If you invent money and introduce it into an economy, that doesn’t matter (WRT impact on human lives) as much as where you insert it in the food chain.
It seems criminal (AS HELL!!!1!LOL) to bail out one class of debtors while throwing another class of debtors to the wolves.
If you give the bank monies in an amount equaling the cost of the defaulted mortgages, effectively paying off loans designed to fail, why can you not give the same amount of money to families in financial crisis with the stipulation that they use it to pay off their sub-prime home loans?
The bank ends up with the same amount of money either way, but fewer lives get ruined in the process (poverty kills, mofo!).
If I’m wrong, I’m wrong, but please, somebody splain this to me.
Oh right.
My bad.
A nation of happy, financially secure families creates conditions less conducive to the rise of fascism, and thus, is bad (for fascists).
In advance of tonight’s episode of Lost, EW.com published a great interview with producers Damon Lindelhof and Carlton Cuse which sheds a lot of light on the whole space/time thing happening this season as well as what questions might be answered before the end of the season. Read it HERE.
Last night’s episode “Confirmed Dead” (penned by “Y The Last Man” and “Runaways” creator Brian K Vaughn and “Cloverfield” writer Drew Goddard) was proof that Lost is back in high form for season 4!
As some of you know I spend a few hours a day designing tombstones and catalogs full of tombstones… Today while working on our new catalog I was editing a photo and noticed the scariest monument I have ever seen in the background.
Cropped for your pleasure:
It looks like some kind of evil Nazi propaganda statue for a fascist army of giant birds!
Keep in mind that our monuments are made in China and as such, this statue is in a warehouse somewhere in the Chinese mainland… someone call Lou Dobbs, I think the Reds might finally be ready for world domination!
And we thought the bird flu was the scariest avian threat coming from Asia.
This just in from the Marvel Comics PR dept - “In 2008, the Marvel Universe will be consumed by Secret Invasion, the comic book event over five years in the making, written by Brian Bendis and penciled by Leinil Yu of “New Avengers” fame.” As I am a giant nerd for Bendis, Yu, The New Avengers and shape shifting alien invasions, I am more than a little pumped to check this out. Peep this preview trailer now:
There is a wide, wide array of amateur conspiracy theory documentaries available online to anyone willing to get through the cheesy editing and the melodramatic background music. By far the most convincing and terrifying one I’ve seen yet was made by a mysterious figure known only as Maddox and posted on a mysterious site known only as The Best Page in the Universe. This video was originally posted on April 1st, 2007, the beginning of the pagan calendar. Coincidence?!
My first stop landed me the above gem and a combination of words previously thought only to occur under laboratory conditions: awesome fire animated powerpoint slide(!!!!!11!)
So if any of you poor bastards reading this ever have to assemble a PowerPoint™ presentation, use this guy’s slides, err, backgrounds cuz they’re just the thing to shock-and-awe yr coworkers or something to revitalize yr mfn, miserable-ass, PowerPoint™-presentation-makin existence (geez, I can’t believe I hang out with you).
In teh next diagram we see that the southern hemisphere and/but most especially Florida and other such weird-ass jerk-water places generally south of here are reponsible for global warming because they’re on fire. Again.
Other accounts suggest that Kurt Russell started teh blaze attempting to kill a-the Thing™ and thus he owns the fire. Representatives for both Michael McDonald and Billy Joel independently asserted that whoever keeps a fire, regardless of which party may or may not have started it, owns it. Kenny Loggins was unavailable for comment. Furthur debate is encouraged.
After that I just sat there for a while, staring at the screen, writing the above paragraphs.
