The Hubris is outstanding. Look, Blagoyavitch (sp?) appointing ANYone instead of having a special election is, well, it’s Illinois politics but it’s legal.
But Reid has absolutely no LEGAL authority to deny Burris entry. There’s nothing he can do. He can’t say no.
Last I checked we at least still pretended we were a country of laws.
So I took the book ‘The Road’ with me to bed last night. Read it in one sitting. McCarthy sure can write but holy SHIT was it gruesome.
Not really much else to say about it.
Charity homes built by hollywood start to crumble
RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart.
Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers, including Carter, in a record 17-day “blitz” organised by the charity Habitat for Humanity
*hurl*
So they’ve now explicitly tipped their hand:
In a letter addressed to President-elect Obama and his wife, Michelle, James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, makes an appeal for a carbon tax, ostensibly as a means for cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, a gas that’s allegedly causing a dangerous greenhouse effect and warming trend.
Some environmentalists are actually environmentalists. But not this guy and not his bloodthirsty horde of undead socialist class-envy shitbags.
Acting either out of boldness or desperation, Hansen goes on to reveal the environmentalist left’s deeper ambition: a collectivist redistribution of wealth. He recommends that the carbon tax be returned to the public in “equal shares on a per capita basis.”
Keep
Your
Filthy
Hands
Off
My
Money.
NOT YOURS!
Just a great line I read from a commenter over at Volokh Conspiracy
Someone commented that the Jews were very lucky to have arrived in New York City just as the garment industry was about to develop, and he responded: “Yes, and Henry Aaron was lucky to come to the plate so often just as a home run was about to be hit.”
I don’t post links to Caturday unless something really grabs me.
Yeah… I loled
I read Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book” a couple nights ago. It had that wonderful, increasingly rare quality of leaving me wanting. It’s about a boy who’s raised in a graveyard by ghosts and… well… stuff ;).
It’s cute, short, and written for young readers.
Something neat happens to Gaiman’s imagination when he writes for children or young adults. The result is usually pared down to the bare essentials, a bit dreamier and more like something you’d find in a collection of 300 year old fables.
I highly recommend it.
1 shot of Mikey’s Egg Nog
3 shots of Vodka w/ Casis (sp? some currant thing)
double shot of Canton (ginger infused congac)
2 double shots of Jameson 12 year.
3 shots of Grey Goose.
Before noon.
Then went to Balthazar for brunch. Had Fois Gras and Steak Tartare. Two of my favorite things.
No I didn’t drink last night.
But I sure as hell made up for it.
Happy New Year
*hic*
UPDATE: Whups, forgot. Had 2 shots of some bizarre concoction of a couple different rums and watermelon liquor, plus god knows what else. (Yes, also before noon.)
Happy New Year Intertoobz!
I had a thought last night which left me with more questions than answers:
The S&P 500 index rebalances semi-anually, and I think tonight is the night it happens.
When the list of what makes up the S&P 500 re-shuffles, the equities that dramatically underperformed the rest of the index will be removed. Now, let’s say a single industry did more poorly than the rest.
The result then is that the sector that underperformed will be correspondingly underrepresented in the S&P.
Given that financials took a dump in 2008 even worse than the rest of the world, they’re going to be pulled out of the S&P in larger measure, right?
Ok. So what is that going to do to the index at large, and what is THAT in turn going to do with reporting on the market?
The performance of the financial industry is going to be increasingly factored out.
Unfortunately I don’t have much in the way of predictions based on this. But I don’t think that financial equities are going to match the rest of the market, so what we’ll end up with is an index that’s a much more accurate representation of what’s going on, which is the point anyway.
I dunno. Just babbling. I’m still rolling this around in my head a bit. But I think there’s something here.
It's Funny Because They Aren't Gay
Jacked Guido #1: We goin tanning tonight?
Jacked Guido #2: I gotta get my eyebrows done first. (looks into a compact)
–Bowling Green
Overheard by: Victor J D.
via Overheard in New York, Dec 21, 2008
Sure.
Sure they aren’t.
I figured out several of the things that were sucking the life out of the battery on my newest toy. I had auto-sync set to a pretty retarded polling frequency for email, contacts, etc. So it was hitting the network every 5 minutes or so.
When I cut that nonsense out the battery life stretched out to something quite reasonable.
w00t!
Just got back from my whirlwind Ulster County, Poconos, Jersey tour of the last 5 days.
A couple things:
- The battery life on the google phone sucks ass.
Ok, just the one. I’m going to go play stupid video games and let my brain shut off the cares of the world for a while.
This is where I’d order a garlic & pepperoni pizza from My Little Pizza. But frankly the thought of eating something makes me want to …err… anti-eat.
Hope y’all had a Merry Christmas.
Alright you crazy kids. I’m heading out for my yearly nomadic Christmas pilgrimage. Posting will be lite, if indeed there will be any at all. I’ll probably be back at the console on Friday or at latest Saturday.
Merry Christmas o/
New Christmas Present for Mikey :-)
Just like I said I was gonna.
I’m seriously considering getting myself a G1 for Christmas.
Looking on eBay, the iPhones still seem to fetch quite a chunk of change. It may be that they could pay for the whole thing.
I’m trying to build some custom playlists with tracks I’m downloading from amazon. iTunes is locking up for minutes at a time for every track I ask it politely to import.
They’re all on my local disk (not on my media server across the otherwise unoccupied network.) It should be a simple straightforward QUICK operation. But iTunes is just being ass.
I wonder if Songbird can handle it.
Doin’ my Christmas shopping (thank you amazon) and listening to Pandora.com when on came a tune I’d never heard before by a new favorite artist of mine.
He’s just it.
The tune is “Whole ‘Notha Thang”
I like ‘em when they whispa
but I love ‘em when they scream
…
Only one thing make me
throw my money away
and that’s a little TLC
and a little T and A.
It’s so good. Only a couple clues in the lyrics give away that it wasn’t written 60 years ago.
I think there’s gonna be some Keb Mo in my stocking this year. Shit, I been good.
