Biden: "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'" Barack Obama's running mate recently told the "CBS Evening News."
Yeah, that's what he did alright. Then Abe Lincoln got on his cell phone and reminded Biden that FDR didn't take office until 4 years after the crash. Oh, PS: the first television station didn't exist until 1941. I guess FDR was thinking the people of the distant future needed reassurance that the crash of '29 was being taken care of. (64,598)
In other news, the spam levels in my inbox indicate that the botnets are back. Storm ain't just for 'X-Men' fanatics anymore.
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I just got back from a charity event at which (witch) there was a band, "Tribe 7," that had a really fantastic bass player. Though he looked kind of like a braided-hair version of th' drummer from th' New Power Generation, he played like Larry Graham on sugar high, tossing insectoid scrapes and gut-twisting low notes into popular jams like "Jenny from th' Block" and "Crazy in Love."
His instrument was one of those 90s-looking six-string models with fancy wood and a fretboard one could land a Cessna on -- maybe a Burns or something.
A lot of th' time, guys that use these six-string basses play like diseased llamas. You know, poorly-timed and with too many notes. This guy though, he sounded like th' world's dopest TR-303 sequence, he was so on-time and huge-toned.
With guys like this running around, is there even a reason for someone like me to play bass? What role does th' mediocre bass player have in our society? Maybe I should just toss my bass out th' window and hope it hits a hippie on th' noggin.
P.S. "Jenny from th' Block" is actually a pretty good tune when it has a Godzilla bassline behind it. It had th' oldies shaking it down like they were Mob enforcers.
Presidential candidatin' time once again, and for some people, it's time to ignore what actually matters and pick the dumbest issue possible to vote on.
In 2000, it was re-introduction of Pogs as a national trend. In 2004, it was gay marriage.
Now, it seems to be the economy. Except not. No it's about Change... no wait, it's about Hope!
That's it, hope!
Can you tactilely feel hope? Can you unfold some hope from your wallet and buy bread when it costs $40 a loaf?
As we're seeing, people chosen to head government agencies like "The Fed" have a bigger impact on your life than your perception of the president.
Unfortunately, that will have no bearing WHATSOEVER on who is elected in November.
Let's do a summary of economic policy from the 2 (3? No) frontrunners:
Obama's economic policy (at least, from his website) is an unending litany of nonsensical and mostly nonspecific populist cliches and exploitation of common economic misconceptions. It's kind of like a checklist of stereotypical democratic voting blocks.
I'm not going to go through all of it. Just bring it to any econ professor who's a fan of monetarism (PS, Alan Greenspan's a monetarist). Bring tissues, it'll be emotional.
Meanwhile, you have McCain who will probably soil his adult diapers and have a stroke in an inhuman surge of glee and vomit if he ever gets elected. Mainly I see him as retaining the Bush policy for the most part but I don't see the budget expanding by as much. This would mean four more years of stupidity and keyensian tomfoolery.
Hillary's out so I'm not going to bother looking up her stated views on the subject. Not like it'd matter anyway, as it's probably a lot of BS.
Neither candidate will balance the budget. Neither will fix the Fed.
What matters more than the president is going to be the people he puts in his cabinet, especially in the treasury and federal reserve. The current people (Bernanke, Paulson) are like a couple of 10 year olds trying to salvage a pot of spaghetti sauce they just drowned a cat in. Since it's pretty much a crap shoot, and hard for either of these idiots to be worse than it already is, I simply don't care.
If you need me November 4th, I'll be at the bar. (16,487)
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