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CBS Exposes The Obama Campaign’s Financing

October 30th 2008 Posted at General
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CBS Exposes The Obama Campaign’s Financing

An Invitation To Travelers From A Galaxy Far Far Away

October 18th 2008 Posted at General
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Last night, after a midnight feeding of the babe, I was unable to sleep. I watched a few taped episodes of Doctor Who. Between that, a big bowl of chili, and a pair of heavy White Russians(Lolita and Margarita), I though I would conquer my sleeplessness. It worked, but not until 6 am.

In the mean time, I had the idea of inviting people from distant places to talk and communicate with me. Rather than question wether or not such individuals exist, I am going to operate from the assumption that they do and that there is a global cocktail party culture that is just ripe for the crashing. There are humans out there that have a connection with alien societies and they simply keep it a secret because they don’t want to put up with the shit they would have to deal with if it became public. These humans are livin’ la vida loca and I want in.

If anyone is either a human that has such a connection or if you are an alien from a different world and you want a drinking buddy, feel free to contact me. I will be cool about it. I might post about it, for posterity’s sake, but there are no worries about that, everyone thinks I am full of shit, so they will assume it is creative writing.

In addition to that, I pride myself on being a live and let live sort of individual. So if you are into something really out of this world(maybe you are one of the folks that keeps reading my sex with cows post), I can handle it. I am a little bored with our world, so I am open to a little excitement. Brilliant!

Live long and prosper and may the force be with you…

Slarty

Hip to Be Square

October 3rd 2008 Posted at General
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For those of us that are American Psycho fans:

10 Trillion Dollars

October 2nd 2008 Posted at General
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Last night the national debt counter on the top right of the Slarty’s World side bar surpassed $10 Trillion. Way to go Government!

On Bigness and Debt

October 2nd 2008 Posted at General
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I was asked this evening why anyone would be opposed to the bailout. This debate has been framed so that to be against the bailout means that you don’t understand the problem. The only choice if you are an informed citizen would be to be for the bailout.

I rambled out a few reasons that I felt to be legitimate reasons not to be for it( I gave a few non-legitimate reasons for good measure). One is that I don’t think we should vote for such an expansion of government. I don’t think we have the money for it. In the immortal words of Top Gun – [the government] is writing checks [its] body can’t cash.

On another note- it is fricken irritating. I mean, basically, these businesses made the business choice to loan money to people that probably could not afford it. Then when they try to sell this debt to free up capital to make more bad loans, no one wants to buy it, so they have no money to lend. I can see why this would affect the economy and prevent growth, but do we really want to give them a pass, but their loans, and then have them make another batch of loans? Maybe the growth we have had in the past 20 years has been inflated? If my business fails because I have made bad business decisions – do I get a bailout?

So then the argument is, but what about my retirement. The market is shit and my house has lost 20%. Well, maybe your stocks and your house were overvalued. Me, I am going to start hording gold coins. (And maybe fine bottles of wine) I don’t have the answers, but I know enough that I think it is OK to be opposed to a bailout.