March 15, 2010

Musings From TheNorth

Spring has really sprung here in TheNorth. On Sunday the sun was shining and temps were in the 50s(!). As I sat on the little 6 by 10 paver patio at the OTCB global headquarters shed Sunday morning and sipped a mug of Norseman Grog it was easy to forget for a moment that the Modern Economic Depression persists.

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FILED UNDER: Spring The Modern Economic Depression The Greatest Depression Ever 
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March 10, 2010

Yves Smith for Dummies

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FILED UNDER: Satire Yves Smith Felix Salmon Naked Capitalism Econned Reuters Maxine Waters BNN Smart bombs Translation Milton Freidman Economics Economists Bullshit Paradigm Goods markets 
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March 8, 2010

Support “Old Person Smell” Awareness Week

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FILED UNDER: Satire Old Person Smell Depends Day Spa Car Wash 
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March 6, 2010

Scientists Discover Thomas Friedman Wrong: World Is Round!

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FILED UNDER: Satire Thomas Friedman The World Is Flat JPL The Aviator Howard Hughes Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Aristotle Eratosthenes Oban The McCallan U.S. Treasury U.S. Federal Reserve New York Times Dick Cheney Puss 'N Booths The Looming Doom 
February 26, 2010

California Legislature Enacts Unpopular Resolution

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FILED UNDER: Satire California State Assembly Cuss Free Week Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Censorship Sacramento Bee Huffington Post c*cksuckers f*ck massive dildo f*cks skullf*cked assf*cked bitchslapped f*cking tools 
February 15, 2010

Senate Considers Rule Modifications for Extended Service

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FILED UNDER: Satire Senators' Finances Subcommittee Robert Byrd Arlen Specter Deceased Embalmed Cadaver Ronald Reagan Edward Kennedy Adult Diapers Decomposition Harry Reid Nancy Pelosi Brittany Murphy Pigs at the Trough Lobbyists Lloyd Blankfein 
February 9, 2010

Really Depressing Jobs for the Economically Depressed

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FILED UNDER: Satire Economic Depression Fluffer Full Body Scanner Too Big To Fail Really Depressing Jobs People of Walmart Ice road Truckers Deadliest Catch Cue Cards Teleprompter Soudan Underground State Park Penguins Milking a cow 
January 27, 2010

State of the (Cardboard) Box

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FILED UNDER: Satire State of the Union Barack Obama Anti Depressant Movement Fat Kids Initiative Michelle Obama 
January 21, 2010

China Shocks With Alt Lifestyle Policy

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FILED UNDER: Animal Husbandry China Gender Imbalance Hu Jintao Larry Craig Love Dolls National Peoples Congress Standing Committee One Child Policy Russel Vanderwerf Satire Sheep Farming Wen Jiabao Wu Bangguo Cher Village People 
January 19, 2010

The Cardboard Manifesto

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FILED UNDER: Satire Depression Economy Elections Congress Malfeasance Mismanagement Fraud Theft Bribery Coercion Anti Depressants Corruption Deceit Special Interests Lottery Senate Houseof Representatives BATF Treasury Legal Citizen Revenue 
January 13, 2010

Building the Pyramid

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FILED UNDER: Satire Charles Ponzi Bernard Madoff Allen Stanford Tim Geithner Pyramid Sceme Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company Ponzi Scheme Retirement Bonds Government Annuities 401-k Retirement Accounts Financial Fraud 
January 10, 2010

Murder At 1600

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FILED UNDER: Satire U.S. Economy U.S. Middle Class Murder Europe FBI Interpol Fed Congress TBTF Goldman Treasury 
January 6, 2010

@govTwits Daily Highlights

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FILED UNDER: Ben Bernanke Bristol Palin Chris Dodd Dick Cheney Janet Napolitano Larry Summers Mark Sanford Nancy Pelosi Neel Kashkari Rod Blagojevich Satire Tim Geithner Bill Gross 
December 31, 2009

New Year’s Resolutions from the Nation’s Capital

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FILED UNDER: Satire New Year's Resolutions Politics Barack Obama John Ensign Barney Frank Tim Geithner Chris Dodd Eric Holder Mitch McConnell Nancy Pelosi Ben Bernanke Charles Rangel Maxine Waters George W. Bush Hank Paulson Neel Kashkari 
December 16, 2009

Heat Rises In Copenhagen As Cap & Trade Deemed Too Inconvenient

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FILED UNDER: Barack Obama Climate Change Copenhagen Satire Silvio Berlusconi Trucker Caps Iran Greece Japan United Kingdom K-Y 7-11 Central Counterparty Schinkenwurst Germany China Gordon Brown Mustache Rides Yukio Hatoyama Al Gore Kentucky Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Cap and Trade Humor