Keep calm and carry on (in other words, GOTV)

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Monday October 08, 2012 · 2:17 PM PDT

2012/10/08 · 14:17

Alright, it's been a long time since I've posted a diary here that's been serious in nature, but in light of last week's minor calamity and the ensuing anxiety attacks over the election, I think it's worthwhile to put an honest spin on what the state of the race is with less than a month to the election. To be quite frank, there's been way too much of a "chill the fuck out" attitude around this place. Are people afraid to be called a concern troll nowadays?

Because if so, then I'll be fine to start concern-trolling everyone's ass, starting below the fold...

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How have you contributed to the President's re-election campaign?

24 votes Vote Now!

How have you contributed to the President's re-election campaign?

Door-to-door canvassing

0 votes

Phonebanking

1 vote

Monetary donation

12 votes

Registering voters

2 votes

More than one of the above

7 votes

Nothing, but I'm going to change that

2 votes

Drunk again

PsiFighter37

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Friday August 12, 2011 · 6:01 PM PDT

2011/08/12 · 18:01

Today was an exceptionally poor day at the office, so I've taken the occasion to celebrate by getting housed on Flower Power IPA and white wine I picked up at Chelsea Market a couple weeks ago.

What bothers you all? Mainly just looking to chat, but if you want to talk politics, I'll give you a piece of my mind. I may not have been around recently, but I still have opinions.

Hit me baby.

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16 in Blackjack...hit or stay?

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16 in Blackjack...hit or stay?

Hit

24 votes

Stay

17 votes

Santorum

11 votes

What up

PsiFighter37

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Thursday August 04, 2011 · 8:07 PM PDT

2011/08/04 · 20:07

It's been a long time since I checked in. Most of you probably weren't born (i.e. your user IDs are too high in number) since I last seriously participated here.

But I'm drunk. And those of you who remember what this was all about know it's a good time.

So what's up? Hit me, and you shall receive.

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Who is more awesome?

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Who is more awesome?

Jon Stewart

7 votes

Stephen Colbert

6 votes

If I say I'm +14, will I still get some love?

PsiFighter37

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Wednesday November 11, 2009 · 7:35 PM PST

2009/11/11 · 19:35

Yes folks, it's your old school PF37 getting completely shitfaced on a Wednesday night. I'm not in school anymore, but I just wanted to say hello and deliver a non-sober (and sober, I may add) message.

Please don't get too worked up over the health care bill. The last thing I want is a Republican Congress sending President Obama shitastic bills to sign/veto,

The end.

What's up everyone?

Senator Feingold, take your righteousness and shove it

PsiFighter37

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Monday January 26, 2009 · 6:25 PM PST

2009/01/26 · 18:25

Given that Senator Feingold is being given a hero's welcome (again) here at Daily Kos, I'd like to take the opportunity to highlight the rank hypocrisy the senator from Wisconsin opened himself to.

Remember this, way back when John Ashcroft was nominated for Attorney General?

[...]it was important to the political future of Democrats not to stand against a nomination for purely ideological reasons. Feingold also urged his colleagues to give deference to the president in choosing like-minded Cabinet members.

PsiFighter37

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 4:56 PM PDT

2008/09/29 · 16:56

I've largely stayed away from the blogosphere's analysis of the bailout package fashioned by Congress because I feel that there is way too much antipathy towards Wall Street. Aside from working at one of the banks that worked at the credit crisis, I simply think that a great many of you want to see Wall Street collapse, no matter the cost - even if it means that the fallout is going to affect each and every one of you in a meaningful, material fashion.

As I wrote in an earlier diary, Wall Street needs to be punished. Sure enough, the bailout package voted on today had some necessary features in it - limits on executive pay, the ability to take an equity stake in firms that participated, congressional discretion over half of the proposed funding - that made it resemble much more the package put forth by Chris Dodd and Barney Frank than it did Hank Paulson's.

But in one fell swoop, all of that was brought down. And if you think things are going to get better soon, think again.

PsiFighter37

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 1:56 PM PDT

2008/09/21 · 13:56

Although the credit crisis has persisted on Wall Street for over a year, the real dominoes began to fall this week with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an investment bank that predated the Civil War, and the effective takeover of American Insurance Group (AIG) by the federal government. On top of the fire sale of Bear Stearns in March to JPMorgan Chase, as well as the nationalization of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae just a few weeks ago, there have already been severe consequences as a result of the unraveling of the credit markets. Tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs as a result of their firms' demises, hundreds of billions of dollars have been lost - with countless billions more lost once all is said and done - and legacies have been destroyed, from prominent CEOs such as James Cayne (Bear Stearns) and Dick Fuld (Lehman Brothers) to former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, whose insistence at holding rates at low levels for so long fueled a housing bubble that, when it burst, infected virtually sector of the financial markets.

PsiFighter37

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 7:15 PM PDT

2008/09/18 · 19:15

So today, the Dow Jones ended up more than 400 points, and the Nasdaq and S&P 500 (contrary to popular belief, this is the more important index than DJIA is) both closed way over 4%. A lot of the movement happened in the last hour of trading after it was reported that the government may look to put together an entity that effectively buys all of the shitty debt on banks' books and relieves them of their pain.

However, it really doesn't mean much of anything. If there's one good thing that came out of today, it's that Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs finally got a reprieve from the rather unjust beating their stock has taken over the past two weeks or so. But in the end, talk of some sort of industry-wide federal intervention to absorb the body blows of declining mortgages and other debt, and the assets that are backed by them, is just that - talk...at least for now.

PsiFighter37

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 5:50 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 17:50

As some of you may or may not know, I work at one of the large banks here in New York City. The past week has been one of the most frenetic and chaotic in Wall Street's history, and I wanted to share some of my thoughts about what has been going on. Even though I'm not involved in the part of the trading floor that has seen the most action this week - that would be people who trade financial stocks or CDS (credit default swaps) on those same companies, as well as virtually any interest-rate product - it's enough to give one perspective when they go to work and are living history (and this is history, even if it ain't the good kind) each day.

Simply put, it comes down to this: no one saw the abrupt collapse of Lehman Brothers coming - especially filing for bankruptcy - or, even worse, the de facto bankruptcy of AIG (and yes, that's what it is - not nationalization). What's worse?

No one knows what is going to happen next.

PsiFighter37

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 5:52 PM PDT

2008/09/11 · 17:52

The big hubbub here at Daily Kos, as far as I can tell by the recommended list, is about Sarah Palin's comments that 'perhaps' we would go to war against Russia if they invaded a Georgia that was part of NATO. Yes, they are foolhardy and reflective of the warmongering neoconservative wing that John McCain and George W. Bush represent - maybe even more so than Bush - but technically speaking, it's not wrong. What's more, most Americans, whether it be right or wrong (and in the case of Georgia, it's many shades of gray), see Russia as a bullying aggressor that should be shown its place. Fighting a publicity war over the nuances of Palin's comments regarding Russia is a losing battle amongst a media that will simplify the matter down to a black-and-white topic - and a population that won't see through it.

It's a trap that the GOP is well willing to fight on. We should avoid it and focus on the other things that Sarah Palin said during her interview with Charlie Gibson.

PsiFighter37

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 5:54 PM PDT

2008/08/29 · 17:54

As has been noted in several diaries here at dKos (yes, I still read as much as I can here, despite my lack of posting), the circumstances around the birth of Sarah Palin's fifth child are particularly suspicious. This link from Reddit gives the basic rundown on the rumors. Given the photographic showing what seems to be a very not-pregnant Palin earlier this year, combined with the somewhat dangerous-sounding report that she flew back to Alaska after her water broke, it would seem that there is some strong circumstantial evidence that she was covering for her now-17 year old daughter Bristol - who was reportedly out of school a long time due to mononucleosis.

So I decided to email Gregg Erickson, the reporter from the Anchorage Daily News who hosted a chat at the Washington Post's website earlier today. I asked about the rumors, including the circumstantial evidence that seems to support a cover-up.

PsiFighter37

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Saturday July 12, 2008 · 12:08 AM PDT

2008/07/12 · 00:08

I've been putting off this diary for as long as I can...but at some point, you simply cannot outrun time any further. Over the past 4 years that I've been at Daily Kos, I have had the privilege of having a discussion with a great many of you, and even meeting some of you in person. Whether it was in the episode threads of 'The Colbert Report' that I used to host way back in the day when the show started in 2005, blogging my ground experiences with Ned Lamont and Patrick Murphy in 2006, and Barack Obama in 2008, or making my delegate predictions in the more recent part of this year - it has been always been a pleasurable experience. I've seen my fair share of Kossacks come and go over the years, but now it's my time for me to join the ranks of inactive Kossacks.

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Keep calm and carry on (in other words, GOTV)

Drunk again

What up

If I say I'm +14, will I still get some love?

Senator Feingold, take your righteousness and shove it

Thanks for nothing, Congress

Punish Wall Street, or forever hold your peace

Don't get too excited about today's stock market rally

Thoughts from the trading floor

Don't fall into the trap about Palin's Russia comments

The final word on Sarah Palin's fifth child

GBCW: It's my time to go