Comments on: MY STIMULUS PACKAGE

By: Mortgage Rates today

Mortgage Rates today — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:22:15 +0000

Its like you read my mind! You seem to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you can do with a few pics to drive the message home a bit, but other than that, this is great blog. An excellent read. I’ll definitely be back.

By: MCL

MCL — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:18:41 +0000

“Wrong?” The “poster format.” particularly the familiar type used here, with the secondary gag line, is what makes this work.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:25:54 +0000

I love the poster format – I want one on my bedroom wall today!

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:37:15 +0000

See my question above.
To allow the market to do as it will (which was my first choice, but that was more a fit of pique than logic) would result in the American Financial Services sector reduce to a playing field of one to three very large players – a Monopoly or something that closely resembles a Cartel. This is not a good thing for the market (customers) since it stifles innovation and choice…
That’s not to say the stimulus package is a ‘good’ idea, simply the least worst one that can be quickly implemented… If you wanted a GOOD solution, then you’d have to guarantee someone had more than 8 years as CEO of America Incorporated to pull that off…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:32:07 +0000

Got a better idea that doesn’t result in a de facto monopoly in American financial services?

By: Annie

Annie — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:22:33 +0000

Amen!

FIRST DO NO HARM, Obama!

Jeezus H. Tapdancing Chryst!!! WTF are you THINKING?!?!

By: JB

JB — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:20:47 +0000

One. Trillion. Dollars.

Um…not so much.

This isn’t the ‘change’ I voted for, dips#1t.

* le sigh *

By: dkddskdk

dkddskdk — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:53:32 +0000

How come they never captioned Bush with “President Bush” like they do with Obama? That’s pretty annoying…

By: sjon

sjon — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:39:07 +0000

nesting*

By: FaileV

FaileV — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:09:48 +0000

well i was more thinking of a story, my sister broke her arm in holland, and apparently they couldn’t give her painkillers cause they couldn’t be sure what was in her system or something. But that may just as easily be incompetence. of the doctor. it just gets me thinking is all.

By: LOL

LOL — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:01:28 +0000

Thank you for proving me right

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:59:43 +0000

Thanks from breaking off from sifting through garbage for food to enlighten us…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:57:25 +0000

How about a gentle nibbling, since you’re just HOT!
And I stand by the comment that Anarcho-Capitalism favours cartels or monopolies, thus the system can only destroy itself in the most counter of all free market endpoints outside of complete state ownership (which is the Communist Monopoly).

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:50:49 +0000

I missed the quotes on ‘creepy’
I keep finding things like ‘PortlandMark on MY STIMULUS PACKAGE’ funnier than some of the lols…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:39:48 +0000

Hell, I’d buy the Braille version of Playboy… but just for the Pictures…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:35:51 +0000

We have the BBC, so it makes sense for us… In your third world hell, I’d say it doesn’t make sense but then why pretend that the news is more ‘truth’ than the Daily Show’…

Next up… nude juggling of live weasels….

By: PiMan

PiMan — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:23:40 +0000

As it turns out, it got to 46.4 degrees. This is the hottest day in Melbourne since records began 150 years ago.

By: randomchic86

randomchic86 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:13:21 +0000

oh yeah baby-i want it!

By: Danbala

Danbala — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:43:52 +0000

Thanks, it seems to be a short-lived cold, I feel quite a lot better today. (Phew!)

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:29:02 +0000

It’s amazing what people will believe when they’re desperate. It doesn’t mean the’yre stupid necessarily, simply scared and skittish. Kool-aid is usually spiked with cyanide, not roofies…
Although I really don’t think that the bail out is a ‘good’ idea, I’ve not got another answer that will result in something other than a monopolistic financial services sector as one place mops up the smaller places.
Parable – back in the day, there were numerous CRM/PRM applications providers… now there is Oracle (who just bought up Siebel, who were to CRM what Hoover was to vacuums – people would say they had a ‘Siebel system’ when they meant CRM) or IBM… which forms a virtual monopoly depending on exisitng customer infrastructure… and most people in the market either have an IBM infrastructure existing, or something that suits Oracle… stifles innovation, stifles competition and means the the ‘best’ solution isn’t available, since anyone who comes up with something new is either bought up or run out of town on a rail…

By: LOL

LOL — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:04:50 +0000

Annie give up. These people define themselves by what they accomplish on a site that has it’s origins in /b/

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:43:05 +0000

Darling, you’re making no sense.

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:34:00 +0000

It was ridiculously stupid to castigate me when it was getting ijjy who exemplified the attitude.

You’re such a dutiful little cheerleader though – ever get tired of waving those pompoms? Do your yippy little terrier teeth ever get tired of nipping at people’s ankles? You seem pretty tireless about it, but you must have to turn in circles and lay down sometime, right?

Or, actually, you could get a pretty simple program to take over for you during those times – that’s how you do it, isn’t it? You just have to set it to post right behind Fister and Co., and put together a couple simple sentences using “partisan” and “slack jaw” and then you could sleep as long as you wanted. And even take the time to sharpen those nippy little terrier teeth before you got back on personally.

Rah rah rah!

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:33:04 +0000

Froo has already covered the anger that led *some* people–
not *all* people–to throw tomatoes. Should I find you and
kill you because *some* people on your side like to burn
down abortion clinics?

I don’t really care how much hatred you manage to muster
towards Obama. It’s clear you can’t manage to wish the
country well, because you clearly don’t want us to be
successful unless we’re under a *Republican* president.

Rev. Wright is all you’ve got? Did your radio break? LOL!

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:25:00 +0000

Luckily, we already know *you* aren’t a dummy. Your
ability to speak off-script has demonstrated that.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:22:11 +0000

Yeah, I realized that after I posted.. silly me!

By: froofrou

froofrou — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:16:06 +0000

Bush was pelted because there were plenty who thought he stole the election, thereby drawing their ire. He started off on the wrong foot (which is another story altogether, but this is a bi-partisan smackdown, so I’ll refrain from giving my views on it).
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Obama, other than not being able to pick Cabinet members without crimminal histories and tax problems, has done nothing to draw fire yet. He ran a semi-clean campaign (as clean as any politician can run), and hasn’t DONE anything yet. He deserves no rancor as of yet.
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You’ve done what you’ve accused the Lefties of doing: you’ve drank the Kool-aid. Only, you’ve drank the Rushaid. Rush isn’t gospel, and if you take him as such, you’re only getting part of the story. Please, for the sake of Conservatives on this site, PLEASE quit making us all look like fools!!!

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:11:36 +0000

Nonsense, and I’ll tell you exactly why. Bush was pelted with tomatoes AT HIS FIRST INAUGURATION, with the left staging huge protests and screaming and frothing at the mouth.

Now I didn’t vote for him (or McCain) but I’m more than prepared to give Obamalamadingdong ALL the love Bush got and then some – like it or not, a hell of a lot of people are. Enjoy the next four years; you bought it

(Oh, and he earned it coming in – Rev. Wright alone earned it for him, and that’s far from all there is. The sycophants have earned even more contempt than he has. I hope they’re ready )

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:09:07 +0000

And Saturday is supposed to be hot again! *sigh* which I had a pool. I guess I’m stuck bbq’ing again.
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On the same note, while it’s been hotter than anything, they are also predicting a rash of fires. We had two really bad ones in our area just the other day.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:08:22 +0000

It made perfect sense exactly where DWN put it. Look at your
post. You are nothing but a partisan, which requires no thought
whatsoever. Perhaps that is why you don’t understand the
relevance of DWN’s comment to you. Have you thought of that?

Oops, sorry!

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:05:50 +0000

What is that, your idea of a joke? Bite me.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:02:02 +0000

Still, you manage to do well in a second language, whereas
I struggle with the first one under such dire lack of caffeine.

Hope you feel better soon!

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:01:43 +0000

You should have directed that comment at “gettin ijjy with it”, DWN. It would have made sense that way.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:58:31 +0000

Like it or not, politicians tend to get what they deserve in terms of
praises and pans. If you think Obama has earned already earned the
ire that Bush did, you’re not seeing past your party, and can be
dismissed as a slack-jawed partisan. If you’re going to be that way,
and give up thinking, go ahead, but don’t expect anyone to take you
seriously.

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:56:34 +0000

Hah – I’m surprised no one thinks you’re me. It’s tragic that he’s selling people the KOOL AID – er – false notion that the government can spend spend SPEND the way into prosperity for the country. Bizarre that anyone would buy it, no? They just luuurv their KoolAid I guess.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:52:17 +0000

So addressing the counter evidence to your claim was beneath you this evening?

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:51:49 +0000

Don’t go near it! Those are the vilest ones.

*peers through binoculars*

Ewww. It kind-of looks like it has a face in it.

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:50:50 +0000

I know – Chimpy McShrub baby-murdering Nazi Hitler most evil man that ever lived – the left was so calm, reasonable and sane in their Bush Derangement Syndrome eh? It’s time to show the office of the president all the love and all the respect it’s gotten from the left in the last 8 years. Hard.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:47:22 +0000

Rho, I think you forgot a turd over here. It’s kind of a weird yellowish-orangy color, and stinks of ass-hattery.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:42:48 +0000

So pretty much you are more concerned about whose “team” he/she is on than you are about anything else. If anything, it is just a dick joke which apparently a number of people found funny. Personally I barely snickered but eh, who cares really?

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:39:23 +0000

And we can always count on the devoted Rho to follow behind Fister, scooping the poop. Be sure to use a baggie this time!

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:38:25 +0000

Awww, Fister still has a hard-on for me – that’s kind of cute. I wonder when he’ll get over it?

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:36:09 +0000

Ya know, I’ve had more horrible mental imagery then again I’ve developed coping mechanisms over the years.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:31:53 +0000

not as creepy as reading
“Anniee451 on MY STIMULUS PACKAGE” on the recent comments list
but I’m peurile like that…

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:31:16 +0000

I think you meant to say “righteous” winger there…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:29:10 +0000

ah but that wasn’t a filthy commie, that was a right winger…

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:26:52 +0000

Nothing like the articles of faith of an anarcho-capitalist to round off the day…

And the market adjusting into a monopoly would benefit who, exactly? If you get a monopoly or a cartel, it’s game over for the system, since you’d have to force it to break up into artificial units, rather like the abortion AT&T became… which is Govt regulation which is Kryptonite to the idea of a ‘self regulating market’.
It’s like dealing with people who quote the bible like it’s more than the collected sayings of a defeated people 3500-2000 years ago…

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:26:49 +0000

Hehe – it’s kind of creepy that anyone does, ain’t it?

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:23:52 +0000

Ijjy gives you a bad name for pointing out that this thing isn’t FUNNY? The guy who made it knows it isn’t funny FFS – who the hell are you anyway? Not a conservative, I can tell you that much. Maybe a RINO maybe an “independent” leftist, but either way you’re an as*hole. Now go back to your Bill Maher and your Keith Olbermann, eff-tard.

By: Bush had an economic stimulus plan, too

Bush had an economic stimulus plan, too — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:23:11 +0000

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