We’re trapped in a game show! 25 September 2008
Posted by marisacat in Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
Did anyone who was ever on daytime TV ever end up looking good? I sort of doubt it. But there we are – trapped.
Just for a different view, two of the High Holies of the Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York, have weighed in, lecturing broadly.
How have they gone public?
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams launched the opening salvo with an article for this week’s Spectator magazine defending Karl Marx’s attacks on “unbridled capitalism”. And on Wednesday evening, during a speech to religiously-minded business folk at the Worshipful Company of International Bankers’ annual dinner, Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, waded into the row by criticising those involved in the practice of short-selling and lambasting rich governments for failing to live up to their aid promises.
Well, that is nice. But it’s not as if the Church of England is a NON investor. But, carry on, everyone is lecturing everyone else.
What about the Church’s own investments in the City?
Considering the Church of England has enormous amounts of wealth invested in the stock market the Archbishops’ comments certainly risk accusations of “pot calling the kettle black”. According to its own website, the Church oversaw assets worth more than £5.67bn at the end of 2007, much of it invested in the stock market, real estate and private equity investments.
The body in charge of managing the investments has also done rather well. The Church Commissioners made a return of 9.4 per cent in 2007, smashing its benchmark of a 7 percent return for comparable funds.
How has the City reacted?
The Archbishops’ criticism of short-selling drew an angry response from The Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers, the representative body of the stockbroking industry. In a statement sent yesterday the group’s chief executive, David Bennett, said: “It is market abuse which is wrong, and this can occur both when holding either long or short positions. Transparency is the key here.” But the two most senior clergy in the country, who oversee a Church of more than 77 million believers worldwide, may have felt compelled to give spiritual advice at a time of global financial crisis. As Dr Sentamu reminded people in his speech: “Money is the root of all evil.”
HA! Another root is RELIGION. LOL Just another game show!
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CSTAR posted this at the end of the last thread…
pleas from a Treasury secretary who knelt before the House speaker and appealed for her support.”
I’m such a romantic.. I’d like to think that the Treasury Secretary got down on his knees and said
Madame speaker let’s run off to the Caribbean somewhere and leave all this mess behind us
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Oh I am working so hard not to envision La Nan and Paulson cavorting on a palm frond. Ew no….
hmm Just saw this over in the Reuters Business feed:
Smells of free fall…
The denizens will love this one… Oh look, there’s another piece of lint in my navel.
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what a strange whacked thread… or at least it was at 15 commetns… and I remember when Al Rodgers still had half a brain. That’s gone now i see.
Whatta bunch,
silliness ensues… and I always think I’m the clown. 😉
Anyone live in Southern Cali? Don’t go to UCI if you need medical treatment, although good luck finding medical care at a hospital you can trust (if you can even afford it):
UCI Medical Center put under state supervision
Wasn’t one of the UC hospitals involved with the plutonium injections which were part of the Manhatten Project?
Of course “Elder Care” is an even bigger cesspool, and with the DOD making contributions to medical institutions, lord knows what the fuck some of these places are doing.
agghhh sorry for the doubled up part, meant to paste over it.
Damn. You beat me to the punch. I was planning a post titled, “It’s a Jimmy Stewart movie! No, it’s a game show!”
I might still do it anyway. 😉
I have a long list of horror stories from UCSF, more than 10 years old, but i doubt it got better.
A friend of a friend’s mother went into UCSF, I called my own friend, explained how things work there (somebody had best be with the patient round the clock) the mother was taken into surgery wtih a fever and died. I had felt uncomfortable being an alarmist and then that happened.
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do ti anyway, it’s such a natural… no way I have a monopoly!
In other news, Huge pig sent to stud after holding woman hostage.
And I thought my cats were demanding. Sheesh.
diane
think I fixed it… 😉
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Counterpunch has several good articles, Micheal Hudson, Nader etc.. and this from Sharon Smith on Dems and Corp. Bailouts (what else is new?)
Term limits. It’s been at least entertaining out here… That, or, I say, encourage the corps to just send their own lobbyist to sit in the various senate and house seats. No cash draw, no perks, no ins, health care, no nothing. Let the corps pay their own people. Let’s be up front what our government is. Corporate candy asses.
Barnie Frank is in full hysteria on CNN this morning, and I just laughed when I read this headline in today’s NY Times: Talks Implode During a Day of Chaos; Fate of Bailout Plan Remains Unresolved
I say if there is no bankrupcy reform, let the whole house of cards collapse. Fair is fair.
From Yahoo Finance:
Frank Blames House GOP for Breakdown of Deal
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee declared Friday that an agreement on legislation to relieve a spreading financial crisis depends on House Republicans “dropping this revolt against President Bush.”
“dropping this revolt against Bush”.
Well we know that is NOT the Dems. Or, as someone emailed me last night, …and the Republicans are setting up for a populist run in the mid-terms.
One person who has been clear from the get go (and I would not accept a cup of coffee from his hand, but… ) is Shelby:
Well, like I said before, we may get a President Obama, but this is not the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. It’s going to all be rather dreary.
Ambinder:
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Speaking of which (and just now on TV, Dodd is humping for Bush, LOL):
NYCO – FYI.
Gas Shortage In the South Creates Panic, Long Lines (WaPo).
News Analysis: McCain Leaps Into a Thicket
Thanks, IB. It seems like the gas shortages (which are still ongoing, yet barely reported) are centered in the region bounded by Nashville TN, Atlanta GA, and Asheville NC. Highly populated inland areas of the Southeast. Eastern TN, northern GA, western NC and western SC.
Fortunately, my dad was planning to take a coastal route (down I-95) anyway, where there don’t seem to be as many problems. I was afraid he was going to opt to take his favorite scenic route through the Blue Ridge, which is sort of ground zero for the gas shortage.
one more thought re the shortages- They’re hitting places which have had population booms over the last couple decades, and one really wonders how much population those areas can naturally support with that kind of lifestyle. Atlantans are now whining they don’t have any public transport in their area… well, you shoulda thought of that back when you were worshiping at the Church of Hummer, dudes. When the car just disappears, life in these areas gets really difficult. If you imagine a world without gasoline or diesel, some of these cities have grown a mite bigger than they maybe have a right to.
I’m not sure why Atlanta ever got so large. In terms of location alone, if I’m not mistaken it’s not on any major navigable waterways, so I assume its original growth was due to it being a rail hub. As for the larger metros in North Carolina, especially in the mountains (like Asheville)… not sure how that happened either without the automobile and sprawl.
McCain in the briar patch in moderation?
NYCO – Hope your dad’s keeping an eye on the weather, too! Storm comes ashore in Carolinas, brings rain, wind.
Tropical Storm Kyle also on the radar.
Br’er McCain and coastal weather alert in moderation, I think.
It’s so clear thru all of this, which is epic snow job, that all the Dems want is the keys to the meat locker.
Boxer says communication to her offices is overwhelmingly agaisnt. Out of 917 calls to the DC office, ONE was for.
Pulpit politics: Pastors to defy IRS
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080926/ts_csm/aexempt
sorry IB, got them both out… I was making cofee… 😉
Tax them all. Right up their clerical skirts and over their heads. Seems to me the IRS mostly clears churches and clerics they look into anyway.
I thought TUCC, the head office, was fairly blatant in its [all but] endorsement of Obama in spring of 2007… with his giving a speech to 10,000 and with 40 aides in the hallway afterward, tabling and canvassing. They were cleared.
Thanks! Definitely a day for caffeine!
hmmm From a reader to Instapundit…
MSNBC sez Cheney is canceling trip to Western states and will stay put to help out in the shiny, shiny city on the Hill.
CNN:
23. My dad probably wouldn’t worry too much about the weather (in a pigheaded sort of way) – he went on a three-week tour from New York to San Francisco and Seattle and back through Yellowstone, on his 200cc Kawasaki (not a touring bike by any means…) sleeping in a tent all the way. He’s 69.
But I will advise him. He hasn’t got much access to TV right now so he probably doesn’t know.
I just saw the coastal Carolinas on TV, it looked very rough. Wet weather and wind and flood I mean.
He hasn’t left yet, incidentally. He’s leaving Sunday as it turns out, so he should be OK.
McCain has released a statement – he will travel to Ole Miss later today, for the debate, then return to DC following that..
Debate ON.
McCain is heading to Ole Miss, networks are reporting.
Good luck to your pops, NYCO! He sounds like a pip!
Thanks IB! I have to mention that my dad’s older brother (who is 72) rides HIS motorcycle from Ocala to Naples (FL) every other week for thyroid cancer treatments.
And their 92-year-old mother (my grandma) is as sharp as a tack.
PS… this is my 72-year-old uncle’s IMDB listing.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249244/
LOL, this is the first time I’ve looked at it in a while… I had no idea he’d played Andy Warhol.
Debate ON.
Must.buy.popcorn.
Tapper has a post up on the past hours. Or years, which ever it was.
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what a hoot! Thanks for posting that…
FWIW, and it is Michael Barone…
hmm from the schnauzer puddle at The Corner:
just look on the bright side, nyco. you’ll be able to savor all that atlantian suffering and gloat as they starve to death or die screaming.
LOL I cannot wait for 6 pm (full text via The Page):
40. Okay, what are the rules for tonight’s debate drinking game?
45. No, I have to say I don’t have much sympathy for people who routinely vote in local politicians who enable sprawl, then wonder why sprawl isn’t working for them any more. Sorry.
raincat
LOL I’d say a hard swallow of something, anytime either one looks like he may not make it to the end of the hour and thirty. Which could both, either or neither.
What a hoot!
BREAKING! ENCOURAGING ECONOMIC NEWS FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK!
1994 Toyota passes annual inspection. No repairs required!
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BRAVO on the Toyota… I know from inspections out here, that is an achievement…
eh.
Camp Obama lowering expectations.
BTW, I read a few days ago, that the debate format had been extended to include some questions on economy, with the agreement of both parties. Despite all the blather for two or three days to “suddenly” turn it into a Economics Summit of The Two Candidates.
Or whatever…
BTW
C-Span has a debate hub page… full of bells and whistles and whatever else… LOL
http://debatehub.c-span.org/
51 – Gave the car several pats on the nose (plus a delicious oil change) as reward.
Speaking of mobile units: In Storm’s Aftermath, Cow Roundups in Southeast Texas.
10K out of 25K sounds pretty good to me, frankly…
what a nightmare Ike has been. The first morning just with the films of the odd reporter on the streets over the night, it seemed hopeful, but with light of day, the devastation…
Pelosi and Frank to hold 4:30 PM ET presser….
Per The Page.
Sing it Louise!
Maybe Not! There was supposed to be a 3 pm meeting between parties. The R just did not show! LOL
So who knows.
NYT has a semi-slightly tough FPer (not that it matters!) on ObRama commercials. Hell musta frozen over.
Someone may have posted this, but Wapo has a FP on gas lines in the South…
oops no that report is on page D 01 – not the front page. oops..
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
SENATE BAILOUT VOTE ‘UNLIKELY’ BEFORE WEDNESDAY, SOURCES TELL ABC NEWS
Smells Like Greed Spirit
We’re in ur bank, bailin’ it out.
PETA to Ben & Jerry: Use human mother’s milk, not cow’s milk
words fail.
26 – so, when they lose can we start treating them like businesses (which they are anyway) and tax the fuckers?
Young Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) on Hardball, re bailout, said “both sides will have to have skin in the game.” Didn’t show a lot of enthusiasm, nor imply that the GOP is stampeding the field for that pleasure. Instead, they’re GASP listening to their constituents’ calls, cards, and sternly worded letters.
Will there be a call for cots, this weekend? Pizza fleets?
Meanwhile, Pat Buchanan advised McCain to go onstage tonight and hammer hammer hammer on the topic of greed. And Tweety is harping on a “temperament” strategy for Obama. Goad him and make him explode!
she does not want this to become an issue the GOP uses against Democrats in the fall.
Jeebus that woman is stupid.
From that wapo link.
colonial pipeline map
no comment from the pipeline company can’t be good news. sounds like they’re hiding out. interestingly enough, alpharetta georgia, pipeline headquarters, lies within the fulton county, atlanta metroplex sprawl.
63 – One of their weirder (and more wildly self-marginalizing) campaigns. Rife with flavor-naming possibilities though!
64 – I’m all for it.
Head of Skate
Mock the Vote
sorry!
bay out of Moderation…
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new thread about to go up… 😉
What Did Bush Tell Gonzales?
nu thred…
LINK
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Just because I saw some last weekend, and their humming noises cracked me up:
Alpacas!
Very goofy. Oh yeah!