This is Not the Trip I Signed On For

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Wednesday April 08, 2009 · 9:17 AM PDT

2009/04/08 · 09:17

This is the (sniff sniff) hardest (sniff, snotty snort) thing I've ever had to do in (sniff, sobbing) in MY LIFE! Eh, not really. Online Communities come and go, the circumstance changes, you change, something better comes along or you simply get tired of the B.S. And you leave. For me it is a mixture of all those things tugging at me as I type the words, Goodbye Daily Kos.

Yeah, it is one of those diaries. Afraid to say. I promise you this won't be completely self-serving, although not entirely free of self-service. I am writing about Me after all and I'd have to be some great, inhuman literary genius to divorce myself entirely from the portraits I paint.

Larry Madill

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Tuesday April 07, 2009 · 2:13 PM PDT

2009/04/07 · 14:13

Ah, who needs the End of the World when we are already leaving in financial apocalypse? More grim news from General Motors and Blockbuster today as both companies flirt with the edge of oblivion. An interesting trend emerges from both these stories, more on that a bit later.

Larry Madill

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Thursday April 02, 2009 · 1:27 PM PDT

2009/04/02 · 13:27

From MSNBC.com

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has begun fueling a long-range rocket, U.S. officials told NBC News on Thursday, as President Barack Obama warned that launching the missile would be a "provocative act" that would generate a U.N. Security Council response.

The three-stage Taepodong 2 rocket is sitting on a launchpad, the sources said, adding that "final checkouts and preparations" are under way for an "imminent launch" — meaning North Korea appeared to be on track to launch the missile sometime over the weekend.

Larry Madill

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Monday March 30, 2009 · 3:44 PM PDT

2009/03/30 · 15:44

From CNBC.com:

General Motors's new chief executive told CNBC that filing for Bankruptcy may be the best option for the struggling automaker.

In a taped interview to be aired tonight on NBC Nightly News, Fritz Henderson said that because of greater demands from the Obama administration to restructure, GM is considering the bankruptcy option. The auto giant previously had ruled out such a move, saying it would discourage people from buying GM cars.

Larry Madill

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Saturday March 28, 2009 · 8:02 AM PDT

2009/03/28 · 08:02

From MSNBC.com:

The prime minister of the Czech Republic says it could have been his taste for the rock group AC/DC — not his study of economics — that inspired him to describe President Barack Obama's nearly $2 trillion economic plan as "the road to hell."

"Last week, AC/DC played the Czech Republic," Mirek Topolanek told the Lidove Noviny daily newspaper Friday. "And their cult song 'Highway to Hell' may have influenced me to use, in my very improvised speech, 'the road to hell.'"

Larry Madill

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Sunday March 22, 2009 · 1:16 PM PDT

2009/03/22 · 13:16

Ah, the mob. The vainglorious and angry mob has once again set upon DailyKos filled with vitriol and vituperation. The utterances of this angry mob basically boil down to a base of "WE'RE AN ANGRY MOB! RAWR! LET IT ALL BURN! RAWR!" Let the banks fail, let AIG fail, let the automakers fail, fire Geithner, fire Summers, Impeach Obama!

Every time (by which I mean, every five minutes, when a new one appears) I read one of those "Let 'Em Fail! Let 'Em Die!" Diaries I am a bit amazed at how little consideration is given to the question of, "If you do that, what happens next?" by these diarist.

There is None. No thought given to the dire consequences that would follow such a policy decision, no attention paid to how the "LET 'EM FAIL!" approach would effect them and the people around them. They just, to quote a wise man (Alfred the Butler) want to see the World Burn.

Larry Madill

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 · 12:11 PM PDT

2009/03/17 · 12:11

I'm not really angry at AIG anymore. My outlook on the whole debacle is somewhere between The Joker (The Dark Knight) and The Comedian (Watchmen), it's all so fucking hysterical. If Karl Marx and John Steinbeck got together to craft a Capitalist Villain for a broadway musical they'd write something like AIG, then come back the morning after, and both say, "Nah, who are we kidding, no one company is both this evil and this stupid at the same time."

The newest AIG outrage comes from New York's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, who disclosed in a letter to Congress that Eleven Executives that AIG paid "retention bonuses" to -- bonuses whose stated goal is to retain people -- left the company after being paid their retention bonuses.

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Thursday February 19, 2009 · 3:40 PM PST

2009/02/19 · 15:40

So today I had to run a few errands, pick up a few groceries for my Mom who was feeling ill, and when I come back DailyKos is in a righteous blaze over ... Rick Santelli. Seemingly dozens of diaries devoted to a Screaming Head from CNBC, who routinely says stupid shit, that once more said some stupid shit.

I've spent the last half hour checking various instruments to make sure that I hadn't walked into an alternate dimension or gone completely insane. As far as I can determine neither one of these has happened.

Larry Madill

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Monday February 16, 2009 · 1:44 PM PST

2009/02/16 · 13:44

I really think this entire country is being under served by the Republican Party. As a "loyal opposition" they kind of suck.

Not just because eight years of Republican rule managed to bankrupt the country (literally). Not just because the small remnant of the Republican Party in the House and the Senate cry for bipartisanship when they really just want their kind of bipartisanship. Not just because they haven't had an idea since Ronnie Ray-Gun and haven't had a good idea since Eisenhower's Highway System.

It is because the Republican Party -- especially the House Republicans -- are an embarrassment to the idea of a loyal opposition.

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Tuesday February 03, 2009 · 1:43 PM PST

2009/02/03 · 13:43

One wonders if the heads of the major U.S. banks are into masochism. If, in their darkest moments, they crave the hatred and vitriol of the public at large. Perhaps John Stumpf, the CEO of Wells Fargo, is hold up in a cheesy dive motel room, shirt off, fingers twisting his nipples harder and harder as the public disgust over the excesses of the insolvent banking industry are splashed across cable news, yelling, "HATE ME! HATE ME! SO GOOD! Now spit on me! Tell me I'm irresponsible! YES YES YES!"

This strange sexualized daydream is the only logical explanation I have left for the seemingly endless parade of stories about "Insert Bank Here" spending wild amounts of money with one hand as they beg for more taxpayer money with the other. Masochism, plain and simple. They want us to hate them.

Today's tale of Guilded Age excess and corporate cluelessness comes from Wells Fargo.

Larry Madill

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Thursday January 22, 2009 · 10:27 AM PST

2009/01/22 · 10:27

When Keith Olbermann asked Professor Jonathan Turley if 'this [re-taking the Oath of Office] was going to be a daily thing now' I immediately thought to myself, Yes, Yes it is.

See what is left of the conservative movement in this country happens to be both profoundly stupid and deeply tenacious. When the Right Wing thinks they've got ya', they really think they've got ya' even if no one else agrees. This has happened before and failed before with Reverend Wright, William Ayers, and Obama's Birth Certificate. And Now this has happened again and will undoubtedly fail again when it comes to the once flubbed Oath of Office.

Submitted for your approval the wonderfully whack front page of WorldNetDaily.

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Sunday January 04, 2009 · 5:29 PM PST

2009/01/04 · 17:29

I've mostly stayed out of the current I/P debate, at least the diary side of it, because I frankly don't want the headache from either side. The last diary I wrote on the subject, right after Hillary Clinton's threat to "obliterate Iran" if Iran attacked Israel, garnished me nothing but T.R.'s, hate email, some guy who claimed to be Ex-IDF spamming jpegs of beheaded bodies, and real life death threats.

My life is complicated enough. This is grief I do not need.

But today a comment from KnotIookin in another I-P Diary got me thinking. Not so much about the Israel or Palestine, but the our collective mindset and outlook on the world. And how that mindset is going to have to change if the Mideast and the World is ever going to see real peace.

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