Comments on: Friday open thread

By: suek

suek — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:53:26 +0000

Someone named Ben made this comment on another blog:

“Anyone who still respects Obama is looking at Obama in Community Activist Mode, in which problems are solved by generating complaints loud enough to cause other people to solve the problem.
In this light, Lee’s advice makes perfect sense. No success yet? You haven’t complained loud enough. Yell louder, LOUDER! So they’ll hear you all the way at the top!
Then the rich/smart/capable adults will fix the problem for you.
It has not yet dawned on them that Obama is at the top.”

It seemed to fit…

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:57:03 +0000

Re: Sadie’s link in #35:
Yeah, yeah, Barackie Baby, heard it all before, seen it all before. You’re a big empty mouth.
The oil pipeline explosion happened in April. Where have you been for six weeks, O Big Empty Mouth?

The Louisiana coast marshlands could have been protected by six berms. It required rather simple Executive Branch decisionmaking. Where were you, O Big Empty Mouth? Stonewalling, that’s where.

A tanker finally got out there in the last few days with the proper equipment, and its skimming operation is capturing 90% of the oil it targets. It took six weeks for this. O Big Empty Mouth.

So you were down there on the coast in that first week? Oh, really? Must have been one big wasted trip, O Big Empty Mouth. For you did nothing. By the way, I’m glad you “went to sleep at night and woke up in the morning thinking about the oil spill.” By the way, it wasn’t an oil spill, you big intellectual, you, you Chosen One you. O Big Empty Mouth.

O Big Empty Head. Or is it: Liar! Deceiver! Dissembler!

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. When the going gets tough, Obama covers his ass. Big Time. Coward. Liar. Deceiver. Dissembler.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:25:34 +0000

You've all heard that the president just hasn't shown any or enough emotion regarding the spill. Seems like he took one of those quickie acting classes (maybe Gibbs was coaching). Break out the popcorn ,one kernel will do, for 30 seconds of spell binding drama. This will have you on the edge of your chair, chewing on your nails, gasping for air ...oh, I don't want to give away the plot, but I suspect that the subtitles in the foreign news agencies will just be dazzled demanding an encore performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeFgGcelaTI&feature=player_embedded

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:42:18 +0000

Thanks Charles! The one thing I thought the Bilderberg group might agree on was that Obama was incompetent. Anything else they’d come up with I’d probably disagree with. Since they’re probably just a bunch of internationalist Euroweenies (no Winston Churchill or Hayek-types that I could see in the invitation list!)

And I *think* Timothy Geithner (Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury) was invited again. This invalidates the idea that the group itself might have worthwhile discussions or make competent decisions out of the public eye. Unless they keep sending him to get their drinks.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:56:39 +0000

“Ha! A random stream of electrons. THAT certainly would explain quite a bit.” Whenever Mike D starts off on one of his riffs. I've learned to tear myself away from the screen for a second, remove all liquids and mess-makers, replump my seat cushion and then settle in for pure merriment.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:00:31 +0000

Doesn’t a teleprompter get all steamy in the bathroom?

p.s. What a great rift in your post #28 – most enjoyable.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:51:09 +0000

Oh-ho, this fellow does a great takedown of Obama.

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/obama-s-motto–it-s-all-about-me-95716719.html

My favorite among many good ones:
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The president made a big deal (to paraphrase the vice president) about letting the nation know that he really, really — really — cares about this oil spill thing. We know this because he told us the odd story of how his young daughter surprised him in the bathroom as he shaved one morning and demanded to know: “Have you plugged the hole yet, Daddy?”
Isn’t that the cutest thing? Hope he didn’t nick his leg shaving [...]
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By: SADIE

SADIE — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:32:08 +0000

Oops, last paragraph repeated itself, other than buying gold as insurance.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:29:19 +0000

gpc31
Thanks for the link. I did do a little reading today. Of course, one site is pitched against another as to whom gathers and what the purpose of the annual get-together as in Davos, Switzerland.

The coincidence of the day for me was an article about investments on the same site, which I read earlier earlier elsewhere. Briefly, it focused on the copper, oil and gold. The writer was pushing the first two and he believed the oil would rise to $100 barrel by 2011 for all the reasons you can think of. I sent the article to a trusted friend and adviser for his opinion.
http://dianchu.blogspot.com/2010/06/crude-oil-and-copper-better-value-than.html

His response: I disagree. There’s a global slowdown (that’s why the market is down) and that oil and copper would also reflect the same downturn, but gold would not. Generally, his opinion is that there is an incredibly stupid monetary policy that is taking place here and elsewhere and that there is no end in sight for the level of incompetence.

I believe we are entering a world wide economic slowdown and so copper and oil will decline in value. I believe the stock market is sensing this slow down and that is why we are going down.
But I would buy gold here as insurance.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:25:43 +0000

I wish the Bilderberg-meisters would come to a quiet conclusion concerning what to do about the man-child Obama. ”He is like a deer in the headlights,” they have all concluded one evening; but the sentiment itself is voiced by Queen Beatrix. ”Incapable of movement or even blinking under crisis. Which may be a good thing. My God, have you seen the decisions this cretin has arrived at when he’s not just standing there stupidly staring?”

“His decisions, my dear?” another said. ”Or those of his closed Chicago circle of advisors?”
“Or perhaps the teleprompter came up with them, on its own,” another says chipperly.

“Ha! A random stream of electrons. THAT certainly would explain quite a bit.”

“I still can’t quite get over the fact that he could put no backup plan in place to even attempt to save his Louisiana marshes in the face of that oil platform accident,” sighed another. ”A basic step in risk mitigation, costing little. And then his bureaucrats stood in the way when someone – Vitter, was it? – attempted to be competent himself! Obama’s bureaucrats just shot him down. Refused to move an inch, much like Obama himself.”

“But I loved the photo-op,” said another. ”I can learn from that. Well, ta-da and good night! Time for me to have a dream of how to organize a community!”