When the Bullet Hits the Bone

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Tuesday October 07, 2008 · 1:10 AM PDT

2008/10/07 · 01:10

Sometimes it takes just one thought, one meme to trigger unexpected associations from within the conscious mind. What triggered this diary was Olbermann's magnificent "drop off the cliff of reality of the Sarah Palin porcelain doll" on tonight's Countdown. Shattered into a million small bits at the edge of my awareness, all that remained was a modern day version of the Ruby Slippers: Her stiletto heels. The rest of her was scattered across Ground Zero.

Points were made, salient, pertinent points about something cold, hard and brittle, without life, worse than any Chatty Cathy doll, even more inhuman than Barbie. A Stepford wife? A mere shadow of what Beauty Queens have always been, impossible examples of macabre imaginations pushed into cantilever underwear.

Women are not the only candidates for this treatment. Men too have been pushed into GI Joes, Joe six-pack (referring to a strong, tough set of abs by the way, not the damned beer), men who can fly a plane onto an aircraft carrier and still keep their day job. There's more below the fold.

LRLine

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Saturday October 04, 2008 · 8:33 AM PDT

2008/10/04 · 08:33

I want to talk a bit today about the Visceral System, you know, the one that's being titillated along the emotional spectrum from Armageddon to God's Love. People in this country have been totally cut off at the neck by the Republican party. I am glad and grateful for the pure rage and anger now emerging in the body politic, for it is undoing some of this horrid programming which has stunned many and kept us Blind. For we that see, we must expose it to TRUTH, which is what dKos is all about.

This system is not one recognized by mainstream medicine, but is one that is being used by the US Military (and others) to control and affect the American people. Everyone knows a bit about this, but some may not realize how powerful visceral response is, nor that it refers to a biologic system -- one which the military knows a great deal about.

I have studied the work of Jean-Pierre Barral since 1993. He was recently named one of time magazine's top healing innovators to watch in the new millienium.

LRLine

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 9:33 AM PDT

2008/10/03 · 09:33

Tell me again how borrowing 10B/wk from China to fight the war in Iraq, with money on the ground in Iraq, was a good idea? With the world facing credit swaps in the high trillions, and no liquidity, banks and agencies globally are addressing the problems of It's a Mad, Mad World.

Stateside, as this whole macroeconomic Gordian knot begins to unravel, the vultures are circling. From Bloomberg comes tales of deals with Wachovia. Check out their site for more information. Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing? Get it together, people!

After the financial crisis, institutions will be reducing their leverage.
The process is rapid and painful – and has global effects. However, economists are unsure as to what the effects will be.

Hang on to your coats and hats. Incidentally I love the new depressionware fashion. Reminds me of Paper Moon, Ry Cooder "Into the Purple Valley", Woodie Guthrie, and railroad tracks. Special thanks to Craig Ferguson: Schadenfreude? Sigmund Freudy!!!

Calling Elliot Ness to the IRS!

LRLine

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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 7:11 AM PDT

2008/10/01 · 07:11

Smoke and mirrors. What is to be done? Find the money. Put it back.

Now hear this. From Bush 41 and Bush 43 we have the following: I lost my money, now I need yours, and it will be 15 kopeks please in taxes to boot. Oh, and while you are at it, don't tell anybody or we'll blow your kneecaps off.

Mathematicians have found a new prime number with a whole lot of digits. Trust me, the money that has mysteriously been lost over these last 8 years esp. is orders of magnitude higher.

This is a simple message: "Find" our money and PUT IT BACK. STAT. And let Warren Buffet go, and the rest of your hostages in the American Press Corps.

LRLine

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 7:24 AM PDT

2008/09/29 · 07:24

UK lender Bradford & Bingley (Santander bought B&B's deposits) AND
Belgian-Dutch group FORTIS this morning, it made for a great Bush "see I'm trying to help guys, really I am, trust me, I know we've done wrong but we're really trying to get it together yada yada" type media op.

So this had to be done today, eh? How convenient for this administration when the first thing you see on CNBC are flat markets worldwide and the facts that B&B and FORTIS just got snarfed. And the bright, bushy-tailed young things worldwide speaking in important tones about how nice it is that we have a pro-active government. For the markets, looking at the numbers, it's maybe too little too late. But Bush said, we had to do something. Right this very second. Before markets open on Monday. Buffett after all agreed (of course he did, he's going to make a killing). I find the timing of these three events very convenient for an administration whose approval ratings are the lowest of any, ever. And that everyone agrees that well, gee, the credit markets aren't going to unplug right away, in fact it could be months...well, thanks to Bush's failed economic policies, we're about as good a banana republic as you can get these days.

LRLine

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 7:49 AM PDT

2008/09/26 · 07:49

Hunter asks a question in his report on the front page.

Many of you already know me as a quant fi mathhead nerdy "post-menopausal intellectual woman voter". You may also know that I have had nearly forty years experience with the mathematics of things such as markets, actuarial studies, engineering studies in computational biology, and other arcana. I also was a pretty active trader at one time, when I did have money, and in particular know more than a little bit about commodities.

Here is my take on what is happening and why, concerning this credit crisis, and why I'm advocating no fast action. I am going to share with you all here a street level example of exactly what a con job is being played on the American pepul, and this is just one scenario that played out since the beginning of this credit crisis. (In fact, several people at Merrill lost their jobs, fired over a year or more BEFORE the crisis began last summer for saying that Merrill quit taking on any more CDOs (collateralized debt obligations, the "big bucket" here)).

Poll

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Will ARMAGEDDON occur at market open Monday morning?

33 votes Vote Now!

Will ARMAGEDDON occur at market open Monday morning?

No, it's already upon us

14 votes

Yes, we're moving to Alaska or Wisconsin immediately

1 vote

No, you're just a conspiracy theorist

6 votes

Yes, you're just a conspiracy theorist

1 vote

No, I'm grabbing my blankie and cocoa and I'll talk to you Tuesday

8 votes

Yes, so hand me the laced Tylenol now so I don't have to jump.

3 votes

Bailout? We don' need no stinkin' bailout!

LRLine

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 8:09 AM PDT

2008/09/24 · 08:09

It was with some trepidation that I opened email this morning. A viral missive from my 80 year old Uncle (who is convinced Obama is a Muslim), quoting Ayn Rand. Oh joy. Where ever I go, I can't seem to escape John Galt. Oh, wait a minute, I AM John Galt. In their efforts to separate themselves from the pack, old-style Repubs are pulling out all the stops.

Never mind that this morning, before Bernanke even spoke, according to Briefing.com,the Fed had set up $30 billion worth of new currency swaps with central banks in Australia and Scandinavia, as reported by Reuters. What this does is facilitates and encourage banks to lend to each other, increasing liquidity. Bernanke maintains that there are "grave threats" to US Financial Stability. I would encourage Congress that before any money is doled out, these threats be made clear.

LRLine

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 2:35 PM PDT

2008/09/10 · 14:35

According to the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State website, "Religious Right leaders are so determined to forge conservative churches into a partisan political machine that they are even willing to break federal law to do it".

The so-called "Values Voter Summit" takes place this weekend in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by Family Research Council Action (FRCA) and the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), the two-day event is designed to mobilize evangelical churches and church-goers in advance of the November elections. The full story can be found at the AU website.

"There seems to be a real values void at the Values Voter Summit," remarked the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. "I long for the days when conservatives urged respect for the law, not flagrant violation of it." More commentary below.

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When the Bullet Hits the Bone

The Body Politic

It's the macroeconomy, stupid.

BushCo defined by LOST money and No News is Good News

Oh gee, another Bush media opportunity.

It goes to Vapor from Here.

Bailout? We don' need no stinkin' bailout!

Religious Right Leaders willing to Break Federal Law