tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post3697424844708915740..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: The Obama & NATO Human Rights Victory Celebration Continues in LibyaDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33067929057121951922011-11-25T08:10:51.006-05:002011-11-25T08:10:51.006-05:00Garden Supplies is usually a good place to hide ou...Garden Supplies is usually a good place to hide out, in winter. Down there between the Roundup and the Weedeaters.<br /><br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86899956343378739212011-11-25T08:09:13.894-05:002011-11-25T08:09:13.894-05:00Electronics can be a killer.
bElectronics can be a killer.<br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19127350399283282432011-11-25T08:07:39.390-05:002011-11-25T08:07:39.390-05:00"I did not want to get involved. I was too sc...<i><br />"I did not want to get involved. I was too scared. I just stayed in the toy aisle," she said.</i><br /><br />There's a thinking shopper, kept her head when everyone was losing theirs.<br /><br />Between electronics and toys, always choose toys for safety.<br /><br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57466627050692132712011-11-25T07:58:32.385-05:002011-11-25T07:58:32.385-05:00"People started screaming, pulling and pushin...<i>"People started screaming, pulling and pushing each other, and then the whole area filled up with pepper spray," the Sylmar resident said. "I guess what triggered it was people started pulling the plastic off the pallets and then shoving and bombarding the display of games. It started with people pushing and screaming because they were getting shoved onto the boxes."</i><br /><br />from the article above<br /><br /><br />And, these people are <i>voters</i><br /><br /><br />This was at a Wal-Mart and I just hope Quirk made it through the night OK.<br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84253123792123318132011-11-25T07:53:23.605-05:002011-11-25T07:53:23.605-05:00Pepper Spray Gives Shopper Advantage In Competitiv...<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/at-wal-mart-pepper-spray-attack-triggered-chaos-screaming.html" rel="nofollow">Pepper Spray Gives Shopper Advantage In Competitive Shopping Spree</a><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60000254430719400042011-11-25T06:52:57.201-05:002011-11-25T06:52:57.201-05:00Renewable energy is surpassing fossil fuels for th...<i>Renewable energy is surpassing fossil fuels for the first time in new power-plant investments, shaking off setbacks from the financial crisis and an impasse at the United Nations global warming talks. <br /><br /><b>Electricity from the wind, sun, waves and biomass drew $187 billion last year compared with $157 billion for natural gas, oil and coal</b>, according to calculations by Bloomberg New Energy Finance using the lastest data. Accelerating installations of solar and wind power led to lower equipment prices, making clean energy more competitive with coal. <br /><br />“The progress of renewables has been nothing short of remarkable,” United Nations Environment Program Executive Secretary Achim Steiner said in an interview. “You have record investment in the midst of an economic and financial crisis.” <br /></i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-25/fossil-fuels-beaten-by-renewables-for-first-time-as-climate-talks-founder.html" rel="nofollow">Renewable Energy Development Tops Fossil Fuels for First Time</a>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49915853515183062512011-11-25T04:56:53.350-05:002011-11-25T04:56:53.350-05:00These Thieving Motherfuckers are goint to Break Us...<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-25/mf-s-lost-cash-makes-you-wonder-about-goldman-commentary-by-jonathan-weil.html" rel="nofollow">These Thieving Motherfuckers are goint to Break Us, Yet</a>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71983066688702515372011-11-25T04:55:34.738-05:002011-11-25T04:55:34.738-05:00There’s more at stake here than the missing $1.2 b...<i>There’s more at stake here than the missing $1.2 billion. Besides MF, other companies that use Pricewaterhouse’s New York office as their auditor include Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. Both banks presumably are too big to fail, meaning taxpayers would be on the hook if they ever blew up. A Pricewaterhouse spokesman, Caroline Nolan, declined to comment on the firm’s work for MF. <br /><br />If Pricewaterhouse can’t spot control weaknesses at a relatively small shop like MF, which had $41 billion of assets, it’s a bit much to expect that the firm would catch anything materially amiss at Goldman, which has $949 billion (GS) of assets, or at a serial acquirer such as JPMorgan, with $2.3 trillion (JPM) of assets. <br /><br />Fortunately for Pricewaterhouse, there’s no better alternative. What’s Goldman or JPMorgan going to do? Switch to KPMG LLP? Or Ernst & Young LLP? Or Deloitte & Touche LLP? Their track records are no better. <br /><br />The reason MF had to get an outside audit report on its internal controls was that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act required it. That law was enacted in 2002 in response to a wave of audit failures at big companies such as WorldCom Inc. and Enron Corp. <br /><br />Thanks in part to the new workload, audit fees at the Big Four accounting firms skyrocketed. So, too, did the number of financial restatements by public companies, which seemed to show the auditors were drilling down and catching lots of errors. For a while, it looked like the new rules were working. <br /><br />Audit Backlash <br /><br />Then a backlash hit. <b>Corporate executives, lawmakers and even Securities and Exchange Commission officials complained that the auditors were being too strict. The number of restatements plunged.</b> Audit fees stopped soaring and overall have been little changed since 2007, according to a report in July by Jack Ciesielski, editor of the Analyst’s Accounting Observer newsletter. <br /><br />Many companies’ audit fees plunged, suggesting that the auditors there were doing less work. For fiscal 2007, MF Global paid Pricewaterhouse $17.1 million in audit fees. By fiscal 2011, that had fallen to $10.9 million, even as warning signs about MF’s internal controls were surfacing publicly. <br /><br />In 2007, MF and one of its executives paid a combined $77 million to settle CFTC allegations of mishandling hedge-fund clients’ accounts, as well as supervisory and record-keeping violations. In 2009, the commission fined MF $10 million for four instances of risk-supervision failures, including one that resulted in $141 million of trading losses on wheat futures. Suffice it to say, Pricewaterhouse should have been on high alert. <br /><br />On top of that, Pricewaterhouse’s main regulator, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, released a nasty report this week on the firm’s audit performance. . . .</i>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70444645542037655122011-11-25T04:00:41.706-05:002011-11-25T04:00:41.706-05:00Ol Georgie, and his crew, just loved them some &qu...Ol Georgie, and his crew, just loved them some "America, Freedom, and Property" to death. And, they got us in one hell of a mess.<br /><br />I'll settle for a little Competence.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74085980195849494242011-11-25T01:59:18.052-05:002011-11-25T01:59:18.052-05:00Speaking of Sluts...<a href="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/jIW53APSx6mpw9YBcQAuEA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MTE7cT04NTt3PTI4MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/gma/us.abcnews.gma.com/gty_halloween_costume_katie_couric_ss_jp_111031_ssv.jpg" rel="nofollow">Speaking of Sluts...</a>Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3730544960853084612011-11-25T01:55:35.866-05:002011-11-25T01:55:35.866-05:00Actually Ash, I wouldn't give a shit if he gav...Actually Ash, I wouldn't give a shit if he gave thanks to Matt Stone and Trey Parker, it's just that he constantly gives evidence of his total lack of appreciation for this country as it is, as it was, and the sources of it's greatness.<br /><br />Hardly a fundie here: <br /><br />Just wish he had respect for the fundamental centrality of freedom and property.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69207651902627650892011-11-25T00:49:08.727-05:002011-11-25T00:49:08.727-05:00.
Actually, I'm a Sam's Club guy.
And fr....<br /><br />Actually, I'm a <i>Sam's Club</i> guy.<br /><br />And frankly, if there are more than 3 or 4 people in front of me, I don't stand in line for nuttin.<br /><br />Temp in the 30's tonight. Don't look for me in any videos of the shoppers.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47478170291444058262011-11-25T00:24:10.035-05:002011-11-25T00:24:10.035-05:00Got your Coleman stove, mittens, ear muffs and Cos...Got your Coleman stove, mittens, ear muffs and Costco Card, and checkbook?<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4865505495522332892011-11-25T00:22:28.543-05:002011-11-25T00:22:28.543-05:00Is it cold out there in the tent in front of Costc...Is it cold out there in the tent in front of Costco tonight, Quirk?<br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-36289220590055455012011-11-25T00:16:38.494-05:002011-11-25T00:16:38.494-05:00.
So sorry, that should read Regeneration Through....<br /><br /><i>So sorry, that should read Regeneration Through Violence.</i><br /><br /><br />That's ok Bobbo. You were probably thinking of Richard Slutkin's book <i>Rejuvenation Through Viagra</i>.<br /><br />A common mistake.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47981079060856690112011-11-24T22:01:15.593-05:002011-11-24T22:01:15.593-05:00So sorry, that should read Regeneration Through Vi...So sorry, that should read Regeneration Through Violence.<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54478239923550220342011-11-24T21:59:24.913-05:002011-11-24T21:59:24.913-05:00For an alternative view of all our Thankful Days s...For an alternative view of all our Thankful Days see Slotkin <i>Rejuvenation Through Violence</i>.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Slotkin" rel="nofollow">Richard Slotkin And His Works</a><br /><br />If your OWS kids keep it up, Ash, one of these fine days the skin heads will knock shit out of them...<br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25773076656408162692011-11-24T21:43:11.454-05:002011-11-24T21:43:11.454-05:00The fundies here want Obama to thank Allah errrrr ...The fundies here want Obama to thank Allah errrrr God.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Figures. What boneheads.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17300632662112097602011-11-24T21:33:52.147-05:002011-11-24T21:33:52.147-05:00The Boy and his two friends did their usual layout...The Boy and his two friends did their usual layout.<br /><br />Always a lot, this thanksgiving was bacon wrapped ham, unbelievable Turkey, homemade stuffing, gravy and cranberries, pumpkin pie from mom, and enough other stuff to stuff Doug right on up.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57998996307455167542011-11-24T21:29:46.117-05:002011-11-24T21:29:46.117-05:00He's just an America Hating Shitwad, Mel, what...He's just an America Hating Shitwad, Mel, what do you expect?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16412949214235273892011-11-24T21:24:56.940-05:002011-11-24T21:24:56.940-05:00He might sometimes come off as a bit slick, but pl...<i>He might sometimes come off as a bit slick, but please don’t call him “Willie.”<br /><br />In what may be the first known instance of Mitt Romney relenting to high-pressure lobbying tactics, he ditched his given first name, Willard, after enduring schoolyard taunts.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59018179119736078272011-11-24T21:23:01.239-05:002011-11-24T21:23:01.239-05:00Pilgrims! ..... I'm stuffed.
bPilgrims! ..... I'm stuffed.<br /><br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66555220862346204622011-11-24T21:18:38.100-05:002011-11-24T21:18:38.100-05:00If these Occupy assholes keep it up and the cities...If these Occupy assholes keep it up and the cities and the police don't get a handle on it and it escalates sooner or later the skinheads may show up and we'll have street fights like in......Weimer Republic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21620969579324929752011-11-24T21:07:45.817-05:002011-11-24T21:07:45.817-05:00What everyone in Philly has been waiting a lifetim...What everyone in Philly has been waiting a lifetime to view -- <br /><br /><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57330609/parts-of-einsteins-brain-on-display-for-first-time/" rel="nofollow">Einstein's Brain On Display For First Time In Philly</a><br /><br />See the brain of the man that got it all wrong about the speed of light being some kind of absolute.<br /><br /><br />And led physics astray for a century.......<br /><br />bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57369731353321010442011-11-24T20:56:37.245-05:002011-11-24T20:56:37.245-05:00Oh for fuck sake.
I'm really beginning to t...Oh for fuck sake. <br /><br />I'm really beginning to think no matter what the man says or does, whether right or wrong, it will be picked apart. <br /><br />I didn't thank God for anything today, either. but I am thankful.MeLoDyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658982778792168451noreply@blogger.com