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Friday, October 17. 2008

Friday morning links

A short history of modern finance. Excellent.

An area of the economy which is booming

Kofi Annan lends support to Obama. As did Castro, Chavez, Putin...

Does military service matter any more in politics?

The FBI is investigating ACORN

The FBI is investigating Rep Mahoney

Details on the Canadian election

A Liberal supermajority? Rick Moran says forget about McCain and fight for the filibuster in the Senate. I think you have to fight to the finish. Related, click to biggify this.

HT may be good for womens' brains

More comic relief from Roger. A real quote from Ayers' defenders:

It’s true that Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans.

"Passionately"? How about "criminally and sociopathically, with no regard for human life or property"?

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 05:00 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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The 'click to biggify' pic was great! And obviously nice and fresh, what with the "Plumber Boycott" entry. Other nice touches were looking for info by state or "All 57" and the "Things To Do" -- like Grow Up.

One inadvertantly funny part was when it said that due to "unforeseen events" (Venus rising in the House of Jupiter), the celebration coronation had been postponed. Unforeseen? Ask any astrologer and they'll tell you that event's been charted for the past one thousand years!
#1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2008-10-17 09:37 (Reply)
Passionately has a couple of meanings that are being equated, the one being its head meaning, and the other being called out by the context.

Good passion is the right handle to take hold of sociopathic craziness with, is the message.

See Empson, ``The Structure of Complex Words,'' the world's finest book.
#2 Ron Hardin (Link) on 2008-10-17 09:49 (Reply)
No, Empson's 7 Types of Ambiguity is the great one.
#2.1 BD on 2008-10-17 09:56 (Reply)
Good news from The Great White North NJ. Conservative leader PM Stephan Harper maintained his minority government in the Canadian Election. He picked up several seats but unfortunately did not win a majority. Yet. PM Harper is young and he could still win that majority the next time out, as the people and the wealth and power of the nation continues to flow West. PM Harper is a good leader and he has been effective even in a minority position. The Liberal opposition bled seats with a carbon tax plan, The Green Shift, now better known as The Green Shaft. The Liberal leader Stephane Dions' performance resembled Beaker singing Feelings.

The Muppet Show - Beaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8Q7Fsa_Vs&feature=related

Sure is a lot of tearing of hair and beating of chests during this seemingly never ending Presidential election. I am still pressing for a McCain/Palin win, It is not over until it is over. Do not give up before that last buzzer. I am sticking with Plan A, and Arizona's, John McCain and Alaska's Sarah Palin (and Alberta's Stephen Harper). Here is a fun video about not giving up, from the tv show Due South, which I never did watch, but I like this clip on youtube. Fair warning though, I had fun at Disney World too.

Ride Forever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4lWGIlGZCY&NR=1

Dr. Mercury, enjoyed the Gordon Lightfoot feature. Here is another Great Lakes shipping song, also from Due South and Paul Gross, who is no Gordon Lightfoot or Bob Dylan, but he is very good....looking.

32 Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLEr-agYEdA&feature=related
#3 Patina on 2008-10-17 10:14 (Reply)
Re: Acorn.
This mornings Boston Herald has a story on Acorn's boston office being broken in to and all the computers stolen.
Acorn officials interviewed seem to be spinning it that it may have been done by their enemies (read Republicans, right-wing nut jobs, etc.)
My immediate reaction (no indication of authorities having same) is that these dirt-bags are just covering their own asses with a fake burglary.
#4 Bob D on 2008-10-17 11:08 (Reply)
Bob,

I posted the whole article just above. You know they faked the burglary. This is just the beginning, and now that SCOTUS has denied the GOP's request for Brunner to release the 200K registrations, the DOJ and FBI are on it. They have plenty to work with and this will just get bigger and bigger. It is potentially a very dangerous situation.
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#4.1 Meta on 2008-10-17 14:13 (Reply)
Repubs would never do that. No Repubs in Boston anyway.
#5 Bird Dog on 2008-10-17 15:50 (Reply)
hee hee, BD. :) Wouldn't want to generalize now, would we?


"Repubs would never do that. No Repubs in Boston anyway."

hahahaha.... Repubs probably did do it but you know they're so slick the dems will get blamed for it. And rightly so.

You made me weep. :)
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#5.1 Meta on 2008-10-17 20:13 (Reply)

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