O yay! Time for a new bubble!
Posted on March 12th, 2010 by Brad
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, offering his most optimistic outlook on the economic recovery to date, predicted the U.S. will rebound from the recession faster and more vigorously than other advanced economies.
This means we must have found a new bubble to invest in. What do you think it’s gonna be? Do I dare hope that my dream of a POG-based economy will at last come true?
C’mon, it’s the 21st century now. What we will get is a bubble bubble.
Metabubble? Hyperbubble?
Who wants to bet on another jobless “recovery”?
This means we must have found a new bubble to invest in. What do you think it’s gonna be?
Britney Spears’ breasts.
Careful when the bubble bursts.
Double Bubble! I don’t know why you guys are being so glum.
Metabubble?
Meta Bubbie: the ubergrandmother.
Always relevant.
I’m not so sure this is a stirringly positive view of the U.S. prospects for development as it is a half-glass-full description of the rest of the world economy as fukt.
We traded our soul for Alf pogs. Hey America, remember Alf? He’s back! In pog form!
I’m going to start a sexy sackcloth undie business for Christians who want to bundle penitence and sin into one time-saving, if you’ll excuse the expression, package.
I’m going to start a sexy sackcloth undie business
Ooh, we should team up! I make hairnightshirts.
I am quite in favor of bubble butts.
Time for a lil’ Stereolab if I may be so bold…
Ping Pong
it’s alright ‘cos the historical pattern has shown
how the economical cycle tends to revolve
in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more
bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery
you see the recovery always comes ’round again
there’s nothing to worry for things will look after themselves
it’s alright recovery always comes ’round again
there’s nothing to worry if things can only get better
there’s only millions that lose their jobs and homes and sometimes accents
there’s only millions that die in their bloody wars, it’s alright
it’s only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing
it’s only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing
it’s alright ‘cos the historical pattern has shown
how the economical cycle tends to revolve
in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more
bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery
don’t worry be happy things will get better naturally
don’t worry shut up sit down go with it and be happy
dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum… ah ah
dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum… ah ah
Ooh, we should team up! I make hairnightshirts.
They have to be sexy, for a certain silver ring thing level of sexiness. They should say, “I’m going to do this but neither of us is going to enjoy it.” So far I’ve designed crotchless burlap granny-panties and wool-and-nettle thongs.
This means we must have found a new bubble to invest in. What do you think it’s gonna be?
Dihydrogen monoxide manufacturing plants.
What do you think it’s gonna be?
Non-hybridized high-yield seeds!
Oh, and ammo.
Dihydrogen monoxide manufacturing plants.
WHOA, now, mister- that’s stuff has killed millions of people worldwide, for millennia!
It sure ain’t houses. I say CO2 production. Not that namby-pamby cap and trade socialism. I mean we invest in industries that produce huge amounts of CO2, preferrably for no discernable reason.
Mind you, I’m investing in Euros, gold, and Chinese government bonds.
I am quite in favor of bubble butts.
I said something about wanting to get in on that, but I was censored. Either that, or I typed in the wrong box. Where is that email that I was writing to my grandma?
I am quite in favor of bubble butts.
I hate tapioca. What?
If a few recent threads are any indication, there’s a big copypasta bubble forming somewhere.
You know where else bubbles form?
You know where else bubbles form?
Hitler milk!
You know where else bubbles form?
Thomas Sowell’s Bathtub?
Not the Mr. Bubble variety either.
Mickey Kaus is a Viking.
I hate tapioca. What?
I’d tap yo ca.
FREE BUBBLES!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbles_(chimpanzee)
I was thinking “Hitler’s gastrointestinal tract,” but since Hitler was probably lactose intolerant, you win! Yay!
Uh, that illustration says they “recommend double fisting”
Do. Not. Want.
Goat titty beer though, hell, I’ll try any (beer) thing once.
I thought it meant you’d only get milk foam from his boobies. Which would make cappuccinos the brews of Liberal Fascism.
That was for Hitler milk, not Kaus because there are some things even liberals won’t put in their mouths.
Uh, that illustration says they “recommend double fisting”
A glass in hand, laddie! A two fusted drinker!
Goat-titty beer… from the makers of spidergoat.
Says the guy that posted the Goatse link. Sure, that’s what they meant by “fisting.”
Quote fail, let me try that again for the clarifyingness of it all:
Says the guy that posted the Goatse link. Sure, that’s what they meant by “fisting.”
Dammit, now it’s emPHAsis fail. I give up, I’m heading out to happy hour. I hope they have goat-titty beer.
Says the guy that posted the Goatse link.
It was newsworthy AND you were warned.
If “Fallout 3” is any indicator of the future (and I’m 100% sure it is), we should all start collecting bottlecaps.
Oh, I’m smart enough not to follow the link, I just don’t trust any giant-stretched-anus-related issues (e.g. definitions of “double fisting”) coming from somebody who posts it.
And you could’ve just posted the ASCII version directly in the comments anyway.
Jobless recovery = Bubble in human chattel slavery.
“This means we must have found a new bubble to invest in.”
Can I invest in bubbles? That would make it a bubble bubble. If they can invest in derivatives and derivatives squared and even cubed I want to invest in (bubble bubbles) * (bubble bubbles).
I bet if I wrote that up with enough obscure maths I could get a job at Goldman’s Sack.
DKW, this one’s for you.
“faster and more vigorously”: how Wall Street will fuck the economy.
Nothing’s changed, there’s no meaningful regs. They are right back to their old tricks. Using pension money.
They have to be sexy, for a certain silver ring thing level of sexiness. They should say, “I’m going to do this but neither of us is going to enjoy it.” So far I’ve designed crotchless burlap granny-panties and wool-and-nettle thongs.
How about Crown-o-Thorns tiaras for Christian beauty queens, to celebrate opposite marriage and commemorate their oppression at the hands of their secular evolutionist overlords?
Always relevant.
Here’s an earworm for you.
DKW, this one’s for you.
Wait, Whale Chowder’s mom is Ann Althouse?!
Goat-titty beer… from the makers of spidergoat.
Spidergoats? Uh-oh, Rod Dreher is gonna have a sad over that, considering his opposition to pigmen:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/03/im_a_starry-eyed_techno-utopia.php
Also, did you know that Rod Dreher has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize SEVEN TIMES!?!
Well, not really:
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/rod-dreher-and-the-templeton-bribe/
And you could’ve just posted the ASCII version directly in the comments anyway.
Somehow that was actually more repulsive than the original.
Maybe we’ll have a (new) bubble in Catholic Church pedophilia (via Atrios):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/world/europe/13pope.html?hp
Mistakes were made, but at least Papa Ratzi found an appropriate fall guy to cover for him.
Do I dare hope that my dream of a POG-based economy will at last come true?
It begins.
Unlike silk worms, spiders are too anti-social to farm successfully.
Hu gnu?
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Ooh look over there – something sparkly!
Bubbles?
PENIS. Warning: link contains image that is NSFW. Also NSF anyone with a PENIS.
Ooh look over there – something sparkly!
That was amazing.
PENIS. Warning: link contains image that is NSFW. Also NSF anyone with a PENIS.
That was disgusting. NSFA.
Should I just assume someone upthread has already mentioned the bubble tea bubble?
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Ooh look over there – something sparkly!
Speaking of bottlecaps and a post-apocalyptic wasteland – the guy in the back (good view at 1:35), is he wearing a T-51b helmet?
That was disgusting. NSFA.
Also current events. Dr. Phil is a pearly penile papule.
That was disgusting.
Wow – built in French tickler!
In fairness, when I said “US economy” I meant “Goldman Sachs” and when I said “other advanced economies” I meant “faster than, like, Kicker Peabody. What ever happened to those guys?”
Wow – built in French tickler!
*hork*
Mistakes were made, but at least Papa Ratzi found an appropriate fall guy to cover for him.
The pope is the infallible representative of God on earth so of course there was a fall guy between him and the pederasts.
Haw haw. I kid, I kid Papal infallibility allows you to be a former Nazi.
Sigh, quote fail, and name fail AT THE SAME TIME!
A little known fact about Papal Infallibility…
Nuthin’ to do with religion, and everything to do with the Vatican coming out the loser in a power struggle with the Third Republic and throwing an enormous hissy fit. 1870 (not so coincidently) was also when a movement began to canonize Joan of Arc: the Church had succesfully ignored her for hundreds of years, but once the French Republic began to have an interest in her as a potent symbol for a secular state…well, the story writes itself, doesn’t it? Joan was made a saint out of spite!
One of you snark experts needs to put Dan in an outhouse and BOLT THE DOOR UNTIL HE EXPLODES FROM THE POO STINK OF HIS BRAINFARTS.
Papal Infallibility…This doctrine was defined dogmatically
Not to mention alliteratively.
Dan Riehl: Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife?
Holy fuck. What a soulless, shit-oozing pustule on the face of humanity Dan Riehl is.
He really is repulsive. What’s more, when the backlash hit on Twitter he protected his tweets because…he is so braaaaave.
Should I just assume someone upthread has already mentioned the bubble tea bubble?
I was going to but I got distracted by something shiny.
Riehl: should be Vile. What a vile, loathsome excuse for a sub-human-being. “Let the (imaginary) “Death Panels” condemn a woman to death, because she’s married to a politician RiehVile dislikes.
There is no creature on Earth disgusting enough to be compared to RiehVile.
Not enough for him and his cretinous(“a person who is deformed and mentally handicapped because of congenital thyroid ( i.e.: brain & soul) deficiency.”) commenter’ to sneer at and slap around their flimsy straw-man-lie; they want to torture it first, set it afire and stomp it into the ground.
Dan Riehl: Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife?
I love that he takes his own side’s “death panels for grandma” libel seriously, then thinks that the real outrage is hypocrisy.
If Democrats actually believed that the elderly should be executed by the state because they are not longer contributing to society, whether that standard is applied equally to Mrs. Reid should be the least of our concerns.
“Hyperbole is the internet’s best friend, and there’s an unwritten rule that anything that vaguely disappoints must be colorfully compared to the experience of watching Hitler’s ghost sodomizing a beloved childhood pet, but SPOGS Racing really is that bad.” – Eurogamer
I thought I’d reached a pinnacle of rage when I heard Rush’s “Massa” crack at David Patterson (and all African-Americans), but I think this Riehl crap is even worse.
zrm, the promised post is up… took me five hours to chase down all the linkies… five GLORIOUS hours.
Can we make it snap bracelets instead? Those things ruled… especially after my school banned them.
I’ve saved a snapshot of that page in case he pulls it.
What a shitbag, and his comment-crew is worse.
What a shitbag, and his comment-crew is worse.
Dan seemed kinda tense in that post. He must have had another scary (as in wet undies) ride on public transportation.
You know that thing about staring into the abyss? When Riehl stared into the abyss, it blinked.
The worst part is, I just spent about five hours hunting down some obscure music for a post, and was in a really good mood before I saw his garbage.
Sorry about the h00ring (yeah, as if!)
…and was in a really good mood before I saw his garbage.
Allow me to help. For some unknown but totally awesome reason, this came up on the google image search for “staring into the abyss”.
So, did the socialist Canuckistani government provide you with a Scarlett Johanssen clone yet?
King of the Twatters: “We have been polite too long. They only ignore and laugh at us. How long will the Right keep making that mistake?”
http://twitter.com/DanRiehl
Dan’s still eight years old in the school yard being ignored by the cool kids. So what he does…he yells “I wish your mom was DEAD!”
Someone better tell lil’ Timmy Geithner that somebody’s trying to mess with his awesome banking friends:
We have been polite too long.
No. You really, really haven’t. You could probably populate a small town with all the liberals, moderates, and right-of-center conservatives that conservatives have publicly wished death on.
When Riehl stared into the abyss, it blinked.
Dan Riehl has never stared into the abyss. That thing he was staring at that winked at him? A hole to be sure, but not the abyss.
I’m holding out for the real thing. Plus I’m waiting until after she has a kid, ’cause that way she’ll be somebody’s mother.
A hole to be sure, but not the abyss.
Goatse? Again? I know for sure that I ain’t clickin’ it.
When Riehl stares into the abyss, it’s actually an outhouse toilet hole.
A hole to be sure, but not the abyss.
Nah. Picture of Dan’s grandpa.
I’m holding out for the real thing.
That’s what your mom said. To actor212.
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Two for the price of one! Yessss!
as President of the NY Fed, Geithner was responsible for a number of criminal violations of SEC regulations with regard to Lehman. If Geithner isn’t indicted he should be, and if he isn’t named in a civil suit you can be sure some of his Under The Bus Underlings will be.
“This means we must have found a new bubble to invest in. What do you think it’s gonna be?”
1 – Call your broker
2 – Tell him/her to move your entire portfolio into TruckNutz futures
3 – ?????
4 – DIVIDENDS!
I think the next irrational exuberance in finance should be related to orbital telescopes.
A Hubble Bubble!
“We have been polite too long. They only ignore and laugh at us. How long will the Right keep making that mistake?”
These were the fuckers who were trying to convince MLK to commit suicide.
I dunno, Xecky, I predict Hubble Bubble Trouble.
Dan Riehl: Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Dan Riehl?
It’s a quality of life issue at this point.
I predict Hubble Bubble Trouble.
If it happens, I will redouble my scratching of my stubble and pick up the rubble.
Dan Riehl: Your wife should die and you should get back to work.
Person whose wife is ill: You’re a douchebag, Dan.
Dan Riehl: How long am I supposed to be polite?
Big bubbles. no troubles.
h/t xecky.
Thx, M. Bouffant! I used to love that stuff.
“I have a civil right to be a dick, it’s in my living constitution!”
No, it’s in your pants.
I’m sticking with human organs as the next bubble market. We’ll trade kidney derivatives on 8 trillion kidneys till someone figures out that there are only about 15 billion kidneys actually in existence, and a lot of those aren’t prime. You don’t even want to know what that bailout will look like, but I suspect it will go something like this.
Damn, that’s Dub Taylor!
http://content9.flixster.com/photo/10/91/07/10910731_tml.gif
FYWP. Dub Taylor is in the Double Bubble commercial.
Ah, fuck it.
I am gonna split the difference between Jennifer’s idea and the Pogs, and just pump all my cash into Humorless Dildos.
I want ’em real thick and juicy
So find that juicy double
Mix-a-Lot’s in trouble
Beggin’ for a piece of that Rubble
Future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades!
Yeah, BAaaby!
Piping Hot and melt in your mouth!
Thanks, Substance. Knowing that Flintstones porn exists has made my life all the more complete.
made my life all the more complete.
…for all dreadful values of “complete.”
One of Riehl’s commenters defended his post by saying “the Right invented edge,” and then citing WFB and Buchanan. This is how far the putative “American Right” has fallen. I’m certainly not here to lionize Buckley or Buchanan. Both men were capable of being mean-spirited SOBs. Both also had lines they were loath to cross–Buchanan because, in some weird way, he still considers himself a basically good guy (and I have to marvel at his ability to be friends with HST and Richard Nixon simultaneously) and Buckley because he’d have considered “edgy” jokes about the deaths of spouses to be the territory of crass, declasse’ neocon types (whom he loathed even more than he loathed hippies and Vatican II). Buckley in particular was a world class cunt but he reserved his vitriol and vituperation for either whole classes of people (liberals, feminists, etc) or the particular individuals he was lambasting (Vidal, Ayn Rand). I am not saying Buckley was a swell guy–I am saying “Christ, isn’t it sad that compared to people like Riehl, Buckley really was sort of okay?”
Comparing Riehl to Buckley reminds me of Buckley’s quip, when asked to appear on a dais with Irving Kristol, that the organizers could not pay him enough “to endure breathing the same air as Kristol.”
Deja my vu. How retro.
This means we must have found a new bubble to invest in. What do you think it’s gonna be?
Ramen noodles.
With her husband being a senator, Reid’s wife presumably is already covered by big gubmint health care. So if big gubmint health care actually worked the way Riehl claims he wouldn’t have to make a big deal of it, the “Death Panel” will have already made it’s decision. But sadly, no! The big gubmint health care plan will cover her.
Despite the downturn in the economy, there seems to no end to the wingnut welfare in sight. That’s why I’m investing in the “Babble Bubble.”
Now of course, the evangelists seem to be still going strong. Perhaps I should invest in the “Bible Babble Bubble.”
Then when I and my fellow investors get nervous there will be Bible Bubble Babble Bobble.”
Needs more Dr Seuss illustrations.
Unlike silk worms, spiders are too anti-social to farm successfully.
Social, communal-web-building spiders.
I don’t know whether Dr. Seuss did any Bubble cartoons, but someone else did almost 300 years ago. This shit never gets old.
Oh,, just mmouse over the 300. THIS IS BUBBLETOWN!
I’m I’m investing in blogger boggle.
And gold. In fact, all my investments are in traditional Evil Bastard territory – diamond mines, sweat shops, Canadian Bacon – because that’s where the money is.
Bacon is the future!
Swedish Meatball Salesman said,
March 13, 2010 at 7:33
Piping Hot and melt in your mouth!
Shouldn’t that be Schweddy Balls?
This means we must have found a new bubble to invest in. What do you think it’s gonna be?
Yngwie Malmsteen memorabilia?
Hi,
I think that a POG-based economy isn’t a better situation for us!