December 2011

How to really waste some money.

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Submitted by Calperson on 8. December 2011 - 9:17

Here is an unusually depressing article in the Boston Globe.  It is one of those fluffy and airheaded “lifestyle” pieces, the print equivalent of empty calorie junk food and like many such articles it provides a horrifying glimpse into the vacuous nature of the modern American mind.  In this particular case, the reporter, who hopefully is affecting rather than spontaneously producing prose redolent of relentless stup

Are China’s underwriting standards for Bond purchases a source of austerity measures?

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Submitted by telliottmbamsc on 8. December 2011 - 7:18

Are the Republicans acting in accord with the financial wishes of Communist China? 

 

HOLLOW WORDS: Obama’s “Fairness” doesn’t extend to Bernanke’s recent fear induced European bank bailout (currency swap funding rate cut by 50bps).

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Submitted by telliottmbamsc on 8. December 2011 - 7:02

It was all just another example of socialized losses, this time via devaluation (or fobbing off the risk of loss or actual loss in the form of heightened risk of devaulation) of the US dollar.  See New York Post article titled “Fed coordinates Europe bailout, but buck may suffer” at

In yet another spill BP's 2009 Alaska PIPELINE spill may lead to criminal charges.

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Submitted by telliottmbamsc on 8. December 2011 - 4:40

Let’s just hope any fines are sufficient.

 

http://www.adn.com/2011/11/29/2194844/bp-spill-may-be-a-criminal-violation.html

Washington State scrambles to fight massive tree die-offs.

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Submitted by telliottmbamsc on 8. December 2011 - 4:39

2050 is right around the corner, time to wrap up your family planning

 

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/11/24/131270/washington-state-scrambles-to.html

There Once Was a Girl From Nantucket

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Submitted by Duh on 7. December 2011 - 20:30

Seriously, there were many girls from Nantucket.

You have boulder, co in the wrong spot.

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Submitted by TanyaCO on 7. December 2011 - 19:58

Hey, I am watching your 7 pm program, and you have boulder, Colorado  in the wrong spot. 

Arggghhh. Hey I live icolrorado springs, the wrong spot.

 

Obama's only talent is knowing what people want to hear and speeches don't fix jack!

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Submitted by telliottmbamsc on 7. December 2011 - 17:38

Kansas shows he is in campaign mode.  If he is re-elected it will be just one big illustration of how people do NOT change their basic character.  Speeches don't do jack. 

And where are the personnel changes within his administration that support his rhetoric?

Half-time Flushing Advisory

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Submitted by leighmf on 7. December 2011 - 16:11

Half-time Flushing Advisory by leighmf, on the half-time choices of those watching this season's Super Bowl

Not super nachos, beer nor pie
compares with her in taste or thigh.
Perhaps this year no half-time flush
through every drain and main will rush.

Will you hold on to see Madonna,
Miami's horny old iguana,
choreograph her pelvic girdle,
kiss something weird, straddling a turtle?