush in 004 who losing their 401Ks. The other losers who are commenting over at Malkin’s place can eat it for all I care.
Some stoopid is unforgiveable, especially when it loses its shirt because of its stupidity.
This is just going to make them flock towards the Republicans.
Soon the economy’s fundament will be replaced by an adamant. “Stand and deliver” will be its new motto, that’s how strong it will be!
So I’m guessing the AIG bailout was just throwing good money after bad?
DEREGULATION = LAWLESSNESS
Well, if you have any money left, you might want to donate it to show that wolf ad some more.
Study of effectiveness indicates it is the most effective ad this month, including all ads by the candidates themselves.
After all the discussion and wondering if the ad would work, I thought some might like to know that.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled thread.
> Well, that closes right about even with the week of Nov. 13, 2000.
No, it’s worse than that. You aren’t accounting for inflation. A 10,000 Dow today is equivalent to a 9,000 Dow from a few years ago.
Shortly afterwards, the files mysteriously vanished from Alan Greenspan’s house.
Behold the beauty of the utterly free and unrestrained market system:
As the Fed bails out investment banks and insurance companies, the FBI probes 24 cases of corporate fraud related to mortgage lending. Up from 21. It’s not naming names at this time.
Ketchup on your barfaroni anyone?
How’s McCain coming with that commission to study Wall Street? Has Lee Hamilton signed on yet?
After all the discussion and wondering if the ad would work, I thought some might like to know that.
It worked for me!
Thanks to Werebear for the me-disproving follow-up, he said bitterly, nursing yet another never-ending grudge.
I found and have been reading David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (I should’ve found his work before the suicide, frankly; he’s good). The essay “Up, Simba” (about the 2000 McCain campaign) is pretty depressing in retrospect (even if Wallace were still alive), and there’s a somewhat chilling passage in the 2004 essay “Host” (about right-wing talk radio):
“As of spring ’04, though, the most frequent and concussive spots on KFI are for mortgage and home-refi companies. In just a few slumped, glazed hours of listening, a member of this station’s audience can hear both canned and live-read ads for Green Light Financial, HMS Capital, Home Field Financial, Benchmark Lending. Over and over. Pacific Home Financial, Lenox National Lending, U.S. Mortgage Capital, Crestline Funding, Home Savings Mortgage, Advantix Lending. Reverse mortgages, negative amortization, adjustable rates, APR, FICO… where did all these firms come from? What were these guys doing five years ago? Why is KFI’s audience seen as so especially ripe and ready for refi? Betterloans.com, lendingtree.com, Union Bank of California, bethebroker.net, on and on and on.”
So I’m guessing the AIG bailout was just throwing good money after bad?
No. It’s more complicated than that. This isn’t the same deal as Lehman Bros. or Merrill-Lynch. AIG’s difficulties are pretty much a result of the failures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other recent economic disasters. AIG’s rating is still considered solid, and in fact they even now have more assets than debt. So why the teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Crazy crazy fucked-up economic policy coming home to roost. It’s true that AIG had to get the bridge loan from the feds in order to sell off some properties and have time to recover and get solvent again. AIG insures more businesses etc. than anyone else in the world, so if it hadn’t been bailed out you’d have seen the Dow plummet more than 1,000 points today. If AIG had gone under, the Ponzi scheme/house of cards that is our national economy would have collapsed overnight.
I know this stuff because the spouse works for a subsidiary of AIG. We’ve been drinking very heavily the last few days. Still are, actually. This shit ain’t over yet.
the most frequent and concussive spots on KFI are for mortgage and home-refi companies
I check my e-mail spam folders from time to time, to get an insight into the most prevalent anxieties plaguing the collective US psyche (or at least what the wisdom of crowds, in the form of electronic conmen, believe those anxieties to be). They’re usually on the game. Within a day of the anthrax scares, for instance, every long-distance pharmacist was offering under-the-counter Cipro; then they switched to Tamiflu when bird flu was disease-of-the-week.
About 6 months ago there was a plethora of spam offering to Rebuild my Credit History, or to Refinance my Home, or grant me Special Lines of Credit.
Now, though, the conmen have returned to their core insecurity themes — penis size and premature ejaculation (seasoned with offers of Replica Rolexes and erectile-dysfunction medication). Is the idea of renewed creditworthiness so implausible that even they’ve given up on it?
I kind of miss the spams that went “Is she really who she says she is? FREE background check on your girlfriend’s history”. They had a horror-movie creepiness.
That’s lowballing the hell out of it. At 5%, 8k +10 years = 13k. 10k6 at 3% over 8 years is 13k5ish, which is where the Dow should be if it were treading water.
Whoopsie.
Too bad Bush didn’t get to hand Social Security funds to Wall Street before this market crash.
Instead of waiting 40 years for the Social Security funds to run out, we could have handed every cent of our retirement money to the Wall Street CEOs for them to steal and we could have had NOTHING right now!
Damned Democrats standing in the way of wealthy executives from pocketing the entire Social Security fund. That we still have Social Security at all today proves that all Democratic voters are traitors and should be hung!
“Colberg, who was appointed by Palin, said the employees are caught between their respect for the Legislature and their loyalty to the governor,…”
“”This is an untenable position for our clients because the governor has so strongly stated that the subpoenas issued by your committee are of questionable validity,” Colberg wrote.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26742379/
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We see yet again a Republican elected official NOT being held accountable. Shocker I know but since the “Republican Fundamationalists” refuse to do their jobs its up to us Libs to do it for them.
Dog shit deliveries are in order. Every Republican Campaign HQ in the nation needs to be getting a daily dose of dog shit.
At least until Palin begins to cooperate…
Loyalty to Palin trumps the law? You fucking little weasels.
The Dow is index points, not dollars.
“The government is lots over $400 billion in debt. It’s more in the 9.6 trillion range.”
Depressing wot?
Remember when we used to laugh and cry over Hillary’s eyebrows or Alkon’s st00pid?
So
No capitalism without regulation, Hang on, tried that. All the regulators were self interested bastards
So capitalism doesn’t work?
Agrhhgh
Someone arrested me for heresy.
“Eating moose..”
Is that some kind of sexual code or something? As in, “I hear she likes to “eat moose”, if you know what I mean.”
Could anyone ever vote for someone who ate Bullwinkle? Seriously. Must be the wrong hat.