hmm 13 September 2010
Posted by marisacat in Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, UK.trackback
Piper Louise Millington and Cardinal Keith O’Brien with the St. Ninian’s Day tartan, designed by Scottish Tartans Museum director Matthew Newsome of North Carolina. It is a limited edition and has been specially created to mark the visit of Pope Benedict Picture: REUTERS
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Somehow I get the impression this scene could dissolve, or elevate!, to be a rather strange porno.
May Benny trip and fall in his quest for Scotland and London… I notice he has mugs, T-shirts and other trash oops! 😳 memorabilia to hock…
A Catholic womens’ organisation took ads on the sides of buses to call for ordination of women, tho since it was declared a “serious crime” to ordain women, they are not allowed to discuss it.
The gays are running a protest called “Pope Nope“.
I’d have gone with DOPE.
Religion, so broadening. Such a scam.
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Marisacat 
Gee what a shock. Shocked. So shocked.
This:
….In his autobiography over a decade ago, “Bloomberg by Bloomberg,” the mayor listed the presidency and head of the World Bank as two of the three jobs he’d want (he currently holds the third one). ….
about sums him up for me, yet another psychopathically ‘ambitious’ boyo ……
so quaint that the media is telling unemployed, crime free, law abiding, fifty somes they likely won’t ever get a job again in their lifetimes ….yet implies it’s their duty to elect obscenely wealthy scoundrels, far older than them, to legislate the misery that their law abiding lives have become……………………..
Very odd article… down, all the way at the bottom it says he may not run and even he thinks he has no real chance.
😆 … 🙄
looks like the subtle fuschia in that tartan has been perfectly matched to Gänswein’s favorite sash….
Catching MTP on the middle of the night re run. hard to believe Axelrod could be doing worse…
Actually he did get worse before it was mercifully over…
I only notice visuals when they are like whoa! awful, or when really funny like above.
Gad , the anxious hands, the choppy thumbpointy thing , and the really really sparse combover which itself is undergoing some continental drift…I dunno. Maybe a getup like the Cardinal above could help. With a little instruction, for instance, in the fine art of overhead sash waving, he could learn from the Cardinal above who has successfully distracted all from the after-hours recreational Mohawk he is sporting topside. LOL.
Anyways. The guy comes off as a death bag of skag.
They’re gonna have to do something. (Probably Not!)
I doubt I’m the only one who noticed Axel double clutched on David what’s his name’s question onwhether the econ recovery fluff before the election is, well, economic recovery fluff before the election.
I noticed. LOL.
Since I only see basic visuals before I say, “Oh, god. Political show. Change it.” I have noticed it too. He’s got a nervous demeanor now that makes me feel someone is holding a family member hostage just off camera and making him say what he’s saying.
He’s a mess…
Let’s parse this little blurb:
G’day all. Luck of the morning and all that.
May the road rise up to meet you and you not find a Catholic Cardinal with bagpiper roadside trying to flag you down. LOL.
By Church standards, I think it would be tame and somewhat conventional.
Banks’ Plans for Foreclosed Homes Will Drive Market
“We see the perfect storm brewing with rising supply and falling demand,” said Ivy Zelman, chief executive of research firm Zelman & Associates and one of the first to warn of trouble five years ago. She estimated that distressed sales could account for half of the market by year-end if traditional sales didn’t rebound.
From personal experience, we finally sold our house in Oregon, after the sixth price reduction to the minimum level necessary to not just walk away from it.
Foreclosures have become so ubiquitous it has made things even more difficult for equity sellers. You have to price below foreclosure level to move the house, even more so if there is any work that needs to be done. Banks will typically unload the house to asset managers who will put in the cash necessary to get the house into turnkey condition. Almost no buyers have enough cash for 20% down and then to put five figures into repairing the roof, driveway, even painting.
Evidence we’re still in a Depression – lots of liquidity for banks, but nobody else has any cash.
Congratulations on selling the house…
Things still sit in the Bay Area for 6 mos or so and all go thru multiple reductions…
Blogger war!
Interview of Markos Moulitsas, Founder of DailyKos by Cenk Uygur
well Markos is hardly articulate.
What are ”embedded excel spreadsheets”
Beats me. I thought it was more than a bit ironic for a guy who pushes polls on his site day after day (well, he did until his poll company was busted for fudging the facts anyway) to be blasting other geeks/nerds for using dry information that makes peoples’ eyes glaze over. It’s like watching a nerdy testosterone fight.
You are a third rate pundit! Wait! No, I am!
Useless crowd anyway…. embedded excel spreadsheets or not.
weenie liberals?!?!?
The man is a fucking genius with words.
Jeesh.
😆 AND People Mag is also reporting very low attendance this year at the Harkin Steak Fry… even Harkin says the passion is gone (but they don’t need it).
Hey, I’d say THE ELECTORATE may be what is gone…
and from “44”:
Some pundit floated Warner’s name as Rahm’s replacement. At least he comes with a chocolate fountain, so there’s that.
And kos would want an interview based on their long time chocolate infused friendship. With a view of lovely downtown Vegas.
“the chat”?
How lame.
zzzzzzzzzzzz….
I think he just likes to hear himself talk. If he showed up in my yard, I’d make him cut the lawn. (I suppose “that’s racist!…or something…)
Ob is remarkably awkward in these events.
Even if I had nto been disposed against him he did an event here in SF during the primaries that just flipped me out, they arranged for him to meet with 4 young (think one may have been in her 30s) single mothers. Perfectly fine people, it was arranged at a community center in a couple of old Victorians in the Mission, 3 were non white, one white, and one brought a tiny baby who slept thru the entire thing in a front sling, against her mother’s body. They sat them at a small round table with a table cloth, near a fireplce, with Ob at the table with them.
It was OBVIOUS he hated it. His own mother was 18, he himself admits he is not even sure at what point his parents got married (in the damned book) he has had children…. Find a way, for a brief time to consider these people HUMAN… give it a whirl.
Don’t be a pol then. Just be a private hire fixer in Chicago. GO the fuck back.
I would never ever vote for Hillary, but she has that stuff aced. And she even got better at it, thru 2008.
He wasn’t sitting for this one, from the clip I saw. The “folks” sat in their lawn chairs and he paced and yapped like a professor giving a lecture. They probably kept their dog in the house so it wouldn’t hump his leg.
Oh, but his sleeves were rolled up! (Presidentin’ is hard werk.)
he paced and yapped like a professor giving a lecture
I think if he has to do these things, be in proximity to people he just wholesale dislikes, he prefers to stand and move. Classroom, teacher, etc.
I have to say, he is much owrse at all of this than even I expected. And I expected him to go flat, deflate, etc… mainly because he is not very interested…
Well… he’s def right on the institutions…
Chris Hedges in TruthDig
from Page 2:
This, really resonated with me:
…. If the hegemony of the corporate state is not soon broken we will descend into a technologically enhanced age of barbarism. ….
Immediately reminding me of
this:
”New frontiers in social networking
August 30, 2010
The big news this week is the launch of a National Science Foundation-funded study [titled: Award Abstract #1058753 – EAGER: Brain-Mobile Interfaces: Exploratory Research into the Development of Networked NeuroPhones diane] aimed at “developing the NeuroPhone system, the first Brain-Mobile phone Interface (BMI) that enables neural signals from consumer-level wireless electroencephalography (EEG) headsets worn by people as they go about their everyday lives to be interfaced to mobile phones and combined with existing sensor streams on the phone (e.g., accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS) to enable new forms of interaction, communications and human behavior modeling.”
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sorry, the italics should have ended at “….Development of Networked NeuroPhones”
thank you honey!
well that should be ok, esp if it can be structured to be right (as in, “We keep Kosher!”) with your chosen JesusAllahYahweh and the various rules. (thanks to Madman for the link)
What should REALLY scare people is that the muslim version (all things Islamic!) is used most, first by Pakistan a place so modern and forward it is a beacon! and second by the US. As we drown in xtian nuts and loons.
Noticed the clamping down on search services when I tried to enter “Carr rape of young woman,” on what used to be my search engine of preference Clusty, which was recently bought by “conservatives,” and now named Yippy ……I still won’t use Google though now I generally skip between ixquick ….Bing, and Yippy, …depending on what I’m searching for; though I’ m fairly sure they all (certainly Google is at the forefront) have CIA, and Department of Defense Money mingled in there; ….. and, that I likely wouldn’t care much for their ‘founders.’ ………
I still haven’t seen any benefit accruing to us from our ability to find more data ….as our masters of power are always one step ahead in the techy game.
for years I used Dog Pile, which someone in the library at the law firm turned me onto in the 90s… but the netnets were different then, far far less commerce online. Almost all searching is geared to commerce (Shopping!) or as the BP era showed, people and companies who pay to headline the search returns.
I DO think we get benefits, but it is unnecessarily narrowed and tightly managed.
company stores are just around the corner, for ALL but the very rich.
Oh yeah… I don’t think the mayor of San Bruno is going to survive a re-election… a resident said he got no information on his house from “the city” til his brother emailed a photo from the NYT, and he could find his house and see it was standing.
this is novel.
Same dog ate his homework years ago… is my guess.
Read more: Link to People Mag
LOL
Apparently he called out Rachel Maddow tho he chose nto to use her name, from the stage he shared today with Tony B…. the occasion of giving dear Tony a peace award.
Page 1 of the same article in which Bill declares he needed iron pills in 1994 – or something 🙄
oh, it’s “professional left” 2.0!
They just can’t fathom the idea that the putative base of “their” party is sick of them moving constantly to the right.
At least he tr-i-i-i-i-i-ed to lift his arm above his shoulder. That would have been an enduring accomplishment for that administration. What didn’t get rejected was repealed the day he left office – often by design.
And this is what the Democrats refer to as “success”.
when I was reading the article, I got a flash of the bitchy, and I would bet very very very bitchy, phone calls between Tony and Bill when Obby got tossed the Nobel (which by now of course he has dropped on his foot, repeatedly, LOL).
So funny!
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All profit, no risk, no loss, and of course no pesky regs… All agreed, pound the table and bellow.
Read more: SF Chronicle
just hook up milking machines to the citizenry and be done with it.
Really. Why don’t they just send notice that all utility lines are to me removed or otherwise terminated for security reasons, warranting said security surchage to customers bills which will continue with regular rate increases nonetheless.
Oh there are so many more things that are an invitation to riot in this fucked up country, but that surely could make the cut, you know, fit in somewhere on the domestic list…
it is pretty amazing.
And for any Obama fans out there titrated to a functional level on Haldol in the Land of Ob…Any word on the invesduhgatin’ of that Oil gougin’ Cheney? It’s only been….. how many years now?
How’s it workin’ out, folks?
Mmmmm More fried steak to go around this year. LOL. 😉
ein Volk ein Foundling.
Gee, that dovetails quite nicely with this:
”Action Line: Remodeler finds [PG&E ] SmartMeter interference with circuit breakers
By Dennis Rockstroh
Posted: 09/12/2010 04:08:39 PM PDT
Q One item you did not cover in your Sept. 7 SmartMeter article was interference with arc-fault circuit interrupters (AFCI).
This is a type of circuit breaker that code requires in new and remodel construction. Its job is to detect arcing, which has been shown to be a cause of fires.
Normal circuit breakers will not always break when arcing occurs. If arcing is detected by the AFCI, the breaker trips, stopping the potentially dangerous arc.
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Finally, after severe frustration, I phoned PG&E for help on this matter. A crew came out and looked at the AFCI breaker for a few seconds. One went to the truck and came back with a conventional meter, a mechanically driven version, and swapped it for the SmartMeter that was installed some days before.
It took some prodding, but eventually one of the PG&E crew told me that they have been observing that AFCIs are sensitive to the meter’s radio transmissions.
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Apparnelty when they do the installation it can cut the power… and worse for people with newer very sensitive equipment in the home…
I have basic stuff that plugs in… so while I don’t have a smart meter yet, I am hoping for no interference.
a Turn/SF Bay Guardian piece re Smart Meters in San Francisco.
sorry, bad link for the Action Line piece.
This might work,
if not, I think it’s due to site registration issues.
in new and remodel construction
Oh! So exciting! For certain, I am saved from this mess. 😆 This house had a lot of outlets and some new electrical added in 1955………. nothing neeeded since them. What a hoot.
Sci-Fi Author’s Son Creates Wireless ISP To Give You 20Mbps Downloads For $40/Month
It’s a small company running in SF:
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anything tht undercuts the big monopolies makes me happy…
Can they franchise? I’d start one in a heartbeat. Lotsa unemployed technical types down in the OC, and Cox Cable rapes people for a lousy 10Mbps.
Looking at the photo, I suspect the man in the dress is singing ‘waive your tartan in air, and party like you just don’t care!”
LOL. One thing the Catholics really are good at is incrementally inculcating folks into the whole freaky deaky foam party thing. LOL.
I mean, as a kid you get past the priest and nun get-ups – shocking enough – when it’s explained to you that, you know, Jimmy, it’s kinda like Santa, and, like the Easter Bunny, Alvie. To each his own, and all. And then there’s the iconography of The Guy, you know, who is nailed to a cross, cast in palster or easy to clean plastic, hanging everywhere from the club vestibule, so to speak, to the bar and lounge with sacrificial altar
Solemmetellya, once ya get THAT far, by the time you see the raving queen cardinal traipsing by with bagpiper in tow… LOL.
About the only thing worth hanging onto is the phrase
😯 JEEZIS CHRIST. 😯
And, I see the nephew raping Cardinal in Belgium is now.. in hiding… to reflect,
to re- pardon the term, ~ assess
(NOT to confuse the Church of St. Snufffilm with a good ole rave)
I saw too… the response from the Church to Belgium is…………. they are opening a center for the abused.
So they can all be found in one place? Easy pickings? (that was my dark and cynical thought)
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I get the impression the poor victims were thinking there was a bare chance of an apology. Or a public hanging …
No. such. luck.
From today’s “Breakfast with Dave”
According to a report from Moody’s Analytics, when wealthier Americans get tax cuts they save the extra money, rather than spending it. The authors of the report found that spending by couples earning more than 210k, tend to be influenced by “business-cycle issues than …tax cut issues”. The research suggests that allowing Bush tax cuts for the rich to expire will not have an effect on aggregate consumer spending.
New Obamalama book for kids – which he wrote.
Speaking of books, there should be a Bob Woodward book about Obamalama coming out this fall. That should make for a couple of weeks worth of distractions.
I noticed after all the bleating Ob and SNob have done about commercialising the kids, he slapped them on the front of the book. AND the WH dog, too.
Cliff Hotel – An Odyssey
Nelson: ‘It Would Be Very Hard For Me To Support’ Allowing Tax Cuts For The Rich To Expire
Popcorn!
What can Obama bribe Nelson with this time?
Why do you have to write a bill that allows them to expire?
Good point.
It sounds like what he really means is that if the 2011 budget bill doesn’t contain an explicit extension of the cuts, he will filibuster.
Liberal despair: Age of irrationality
I find it interesting that some people – like Packer and Sullivan – seem to think this “age of irrationality” is a new phenomenon and not one that has gone on for millenia.
Heh. I see Digby coined a new nickname for Obama from Packer’s slobberation: VORI.
So desperate to see Obama as their saviour.
Digby:
It was utter bullshit, but I will vote for that bullshit, because people yelling empty slogans scare me.
The VORI will save them! This time, for sure.
That, or a reasonable facsimile is spreading… I am gathering it will be the word du jour when Obby loses face and ass cover (presumably) in the mid terms. The stupid dumb electorate is too dumb and stupid to appreciate Obby, who is their last possible savior – til the next one is all packaged up!
Packer at The New Yorker has pecked it out to order (I had read that one, gah never could stand packer. Plate of badly mashed potatoes…. AND Sully has a post that is being linked to, I have skipped that one, cannot read him anymore).
Now that La Digs has picked it up, I m guessing IOZ is out with his “shoot down the epistles of the LibDems” guns.
Lipless prefers “crazy” to “stupid”, but no doubt both words will be bandied about endlessly by the DLC. It is pre-emptive CYI.
In most countries, the leadership of a party that loses seats (not to mention the majority), is expected to fall on their sword and resign to the backwaters, never to be heard from again. Only with the Democrats in the US does losing elections appear to be a job requirement. They can ratchet up the consulting fees another notch to win things back, I guess.
Primed for a comeback! All the dumb and stupids have to do is get to know the ogres! We’ll be back! You’ll see!
Pull the string in the back of the Dems and they mindlessly mumble the above.
Plus their problem is that the arbiter, the turning point, the Ruler by which all is measured, etc., of this is the vote for Obby.
What a mess. Ob is just one more fixture of the collapse.
Eiffel Tower evacuated after bomb alert
Krugman’s Daily Desperation
So, let’s see: letting the high-end tax cuts expire on schedule is good economics; picking a fight with Republicans over the issue appears, from all the polls, to be very good politics — and that’s despite what has so far been an incredibly lame effort to explain the issues.
Besides, Democrats should be inclined to take risks in any case: if nothing shakes up the game, they lose the House and possibly the Senate, if they shake things up, they might hold on.
And yet, it’s still not clear whether they’ll force a vote on a middle-class-only tax break?
You really have to wonder about these people.
I do Paul. I really do.
I actually wasted an email on that man, back when he joined the Op/Ed page at the NYT. Mainly becuase he had specialised in the boom and bust system we live under.
But he just seems for years now either in ‘go along get along’ mode or some emotional whirligig, wind up toy …..
Ugh.
hmm almost 50% of the vote counted in Del and O’Donnell holdng a 10 pt lead over Castle.
FWIW…
she won, by over 7 pt.
oh, too funny
yes… and while I did not watch the earliest counting, she led from the start of when I did…, at around 37% counted… never broke her several pt lead.
the next few years will be really something if some of these nuts make it in … like Coburn & the others weren’t bad enough.
Bet the donks are underestimating her chances, too.
ugh Coburn. And Carson fought hard against him… he (Carson) never would quite say, but I got the impression elements inside the D party cut agaisnt him. One tip, he utterly withdrew from politics following that loss.
And the Orange whack jobs helped elevate Coburn, declaring him “better” than Carson. Those threads were uglee.
It really was not true, at all.
so many stupid things helped along by people who vote “strategically”.
One thing these tea partiers are teaching Dems is that third-party threats are real and that they could have had challengers from independent/third parties on the left.
Dem Uber Alles just isn’t cutting it anymore.
The Deadly Corruption of Clinical Trials
I don’t even know what to excerpt … very sad, frightening story.
Maloney far outstripping Saujani
and whil Rangel will win, the split vote amongst the several running against him is more than he got.
LOL
Nu
LINK
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