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Obstreperous Infidel says:

March 18, 2011 at 8:06 pm

I’m thinking that Obama is a fucking dick. Amiright?

antillious says:

March 18, 2011 at 8:09 pm

I’m not worried, the stalwart pragmatists of the GOP took care of that in the recent CR. 6 Billion, that’s WAAAYY bigger than the 2.7 billion oversight that Obama just made.

… Oh, 2.7 trillion. My bad.

Hmm, maybe it’s time for some Squid-brand products and a trip to DC.

McGehee says:

March 18, 2011 at 8:29 pm

Obama understates deficits by $2.3 trillion

Aw, come on. He bets more than that on a three-foot putt.

Danger says:

March 18, 2011 at 8:42 pm

But he has put the fear of Allah in Kadaffy!

What?

Belay my last!

Somebody call the bullpen and tell em to send out the righty (Bush) PRONTO!

ironpacker says:

March 18, 2011 at 9:12 pm

Every day President Skidmark makes the Carter Aministration look shinier. How much longer can the MBM polish this turd?

Stephanie says:

March 18, 2011 at 9:39 pm

Jeff, seems there might be an open tag in somenthing somewhere on the blog… every post I open does not ever finish processing. It is all there in lovely splendor, but the little spinning thing in Firefox just.keeps.spinning. Every thread. I have to manually hit the stop button for it to, well, stop.

Might want to look over your code and see if one of the ads or sidebars is misbehaving. I figure it must be in the frame of the blog as all the posts are doing it. At least in FF.

serr8d says:

March 18, 2011 at 9:44 pm

Of interest to squid, and others who support using his product.

motionview says:

March 18, 2011 at 10:03 pm

That $6B cut re-conceptualized for our innumerate society:
It’s the difference between $38.34 and $38.28 for Red Dead Redemption when you’ve only got $26 bucks and you already owe Pay-Day-Today more than 140 bucks. 6 cents. And the cowboy hate, of course.

mojo says:

March 18, 2011 at 10:28 pm

…Come on me lads, fuck ’em all
The long and the short and the tall
We’ll raise a commotion
Across the wide ocean
So come on me lads, fuck ’em all!

Stephanie says:

March 18, 2011 at 10:32 pm

I think the blog issue is the whos among us feature which ain’t letting go of the code. At least in FF. And yes I’m up to date including java and all the other blog scripting languages. It was doing this the other day and stopped and is back again. FWIW.

geoffb says:

March 18, 2011 at 11:27 pm

Stephanie.

I run FF and am having no trouble like that. Of course I run an old version 3.5 something in order to continue to use my “text formatting toolbar”.

I have had occasional hiccups but usually it seems to be my ISP or my router.

geoffb says:

March 18, 2011 at 11:29 pm

Obama just figures that the bigger hole he digs the easier it will be to sink that one putt that he has spent his entire life working towards holing dead center.

Jeff G. says:

March 18, 2011 at 11:38 pm

I run FF (latest update, I think), and I’m not having that problem either, Stephanie.

My site is always buggy though. It’ll probably resolve on its own

Stephanie says:

March 18, 2011 at 11:55 pm

It usually does. But, damn, with this many posts by a wonderfully verbose Mr. Goldstein, I aint gonna sweat it (keep it up, please). I put a post it on the monitor to remind me to hit the stop button on refresh. Damned OCD. Now I’m doing it on all websites.

John Bradley says:

March 19, 2011 at 2:55 am

Not seeing the never-stop-loading behavior myself, either with FF 3.6 or IE7 or IE8.

That said, you can kill off some of the extraneous, and possibly problematic, widgetry (like that bar thingy at the bottom of the page) by adding a few lines to your hosts file:

127.0.0.1 cdn.wibiya.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 w.sharethis.com
127.0.0.1 platform.twitter.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

Personally, I just don’t trust externally-sourced <script> tags. No telling what shenanigans they could be up to. But that’s me…

McGehee says:

March 19, 2011 at 5:29 am

The only persistent problem I ever get with PW (aside from the occasional turds-in-the-punchbowl from RD or the Yelf) is sometimes it seems the server just hangs up the “Back in a Minute” sign and won’t even start to load. But it’s infrequent so I don’t complain about it.

Mr B says:

March 19, 2011 at 8:07 am

I’ve been trying to understand our incredible spending patterns for some time now. One thing I keep coming back to is the Triffin dilemma. It seems to me our reserve currency status has allowed us the ability to spend like idiots. Now, the game is over. Or so it seems. What comes next is the unknown part. http://www.myganns.com/2009/04/of-triffins-dilemma-and-chinas-ambition.html

Can we explain all the current budget fighting over a willingness, or lack thereof, to confront the dilemma we are facing? What I mean is, do they know we are fucked and they just don’t know how to break it to us? Or are they doing everything they can to keep the gig going? For good reason?

In that link above, he makes it clear that we have many distinct advantages to keeping the status quo. But, I don’t think that is possible. The scary part is, if we see them actually hack and slash spending, does that mean the US has lost significant power? Is it a good thing to have a global reserve currency or have China become that reserve? I’ve heard “unsustainable” a lot over the last few years.

I may be an idiot on this, but my intellectual curiosity keeps driving me. Perhaps I’m linking two independent financial aspects. But, I keep getting the impression they blend together. And our domestic spending appears to be driven by a result of that long held global financial status. With that in mind, I don’t think they are going to cut spending significantly until they have to.

I’d appreciate any opposing references or enlightenment.

Wm T Sherman says:

March 19, 2011 at 10:10 am

OT: The majesty of the criminal justice system.
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In the undisputed findings, [Judge] Salcido subsequently sent e-mails to the entertainment lawyer promising to line up interesting cases for a future potential filming.

Such messages create “an appearance of impropriety for the judge to represent that she would manipulate her calendar for non-judicial purposes, ” the finding, signed by vice chairperson Katherine Feinstein, a Superior Court judge in San Francisco, reads.

http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-san-diego/san-diego-county-judge-to-resign-after-reality-tv-audition-falls-flat

The panel said that from April 2009 to April 2010, Salcido kept up a running commentary from the bench. After finding out that one man with mental health problems was hearing voices, she said, “You’re going to tell me if they say ‘hurt the judge, hurt the judge.’ ” She once encouraged the audience to chant “woo-woo-woo” when she was questioning a defendant and led them in reading aloud a motivational sign posted in her courtroom.

Few escaped her commentary. She referred to court staff as “cucumbers,” and belittled Richard Longman, a public defender, as the “slowest public defender we have” and “Mr. Federal Case.”

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/10/judge-salcido-resign-after-public-censure/#

geoffb says:

March 19, 2011 at 10:46 am

What I mean is, do they know we are fucked and they just don’t know how to break it to us? Or are they doing everything they can to keep the gig going? For good reason?

It could be that for some they know exactly what they are doing and the effect it will have in the end and consider that as the end that they desire. That would be a “good” reason but the “good” is seen as so only from a certain point of view.

Too many seem to give the left the benefit of the excuse of stupidity or fecklessness. I tend to give them credit for knowing what they are doing and that the results are what they wish them to be.

Another piece that is somewhat on topic here.