А я брахаць ня ўмею, дык і завыў

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:14:08 GMT

Русские и белорусы никакие не братья. Даже не двоюродные
http://www.charter97.org/ru/news/2008/10/6/10866/

Johnny Rotten sells out in style

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:23:56 GMT

John Lydon made a commercial about butter.

YouTube comments have the priceless 'Anarchy in the Moo-K. God Save the Cream.'

It's not about Great Britain, it's about great butter!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mSE-Iy_tFY

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Bernanke's speeches summarized

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:31:44 GMT

Our financial system is sound.
Our financial system is sound.
Our financial system is sound.
Our financial system is sound.
Our financial system is sound.
Our financial system is sound.
Our financial system is sound.
Our financial system is sound.
Our financial system is sound.
We may not have an economy on Monday.

thx screamager@deadjournal

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!!!

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:50:43 GMT

http://bash.org.ru/quote/399732

Pelevin is publishing a new book. Moscow authorities did not allow the billboards advertising it. The draft had the words "Advertising of this book is censored". The authorities said this is offensive to them, because there is no censorship in Moscow.

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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:50:19 GMT

О, нарэшце можна з Хрома запісваць закладкі ў гугельбукмаркс
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=100215&topic=14680

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Addicted to tango

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:04:03 GMT

Perdizione

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-629zssP21Y
Update: full version: http://www.arzanohumorciak.com/corti_2006/perdizione.html

Trio Garufa Tango Film: Gamulan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxlP2msyhYE

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The OTHER Sarah

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:20:43 GMT

"Barack Hussein Obama its a super fucking shitty name, but you'd think that somebody named Manischewitz Guberman might understand that"

http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/blogitem.html?id=5085
http://www.vimeo.com/1808434?pg=embed&sec=1808434

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:29:01 GMT

Перыядычныя заняткі танго, канешне, б'юць па кішэні, але й прыносяць псыхалягічнае задавальненьне, прычым не заўсёды напрасткі. Трохі месяцаў таму ў мяне зьмянілася першая лічба вагі, а паход у краму сёньня пацьвердзіў, што першая лічба ў памеры нагавіцаў таксама паменьшылася.

Frequent tango dancing, of course, drains one's pocket, but brings a lot of psychological benefits, sometimes in a non-direct way. Several months ago the first digit in my weight changed for the better; the trip to a clothing store today confirmed that my pant size also shrank.

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Metallica - Death Magnetic

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:31:06 GMT

А Металіка тымчасам запісала новы альбумчык 'Сьмяротны магніцік'.
Вось на вытрубцы ляжаць 4 песьні, ды й астатнія недалёка.
У адрозьненьне на папярэдняга St Anger, які я проста ніасіліў даслухаць да канца, у гэты раз усё гучыць прыстойна, ў духу "...And Justice for All" і трошкі "Master of Puppets" - такія-ж доўгія песенькі з гітарнымі салякамі (мне нават здалася, што ў першай песеньцы ёсьць нешта ад Blackened, ў другой ад Sanitarium, а ў трэйцяй ад Master of Puppets). Запісана ўсё, канешне, вельмі гладзенька, мэлёдыі вылізаныя, галасок Хетфілда гучыць незлабіва, карацей кажучы, гэта сімулякр былога велічу. Але, халера, падабаецца данельга :)

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Get Shorty!

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:20:27 GMT

Americans have trouble with long words. So it shouldn't be surprising that my highly scientific analysis of the last 10 presidential elections shows that in 8 of 10 the winning ticket was the one where the combined length of the last names of running mates was shorter. The rule is "Whichever ticket has the shorter combined length wins, except for Democrats running against Bob Dole, when they win anyway" :)

1968 NixonAgnew HumphreyMuskie
1972 NixonAgnew McGovernShriver
1976* CarterMondale FordDole
1980 ReaganBush CarterMondale
1984 ReaganBush MondaleFerraro
1988 BushQuayle DukakisBentsen
1992 ClintonGore QuayleStockdale
1996* ClintonGore DoleKemp
2000 BushCheney GoreLieberman
2004 BushCheney KerryEdwards
*Bob Dole on the R ticket

Based on that, we can predict that Obama/Biden will win over McCain/Palin.

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Golden Arches Safer Than Uncle Sam?

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:53:04 GMT

http://seekingalpha.com/article/97571-golden-arches-safer-than-uncle-sam
Word on the street is that the credit risk of the Golden Arches are better than Uncle Sam.
VS.

5 Year Credit Default Swaps on McDonald’s Corp are trading at 24 to 29bp while US Credit Default Swaps are trading 30bp. This means that it is more expensive to buy protection against a default of the US government than a bankruptcy of Mickey D.

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Bingo cards for tonight debate

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:54:25 GMT

1 2 3 4 5

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Representative Marcy Kaptur - Let's Play "Wall Street Bailout"

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:52:37 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27yitK32ds
Transcript: http://www.carrborocitizen.com/main/2008/09/25/for-the-record-92508/
For 30 years in one financial scandal after another, Wall Street game masters have kept billions of dollars of their gain and shifted their losses to American taxpayers. Once this bailout is in place, the greed game will begin again.

thx princeofspace

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FDIC May Need $150 Billion Bailout

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:47:26 GMT

It won't take many more failures before the FDIC itself runs out of money. The agency had $45.2 billion in its coffers as of June 30, far short of the $200 billion Whalen says it will need to pay claims by the end of next year.
...
A federal takeover of Washington Mutual, which has assets of $310 billion, could cost taxpayers $24 billion more, according to Richard Bove, an analyst at Miami-based Ladenburg Thalmann & Co.

WaMu failed today (see my previous post). So after this FDIC will have half the money it had...

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Fun fun fun

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:01:01 GMT

Today's email from WaMu: WaMu News | The holidays start today.

Today's news:
JPMorgan Buys WaMu Deposits; Regulators Seize Thrift

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Damn, I want it

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:06:22 GMT

The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

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Multiple orgasm

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:07:23 GMT

Les Claypool (of Primus), Gogol Bordello, Kirk Hammett (of Metallica) playing a set of Tom Waits' songs
http://www.archive.org/details/superjam2008-06-13.mk4
Check out the gypsy punk version of 'I'll Be Gone'!

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Patrick on Bailout

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:19:39 GMT

The Federal Bailout
by Governor Deval Patrick
I have mixed feelings about the bailout.
As someone who has worked in the business world and watched markets, I understand it. AIG is in the business of insuring corporate defaults; for that and other reasons, its failure has serious ramifications for the rest of the financial system. That system as a whole is under serious strain, which is limiting the availability of credit, which is in turn constraining both small and large businesses and consumers alike. I understand the need to reassure investors and stabilize the market, where so many people and institutions have their wealth (including retirement savings) tied up.

Of course, the government has bailed out private enterprise before. Serious business people don't really believe all that bunk about an unfettered free market, where only the fittest, smartest and shrewdest survive. The irony -- that some of the loudest advocates of radical deregulation are among the first to seek government salvation -- is also not lost on me.

What bothers me most is that we rarely see this sense of urgency when it comes to the suffering of ordinary people. It took less than 24 hours to find $85 billion to shore up AIG and the investment markets. And only a few days to come up with a broad-based plan for $700 billion to shore up the financial markets. Yet when it comes to homelessness, education, health care, job training, foreclosures, or anything else having to do with helping ordinary strivers, the response is always "how are we going to pay for it?" I cannot make my peace with that.

It seems to me that if we are indeed going to support this bailout for Wall Street, then we had better accompany it with measures for Main Street. How about, for starters, a fund to buy non-performing mortgages and renegotiate terms for people in or nearing foreclosure? That way we have a central decision maker to restructure the debt so that people can stay in their homes or so that vacant and foreclosed properties can be rehabbed for reuse as affordable units. And average people get the kind of attention paid to their calamity that the big shots at AIG are about to get. It would be good for the economy as a whole, too, because it would serve as a place for lenders whose shaky balance sheets have undermined the credit market to send their bad debt and significantly stabilize credit markets.

I am a capitalist, but not a market fundamentalist. I think markets need parameters within which to operate, and that the role of government is to impose those parameters. In addition to exposing the failures of the free-for-all marketeers, I hope we get from these events better oversight of those markets and clearer rules of engagement.

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Ron Paul: sunset authorization for the use of force in Iraq

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:45:20 GMT

http://www.house.gov/htbin/blog_inc?BLOG,tx14_paul,blog,999,All,Item%20not%20found,ID=080922_2415,TEMPLATE=postingdetail.shtml

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Presidential vote predictions

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:23:38 GMT

Ok, it's time to make your predictions. Here's mine.
Mostly the vote outcome will be the same as in 2004 (for example, FL will vote R), with the following differences:
- Democrats will pick up Iowa and New Mexico;
- Republicans might pick up New Hampshire.

The three toss-up states for which I am not making predictions and which will be key factors in deciding this race are Virginia, Ohio and Colorado. Whoever gets any 2 of these 3 will win.

Make your own predictions in the comments.

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І яшчэ пра палітыку

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:15:10 GMT

Пасьля намінацыі Сары Палін клятыя лібералы ў Сан-Францыска больш не купляюць віно 'Палін Сыра'
'Palin Syrah' Wine Drops in Sales After Sarah Palin Veep Pick
http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/09/palin-syrah-sarah-sara-wine-drops-in-sales.html

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That's a good one

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:27:05 GMT

I was talking to a friend's little girl, and she said she wanted to be Vice President some day. Both of her parents were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were to be the Vice President of the United States of America, what is the first thing you would do?'

She replied, "What is it exactly a vice-president does?"

And I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party, sweetheart."

thx shvarz@lj for the link

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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:27:18 GMT

Obama Promises To Stop America's Shitty Jobs From Going Overseas

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Вярбіцкі паліць :)

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:42:08 GMT

А во фразе "люби Россию, пидор" после тысячного повторения находятся неожиданные подтексты. Может ли пидор любить Россию? А если может, то как? И нужна ли России такая любовь? И почему она так интересуется пидорами?

Калі-б толькі Алан (Алан? асецін???) Мілн ведаў...

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Massachussetts - politics as usual

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:32:33 GMT

Джон Буономо - вор, што тырыў дробязь з ксэраксаў - перамог на ўчарашніх праймерыз
John Buonomo, the Democratic Middlesex County probate register charged with stealing from the Registry of Deeds in Cambridge, was elected without opposition despite his recent resignation, which came too late to remove his name from the ballot.

Buonomo is widely expected to withdraw from the race, at which point the ward and town Democratic committees in Middlesex County will pick a replacement to put on the November ballot.

Рэспубліканцы - бярыце загаловак для артыкула "A proven thief wins Democrat primary"

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