tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post621026996571627730..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: Christmas Eve 2009: No Morals, No HazardIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-90308458694048027282009-12-27T16:56:12.480-05:002009-12-27T16:56:12.480-05:00el gallinazo said...
"Obama's acceptance ...el gallinazo said...<br />"Obama's acceptance speech in Oslo in a nutshell:<br />WAR IS PEACE<br />FREEDOM IS SLAVERY<br />IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"<br /><br />His actions make him look even more ridiculous and hypocritical now that he has the Peace Prize. Was that the intended consequence of giving it to him?NZSanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06676287221558805541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52396844515458751852009-12-27T16:14:43.516-05:002009-12-27T16:14:43.516-05:00New post up.
Eyes wide open and pedal to the met...New post up.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-27-2009-eyes-wide-open-and.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Eyes wide open and pedal to the metal</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7409144639548834102009-12-27T15:23:25.957-05:002009-12-27T15:23:25.957-05:00THERE ARE AND WILL BE A FLURRY OF BLOGS ADMITTING ...THERE ARE AND WILL BE A FLURRY OF BLOGS ADMITTING THAT THEY HAD MISSED OR GOT THEIR PREDICTIONS RIGHT FOR 2009.<br />THEY WILL ALSO BE MAKING THEIR PREDICTIONS FOR 2010.<br /><br />AS YOU FIND THEM ... GATHER THEM FOR A COMMENT POSTING.... THEY SHOULD MAKE FOR GOOD READING !<br /><br />JALjalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-6446161285170791392009-12-27T15:08:09.337-05:002009-12-27T15:08:09.337-05:00Greyzone @ 2:04 AM -
I'm with you on this one...Greyzone @ 2:04 AM -<br /><br />I'm with you on this one. Well said!<br /><br />Gracias!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41139698286556259702009-12-27T15:01:01.811-05:002009-12-27T15:01:01.811-05:00Greenpa said:
"So, by way of further yanking...Greenpa said:<br /><br /><i>"So, by way of further yanking Ahersa's chain, I'll just say that I forgive you all."</i><br /><br />Papa Greengo, thank you so much for absolving our sins! <br /><br />:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-62597118333754762262009-12-27T14:36:33.261-05:002009-12-27T14:36:33.261-05:00@sv koho
"My brother works for a giant const...@sv koho<br /><br />"My brother works for a giant construction company there building schools, government buildings and hospitals and he has all the work he can do."<br /><br />I was tempted to reply, "If you can repeat that in all honesty in 365 days, I will eat my pre-laundered shorts," but after the tornado has set us all down on the Yellow Brick Road, I am loath to swear el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10006867692248669342009-12-27T14:08:05.677-05:002009-12-27T14:08:05.677-05:00Good choice, Stoneleigh. Old Chuck was pretty jud...Good choice, Stoneleigh. Old Chuck was pretty judgmental about humanity's shortcomings- and managed to package it so folks hardly notice. <br /><br />My favorite bit from A Christmas Carol is this- expunged from most versions- from Wikipedia-<br /><br />The spirit of Christmas Present finally reveals to Scrooge two emaciated children, subhuman in appearance and loathsome to behold, clingingGreenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-22058525558611219732009-12-27T13:45:50.033-05:002009-12-27T13:45:50.033-05:00At this time of year it might be appropriate to ex...At this time of year it might be appropriate to examine points of view. How many recognize this quote?:<br /><br />"<i>It is enough for a man to know his own business, let alone interfering with anybody else's.</i>"<br /><br />This could be seen as the heart the of <i>laissez-faire</i> libertarianism. For those who don't recognize it, it comes from Dickens <i>A Christmas Carol</Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-47162100917315943412009-12-27T12:50:02.974-05:002009-12-27T12:50:02.974-05:00el gallinazo,
You have posed one of those questio...el gallinazo,<br /><br />You have posed one of those questions for the ages. As it happens, I have been this very morning struggling to make my tormented eyes read bits of a translation of Robert Michels' 1911 book <a href="http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/michels/polipart.pdf" rel="nofollow"><i>Political Parties</i></a>. There seems to be much worth understanding in this Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15868998197688917842009-12-27T12:42:02.618-05:002009-12-27T12:42:02.618-05:00El G - On the HCR bill I am even more taken aback ...El G - On the HCR bill I am even more taken aback by why the democrats pushed it through!? <br />Oh, of course, I about forgot, (not really) they are basically one and the same corporatetion party with a only a few dissimilar "leanings.<br /><br />But really, what difference does it make if the whole system is going to trench before the provisions of the HRC bill can even come to fruition, Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9629407766113835172009-12-27T12:14:15.445-05:002009-12-27T12:14:15.445-05:00Hi bluebird!
Since that story was written for a ...Hi bluebird! <br /><br />Since that story was written for a well to do middle class, the title should have been ... "MIDDLE CLASS EXPECTATIONS"<br />JALjalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-27003112788184124902009-12-27T11:45:40.521-05:002009-12-27T11:45:40.521-05:00Hi Greenpa!
Those rice terraces make me wonder.....Hi Greenpa!<br /><br />Those rice terraces make me wonder...<br />.... 2,000 to 6,000 years is a long time<br /><br />Were they a doomstead?<br /><br />Were they outlying outpost of a trading culture?<br /><br />What economic and monetary/trading/value system did they use?<br /><br />Their socio/econ system outlasted OURS many times over. <br />Were they able to produce a leisure class of jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36566762593235680042009-12-27T11:14:11.316-05:002009-12-27T11:14:11.316-05:00JAL - very cool! I knew there were old rice terra...JAL - very cool! I knew there were old rice terraces in the Philippines, but no details. Very neat stuff.Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58721680947355921122009-12-27T11:07:38.242-05:002009-12-27T11:07:38.242-05:00El Gal- "Greenpa does seem to seem to spend a...El Gal- "Greenpa does seem to seem to spend an awful lot of time ruminating on long shots. Wonder if his favorite hound came in lately :-)"<br /><br />I will confess to keeping an eye on long-shots and "bottleneck" events. Probably stems from my primary profession of evolutionary ecologist- you tend to think in mostly in sensible time units; like 10,000 years or so. On that Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1833083217701496182009-12-27T11:02:52.311-05:002009-12-27T11:02:52.311-05:00Well, I do have a question (with no definitive ans...Well, I do have a question (with no definitive answer in my mind), so I'll throw it out to the deep thinkers here on a lazy Sunday.<br /><br />Why are the Republican's so opposed to the HCR bill that has just emerged from the Senate?<br /><br />It gives Big Insurance everything it wants except for one clause, the pre-existing conditions. It forces everyone, down to the poor and unwashed,el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17446495256606187352009-12-27T11:02:39.273-05:002009-12-27T11:02:39.273-05:00Thanks Illargi for such a rich trove of new posts ...Thanks Illargi for such a rich trove of new posts and news and opinion I can't seem to find anywhere else and thank you for keeping the comment discourse here civil. The ranting of trolls adds nothing to an already dispirited world. We hope your sig other is enjoying her visit to the dark side.The general consensus here is Armageddon is nigh which I think is a possibility, but I think it moresv kohohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11058401490041584973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-67543722969829031332009-12-27T10:46:30.300-05:002009-12-27T10:46:30.300-05:00Fiction story in The New Yorker by Helen Simpson. ...Fiction story in The New Yorker by Helen Simpson. Foreshadowing of the future?<br /> <br /><a title="Diary of an Interesting Year" href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/12/21/091221fi_fiction_simpson?currentPage=all" rel="nofollow">Diary of an Interesting Year</a>bluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600634086150466162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75078365802002696172009-12-27T10:15:26.911-05:002009-12-27T10:15:26.911-05:00Greyzone - Well put! You took the wind out of my ...Greyzone - Well put! You took the wind out of my sails, but hey, it's a sunny day and I'll just drift for a while.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-34780585180240961842009-12-27T10:12:22.031-05:002009-12-27T10:12:22.031-05:00Russia Today does an amusing to retort to Fair and...Russia Today does an amusing to retort to Fair and Balanced<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAlV5QFGUjw&feature=player_embedded<br /><br />@WgS<br /><br />..."frankly we need more diversity and better representation of the populous regardless of how the money gets divvied up."<br /><br />Wonder why you read this blog? You are more of an BET type of person. But I guess el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57390241057099124922009-12-27T09:05:33.082-05:002009-12-27T09:05:33.082-05:00"No, his job, if anything, is just to act pre..."No, his job, if anything, is just to act pretty and pick up whatever peace prizes are thrown his way, and he knows this." <br /><br /><br /><br />I hear a lot of things in this comment section that cause me to say "Oh wow!" but this wins a prize --itself reading like the backlash of the entrenched against any person who has ever gotten hired or secured an opportunity via Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44162743430271091612009-12-27T03:26:46.668-05:002009-12-27T03:26:46.668-05:00Greyzone said...
In my opinion, the Democrats...Greyzone said...<br /> <i> In my opinion, the Democrats and Republicans are alike where it counts - being dictated to by their corporate masters. </i><br /><br />Yes!<br /><br />I knew it was 'game over' when Obama appointed Larry Summers to be Chief Economic adviser instead of Paul Volker. TPTB have chosen wisely; It was easy to despise Bush, I still want to like Obama.woodsy_gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16332892201134992904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-28208407129866946542009-12-27T02:04:41.301-05:002009-12-27T02:04:41.301-05:00In my opinion, the Democrats and Republicans are a...In my <i>opinion</i>, the Democrats and Republicans are alike where it counts - being dictated to by their corporate masters. You didn't see healthcare reform under Republicans because that is not their assigned role. (Note: The current healthcare reform is not reform and will ultimately destroy the remaining healthcare system, which may be its intent.)<br /><br />Those in power see the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9635713403480145122009-12-27T00:57:16.408-05:002009-12-27T00:57:16.408-05:00Greenpa said...
“My host was no slouch on Chinese ...Greenpa said...<br />“My host was no slouch on Chinese history; but he had no idea when people had actually lived and farmed there. Before a collapse. Long, long long ago. And the population had never come back. That particular real estate never got back on the market, ever.”<br /><br />And so it goes for so much of history everywhere.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71354679400400456512009-12-26T23:26:45.397-05:002009-12-26T23:26:45.397-05:00I wonder how truly accurate the dismissive hand of...I wonder how truly accurate the dismissive hand of ‘they’re all the same’ and “same shit, different day” really is. Are the D’s and R’s really one and the same, or are they disparate components operating within a system of mediating influence, much like a common “corporate mother-color” graying down the innate hue of a red and blue. That seems to be EL G’s take on it, or at least the way I Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02818666639049192595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-83359552028295634952009-12-26T23:04:23.042-05:002009-12-26T23:04:23.042-05:00Here's another quote from the South Sea Bubble...Here's another quote from the South Sea Bubble chapter of "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds." <br /><br />"Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later." <br /><br />And here's a link to our nation's most recent desperate gamble: http://online.wsj.com/articlebosuncookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07560613908076783621noreply@blogger.com