Rotwang Ruminates (3)
Could we organize a group tour for the Senate centrists to visit the rock-throwin monkey?
Can we sign up Jon Corzine as Tim Geithner's driver?
The Democrats are in the tank for Hollywood. That's why you can be executed for downloading Adam Sandler's booger humor. They are also in the tank for Big Finance. This is very bad. The Republicans are in the tank for everybody else. This is usually worse.
Cap-and-trade is a tax. Deal with it.
The Treasury Department would be a more exciting place with Elliott Spitzer as Secy.
Regarding taxation of the rich, we must be careful not to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. Instead, we should send them to a goose concentration camp, take the golden eggs, and whip some awesome omelettes.
Angels don't belong in sci-fi stories.
Are you sure?
March 22, 2009 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
This isn't fi, even if it's sci. Certainly rockets are not necessary, but some kind of smarts seems missing from the back rooms of the elite.
March 22, 2009 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
One all-seeing, all-knowing alien is okay, though (but only one, otherwise it’s not believable).
March 22, 2009 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
=D
March 22, 2009 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bwakfat,
I think the word "angel" itself is sci-fi.
March 22, 2009 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mmmmmm...omelettes? Me likey...
The way to help solve our economic woes is to legalize marijuana and then tax it's consumption. Not only will we save the money that we're pissing away on lame enforcement efforts and the corresponding incarcerations, we'll make money off of it...and nobody ever died from cirrhosis of the Liver from smoking too much Mother Nature...so we'll save on health care expenses too. Win-win-win...
Besides sci-fi is much cooler when high...
March 22, 2009 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Recipe fo Libertine:
Hemp Omelette
1. Take six eggs, place them on a soft cushion, cover with staw and place in a warm, pleasant space.
2. Visit street corner in Hartford, procure a goodly amount of hemp, bring home.
3. Apply fire to procured hemp in an orderly and slow fashion.
4. Inhale deeply.
5. Open freezer, take out ice-cream and spoon.
6. Enjoy.
March 22, 2009 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
7. Then after eating the ice cream you'll start thinking about deep space phenomenon forgetting all about the eggs and the omelet you never made.
=D
March 22, 2009 1:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can’t wait for the Senate hearings. It will give a whole new meaning to familiar phrases like:
“I’m sorry Senator, could you repeat the question. I forgot what you said again.”
“Raise your right hand and repeat after me, “Raise your right hand and repeat after me.”
“The “joint committee” on uh, oh whatever, will come to order.” (fat chance of that)
March 22, 2009 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hehehe... :P
Followed by;
"Hearing adjourned. Why did we call for this committee into session to begin with?"
Normally I would never advocate people doing their work while on cannabis because it isn't conducive to meaningful productivity but in the case of the Senate it could only help...I cant' remember the last time the did anything productive to begin with.
March 22, 2009 1:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
And can't you just see Brian Lamb on CSPAN in a Nehru jacket covered in paisleys. He tries to introduce Cokey Roberts and everybody just laughs. Somebody behind the camera says "Yea SCOTUS is too heavy man."
March 22, 2009 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Then spontaneously breaking into a chorus of 'Give Peace a Chance'? This week's topic is how hemp based tie dye clothing is poised for a major comeback...and the corresponding positive implications for the US economy.
March 22, 2009 2:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's another new meaning "The bill is Zig Zaging its way through Congress."
March 22, 2009 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ahhhhh...good one!!! And I 'kindly' submit that it could also give a whole new meaning to the term 'Green Legislation'.
March 22, 2009 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just like I can't remember the last time I posted a comment here that didn't contain a typo...or 3.
March 22, 2009 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Angels only belong in fairy tales.
March 22, 2009 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Apropos to your mention of Eliot Spitzer, it sure would be nice if he could be appointed to lead some sort of legal commando squad to go out and get the evidence needed to lock up as many of the masters of the universe as possible. Spitzer foolishly ran his political career aground, but I wish there were some means to draw on his experience and wisdom with respect to tracking down and then prosecuting wrongdoers on Wall Street.
March 22, 2009 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I quipped on another thread that the Administration and their so-called economic experts were "Team Obama and his merry band of financial insiders'. With Spitzer at Treasury would it be 'Eliot and his Enforcement Escorts'?
All kidding aside I agree that from an investigatory point of view that is exactly what is needed. Besides I honestly had no problems with his patronage of escorts...if he had used his own money. That is between him and his wife...plus I never judge anyone based on what they do in bed with another consenting adult. An effective public servant, who a rare one who actually had the public's best interests at heart, had his career cut short.
March 22, 2009 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
My kingdom for an edit function...
should have been;
"An effective public servant, a rare one who actually had the public's best interests at heart, had his career cut short."
March 22, 2009 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with you on Spotzer's personal conduct, but as a practical matter he did himself in. It will be impossible for him to ever again serve in a public role and certainly not in law enforcement and more's the pity.
March 22, 2009 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Reading your thought about the merry band of men, I am reminded of the Robin Hood hero, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
Evidently Obama (Prince John) and his selection of Tim Geithner, the holder of the office of Nottingham's Sheriff, whose task is to ensure the safety of trade routes through Sherwood Forest.
It sure wood be good, if the current financial team would work for the peasant class, instead of robbing the taxpayer to help perserve the well connected Capitilist Fuedal Lords.
March 23, 2009 7:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's awfully self-referential.
March 22, 2009 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess I am thinking can someone still be considered an 'expert' in a field after being shown to be utterly incompetent? Which begs an even bigger question...why in the hell are we still listening to them? Expert in what? Hey Rocky watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat...uh oh, time for a new hat.
March 22, 2009 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
There is only one sentence you will ever have to know in understanding what is happening with the economy. You don't have to be an Einstein. You don't have to be a Greenspan, Volcker, Roubini or a Geithner. You only have to understand this very simple concept. We the elite and all powerful break the system, and all of you the unclean masses get to clean up the mess while you continue to serve us.
All you ever needed to know about this financial train wreck is this......
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
Heads they win. Tails we lose. It's really that simple.
March 22, 2009 11:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dear Rotwang, Jon Corzine as Tim Geithner's driver? Oy vey!! Here you are, posting wisdom in the midst of mayhem. I knew I would learn something from you today --- Democrats are in the tank for Hollywood and Big Finance; the Republicans are in the tank for the rest. And Adam Sandler has fans who down load his boogers. Like, ewww!!!
I missed your previous exciting post. Abject apologies, O favorite one. It interfered with the many naps on my agenda, especially after the multiple all night vigils I kept, waiting for AIG to give up their bonuses, given that they'd just hung us up to dry. Heh.
I agree, Teh Treasury would be a more fun place with Elliott Spitzer as Teh Secy (hmmm, is that a governmental/Washingtonian way to spell sexy?). He'd take to Operation Clean-up with a giant bottle of 409.
Angles belong in SciFi only if they are dancing on pin-heads, no?
March 22, 2009 11:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Angels.
Science doesn't confirm or deny.
However, if I were to imagine that certain biological trends extended themselves into dimensions or realms science doesn't investigate, it seems angels (good and evil) parallel protective symbiotic relationships and predators.
The angel belief emerges from the antiquity. It has been with us for a long, long time.
March 23, 2009 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes. See that don't deny it, do they?! Scientology, i.e. the rational, systematic study of natural phenomena and disembodied voices, posits angels (and their corollary, demons), again, in the form of aliens, dating from before the antiquity of course, but as the Dept of Weights and Measures has not yet solved the problem of critically measuring good and evil or even settled on a pinhead standard, these angels perform simultaneous functions as protector/predator (being of various genera: the lesser Grays and Reptoids (immigrants in search of better jobs), the Swiss-looking Nordic Humanoids (in the guise of bankers and consultants), etc. Thus, angels exist in science and in (second-rate) science fiction.
March 23, 2009 10:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oops...meant as a reply to the above post:
"Mmmmmm...omelettes? Me likey..."
March 23, 2009 10:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is anyone bothered by the fact that Rotwang's post is the most intelligent one on the economy in TPM today?
March 23, 2009 10:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
If I think about it. But I am not sure.
March 23, 2009 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink