tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post5901097896147105870..comments2024-03-18T16:10:41.673-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: As bad as things are in Syria, it is not our problem to interveneDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41049081224646469062012-04-27T05:11:24.391-04:002012-04-27T05:11:24.391-04:00Muzzies In Dearborn, Michigan To Hold Pro-Honor Ki...<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/aais-zogby-hamas-linked-cair-islamic-supremacists-to-hold-pro-honor-killing-conference-in-dearborn-t.html" rel="nofollow">Muzzies In Dearborn, Michigan To Hold Pro-Honor Killing Rally</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22903838214080662332012-04-27T01:02:15.773-04:002012-04-27T01:02:15.773-04:00I bet a lot of kids help out on their neighbors fa...<i> I bet a lot of kids help out on their neighbors farms also.<br /><br /> Cindy Munford on April 26, 2012 at 10:09 PM<br /><br />And probably for free. It used to be called “neighborly” Now it’s child slavery. Can I get reparations?<br /><br />katy the mean old lady on April 26, 2012 at 10:15 PM</i><br /><br />Quote of the Day for me, heh<br /><br />bobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27315042514783884052012-04-27T00:50:03.890-04:002012-04-27T00:50:03.890-04:00or....wisdom and folly
bobor....wisdom and folly<br /><br /><br />bobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45674906553203104822012-04-27T00:47:52.820-04:002012-04-27T00:47:52.820-04:00Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply...<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120426/14505718671/insanity-cispa-just-got-way-worse-then-passed-rushed-vote.shtml" rel="nofollow">Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. </a><br /><br />This is another of those subjects about which I know nothing, but the writer doesn't like the sounds of this.<br /><br />Rushed legislation is usually bad legislation.<br /><br />bobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40558373655830956022012-04-26T22:55:51.903-04:002012-04-26T22:55:51.903-04:00What's the difference between a pessimist and ...What's the difference between a pessimist and an optimist?<br /><br />A pessimist thinks things can't be worse.<br /><br />An optimist knows they can.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73291479597588624332012-04-26T22:44:32.726-04:002012-04-26T22:44:32.726-04:00JealousyJealousyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35928997512024187242012-04-26T21:50:12.503-04:002012-04-26T21:50:12.503-04:00I almost hate to be the one to bring it up, but wh...I almost hate to be the one to bring it up, but what's with Biden and this big stick thing?Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90386432572402740002012-04-26T21:12:54.537-04:002012-04-26T21:12:54.537-04:00Sex with wife’s corpse is an “Arab Spring” Or what...<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/26/egyptian-parliament-considering-bill-legalizing-er-sex-with-spouse-after-death/" rel="nofollow">Sex with wife’s corpse is an “Arab Spring” Or what Bill call’s ‘That one night with Hillary’<br /><br />DANEgerus on April 26, 2012 at 6:15 PM<br /></a><br /><br />Scepticism reigns at HotAir.<br /><br />In truth, it is a little hard not to crack a grin over some of the comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30303887488474373132012-04-26T20:52:12.516-04:002012-04-26T20:52:12.516-04:00Farmers Harvest Obama
Obumble backs off telling f...<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FARM_LABOR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-04-26-19-44-56" rel="nofollow">Farmers Harvest Obama</a><br /><br />Obumble backs off telling family farmers how to run the farm.<br /><br />That didn't take long.<br /><br />Now, go, do thou likewise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83403985599351872542012-04-26T19:52:02.430-04:002012-04-26T19:52:02.430-04:00It's No Joke
I had never heard of this aspect...<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/04/necrophilia_is_not_a_joke.html" rel="nofollow">It's No Joke</a><br /><br />I had never heard of this aspect of islam befor<br /><br /><br />And I shouldn't have posted that stupid little ditty in the third post from the beginning of this thread above.<br /><br />The author at the end makes a point as to our foreign policy.<br /><br />Do we really want nuclear weapons in these hands?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31095971123708984592012-04-26T17:55:55.409-04:002012-04-26T17:55:55.409-04:00As bad as things are in Palestine it is not our pr...As bad as things are in Palestine it is not our problem to intervene and yet we do, providing murderers a billion dollars a year.<br /><br />We support Hamas and the PA with money, food, roads, schools and jobs.<br /><br />If America would have stopped supporting a people and their national movement that is totally at odds with America and her interests the issue would have disappeared decades ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34661139604867812542012-04-26T15:20:44.004-04:002012-04-26T15:20:44.004-04:00Those who understand the country have been waiting...<a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1248" rel="nofollow">Those who understand the country have been waiting for the breakpoint at which the Sunni middle-class finally gets off the fence and joins the opposition. That moment may be at hand, and if it is, the recent optic that the regime is winning will be reversed in due course, possibly very quickly.</a><br /><br />from American Interest<br /><br />Those who cling to my every word will recall bobbo predicted Assad <i>will be gone</i> but that it might <i>take some time.</i><br /><br />And, it is this preciseness of prediction that is remarkable too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10979005751858135702012-04-26T14:35:11.783-04:002012-04-26T14:35:11.783-04:00(disappearing post syndrome?)
maybe I've pass...(disappearing post syndrome?)<br /><br />maybe I've passed it onAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83392815515859849112012-04-26T14:32:57.316-04:002012-04-26T14:32:57.316-04:00DPS?
bobDPS?<br /><br />bobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30356819494978639762012-04-26T12:02:02.287-04:002012-04-26T12:02:02.287-04:00well bite me.
Make the effort to compose a though...well bite me.<br /><br />Make the effort to compose a thoughtful and out-of-character slightly witty post ON-TOPIC!! and poof!!!<br /><br />well gosh darn it all to heck.<br /><br />and blow me.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51842776364453827582012-04-26T11:16:43.191-04:002012-04-26T11:16:43.191-04:00Clinton political adviser James Carville said at t...<i>Clinton political adviser James Carville said at the time that “I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody."</i>Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74025412308237110782012-04-26T11:15:31.715-04:002012-04-26T11:15:31.715-04:00I tend to use the term 'bond vigilantes' t...I tend to use the term 'bond vigilantes' tongue in cheek. There is a group that 'play the game', traders, that prey on bonds and try to work the market - much like the bogeyman that your link referred to.<br /><br />However, there is a real market for bonds and if that market dries up then things get really nasty for the issuer of said bonds. There is that whole psychological element, now a popular factor in market talk, plus 'real' economics. When the worm turns...<br /><br />Even issuers of currency's can find a lack of buyers for their bonds. The central bank can step in and do the buying but for how long? The US dollar, being the exchange currency, has even more lattitude for central bank intervention but that power is not infinite in my opinion and if that worm should turn and investors lose their confidence in the 'good faith of the American government' then a dumping of bonds could occur. I mean, who in their right mind would tie up millions of dollars for about a 3 percent return for 30 years? Care to buy a US 30 year bond if the market were no longer liquid for those beasts?Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72135893413293263652012-04-26T10:51:33.800-04:002012-04-26T10:51:33.800-04:00Seeking Alpha is not impressed with the bond vigil...Seeking Alpha is not impressed with the bond vigilantes <a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/444181-the-bond-vigilantes-are-coming" rel="nofollow">link here.</a> The bond vigilantes get more press from outlets like CNBC, which makes me wonder.<br /><br />But I agree that Washington political gridlock is a huge problem. Judd Gregg wrote what is being described as a "scathing" op-ed piece saying Congress (and the President) should just go home now. This Congress has been described as the "laziest" in terms of legislation presented and passed and couple of other criteria I don't remember. Not a bright spot in American political history.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30413721090684666742012-04-26T10:35:29.103-04:002012-04-26T10:35:29.103-04:00I'll give "All the Devils are Here" ...I'll give "All the Devils are Here" a read. Yes, Lewis's book was narrowly focused. Another popular book, now a movie, "Too Big to Fail" and I just saw "Margin Call" the other night. One of my favourites was Nial Ferguson's "The Cash Nexus" which is a pretty long history of money and the bond markets.<br /><br />Derivatives are a problem, I agree, but I think a greater threat is the bond markets and the political grid-lock in the US preventing any reasonable addressing of the deficit and current account situations. When folk stop buying your bonds you are in deep doo doo. I think once the 'bond vigilantes' are finished in the Europe it'll be the US's turn next and that will be particularly ugly.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46230439223659103972012-04-26T10:33:33.412-04:002012-04-26T10:33:33.412-04:0047 Billion cuft.
hmmm . . . .
Call it "i...47 Billion cuft.<br /><br />hmmm . . . .<br /><br />Call it "inconclusive."Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84730561061607862992012-04-26T10:22:17.144-04:002012-04-26T10:22:17.144-04:00'the debt can not be paid off'
My origina...<i>'the debt can not be paid off'</i><br /><br />My original phrasing was poor as I believe I already acknowledged by citing several writer/economists including Tyler Durden:<br /><br /><i>Another way of looking at the data is that one of the key contributors to global growth and prosperity in the past 10 years was an increase in total derivatives from just under $100 trillion to $708 trillion in exactly one decade. And soon we have to pay the mean reversion price.</i><br /><br />My objection was to the King Tut-Tut response that citing the "notional" value of the risk was misleading (ref the accounting issue). It is not misleading. Over the last decade, the risk was ratcheted to bubble-proportions. The economic "growth" of the last decade was an econometric mirage. The EU fallout threatened to collapse the credit bubble created by an uncontrolled derivatives market. If not the EU, then something else. Britain is formally back in recession. The writer/economists that I follow are concerned that the exposure is already beyond containment. My original phrasing was sloppy but the global financial instability created by the high risk derivatives market is serious - and immediate, within five years but likely sooner. <br /><br /><br />Better read about 2008 is "All the Devils are Here" by Bethany McLean (Smartest Guys in the Room) and Joe Nocera. The Lewis book is very narrowly focused. Get as much from his lengthy Vanity Fair article and Matt Taibbi's essays.Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88851345549667990852012-04-26T10:19:39.100-04:002012-04-26T10:19:39.100-04:00ALEC has already attempted to write legislation pr...ALEC has already attempted to write legislation preventing targets for renewable energy on the federal level. As nothing substantive has happened nationally, it seems ALEC is now preparing to take its corporate-influenced legislation to the 29 states that actually have targets in place.<br /> <br /><b>Along with promoting legislation to kill climate policies and renewable energy targets, ALEC also provided the framework for legislation currently moving through the U.S. House of Representatives that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating toxic coal ash.</b><br /> <br />According to the Center for Media and Democracy, Peabody Energy — the largest private coal company in the world — is a major underwriter for ALEC and sits on the organization’s Private Enterprise Board.<br /><br />Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/1a5h9)<br /><br /><a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/26/alec-received-funding-from-koch-industries-exxon-mobil-to-craft-legislation-aimed-at-repealing-renewable-energy-standards/" rel="nofollow">Exxon, Koch Bros, and Peabody - Watching our "Six," as it were</a>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73433519927996670292012-04-26T10:09:31.813-04:002012-04-26T10:09:31.813-04:00The continuing fall in "PV" prices are g...The continuing fall in "PV" prices are giving the "Solar Thermal" guys a serious case of heartburn. The lower the photovoltaic (and, Wind) goes, the harder the case for Solar Thermal becomes.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7910784510172455262012-04-26T10:00:45.577-04:002012-04-26T10:00:45.577-04:00If you want more fun on this line take a look at h...If you want more fun on this line take a look at how many advertising agencies there are in the world.<br /><br />Basically there are 3 really big ones and 2 smaller ones.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29600063286763084022012-04-26T09:56:43.061-04:002012-04-26T09:56:43.061-04:00These 10 Corporations Control Almost Everything Yo...<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/these-10-corporations-control-almost-everything-you-buy-2012-4?utm_source=inpost&utm_medium=seealso&utm_term=&utm_content=2&utm_campaign=recirc#ixzz1t9eGpjfu" rel="nofollow">These 10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy</a>Max (short for Maxine)http://url.comnoreply@blogger.com