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Newt Sees Shadow, Crawls Back Into Hole: Six More Weeks of Primaries On Way
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T-Mac: #Komenfail Articleman as Particleman: The Science of Newt/RINOs Newt Sees Shadow, Crawls Back Into Hole: Six More Weeks of Primaries On Way |
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Loyal readers have been anxiously following dagblog.com's financial troubles in this difficult economy. On Tuesday, after dagblog's appeals for federal assistance were rebuffed, I sadly announced that all the other members of the dagblog team would have to be let go.
But in response to overwhelming concern for the well-being of the dagbloggers and their families and also because they simply would not leave, dagblog management has decided to hire back the bloggers. (In what one analyst has called "the most shortsighted decision of the decade," management has also chosen not to rename the website GenghisGenghisGenghis.com.)
In order to finance dagblog's operations, our CFO, who asked not to be named to avoid prosecution, has come up with a creative scheme, or rather strategy, for maintaining cash flow:
D-Bills are zero coupon bonds which, like T-Bills, will be repaid at the time of maturity one year from purchase. Backed by dagblog's extensive assets, which include a catchy domain name and a very large assortment of Obama buttons and bumper stickers, analysts consider D-Bills to be one of the safest investments on the internet today.
D-Bill value is based on a new type of trading currency known as the "dag." In our initial offering, dags will be sold for $0.92* and can be redeemed one year from purchase for $1.00**. The value of the dag will be allowed to float, and we expect the price to increase rapidly after the initial offering as investors clamor for safe, lucrative D-Bills.
Some skeptics have argued that since dagblog is technically insolvent, the organization cannot afford to take on debt at this time. Dagblog's own Deadman has repeatedly insisted that before it can recover, dagblog must be spanked hard for its past excesses. In particular, he points to the optimistic purchase of massive quantities of Obama buttons, bumper stickers, and other election knickknacks, arguing that before recovery is possible, dagblog must purge the bad swag. Nonetheless, dagblogger DF has conclusively proven with hard data and lots of economic jargon that Deadman is a wanker.
Other critics are concerned about the possibility that Canadian investors may buy up the majority of the D-Bills, leaving dagblog open to foreign influence by a particularly dangerous and unpredictable regime. While no one disputes that the Canadians have the will and the means, analysts expect their inferior political system to collapse of its own weight once they return from prorogation.
D-Bills will be released in six denominations corresponding to the six dagbloggers. In addition, we will offer a limited release of commemorative D-Bills for collectors. The D-Bills will be sold in a single price auction from 2/23 to 3/6. Please make out checks to Genghis and write down your credit card number and ATM password somewhere on the check. We thank our readers for your loyalty in helping dagblog to survive these troubled times.
* American dollars
** Zimbabwean dollars












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Huffington Post - A. Terkel/R. Grim begins report with:
WASHINGTON -- At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals pledged approximately $100 million to defeat President Obama in the 2012 elections.
and report includes:
The source told The Huffington Post that they lamented the direction the conference has taken over the years. They said it used to be about "conservative strategy" and building a movement, but now it was mostly an "alpha male" spectacle focused on fundraising to beat Obama.
This is downright frightening.
If I could offer advice to a young rebel, it would be to rummage the past for a body of thought that helps you understand and address the shortcomings you see. Give yourself a label.
Effective rebellion isn’t just expressing your personal feelings. It means replacing one set of authorities and institutions with a better set of authorities and institutions. Authorities and institutions don’t repress the passions of the heart, the way some young people now suppose. They give them focus and a means to turn passion into change.
As if the socio-political change is a matter of removing one set and plugging in the other set.
In the end, all Brooks once wants to do is point to the kids of today and say "aren't they being silly."
What Brooks wants to avoid is the messiness that comes from delving into the change where the outcome is not known before one set out ahead of time. It wraps this up by saying those who see it in a different way are merely motivated by personal feelings, which is about as asinine as it gets.
As they say, you read, you decide. Preview:
They'll still turn down Planned Parenthood again next time because of the supposed pass-through grant. Unless of course, Nancy Brinker was lying last night. So which is it?
“This represents nothing new. We have known and have reported that they are continuing five grants through 2012. This is a reference to that. The second clause about eligibility is certainly true. Any group can apply for anything. It does not mean they are going to get anything,” Ruse told LifeNews.
Geez, is the 'surrender' a trojan horse? Or in fact, not even a surrender, since ongoing current funding was not being stopped. According to this, it's all about the future funding processes, which is still not committed. Hmmm.
Once again, as ever, this bill (as many legislative actions) provides only the facade that our Nation's leaders are legislating what the country needs and holding themselves to the same standards as their constituents.
In truth, the proposed legislation does not provide the same oversight and consequences for Congressional insider trading malfeasance, as the rest of our nation's citizens are subject to under current insider trading laws.
We need to stand up and speak out that this is not good enough! Please, blog - send emails - call - communicate the facts to the WH, media and your own local governmental body, asking them to pass a resolution to be forwarded to your state's congressional members as well as the WH. Don't attack either party as all are culpable. A bi-partisan coalition none should support.
Well it took longer than I thought, but just a day longer. KOMEN has reversed course.
We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.
Nancy Komen Brinker goes on to deny what happened and continues to say they were misunderstood, but the backlash has been enormous, and they have reversed course and apologize.
The thing is, I think this will continue to hurt them, as they've been found out, they support policies that that hurt women.
Yep, sorry Nancy, your days in the spotlight are probably over.
I will update this with some video soon.
I'm not gonna ask what's on the back side of these bills.
Once again the lowly commenter gets jeezluled. First out of the blue, through no fault of ours, you say you will have to shut down (but only after the bonuses are distributed). Then, you turn around and offer (offer mind you) to let the little commenter bail you out of the sinking boat that you so gleefully drilled the holes in. And the Hi ya canadies, new in town, have you a spare dime is just typical fecklessness of all you big time boys. As apparently the only true blue american lowly commenter on a regular basis around here I must tell you I have had about enough of your shenaigans. This site is becoming a moral hazzard.
Ditto that Splashy! That don't know how to treat the audience. But I'm feeling kind of generous, so I'm contributing 5 somali shillings! Don't spend it all in one place.
You can earmark your contributions. And on an entirely different subject, I'd like to remind everyone that my area has the highest unemployment rate in the country.
Coincidence?
We can test that theory. I'll move to Manhattan and we'll see what happens. You sure you wanna risk it?
Thank you, I don't think that will be necessary. But I hear that Arizona is nice this time of year.
To bluesplashy, dijamo, and all the other bitter shortsighted haters out there: We dagbloggers are the foundation of the economy. Without us, it call comes crashing down. In other words, we earned the right to exploit you.