Revolution!

Hi people.

old school and not so old school

Digg it!

Hey Eureka!
Somebody is still doing something resembling the Soul of our youths?
Wow.

evening eureka and pups.

Reminds me of the lower Fillmore.

sweet soul music

Good evening everyone….

And the ‘miracle’ of the transistor radio.

Suz, what’s the book you’re reading?

good evening Eureka, Suzanne, newt, sunny, katy…

primo!

Hello ES~

Good evening Sunny and neuro… katytmine too…)

I don’t know why but i am now seriously thinking about buying one pet chicken. Somebody talk me down!

hey neuro, katymine

Teddy! Good evening sir.

teddy sent me last weekend’s book salon book about the bush family.

hard to pluck one handed dood

How’s that wing?

they’re not smart and not as cute as bunnies..

Slow slow going.. I don’t think the big break is sticking together yet. Yesterday was the first day I took no pain pill at all… which is very nice. I’m way past the antsy point here.

I was told by a dog trainer I know that chickens are actually very smart and learn quickly. No personal experience with that, though.

They make me laugh… but I don’t want to deal with eggs. Does that mean I need a virgin? And a loud morning rooster is out of the question. So another question is… would one chicken get lonely?

Nifty. It sounded tempting..

I’m burying my head in the sand and reading old Lockridge mysteries. In the ’50s I actually thought Pam and Jerry North clever and sophisticated. Oh my.

Oh Gawd. Not one chicken. A chicken always needs a another chicken buddy. They need somebody to hatch their plots with. Or eggs.

How do you know if your chicken is a virgin?
Sounds like the first line in a yoke joke.

ummm, if it’s fried in virgin olive oil?

What came first? The virgin chicken or the nasty chicken?

Why did the virgin chicken cross the road?

I lost a game of tic tac toe to a trained chicken at Opryland – probably shouldn’t cast intellectual aspersions.

Reminds me of a story. A friend of mine was traveling solo thru Mexico years ago. He wanted a one cup coffee maker and spent a lot of time looking for one, it turned into a challenge. Finally he’s in the big city and asks this old woman why one cup coffee makers are so hard to find. She looks up in a old big eyed sad face and says… why that would be too lonely.

aaww.

I used to think the Ladies’ Home Journal was sophisticated.;) “Can This Marriage Be Saved?” My ten-year-old self had to read that first thing.

It has taken me all day to read Matt Taibbi rolling stone article – the big takeover….. would read a section and get so pissed I had to leave it…… The big Takeover

well tomorrow I’m cutting my hair shorter and going to find out if my insurance will pay for a wig…… what color should I get?

PS I love this guy’s music, ES.

“trained chicken”?

It has taken me all day to read Matt Taibbi rolling stone article – the big takeover….. would read a section and get so pissed I had to leave it……

I was the same way. I could only handle a little bit at a time.

what color you wanna have katy?

Blond. If you have never gone blond this is a great time. I am a naturally brown haired person but started going grey in my teens. So when I hit around 45 and the grey was no longer premature I started to dye my hair blond. It was and is great fun.

hey wigwam, congrats on the front page at ox

Me too. And there was nothing really new.

Daring stuff that was ;-)

If memory serves, favorite dinners, listening attentively and wearing clean aprons were high on the list of marriage improvement suggestions.

Matt Taibbi is a national treasure.

Oh, and blonde. Or blue!

I’m really picky when it comes to that style of music, but this song worked.

I’m thinking of getting a “work” wig and a lower cost “fun” one…… thinking of red or blond….. the blond will match my white eyebrows that is new from the sutent…

get one that makes you feel good :)

you can get your brows tinted if ya wanna katy.

LOL, yes.
For some reason that brings to mind the “Total Woman” suggestion of wrapping yourself in Saran wrap to greet your husband after a hard day at work.

Red is cool, too. I haven’t tried red yet. Maybe next time.

Oh man. Now a days I would look more like a burrito.

Now that is the sweetest thing…….

of course did some reading about the hair loss and how hard patients deal with it…… what it does is make your diagnosis public to everyone…. actually I found that they have eyebrow mascara that has a tiny brush and looks pretty natural

katy, it is a wonderful article. Lays it out understandably. Wish there was a bowlderized version to pass on to a few folks I know here in church lady land. Not sure they could get past the pope on meth stuff *g*

Hi Suzanne and ES. Thanks.

It was one of those projects where I simply ran out of time, and hence I didn’t do a very good job of proofing it.

But I really want to see Obama get the picture of the mess he’s making for himself and the rest of us by backing the Rubinites: Summers, Geithner, and Bernanke. The best thing I’ve seen all week was “Hey, Paul Krugman.”

Trained to play tic tac toe. He lived in a glass cage. Wasn’t fair, he got the first move…. whaaa.

Go bold in a kos way!

I have a BIG fuzzy moth sitting on my sleeve of my bathrobe…… do you think I can make it out the patio door with him still sitting there?

Sure.

Yikes….. moth safely outside…..

I took that pic in Florence… Loved the bold colors the ladies were into.

yay katy!

the other day another moth got inside and used the pool skimming net to scoop it out of the house…..

i had a bat fly into the cabin one summer – had to gently guide it to the open doors with a broom waving over my head.

The things you find on the internet…… a website called Chemo Chicks
Excuse Me?

After dropping my son off at school one morning, I stopped at a local coffee house. I had just finished my eight chemo treatments for stage II breast cancer and my hair was starting to grow back.
For the first time in months, I felt confident enough to go hatless. An older man stared at me and sarcastically commented, “Nice haircut.”
I replied, “Thanks, but it’s not a haircut, it’s chemo hair.”
He looked stunned. Then he offered, “Well, one of my friends had chemo and he didn’t lose his hair.”
My reply, ” Well, obviously, your friend didn’t get the good stuff. Because if you get the really good, industrial strength chemo your hair falls out completely. That shows it’s really working.”

I guess my chemo is working …

Well, in the I Have a Good Day Every Now and Then” department (Hi Suze!) I realized today the Obama COBRA plan will force the shitheads who laid me off to pay 2/3 of my Cobra for nine months.

If y’all aren’t familiar with the layoff blog y’all need to look at it. Looks like Cisco will be laying off 14 percent of Full-timers. That’s another 8400 people.

One goddam thing Obama better get off his ass and do is enact the law taxing the living shit out of ANY company that sends jobs offshore. GODDAMIT!

here, here

Or lie like shit and import labor pools from Indian programming companies…. H1B visas scam sucks

about forking time you got some good news dood!

oh, but that might anger the companies that send jobs offshore, and they might decide not to send their cheap products to our local Wal Marts anymore…and besides, it would be uncivil…/s

att is running a tv ad about how they are bringing back jobs from overseas. makes me wanna scream at them for offshoring them in the first forking place and then question are they doing the visa switcharoo.

Sounds kind of like the woman I know who’d had a stroke and brain surgery, and finally had enough hair to go without a scarf/turban.
Someone said haha, where’d you get your haircut? “Riverside Hospital.”

Phoenix has been and still is a big call center city….. Discover Card proudly states that they are in the US and where their office is located…..

Those company who provide 24/7 call service could be in the US during daylight hours and offshore during the nite….

reading through the list…. it reminded me of all the really personal and stupid questions complete strangers would ask about my two adopted Korean kids….. in front of the kids too…… My usual response to some busybody was ….. “So where you when your kids were conceived?”

yup – there’s fuckery afoot

I can’t believe a company with 30 Billion in the bank is doing this shit. But you can bet if Obama does a town hall up here, I’ll be there and I’ll be asking the question.

Suze, yeah, it IS about time. It’s not like having a job but at least I can get my colonoscopy (only five years late) and get my thyroid levels tested again.

Katymine, as it happens, Cisco is under investigation for violations of the H1B program, there are ICE cops in the parking lot just about every day. ANd anyone who says there aren’t available QUALIFIED Americans to do that stuff is lying their fucking asses off.

Heading off to bed…… good night everyone……

Good night katymine.

I know …. Oh too well….. been an RN for over 35 years and went back to college for my degree in software engineering and web development….. graduated 2002 just when the tech market crashed…… thankfully I found a really nice job with a medical management software company…… help with the implementations but it has been years since I wrote code……

i hear ya dood – and i wanna hear ya asking that question.

g’nite katy

There’s an interesting diary at Dkos that contains links to a back-and-forth between Paul Krugman (Princeton) and Brad DeLong (UC Berkeley), who tries to defend the Obama/Geithner plan. Per DeLong:

The Geithner Plan is a trillion-dollar operation by which the U.S. acts as the world’s largest hedge fund investor, committing its money to funds to buy up risky and distressed but probably fundamentally undervalued assets and, as patient capital, holding them either until maturity or until markets recover so that risk discounts are normal and it can sell them off–in either case at an immense profit.

[…]

Q: Why is the government making hedge and pension fund managers kick in $30 billion?

A: So that they have skin in the game, and so do not take excessive risks with the taxpayers’ money because their own money is on the line as well.

As I mentioned in my long post over at Oxdown, I’d swap my skin out of that game:

The Obama/Geithner plan is brilliant in its ability to Obfuscate the transfer of real loss from the investment banks to the taxpayers, simultaneously creating profit opportunities for hedge funds:
– Helicopter Ben has recently printed up another trillion BenBucks.
– My Hedge Fund (MHF) will gladly borrow $97M BenBucks to purchase $100M of misunderstood assets (worth $50M at market) from Citi.
– MHF will insist, however, on a $10M CDS to cover the risk.
– MHF will eventually default, forfeiting its $3M.
– MHF will then file a CDS claim and collect $10M and its pocket $7M.
– Citi will write off that $10M of its real $50M loss.
– The government will seize the assets, and sell them for $50M.
– The government will eventually have to tax those other $47M BenBucks out of circulation lest they contribute to inflationary pressures.

The point here is that Citi gets to name the price. MHF will pay whatever Citi asks, so long as they’ll sell MHF a swap to cover its 3% plus a generous fee. In no case will MHF have skin in the game.

I still don’t get it. Aside from privatizing half profit and socializing all loss.. it seems like this is a way to hide something, but I can’t figure it out.

all i know is that unless the plans change, we are screwed without the benefit of dinner and a movie first – and then discovering we got stuck with the tab.

you are not supposed to be able to figure it out

Yup, and smarter folks than me (much smarter) don’t appear to have figured it out either.

Which is why i’m doubly convinced it’s a way to hide some serious shenanigans.

Aside from privatizing half profit and socializing all loss.. it seems like this is a way to hide something …

Exactly. In so far as these toxic misunderstood assets are purchased for more than they can be sold for, the loss will simply be removed from Citi (or whomever) and put on the taxpayers, who put up the nonrecourse loans that paid for those overpriced assets. Everything else is simply obfuscation, specifically:
– The fact that the money is being freshly printed, but will have to be taxed out of circulation.
– The fact that Hedge Funds have their 3% skin in the game, but will surely cover themselves via CDSs.

time for me to head out. g’nite all.

nite suz

G’nite, Suzanne. And thanks for the heads-up about my diary getting featured.

So we are just paying the privateers to shuffle and delay this particular loss until another day.. all while keeping the actual ‘product’ under wraps too?

Good night suz.

me too
g’nite all

The real issue here is that the banksters, and the Obama administration with them, (pretend to) have convinced themselves that there are no “toxic” assets on their books, only under-appreciated assets whose true value will eventually be realized, if only someone, e.g., the taxpayers, will tend to them in the meantime. To which I generally respond, “Save your Confederate money boys; the South will rise again.”

Is there any reason to believe that Geithner will be more forthcoming on Tuesday?

EXACTLY.

nite teddy

Spew! LOL! I hope that taught them some manners.
Nite all sleepyheads.

Think I will turn in too.

g’ nite firedogs.

Hey, we are still trying to get congress to ask good questions. I don’t know when demanding answers becomes part of the mix.

Very unlikely. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Geithner’s career path will surely take him into the financial-services industry. They are his constituency, not us.

Unless this thing surprises us all by flowering into a recovery, what career will anyone, including the President, have waiting for them?

Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt has begun erupting. The ash cloud – supposedly – is headed straight for where I live.

It’ll eventually turn around; demand can’t fall below zero. But skillful steering of the economy can make that happen sooner and with less over-correction, i.e., run-away inflation.

Time for me to crash out.

G’nite, all.

Hey ET
gotta rename it Mount Piyush, but just when talking about 2012

nite wigwam
i’m out too

not sure I get it…

Attaturk is upstairs!
From one Ponzi Schemer to Another

“Piyush” is Bobby Jindal’s REAL name. He doesn’t like volcano studies and he (was) running in 2012.

What do I win???????