tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post2549935317788804353..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: August 28 2009: The camel's backIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-20792286414547943312009-08-31T06:36:12.073-04:002009-08-31T06:36:12.073-04:00As to South Florida's Stoneleigh prediction co...As to South Florida's Stoneleigh prediction collection,<br />I have contacted the_automatic_earth_fan who put the last ones for download on his site and waiting for a reply. Though I used to repair Mac computers, I have very little knowledge about web site construction. Just never got into it.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-22054959828472975302009-08-30T23:30:36.457-04:002009-08-30T23:30:36.457-04:00Another benefit of high ceilings--before there was...Another benefit of high ceilings--before there was air conditioning, big eaves and high ceilings were used to keep homes in hot places a bit more hospitable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57909762246814412022009-08-30T21:41:23.712-04:002009-08-30T21:41:23.712-04:00New post up.New post up.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52100080718915025402009-08-30T21:40:55.214-04:002009-08-30T21:40:55.214-04:00Leona,
The people who built your house the way th...Leona,<br /><br />The people who built your house the way they did might not be the idiots they seem to be. First, steep roofs tend to shed show and water better than flatter roofs. Second, they don't tend to blow off in high winds to the extent flatter roofs do. Tall pointed structures cause the winds to swirl around behind them. Lower flatter roofs tend to develop a partial vacuum above Pentronicusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13207521598289744552009-08-30T21:00:46.081-04:002009-08-30T21:00:46.081-04:00Aesthete,
Don't worry, it's coming. If me...Aesthete,<br /><br />Don't worry, it's coming. If memory serves, Ilargi has missed only 3 days out of the last 19 months or so. He won't be giving up any time soon ;)Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17213416109945635012009-08-30T20:26:34.393-04:002009-08-30T20:26:34.393-04:00Aesthete - You are more coy than a coy ote! :-)
N...Aesthete - You are more coy than a coy ote! :-) <br />Nudging the host to issue another post with a modest tempering of challenge.<br /><br />I think we may be in the eye of the hurricane and Ilargi sleeps to advantage.Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58178608019163557652009-08-30T20:25:58.167-04:002009-08-30T20:25:58.167-04:00I have a similar drafty old farmhouse. My plan is...I have a similar drafty old farmhouse. My plan is to build an earth-bermed greenhouse as a "front" to a small winter underground shelter in case heating fuel gets too expensive too quickly. (Farmhouse is very old and was designed for freeze/thaw cycles so has no plaister)<br /><br /><br />Leona said: "Why.. why.. why would people build houses this tall out in the middle of the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-76191431748150587792009-08-30T19:42:24.543-04:002009-08-30T19:42:24.543-04:00It’s official, the recession is over.
Ever since ...It’s official, the recession is over.<br /><br />Ever since last fall, Ilargi has been indefatigable, a Tarahumara marathon man at the typewriter. Never mind missing a day, during the apex of the crisis Ilargi was producing two posts of high -quality analysis and observation each and every day.<br /><br />Obviously, I welcome better economic days; but I must admit to already missing the daily Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79919305047467606782009-08-30T18:59:18.130-04:002009-08-30T18:59:18.130-04:00BTW do you or anyone know who did the pushing on g...<i>BTW do you or anyone know who did the pushing on getting Canadian home mortgaes 100% insured by the taxpayer? My wife Madame D. wants to contemplate his, her , their name(s) while she knits.<br /><br />-M. DeFarge</i><br /><br />I don't have a name. The only ones "insured 100%" are the mortgages that were already insured because they had put less than 10% down payment.<br /><br /jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89931125630437075682009-08-30T18:29:41.379-04:002009-08-30T18:29:41.379-04:00With the change in political ruling parties in Jap...With the change in political ruling parties in Japan, does this have any implications in the U.S., such as will Japan buy more or less of our debt? And how would this affect the dollar?bluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600634086150466162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-47563205972085365442009-08-30T18:05:07.652-04:002009-08-30T18:05:07.652-04:00The only housing market left in the US a taxpayer ...<i>The only housing market left in the US a taxpayer sponsored one. Bottom? My a..., eh, bottom.</i><br /><br />Now don't go casting stones ilargi we live in a glass real estate market up here too.<br /><br />BTW do you or anyone know who did the pushing on getting Canadian home mortgaes 100% insured by the taxpayer? My wife Madame D. wants to contemplate his, her , their name(s) while she Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9673694496215790912009-08-30T16:30:34.986-04:002009-08-30T16:30:34.986-04:00Continued from above due to large size.
Definitio...Continued from above due to large size.<br /><br />Definition of terms with examples:<br /><br />For a business: Economic interests are those products, innovations or actions that result in a better, cheaper, or otherwise more competitive product whereas a business's political interest shall be defined as any legislative action, policy, or public perception that gives a business a competitiveteam10timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12100467801841348435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36293473364289452202009-08-30T16:29:57.336-04:002009-08-30T16:29:57.336-04:00* in my original theory I had used the word stupid...* in my original theory I had used the word stupidity instead of the word bad. As I was thinking of a brilliant <a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4611/418278" rel="nofollow">quote adaption</a> by <a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/user/GreenEngineer" rel="nofollow">GreenEngineer</a> at the time. The quote is "Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."team10timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12100467801841348435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-3466502533331277372009-08-30T16:28:41.210-04:002009-08-30T16:28:41.210-04:00Hey hey Everybody,
I had an idea and I wanted s...Hey hey Everybody,<br /><br /> I had an idea and I wanted some feedback on it. I finally started graduate school for economics and I was musing about Adam Smith's invisible hand, not the hand every already knows about, the other hand.<br /><br /> Adam Smith basically said that businesses and individuals pursuing their own <b>economic</b> interests unintentionally create a global good team10timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12100467801841348435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-86552977837703520102009-08-30T16:06:29.990-04:002009-08-30T16:06:29.990-04:00@ anon
"Since Fannie and Freddie hold most o...@ anon <br />"Since Fannie and Freddie hold most of the mortgages in the U.S., the US government essentially is the 'landlord' for most of the residential dwellings. "<br /><br />That is called a 'crown corporation"<br /><br />Housing crisis averted ... homeless, wageless will get subsidized housing.<br /><br />Hummm! You put someone on "welfare" then you clawjalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13865833589941885272009-08-30T15:48:26.678-04:002009-08-30T15:48:26.678-04:00Oil refiner says CO2 bill to cost it $7 billion a ...Oil refiner says CO2 bill to cost it $7 billion a year<br /><br />He said the bill, which would require refiners to hold or purchase permits for the amount of carbon dioxide their plants and fuels produce, would cost Valero some $6 billion to $7 billion per year.<br /><br />That is more than the net income it made during 2006, its best year of net income for refining so far.<br /><br />He said a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-14392356211646645532009-08-30T15:27:25.797-04:002009-08-30T15:27:25.797-04:00El G or South Florida,
please link to the documen...El G or South Florida,<br /><br />please link to the document with Stoneleigh's posts, again. You can upload to scribd.com if you don't want to post it on a webpage. Thanks, :-)institutionalizednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-16919268387881556612009-08-30T14:54:02.828-04:002009-08-30T14:54:02.828-04:00I just broke, I snapped, clean out of reality, int...I just broke, I snapped, clean out of reality, into the world of conspiracy and prophecy.<br /><br />I was actually about to enact a scene from the End Times, by accusing BB of being the devil incarnate, and sacrificing myself to him as a lamb, when he decieved me into becoming sane.<br /><br />Then it ocurred to me that the name "Abaddon" from the Bible's revelations<br />is Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57736077142776641192009-08-30T14:48:12.992-04:002009-08-30T14:48:12.992-04:00Since Fannie and Freddie hold most of the mortgage...Since Fannie and Freddie hold most of the mortgages in the U.S., the US government essentially is the 'landlord' for most of the residential dwellings. <br /><br />We have become one big giant Company Town, where the leading employer owns most of the homes in town.<br /><br />If Fannie and Freddie decided to 'rent' all the houses they held the garbage mortgage paper on, all that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-85448752762545723822009-08-30T13:59:25.476-04:002009-08-30T13:59:25.476-04:00U.S. banks face a tsunami of home foreclosures soo...U.S. banks face a tsunami of home foreclosures soon, says David Karsbol, chief economist at Saxo Bank. <br />Homeowners may be faced with no choice and will just stop paying their mortgages, he warns. <br />“I believe we are about to see a tsunami of foreclosures in the U.S. A lot of homes have been held back because if the banks are foreclosing on them they will have to do a writedown on the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-12605768506210351822009-08-30T13:42:35.488-04:002009-08-30T13:42:35.488-04:00Leona; "Why.. why.. why would people build ho...Leona; "Why.. why.. why would people build houses this tall out in the middle of the prairie? "<br /><br />I think the primary answer is: social status. Multiple books I'm familiar with talk about the social stigma of living in a soddy, or a log cabin with "hog pen" corners, instead of "dovetail".<br /><br />The stigma passed to the children, of course.<br /><brGreenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-28556836214240175242009-08-30T13:34:10.785-04:002009-08-30T13:34:10.785-04:00OMG!! :-)
Remember my crack about "volcanoe...OMG!! :-)<br /><br />Remember my crack about "volcanoes going off; sure sign the recession is over!"?<br /><br />Here we are!! The very next day!! close enough!<br /><br />"CNN With winds of 115 mph, Hurricane Jimena has Mexico's Baja California peninsula in its sights. The Category 3 storm is expected to to moved toward Baja California, according to the National Hurricane Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58138912164832278632009-08-30T12:50:45.225-04:002009-08-30T12:50:45.225-04:00LOS ANGELES, Aug 30 (Reuters) - In the battle of h...LOS ANGELES, Aug 30 (Reuters) - In the battle of horror franchises, "The Final Destination" scared off a challenge from "Halloween II" to claim top honors at the weekend box office in North America, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.<br /><br />"The Final Destination" sold $28.3 million worth of tickets during its first three days, while the latest "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44844726686606264382009-08-30T12:42:10.699-04:002009-08-30T12:42:10.699-04:00As a "northerner" living on the prairie-...As a "northerner" living on the prairie-- I stare up puzzled at my tall house (close to 40 feet- 15 foot high attic alone!!). It's the tallest thing on the landscape next to the silos.<br /><br />Why.. why.. why would people build houses this tall out in the middle of the prairie? Tornadoes, -60 degree F chills that can last for days. Not practical. But it is the infrastructure Leonanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71536179135499600582009-08-30T11:57:52.073-04:002009-08-30T11:57:52.073-04:0057% Would Like to Replace Entire Congress
http://t...57% Would Like to Replace Entire Congress<br />http://tinyurl.com/n4brqg<br /><br />That would be some change you could believe in, wouldn't stop the collapse of the debt backed monetary system though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com