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Entry: Part Of Loeb To Be Played By Rob Lowe Or (Fingers Crossed) Emilio Estevez
posted by Finnegan
Aug 06, 2008 12:43PM
Favorite Ally Sheedy film was "Only the Lonely" with John Candy.
Entry: Place Your Bets
posted by Finnegan
Aug 06, 2008 5:14PM
Actually DB should always have either a paypal or Amazon "donate" button on one of the pages to facilitate bets like this.
@34: Not a racist, but a sexual deviant.
Entry: Place Your Bets
posted by Finnegan
Aug 06, 2008 5:22PM
@43:
That would have wasted a lot of trees if written on paper. Maybe next time you can make that shorter, funnier, and coherent.
Entry: Place Your Bets
posted by Finnegan
Aug 06, 2008 10:23PM
The idea that blacks should not be excited over a black president is absurd, and defies every normal human impulse. Hell, the whole Olympics is based on ethnic or national identity enthusiasms. In many ways the black skin symbolizes similar life experiences so there is a mild assumption of affinity.
One can also assume too that blacks don't get behind every black politician: Colin, Condoleeza and Clarence are hardly favorites in the black community, rejected over ideology rather than skin.
So here, after 300 plus years of white presidents, where EVERYONE votes for white candidates, a fairly qualified black person comes along with nearly the exact same views as the white candidate (Hillary), and with the exception that the white candidate is not likeable (in terms of surface appearances).
Add to that the white candidate's attempts to bring race to the fore by repeatedly saying that whites won't vote for the black guy, so therefore, vote for the white person.
The black voter, seeing the similarities (and with most blacks voting 90% plus for Democrats anyway), is supposed to automatically line up behind Hillary, in the same way that in more personal matters whites encourage their kids to date blacks and spend untold amounts of time cultivating black friends? Ha ha.
Won't happen, and doesn't really happen.
The assumption that all blacks vote simply due to race would suggest that a black Republican would be knocking back the black vote. Keyes? Anyone seen Keyes?
Ninety percent of the campaign efforts thus far have been over stupidity related to Obama, as opposed to policy, and in fact both candidates deserve real analysis.
@43 is an idiot.
Entry: Caption Contest Friday
posted by Finnegan
Aug 08, 2008 6:17PM
"This interviewer has no idea where Setauket is. Piece of work. But I would still hit it," he thinks between drags.
Entry: Write-Offs: 08.08.08
posted by Finnegan
Aug 11, 2008 2:33AM
4x100... a smashing second place finish by France, who have lifted the art of trash talking to the impossibly theoretical.
Entry: How To Avoid Hedge Fund Managers
posted by Finnegan
Aug 14, 2008 3:01PM
Graydon's commitment to stupidity and posturing will last two minutes in this economy.
Entry: London's Burning
posted by Finnegan
Aug 14, 2008 3:23PM
That piece really meanders in terms of what he is trying to say.
Entry: Opening Bell: 8.18.08
posted by Finnegan
Aug 18, 2008 7:50AM
Box office: On the other hand, in terms of box office, the numbers would be totally different if you knocked out the multiple releases of the older films, which distort all the numbers. You end up basically measuring popularity, plus inflation, plus time... and the new films don't have that time value or re-release value yet.
Medal Count: I would buy the argument of a relationship between medal count and economics (or rather, resources)...kind of a general correlation. If you have enough money (like trillions in reserves), and the will (communist in all things not money related), and have the bodies (billions), and time (to train, sift for the best athletes) you can pretty much form whatever result you like. More power to them. I've no problem with Chinese winning more golds, or winning outright. It might make us more reflective of how the world is shifting and what to do about it (as in not being economically irresponsible).
Entry: Opening Bell: 8.20.08
posted by Finnegan
Aug 20, 2008 7:40AM
I dunno. Heeleys strikes me as one of those companies that one is better left not trying to digest. Like Taco Bell when you are really hungry and have only $2 bucks in your pocket.
Entry: The New Owners
posted by Finnegan
Aug 21, 2008 11:41AM
That flag should not be up there. However, their massive achievements over the past 20 years, rather exceed the "Olympic planning" of the past 10 years.
The 1.2 billion people over there are no just sitting around on their asses, and anyone paying close enough attention would see change happening on lots of fronts, including investment in various environmental technologies.
Let's not wonder who is still "at prom", when one nation has a huge national debt, and the other nation is sitting on trillions of reserves and financing our continued stupidity.
Entry: The New Owners
posted by Finnegan
Aug 21, 2008 12:42PM
@34: wormhole is in Phoenix. Pull that paint by numbers set out of your brain, and sit on it.
Entry: Senior Yacrosoft Correspondent Travis Says Good-Bye
posted by Finnegan
Aug 22, 2008 7:02PM
Good luck Travis and nice job.
Entry: When Will The Treasury Announce Plans For Fannie and Freddie?
posted by Finnegan
Aug 23, 2008 5:56AM
Agree with 14 completely. I thought it was interesting that one of Russia's investment officials came out (during out bold talk on Georgia) saying, "We will not increase or decrease our exposure to the GSE's).
It just seemed and odd, and slightly ominous thing to say, the unstated implication being that they could dump it all. But it's true. Tons of foreign buyers hold our junk, and finance our system, and we don't want to piss any of them off for fear of getting our pants ripped off.
Entry: When Will The Treasury Announce Plans For Fannie and Freddie?
posted by Finnegan
Aug 23, 2008 6:33AM
And yea, no action this weekend.
Entry: Temasek Loves Wall Street
posted by Finnegan
Aug 26, 2008 1:37PM
DB giving Temasek advice. I dunno but I think since Asian markets have been screwed over in the past due to lack of resources and inability to fight speculation, so having lots of funds in the government's hand probably proves worthwhile for them. Giving huge dividends to the "the people" (similar to companies giving out all the cash to the stockholders) is probably very short sighted, if not actually stupid.
Plenty of financial firms here would do well to have more cash on hand, and certainly the US government is the optimum example of giving it all back to the people via spending all the spending it does.
Entry: Opening Bell: 8.27.08
posted by Finnegan
Aug 27, 2008 10:45AM
I wonder if Bill Clinton was accused of not believing in "low-tax, pro-growth policies unlike Bush" (who I voted for mind you).
Eventually such simplistic, reductionist "analysis in a box" has little to do with reality, or determining sound economic policy.
While Bush has actually done well given uncontrollable factors (Katrina, 911, the reversal of the crap dot com job hiring under Clinton), one cannot automatically make tax cuts (on the top end) the required "POW" of an answer to every problem. It just does not get you there.
Entry: We Can Be Bought
posted by Finnegan
Aug 06, 2008 11:36AM
Bess's list is better. Can do without Schwarzman...spend more time holding his ego for him than writing his bon mots.