Rock on.
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012
The Internet Is Made Of Answers
The Hobbit 48 fps stuff reminded me of a nagging question I've had for years. Not an important one, of course, just something which bugged me decades ago and back then it would have been very difficult to find an answer.
There was The John Larroquette show on teevee. I could never watch it because it just looked... weird. Like there was a little bit of a ghost trail following all of the actors, or that they didn't move at the right speed. Whatever it was it drove my brain crazy and I literally had to turn it off.
Now we have the internet to answer questions like this. It isn't a full answer, but it gives me a pretty good idea.
There was The John Larroquette show on teevee. I could never watch it because it just looked... weird. Like there was a little bit of a ghost trail following all of the actors, or that they didn't move at the right speed. Whatever it was it drove my brain crazy and I literally had to turn it off.
Now we have the internet to answer questions like this. It isn't a full answer, but it gives me a pretty good idea.
The show was videotaped, but processed by NBC to make it look like it was recorded on film. Network promos even showed "unprocessed" clips. When it was rerun on the USA Network, the processing was gone and the show had the look of a videotaped sitcom.
Grifter Mad At Other Grifter Grifting His Grift
And that's Republican politics.
Armey was concerned that Kibbe structured the deal to personally profit from the book, despite relying on FreedomWorks staff and resources to research, help write and promote it — an arrangement he and others at the group believed could jeopardize its tax exempt status. (In 2010, Kibbe and Armey co-authored a book through HarperCollins, “Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto,” that was written with significant help from FreedomWorks staff and all proceeds had gone to the organization.)
What's It All About Then
People think the fiscal cliff means MOOOOOAR DEFICIT. Pundits tell the people that the deficit is the worst thing ever. Same pundits think massive deficit reduction plan, aka fiscal cliff, is also worst thing ever.
Maybe they don't really care about the deficit?
Maybe they don't really care about the deficit?
The Black-Sanders Plan
All the cool kids are joking about the Panetta-Burns plan, but I wish there would be some polling on the actual Black-Sanders* plan to have the Federal Reserve give lots of free money to everybody in the country. I imagine it would be popular. And it would reduce the real value of the debt by nudging up the price value. Also, too, more demand, more jobs, less misery and suffering.
*Sanders did not actually have any role in devising this plan.
*Sanders did not actually have any role in devising this plan.
GOP Daddies
Oh Lord. Apparently they're leaking that Chuck Hagel is on the SecDef shortlist. Why oh why must Democrats appoint GOP Daddies to these positions all of the time.
How About Nothing
I'm betting Cuomo and Christie will get approximately nothing.
Because austerity. It's what's for breakfast, lunch, AND dinner!
Because austerity. It's what's for breakfast, lunch, AND dinner!
New Entry On The Shitlist
Antonio Villaraigosa.
Like his support of trains, but Fix The Debt is the most transparent Steal The Social Security Money crowd we've ever seen.
Like his support of trains, but Fix The Debt is the most transparent Steal The Social Security Money crowd we've ever seen.
Haven't We Been Here Before
David Brooks wants to replay this game in 3 months.
We are facing a crisis, so let's manufacture another one!
As I said before, this involves Congress taking itself hostage and threatening to shoot the country.
But the big demand would be this: That on March 15, 2013, both parties would introduce leader-endorsed tax and entitlement reform bills in Congress that would bring the debt down to 60 percent of G.D.P. by 2024 and 40 percent by 2037, as scored by the Congressional Budget Office. Those bills would work their way through the normal legislative process, as the Constitution intended. If a Grand Bargain is not reached by Dec. 15, 2013, then there would be automatic defense and entitlement cuts and automatic tax increases.
We are facing a crisis, so let's manufacture another one!
As I said before, this involves Congress taking itself hostage and threatening to shoot the country.
Actually Surprising
Warren to Banking.
Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), one of the banking sector's harshest critics, is being tapped to serve on the Senate Banking Committee.
Retire
One thing I don't get about these rich assholes is why they don't...just retire and start counting their money and spending it on whatever they can. They really can't spend it all. I dunno if Adelson really fears corruption charges of any kind, but even if he does I imagine, given our rich people don't face justice policy, that he could just sail off into the sunset with some hookers and blow and enjoy.
Monday, December 03, 2012
Gun Nuttery
It really is just bizarre. I get that people (mostly wrongly, but it isn't totally insane) think that there's some value in owning a gun for self-defense, but to deny the obvious - that in heated situation, if gun, death more likely - is mind boggling.
It's really easy to kill somebody with a gun. It's pretty hard otherwise, even if you really want to.
It's really easy to kill somebody with a gun. It's pretty hard otherwise, even if you really want to.
No Money There
As Krugman says, many of the preferred by the Villager solutions to nonexistent problems don't actually save the government any money. Raising the Medicare age a bit wouldn't save much public money, and would likely end up costing more in the net. Also, too, suffering, bankruptcy, and misery.
But we know this, as the preferred method for cutting the deficit is... cutting taxes.
But we know this, as the preferred method for cutting the deficit is... cutting taxes.
Blue PA
A Republican can win Pennsylvania, of course, but if a Republican does win Pennsylvania it will be because there's been a national landslide.
The Philly suburbs turned blue, and that was the end of the game.
The Philly suburbs turned blue, and that was the end of the game.
Fracking Our Way To Hell
My first reaction to the Marcellus Shale finds in PA was that we're screwed.
Resource extraction economies are never pretty. Except Norway, but they do things differently there.
Resource extraction economies are never pretty. Except Norway, but they do things differently there.
Mint The Coin
I really don't know why the administration doesn't take the "mint the trillion dollar platinum coin" option seriously. It is, as far as I can tell, perfectly legal.
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