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October 06, 2009 03:12 PM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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        1. Damn those Canadians!

          This can only mean that they’re trying to take over America through a single-payer system by unleashing their swine flu pandemic (obviously developed in the Soros’s clandestine volcano laboratory).

          Or there’s a typo in Barron’s URL.

            1. .

              that I was shooting from the hip.  Justifiably.

              I thought that the site for his Open Society Institute was as shown above.  Nope.

              http://www.soros.org instead.  

              Having had a proposal rejected with vigor by that crowd, I haven’t kept in touch.  

              In 2002, the OSI was bragging about their investments in opening up Iraqi society.  Curious, I examined spreadsheets and reports and found out that what they were referring to was an Arabic language radio broadcast from Prague, aimed in the general direction of the Middle East.  They spent something like $80,000 a year on that, and imagined they were doing something for the benefit of the Iraqi people.  

              Upon contacting them about a new initiative that some experts I networked with over the intertubes network had developed, I learned that,

              #1, whatever they funded, they would get 100% of the credit for, I couldn’t even note it on my CV; and

              #2, yes, they wanted to make Iraqi society more open, but no, their max funding was $20,000 per project.  

              Old George Soros claims a lot of credit for the Orange Revolution in Kiev and such, but I think the main thing OSI does is proclaim what a swell guy George is.  

              The one area where he really does some good, helping the Roma, he’s relatively quiet about.

              .

  1. 1. A day without sunshine is like night.

    2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

    3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

    4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

    5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.

    6. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

    7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

    8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.

    9. Support bacteria. They’re the only culture most people have.

    10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

    11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

    12. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

    13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.

    14. OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

    15. When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

    16. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

    17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

    18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.

    19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?

    20. Why do psychics have to ask you your name?

    21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, ‘What the heck happened?’

    22. Just remember — if the world didn’t suck, we would all fall off.

    23. Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

    24. Life isn’t like a box of chocolates. It’s more like a jar of jalapenos.  What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.  

  2. I know it is McInnis launch reboot tour, but it amazes me that no one even bothers to consider if claims are true:

    McInnis took aim at Ritter’s decision-making and said that he has only helped to drive jobs out of the state, instead of keeping them here. McInnis said that Ritter has driven the gas industry out of the state by introducing the “toughest natural gas exploration legislation in the nation.”

    “Those rules and regulations were directly targeted at the natural gas industry,” McInnis said. “And this is the result of what happened: They left the area.”

    As I noted in a recent diary, in New York State the oil and gas industry claims that 1) New York has the strongest regulations and 2) that even stronger–are far more reaching than CO’s–rules won’t discourage drilling.  

    Do reporters have Google?  I know times are tough in print media, but it is a free service.

  3. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10

    When Gov. Jon S. Corzine crossed from the gilded halls of Goldman Sachs to the gritty trenches of New Jersey politics, his Wall Street pedigree was an incalculable advantage that served as the very basis for his candidacy…

    Today, New Jersey’s economy is reeling, Goldman Sachs’s luster has dulled and Mr. Corzine’s greatest asset has become a political liability as he struggles to keep his job in November’s election.

    Goldman has been particularly vilified in the minds of many people as a Wall Street behemoth that leveraged the influence of its lobbyists and former executives to curry political favor and that used government bailout payments to boost its profits. A recent article [by Matt Taibbi] in Rolling Stone magazine branded Goldman “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

  4. Their plan for Colorado?  As Gary Harmon reports:  “Review”, “examine” and “seek” is all they can come up with.  Still, absolutely no concrete ideas or any viable plan for economic recovery.

    “It would seem that to be truly venomous and pointedly nasty takes a professional, and for that locally we have the Dean of Mean, Gary Harmon. Gary reminds me of a sort of half-baked H.L. Mencken in reverse, but I’ll digress from exploring that concept further. I prefer to show respect for the dead.” -John Linko    

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