Boy how the time flies. I remember that election. I was 62 at the time.
I remember, because at the time I was what they used to call blogging on the old Bellingham Herald newspaper website. I know, showing all of my 92 years.
That was back when they not only still had a number of news media printing out their news on paper made from trees, but had just started using what we used to call on-line media.(You remember the old what they used to call the Internet, before that early 21st century sage, George Bush, (the great great grandfather of Emperor Glenn Palin-Limbaugh), called it the Internets and got a lot of static for it. Of course we all know how outdated the idea of a single Internet is now.
Anyway, I digress and will have to write more later. It's time for my mind medling class. Later.
Did you know that mind meddling was actually invented by the grandfather of the minister of public instruction and assimilation, Sir Rupert Murdoch II?
It's very easy do do with my new Petristemcell brain. I wish my other petri organs worked as well. But then I only have the older models. So my life expectancy is only 180 right now, but as soon as I can build up enough life credits I'm upgrading...
Sort of funny to see so many white faces in one video frame. Do you know that in 2010 they actually believed that whites would not be in the minority until the mid 2040's to 2050?
Of course we all know now that after the Brown Rebellion and assassination of President Gingrich in 2020, the last bastion of hope for the white race, the former state of Arizona was turned into a max security re-education camp.
Then the True Awakening and the second coming of Jesus the Plumber, turned things around and Maxizona was liberated and became the nation's capital it is today. That was when I went underground.
Nice revisionist history there Shaun and Anonymous.
Glen Palin-Limbaugh is our second black president and he does not act like an Emperor. Th rest of the country has accepted that he is the legitimate American President after his mother admitted he was in fact a late life baby born out of wedlock and her notorious affairs. Get over it. All suspected fathers underwent DNA screening and just because he was actually born in northern Canada he is still an American.
Also Maxizona is not the capitol, no matter how much Governor Lou Dobbs II goes on about the so called Brown Rebellion. Menneapolis is, and only because the Great Ice Melt of 2031 inundated both coasts.
You need to take a break and go get some rest on the beaches on Cape Ohio.
Oh. In 2040 Elisabeth finally receives the stem cell therapy treatment she needs to cure her arthritis. She spent three years underground preparing to recieve three injections.
The Tea Party penalty for being caught using stem cell therapy? 50 years hard labor.
Elisabeth is crackng rocks at the ripe age of 95 at the local quarry to pay for her sins.
Well, my recent fact check reveals that there is plenty of blame to go around, and the financial crisis can not be pinned to one political party or even on what Washington did or didn't do.
As The Economist magazine noted, the problem is one of "layered irresponsibility with hard-working homeowners and billionaire villains each playing a role."
Here's a partial list of those alleged to be at fault:
The Federal Reserve, which slashed interest rates after the dot-com bubble burst, making credit cheap.
Home buyers, who took advantage of easy credit to bid up the prices of homes excessively.
Congress, which continues to support a mortgage tax deduction that gives consumers a tax incentive to buy more expensive houses.
Real estate agents, most of whom work for the sellers rather than the buyers and who earned higher commissions from selling more expensive homes.
The Clinton administration, which pushed for less stringent credit and downpayment requirements for working- and middle-class families.
Mortgage banks, who offered less-credit-worthy home buyers subprime, adjustable rate loans with low initial payments, but exploding interest rates.
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who in 2004, near the peak of the housing bubble, encouraged Americans to take out adjustable rate mortgages.
Wall Street firms, who paid too little attention to the quality of the risky loans that they bundled into Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), and issued bonds using those securities as collateral.
The Bush administration, which failed to provide needed government oversight of the increasingly dicey mortgage-backed securities market.
An obscure accounting rule called mark-to-market, which can have the paradoxical result of making assets be worth less on paper than they are in reality during times of panic.
Collective delusion, or a belief on the part of all parties that home prices would keep rising forever, no matter how high or how fast they had already gone up.
The U.S. economy is enormously complicated. Screwing it up takes a great deal of cooperation. Claiming that a single entity could have averted the crisis is just political grandstanding.
My advice to voters? Just say no to candidates who rely on rumors, heresay and anger to secure public office.
Otherwise, we will have one more addition to the "zombie council" that smiles insipidly as it takes a hatchet and destroys the quality of life that we have all come to cherish.
Long life to the BIAW and the Realtors! (oh, yeah, and let's not forget the too big to fail banks who set a new standard of greed (even by American standards) by creating an array of sub-prime marketing products that got homeowners in to this mess). P.S. those products were not connected to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.
Did some one say Tony runs a "business publication?"
Alan Rhodes - we need you to write a sequel to your Lisabeth Salander piece --
Why in 2040 is anyone even talking about the TEa Party or Tony Larson. We won't remember his name by next year and the Tea Party will have disintegrated as well...
It's the Republican backlash - in 2010, the Republicans finally take over Congress. That act allows them to roll back the clock two hundred years - hence, after the passage of 40 yrs, we will still be reeling in the years...
It's a dog eat dog world. Half the population lives "off grid" burrowing in old growth stumps in the woods of Washington.
We grow bracken fern, dandilions and other native greens as cash crops. The very rich live well. The rest of us develop a barter system to survive.
We depend on squirrel calls to alert us to round ups by do gooders who swear we need personal hygiene classes to qualify for jobs.
Education becomes a joke. Because education is a joke.
Meditation involves having to battle "mind chatter" in order to stay focused on the objective of relaxing. This can make meditating fruitless and and eventually the idea gets abandoned as not being of any use.
I sense that we have entered a fourth dimension... Apexnerd land.
E, why so....real? My bones always feel stiffer and ache more when the weather turns fall...Sorry for your pain
"....say no to candidates who rely on rumor, hearsay and anger....." ?? You've gutted the entire political process.
Some of us are so lazy the only thing that gets us out to vote is a rumor or hearsay of a fear we might lose our comfort zone that makes us angry enough to lick a stamp. A lot of us apparently aren't angry enough to be stamp lickers yet, if you look at turnout for the primary.
Or they have a malaise like depression.
We would have to wait for another 1,000 years of evolution to get to where greed and money don't rule the day.
Sure the Democrats have played to the money man. After all they hold the kitty. The Republicans are their favorite dupes though. The R's play the game to pad their wallets, the D's play the game to do the same but because they must to help the little guy and keep the safety nets mended. There is a difference.
But They all have and all will dance to the corporatist's tune cuz if they didn't the Richie's would take their money and go.. Which is what they're doing.
The more we threaten their greed uber alles, the more likely they are to flee and leave us with the bag...which they can do... because they hold our jewels in the palm of their hands and they decide when to squeeze.....
In the immortal words of David Byrne,..."same.. as.. it.. ever... was....
Hold on Boris, I ain't buyin it. We haven't seen a birth certificate yet and I'm not sure his mother wasn't just a Prawn with lipstick. Besides if he really was a son of hers, he would have been named some after some firearm nomenclature, not some wimpy name like Glenn.
You know how her first turned out, his name was Todd ... She called him the first dude, but obviously he was only one of many and she ate him.
Americans "just have to go down in their living standards" after years in which their living standards soared in part based on foreign credit which is no longer there," said University of Munich economics professor Hans-Werner Sinn. Jacob Frenkel, Chairman of JP Morgan Chase International, urged the United States to rein in entitlements as part of a "political deal" that recognizes reality.
Tell you what, professor, we'll rein in our entitlements when you rein in yours and stop trying to entice American companies to settle in Germany.
P.S. hope you enjoy that large, new debt called "defense spending" to keep the world safe from terrorism. We've kicked in $1.1 trillion. I'd say that's more than enough for Americans who have just been scolded about reining in their standard of living.
Here's a novel thought - what if Congress starts taxing the living daylights out of American companies who locate outside of our borders? (We can provide tax breaks to the companies who are willing to invest in American jobs).
The treatment I want (which is used routinely in Europe) costs $782 dollars and would put a stop to the pain and inflamation for months.
In America, the FDA doesn't allow the treatment. Instead, they want me to take expensive medication (which could damage my kidneys and liver) and do surgery.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the American treatment costs several thousand dollars. That's good for the pharmaseutical companies, the hospital and the doctor who performs the surgery, but it's not necessarily good for me!
I'm wondering why other people's religious beliefs are preventing me from recieving medical care that has helped thousands of adults in Western Europe?
After all, I only want to use my own stem cells to grow a cure... shouldn't that be my decision, rather than my elected official's decision?
Every time I've had orthopedic surgery (a few times, knee, shoulders, too much skiing) they've told me there is lots of arthritis present, but I really haven't experienced any debilitating pain from it. Maybe time is not on my side. Just stiff and a little weird ache-iness now and then so far that may be arthritis-- I don't know. I have a high tolerance of pain. It sounds like you suffer much more than I. So sorry.
Yeah, the greatest health care in the world and all we are is numbers on a ledger.
I have a friend with serious problems in his hands, arms, neck and back who's condition has created something akin to ptsd, only it isn't just post. It's attstd(all the time stress disorder).
My friend has been fighting L&I for a couple of years and getting a horrendous run around. They send him to bogus evaluators, of which there are a few under their control in town, and the screwing over he is getting by these so -called health specialists that L&I pays to find bogus ways to deny the claim is so egregious they should be horse whipped, IMO.
As for the religious who want to force everyone to die a slow, agonizing or doped up death--the religious influence in this country on health care is absolutely disgusting if not medieval.
My family availed themselves of a hospice in another state for a dying loved one, and there was no religious horsepucky. They did what we wanted pretty much. More human caring than religious mythology.
I had hopes for it here. But now we have a hospice controlled by a Catholic institution with a monopoly in this town and they want to deny death with dignity. Some say that's their right. I say if they can't go along with societies wishes in the care of people then they should get the hell out of the health business.
I would just like one of these Tea Party scholars to tell me what they are going to do differently than their leaders and the Republican Party, to which they are attached at the hip, did that drove us in the ditch?
All I hear from so-called leaders like Karl Uppiano locally, is simplistic crapo about tax cuts and cutting entitlements--except those they take.
This country is out of it's friggin mind, an all we are getting form them is lies, lies and more lies.
To assert that even the local Tea are not lying yahoos is to suspend one's common sense.
Though those who were paying attention knew the Republican, and the acquiescing Democratic policies were leading us to ruin, most people had jobs, the market was volatile but mostly up and the deluded populus was snug in their oblivion.
So now that it crashed, though it crashing after Bush lost only to be dumped on Obama, is still suspect, but all the distracted masses can remember is things were better personally and we weren't in a depression.
So now those who were perfectly happy to support the politics that drug us down are mad and long to be living back in those days, even if it was just an illusion and they were only deluded.
With that kind of disconnect, we deserve to be a slave to foreign banks with our country in shambles. Stupid is as stupid does.
Boy how the time flies. I remember that election. I was 62 at the time.
ReplyDeleteI remember, because at the time I was what they used to call blogging on the old Bellingham Herald newspaper website. I know, showing all of my 92 years.
That was back when they not only still had a number of news media printing out their news on paper made from trees, but had just started using what we used to call on-line media.(You remember the old what they used to call the Internet, before that early 21st century sage, George Bush, (the great great grandfather of Emperor Glenn Palin-Limbaugh), called it the Internets and got a lot of static for it.
Of course we all know how outdated the idea of a single Internet is now.
Anyway, I digress and will have to write more later. It's time for my mind medling class. Later.
Sorry, I missed the second d in mind meddling.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that mind meddling was actually invented by the grandfather of the minister of public instruction and assimilation, Sir Rupert Murdoch II?
It's very easy do do with my new Petristemcell brain. I wish my other petri organs worked as well. But then I only have the older models.
So my life expectancy is only 180 right now, but as soon as I can build up enough life credits I'm upgrading...
Anyway, more later...
Sort of funny to see so many white faces in one video frame. Do you know that in 2010 they actually believed that whites would not be in the minority until the mid 2040's to 2050?
ReplyDeleteOf course we all know now that after the Brown Rebellion and assassination of President Gingrich in 2020, the last bastion of hope for the white race, the former state of Arizona was turned into a max security re-education camp.
Then the True Awakening and the second coming of Jesus the Plumber, turned things around and Maxizona was liberated and became the nation's capital it is today. That was when I went underground.
Nice revisionist history there Shaun and Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteGlen Palin-Limbaugh is our second black president and he does not act like an Emperor.
Th rest of the country has accepted that he is the legitimate American President after his mother admitted he was in fact a late life baby born out of wedlock and her notorious affairs. Get over it. All suspected fathers underwent DNA screening and just because he was actually born in northern Canada he is still an American.
Also Maxizona is not the capitol, no matter how much Governor Lou Dobbs II goes on about the so called Brown Rebellion. Menneapolis is, and only because the Great Ice Melt of 2031 inundated both coasts.
You need to take a break and go get some rest on the beaches on Cape Ohio.
Another 118 years of Shaun? Oh brother where art thou
ReplyDeleteOh. In 2040 Elisabeth finally receives the stem cell therapy treatment she needs to cure her arthritis. She spent three years underground preparing to recieve three injections.
ReplyDeleteThe Tea Party penalty for being caught using stem cell therapy? 50 years hard labor.
Elisabeth is crackng rocks at the ripe age of 95 at the local quarry to pay for her sins.
Thank god for Scandinavian genes!
So, who is to blame for the Financial Crisis?
ReplyDeleteWell, my recent fact check reveals that there is plenty of blame to go around, and the financial crisis can not be pinned to one political party or even on what Washington did or didn't do.
As The Economist magazine noted, the problem is one of "layered irresponsibility with hard-working homeowners and billionaire villains each playing a role."
Here's a partial list of those alleged to be at fault:
The Federal Reserve, which slashed interest rates after the dot-com bubble burst, making credit cheap.
Home buyers, who took advantage of easy credit to bid up the prices of homes excessively.
Congress, which continues to support a mortgage tax deduction that gives consumers a tax incentive to buy more expensive houses.
Real estate agents, most of whom work for the sellers rather than the buyers and who earned higher commissions from selling more expensive homes.
The Clinton administration, which pushed for less stringent credit and downpayment requirements for working- and middle-class families.
Mortgage banks, who offered less-credit-worthy home buyers subprime, adjustable rate loans with low initial payments, but exploding interest rates.
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who in 2004, near the peak of the housing bubble, encouraged Americans to take out adjustable rate mortgages.
Wall Street firms, who paid too little attention to the quality of the risky loans that they bundled into Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), and issued bonds using those securities as collateral.
The Bush administration, which failed to provide needed government oversight of the increasingly dicey mortgage-backed securities market.
An obscure accounting rule called mark-to-market, which can have the paradoxical result of making assets be worth less on paper than they are in reality during times of panic.
Collective delusion, or a belief on the part of all parties that home prices would keep rising forever, no matter how high or how fast they had already gone up.
The U.S. economy is enormously complicated. Screwing it up takes a great deal of cooperation. Claiming that a single entity could have averted the crisis is just political grandstanding.
My advice to voters? Just say no to candidates who rely on rumors, heresay and anger to secure public office.
Otherwise, we will have one more addition to the "zombie council" that smiles insipidly as it takes a hatchet and destroys the quality of life that we have all come to cherish.
Long life to the BIAW and the Realtors! (oh, yeah, and let's not forget the too big to fail banks who set a new standard of greed (even by American standards) by creating an array of sub-prime marketing products that got homeowners in to this mess). P.S. those products were not connected to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.
Did some one say Tony runs a "business publication?"
Alan Rhodes - we need you to write a sequel to your Lisabeth Salander piece --
Why in 2040 is anyone even talking about the TEa Party or Tony Larson. We won't remember his name by next year and the Tea Party will have disintegrated as well...
ReplyDeleteLisbeth Salander has her way with Greg Kirsch...
ReplyDeleteThe Girl Who Kicked the Snarky Fishmonger
"Why in 2040 is anyone even talking about the Tea Party or Tony Larson...?"
ReplyDeleteIn the immortal words of Joel Robinson:
"Repeat to yourself, 'It's just a show, I should really just relax'..."
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteIt's the Republican backlash - in 2010, the Republicans finally take over Congress. That act allows them to roll back the clock two hundred years - hence, after the passage of 40 yrs, we will still be reeling in the years...
It's a dog eat dog world. Half the population lives "off grid" burrowing in old growth stumps in the woods of Washington.
We grow bracken fern, dandilions and other native greens as cash crops. The very rich live well. The rest of us develop a barter system to survive.
We depend on squirrel calls to alert us to round ups by do gooders who swear we need personal hygiene classes to qualify for jobs.
Education becomes a joke. Because education is a joke.
But I digress...
Meditation involves having to battle "mind chatter" in order to stay focused on the objective of relaxing. This can make meditating fruitless and and eventually the idea gets abandoned as not being of any use.
ReplyDeleteI sense that we have entered a fourth dimension...
Apexnerd land.
E, why so....real? My bones always feel stiffer and ache more when the weather turns fall...Sorry for your pain
ReplyDelete"....say no to candidates who rely on rumor, hearsay and anger....." ?? You've gutted the entire political process.
Some of us are so lazy the only thing that gets us out to vote is a rumor or hearsay of a fear we might lose our comfort zone that makes us angry enough to lick a stamp. A lot of us apparently aren't angry enough to be stamp lickers yet, if you look at turnout for the primary.
Or they have a malaise like depression.
We would have to wait for another 1,000 years of evolution to get to where greed and money don't rule the day.
Sure the Democrats have played to the money man. After all they hold the kitty. The Republicans are their favorite dupes though. The R's play the game to pad their wallets, the D's play the game to do the same but because they must to help the little guy and keep the safety nets mended. There is a difference.
But They all have and all will dance to the corporatist's tune cuz if they didn't the Richie's would take their money and go.. Which is what they're doing.
The more we threaten their greed uber alles, the more likely they are to flee and leave us with the bag...which they can do... because they hold our jewels in the palm of their hands and they decide when to squeeze.....
In the immortal words of David Byrne,..."same.. as.. it.. ever... was....
anybody got any uppers?
You are the apex of nerds... ;)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.starwars.com/community/news/rocks/f20071109/index.html
Hold on Boris, I ain't buyin it.
ReplyDeleteWe haven't seen a birth certificate yet and I'm not sure his mother wasn't just a Prawn with lipstick. Besides if he really was a son of hers, he would have been named some after some firearm nomenclature, not some wimpy name like Glenn.
You know how her first turned out, his name was Todd ... She called him the first dude, but obviously he was only one of many and she ate him.
A little light, upbeat reading to combat
ReplyDeleteAmbien...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/04/experts-see-trouble-ahead_n_705734.html
Americans "just have to go down in their living standards" after years in which their living standards soared in part based on foreign credit which is no longer there," said University of Munich economics professor Hans-Werner Sinn. Jacob Frenkel, Chairman of JP Morgan Chase International, urged the United States to rein in entitlements as part of a "political deal" that recognizes reality.
ReplyDeleteTell you what, professor, we'll rein in our entitlements when you rein in yours and stop trying to entice American companies to settle in Germany.
P.S. hope you enjoy that large, new debt called "defense spending" to keep the world safe from terrorism. We've kicked in $1.1 trillion. I'd say that's more than enough for Americans who have just been scolded about reining in their standard of living.
Here's a novel thought - what if Congress starts taxing the living daylights out of American companies who locate outside of our borders? (We can provide tax breaks to the companies who are willing to invest in American jobs).
Anonymous (who shares my aches and pains).
ReplyDeleteThe treatment I want (which is used routinely in Europe) costs $782 dollars and would put a stop to the pain and inflamation for months.
In America, the FDA doesn't allow the treatment. Instead, they want me to take expensive medication (which could damage my kidneys and liver) and do surgery.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the American treatment costs several thousand dollars. That's good for the pharmaseutical companies, the hospital and the doctor who performs the surgery, but it's not necessarily good for me!
I'm wondering why other people's religious beliefs are preventing me from recieving medical care that has helped thousands of adults in Western Europe?
After all, I only want to use my own stem cells to grow a cure... shouldn't that be my decision, rather than my elected official's decision?
I'm always sad to hear of anyone in pain.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I've had orthopedic surgery (a few times, knee, shoulders, too much skiing) they've told me there is lots of arthritis present, but I really haven't experienced any debilitating pain from it. Maybe time is not on my side. Just stiff and a little weird ache-iness now and then so far that may be arthritis-- I don't know. I have a high tolerance of pain. It sounds like you suffer much more than I. So sorry.
Yeah, the greatest health care in the world and all we are is numbers on a ledger.
I have a friend with serious problems in his hands, arms, neck and back who's condition has created something akin to ptsd, only it isn't just post. It's attstd(all the time stress disorder).
My friend has been fighting L&I for a couple of years and getting a horrendous run around. They send him to bogus evaluators, of which there are a few under their control in town, and the screwing over he is getting by these so -called health specialists that L&I pays to find bogus ways to deny the claim is so egregious they should be horse whipped, IMO.
As for the religious who want to force everyone to die a slow, agonizing or doped up death--the religious influence in this country on health care is absolutely disgusting if not medieval.
ReplyDeleteMy family availed themselves of a hospice in another state for a dying loved one, and there was no religious horsepucky. They did what we wanted pretty much. More human caring than religious mythology.
I had hopes for it here. But now we have a hospice controlled by a Catholic institution with a monopoly in this town and they want to deny death with dignity. Some say that's their right. I say if they can't go along with societies wishes in the care of people then they should get the hell out of the health business.
We need freedom from religion in this country.
I would just like one of these Tea Party scholars to tell me what they are going to do differently than their leaders and the Republican Party, to which they are attached at the hip, did that drove us in the ditch?
ReplyDeleteAll I hear from so-called leaders like Karl Uppiano locally, is simplistic crapo about tax cuts and cutting entitlements--except those they take.
This country is out of it's friggin mind, an all we are getting form them is lies, lies and more lies.
To assert that even the local Tea are not lying yahoos is to suspend one's common sense.
One more lying sphincter diver...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/05/lindsey-graham-stimulus-jobs-bush-tax-cuts-zandi-mccain_n_706124.html
Though those who were paying attention knew the Republican, and the acquiescing Democratic policies were leading us to ruin, most people had jobs, the market was volatile but mostly up and the deluded populus was snug in their oblivion.
ReplyDeleteSo now that it crashed, though it crashing after Bush lost only to be dumped on Obama, is still suspect, but all the distracted masses can remember is things were better personally and we weren't in a depression.
So now those who were perfectly happy to support the politics that drug us down are mad and long to be living back in those days, even if it was just an illusion and they were only deluded.
With that kind of disconnect, we deserve to be a slave to foreign banks with our country in shambles. Stupid is as stupid does.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2011177714_joni25.html?prmid=op_ed
The head of the National Small Business Assoc. endorses Obama's jobs bill. Do you think the Tea or the GOOP will stop to listen?
ReplyDeletehttp://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/05/nsba-president-endorses-obamas-jobs-bill/
"Same as it ever was"
ReplyDeleteBig money plays the tune and GOOP/Tea dance...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/04/billionaire-koch-brothers_n_705737.html?ir=Politics
The paparazzi has been stalking me and now everyone will know how I feel about they way this election is going.
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Political life in America is a ....
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