Happy St. Patrick's Day! Gotta have a dancing leprechaun.
Open thread below...
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A happy St. Patricks day to everyone!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
in gaelic is...."Haileo Mo Chara"
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
It wasn't a 'famine' it was a STARVATION,"i'll say it again"(thanks john,imagine)......potato famine,no it was a theft robbery.and millions died.of starvation........imagine
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
Erin Go Braghless!!!
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Got a lovely notice from the San Diego Superior Court today that I am being sued by US Bank, NA. No reason given but a separate notice went to All Occupants of...my address.
I am renting from an MD and she has been attempting to do a loan modification for over 6 months now. In January we received a notice to vacate because, despite the ongoing effort to modify the loan, Wells Fargo just up and forclosed on the house anyway. After several phone calls FROM the landlord's attorney AND Wells Fargo, we were assured that the forclosure was being rescinded.
Now this.
So my landlord is scrambling to find her lawyer to find out why I am being sued. I am fortunate in that both my wife and I are gainfully employed so that we will start looking for another place to rent. Of course, the risk of renting a house is that this can happen again.
Oh well. The place has termites and needs to be tented anyway so we will have to pack half our shit one way or another.
I post this as just ONE example to show how ridiculous this whole loan modification program really is. It's not "too big to fail" it's "So big they flail". The whole system is too FUBAR to be fixed. Even Barack Obama, Saviour of Rome will not be able to get us out of this mess.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
At least your landlord attempted to keep you in the loop.
Here in Escondido, it's a renter's market (and of course, if you own your own bank, a buyer's market as well...)
Best of luck.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
You're in Escondido? How can you stand it? I work a lot at Palomar Hospital, and for me traveling east of I-15 is like going to Alabama circa 1954.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
waiting for my first unemployment check. After it comes, I'm going back to South Florida.
Actually, North County isn't as bad as it was, say, back in the 80s and 90s. Try spending time in Fallbrook/DeLuz/Rainbow area back then. If you didn't have a swastika tattoo, you weren't to be trusted! Strange days indeed...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
. . . but maybe you are not technically being sued. Maybe its the property. It might be a jurisdictional thing: you have an interest in the land, and it may be a quasi in rem (ie. action against a thing) type of suit.
Just guessin'.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
I think you may be right. So now I have this AND I just got called to testify in a malpractice suit.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Normally today this would be the day I'd go out in town with my "Kiss me I'm Irish" and "Kiss me I'm Mexican" buttons on my bookbag, but I stayed home today.
Anyway, I wish I could say that reading today's Irish Times (since I have a Kindle subscription) was a lot of fun, but it wasn't, mainly because of Cardinal Sean Brady, who dominated the articles in the Irish Times on St. Patrick's Day.
Now he wants Ireland to pray for him. How about they pray for the children whom he forced to sign a document swearing them to secrecy about their abuse?
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
What do you get a pedophile who has everything?
A new parish.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
to roast in hell, since he believes in it.
me-oww!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2A6YPowfwk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
From the instructions enclosed with the Census form [bold in original]:
And here's the first question on the form itself:
hmmm ...
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Maybe their distrust of USPS delivery times were rather unwarranted??
So much for that "inter-agency" cooperation we were promised...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Just getting caught up myself; I thought these were gems:
"Boy’s Tragic Death Could Have Happened To Any Family With 20-Foot Pet Python" (Video--f'ing hilarious!)
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/boy_s_t...
"Racial Slur Development Not Keeping Up with Mixed-Race Births"
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/racial_s...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
When Dennis Kucinich announced that he would be voting for the bill, it only took minutes for our faithful progressives to turn on him. What a mixed up bunch we democrats and independants are.
It's sad. Instead of lookng at the good this bill will do everyone if focused on the bad they think it will do. After 200+ years without a damn thing, they are willing to kill it now. As if nothing is somehow better than something. Personally I don't care if there's only one good thing to come out of it, it's worth it IMO.
You have to start somewhere and unless we start now, it's likely over for another 2 decades or more. Some of us won't be around then.
to call you and I out probably won't respond until both of us have gone to bed and can't get back to them, but they are the cowards that belong to a progressive movement. They wonder why we can't get things done but it's because of the big money interests that influence much of what the rest of America sees. They have to open their eyes to that reality too.
Kucinich and Michael Moore were in agreement on why to vote for the bill, the bill which neither of them likes, for exactly the same reasons.
Point 1 - the fight for Universal Health Care is not over. This bill includes a few incremental improvements, but it is NOT "reform". But if the Dems don't pass this bill, they can pretty much kiss goodbye their chances of passing additional changes to the Health Care system any time soon.
Point 2 - if the Dems don't pass this bill, they can pretty much kiss goodbye any chance of any other legislation they might want to complete.
.. and for what it's worth, I agree ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
I woke someone up!
Good night all.
MountainMan I hope more people come around after they realise the world didn't end afterwards.
The narritive is driven by those same interests. It's the same interests that want you to believe in a liberal media. That BS is spouted by every network like it's gospel, but a scan of most of those outlets shows a conservative bias. People have been told how bad this bill is and not a word about the good so the narritive has been on fear.
I blame the Dems/Obama as much as the Repubs for that though. They should have been as vocal as GWB was about his agenda. I have yet to see the Repubs cast in a bad light the way Dems were during the run up to the War. It should have been much more difficult for the Repubs to control the narrative.
they control the far left socialist communist media "NOT".
... are people who like to throw around labels like 'cowards' and claim a special corner of progressive thought for themselves.
Yeah, I'm looking at you.
If I wanted ideological lockstep, I'd be a Republican.
All 400 slots filled in an hour from me getting the announcement, so I couldn't get in this year. Oh well, I can't drink this year either, so it won't be as much fun anyhow.
Best of luck to those who got in.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
According to my father, I've got the best of two worlds. I'm descended from Irish royalty on his side of the tree, and from sturdy peasant stock on my mother's branch.
I've never cared one way or the other about that kind of nonsense. "Don't know where you're from or where you're going, all I know is that you came" has always been my attitude about us all. "Professional Irishmen" (as with any professional-you-name-the-ethnicity) are as obnoxious as they come. I had a good laugh a few years ago, when a woman wrote the San Francisco Chronicle in outrage over its use of the term "paddy wagon". Until then, it had never once occurred to me that it was a calculated pejorative against the Irish people. But she was serious.
That said, even I am almost offended by the video midget in the green suit. Almost, mind you. Surely, you might have chosen something else- hell, anything else- to celebrate this blessed day (toy toy toy). Bombs have been known to explode over lesser slights, you know. "Oh Danny boy, the pipes the pipes are...".
(cont'd) If I had only scrolled down before posting the above comment, there would be no need for this... I guess "apology" fits the bill. The Flogging Molly performance was music to my ears.
Via Tom Tomorrow's Tweet, Beck doesn't make any census. One in a hundred Americans are doing time. Bin Laden who, again? Barry tries getting his point across on Faux News. Kraft guarantees less salt in your diet. Greece future scenarios analyzed. Walmart faux pas. Oh, and some assholes on AICN tried to make Sly look bad, just because he's not a Rambo when it comes to gun control.
Dennis Kucinich will vote in favor of the industry written plan. I mean no hyperbole. The plan was literally written by a WellPoint executive. Not one vote will be cast against this plan from the Left.
Not a single vote.
I'll admit that my opposition to Obamacare may not be unanimous among the Left, but it is certainly not unreasoned, illegitimate, or unusual. But it will probably not be represented by a single vote in the Congress.
The only opposition noted will be the death panel/fasciosocialist bs.
This is also true across many, many issues: immunizing torture versus torturing more; escalating the War in Afghanistan versus going after Iran; Goldman Sachs writing banking reform versus no reform at all; Goldman Sachs designed cap 'n trade schemes versus no climate change reaction at all; Canadian drug are unsafe versus a mandate to buy for-profit insurance.
Nowhere is my voice heard. Not that my voice is anything special but it's important in it's own right that torture is
illegalunreliablebarbaricwrong. We don't need polls on that. And when our polls show torture is ok (hey, "both" sides agree it shouldn't be prosecuted) then I'm sorry, but fuck them.A Medicare for All buy-in may not be the best choice in addressing HCR, but that voice was aggressively excluded from the debate. Its voice was zero (plus bail money). The repealing of Glass-Steagal is an almost universally recognized cause of the too-big-to-fail problem yet John McCain is the only one mentioning it.
The Patriot Act was renewed by the House by a huge margin and passed the Senate by a voice vote. C&L didn't even mention it. C'mon guys, The Patriot Act isn't news because it's Obama doing it? A fucking voice vote? To me, that means every single Senate Democrat favors the Patriot Act. A fucking voice vote? Why? Because The Patriot Act is unassailable? The fucking Patriot Act?
The bitch-list goes on and on. But my point is that this opposition is not even part of the discussion. In fact, these positions, even though they often held by significant majorities, are invisible.
They equate us with teabaggers, fucking r******, and, before we capitulate, "little pricks." After that, who knows? Maybe just a good little #$%&*.
These are hardly radical or even very far left criticisms or positions. They just are not allowed a voice.
I have no voice, but I don't think I'm alone.
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Corruption favors the wealthy.
I'm sorry that you feel that way. I really am. I know it must be frustrating but I don't think that it will be that bad. At least this bill does go toward helping millions of people whereas the last dozen or so didn't. If it helps people it's good for progressives. Even if people have to pay a bit more over all and it helps people, it's good for progressives.
I do expect it to be like the energy bill Cheney wrote to some extent, but the higher cost will be for preserving life instead of preserving oil. If the insurance companies increase profits but it saves lives I'm good with that. I also believe the bill can be changed to make it better after it's signed, but if it's not signed now it's through for awhile.
hiccup :)
Corruption favors the wealthy.
I detest the plan--it is a power play by a corrupt insurance industry. And I should know--my late mother retired from one of the country's largest, and I've worked for a casualty company and an agency in the distant and unlamented past.
Can be asked about:
- impeaching Bush and Cheney. That was taken 'off the table' by Nancy Pelosi, even though Dennis Kucinich had prepared and presented articles of impeachment.
- closing Guantanamo Bay. Because we can't just 'let them go' and we apparently can't try them in criminal court, and we can't keep them in Arkham Asylum ...
- investigating/prosecuting war crimes. Torture is clearly in violation of federal law and international treaty. Can't be arsed to do anything about it.
So, with a track record like that, you honestly think we should line up for the okie-doke again? Progressive policy isn't happening because we're playing the game as if the mainstream Democrats and Republicans consider us as equals, and they don't. Pelosi came to C&L and lied to our faces about supporting a robust public option.
We can't possibly succeed if we're trading away what we want for some watered-down weak-tea make-do job. We need to know what we want and pursue it, not hope for table scrapings from the ensconced powers-that-be.
Vote for healthcare and hope Pelosi & Reid can 'fix it,' when they've been sandbagging us at every turn?
Progressive thought without the freedom to say NO when something is wrong isn't really progressive.
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"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
For HIV coverage.
and there's a chance of me actually surviving, (I haven't had "insurance" for over twenty years), that I will go to Thailand.
If something happens where I'm facing death and my meager savings won't cover it, I'll just go to Amsterdam and die and leave what's left of my savings to my kids.
Isn't it GREAT to be an American?!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
to discuss getting some (relatively) minor surgery done on my neck. In her second breath, the doctor told me about my options to go to Mexico to have the work done to save money.
Yeah, 'Merica, love it or leave it. Just bring back some firecrackers and cheap booze when you come back...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
St Patrick was imposed on the Irish by the Roman Catholic Church. They already had the patron saints Colomba of Iona and Aidan of Lindisfarne.
Patty seemed to be a 9th century euhemerized version of the Celtic fertility god Treochair Trefeilngid, complete with the shamrock. As for the snakes, I suspect that's a Christian propagandistic reference to Crom Cruach.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
A friend who is a pagan priestess is of the opinion that the 'snakes' ol' St. Paddy drove out of Ireland were the pagans.
St. Patrick was also used to renovate the goddess Brigid from a triple-goddess of birth, the forge, and war to a frail lass who was so moved by Paddy's preaching, she up and hied herself to a convent.
Actually Patrick (4th & 5th century) was a couple of hundred years before Colomba or Aidan, who were both educated in the monastic tradition that Patrick helped establish. Patrick was also kind of his own man, and did his own thing (which may be why he was later put on trial).
Speculation about Brigid is just that, no one knows more than the legends.
Incidentally the wonderful pagans that everyone gets so new-agey about were busy with human sacrifice and slavery when the first missionarys arrived, whatever traditions the Christians took over they at least put an end to that.
Now Bernanke Wants To Eliminate Reserve Requirements Completely
Say goodbye to fractional reserve banking and hello to insanity
http://www.businessinsider.com/now-bernanke-w...
How Can Anyone Claim That The Housing Crisis Is Over When The Delinquency Rate On U.S. Mortgages Continues To Explode At An Exponential Rate?
The delinquency chart is shocking
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/h...
Marc Faber: We Have a New Gold Standard (made by the markets)
Money-printing is just another way for governments to silently default on their debt - Marc Faber
http://www.cnbc.com/id/35912043
Adrian Douglas: More Fed minutes document gold market manipulation
http://www.gata.org/node/8430
I found the above by reading this
Smoke, Mirrors, SDRs and Gold: Why Central Banks Cannot Tell the Truth
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1268755740.php
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
I wonder why this couldn't have been done with real Irish music rather than that horrible "rap" shit?
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