tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63682102009-10-09T00:18:30.856-05:00"I'm not negative, I'm ANGRY!" -- Howard the Duck's moment of satori. Or is that redundant? Lighting more candles in the dark, because they keep blowing them out.Catbellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01629609900876597718noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6368210.post-66100811546516750932009-03-23T19:28:00.004-05:002009-03-23T19:33:44.550-05:00

Posted on Digg, re: Un-American: Have you listened to the right-wing media?I never really call the conservatives, except when I'm being ironic. They are right-wing. *I* am conservative.I believe in the Constitution, which mandates separation of Church and State. I believe that the government doesn't have the right to suspend the document.I believe that corporations are creatures of the government

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Twitter is an original idea? Um, no.Twitter users: you've rediscovered the AOL chatroom experience, circa 1993. Congrats. Yeah, it was and is fun.But it ain't original.

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Is Twitter the Vengeance of the Popular Kids' Lunch Table?Seriously. The tech world has long been dominated by loner geeks: those who wouldn't be dating the cheerleader from the Popular Table in the school lunchroom.I'm listening to Leo LaPorte's TWIT podcast, just downloaded fresh this morning. And Twitter, as they mention, has consumed the tech world. And Twitter is nothing but a popularity

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Noticing here that the Apple stock didn't get trounced after the iPhone 3.0 announcement. Perhaps Apple's puzzling decision to stop announcing new products on a predictable semi-annual schedule and instead pop them out randomly with almost no notice to anyone has screwed up the stock-shorting geniuses' timing. About damned time.

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The Wall Street Journal says that Netflix stock is overvalued, despite the fact they are taking over the video market and have future revenues of Apple-like levels stretching out before them.Someone has decided it is time to short the stock and suck the profits out of its marrow. The Real Stock Market is about to fleece current shareholders of yet another excellent company. Get a cat food

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Apple is about to release iPhone 3.0 in an hour. Gentleman, start shorting the stocks! Whee!Cramer actual admits talking Apple stock prices up and then immediately selling short and talking the price down again. He said it was easy to do an very profitable as well.I said some time back that Apple announcements always caused a major shortselling spree. I keep taking a bath on this, while the

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Now it is possible, with lithium titanate or lithium iron phosphate batteries, to charge a car's battery pack in minutes. However, people are pointing out that it would take a 180 KW pipe to charge the car. Not available. Fail, say they.Think a little. What you need is a sidewalk or garage capacitor/battery array that charges slowly and constantly off a 120 or 240 volt pipe from the grid or your

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper died today.Comedy Central should form a news team, hell, a news network, around its Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert core group. Comedians of the "left" seem to be much more informed then the "middle" wing of the various mainstream news media.Stewart understands that he needs the news networks to actually provide him some news to work with. But that seems

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What? - no one has noticed that Rush Limbaugh is running for president?

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Fire Sale!I hear the talking Democratic heads on Rachel Madow carefully pointing out that the Republicans should remember that so much depends on what they do right now - depression or recession, loss or win.Damn. I must point out what they surely know but cannot say - but should.If the economy tanks, if we enter a Greater Depression, those who hold wealth - and Republicans represent them - will

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http://tinyurl.com/gaimanbatman

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So Obama frees the stem cell lines for research today.A ban Bush put in place to save baby souls.And remember this well: he took a week off to think about this subject before issuing the ban. Went on a retreat, listened to "spiritual leaders" about the subject. What didn't he do that very special week?I'll give you a hint: he didn't read a report called "Bin Laden determined to strike within the

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If George Bush has left the White House already, who the hell is the President at the moment? Is he phoning it in?

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Paper vs. electronic ballots I can't stress enough: Franken could win this election because the voters, through their election process, could count the actual ballots, on actual solid really real pieces of paper. If an electronic system was in place, no recount would be possible, as the ballots would be unexaminable and totals only available through the kindness of private companies.

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It struck me, in the few minutes of one of the Obama/McCain debates last year, that Obama would be a Republican in the America I grew up in. I remarked that he was just another Republican, in my rude fashion, to my couchmates at the time. So today, Firedog lake diarist DeanBaker reports that Obman is thinking of "restructuring" Social Security and Medicare to bring it in line with our national

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Here it is, a new Watchmen trailer, now with extra Rorschach!

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Gentle Reader, Al Franken looks like he will win the recount of the votes for the seat of Senator from Minnesota.This will be because, Albert Gore take note, he did not give in and concede the election to look like a statesman to the opposition party, which does not give a damn about such things.And, this is the most important thing: the votes were on paper. Paper can be reexamined. Computers

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Well, Children, it looks like OPEC is getting its act together and will cut oil production to raise prices.This is the final hammer, the trigger of Depression II. If inflation kicks back on, and no reason why not, that's the Reagonomic apocalypse. Credit collapse combined with rising prices. Damn.

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According to this Iraqi's blog, shoe-hurling journalist Muntathar is being beaten, and his colleagues were arrested and stripped. American media not covering the story, as far as I can see.read more | digg story

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Toyota has announced that it has halted the start of construction of Priuses in their new, non-union 300 million dollar factory in Blue Springs, Mississippi. No word if their low, non-union labor costs have crippled their efforts to compete in the world market. Should we let them go bankrupt to eliminate their expensive non-union labor force? read more | digg story

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Muntadhar al-Zaidi, thrower of the shoe, was tortured. Digg it here.Damn, it's hard to learn HTML and blogging on the fly.

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Originally posted on Boingboing.com on Wednesday, November 26, 2008.Why CNN Struggles to Cover The Economic Panic November 26, 2008 8:06am I feel like a man who has spent seven years in a bomb shelter, who is now opening the hatch into a new, strange world. I haven't watched TV or flown on a plane since the year 2000. I stopped listening to radio in 2001 when a favorite Sunday morning radio

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Originally posted on Boingboing.com, Tuesday, November 25, 2008.Hey. Sorry, but this IS all about political bullshit, as one of you put it. This is not a random crisis which no one could foretell. We have numbers and we have causes, and they do correlate. The root cause is ideological. After the financial collapses of 1871 and 1929, it became apparent that the financial markets could not be

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There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Market. That would be my phrase: just getting that point out there. Crain's Chicago Business, a Chicago paper, claims in a front page story that the Chicago School of economics is now in the doghouse due to the ongoing rain of financial wreckage falling around our ears. Damn it, Obama, you'd better not bring in some of that dross when you bring in the Hyde Park

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Well, that election went well. Yes, I wasn't there, but damn, didn't Lieberman pull the same damned stunt again? He's now, or may be, the 60th vote to kill a fillibuster, so they are letting him sit on his chairmanship where he will no doubt still block all investigations into the Bush administration, while exercising "bipartisanship" by letting a thousand Whitewaters bloom against Obama.Al

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