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| 2008/9/11-18 [Finance/Investment] UID:51130 Activity:nil |
9/11 Thanks Bushies, for nationalizing F&F to bail out China:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/65a5lz (WSJ)
\_ I think it was a bipartisan failure.
\_ Congress gave Hank the gun, but isn't Hank the one who fired it?
Guns don't kill people--people do! |
| 2008/9/11-23 [Finance] UID:51131 Activity:nil |
9/21 (revived for comment)
If you are a McCain supporter who is not rich but moderately
well off, and care about "the future" (have kids), consider it
is not unlikely he will appoint Phil Gramm Treasury Secretary.
Gramm will be to the economy what Cheney was (is?) to Foreign Policy;
he will fuck it up for a generation.
\- better said by AGOOLSBEE
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/09/john-mccain-che.html
Just liek people probably should worry more about Sup Ct
appoinments than they should, "who will you appoint treasury
sec" is going to be a big, big, big deal perhaps demanding
of at least a spefici answer as "what is your iraq plan" and
presumably harder to say something like "i will forumlate an
appropriate response to the circumstances in conjuctions with
our generals in the field". If you do not promise to give the
secret service to have PGRAMM kept out of line of sight or
out of electronic communication with you at all times, nobody
should take you seriously ... not that anybody should after
picking a vindictve creationist moose woman.
\_ Is it too hard for you to write English? |
| 2008/9/11-17 [Finance/Investment] UID:51132 Activity:nil |
9/10 Guys, have you moved 50% of your 401(k) and IRA out of equities and
into high quality bonds or Treasury-based money markets? I'm not
kidding. Here you are, arguing about Obama, McCain, and Palin, and
your money is disappearing.
\_ What are you talking about? My portfolio looks fine.
\_ good. now what about the rest of you? all the equity-based
choices in my 401(k) plan are all negative 3-month and 1-year.
\_ You're an idiot.
\_ are you angry about something?
\_ You don't think the President has influence over the economy?
\_ I don't either can stop the multi-year move in equities.
\_ I don't think either can stop the multi-year move in equities.
\_ No, I have the same allocation I always have, which is 6 mos
living expenses in CDs, 20% of my total investment portfolio in
CA Munis (taxable part, of course) about 10% more in high quality
bonds and 70% in stocks. I am leaning way toward blue chip dividend
paying stocks though, but I have been in a multi-year move in that
direction. I saw the financials ready to blow up over a year ago.
I am down a bit from the top, but not losing any sleep over it.
Oh, I also am heavily invested overseas and I recommend you do the
same.
\_ IMO, your equity allocation is too high (assuming you are in
index funds), and I personally have been shorting emerging
markets.
I do agree that you aren't too far away from what a professional
financial advisor would suggest; but I'm saying CFPs are wrong.
\_ I am not in index funds, as I said, I am leaning heavily
towards profitable companies with little debt who pay a
big dividend and are either located outside the US or do
most of their business outside the US. I am starting to doubt
the "great decoupling" theory though.
\_ ok. i hope your portfolio does not get pulled down with
the rest of the market (even if they are profitable blue
chips with little debt). FYI, China and Japan are going in
the toilet. European, especially UK banks are arguably in
more trouble than the U.S. financial system.
\_ I hope you are not still sitting out the month the
market goes up 20%, which it inevitably will, sooner
or later. How are you going to decide to jump back in?
\_ when the 50DMA increases past the 200DMA by 1% |
| 2008/9/11-18 [Transportation/Car] UID:51133 Activity:nil |
9/11 I once saw a vehicle buyback program that pays maybe $1000 for vehicles
that fail the smog test? Does anyone have a link for this? I found
http://www.baaqmd.gov/pln/grants_and_incentives/vehicle_buyback but
only that's for vehicles that pass the smog test. Thanks.
\_ http://tinyurl.com/3tz267
\_ Thanks! |
| 2008/9/11-18 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:51134 Activity:nil |
9/11 "`The Twist' is top song of Billboard Hot 100 era"
http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/61703397
'He compared "The Twist" ...... to the creation of the telephone as a
groundbreaking moment because he said it was the first time people
were dancing "apart to the beat."'
What does "dancing apart to the beat" mean? Thanks.
\_ I assume 'apart' means 'without a partner.'
\_ I think they mean without holding hands or otherwise in contact.
In ballroom dancing, you are usually touching in some fashion. |
| 2008/9/11-18 [Politics/Domestic/Gay, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51135 Activity:kinda low |
9/11 http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt08/haidt08_index.html \_ Warning, strong libUral slant. I mean, come on: "We can explain how Republicans exploit frames, phrases, and fears to trick Americans into supporting policies (such as the "war on terror" and repeal of the "death tax") that damage the national interest for partisan advantage. \_ Really good article. "Most Democrats don't understand that politics is more like religion than it is like shopping." \_ BRAWNDO! IT'S WHAT PLANTS NEED! \_ http://yourmorals.org I thought I was a liberal but it turns out that I'm a moderate. On the 5 foundations (harm, fairness, loyalty, authority, purity), I am consistently in between. \_ This is an interesting test. I line up very strongly with liberals on fairness, purity and authority scores, but I have high loyalty and less concern for harm (like a conservative). I always have prefered the moniker "armed liberal" to describe myself, though, so this fits. \_ "Whether or not someone violated standards of purity and decency." How the hell do you answer a question like that without knowing what the standards of purity and decency are? \_ How *do* you answer it? Don't you think there is a standard? If not, you are probably a liberal. \_ Right, because only conservatives are decent. \_ A conservative certainly wouldn't have to ask what the standards of purity and decency are, would they? \_ Yep, they'd believe in the wrong answer already. c.f. torture. \_ If this is somehow part of your definition of conservative v. liberal, your definition needs some serious re-evaluation. \_ No, it is you who needs to do some serious self- examination. Conservatives have a legitimate reason to bash liberals for "moral relativism" and the sooner you understand why, the more you will understand about the debate. And I am a liberal, by the way, but at least I have bothered to take the time to understand what Conservative positions are grounded in. \_ So there's no moral relativism to being gung-ho about torture? There's no moral relavtivism to to treating terrorists differently if they are white and christian? You are confusing recationary xenophobia with something else. \_ Are these serious questions or are you just being rhetorical here, it is hard to tell. I see nothing in The Bible that prohibits torture, in fact there are parts that seem to indicate it is permissible. Your claim that conservatism is xenophobic precisely misses the point. \_ What does The Bible have to do with it? Torture being ok for brown and/or poor people but not for good decent folks is a fine example of having relative morals. Or do you think the republican party is going to start putting people in "stress positions" until they start talking about insider trading? \_ Don't confuse "the republican party" with conservatism. I know more than one evangelical in my family would have no problem with giving the FNM execs a serious beating. And other Wall Street types. I don't think their point of view is unusual. \_ The new testament is pretty seriously against torture. Matthew 5, and 5:39 in particular, Matthew 25:31-46, John 9:7 to take a few obvious verses. -tom \_ http://preview.tinyurl.com/3kteeh \_ http://preview.tinyurl.com/3n63ux \_ Almost all of that is in the Old Testament. And the New Testament references don't imply that it's OK for people to torture other people. -tom \_ This asinine insistence that "conservatives" have some sort of monopoly on moral certitude has no basis in reality. Some liberals have similarly inflexible morals ("All corporations are evil." "Profits are immoral." "Israel's actions in the occupied territories are war crimes." "The military should be abolished.") "Moral relativism" is a bullshit charge leveled against people who don't share your particularly restrictive morality while deliberately ignoring whatever moral code they might actually have. (Cf. Rick Santorum's assertion that legalizing homosexual marriage will lead to legalization of bestiality and pederasty.) If the question is "whether or not someone violated" MY "standards of purity and decency," then yes, that would be particularly important to me. If the question is "whether or not someone violated" Fred Phelps' "standards of purity and decency," I really couldn't give a fuck. \_ I have all the right to sodomize you as long as I have the power to do so. Yes! \_ See now, if that had been the question, there would have been no ambiguity. \_ Let's see what is the dictionary defintion of the word "liberal": # Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. # Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. It is not my fault that you have decided that the word "liberal" means something different than what it means to the rest of the English speaking population. The fact that "some (self-identified) liberals" do not fit the definition doesn't mean you get to twist it to suit your own personal agenda. Good luck on your newspeak efforts though. agenda. Good luck on your Newspeak efforts though. Do I really need to pull up the dictionary definition of conservative to make my point? \_ Nothing in those definitions implies moral relativism. It just implies having an open mind. Having strong ethics and morals does not mean someone is closeminded or a bigot. I don't think newspeak means what you think it does. \_ Yes, please. And while you're at it, discuss why the Right Wing Conspiracy continues to belittle people with fixed but opposing views as "liberal." *I* didn't decide on this definition or culture-war distinction; I prefer the word "progressive." |
| 2008/9/11-18 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51136 Activity:nil |
9/11 Palin foreign policy: War with Russia!
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5778018&page=1
\_ If a member state of NATO is invaded by Russia, you are against
aiding them? What exactly is NATO's purpose in that case?
\_ Which says to me we shouldn't be offering NATO membership
to unstable, belligerent new nation states.
\_ Not sure. If Russia invaded Poland or Lithuania or Belarus
or Latvia, I think we'd have to resort to saying mean things at
this point.
\_ Your brain has been classified as: small.
\- YMPM5c
\_ This content-free post has become tiresome. please come up
with a different meme. maybe lolcats or something.
\_ The countries under discussion are not NATO members.
\_ RTFA
\_ Sadly I think the public will interpret this insanity as "strong
on Defense."
\_ No, they won't. Some percentage less than 50% will, Palin is
just playing to the base here. It is a risky move.
\_ Fuck risky. It is proof McCain/Palin are only interested
in winning and not interested in sound policy. Haven't we
had enough of "win at any cost"? That's what gave us the
last 8 years of disaster. |
| 2008/9/11-12 [Uncategorized] UID:51137 Activity:nil |
9/11 Govt "engineering a sale of LEH through a consortium of private firms".
Announcement expected this weekend before Asian markets open. yay! |
| 2008/9/11-18 [Transportation/Car] UID:51138 Activity:nil |
9/11 Photojournalism from the Chinese Olympics, err, I mean the RNC
http://drunkatdnc.blogspot.com
http://www.baaqmd.gov/pln/grants_and_incentives/vehicle_buyback
\_ Why didn't Zombietime cover it, I wonder? |
| 2008/9/11-12 [Uncategorized] UID:51139 Activity:nil |
9/11 Happy Nine Eleven Attack Anniversary Day! |
| 2008/9/11 [Uncategorized] UID:51140 Activity:nil |
9/11 Wendy 4 is a lot hotter than Palin
http://sportsbybrooks.com/girls/index.php?action=dosearch&gid=210&os=17 |
| 2008/9/11-18 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51141 Activity:nil |
9/11 Gibson is such a loser. He can't even quote Palin and tries to correct
her on what the quote is. She said:
"Pray that our national leaders are sending our troops on a task that
is from God."
He leaves out the first 2 words.
\_ Even Palin is apologizing for this now, you are on the wrong GOP
talking point.
\_ don't, know or care much what Palin is doing, but I watched the
Video, and you have to be an idiot to not realize those first
two words are rather significant. -voting for Obama
\_ You have to be an idiot to think that refering to an
army in the Middle East as being on a task from God isn't
beyond dangerous. And someone here tried to claim "lipstick
on pig" would lead to wars? Palin proved she has no
business being a national figure. |
| 2008/9/11-18 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:51142 Activity:nil |
9/11 best lipstip on pig controversy comment
http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com/2008/09/useless-irony-of-day.html
it is almost getting so bad i want to confront McCain supporters with
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING????????????????????????????????
\_ if Obama didnt have an inkling that statement would cause a
stir especially after the Lipstick and bulldog comment,
then he is too clueless to be a diplomat and will lead us
to more wars.
\_ Bullshit. This was a total nothing, and if it didn't make
for an interesting horserace story the press would have
ignored it like it should have been. Stop pretending there's
any story here beyond McCain trying to outdo Bush in sleazy
campaigning.
\_ I already confront Obama supporters with that question. You want
to hire a guy with no clue what he's doing, why?!?
\_ I think Obama has a clue. I think McCain is too old, going
slightly senile, is in danger of dying at any moment, has a
bizarre world view where the US can simultaneously occupy Iraq
Iran and Russia. I think Palin may be a nice enough person
but she's not ready to be president. Her interview from last
night demonstrates this. She has no clue. The last couple of
McCain bits where he infers that Obama was teaching sex ed to
kindergartners make me a little sad.
\_ I have yet to see any evidence that Obama has even the tiniest
of clues. Everything he says is pre-scripted to the audience
he is talking to. Which makes him the equivelent of a
modivational speaker.
\_ Yes but I love moDivational speakers, and so do a bunch
of people. McCain is too old to energize and synergize
the next generation of hope.
\_ Most policy is set by the people the President hires. Who
do you think will surround themselves with a better staff?
\_ This is a video from the MTV Q&A session in 2007. While
not great on too much detail, I thought that Obama did a
fair job of presenting the case for Net Neutrality and
explaining the issue to an MTV-level audience. His
response is not pre-scripted, but you can see that he's
thought about the issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd8qY6myrrE
\_ Did you watch any of the debates? |
| 4/15 |