Comments for Okay. This is scary...

Okay. This is scary...

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:10:43 -0600

...for a reason which triggered memories going back to my original 'Structor Pilot training.I didn't see the TV show, but the transcript is, I'll assume, accurate:In a wide ranging interview broadcast Sunday night, Obama was pressed by Steve Kroft on "60 Minutes" for at times laughing or smiling while discussing the global economic crisis."You're sitting here. And you're laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems," Kroft told the president. "Are people going to look at this and say, 'I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money?' How do you deal with -- I mean: explain ......

Comment from Before Gore Kneel on 2009-03-26

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:19:09 -0600

The market is up again (this is Thursday) chiefly because options expired Friday the 20th, and
1) Geithner hasn't completely screwed the pooch
2) the entire market was oversold dipping a bit below August 20's lows. In other words room for a 40% upside move other the next two months.
3) and a growing realization that Obama has lost his momentum and its all downhill for him now. He's squandered his hundred days and his popularity and now the nitpicking begins. It's not long before his numeric dyslexia is revealed routinely by even his BFF's
4) Analysis of Obama's rhetorical tricks have become commonplace. And his thirst for the limelight will prove his critics have his number.

Comment from BillT on 2009-03-24

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:13:24 -0600

Embarrass YOU? can it be done?

Good point.

Comment from Maggie on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:19:06 -0600

The SugarButtons Brigade, the paramilitary adjunct to the Castle's Regular Guard and Praetorians of the Jungle Room.

You rang? Are we having a meeting? Who is bartending? Hold on while I retie the sash on my silk wrapper. Who has my other slipper?

Comment from olga on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:03:19 -0600

Thank you!

Comment from bad cat robot on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:11:29 -0600

Like all really good callsigns, "SugarButtons" was selected a) without any thought of pleasing the victim and b) with the intent of ~~ticking him off~~ yanking his chain. Plus it is easy to remember.

Embarrass YOU? can it be done?

Comment from BillT on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:10:18 -0600

*ahem*

The SugarButtons Brigade, the paramilitary adjunct to the Castle's Regular Guard and Praetorians of the Jungle Room, refer to me as such. For reasons unmentionable at this time.

However, knowing the proclivity of some of the Denizennes for mentioning unmentionables, dollars to donut holes that at least *one* of the ~~li'l weaselettes~~ Ladies be falling over backwards in their haste to ~~embarrass the sh*t out of me~~ enlighten you one of these days...

Comment from Saker on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:40:53 -0600

It's okay, Bill. Finding out that your nickname is SugarButtons and your moustache is a sedative made it all worth it.

Comment from BillT on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:18:43 -0600

Eeep!

First Saker, now Olga -- honest, Ladies, I didn't mean to scare you *that* badly.

Here y'go, Olga -- save your scrolling finger.

Prolly not a good idea to claim time spent mustache-gazing as a medical expense, though...

Comment from olga on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:46:25 -0600

SugarButtons,
you scared the s##t out of me... I knew it was bad but I did not realise it was THAT bad...
(scrolling through the site looking for a picture of your mustache to calm down...)

Comment from htom on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:18:06 -0600

Thanks, Bill. I think he's figured out, now, that he doesn't know how to swim, but he has yet to notice either how deep the water is or how far away the shore is -- and don't talk to him about sharks..

Comment from BillT on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:02:37 -0600

That Nigerian alluvial gold stock finally came in the mail, eh?

Comment from Boquisucio on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:28:02 -0600

No wonder I'm all smiles as of late.

Comment from Kirk on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:18:59 -0600

He and his minion will appear as geniuses..the market is up over 300 points. Everyone will assume it is because of his great leadership, not that it's simply a response to Geithner's plan to buy up all the toxic assets in existence...with money that doesn't really exist. It follows along a similar line of the young adult with their first checking account. They assume as long as there are checks in the checkbook, they can write more checks regardless of the balance.

Comment from KCSteve on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:10:59 -0600

Don't worry Saker - The One's going to make you a millionare!

Heck, if he screws things up enough you could even be a billionaire -- in the Zimbabwain sense, unfortunately.

Comment from Robert on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:50:34 -0600

.
How cheerfully he seems to grin
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws.

--Lewis Carroll

Comment from AFSister on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:30:48 -0600

Yet people continue to support and praise this man, this complete and total AMATEUR running our country!

This is not the blind leading the blind- this is the blind leading those with sight- both hind-sight and fore-sight. It's a recipe for disaster that half of this country IGNORED last November- and now we're all paying for it!

All of his uh's, um's, ah's, repeated words, sputters, and inappropriate laughter all adds up one giant FAILURE.... and he's taking us all down with the ship. B*st*rd.

Comment from BillT on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:03:42 -0600

"Okay, I have the controls -- take a break and walk around outside for a bit."

If he gave you a "You didn't just say what I thought you said" look, he was probably salvageable for another flight hour.

If he actually started to unstrap, rolling the throttle off and bottoming the collective would trigger his survival instinct.

I'm not sure that particular action would be advisable in this particular instance...

Comment from bad cat robot on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:42:50 -0600

You left out some crucial information, SugarButtons. Like how the 'structor Pilot (or electorate) gets the giggling trainee rational and functioning. Do you tell 'em to get out and push? Pull a quick Immelman to increase blood flow to the brain?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:00:20 -0600

Come to Leavenworth, Saker. We desperately need good wait staff.

Of course, we pay them diddly and are bad tippers.

Never mind.

Comment from Saker on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:56:50 -0600

Um.

This is cheerful news for someone who is graduating with student loans to pay off... hopefully there will always be a market for good waitresses.

Comment from fdcol63 on 2009-03-23

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:27:29 -0600

Margaret Thatcher said something along these lines: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money".

Continue to sap investor confidence by reinforcing the notion that we're in the worst economic period since the Great Depression, pass a $1 trillion "stimulus" bill that does nothing but increase spending, create a populist backlash against the Wall Street people you're depending on to help you out of this mess, and perpetuate a class war where the productive people in society are completely disincentivized from producing enough to support your spending ....... and what do you expect? A downward spiral.

Instead of "equalizing" upward whatever disparities exist among the classes in America, the Obama administration is bringing everyone down to the level of those in the poverty bracket.