Speaking Truth To Power -Whose Power? October 31, 2009
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Happy Halloween – Who Has The Easiest Job In The World? October 31, 2009
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I’m going as The Invisible Man
Which helps you with the answer to the question:
the easiest job in the world goes to the Invisible Man’s secretary – all she has to tell people is, “I’m sorry you can’t see him now.”
Top Ten WW II Films October 31, 2009
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altho I don’t think #1 is right. I might have gone with # 9 or 10
T. Boone Pickens October 30, 2009
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probably couldn’t get the loan for wind farms because he didn’t have a good business model for profit on the things.
Money October 30, 2009
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I’m going to bet that we’ve spent more dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even adjusted for inflation, than in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam combined.
IF you do the numbers as a % of GNP or just raw for adjusted for inflation, it’s not even close. WWII alone dwarfed those two together.
More Nazis In The News October 30, 2009
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Entertainment, News Of The Weird.Tags: taylor swift, hitler, swastika, goebbels, prince harry
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You know, if Adolph Hitler was collecting residuals on his atrocities of the last century, he’d be doing better posthumously than Elvis and Michael Jackson combined. Hitler pops up all over the blogosphere, among the talking heads on CNN, FOX, and MSNBC, on posters and plackards of Obama at Teabagger’s conventions, on skinheads in Idaho and Europe. The ugly little pervert’s insidious influence shows up places you’d never expect. In 2005, freaking Prince Harry showed up to a Halloween party dressed as a brown shirt, a look that wasn’t even particularly amusing on Friedrich in “The Sound of Music”. Joseph Goebbels didn’t have this much success promoting his boss while he was alive. Now this:
- Never a good look.
Taylor Swift standing next to a guy who bears a spooky resemblance to one of the Columbine killers adorned in a swastika t-shirt? What the hell kind of party was that, anyway?
BW
Afghanistan: Time To Pack Up And Come Home October 30, 2009
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Politics.Tags: afghanistan, generals, mcchrystal, obama, scott ritter, soviets, troop request
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Remember Scott Ritter? He was the guy who headed the UN inspection team who told George Bush that there were NO WMD’S IN IRAQ. Which of course convinced Dubya beyond a shadow of a doubt that there were definitely WMD’s in Iraq. Now Ritter is advising Barack Obama to get the hell out of Afghanistan before we end up the same way the Soviets did, defeated and headed for extinction. Ritter is a pretty savvy guy, and he addresses all the tactical military poly-sci jargon talk (that my blog-mate so loves to quote) about trapping this faction or that in some region or another, and discounts it for the self-serving nonsense that it is. He also convincingly lays out the close parallels between our war and the Soviet war of twenty years ago. But what he does best is gut this testosterone overdosed General McChrystal who has done everything but publicly threaten a military coup if Obama doesn’t give him the cannon fodder he’s demanded. McChrystal ought to be relieved of command post-haste, and the rest of our troops should rapidly follow his ass home on the first available plane.
BW
War Hasn’t Been So Good For The Economy So Far October 30, 2009
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We’ve had two of them going on for going on nine years, and without doing a lot of boring statistical research, I’m going to bet that we’ve spent more dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even adjusted for inflation, than in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam combined. You’d think that all those planes and bombs and tanks and bullets would employ somebody somewhere, but as best as anyone can tell, the only people actually profiting from these street theater insanities are Dick Cheney and the fat-cat board at Halliburton.
I’d say it’s not certain whether government can affect the macro-economy significantly, because they haven’t really tried. T. Boone Pickens thought wind farms would be profitable, and he’s a guy who lives for profit. His grand scheme never came to fruition. Want to know why? He couldn’t get a loan…making you wonder what happened to that other trillion bucks we gave to all those banks, ostensibly so they could loan money to restart the economy.
Maybe we just need a bigger war. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Those damned Iranians are just asking for it.
BW
Did It Ever Occur to You? October 30, 2009
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That Government can’t do that.
Look, Bush threw $600 at everyone- did nothing.
Obama threw $787 billion at everyone , did little.
Government’s ability to create long-term jobs is quite limited.
They are a short-term fix.
GM is only going to sell cars if they figure out how to make ones people want to buy. IF they don’t no amount of Govt. Money will save them
Wind farms will only get built if people see they can be done profitably. IF not, forget your wind farms. No one is going to go broke running them once they are built.
At this rate all we are creating is the potential for long-term inflation which will really mess things up.
The effect FDR had on theDepression si a matter fo debate- more than conservatives want to acknowledge, less than liberals want to admit. But anyway you look at it, what brought us out of the Depression was the War , that gave an impetus to private industry to make things we needed.
