Zed…..

Eureka!
ok, gotta listen

fitz

Good evening one and all.

Eureka!!!

I love this kind of stuff. Like a pub drinking song. Del Amitri had a great pub song.

Good to see you again.

j.

You don’t have to cross the pond to hear good UK music… just jump in the lake.

Hi there, joeyess.

How’s clicks, still on the up and up?

In case some folks missed it, joeyess made a great video we put up at oxdown.

The Dirty F’n Hippies Were Right

that was a great forking video

thank you joeyess

Digg it!

slowed a bit. but that happens. I’ll just do another. incendiary. it riles the base and stokes the opposition.

heh.

superb

Nice.. I knew the name but didn’t know the music.

ES, Suze & Firepups!

What’s on my mind tonight? Going to bed early – I said yes to overtime tomorrow. i’ll have to listen to the music tomorrow if i get up early enough.

i’m still peeved that no one has taken me up on my offer to run a large financial institution into the ground for a mere 80 thou a year. So it’s overtime for me tomorrow. *grumbles*

rile away, amigo. Please… you’ve got the touch.

Dugg. And Mumford and Sons – nice sound.

hey thanks. It was a fun week. Makes me want more. Is that bad? I somehow feel kinda dirty about the narcissism of it all.

At least you don’t have to wear pearls and a scowl everyday…)

run it into the ground, and they’ll give you billions…

but I guess you have to know the right people–or be the right people–to get the gig

ya gotta add several zero’s to that annual before they will even pretend to listen to ya

said the artist w/ no web page. /s

They only take you seriously if you demand obscene jack and perks.

*hands suzanne a fine domestic root beer*

and additional $$$ to redecorate

where’s the float dood?

(/tycoon)

lactose-intolerant. you will have to settle for some sort of tofu yuck.

Most large financial institutions would have to say, hey you can’t run us into the ground…. we are already there!

fork

that’s my problem? Not enough zeros behind my offer? jeebus. No matter how hard i try, i just don’t have what it takes to be a Republican.

’m still peeved that no one has taken me up on my offer to run a large financial institution into the ground for a mere 80 thou a year.

nobody seemed to care for my nomination of Keith Richards for Surgeon General either.

some days are better than others….

I think my next target will be the christian right. they’re always begging to be victims, right? ha ha ha ha ……….
I can hear them now…… “this is further proof of the persecution that the christian community endures in this country”

I swear. If everyone in my neighborhood would cut down all their trees, I could tee up a golf ball and with my four iron aimed in any direction, I could hit about 7 churches. Now that’s how persecuted they are. They’re everywhere and yet they feel marginalized. But they love each and every one of us. Oh, and they need money. Lot’s and lot’s of money.

I can feel it now. It’s brewing…………… my wife always gets nervous when I grin the way I’m grinning right now.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha………… hoooooo!

if you get tired of waiting for the hiring offer, you could set up your own scam like Bernie Madeoff and make off with billions in other people’s money…

it involves essentially the same skill set

salient point. lol.

rut roh

lurk, you better strap in that mod chair and don’t forget the nomex and kevlar

Don’t make her get cross with you. /s

I’ve been thinking about making a real bible belt.

Splash.

Still there after BT’s thread last night.
What did I do with that cream pie?

Hi ofg, I hope that wasn’t an oil splash.

I just wrote the hook:

Money can’t save you, money can’t save you, money can’t save you sinning freaks.
Money can’t get you thru the pearly gates, unless of course you send it to me.

Now, nobody steal that, ok? When I get it finished, I’ll send it to Eureka and maybe he’ll pass it on.

all this wonderful advice is making my head hurt. I think i better stick with being a flakey artist. To soothe my shattered dreams i think i’ll head off to bed with a new space opera Sci-Fi. /s

g’night pups!

I’m afraid to ask, but what’s “nomex”?

you know, it’s that stuff Lou Dobbs is always trying to sell us

nomex:

Nomex (styled NOMEX) is a registered trademark for flame resistant meta-aramid material developed in the early 1960s by DuPont and first marketed in 1967.[1]

Another important word…possibly

hypocrites.

My wife goes to estate sales and collects all of the family bibles of the deceased. It’s kinda weird, but she seems to have this strange obsession with the spirits of the deceased who’s stuff is being sold. She currently has about 90 bibles in the house. You could string them all together and it might just make a very fetching accessory.

Did y’all catch TIME magazines 25 people to blame list? Joe Cassano was on it and I remember someone the other night asking who he was. He invented credit default swaps, which allowed insurance companies, like AIG, to sell insurance (which it was not) on sub-prime mortgage. Not needing a dollar-for dollar back-up guarantee, credit default swaps only maintained a 30 or 35 to 1 ratio. That is what is meant by over leveraged. At least I think I have that right.

that whole easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter heaven bit of the teachings they conveniently forget.

Oh yeah. That word will appear right before the words Tony Perkins and James Dobson.

they don’t forget. they just don’t see the percentages in it. ;^)

I used to be a pro.. owned a few vintage clothing stores back in the day. kind of surprised, usually family grabs the religious stuff.

why is that crank trying to sell us NOMEX?

Wait a minute! NOMEX? Are you guys having fun with word-play at my expense?

I know that Lou doesn’t like mexicans…….. NOMEX??

nomex is from me and i’ve used it since i started modding here. kevlar references my former job (bullet proof vests) and nomex came in because of the flaming trolls.

no one is calling anyone anything here.

~~~Racist or race-tinged comments are prohibited and will be moderated.~~~

she mostly gets them for free. I know! She gets the family bible for free! She just asks for it and they say “sure”.

Weird. I’m an atheist in the mold of P.Z. Meyers and I’m constantly dusting religious books in my home.

Go figure.

I picture it coming in an aerosol can with a red, white and blue label…

and a flag pin – gotta have a flag pin yanno

Sounds about right.

Hey that could be a title or chorus line in an editorial.

sounds about right huh.

I’m merely being naive. I thought that nomex was something developed by Raytheon or something.
Trust me. Not a racist bone in my body.

Sorry, I believe that was aimed at me. Most Cajin’s that I know do not feel that as a derogatory term. Allow me to rephrase.

I have to wear Nomex coveralls in some gas plants and a Cajin in Louisiana told me they will not save me in the event of a flash fire, but they will hold the pieces together. He said I should think of them as my own personal body bag.

#53 was in no way aimed at you, joeyess.

The Jiffy-Pop™ conundrum.

I’m writing it as we speak. I’m laughing out loud to myself as the words take shape.

“jesus wants you to be rich! And if you believe it, it will be…….. but you’re sinners, so listen to me…. Money can’t save you, money can’t save you, money can’t save you sinning freaks.
Money can’t get you thru the pearly gates, unless of course you send it to me.

there’s the chorus. whooooot!!!

Ok, thanks. phweww!

hey eureka – has spring sprung there yet?

ES, really like “Roll Away Your Stone” from Mumford And Sons page.

I can’t think of the term at the moment.. The get rich christians… there is a name for them.

They are great.. I really think I will purchase some of their music soon.

Unburden yourselves and fade the heat
The way is limited to the bold
Place all your treasures at my feet
Especially the glinting gold

Kin I help?

Right, a euphemism. I’ve heard it and read it, doesn’t spring to mind. Popped up recently when the Schuller ‘fortune’ went up for grabs I think.

Yup… raining and thunder now with chance of rain as far as the forecast, uh, casts. upper 50’s. Just about perfect to me…)

Everything is blooming or about to. I have got to figure out how I am going to mow one handed or I will be in a jungle in a month. Just need to rig my mower so it will run when I let go of the handle (those useless new safety’s… I should have disabled it the day I bought it).

greedvangelicals?

prosperity something? It will come to me.

fundsamentalists?

The 700 Club?

That’s it. Prosperity Christianity.

a tightly wound bungie cord?

woody guthrie called them Lucruschists (Loo-Crew-schists)

An old I.W.W. slang/slogan

Free! Free! Free Special Report!*

You most certainly may. that sounds like a verse and I will definitely credit you. With flashing siren and everything!!

That’s what I’m thinking, but I would have to unwind to turn off the mower at at all… since the spark plug is under a plastic shell.

If I don’t find a clamp that works, bungee it will be.

temple moneychangers

good nite all

don’t forget to pray for your own personal prosperity

maybe one of them wood clamps will do the trick – they come in adjustable widths

OFG,
Speaking of that Time article.. Did you know Liddy the current head of AIG, is an old pal of Rumsfeld. They ran Monsanto for a while before moving to Searle (Metamucil). Anyway.. it’s just strange how the same old criminals are in charge of every disaster.

g’nite neuro – i’m headed out myself. g’nite all.

pia pium prosperitas
nite neuro

Maybe one of these… just big enough to get around the handle bar.

g’ nite neuro and Suz.

I prefer golden lambs.

No, I didn’t. I think Atrios was right, they decided to save the people of the system as opposed to saving the system.

This is going to sound weird, but a seeing-eye-dog rig would be interesting.

Literally? Am having a hard time picturing it.

Sure, when everything hits bottom only the MOU will have the resources to buy up everything for a bargain.

Shock Doctrine the global finance edition.

Here it is, slightly tweaked:

“jesus wishes for you all to be rich! And as believers it shall come to be…….. but since you’re sinners and feel that itch, you have to listen to me….
Money can’t save you, no, money can’t save you, money can’t save you, you sinning freaks.
Money can’t get you thru the pearly gates, unless ten percent comes to me.

That’s set in granite. Moses brought it down from Mount Sinai.

Hee hee heeeeeee!!!!

I’ll work on that. Photoshop work for ya?

The grip would be less than a foot across. Seems like you need something narrow for grip, and rigid for control.

Goodnight all. work in the morning. I don’t get weekends. Apparently I offended someone, sometime, somewhere.

;^)

G’ nite joeyess…so glad you found us.

nite joeyess

Glad you found me.

Seeya.

goodnight

See the way (in photo) one has to keep a grip on the release at all time while pushing.

yeah…

Evening all.

Just skimmed, but stand opposed to putting ES in a dog harness…

OMG, withdrawing massively misconstrued comment :-)

Evening Sunny… thank you..)

Too late! /s

I knew I would live in infamy in these pages. But I thought at least it would be during a ‘fuck’ thread or something.

jest funnin.. forgot my snark tag.

Hey ES, I really like Mumford. I fell asleep. Night.

I know sunny. But snark isn’t really snark with the tag. I omit them always and rely on the good-natured, always kind, never loud or foul reputation I have here /s

whoops

Nite Margot.

Think I will turn in myself on this nice rainy night.

Good night all.

nite margot, eureka

Holy f***k.
Monsanto. My fav.
I knew about the Rummy connection. I just didn’t know it involved Monsanto.
Any company that fucks with food is the spawn of the devil.

Some day a clown car is going to pull up outside of a federal prison and unload every CEO in the Fortune 500.

What ever happened to Ian Welsh? I don’t see him at the Lake anymore.

Hey Mary
And the way Monsanto f***ks with food – on a planetary scale – profit and stockholder value so far out of proportion that nations food supplies are seemingly enhanced in the short term, and truly threatened for generations.

Hey wigwam. Ian posted here a few days ago. Lemme find it.

sweet dreams all..

Hey Newton!
How evil do you have to be to steal the seeds of a community, patent them and sell them back to the same community.

No kidding. Can’t help but detest them for their actions in Iraq. The cradle of civilization built seed stocks over thousands of years and perfected their ag, and suddenly their seed is seized and they are forced into GMO. What a bunch of thieves.

Ah so. Thanks. Here it is from Monday: http://firedoglake.com/2009/03…..talf-plan/

Ian

nite pups

me, too. nite everyone.

Me too.

G’nite all.

Morning, everyone…hey..is this thing on????? Anyway, it’s 11 degrees here Chez Siberia on the Susquehanna — waay to cold for me this morning.

Anyway, it’s 11 degrees here Chez Siberia on the Susquehanna —

Happy Spring!

mornin’ Toby….

Yes, you are right; it IS spring, even here in Siberia…and it looks as if we will get some sun in a bit.

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins, Blow and Herbert today. Ms. Collinss, in “Rage Redux: Changing Channels,” has a question: Is the George W. Bush Presidential Center really the best possible use for excess cash at this particular point in history? Mr. Blow thinks we need to address “Anger Management,” and that Congress should let Americans’ anger over A. I. G. bonuses run its course instead of attempting to manipulate it. Mr. Herbert addresses “The Great Shame.” He says sexual assault against women is the great shame of the U.S. armed forces, and there is no evidence that this ghastly problem is diminishing.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got banana pancakes this morning. I’m off to get a second cup of tea and start bashing away at the enormous amount of work I’m snowed under with. Have a great day.

20 degrees in New Paltz. Geez first day of spring indeed.

Hey, I’d TAKE 20 degrees at this point; at least that’s a good jumping off point…with that and some strong sun, you might hit the high 40s or even 50. But I’m STILL at 11 degrees, though the sun just came out.

And my cspan and cspan2 are not working, so there’s nothing decent on my TV to watch while I have coffee.

Just checked the forecast. Supposed to get up to 49 today, but back down to 22 tonight.

Yeah, 11 degrees sucks.

You’re making me think of a period when I used to be in marketing and sales; whenever I’d get depressed about the weather, I’d call my customers in North Dakota. No matter WHAT the time of the year, it was always worse in Bismark.

It’s 28 in Bismarck, ND. Doesn’t work today. *g*

Global Warming – it’s even screwing up Bismark, ND.

I discovered when I looked for the weather that Bismarck, ND has a c in it. weather.com, unlike google, couldn’t figure it out for me.

Juan Cole, who’s going to be here this afternoon, was on the Colbert Report.

Citizen eCAHnaomics:

Gunna be 55ish today and clear here on the tundra of western Wisconsin outside the Twin Cities…closest thing ta Spring we’ll get here in the heartland of democracy and anus a progress…Minnesota boys HS hoops tourny starts thursday so we should have our last blizzard of the season…shit I’m tired a winter.

I’m tired of winter too. It’s been a cold one.

OK, folks; grab your coffee cups and drag your chairs; Christy is upstairs…