September 2008
The Cramps - Can’t Find My Mind
Dow up 485 points! →
robot-heart:
Some good news!
So all that shroud-waving from Wall St over the past couple of weeks was, as my late grandmother was fond of saying, total fucking bollocks.
“I’m glad that Obama showed who he really is, an energetic, sometimes...”
– Dennis Perrin
iPhone apps for learning music?
Dear internet,
I recently started learning the double bass (I know, I know). Until I can afford an instrument to practise on, does anybody have any recommendations to make about the best iPhone application for learning/practising music and music notation? There are quite a few up there, and I’m at the most basic stage of learning what different notes look like and sound like.
I remain,...
“Nothing — absolutely nothing — could be politically safer than...”
– Chris Floyd
I dunno about you...
monkeytypist:
miss-r:
soupsoup:
kingofspills:
but I’m only 28.
I’m going to buy a shit load of stock tomorrow. And laugh at all the poor people when I’m 60.
I’ve been talking about doing the same (except for the whole “laughing at the poor people” bit) the last couple of weeks. Only trouble is, I have no idea what to invest in.
Ethical investments! Solar energy! Sustainable...
CBS Has More Humiliating Palin Footage →
Ahmadinejad accepts Israel's right to... →
“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that...”
– Andrew Jackson (via shorterexcerpts)(via sarahchristine)
People have been doing this for as long as there have been people. And yet, we still haven’t learned. (via robot-heart)
Just fired up my "stocks" widget for the first...
The Rich Are Staging a Coup This Morning →
(via azspot)
“All of which tells you about what you’d expect from a raise-the-base choice like...”
– Matt Taibbi - Mad Dog Palin (via errorgorilla)
As I awake from another reblog-free night...
Screw you, Tumblers. I give up. Pictures of Paul Newman with his shirt off, Mad Men-inspired illustration - nothing works with you people.
Drunk History Volume 4 →
hereharehere:
The moral of the story: don’t elect an old dude for President.
Searchable graphic of 2007 CEO pay - New York... →
Compensation and accumulated wealth of 200 chief executives for large public companies that filed proxies for last year by March 28. See:
Kerry Killinger, WaMu ($14,364,883)
Richard Fuld, Lehman Brothers ($22,030,534)
John Thain, Merrill Lynch ($83,785,021)
“The current economic crisis, with its threat to jobs and savings and public...”
– John Pilger
“Let me be clear. As I say, inaction is not an option. We have got to shore up...”
– Crooked Timber transcribed the Quote of the Year, so you don’t have to
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-28) →
Rip Rig + Panic
Keith Hudson
James White and The Blacks
David Holmes
Creation Rebel & New Age Steppers
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watchfrangry:
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin is A M A Z I N G.
I urge all Tumblers to vote for McCain-Palin so I can watch Tina Fey as her better-looking, more coherent alter ago every week.
JIM LEHRER: Good evening. I'm Jim Lehrer.
LEHRER: You may remember me from an earlier age of TV journalism, when we transmitted official lies and propaganda to our educated audience in a very calm, reassuring way. When oil companies weren't afraid to openly finance our efforts. Well, those days are gone now, lost amid all the shouting, sound effects, visual wipes, incomplete sentences, and the general hullaballoo that makes my aging brain hurt. Dear God how it hurts. Some days I want to just put a Tec 9 in my mouth and . . . (coughs). Tonight, we're honored to have the two leading candidates for president of the United States. Let's bring 'em out here! Fellas!
MCCAIN: (whispering) I'm taking you out, gook boy.
OBAMA: (whispering) Step up, cracka.
LEHRER: Gentlemen, thank you for being here. As you both know, tonight's format is designed to skim over complex issues and avoid talking about where the real power in the country resides. So feel free to pop off at will, regardless of facts or objective reality. Senator Obama, the economy. What's your view?
OBAMA: Jim, I was talking to some of my Wall Street backers earlier today, and they're hurting. This current crisis, started deliberately by the Bush administration with Sen. McCain as their dancing monkey, means of course that my rich and influential friends and supporters are going to need help. Lots of it. This is why I'll eventually support whatever bail out is coughed up in Washington. But I want the working people of America to know that I'll continue speak out of both sides of my mouth, will employ the term "Wall Street/Main Street" for as long as my advisers say it resonates, and will look good while doing it. That's my promise to the middle class.
MCCAIN: Jim, what Sen. Obama is refusing to say is that neither one of us really cares about average working people. If we did, we wouldn't be up here, surrounded by Secret Service agents packing some of the finest heat this great nation still produces. But it's part of getting elected, so we go through the motions, say what our handlers think is best, and hope that it sticks. And you know what? It almost always does! I swear to God, the crap people will swallow in this country boggles what's left of my fading mind. As I was telling my dear friend General Petraeus the other day, "David, there's a knot on the back of my thigh. Do you think it's a clot? Should I have it checked? What time is chow?" And that's why overseeing an equitable bail out is so important to the economy.
LEHRER: Okay. Now that we got that out of the way, let's talk about war.
MCCAIN: (claps hands) Finally!
OBAMA: Jim, let me say that I'm just as eager to promote war as Sen. McCain.
LEHRER: Duly noted, Senator. Let's start with you, then. You're the new Commander in Chief. It's a scary world out there. How do you handle it?
OBAMA: With bombs, Jim. Cluster bombs, cruise missiles, white phosphorus -- whatever will do the job. The difference between Sen. McCain and myself is that when I call for expanded war, I sound reasonable, like the guy who has dozens of bodies stuffed in his crawlspace, but is able to explain away the stench while questioned by police. Sen. McCain lacks that kind of steadiness. If it was his house, he'd lose his temper and blow his cover. America needs a leader who can deny the corpses buried in the walls, and turn that rotting smell into freedom's potpourri.
MCCAIN: Once again, Sen. Obama's showing his inexperience. As any professional serial killer knows, you don't bury your victims inside the house, or even in the backyard. You take them to a neutral location, chop them up into easily disposable pieces, and disperse their remains over a wide area. Sen. Obama's plan rests on his ability to sweet talk the authorities into ignoring what their senses are telling them. In these dangerous times, that's not going to hold up. As my soulmate General Petraeus once put it, you can spread butter on pretty much anything, but freedom must contain essential proteins, and grass stains will come out if you pre-soak, but only if the air is dry. That's the kind of spirit America needs to believe in.
LEHRER: Gentlemen, let's get specific. Who do you plan to kill, and how?
OBAMA: Jim, I opposed the Iraq invasion, which was easy to do since I wasn't in the Senate yet, and so wasn't put on the spot. Since then, depending on polls and intelligence reports, I've hedged my bets about Iraq, but am now settling into the position shared by many leading imperial strategists. Yes, I'll continue to kill and suppress Iraqis, but our client regime there must help finance their own subjugation. It's only fair. As for Afghanistan, I defy Sen. McCain to match my bloodlust on that front. John talks a good game about blowing the living hell out of civilians there, but I'll actually do it. In fact, I can't wait to do it. It's near the top of my list. (pulls out list from breast pocket) See? Right there, Number 2, just under "Nail Anne Hathaway."
MCCAIN: Sen. Obama's leaving out his desire to bomb Pakistan, which is just crazy.
OBAMA: (shaking list at McCain) It's Number 5, John! Number 5! Don't misrepresent my position!
MCCAIN: Only a madman would try that. No, Jim, provoking, undermining, and perhaps eventually fighting Russia is the wisest course of action. I've been to Tibilisi, Gori, Rustavi, Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma, Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo, Tocapillo, Baranquilla, and Perdilla. I'm a killer, Jim.
OBAMA: Jim, I protest Sen. McCain injecting Johnny Cash into this debate.
MCCAIN: Sen. Obama may be too young to know this, but I was doing the Hank Snow version.
LEHRER: Amazing as it seems, we've run out of time. Gentlemen, take a bow.
LEHRER: There you have it, America. One of these guys is going to run the place. Fortunately for me, I probably won't live to see how it all turns out. Goodnight everybody!
via http: //dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-lucky-we-are.html
“Paulson is the stranger with a pick-up truck with a couple of ladders on it, who...”
– Barry Crimmins
All you need to know about the debate
gregbrown:
McCain needed a huge win tonight, and didn’t get it.
Now take all that time you saved and spend it on someone special.
Wisdom
yourmonkeycalled:
As I tell my son every day, you catch more flies with honey than with SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO YOUR FATHER GODDAMMIT.
The Financial Re-Regulatory Agenda →
Here are a dozen steps to restrain and redirect Wall Street and Big Finance: 1. Expand the scope of financial regulation. Investment banks and hedge funds have been able to escape the minimal regulatory standards imposed on other financial institutions. Especially with the government safety net — including access to Federal Reserve funds — extended beyond the traditional banking...
03:35. 49 pages of dashboard later, and I still...
"A hamburger flipper still living with Mom could... →
katiebakes:
It’s rare that I can actually understand, let alone AGREE WITH EVERY WORD OF, a music piece. It’s just that my scope of knowledge is so narrow. But this? This is my own personal heaven. Because, as I told Fek, if I were stranded on a desert island with only one genre of music to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be the Power Ballad. This gem of an essay soars, like so many...
In Our Time is back →
smaran:
One of my favourite podcasts.
Mine too. It’s about the history of ideas, and is simply the most educational, fascinating thing you will ever hear.
“You know why your grandparents don’t like Barack Obama? Because his name sounds...”
– Sarah Silverman for The Great Schlep, a call to all Jews to get out to Florida to convince Nana and Papa to vote for Obama. I’m just going to say it, even though I know I’ll regret this. Lox the Vote. There, now I hate myself. Like a good Jew. (via lonelysandwich)
Funny: Found Wall Street ATM Receipt Shows... →
(via macuyiko)
Jesus. H. Monkey. Christ.
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? ... Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions.
The Governor appears to suffer from what we doctors call Magnetic Poetry Speech Syndrome
“So far, there has been little accountability at higher levels,” Mr. Levin said....”
– Bush Officials Linked to Debate on Interrogation Methods for Detainees - NYTimes.com (via glinner)
“The name Barack means ‘lightning,’ and I’d much rather have a guy named...”
– Sarah Silverman (via soupsoup) (via saramcpherson) (via robot-heart)
That does it. I’m changing my name to Barack.
“Adam Smith, revered by many as the founding prophet of capitalism, cautioned...”
– David Korten (via azspot)