He’s about 50 minutes late so far, but honestly, isn’t that about par for the course?
While we wait, enjoy these video flashbacks:
We’ve lost a couple trillion in asset values in the market in the last handful of days. Is it too late to admit that we hope he fails?
He’s giving another speech? Geez Louise.
So he’s going for “asshole”. May have seen that coming.
We didn’t need a rating agency to tell us what he clearly didn’t recognize when he demanded a clean ceiling increase and submitted a budget that did nothing to address the debt or rein in spending. Lying right out of the gate.
I wish I were surprised.
Yup. He blames S&P and the TEA Party.
Had we simply just spent an additional 2.5 Trillion with no cuts, all would be honky-dory.
Delusional. He’s going to crash the market.
He says “default” used as a bargaining chip for spending cuts. A default that wouldn’t have happened. A “default” he has now conflated with “government shut down”. Because without government, all vanishes.
Lie. Lie. Lie.
Lie. Lie. Lie.
Saying something over and over again, and the media dutifully reporting the lie, makes it truth. Consensus!
“I intend to present my own recommendations over the coming weeks on how we should proceed.”
How about NOW, you fucking moron? How about you at least act like you give a shit and have been thinking about this?
No, let’s wait weeks for The Emperor’s New Plan v0.0.
We saw the unemployment “insurance” benefits extensions pushed last week. Heartless Republicans will resist of course, and be damned.
We’ve been going through a tough time ever since you were inaugurated.
Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism!
We need a fast and furious resignation.
He’s hitting all the usual notes: Can’t cut spending anymore (really? wtf?), rich people not paying their fair share, blames the tsunami in Japan (again, really?), etc. The best part was when he claimed the markets are responding positively. He must mean the Bizarro Market.
It’s politics and ideology, not over-spending, that caused this, Obama says.
Okay. CC&B and a flat tax that takes away tax loopholes for yacht owners, private jet owners, and millionaires and billionaires and lets everyone pay their “fair share” should be packaged by the GOP right now and passed through the House.
Perhaps the Democrats will even manage a vote in the Senate. Or a budget. Or something.
If we taxed everybody in the country at 100%, how much would we still owe?
Taxes ain’t the problem.
We can’t cut spending anymore?
How about we start with some before we start complaining that we can’t cut any more.
Honestly. He’s now decided to go for the kill. He’s going to bring the whole stinkin’ thing down.
BARACKALYPSE NOW
Boy howdy, after watching that steaming pile of poo, one can conclude that either (a) Barack Oblahma and his White House are SO FAR out of touch with the rest of America, that they really don’t have a clue what needs to happen in order to get our financial house in order, or
(b) they’re crashing the country on purpose.
G-d help us.
I am not sure if that is Tim Geithner or Jay Carney speaking.
“It’s politics and ideology, not over-spending, that caused this, Obama says.”
Well, he’s right insofar as HIS politics and ideology (ie, overspending) did cause this mess.
So, how much time do we have, a few years, or a few months?
We’d better have a year and a half, or it’s Planet Of The Apes, oldschool.
the man has less credibilitah than Bernie Madoff wtf can he possibly say?
So this is what it’s like to be in the water four hundred miles off-shore, having just seen your ship go to the bottom. Glad it’s summertime.
whatever he’s saying it’s making it worse
this is nonsense
Did we just get told to eat our peas?
I didn’t see it(I have a weak stomach for lying liars) but Linbaugh said he looked grim.
What I want to know is, was it black haired Obama the dynamo that showed up, or the greying Obama the serious statesman?
We need to consider the extreme stress and emotional punishment this great man is enduring for us. What color was his hair? THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW!!
MORE STIMULUS PROPOSALS COMING!
By the way, the credit downgrade is a kind of tax increase. So what he’s calling for is an increase on top of that.
Will the media report the numbers — that all the millionaires and billionaires in the country, should we confiscate all their wealth, couldn’t run this country for even a year?
Debbie Wasserman Shutz said that the Obama Administration and the Democrats own this economy!
Lee, I feel so bad about how the office is aging Obama that I think he should resign for his children’s sake. They need a father.
that all the millionaires and billionaires in the country, should we confiscate all their wealth, couldn’t run this country for even a year?
But I bet Michelle could cobble together a fabulous outfit.
We might be better off using the frozen-pea bag as a salve for the headache.
So, what is everyone going to be planting in their garden? Remember to keep it hidden from plain view so the authorities won’t arrest you for competing with Federally subsidized farmers.
heh
could be said of Obama’s speech today
The president also said that “no matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be a triple-A country.”
Someday, we may graduate to the majors. But not until we get some better talent on the roster.
Market is fucking melting down.
I’m pretty sure all my neighbors are growing, ummm…hemp, so I think I’ll stick with veggies.
Just for diversity of diet.
The Dow just broke 11,000 (negatively) Own It!
Barack Obama: Debt Man Walking!
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I think the Joker just announced that the inmates have seized control of Arkham.
RAAAAACIST!
You think Rick Moran’s white guilt has been assuaged enough that he might actually admit what’s going on?
Or do you think he’ll stick with blaming we Visigoths?
It occurs to me a market crash and the resultant gnashing of teeth would be a good excuse for Obama to nationalize our 401K’s.
For our own good of course…
Jeff,
What would David Brooks do?
[I had originally put in David Gergen but then realized how old that makes me look. BTW, do you remember when Gergen was the “right,” as in Gergen-Shields, on the Macneil-Lehrer show?]
Limbaugh thinks the fed reserve might be buying futures to try to manipulate the news and show a market rebound on calls for tax increases.
Except he’s making them worthless, Lee.
Roddy —
What would David Brooks do? Besides blame the TEA Party, you mean?
I dunno. Have a scone?
Easier to blame the Visigoths than to face what needs facing, don’t you think?
“Except he’s making them worthless, Lee.”,/i>
From our point of view, yes. From his point of view there’s a whole lotta revenue being contributed to pension plans every month…
That was a tour-de-force of quality lying. Where is the Republican Rapid Response Team? There should have been a press conference within the past half hour by Boehner refuting the lies Barack Obama just disgorged onto the American people.
Run the country? It wouldn’t close this year’s deficit, if memory serves.
Memorandum From The Future, Episode 22:
From: Barack Obama, President of the Unites States
To: OFA Regional Heads, Richard Trumka (AFL-CIO), Mary Kay Henry (SEIU)
Dear Comrades,
Execute Order 66.
Love,
Barack
Jeff, one minor correction, if you took all the income of the highest earning Americans this year it wouldn’t fund the operation of our reditributive progressive paradise. However, if you took all their wealth, you almost certainly could, ceteris parabis. Of course, it would almost certainly be ceteris non parabis as the stock market would no longer have any meaning, nor would all those coupon to be clipped, or trust frunds, etc. If someone did effectively eat the rich by taking all their wealth, I wouldn’t want to be around as they next decide it has become necessary to eat the middle class because the rich are all gone.
I mean, 401’s becoming worthless is a selling point for a scheme to seize them.
Yes, income, charles. But even all of their wealth wouldn’t do it, if we look at net worth.
Trillions are a lot, it turns out.
Plus, a lot of what makes the wealth “wealth” is who is holding it. Berkshire Hathaway is worth a whole lot because Warren Buffett owns it. Give it to Romena from down the trailer park? Not worth so much now, is it?
Also, that assumes the wealth holders would meekly turn it over. Government comes to commandeer my house? I’ll burn it down rather than let those moochers have it.
The psychological folderal from Limbaugh’s last caller (Peggy) doesn’t help with the anger issues. Exacerbates them, really. More stupid! Yeah, that’s the ticket.
I just saw a headline that claimed the Dow was down 600pts, but that doesn’t look right
Someone wrote a piece a few days back that showed how everytime Obama talks he fails to persuade. Fits here anyhow.
The president also said that “no matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be a triple-A country.”
The first step in any recovery program is to admit that you have a problem, not to attack all those who have noted your deleterious habits and bad results. Clearly, we haven’t hit bottom yet, so the desire to get another debt fix continues unabated by the bleak and predictable future ahead of us.
Everybody’s misused him, ripped him up and abused him.
Another junkie plan, pushin’ debt for the man.
The Fed is on the corner now.
If you wanna be a junkie, why?
“But even all of their wealth wouldn’t do it, if we look at net worth.”
Especially after they adjusted the budget baseline.
Who knew Obama’s self-grade of a solid B+ was actually an aspiration? Keep talkin’, Sparky, you’ll get us there.
The market tanked while Barcky was up there pointing fingers, lying, and yammering on and on and on about taxing the fuck out of the actual taxpayers.
America will always be a AAA country in our hearts
and isn’t that what matters?
Jesus God he’s useless.
More George
If Obama insists it, then it’s true.
Consensus!
Uh oh. Israeli spring? (via Ace)
Now that the fire is burning so brightly, I am so looking forward to the emperor’s serenade!
gah ! i’m sitting here at work so i can’t watch tv, what the heck is going on?
Is it like Jimmy Carter’s malaise or is it more of a demonizing thing?
From Boehner’s missing rapid response press conference:
Let me tell you what S&P can’to say, and Obama obviously won’t: this economy is not improving until there is a new occupant in the Oval Office. These extreme borrow, tax, and spend Democrat policies just kill economies. Do you want to put people back to work? Start by firing Barack Obama.
A “they-a culpa” indeed.
As I think I said back in 2008, not long after Captain Kickass was introduced to the water-brained public: “Pussy boy, straight up.”
Google it!
Followed the Israeli Spring Link: At least a quarter of a million Israelis have staged marches over
the rising cost of livingreality not being to their liking.I think we’ve reached the bread and circuses phase of the empire.
There is no spoon. Or, the phase we see playing out is the dissolution of the authority of progressivism, due to the patent inconsistency betwixt the pretense of its claims to knowledge of political right and right as it appears in actual political events. Progressivism simply has no answers to these contradictions. So it flails.
Free markets!
Anyway, in times like these, madness will rule as those who can squeeze every last drop out of, as it ends up, the taxpayer.
We hit bread and circuses with the New Deal; or at least the bread part of it. The circuses they’re still trying to perfect. No, the biggest change is that our Patrons are less and less likely to hide their contempt behind a mask of condescension.
“gah ! i’m sitting here at work so i can’t watch tv, what the heck is going on?”
MissFixit, From what I gather it was a rah rah, “America is AAA whatever anyone says”, President Present patriot pontiff inspiration speach. Explaining “we all know what needs to be done” without elaboration on this key and brilliant point.
The salient point was, it ain’t his fault, and he practically begged Congress to ignore those dangerous T people and get ‘er done, but alas, his heroic efforts were thwarted and it ain’t his fault.
I hope this helps.
No, LBascom, there was nothing inspirational about it. It was partisan doubling down. It was a mess.
Dan Mitchell tries valiantly to find a way to coax America to remove the plastic bag from its head.
“there was nothing inspirational about it”
You only say that because you are a racist hobbit terrorist.
so i’m reading petey whining today:
(Link)
then over at newbusters this
(Link)
The Fed might be buying futures to try and show a market rebound??
Buying futures with what?
Oh yeah, John-boy Boehner’s super-duper debt-ceiling increase thingy.
WINNING!
Three, four thousand years from now, they’ll tell the story of Ba-Ra Kabombas, the boy-king who turned everything he touched into shit.
They could just be printing new money, Darth.
Oh god you’re kidding me right?
So I called a guy today to start grading the backyard and getting it ready for planting. Next spring, I’m gonna be the jolly green giant. I know potatoes aren’t the best for making vodka, but I don’t have enough room to start a sugar cane field.
so did any of the geniuses on the right come up with a response yet?
I’m beginning to fear that even such a great marketer as David Axelrod will soon figure out that trotting his boyking out in front of the cameras won’t do with a view to securing the boyking’s reelection next year, and certainly he may (figure it out) if the markets themselves insist on demonstrating their contempt for Obama’s pretenses at veracity and earnest concern for the nation’s fiscal health. Damn, and here I thought my strategy would work.
Ha.
I’m looking at the S&P 500 right now just before close and there are 2 gainers with 498 decliners.
That’s goddamn broad.
I think Obama/Biden would lose to Giant Douche/Turd Sandwich at this point.
Ok I seriously thought this was a joke
BUT THEN… I saw it on the yahoo front page. O. M. G.
Bestest President Evah!
Shouldn’t we be calling for Obama to resign? President Biden might just be too stupid to find the Oval Office, so nothing new would be signed.
Wow. Down 630+.
HOPE AND CHANGE!
Congratulations to National Semiconductor. Up a whopping .12%.
The ONLY gainer in the entire S&P 500.
Fuck me sideways.
That is all.
Right now a AAA rating just means that our brokedown country needs AAA roadside assistance.
Our representatives are nominally back in their districts (though they may be elsewhere on vacation too). Still, wherever they may be, today and everyday they should be hearing from us.
A nice note a day, gisting, something on the order of “Get it together cutting spending motherfucker and do it soon or your defeat is going to be guaranteed” or “Support the Mack Penny Plan, jerkwater, just do it now!” may help them understand the situation better.
Someone hold me
The markets are racist. I see no other answer.
Sdferr, I’m pretty sure at this point calling your congressman will just necessitate the hiring of more staffers, whereby they will need a further budget increase. But not to worry, it won’t be as much as you think. So…
CUTS!!
Now that would be a Big Fucking Deal.
doublehehs
This market not falling…yet.
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I recommend zuchinis Missfixit. Ridiculously easy to grow and very high yield.
The liquor may taste funny but you will have a lot of it.
635 points off the Dow.
Whatever he said, wasn’t good enough.
I’d welcome President Biden for the short-term. This one needs resign.
Transcript of EmpLamDukO’s historic remarks today.
I hope he fails. The bastard just cost me 6% of my retirement funds … it’s the ripple effect. Fire him now before he takes us all over the cliff.
That won’t be taken seriously, and they’ll immediately counter with that McConnell “one term” quote. No, I think the proper message here is an old one: “Lead, follow or get out of the way.”
“Lead, follow or get out of the way.”
how does that work when he’s “leading from behind”
Does that imply we’re following from in front?
There’s something assfuckish about that, maybe.
At a meeting in the bank where I work, they proposed a moment of silence for the stock market, half in jest.
And then they all gave thanks for not being Bank of America.
The bastard just cost me 6% of my retirement funds
I’d like to move my 401K funds elsewhere (like Canada, or into copper), but I don’t know how to do it legally or without taking an over-large hit.
Anyone know how?
635 points off the Dow.
Those crazy-ass racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, hostage-taking, suicide-bombing, tea-bagging, TERRORIST markets!
They’ll do ANYTHING to embarrass Obama.
2 more speeches from Teh Won and the Dow will go below 10,000.
Carin posted on 8/8 @ 2:14 pm
Someone hold me
Someone shoot me. I’m watching what’s left of what I’ve saved a lifetime for circle the drain.
It’s like a nightmare I can’t wake up from.
Why are you ladies worrying about retirement? Didn’t Michelle say something about you having to work in Obama’s America?
@110 … it’s all fine if you’re young and firm. Us old broads are making jam and pickles.
all this nasty talk. Poor Obama’s gonna have another sleepless night.
Didn’t Michelle say something about you having to work in Obama’s America?
Unless, of course, you’re on public assistance. then you can just keep sitting on your ass.
I read these words:
Last week, we reached an agreement that will make historic cuts to defense and domestic spending. But there’s not much further we can cut in either of those categories. What we need to do now is combine those spending cuts with two additional steps: tax reform that will ask those who can afford it to pay their fair share and modest adjustments to health care programs like Medicare.
and I just want to break stuff.
If everyone’s retirement savings get wiped out, we’ll all have to be on the dole. Perhaps that’s the goal here.
Nah. Pretty soon they’re going to get those people organized; start handing out uniforms, have them live communally so they recognize the bonds they share, make sure that they get plenty of
drill and fatigue dutyexercise.It’s the work that’ll make us free…
pay their fair share
That’s Obama talking, right? Not even the Establicans use that phrase.
we’ll all have to be on the dole. Perhaps that’s the goal here.
Been drinking the Glenn Beck Kool-Aid, I see.
Frances Fox-Piven must be absolutely giddy.
frances fox-piven must enjoy seeing the youts peacifully assembling
*sigh*
I’ve been looking for some “get the hell out of the ‘burbs” land, for the sake of my sanity and as a hedge against the Zombie Apocalypse, and found a patch that has promise — decent price, reasonable amount of land, location is Just Right…
But the county it’s in voted 90% for Obama in 2008.
I don’t know if I could trust people so dedicated to being Eaters.
Have you considered sorghum, MissFixIt?
I wouldn’t be able to dig it up for a link even if it mattered, but some yahoo posted a comment somewhere yesterday or the day before, to the effect, “Obama is less damaged goods than the next Catholic saint.”
Unless the next Catholic saint is Joe Biden, I don’t see it.
You have to admit, it takes a HUGE set of balls to come out as solidly anti-growth after a credit downgrade.
Actually, the Dow is down 1800 over the last month (a full 1/3 of that from today alone). A lot to wrap one’s head around. It lost 5.55% of its value, in one day.
nothing wrong with a little profit-taking
sorghum probably requires more land than I have…plus I don’t want to have to plow. zucchini! there’s a thought…I wonder how zucchini vodka would taste in a bloody mary. interesting.
I’m still trying to figure out the logistics on how much of the head and tail end of the process to dump. I wouldn’t want to go blind from my own craftiness. :/
Mr. Locke was fond of a particular crooked-necked yellow squash I remember
how is vodka made? i’d bing it but am lazy and shiftless.
oy hf, he might hunt you down for that one
spooky dude?
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I always think of him now when I eat those … mostly I like them in a pasta primavera I make sometimes out of that anthony’s cut fideo I get in the hood
But I meant to say Ric Santelli fired off another epic rant [3:08 in] this morning on SquawkBox
anthony’s cut fideo???
it’s a hispanic thing
I just can’t watch those shows, sdferr.
And I can watch some seriously bad television.
(I like Santelli on occasion myself but he’s like tragic, yet delicious corn there. He needs to figure out a way to present himself in a non-shit environment.)
Nikkei is about to tank.
I know what you mean bh, the length and breadth of SqBx is pretty hard to take. Which is one reason I thanks the lord for inventing the tivo controller. As it happened I got to hear something of Sean Egan and Ken Rogoff, neither of whom I’d payed much attention to before. Egan went so far as to make the case that we’re standing on the verge of a great economic blooming, which, hey, from his lips to God’s ears as they say. Me, I think it may be so but’s gonna be awhile afore it gets here.
Ernst Soros Blofeld struck again newrouter?
It’s a staggering spectacle to hear the President of the United States lie so unabashedly. He’s blaming it on the “brinksmanship of the Tea Party”, for getting too close to defaulting on the debt. Saying that’s what caused the downgrade.
But that never happened ! They arrived at essentially the deal he wanted a priori! And the market still declined. Afterward…
The S&P letter from Friday clearly said it was essentially because the long-term debt problem wasn’t addressed aggresively enough (paraphrase). If they’d passed Paul Ryan’s budget from April, that cut 6 trillion over 10 years, or effin’ CC&B there’d have been no downgrade.
It’s stupefying that anyone would take O!-blah-blah seriously.
Even O’Reilly is saying how utterly ridiculous it is to blame the Tea Party for the downgrade; when it’s clearly the result of Obama’s failed economic policies.
O-blah-blah said the same ol’ shinola; give out loans, shovel ready, blah-dee-blah…
Down over 300, 3.5% already.
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.
MissFixit: not sure how Vodka is made, but I’ll guess it involves some serious starch/sugars. Mayhaps some of the squashes would work (Baby Boo pumkins sprin to mind…tiny albino pumkins that are quite sweet, seem to grow fairly prolifically). At any rate, Baby Boos are good eating steamed, and nice in a curry.
Yep Bob, in President Downgrade’s view of history, his budget submission last spring never happened. Just didn’t. At all. What are you thinking? And that 97 – 0 vote against it? What, have you lost your mind? What a fantasy you Republicans live in! Never happened. By omission. Ever. Didn’t. Not. No. Fantasists!
Uh oh, Limey spring?
This POTUS is going to be known for three things.
1. The WWI quality epic assault on American business and financial norms
2. The long term destruction of the Left as a politically viable entity
3. Some of the greatest stock buying opportunities in history (assuming he gives three or four more speeches.)
MisFixit: have you considered sugar beets for your Vodka making adventures? Those will work, if you can grow them. Actually, potatoes are easy to grow…they do well in most CONUS zones, and take less space than you might think.
“Uh oh, Limey spring?”
more like “the coming inserrection “
The collapse is finally picking up speed. Bit of a relief, actually. Armageddon was taking, like, forever, to get here.
Except it’s not an “Asian” area that’s rioting. It’s a Caribbean/African area.
Apparently a cab driver with a sideline in guns decided to take a shot at a cop, and didn’t survive the resulting exchange of retorts. The next day, at a rally/memorial/instigation, a yute decided to take exception to a cop giving her the eye, somebody texted out that the yute had been assaulted by police, and then other yutes decided to help themselves to the stock at local shops and, on occasion, firebomb them as well.
Obviously a case of too much bread, not enough circuses.
london’s burning
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Fuck. It’s definitely spread, then. Chalk Farm is miles away from Tottenham. It seems to have skipped over Finsbury Park, though… odd…
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck…
Oh, England, why did you disarm your people? Did you want another Rwanda in London?!
Vodka is ideally pure alcohol cut to the disired proof with distilled water and as flavorless as possible, so you can make it out of anything. I have heard of prisoners making it from bread. The key is stopping the distilling process at the proper moment. Alcohol is produced from sugar, so the higher the sugar content of the raw material the higher the yield.
To the tolerance limit of the yeast; eventually the alcohol will kill the yeast, or at least shut it down. There are guides to how much sugar you need initially to reach a final alcohol %; find a yeast that’s easy to keep alive and reaches a decent alcohol level (wine yeasts are more tolerant than beer/ale yeasts), aim for just under it’s tolerance, and that will get you the best return on the sugar.
Distilling, of course, is not legal for someone without all the proper government forms filled out…
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Jesus:
Also:
For this one, I say “good, and may he bleed out before help arrives”.
Dude wasn’t paying attention during Katrina, LA, or the Cincy riots, was he?
The left tries hard to give them some deep meaning, but riots are just the barbarians running amok. There is no “cause” behind any of them beyond “take what you can, burn what you can’t”.
And I have to wonder, behind the property damage that makes gripping TV, how many rapes and beatings are going on as well.
Oh, and the Telegraph live page has a charming tweet from a Labour MP trying to play the “this is because of injustice” card and trying to parallel this with “bankers looting”.
Idiot. I hope his home is torched as well.
Distilling, of course, is not legal for someone without all the proper government forms filled out…
Really? Hmmm… I seem to recall my dad telling me about some of my kin in Floyd County, Kentucky that might take exception to that …
Crawford
and, re: looting, there is something about it that just chaps my …
I was 11 at the time of the Watts riots and my dad worked downtown and we lived over the hill in The Valley. The look of rage on my dad’s face, the look of fear on my mom’s. As my dad said, he grew up amongst those that were rioting and he had no sympathy at all for any but the smallest kids who couldn’t escape.
Get a load of this on the London environ rioting. What’s the fix? More spending! Not coddled enough!
Among several obvious answers, one is a failure of policing
JAYSUS H KERIST …
It’s not a failure of policing but a FAILURE OF VALUES (I know, sdferr, you just spit out your drink)
But when you have a Gov enforcing a culture whose biggest value is “free” healthcare and biggest concern is “how much vacation do I get every year?” why is any one with two grey cells to rub together SURPRISED when nihilism runs rampant?
Darleen, when my dad’s parents moved out of the hills of Kentucky, they settled in the mostly-German, rapidly-becoming “Appalachian” Cincinnati neighborhood called Over-the-Rhine. Grandpa worked in a steel mill in Covington, KY — walked to work, from what I understand. They scrimped and saved and bought a few buildings and rented apartments.
Then, in the “civil rights riots” of the ’60s and ’70s, most of their property was burnt down.
In compensation, the city gave them some cash and a mobile home.
I don’t share my dad’s attitudes on race, but I sure as hell understand them.
As for the London riots — Telegraph reports that some shops and fast food joints are being left alone, and are operating later hours as well. Either owned by the same tribe as the rioters or paying protection.
“Nihilism” is too deep a word for it, Darleen. “Barbarism” is a better fit.
These are the Eaters, the Burners, the Looters, come to take what the Farmer and Builder and Makers have produced.
The warehouse fire is not the Sainsbury’s warehouse, but a Sony warehouse/office complex.
Shame Tommy Thomson didn’t have a Thompson.
But, hell, I’m not allowed one, either.
i wonder if the british survelliance state will deal with the perps?
I bet the de facto sharia parts of London are as peaceful as a graveyard.
While in London I got on the wrong bus (rather, the right bus at the wrong time along its route), and ended up riding it through its entire route. I figured it was worth some off-the-beaten-path sightseeing, and I had a conversation with a nice lady about how much the area had changed over the years.
The route took me through Ealing.
It didn’t strike me as “under privileged”. It struck me as being comparable to my neighborhood here, maybe a little poorer, with the biggest difference being the surprising number of mosques.
The nihilists are the ones making excuses for their own spinelessness in the face of barbarity, Crawford.
They say so:
But I suspect the images will be declared too indistinct to make out.
And likely nearly empty. Some of the rioters appear to be wearing those fashionable Palestinian rags around their faces.
ohnoes. Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables in a restaurant. In a west end town.
This never ends well.
Fair enough.
Though sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between the Eaters/Looters/Burners and the professional class that enables and defends them.
This is an adult conversation, ‘feets. Go elsewhere.
Hong Kong is down 7%.
We don’t need the water let the motherfucker burn…
make me you big bully
no water
I said it’s a brain lesion already. Don’t tease me.
Whoops. Sharia zones are apparently not being left alone:
I’m not entirely sure if Finsbury Park is one of the declared zones, but it *is* home to Imam Hook’s mosque. It’s possible the shops being looted are dhimmis behind on their protection money, though.
King’s Cross is getting too close to the British Museum for comfort. The least artifact in that building is worth more to humanity than every one of the rioters.
Bh – is it shoebox and mattress time?
when I’m feeling down 7% I have a song I like to play but other people can play it too – just click! – especially if you’re a grumpy person named rob
It’s get short time, JD.
How do people pronounce that girl’s name, “ingne” like hinge or like inyee, inyeh or what?
The video shows the rioters are truly multicultural. Chavs and “Asians” and other ASBOs working together to mug a guy who’s been beaten.
(preview not cooperating… hope this works…)
its good to see baracky’s “friends” are doing their part in the world
We already know that there was a broad based sell off today, continuing overnight. Any suggestions on a sector to look into, and a sector to avoid, when shorting?
Hurm. Dissent in the Ummah:
I’d avoid the solid consumer non-cyclicals and the profit-making dividend payers. (Not actual advice. Past performance doesn’t… etc.)
Other than that? The bear is loose.
When seconds count, the police in London are only
minuteshoursdays away. Aw, who am I kidding, it’s not about response time anyway. I’m sure a few weeks from now they can start processing all the people they’ve identified on video and gather them from the ashes of what was once their wonderful city with the sternest of warnings that if they do it again the authorities will get really, really angry with them.I used to live there, so this is especially depressing.
Avoid as a short, that is. (Still not actual contractual advice. Consult your physician and all that.)
I wonder how Mr. Whistle is doing
Japanese, Chinese, Korean? Bears don’t give a shit.
I’m pretty sure SW is up north, ‘feets.
stocks are mercurial little things aren’t they
but that’s part of their charm I guess
that’s good, being up north but I’m sure he knows lots of people in London and such
it’s all very worrisome
Gas is gonna get cheaper soon.
Bears hate hybrids.
Tokyo opens back up in about half an hour.
I bet they didn’t enjoy lunch at all. Bet their phones kept making all sorts of beeping noises.
I think I will gamble this week.
animal spirits!
Markets are settling a bit.
This might just be a ploy to convince us that they’re not zombie bears.
huh. I saw this a few minutes ago and thought they’d all be going ape-shit.
But as long as the US president isn’t even pretending to have a fucking plan why should anyone else? Seems to me we’ll find the bottom in record time at this rate.
And then what?
People are very ho-hum about that ‘feets because they’re almost out of bullets anyways and everyone already knew it.
Is there an F5? What would that be like?
The Finger of God.
F5? Oklahoma City, for one, knows what that’s like.
The liberal in my office says the 200 point drop during the speech was coincidence. He will not budge an inch in his opinion of Obama. Its all the “tea party” and “Bush”‘s fault. Even the Dow drop yesterday was the tea parties fault. He basically admitted that he thinks I’m a racist because I’m a tea party member, even though he also knows I’m not racist.
Now, this is a reasonably intelligent well educated person who refuses to face reality. He gets so angry with me when I bring this stuff up and I’ve tried to tell him, if he would just once say “Obama isn’t doing a good job” I’d be placated- but he won’t. I wish I could understand the mindset.
I wish I could understand the mindset.
I maintain that there is a certain class of voters who have so convinced themselves that they are Better Than That, and that Obama really was the Chosen One, that they can’t admit to themselves that they were played for suckers by a Chicago political machine that’s been doing this for a century or more. If they admit that Obama really is an empty suit, and that they fell for a slick marketing campaign so hard that they voted for a guy with no record and no qualifications, then they have to admit that they’re really no brighter than the “proles” and the “sheeple” and the Consumer Culture that they habitually look down on.
In some cases, it’s simply impossible for these voters to admit the magnitude of their mistake, because their egos can’t stand up to the impact such an admission would bring. It’s really not much different from the die-hard socialists, who believe to their core that the problem with every failed socialist state over the last century is that They Weren’t Doing It Right. To admit that the system does not work and cannot work would break their psyches.
It wasn’t a hope that he fails, it was more like a prediction that he would.