“You should be able to do that in a free country that guarantees the right of free speech especially when you’re doing it in what you think is the sanctity of your home and you want to do it out of your home phone because you don’t want any interconnection with the government lines so someone thinks you’re talking politics on a government phone …”
Charming.
Rachel Maddow is that good. …
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Borrowed from cygnoir
post the first sentence for the first post of each month for 2008:
January2008:
In 2008 may you have warm sunshine to bask in, blue skies overhead and a light heart.
March2008:
Packed.
April2008:
Wednesday I knew where my set of keys to the loft was and his nibs’ set as well.
July2008:
The First Today Show: January 14, 1952 with Dave Garroway
Oct2008:
British Battles – analysing and documenting British Battles from the previous centuries
Nov2008:
My enduring thanks this election cycle to Nate Silver.
ABC News: Obama Heads Home After Vacation in Hawaii
While on the pre-inauguration trip he attended a private memorial service for Madelyn Payne Dunham — known to friends as “Toot” — and scattered her ashes into the sea.
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known to friends as “Toot”???
Obama called her Toot but that was short for Tutu, Hawaiian for Grandma.
I doubt if friends knew Madelyn Payne Dunham as “Toot.”
Slack reportage. *tsk*
Archbishop of Canterbury warns recession Britain must learn lessons from Nazi Germany – Telegraph
I don’t know this guy at all. I’m certainly not very Christian, if at all, and not Anglican, so his pronouncements are as important as … nothing.
But man, I love that face, hair, beard, eyebrows.
Especially the eyebrows.
This man could be Gandalf in a different setting.
Of the jobs I wish I’d had, fireworks designer/handler is up near the top of the list. Also near the top is implosion designer/handler.
Implosion designers don’t just blow things up, they calculate things so precisely that the building/stadium/whatever blows up and falls in on itself without damaging nearby structures.
Beautiful example of a controlled implosion. RCA Stadium. Indianapolis, IN. This morning. Eight hundred holes drilled and kaboom! powder added and then at the specific moment …
Venice under five feet of water as the city suffers its worst floods in 22 years
I love Venice. I could spend some serious time there. I think it’s a magical place.
When we got back from our one and only trip there (followed by a walking holiday poking through Palladio sites in the Veneto), I had a dream … a nightmare.
In the dream, we had bought a palazzo in Venice and moved lock, stock and books to take up permanent residence. Knowing the dangers of putting heavy loads of books on upper stories of aging homes, I’d set up all my book shelves on the ground floor of the palazzo.
All this is backstory.
The dream opens with me leaning against a railing, looking across the canal to the palazzo that we had just moved all our worldly goods (and books) into and were making our home.
As I leaned against the railing, the rain began to fall and before you could say, “George Washington” (this was a dream after all), the waters start to rise and rise fast. I realized the waters will rise enough that everything on our ground floor will be flooded …
MY BOOKS!
I don’t have time to run down the paths to the nearest bridge and across the bridge and back down the paths to our palazzo and get the books shifted in time to save them.
… so, Freud. What is the deep meaning of this nightmare?
Mumbai/Bombay – Twitter Search
… ongoing news and commentary on what’s happening in Mumbai/Bombay via tweets, some direct from India.
Also links to news articles and useful information and, as always with the Web, some wasted space and very stoopid people.
Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede.
Is Black Friday worth it? Do you really need this stuff on sale? Are you really saving enough money to make all this worth it?
Maybe it’s just that I am not a fan of large pushy crowds, but I decided that getting up in time to stand in line at Cost-Plus to be one of the first hundred through the doors for a 7 a.m. opening, which would score me a free pretty little glass Christmas ornament and a chance for a huge prize, was just not worth dealing with people in mind of a Black Friday deal.
Some stores opened at 4 a.m. Macy’s opened at 5 a.m. Other stores had midnight madness sales. People left their family Thanksgiving dinners early to stand in line to score deals on stuff.
Gabrielle Mitchell, 28, from Rockville Centre, was out at the stores in Hicksville at 3:45 a.m. waiting for them to open. Almost four hours later, she said she had spent more than $1,600.
But did she need the stuff she spent money on? Does it make her happy? Does it make her happy even through the paying of the bills?
For me it’s much nicer to stay home today and read the paper back and forth over breakfast with his nibs and let the glow of family Thanksgiving keep me warm on a grey day.
Dinner tonight with friends. Money will be spent not for durable goods but for transient pleasure.
And no one dies.
This year, our financial markets have been tested in unprecedented ways. And though the global landscape has become increasingly complex, one thing has remained consistent: Citi’s commitment to helping our clients and customers find solutions that will drive their financial success.
and the full-page ad in today’s San Francisco Chronicle (Page A16) goes on.
hahaha hohoho.
c2008 Citigroup Inc. Member FDIC. Citibank and Citibank with Arc Design are registered service marks of Citigroup Inc. Citi never sleeps is a service mark of Citigroup Inc.
Citi dodges bullet
Government will guarantee losses on more than $300 billion in troubled assets and make a fresh $20 billion injection.
By David Ellis, CNNMoney.com staff writer
Last Updated: November 24, 2008: 2:03 AM ET
Citigroup secured a massive government aid package over the weekend following a painful selloff last week in company stock.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The U.S. federal government on Sunday announced a massive rescue package for Citigroup – the latest move to steady the banking giant, whose shares have plunged in the past week.
Oh.
So how much does a full-page ad in the Chron cost?
Showcasing Your Life Online? New Software Uses Images of Keys to Make Copies
So the lesson to be learned is not to empty your pockets and take pictures of “what’s in my pockets” with your keys in clear view and then post the pics on your Facebook page or Web site or blog.
New Sneakey software can setup a keymaking machine to reproduce your key(s).
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