Political Skeletons

Political Skeletons Coming Home to Roost Who says I don't know how to mix a metaphor? Many liberals were stampeded or bamboozled into supporting the Iraq War, against their better judgments, for fear of being branded as soft on terrorism. Many conservatives supported the Stimulus Package and the Bailout to avoid the specter of Herbert Hoover, whose laissez-faire policies were blamed for the Depression. - CarlD

Granularity - Micro Patterns

Granularity - Micro Patterns

Here are a handful of discernible patterns.

• Fahrenheit 9/11, movie by Michael Moore, makes the point that none but one member of Congress who voted for the Iraq War had children in the military.  They were willing to send other children to fight but not their own children.
• A similar pattern is that very few Presidents, Vice Presidents, or Secretaries of Defense have male children.  Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, George W Bush, and Dick Cheney are examples.
• Richard Nixon abandoned his Quaker, pacifist, origins.  Dwight Eisenhower abandoned his Mennonite, pacifist, origins.  George W Bush abandoned his free enterprise origins.

- CarlD             October 25, 2008

The Bed Sitting Room - lost movie

The Bed Sitting Room (1/9)

It's been about 30 years since I saw this movie on late night TV.

Through the miracle of the internet, I found it on YouTube.

It's a British satire in the style of Monty Python.

- CarlD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX3ltFkrngY&ytsession=ljPh9InrYErKoRQyIA-6l9bsQzvlYpHxi6zxfbioEFZWdn7UCTyuylBe4RARECfHincffNzXEJvs1RtWXXMlFl0VK2shwoQQ9JE1P7ale6KkrMqCdwfxruc-LQ-TNznLj5qBizxUgQJMg9XlKViceM8qslzD_HBuTbJaLIFn-o6wl1WKMtPiiujan5i_wbldqL7DI0i5F9Cr7ZQcjnImV81jSZfCfXR3YebTz3tRpYer_Os-p7wO476GpGDj7JdL
 
 

Barack Obama - Alfred E. Smith dinner

My greatest strength.  Humility.
My greatest weakness.  I'm TOO awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5SWQJWm6Tg
6:48 time code

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Amazon.com: The First Billion Is the Hardest

T. BOONE PICKENS - book

I used to say "the first billion is the hardest".  - CarlD

http://www.amazon.com/First-Billion-Hardest-Reflections-Comebacks/dp/0307395774

BUFFETT quote

"A simple rule dictates my buying:

Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful," Buffett, 78, said in an opinion piece published Friday in The New York Times.

"Most certainly, fear is now widespread."

http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSTRE49G5Z620081017
 
 

Global meltdown

The meltdown continues.

From Canada to Japan, like it or not, world economies are interlinked and co-dependent.

- CarlD

Inflation Cure = Economic Collapse

Every cloud has a silver lining. - CarlD