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March 3, 2009

Open Thread

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We're getting change, all right. Compliments of Paul H.

Posted by Van Helsing at March 3, 2009 9:24 AM

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not to worry, gordo brown is here today to straighten him out...

Posted by: nancz at March 3, 2009 10:29 AM

Ye Gods, bureaucrats, shut the hell up already! Every time you open your mouth, I lose money!

Posted by: CoderInCrisis at March 3, 2009 10:30 AM

Roland Burris lists his career accomplishments at his official website:

http://supportburris.com/news/news_categories.php?categoryid=3§ion=ACM

LMAO

Posted by: Refuter of Liberal Vermin at March 3, 2009 10:31 AM

The Wisdom of Crowds and Obamanomics

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/02/wisdom-of-crowds-and-obamanomics.html

Obama, the depression president.

Posted by: Kevin R at March 3, 2009 11:08 AM

The scariest chart ever:

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/01/scariest-chart-ever.html

Posted by: Kevin R at March 3, 2009 11:12 AM

Sorry EMPORER PALPATINE OBAMA we dont want or need your change becuase we dont want to end up with a dictatorship run by a tyrant a left-wing dirty reptile

Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at March 3, 2009 12:27 PM

Moonbattery in Pittsburgh is an almost daily occurance. Steelers rule, but the city sucks. My plan is to turn on very light in the house during Earth hour - along with every other plugged in item I can find.

http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/09062/952827-100.stm

"Councilman wants city to turn off lights March 28
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh will be a little bit darker on March 28 at 8:30 p.m., if City Councilman William Peduto has his way.

Mr. Peduto is leading a push to make the city a major participant in Earth Hour, a global effort to get people and institutions to turn off the lights for 60 minutes and think about energy conservation.

The third-annual event is "a call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet," according to the Earth Hour Web site.

Council will start the process today with a resolution encouraging everyone in the city to turn off the lights at the appointed time. Mr. Peduto sent letters last week to universities, health institutions, museums and Downtown property owners, some of which have already signed on.

Last year an estimated 50 million people worldwide turned off their lights for Earth Hour, and the effort's organizers hope to get 1 billion people to go dark this year."


Posted by: Name at March 3, 2009 1:23 PM

kevin - that IS the scariest chart. ever.

Posted by: nancz at March 3, 2009 2:01 PM

Chairman Zero sez:

"What I’m looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market, but the long-term ability for the United States and the entire world economy to regain its footing. And, you know, the stock market is sort of like a, uh, tracking poll in politics. You know, it bobs up and down day to day. And if you spend all your time worrying about that, then you’re probably going to get the long-term strategy wrong.

Michael Goldfarb has this analysis:

"Sometimes it seems like our new president is just a little self-absorbed. I’m pretty sure that most Americans don’t view the day to day fluctuations in the stock market, fluctuations that have wiped out half or more of their life savings, as anything like a tracking poll. And these numbers don’t bob up and down. Since Obama’s been in office they’ve bobbed only in one direction. The Dow has lost nearly 1,500 points in just over a month. If Obama’s poll numbers had taken a dive like this during the campaign, nobody in Chicago would have been worried about the long-term strategy — they would have been worried about finding new jobs."

Posted by: Karin at March 3, 2009 2:36 PM

Durring the Great Depression, Hoover and later, Roosevelt, tried to ENCOURAGE people and lift their spirits, BO is talking doom and gloom!

Durring the Great Depression, the Siminols of Florida were asked by the Feds What they could do to help them.
The answer: "Leave us alone!"

Posted by: KHarn at March 3, 2009 3:09 PM

"Seminoles". It's still hard to type with a cat on my lap.

Posted by: KHarn at March 3, 2009 3:11 PM

I think this decline in the market is all part of the plan. Create more crisis and more dependency. I made the point over on my site that if after spending $800B the best The Magnanimous One can offer is that "things are going to get worse before they start getting better", that you can make a pretty good argument for doing nothing and achieving comparable if not better results.
-OMB

Posted by: Mike B. at March 3, 2009 5:09 PM

Karin, I heard that on the radio today and couldn't believe it. He takes no blame for what's happening in the stock market. Here's Zero on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AspJFkzgwq0

The AP story:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gjMP6AaQ2SRsu8rk8sMsu6bkkz0AD96MPAQG0

Real wealth is evaporating before our eyes because he is frightening capital out of the market and his response is that this is just the normal up and down of the marketplace.

Posted by: Kevin R at March 3, 2009 6:03 PM

And this is how a lot of those people that are taking their capital out of the market feel:

Going John Galt
http://pursuingholiness.com/going-john-galt.php

Posted by: Kevin R at March 3, 2009 6:33 PM

Posted by: BURNING HOT at March 3, 2009 6:47 PM

Wall Street Journal: Most effective Obama critics are Charles Dow and Edward Jones

As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic. Yesterday the Dow fell another 4.24% to 6763, for an overall decline of 25% in two months and to its lowest level since 1997. The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem.

Posted by: BURNING HOT at March 3, 2009 6:56 PM

Posted by: BURNING HOT at March 3, 2009 7:00 PM

I'll tell you the same thing I tell 13 year olds: correlation does not prove causation.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 3, 2009 7:00 PM

Sorry, above Wall Street Journal linkage credit should be http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/03/most_effective_obama_critics_c.asp

Posted by: BURNING HOT at March 3, 2009 7:02 PM

Brack Obama demacreep a liar with freinds in low places and comrades found hiding under rocks or creeping in wagon ruts qith the other reptiles

Posted by: Flu-Bird at March 3, 2009 7:33 PM

I'm sure that 13 year olds are very impressed with you, Anonymous.

Posted by: Kevin R at March 3, 2009 8:11 PM

Matt Damon visits the Obamerica of the future, fails to see irony

The Hollywood actor was visiting refugee centers in this border town as part of his work with Not On Our Watch, a human rights group he started with other celebrities such as Brad Pitt and George Clooney to draw attention to the world's suffering peoples.

"I have spoken to so many people who went through so much to get to this point. It is testament to the situation across the border in Zimbabwe," Damon told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview.

An estimated 3 million Zimbabweans have fled economic collapse and dire humanitarian conditions at home, and Damon said he was "shocked and saddened" by the plight of those he spoke to.

In one camp visited by Damon, about 5,000 Zimbabweans are camped on a sandy patch strewn with rubbish and personal belongings. Some have built makeshift structures out of plastic, and others sleep on pieces of cardboard. There are about a dozen toilets and only a few taps.

Damon, who patiently listened to heart-wrenching stories in the scorching heat, called the situation in Musina "untenable" and said "action has to be taken" by international and regional leaders.

Damon is in South Africa making a film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman as the country's first black president, Nelson Mandela. He said he hoped to use his "celebrity capital" to raise awareness about Zimbabwe, where a new unity government is calling for $2 billion in aid to help rebuild.

Posted by: BURNING HOT at March 3, 2009 8:20 PM

Take this for what it is worth and where it is from. I am not into tinfoil hat stuff but this looks like it MIGHT (I stress MIGHT) be legit.

Rule by fear or rule by law?

“Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents, and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of ‘an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.’ Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.”

Posted by: SK at March 3, 2009 8:24 PM

Posted by: BURNING HOT at March 3, 2009 8:42 PM

Posted by: BURNING HOT at March 3, 2009 8:49 PM

Even Discovery Channel starting to cautiously doubt global warming

March 2, 2009 -- For those who have endured this winter's frigid temperatures and today's heavy snowstorm in the Northeast, the concept of global warming may seem, well, almost wishful.

But climate is known to be variable -- a cold winter, or a few strung together doesn't mean the planet is cooling. Still, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters, global warming may have hit a speed bump and could go into hiding for decades.

Earth's climate continues to confound scientists. Following a 30-year trend of warming, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have cranked up the planetary thermostat.

How does this square with temperature records from 2005-2007, by some measurements among the warmest years on record? When added up with the other four years since 2001, Swanson said the overall trend is flat, even though temperatures should have gone up by 0.2 degrees Centigrade (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) during that time.

The discrepancy gets to the heart of one of the toughest problems in climate science -- identifying the difference between natural variability (like the occasional March snowstorm) from human-induced change.

Posted by: BURNING HOT at March 3, 2009 8:57 PM

Anyone need a laugh? Check out these photos of Voter's Remorse. All the photos are not genuine, but still funny nonetheless.

Posted by: Murff at March 4, 2009 4:32 AM

Anonymous: for a financial market, correlation and causality are never far apart. That's what I tell leftards who don't have a clue about finance.

Posted by: mandible claw at March 5, 2009 9:19 AM