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October 22, 2004
Oil Up, Down Down, Bush HurtWhat's the opposite of cowbell? Because this would be that. posted by Ace at 05:00 PM
CommentsGas prices in the south are still fairly ok. I just filled up for about 1.80 gallon. The dow is not something that people really look at. Unless you are invested it doesn't make sense. Even if you are invested it doesn't make sense. The guys on Cavuto say it is not that big of a deal everyone needs to stop whining. They also say that repealing the tax cuts is going to screw the pooch economically. I could be wrong. Posted by: Jennifer on October 22, 2004 05:08 PM
I think people do look at the Dow, and take it to be a proxy for the economy. Which it sort of is. Posted by: ace on October 22, 2004 05:15 PM
Give Bush some cowbells for legislating body armour! here are two lives that were saved!! http://www.thequestingcat.com/blog/archives/00000051.html#comments Just one soldiers opinion that I have seen! I gotta have more cowbell!! Posted by: stuttgartcad on October 22, 2004 05:20 PM
I'd like to get a hold of George Soros' holdings - lol - he bankrupted the largest bank in Englend, but I guess that was currency speculation - lol. Still, O-Dub has got to be involved in this somehow. ;) Posted by: fat kid on October 22, 2004 05:49 PM
Oh yeah, and gas out here in SoCal ranges from 2.50 - 2.80. That's the cheap > expensive range. Owch. Posted by: fat kid on October 22, 2004 05:50 PM
And what do the liberals spend that extra gas tax on? Posted by: Jack on October 22, 2004 09:41 PM
Analysts say that oil prices can take another 10-15% off the Dow, assuming inflation is triggered as oil costs permutate goods and services in the economy. Bad news as well that China wants the oil, and has the booming economy to pay for it and keep prices up since the US has begun de-industrializing. Bad news as well in that the low-carb and outsourcing craze has hit the International Bakers Co. - beloved source of Twinkies, Yodels, Wonder Bread, Ring-Dings and other fine junk food. To survive, 46,000 overpaid American jobs may have to be eliminated and production shifted to Mexico or China - so the wash-outs of the high tech factories in Guandong or Sonora can do something simpler commensurate with their job skills. That will of course free up many more Americans to be forced to improve themselves once they lose their pensions, health care, and jobs at International Bakers. No doubt they will, in the thousands, leave the Twinkie batter vats and get their PhDs in protease molecular folding, invent a carbon strand nanobot they can license to be made in China, and become entrepreneurs selling Pakistani scented candles in their town's 9th scented Pakistani candle shoppe - and soon be fabulously wealthy!! (snicker!) Ford announced to new auto manufacturing lines will be sited in N America without government subsidies. The first Chinese Ford plant, 60 miles outside Beijing, will begin production in 2006. Posted by: Cedarford on October 22, 2004 11:43 PM
The opposite of Cowbell? Probably the kazoo. I can't imagine anyone saying "i got a fever and the only prescription is more kazoo". Posted by: senator philabuster on October 23, 2004 02:24 AM
Definitely a woopie cushion. Posted by: topdog on October 23, 2004 08:06 AM
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This isn't Christmas Eve fare, and I thought about waiting until the 26th to post it, but supposedly an amateur detective has solved the Zodiac killer mystery. And the horrific Black Dahlia killing. He says it's the same person! I always thought of them as very far apart in time but I think Black Dahlia was mid-fifties (nope, 1947) mid and the Zodiac murders began in 1968 so it's possible it's the same killer.
The killer, if it's the same man, would have been in his 20s when he killed the Black Dahlia and his 40s when he did the Zodiac murders. Possible. A little caveat: I saw someone snark on Reddit, "The Zodiac case gets solved more often than Wordle." There are a ton of coincidences here, supposedly, like a Zodiac cipher being solved by the name "Elizabeth." Elizabeth Short was the name of the so-called Black Dahlia. If you don't know about the Black Dahlia, don't look it up. Just accept that it's grisly on the level of Jack the Ripper. Yes, the named suspect resembles the police sketch of Zodiac. Here's a podcast with the amateur sleuth who claims he cracked the Zodiac. Daily Mail article. Link to get around the LA Times' paywall for their article.
Former Republican liberal Ben Sasse announces that he has stage IV metastasized pancreatic cancer: "I'm gonna die"
It's not just a "death sentence," as he says, but a rapidly coming one. I hope he can put his affairs in order and make sure his family is in a good as a position as they can be.
Brown killer takes the coward's way out. Naturally.
Still not identified, for some reason. Per Fox 25 Boston, the killer was a non-citizen permanent legal resident It continues to be strange that the police are so protective of his identity.
Fearful French cancel NYE concert on Champs-Élysées as migrant violence grows
The time is now! France must fight for its culture! [CBD]
Megyn Kelly finally calls out Candace Owens
Whoops, I meant she bravely attacks Sydney Sweeney for "bending the knee." (Sweeney put out a very empty PR statement saying "I'm against hate." Whoop-de-doo.) Megyn Kelly claims she doesn't want to call people out on the right when asked about Candace Owens but then has no compunctions at all about calling people out on the right. As long as they're not Candace Owens. Strangely, she seems blind and deaf to anything Candace Owens says. That's why this woman calls her "Megyn Keller." She's now asking her pay-pigs in Pakistan how they think she should address the Candace Owens situation, and if they think this is really all about Israel and the Jews.
The World Must Stop Ignoring What Iranians Already Know: The Regime Is on the Brink
Isn't it pretty to think so? [CBD]
I have happily forgotten what Milo Yiannopoulos sounds like, but I still enjoyed this impression from from Ami Kozak.
More revelations about the least-sexy broken relationship in media history
I'd wanted to review Parts 2, 3, and 4 of Ryan Lizza's revenge posts about Olivia Nuzzi, but they're all paywalled. I thought about briefly subscribing to get at them, but then I read this in Part 2: Remember the bamboo from Part 1? Do I ever! It's all I remember! Well, bamboo is actually a type of grass, and underground, it's all connected in a sprawling network, just like the parts of this story I never wanted to tell. I wish I hadn't been put in this position, that I didn't have to write about any of this, that I didn't have to subject myself or my loved ones to embarrassment and further loss of privacy. We're back to the fucking bamboo. Guys, I don't think I can pay for bamboo ruminations. I think he added that because he was embarrassed about all the bamboo imagery from Part 1. He's justifying his twin obsessions: His ex, and bamboo. Which is not a tree but a kind of grass, he'll have you know.
Olivia Nuzzi's crappy Sex and the City fanfic book isn't selling, says CNN (and CNN seems pretty pleased about that)
On Tuesday, the book arrived in stores. At lunchtime, in the Midtown Manhattan nexus of media and publishing, interest in Nuzzi's story seemed more muted. The Barnes and Noble on Fifth Avenue had seven copies tucked into a "New & Notable" rack next to the escalator, below Malala Yousafzai's "Finding My Way." Not many had sold so far, a store employee said. She trashes Ryan Lizza for his "Revenge Porn" here. Emily Jashinsky says that when the Bulwark's gay grifter Tim Miller asked why she didn't report on the (alleged) use of ketamine by RFKJr., she broke down in tears and asked to end the interview.
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Aktion T4, now with Poutine! [CBD]
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