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Saturday, August 28, 2010
 
Keep Talking

Halibut procured, charcoal purchased, fresh torillas from the tortilleria soon.

 
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Had colonialism's greatest legacy, the bánh mì, for lunch.

 
Boring Blogging Day

Weather is nice and I'm not really up for Glenn Beck day.

I'm sure you can go read some of the many fine blogs which can be found on the left of your screen.

 
Morning

I guess it's Beck day. I'll probably go outside and play.

 
Good morning, campers!

I think I probably laughed out loud when I saw this one.

Signed,
Not Atrios

 
Late Night

Rock on.



Friday, August 27, 2010
 
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Have fun.

 
Evening Thread




AND Friday Cat Blogging

 
HAMP'd

I've long said that if the economy fails to turn around, a big reason will be the administration's failure to adequately deal with the housing and foreclosure crisis.

Time to hope that someone decides he needs some new advisers. If only they'd listened to me and backed cramdown....*


*They did in theory but made no effort

 
Inflation Was Actually Kinda Awesome For A Lot Of People

I've never seen a study, but while the 70s had some economic problems, for large numbers of homeowners inflation eroded the value of their mortgages tremendously. If wages keep up - and that's an if of course - higher than expected inflation is pretty awesome for people with nominally denominated deb and bad for those who lent the money, which is why banksters and their pals at the Fed really really hate inflation.

 
Afternoon Thread

enjoy

 
Progressive Price Indexing Is Really Bad

Someone please forward this to Earl Blumenauer's office.

 
The Danger Of Appointing GOP Daddies

I can understand why Obama reappointed Bernanke given the circumstances. I also hope people start acknowledging that it was a mistake.

 
Stay Classy

The greatest senator a few weeks ago.

Some things never change: Birds fly, waves pound the sand and cranky old men complain that everything was better in their own day.

Today's entrant is Jim Bunning who was, of course, a starting pitcher for 17 big-league seasons before becoming a Republican Senator from Kentucky. A reporter from Politico asked Bunning for his thoughts about Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg missing his start on Tuesday with shoulder soreness. Bunning grabbed his arm with a fake exclamation of pain and then decided to question Strasburg's manhood.

"Five-hundred twenty starts, I never refused the ball," Bunning said. "What a joke!"

What a joke.
Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo announced this morning that pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg will probably require "Tommy John" elbow ligament replacement surgery.


12-18 months recovery...

 
Though It Ultimately Was A Mistake

Obsessing too much about possible Republican attacks about "wasteful" spending has crippled some spending initiatives in the stimulus.

And the economy is where it is now.

 
Oh Well

So much for that.

U.S. economic growth slowed more sharply than initially thought in the second quarter, held back by the largest increase in imports in 26 years, a government report showed on Friday.

Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.6 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said, instead of the 2.4 percent pace it had estimated last month.

 
We're The Greatest Nation In The History Of The Universe

But some things are just too expensive.
SAN DIEGO — Fire departments around the nation are cutting jobs, closing firehouses and increasingly resorting to “rolling brownoutsâ€? in which they shut different fire companies on different days as the economic downturn forces many cities and towns to make deep cuts that are slowing their responses to fires and other emergencies.

Philadelphia began rolling brownouts this month, joining cities from Baltimore to Sacramento that now shut some units every day. San Jose, Calif., laid off 49 firefighters last month. And Lawrence, Mass., north of Boston, has laid off firefighters and shut down half of its six firehouses, forcing the city to rely on help from neighboring departments each time a fire goes to a second alarm

 
Morning Thread

Looks like it's going to be a beautiful day, weather wise. So there's that.






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