tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post85311734509112536..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: Debt Rattle, March 31 2008Ilargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-67686774108069097572008-03-31T22:56:00.000-04:002008-03-31T22:56:00.000-04:00Iowa Boy,Your efforts on our behalf are very much ...Iowa Boy,<BR/><BR/>Your efforts on our behalf are very much appreciated. I've written a couple of dairies over at Daily Kos myself, but I'm not sure I understand how the site works well enough for them to have any effect. Do people have to know you and vote to recommend your work? What are the factors that affect what gets noticed?<BR/><BR/>I'd be happy to join in the discussion at your diaries Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-51650215027026785542008-03-31T18:52:00.000-04:002008-03-31T18:52:00.000-04:00OC.That ABCP thing is getting out of hand, Crawfor...OC.<BR/><BR/>That ABCP thing is getting out of hand, Crawford should be held personally responsible for what happens, and then someone should quote him saying after 6 months into the process that he had no idea about the small investors. What a doofus.<BR/><BR/>All of a sudden the House of Commons wants no part of it anymore: there's only votes to lose, they've figured out. I hope the small guys Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71886482806279837532008-03-31T18:22:00.000-04:002008-03-31T18:22:00.000-04:00And I just remember that a good way to get traffic...And I just remember that a good way to get traffic this way, something I always find a bit hard to do myself, is through messages posted at the various groups at http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/.<BR/><BR/>It's "a tad" opaque in its "inner workings" (I still have to figure it out), but one single message in a Citigroup group, posted by someone I don't know, delivered a veritable avalanche of Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-37039126032926921232008-03-31T18:14:00.000-04:002008-03-31T18:14:00.000-04:00Stranded Iowa Wind BoyI've been following your exp...Stranded Iowa Wind Boy<BR/><BR/>I've been following your exploits on DailyKos through our site traffic data, and man, you've been busy lately.<BR/><BR/>Maybe I can join that discussion. I'll certainly push Stoneleigh to do so. <BR/><BR/>Your assessment today is smack on. Is it wise to tell people the loss has already occurred? I you present it as a thing of the past, most likely they'll think Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-18448346241372870902008-03-31T17:33:00.000-04:002008-03-31T17:33:00.000-04:00It would be nice if the regulars here would all co...It would be nice if the regulars here would all commit to reading this when it is posted, the meeting an hour later at http://dailykos.com for a diary do by the userid "The Automatic Earth", and pumping the diary until it gets notice. The primary noise makes it very hard to break into the recommend list and thusly gain wider visibility unless there at least half a dozen people actively engaged in.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03915219261001181341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58083452295114302022008-03-31T17:22:00.000-04:002008-03-31T17:22:00.000-04:00iowaboy, I laughed at ' congresscritters". In Cana...iowaboy, I laughed at ' congresscritters". In Canada our elected representative members of the Harper gov't are not alound to speak independently. All their communication to voters must be approved/altered/spun by an information officer. I call these people " creatures".I've read that Hitler had these " creatures" everywhere who could trump even generals during war. <BR/>Alas, crystalradio, we scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-48432385152879710752008-03-31T16:57:00.000-04:002008-03-31T16:57:00.000-04:00As I read recently, if the economy is going into '...As I read recently, if the economy is going into 'the way back machine' to an earlier era, maybe the Bankster Boyz of Wall St, summering in the Hampton, needs to have a visit to the old fashion 'Justice Tree'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-68824941449834879172008-03-31T16:09:00.000-04:002008-03-31T16:09:00.000-04:00Jim K, has a point. I look at all the kids that ha...Jim K, has a point. I look at all the kids that have grown up with Mom and dad paying for stuff that I could never afford at their age. I had a job sacking groceries at 16, a paper route before that. Taught you the value of work and income.<BR/><BR/>Much of todays youth have no such value system. They are going to be some angry Peed off, little monsters that will look at older people and blame bicycle mechanichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17008971495294158347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9618880810142675572008-03-31T15:43:00.000-04:002008-03-31T15:43:00.000-04:00Liberals to forgo seeking Finance hearings on ABCP...<A HREF="http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080331.wabcp0331/BNStory/robNews/home" REL="nofollow">Liberals to forgo seeking Finance hearings on ABCP</A>Farmerodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03492165772535123915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-18717973251504791742008-03-31T15:37:00.000-04:002008-03-31T15:37:00.000-04:00Hi ilargi,Just reading your response to Greyzone o...Hi ilargi,<BR/><BR/>Just reading your response to Greyzone on yesterdays DB. Gee you make me feel not so all alone out here!:)<BR/><BR/><BR/> As far as our much acclaimed ability of reasoning goes, in itself it is another evolutionary dead end, particularly when tied to ego. Unable to distinguish between our self and the ideas we hold we confuse the self with idea, the latter being mutable andAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53789288669863161852008-03-31T15:13:00.000-04:002008-03-31T15:13:00.000-04:00http://tinyurl.com/3cqhodI put a diary up over at ...http://tinyurl.com/3cqhod<BR/><BR/>I put a diary up over at DailyKos about this stuff ... trying to get people wound up enough to call their Congresscritters about it..https://www.blogger.com/profile/03915219261001181341noreply@blogger.com