Winning… 14 April 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Total fucking lunatics, WAR!.trackback
Gaza City, Gaza: A man watches from his window while a worker walks on a concrete slab at a construction site [Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images]
Winning the future.
moiv’s cousin, who has been in SE Asia for a long time, previously in Saigon and now in Singapore, sent this email to her today (she gave me permission to post it):
Singapore dumped some of their holdings of US debt today in response to Ob’s incomprehensible “budget” rant yesterday.
They also fixed their SG$/US$ exchange rate for the 1st time. Singapore is about the size of Houston with twice the population.
But it’s extremely rich & very influential. They’ve been intermediary between China & DC on buying our worthless paper.
Next to Japan, they are our strongest Asian ally.
IOW: they’ve decided it’s time to cut their losses & bail out.
Japan has been holding out on dumping our debt, but that won’t last much longer. They need cash badly.
Yesterday I was out buying a network hub at the big Bangkok outlet mall & met this young Polish woman. We chatted a while. She’d just completed her degree in Australia & lamented that she’d already committed to a master’s program there.
Her lament:
the zloty buys a lot dollars these days. She regrets not applying in the US.Remember the early 90s when Poles were close to eating newspapers because they couldn’t afford food?
I hope I get home before the crash. I’d hate to be stuck here dependent on my professional skills to make a living. I’d have to turn to prostitution.
Geesh. The ZLOTY! Think of it!!
Winning the Future!!
Marisacat 
This is even more serious than it sounds, because he’s almost as old as I am. 😉
hi moiv, an abundance of hugs to ya!
Is he trying to transfer back home?
Oh, he isn’t “stationed” there — just travels to Asia now for prolonged business trips. He’ll be back home in a few weeks.
well that is a relief, at least.
Thanks for that, moiv. A whole lot of “simmer downs” now propagating through the market press, of the don’t believe what you see and experience variety.
And while it might be easier for 34 year old Ho to reconcile his position from last year, it’s not lookin good-
Hmm.. those “structural dynamics”:
Asian capital as ballast in the USS-inking ship. Short term speculative capital that rushed in to Asia, much of which was used for “unassailable” blue chip assets (like the Japanese power grid).
Oh it should be good.
With everybody filer in the US this April 15th trying to write off any and everything from their Grandmother down to their toenail clippings to claw back SOMETHING, ANYTHING from the American Kleptocracy.
As for the cousin thinking of professional cocksmanship, I personally wouldn’t know where to start. So many things to consider.
Pricing for one.
I’d have to go to the SBA, more like SCORE for advice.
“~Say you have this product, see, that you can’t give GIVE away, how can I price THAT?”
Maybe follow up with a trip to the library.
“Do you have any titles, oh, like,
“Hard Out There for A Simp: The Beefy Mantitter’s Mid-Life Guide to Making It in the Erotic Services Trade” ?? Just askin.
LOL.
(The second quote on Ho, TCI and last years Pacific Rim hedge fund inflows was pinched via Bloomberg )
So many laughs last year from the Hedge Fundies who claimed they were
Speculators, Pshaw!,Global Opportunists!,Thnx, Ben!Long Term Investors!Oh, yes, “ride out the volatility” — always sterling advice. Just ask the Japanese.
My cousin emailed that he would try to find the links for me, because he had read some comments in the local news about the Singapore issue yesterday, and added, “Later in the day I talked to a Brit who was in a mad panic. He lives in Singapore & gets paid in US$. I think his cost of living had jumped 10% yesterday.”
For those of us who will never advance to coupon clipping, I say we need to bring back S&H Green Stamps.
Green tongues all around!
600,000 books for a toaster!
Purple thumbs up!
and do you remember those blue, “save and scrimp, then cash in” stamps, … they were chunky (from the mid to late sixties?), and about 4 times larger, and more rectangular than those green stamps moiv? …our family (ok, not my dad, who likely knew it was hopless (and hopeless) anyway…but wasn’t allowed to tell “the wife”) fastidiously kept track, …me mum bought that Currier and Ives (hideous to the elite, fake Delft [sic]/US SNOWBOUND plateware), one by one by one by one with either the blue or green stamps, …..or, perhaps, via A&P (Atlantic Pacific grocery stores) bargains – for the average mom. with kids she didn’t necessarily expect, nor was necessarily prepared for (with absolutely no assistance from society at large), ….so soon in her youth.
;0(
Or Blue Chip Stamps. Mom used to clip those when I was a very young un.
Hi moiv!! Long time! Glad to see you!
Just stopping by to say hello, moiv.
[offers fresh coffee and leftover mac]
oh …. now I see him ….how tiny, ….no, …. teeny, ….. on that bottom floor, …. looks a bit graying ….premature graying (get ya some o that hideous fake chestnut shit boy)? …. maybe conflicting emotions (the elite certainly revel in that), …good for you son, … then again, maybe: how come none of my family can’t get a job ….etc., etc., pretty heart wrenching, …or liver wrenching .. etc. (dependent on your culture).
I never could see him. Even in the bigger version
third window from the left, ground level floor,,…second window from the left where the sun is hitting, …’he’s’ wearing black, …actually I would have mistaken it for a woman, ..wearing a black head scarf,……..or whatever one chooses to call it … as if it matters, at this point…….
Hi diane.
I wondered at first whether he wasn’t a woman, too. He resembles Terry Jones playing Graham Chapman’s mum in “Life of Brian.”
I’m sorry sweety, I’m so disconnected from movies etc. I don’t get the reference, though I think I might understand if I saw it sweetness, … hugs to you baby doll. ;0)
“Life of Brian” is a Monty Python movie from about 30 years ago. It’s about Brian Cohen, who is born in the stable next door to “the” stable in Bethlehem, on the same day, and spends his life being mistaken for the Messiah.
Terry Jones plays Brian’s mother, Mandy Cohen.
Here’s a picture.
thanks honey, I think I get it.
how ugly of me I would have mistaken it….. that is certainly not what my pulse is telling me, but it is certainly what my “US” educational backdrop has been ………
Until you said something about it, I had presumed that you used “it” as a pronoun for “image”, which is gender-neutral — as even the subject of that image certainly is, unless we do some squinting.
Besides … the caption says it’s a man, but who believes what they read in the papers anymore?
thank you sweetie, you’re very loving…
(nonetheless I could kick myself, I really do need to look at what I’m stating before I state it … and, decide whether I’m mostly on the side of human beings, or not ……I can be pretty untrusting, to the point of just wanting to die, when I know that there are actually humans who mean well out there ….however few, …. jeesh ;0) )
but who believes what they read in the papers anymore?
right, who believes anything anymore.
all i can see is a speck, at the window.
give me a call honey, I’ll pick ya up to do the eye vision update, when I go in to do mine … these puters kill your fuckin eyesight …and you appear to be on a, perhaps sight lethal, near 24/7, ‘puter watch for assholes, …. sigh ….does it matter? …. I sure hope something does ….
ugh I know I cannot live thru eye dilation, not again. It was tough enough when I was healthy.
ugh.
oh honey….take at least some eye rest then, …. something slightly chilled, on your sweet eyelids …?
(for a lack of words to speak, I shabbily suggest)
A poem – first in a long while… and brief
Of Drowned Appetites
Still, adrift in the tide
The teething undertow
Strips sanctimony
From forgotten ideas
Caressing limbs upward –
An affront to the sky.
Our savagery settles
As we slip beneath sand
Blood born parasites
Enrich new demand.
Substitute forgone fore forgotten…
Of Drowned Appetites
Still, adrift in the tide
The teething undertow
Strips sanctimony
From forgone ideas
Caressing limbs upward –
An affront to the sky.
Our savagery settles
As we slip beneath sand
Blood born parasites
Enrich new demand.
lucid!
[waves]
wow, lucid, that one so fits my mood right now! As always, beautiful and haunting imagery!
Yeah… so important to get an education.
Apparently recruiters from the for profit schools, go to places where the most disadvantaged are, homeless, long term unemployed, ex-military, etc., knowing they will be awarded Pell grants and student loans…but often the people are too marginalised already to make it thru the system all the way to the end.
Yepper, and they’re paying desperate people like me near minimum wage to do the heavy lifting (i.e., teaching and interacting with students).
I wish I lived in a country where I didn’t have to decide between selling my soul and feeding my kids.
I was listening to one of the audio commentary episodes of Breaking Bad… and an actor mentioned being in Australia to do PR when it was showing there… and people being appalled that any teacher, but esp of science at the HS level, would need a second job.
Well here they do. Or they get out, have a secured second income in the home, or a lot of years and tenure.
Most of the teachers that I’ve met over the years who do not have second (or third) jobs are those with a second secured income in the home. Even many years of experience doesn’t really pay the bills….I know one teacher with nearly 30 years experience who makes under 60K.
That’s right! Some of these would be the poeple you encounter in that part time job you have…. I forgot about that!
You can’t use jobsites like Monster without dodging tons of spam from those assholes, either.
Yeah, like I’ll get my tuition back from the for-profit fucks if I’ve still got no job after I get their fucking useless degree.
It is so sad, really, in some of thee cases, I have had students who would not be able to function in my 6th-grader’s classroom, but they have been sold the bill of good alright…even the ones who can function alright with the written word, reading and following instructions, meeting deadlines and the like, have been sold the bill of goods that their Associates Degree is going to get them a better job, more pay, etc. you should see some of the things that they list as reasons…it is all so really pathetic. Sometimes I feel like writing back and saying: NO!! IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN! I have two masters and a teaching certification and look at me! Of course, I can’t be truthful with them….I feel like such a shit every day.
Start laughing now… via Mike Allen in People Mag:
Oh but L’Obster IS on the level? (Don’t make me laugh TOO hard, now…)
And keep laughing.. apparently one of the Obster’s plans is a “volunteer connection with every 2008 voter”.
Pretty damned funny.
It is so clear they just slap stuff together at this WH.
Woah. Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark’s General thug from Croatia is jailed for War Crimes. “Winning”.
24 years for Gatovina.
Another story for the abettors: Bill, Wes, the Catholics and other realtors.
Of course™, What War Crimes Trial would be complete without the Catholic Nazi Bishops (The ORIGINAL Riviera Development Co.) weighing in. For the Catholic Nazis, who else? Of course™.
I was thinking of moving there.
Oh yeh, that would have been great!
But why move, really?
When you can enjoy all the benefits of an economically cratering and Significantly Catholic Fascist FuckWhack State right here in the U.S.? Run by all the same guys!
So I was like: Screw the great adjustable mortgage offer from Citi for a hundred grand stone shell that Joseph, Mary, the Baby and farm animals would have passed up.
the torching of Serbian homes in south-west Croatia, the murder of hundreds of elderly Serbs and the forced exodus of at least 20,000 from the Serbian minority rooted in the Dalmatian hinterland for centuries
From what I read, we so demonised the Serbs that most all/any who sought to emigrate as refugees were refused refugee status.
We definitely have our favorites…
..and delighted in the butchery all around, then moved in on the spoils.
Sell! Buy! Buy! Sell! ReFi Your COUNTRY!
Flip that Province!
Don’t be the last on your Bloc!
Have we got a deal for you!
We seem to be refi-ing Africa. At a fast clip.
how soon t NATO forces on the ground in Libia. gah.
Screw the great adjustable mortgage offer from Citi ….
fro three years or more I have been free of the 5 – 10 automated calls I got daily for years, to refi at 2%, 0% …etc. Even as 1-5 and 1-7 ARMs are getting set to explode in Cali and elsewhere.
All starting up again. Got two this week (and the brochures in my mail box, for top of the line cruises have started again too!)
It took them 17 freaking years? I was reaading articles about the Krajina massacre by 1996…
Prosecute them sooner? And delay the privitization of all that to-die-for coastline and state industries?
And drag up inquiry into Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown’s ill fated plane, the “Mountain Magnet”. LOL.
Greenburg (late of AIG), Ben-Moshe ,(NY, Tel Aviv, current AIG gangster, late of MetLife, the usual) …big loot parked in Croatia after the partition, the American and EU banks made a lot of easy money available for speculators and vacation home seekers to buy in, a trophy item popular among German and Russian purchasers, AND the Irish – particularly among the upwardly mobile during their tech bubble. Oops.
parts of the former Yuoslavia are very beautiful. But imo it never seemed assured of being settled. The LOCATION seemed to preclude it being left alone, long term. SO many divisions among the people, loaded iwth old and new hatreds. And now of course a big fat fucking base for us.
Thanks, everyone for scaring the holy shit out of me with the MRSA and hospital stories in the last thread!! I trust kid the elder’s doc, but just wish he could do the surgery in his office!!
I cannot wait for Tuesday to be over with.
Also relevant to brinn’s comments in the last thread. Yeah, I remember some wonderful teachers in public school back in the Seventies and Eighties, and how often their time with us was fleeting– thanks to the heavy hand of Admin. know-nothings.
Everything old is new again.
I need another pot of coffee…
Heh. I’ve moved past coffee and on to the harder stuff already…hell, it’s Friday!
Neue
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