All you need to know....
 

I see your ambitions are taking you out from in front of the camera into the writer's chair! Excellent.

But just keep in mind, this scene needs more random, graphic sex. Though it's hard to visualize now that it's hit the big time, Slave Shoe Diaries started as a Kantian musing on the experience of Shafters. Even if the general subject matter was correct, focus groups showed us that having you in a smoking jacket, pipe, and holding a copy of Henry V just didn't get the story moving, if you know what I mean.

Gattigap

the other shoe drops
 

Slave & club: Marshall has finally explained what he was alluding to re the FT story and the Niger uranium. It sounds like all roads lead back to Rome -- Italian intelligence.

Is is "Help" or "Hope" on the way?
 

Been out of town and haven't caught this. Post a link if you have it.

Is is "Help" or "Hope" on the way?
 

It's yesterday's news (and then some). What's your call for the jobs report? Serious question -- I'm wondering what effect the rise in interest rates will have.

Is is "Help" or "Hope" on the way?
 

Tough call. The June numbers surprised me a little, but I think it was primarily due to the bad news in Iraq in Q2 and seasonality. Given the slow down in growth in Q2 (to 3.0% from 4+%, I think we will be lucky to crack 200K. 150K more likely.

New topic. Since you are so concerned with deficits, how will Kerry pay for the new spending he has proposed in this speech? The WSJ ran an article on Friday that crunches the numbers, and if they are right, it looks like the defecits will be even bigger under Kerry. Essentially, Kerry seems to think he can make up some ground on the deficit with the tax increase, but at the same time is proposing a good deal more spending.

Is is "Help" or "Hope" on the way?
 

I didn't listen to the speech so I don't know what the particular programs were. I haven't seen the WSJ article, but a recent Economist article suggested that his proposed spending increases (as of that point) and tax increases were a wash.

A wash isn't good enough, and a deficit increase is even worse. I agree, Kerry needs to do better.

I would disagree that deficits under Kerry would be worse than under Bush, because Bush is pushing more tax cuts and making the last ones permanent. I believe -- not certain -- that many if not most of the Bush tax cuts have not yet come into effect, so the effect on the budget is only beginning to be felt. Bush is proposing, and for four years has been enacting, cutting taxes while increasing spending. Kerry is proposing increasing taxes while increasing spending. Both are shitty approaches, but one is less shitty than the other. And since Cthlhu isn't running....

In the end, I suspect that if Kerry is elected he won't be able to push through any major spending increases, in part because Repubs will control at least one if not both the House and Senate. I think some balance in the fed gov't will have a salutary effect.

Popeye
 

Plus, rudy got rid of the drugs and porno, didn't he? I say run Condi. Female, black, and according to some, homo. Run against that shit dems.

"Sorry baby but I had to crash that Honda."

-- Butch

Conservative Punks
 

Nick Rizzuto, a NYC punk rocker, started a conservative punk website. One columnist is Michael Graves, lead singer of Gotham Road and a former lead singer of the Misfits.Link

The conservative punk website was founded to oppose the lefty punk website started by NOFX's Fat Mike.Link

Is is "Help" or "Hope" on the way?
 

I suppose so.

But, club, I think most folks don't define an extra 2% of income taxes as "tyranny."

S_A_M

P.S. "Stronger at Home. Respected Abroad" -- I really like that motto. (Positive, but with a nice implied slap.)

P.P.S. Pretty ballsy to Bush to criticize Kerry as having accomplished little in his public career. His major accomplishment as Governor of Texas was to execute a lot of people. His record since then has been mixed, at best.

"Good intentions do not always translate into results." The epitaph for his Presidency?

S_A_M

Is is "Help" or "Hope" on the way?
 

Internationally-recognized distress signal.

S_A_M

"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead."

-- also Butch

Dead Men Bus Riding
 

Speaking of the dead, it looks like JFK has trouble interacting with some of his potential future charges; outside of photo-ops, I mean.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2711258


I'm sure it's a "Marines hate the Navy" thing, but still, its sounds bad to people who don't realize its just inter-service tension.

And, he seems to recognize the Dems have fucked up the Federal Courts by preventing Judges taking the bench. He thinks if OBL is still alive and gets caught, we'll have to rely on State Courts.

Here P.

http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Picture...ine-073104.jpg

Is is "Help" or "Hope" on the way?
 

Is that all it is? It sure isn't going to do much for the deficit, then . . .

Dead Men Bus Riding
 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha [snort]. Shit that's funny. Republicans lost any right to bitch about the judicial nomination process in approximately 1995.

Silence!