Morning, BT.

Some advice to OWS, not that they need it: Distrust but verify.
Bloomberg, Ray Kelly and all the Tony Bologna clones are just biding their time.

BTW, how’s that internal NYPD investigation of Tony going?

Krugman: Rabbit-Hole Economics

O dug the hole.

Republican Dog Food and Keynesian Economics

Public relations is, after all, at the nub of politics – the ability to influence. What Barack has learned very late and very hard is that politics and policy cannot be bifurcated. One does not achieve good policy without good politics.

The airy idealists who flitted around the White House singing, good policy makes good politics, no doubt have had their tutus removed and wings revoked. There will be no more of that.

For three years Americans have been treated to a cacophonous clusterfuck of radical right-wing orthodoxy. A santorumy mix of teabag nihilism, Randian dystopia and neoconservative imperialism. The loud incessant clanging has come from all corners of Republicanism …

Article:
Republican Dog Food and Keynesian Economics

No, in the universe of the Republican Party we found ourselves in a crisis because Representative Barney Frank forced helpless bankers to lend money to the undeserving poor.

I’ve seen this right-wing talking point numerous times, but have never seen any numbers to back it up. Typical.

Good morning, pupses, and thank you BT.

I just went over to Larue’s diary to hear what he has for us, and I’m not getting sound. I’m using my big monitor, running a cable from my laptop, which is what I always do when I’m home.

The speaker cable is in the proper place and when I wiggle the connection at the laptop I get static from the speaker, but no sound. Ditto with earbuds.

Any suggestions?

Good morning, everyone! Happy to “see” you all this morning!

So things have calmed down a bit at your house?

Although I was in IT for 25 years, I was never a hardware person, but at a guess your sound card or the sound port on the laptop is loose or failing. You’ve more or less ruled out the speakers, since it happens when you have earbuds connected, too. Maybe a loose wire or something.

Well, sort of. I think retirement is a full-time job!

Mornin’, BT, pups

The Regressives in FL are nutz. My boss is not a moron but he’s absolutely sold on Cain. Went to his book signing, got his pic taken with him, the whole nine yards. Must be early onset Alzheimer’s.

Thank you for the suggestion. The kid will be here Sunday (seems Chattanooga is a good jumping-off place for canoe and/or fishing trips) and he lives and breathes IT inc. hardware), so he is going to pay for his board this visit :)

Actually St Ronny of RayGuns and Maggie Thatcher started the hole using Milton Friedman shovels. Osterity and the other fools are just continuing the digging.

You’d think the heat and flames would tell them something…

What do you find is taking up your time?

They’re like Gollum and his ring.

If I didn’t know you all so well I’d think you had all been raptured and I was the only one left…

What does he say that he likes about him? The 999 thing?

The 1% are, that’s for sure.

Hardly. (Maybe pupses are just intimidated by the Size of your pipe.:)
Did you try listening to something else? Youtube?
Just wondering if it’s an fdl thing. That probably sounds dumb. Molly’s probably correct.
Isn’t it nice to have smart capable sons?

Excellent question.
Do we need another president with too little experience, I ask you?

I haven’t gotten a straight answer from him. I imagine he likes Cain’s flat tax ideas but as for the rest I just don’t know. His ego is so big any conversation turns to his fave subject, him, in about 30 seconds or less.

Keeping up with my house, volunteering at the Notre Dame Performing Arts Center, riding my bike (I’ve now logged 1100 miles this summer), sewing for my granddaughters, refinancing my mortgage (when you’re retired they want reams of documentation), etc.

My home is in a wooded subdivision and despite all of the trees, the woodpeckers prefer to peck holes in my cedar siding, which then have to be filled and painted, just in time for them to make new ones.

EDIT: and it’s time, here in NW Indiana, to clean out all of the pots of annuals on my deck that are now looking yellowed and straggly.

I think there was some FDL trouble last night. At least, there was for me when I was not having other sign on trouble.

God awful military budget story this morning….what gluttony and waste. Must be a masculinity thing….;)

Oh my gosh, that sounds so bad!

Let me try youtube and see what happens….nope.

Yes, it is nice but we paid for it over the years, didn’t we? :)

Or the rags to riches through hard work stuff.

Morning everyone the unions are behind the Occupy St. Louis movement. They are planning a march this Friday.

http://bit.ly/nzYx85

Wish I would be here for it. Good luck to them. It is growing every week.

That sounds like a nice, full life. Nice to be able to picture you so involved with community and family and taking care of yourself physically and financially :)

Happens to me a lot. Usually a re-start fixes it.

Tried that, too, thanks, but no luck. Thinking about a technical tap…

Well, he married into money. When the father died couple years ago the kids and grandkids split about $21M. Wife has done most of the work while he’s hobnobbed with the pols and other influence peddlers. Both addicted to money but are terrible money managers.

With the income inequality and lack of social mobility here now, more than likely now it is a rags to naked story.

I am fortunate in so many ways. Kids and grandkids and old friends nearby, lots to do to keep me busy, etc. I wouldn’t have picked NW Indiana as a retirement destination, but I’m happy here so I’ll probably stay. Winters are a bitch, though, and I’m not financially well off enough to spend winters in the south.

Global, but too safe, friendly, and like minded to mean a lot.

How about Harare, Rangoon, Pyong Yang, Tibet, etc., or at least signs and posters as such in the doable locations as reminders?

Molly, do you have that photo of your grand girls in the Little House Halloween costumes you made? I bet Om would like to see that.
Was that last year already?

I would love to see them.

The girls are incredibly adorable. And, in those little dresses. Prepare for a for reals Awwwwwww.

Ooh. I’ll have to see if I can find it. Maybe I can post it at PUAC. Yup, that was last year. Already!!

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,806

US KIA Irak: 4,478

Afghan, Iraki and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2011: 35,464 and counting

Hope and Cagney

No war but class war

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things

Namaste

Never. Give. Up.

Excuse me while I hock a loogy and spit.
Sorry, I shouldn’t feel that way. I’m sure they’ve done something to “earn” their rewards.
I guess I’ll just stick with my Rich In Spirits for now. *g*

That would be great. I’ll watch for that tomorrow.

Oh, you’re a tease.
And, can you imagine the costumes we’ll see at the OWS in two weeks? That’ll be something.

That’s pretty funny without sound!

I’ve found that my friends who inherited money are most attracted to the rags-to-riches story.
Admittedly, it’s a a small sample. But the way they talk about hard work, you’d never know that the money was given to them.

Someone on Facebook posted the “OWS funded by Soros” trope the other day. I told her to put down the remote and back away from Fox News. She didn’t like that one bit.

Wife’s grandfather started the business. Not that they haven’t worked hard but they’ve never been in a position of need and have a different mindset than those who live paycheck to paycheck.

Sounds like a good topic for a Master’s thesis or something. There has to be some correlation.

Interesting…Cain is so regularly described as the Pizza guy, it’s pretty common to think he started the business himself.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t live pay check to pay check. But, I’m not complaining. I have pretty much everything I need. But, the future is always an unknown. At least I’m well aware of that.
I just had to chase Piccilo out from behind the organ. I don’t know what he was fixin’ to do, but it couldn’t be good.

One friend looks at his inheritance as if it were venture capital.
In his eyes, he was always an entrepreneur and would have made it anyway,.
The money just gave him a start. LOL

Good morning all. Thanks for the post BT.

Don’t worry, Barry’s going to strengthen the social safety net in his second term.

‘Mornin’, Oldnhot.
How’s Austin these days?

*spit*

Hey, Good Morning, Do you have any updates on the Austin Occupy story? Going this weekend?

If I had coffee, I’d have a big mess on my computer.
(I’m still and More worried.)

‘Cause he promised during his campaign, right? Good deal, Im sure.

Oldnhot! *peers around nervously* Is cbl looking? LOL!

*g*

She’s knows what a hottie she’s got and doesn’t seem to mind when we girls flirt. What a hot pair they are.

And Panetta out whining about Pentagon cuts….Numbers so big he can hardly say them, but DO NOT cut….such a big threat and risk. No talk about the waste.

You are irrepressible, in the best sort of way :)

I wish I could fire off your one-liners. I feel like a cart horse next to your Arabian.

It’s what makes the “Grand Bargain” and “Balanced Approach” so destructively ludicrous.

Numbers so big he can hardly say them

beautifully put, RevBev

Alex Jones is reporting that War with Iran has been “greenlighted.”

Former State Department official, Dr. Steve Pieczenik on 10/13/11 is reporting that bunker busting bombs have been delivered to Israel, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smD_Seqy8ZU

Ex-CIA analyst, Ray McGovern on Oct. 5, 2011 talking with Jones of the likelyhood of war with Iran.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CP4jislqmY

Elements of the military are reported to be deeply unhappy with this. Pieczenik reports that one of the few things that will stop the War Machine are bodies in the streets protesting.

Sorry for the delay here.

Good morning miss demi. Austin is in full on fall mode. Such a relief from the 90+ days of 100+ temps. Mid 60s overnight mid 80s during the day.

RevBev,
Have not been to Occupy Austin since last Saturday. Kris said they will go back tomorrow. I don’t think I can get away.

msmolly,
CBL may be lurking.

Since the Republicans have been such obstructionists, it’s a good thing Obama is out trying to generate war stimulus /s

Only if taxes are lowered — to “make room” for the war.

Mornin’

#occupystpetersburg has their first GA tomorrow at 3:30. In a park down amongst the rich people on Beach Drive. Couldn’t have picked a better place.

Gotta go and mow. Maybe the last time of this season, yay.

Enjoy the weekend!

safe travels and safe home

ohmmmm

Well, sure we need to go into Iran…about the only place left where we haven’t invaded. Stupid Dennis Miller calls the Pres a “killing machine”. Maybe the only thing he is right about; Pres must be really proud.

Are you still working 6 days a week?
And, speaking of cbl, I’m still flabbergastted about that Cake!

Morning BT & Pups of Fire:

Nice (albeit truncated) clip of Taibbi with KO last night.

As long as she’s not looming over you with a frying pan! LOL. But I suspect demi is correct…she doesn’t mind if we flirt!

You gonna go?

Have fun, bottle that smell and send it to the rest of us. I do so love the smell of newly mown grass.
See you later, peaches.

Prolly because she knows we’re equal opportunity flirters.
I’ve even flirted with her.

Heh, do bears shit in the woods? *g*

Might even to a diary Sat evening. With pix.

Diary! Diary!!

Will you go?

As we pretty much all know here, Obama has ruled pretty much like George W.

Here’s the Pieczenik clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C6b7160ub0&feature=related

I was watching C-Span (voice of the Gov, apparently) last night where Dems & Repubs (one & the same apparently as we saw with the atrocious trade agreement with a few exceptions)–and saw the lineup of these political stooges loving this bogus Mexican Drug Cartel/Iranian operative story and pushing it for all it’s worth.

These assholes are setting us up again.

Pix! Pix! But, make sure you have someone else take one of you too.
Have you decided on a slogan for your sign?
And, I know you’re one foot out the door, but Pam has a great post up top, starring another idiot lawmaker in Florida.

We are back to our regular schedule. We have added more people and more machines.

The cake was pretty spectacular.

Bring it!

Not her style. At all. She is a loving and devoted partner. (and she knows I am beyond hopeless for her.)

LOL. I didn’t know you were Jewish . . .

Decided not to make a sign. Rather move around and take pix. Gotta get some pictures of things other than cats outta this camera. VN camo top should be as good as a sign.

Gee, you’re hot lately. ;-)

That sounds good. Yes, you do make a striking protester. Just you, your tail, the camo and your attitude.
Best of luck, there. I’m going to go play with the google and see if I can find a map with all the cities that have Occupy demonstrations. I bet I can find one. I’ll save it to post on your diary.

You’re friends with Donald Trump? Jeez, and I just accepted your friend request lol.

Speaking of flirting, we all know that you think she’s hot. All the time. *g*

“g” Gee. I haven’t heard that one in years…;)

Now I’m confused. What is it you’re not supoosed to put the cart horse before?

The Defense Secretary should always be required to have his current budget allocation tattooed on his forehead. Add that to the pending OWS demands.

New mown grass smells better than patchouli. Gonna generate some of my own later.

Psssst. Om Ali’s outside mowing.
The sun is just coming up at my place. She probably gets her chores finished before I even start.

Better question: Does anybody scoop their poop? Gotta check out your diary everyone’s talking about. Have a great day, SD.

Yeah, she’s one of my faves. That’s true. But then, there’s that goat . . . ;-)

Well, good morning. Someone has had a waaayyy lot of coffee already, and it wasn’t me, this time :)

Do you have men watching me????? Yeah, whole pot (so far). Not much sleep last night due to all the PTB activities. How does any sane person vote for someone named Hickengooper?

No!!! I could see that all by myself, thankyouverymuch. You and I must be twins separated at birth. :)

You truly have been up late with the OWS crew. I do check on you, periodically. Someone needs to!!

How does any sane woman marry someone named Hickengooper?

Maybe it is missprint. Chickengooper. I could go with Chickengooper.

Now you have ME doing it! And I haven’t had any coffee! Stop it!!

I don’t mind you checking on me. BUT, no leashes, please. (Please, don’t anybody say anything about dog collars.)

A Chickengooper in every pot? You’re right, it’s irresistible.

I can’t keep up with you. Stay still a minute, won’t you??

Are you here, or over at the other post?

OK, I saw your endearing complimentary closing over there.

Please, behave.

See you later,

ohmmmm

Constant motion. That’s my secret.

Our second GA is this evening and they don’t want us to bring signs. Kind of surprised and disappointed. I saw that you mentioned your GA is in a park that caters to the wealthy. Should be some good photo subjects for you.

Ours both are in a downtown park that has its share of homeless. Some of the comments after the newspaper article last week were cruel. It will be interesting to see if this week brings a different response.

Consensus is messy. And I have bird poop on my black vest, to prove it.

I suspect CIA/DHS involvement. Feathered drones take everybody by surprise.

Hey, rc. There were about a billion of these. Their cries rent the air and bodies darkened the skies, so there was zero element of surprise. It was an event of Biblical proportion. I’m only now recovering.