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Holiday Cheer
As the Zero Hedge duty officer this holiday season (we're making "The Narrator" do this next year, trust me) I'm watching closely (or at least casually) for the "take out the trash" dump of sketchy announcements, bad news and shifty disclosure this weekend. We've already seen a bit of it in the form of the Fannie and Freddie blank checking shell-game, and I'm sure there is more to come. Be that as it may, the tempo of the world has ebbed just a bit and things actually appear a bit... well... slow. So I thought I would share with you some upcoming highlights. Consider them belated holiday gifts from Zero Hedge. (All purchases final).
We are pleased to announce that Zero Hedge 3.0 is just around the corner. At the moment it looks as if, some time next month, we will be ready to unveil the next iteration of the site to our outstanding and supportive readers. I don't want to spoil too much (and I'm counting on a bit of under-promise / over-deliver expectation management) but we are fairly certain you will enjoy:
- Proper distributed comment and post ranking and moderation. Much as we've tried to encourage the use of the "Five Star" ranking system and "Flag as Junk" features on the site, they just haven't been properly integrated or used and readers have, therefore, been unable to tailor filters to their preferred signal to noise ratio. As we have grown this has impacted the signal to noise ratio, of course.
- Reader driven User / Author / Contributor rankings.
- A major face lift for the front page with more prominent placement for contributors and (we hope) live newsfeed widgets (instead of the current 10-20 minute update lag.
- An iPhone application. (The demo is looking VERY sexy).
- Some rather interesting partnerships with vendors and data providers.
- Much, much more.
As we approach the one year anniversary of Zero Hedge it is just stunning to see how far things have progressed (regressed?) Most of all we want to thank our readers for so adroitly indulging our sometimes frantic attempts to deal with the absolutely massive growth. Since we moved to the new site, in six short months, Zero Hedge went from interesting upstart player to a Technorati Top 100 overall blog. (We also frequently occupy Technorati's Top 5 Business rankings). We have managed somehow to do this on a shoestring budget and without any "hired gun" writers. Of course, we owe all this to our readers. You. Your continued support (and yes, even your harshest critiques) drives us, inspires us and keeps our noses to the grindstone here at Zero Hedge. We are continually shocked and awed by the level of reader contribution (financial and otherwise) we continue to enjoy. We could ask for no greater holiday gifts than you have already willingly given us over the last 11 months.
Zero Hedge was founded on a very uncertain set of theories:
- Readers are thirsty for deep-dive financial (and increasingly socio-economic given the creeping government hand in all things economic) discussion, analysis and modelling.
- Readers are increasingly insulted by dumbed-down content.
- An information outlet could thrive by pouring out highly technical and very "wonkish" content instead of fluff and scandal pieces on Tiger Woods.
- Readers are not as stupid as the mainstream media thinks. They simply have never been given another option.
We don't think we've quite proven all of these, but we are getting closer every day.
Of course, there is a risk in digging deeply into complex and sometimes intentionally opaque systems. We get quite a lot of things wrong. We think this is worth the risk however. Given the limitations of our resources we cannot be experts in everything. However, our readership often rises to the occasion and points us to data, sources and analysis we might have missed. It really does seem to be true that the best way to get the right answer is to post the wrong answer on the Internet. We aren't ashamed to be wrong here and there. Correct us with enthusiasm. Tout your own theories in DARPA. Invite discussion, critique and dispute. That's what Zero Hedge is about. And, given the increasing propensity to brand dissent as akin to insanity or disloyalty, we think it's about time.
Finally, we hope you will accept our warmest wishes for the holiday season. We certainly owe it to you. Zero Hedge really is a labor of love for the senior staff here, none of whom draw even a penny in salary despite what are sometimes 80, 90 and even 100 hour workweeks. We do it for you, but we also couldn't do it without you.
Meanwhile, take a little time to forget about finance. We will watch the world so you don't have to, and we'll be here when you get back.
Love,
Marla, Tyler, Sacrilege, Jana, Travis, Cornelius, The Narrator, and an innumerable number of anonymous (or simply unsung) heroes behind the scenes.
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Merry Christmas, MS and all of ZH. As one who was forced to get an iphone this year, I am greatly looking forward to the ZH mobile app. In addition to the improvements you mentioned here, could some consideration be given to a column-type sticky for all posts on a particularly hot topic, such as the recent Sprott QuEasyGate hypothesis?
Here's wishing Love, Praise, Kindness, Truth, Tolerance, Understanding, Patience, and Forgiveness to all the world's peoples.
Good news, an Iphone app.
Just joined a while ago, I enjoy the articles and am learning quite a bit. Excellent site, thanks for doing such a good job!
Merry Christmas
You spelled holliday wrong in the title.
I am the Spellingmarm.
Holly Day?
Merry Christmas!
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Marla and ZH Gang,
Thanks, and congratulations. You've really created something special here.
And thanks for giving me voice.
I am Chumbawamba.
You have helped me so so much this year for the education that I receive here at ZH, thank you all, have a Blessed Holiday and for Years to Come!
Marla and Tyler et al. - your labor of love is changing the world with truth, discussion, dissent and removal of opacity. We hunger for the truth. Happy holidays and a heartfelt thanks for all the work and analysis you perform to change the corrupt system and expose its inconsistencies and illegalities.
Cheers,
Pigpen
"In a government of laws, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipotent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. If government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy." Justice Louis Brandeis From inside cover of The Crimes of Patriots Jonathan Kwitny WW Norton (1987)
Been here since the third day you put the first blog up. Thanks for (to us) the number 1 rated site for deep think info. Wish you a Happy "put your holiday here" and a healthy 2010.
I continue to be amazed at the worldwide following you've garnered - Congratulations.
Merry Christmas....and thanks to everyone here.Great work this year, and irreplaceable.
Thanks to everyone here for being a part of this extraordinary place in time and for what I have learned and rediscovered here. Most of all, a big thanks to our hosts. Have a wonderful holiday everyone.
"We will watch the world so you don't have to, and we'll be here when you get back."
But will you leave the light on for me?
A year of enlightenment. A special thanks for our many unique disagreements and blue-screen encounters. #1 website on the darpa-net.
My gift today, knowledge outlets for the thirsty.
Intellects:
http://academicearth.org
Foodies:
http://blog.ruhlman.com
Been here about 4 months now. Thanks for everything. I often start my day here and finish it here too. Since the unemployment fairy got me I have been more impressed with not only the volume of the content, but the quality of it too. And the comments section really gives me great laughs. I thought I was cynical at times! Anyway, I look forward to the changes. And thanks for the education. I would not have heard of some people like Martin Armstrong if not for the very smart readers/commentators here. Remember the 80/20 rule! You guys are wonderful! Thanks again and Merry Christmas! :)
The last three month's have been a real eye opener for me thank's to ZH staff,contributer's and commenter's..thank's.I hope everyone has a great holiday
"the best way to get the right answer is to post the wrong answer on the Internet"
Not all crowds are wise, but this "best way" is certainly true of the invigorating collaborations of ZH Contributors + ZH Readers.
The rise of ZH from just another financial blog to one of the preeminent financial new sources on the Internet (in less than a year) is a testament to its founder(s) and those that have joined since inception.
Tyler, Marla et al. have enlightened, educated and amused me on daily basis for the last 9 months. Mazel Tov on you success. I can think of none who deserve it more.
Merry Christmas (or whatever heathen holiday one celebrates) to all.
Forgot you in my holiday shout out, Merry Christmas Lizzy!
Thank "YOU" For "YOU" Sincerely!
Thank "YOU" For "YOU" Sincerely!
THANK YOU guys/gals !
Thank You For You! & Fuck Your Math Test! Mother Flower!
Kudos folks. Looking forward to another year mooching from your considerable collective intellect.
Keep the truth coming.
Superb site, superb content, superb contributions, and superb visitors. Merry Christmas one and all. Keep fighting the good fight, and in the meantime, show compassion to your fellow man, whether he be white, black, yellow, red, or blue!
Don't forget superb weekend techno-jams courtesy Marla and Jana. Those of us with science/engineering backgrounds can kill two birds with one arrow at ZH, filling in educational gaps in economics and music!
To the super heroes of ZH, thanks for your search for the truth. And to the duty officer, sending special holiday cheer.
Into the world a Savior is born
To save us all from lies
The quest for eternal truth
Here (ZH) is where it begins
A Savior is born to dwell among
The ones he would later expose
And when ZH dies, they won't realize
Eternal truth it gave
You guys are gonna release an iPhone app?
Ironic since most of the time we're wondering why AAPL is at its 52s...
Then again, i suppose im also a hypocrite since ill be one of the first to download the app... (possible names: iZero, iHedge, iGoldto5000)
How about iLessthanzero?
ZH rules. Happy Holidays to all.
Wonderful.
excellent work! all are to be commended, ZH is now a multiple times daily go to site for me and others, thanks for your brilliance and hard work! All the best to you over the holidays.
Marla (and Tyler), can't tell you how much I have appreciated this site over the last year! You all have done an absolutely fabulous job enlightening this dim bulb - I get more education here in a week that I would from a year at Harvard (or pick your poison).
Keep up the great work!
Rick
Also truly appreciate your inspired work on Radio Zero!!!
As a very early reader when you were 1-2 months old I can say you remain on track as the best, it is ok to be wrong as long you are trying to get it right.
It is a long road in front of you and the followers like me who see the challenge in the current media-order...and perhaps the hopeless future ahead.
I just hope there's an internet type bullet proof vest for this site and all who enter. The laws say we're all becoming criminals.
I got pissed when you told us to stop threatening to beat up or kill bankers and other finance types. You told us we couldn't talk about hanging them (even though this has happened in history before), or shooting them, or stalking them, or threatening them in any credible way. It seemed like censorship. ;-)
The truth is this is the most open financial forum I know of. Some of you get pissed about the anger rants that get expressed here. You say it isn't news. To some of us just discovering how deep the rabbit hole goes, IT IS NEWS. Reading ZH I touch something new everyday. My rage is multidimensional, informed, and specific. I am desperately playing catch up trying to learn how the financial world works. If I had it to do all over again, I'd get my degrees in history or econ.
I am grateful for the space that has been created here for those who are competent enough to have the exchanges needed to sort this stuff out, and for those of us who are students who have no where to go to ask questions and get honest answers, except in a forum like this.
To those who don't like the rants: Ignore us ranters. For those of you who don't like the questions, ignore them. This place is healthy because all who are interested can lurk or participate and get knowledge or EMOTIONAL SUPPORT. Some of you finance types might privilege other kinds of knowledge over the emotional aspects, and that is very fine. But all the varied ways of knowing, the senses, the arts, (hell even scatlogy, who knew?), are doorways to bringing the collective closer to understanding what is happening to us (this is one complicated intercoursing we are receiving) and what needs to be done.
Happy Holidays to all. You are appreciated.
In my opinion, an educated rant is extremely informative. It proves to me that people are really getting upset. As I stated in an E-mail to Bart Chilton of the CFTC, "My Country Is Not A Country For Criminals".
To me the most useless comments are the damn placebos stating some mindless suggestion of acceptance.
This country needs to get upset, really upset. But as I have stated for many years, Americans are too ignorant/stupid, fat, lazy, etc. to get upset. Americans do not deserve to be a free people. Only when that freedom is lost will the fools get upset.
Personally, I am Locked & Loaded and awaiting instructions from The Texas Governor that it is time to secede and restore The Republic of Texas!
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year...Y'all Tide Greetings!
I tend to think of the 'civility decree' as more of a protection for the users and the site than a cap on free speech. If/when the $hit does hit the fan, or bankers start getting targeted, it will be all the excuse TPTB need to pass 'emergency' laws and immediately confiscate IP logs of all providers. Everything you ever read or post on the internets can be traced from there directly to you. This kind of thing historically leads to 3am knocks on the door.
And TPTB can then use the posted comments as an excuse to shut down sites like ZH under such emergency powers. I don't think a foreign server will help much, a way will be found...
The ranters give me hope that our anima mundi is not yet dead; that some of us peasants still have some voice, strength, and principle.
I worry far, far more for those who bend their heads and quietly accept their lowly herding into the rest of the flock.
How about a GOOD_NEWS section in zerohedge?
I'm very tired of hearing all the bad news. I like this community, but I think I should have a choice whether to read only the bad news or the good news.
Housing defaulting, banks cutting down credit lines, businesses going out of business is not really that bad in the grand scheme of things as it's a waste of resources if unprofitable businesses survive, houses that were meant to default don't default, etc. The way that I look at it, there will be lots of pain, but some things are recovering simply because they weren't in a bad shape prior to the crisis.
Simply type up your own piece(s) and send it in to Zero Hedge with a request to publish. If your content is good it will be read.
As an alternative, pick a thread, any thread, and post your piece.
Then, get ready for incoming and the cream will rise to the top.
It is mostly good news. ;-) Information can always be well used...especially if you like seeing the truth unmasked, and the toppling of a guilty system that has stood for far too many years, to make way for (I hope and believe) a brave new world.
Think of it as sort of a martial arts training...every bruise, every slip & fall, every drop of blood and sweat is a bit closer on a journey that's difficult as it is invaluable.
Not referring, of course, to the upbeat easy feel-good MSM fluff that causes some of us to choke up our own blood all over our nice carpets... ;-)
Can't wait for next year - thanks Z!
Hey, some ideas for the store:
1. Zero Hedge rings - your choice of tungsten or, gold;
2. Official Zero Hedge ID badges - anonymous, of course. Maybe tailored after something from an official gov't. organization. Imagine secret membership from when you were a kid;
3. Some sort of "suitable for framing" poster like one from my childhood - like the Farrah Fawcett poster that hung under my top bunk - but without the stalactites;
4. Zero hedge "action figures". The truthseekers!! Hmm,I don't know about that one? Maybe.
ooo, I wanna action figure!!!!111
Ben Bernanke action doll with whirlicopter cap and a action printing press with itty-bitty plastic cartridges...
Tiny Timmy action doll with removable little-boy curlyhead mask and lord-of-the-flies pigface underneath...
Alan Greenscum action doll with loincloth, sash, and crown made of bubbles...
Little collectible bankster dolls (Blanfein Dimon Prince Thain Lewis etc) with inflatable pork bellies and curly pink tails, complete with gold trough...they oink 'BONUS' if you poke 'em in the privates...
2 sock puppets (one for each hand) with mix-n-match removable congress faces...
Oh, oh! And a Bush-Obama puppet, you know, one of those 2-faced kinds with one face on either side, dancing on a bunch of strings.
The Aussie comes in with a roar. Great material!
Alas, for awhile I maintain a modicum of maturity and effort to live up to the ZH intelligence bar...
...then someone posts something that resembles a request for dolls to play with and I'm a goner. :-)
I hope you have lots of loving holiday cheer where you are - hopefully not too far into the snow belt! OR if you are, then also a most copious supply of warm mulled wine.
Thanks ZH team, Enjoy the day and time to enjoy my other passion; FOOD. Lost of Christmas goodies to be over gorged!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Here is a useful guideline: Readers don't necessarily need to understand everything they read in a source that contains technical information. We worked on this principle in the early days of Wired magazine. We never bothered to explain all of the technical details.
As a reader, if I can't understand some of the terminology in ZH, this merely confirms my feeling that ZH must be an authoritative source. If we reach the point where everything seems clear and obvious, I'll know that ZH has dumbed itself down, and I will look elsewhere for the real thing.
I've found this website helpful in deciphering ZH.
http://www.investopedia.com/
A very merry Christmas to you, ZH.
The value of aspiring for the truth cannot be underestimated.
My very best wishes for 2010, may you go from strength to strength.
DavidC
Merry Christmas from the 818
May the spirit of life touch the hearts and minds of all
Tyler, Marla & Co.,
Hope that this holiday season finds you doing exactly what you want to being doing, and with exactly whom you wish to be doing it with.
Thanks for everything, and Happy Holidays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJEmvoaDjCo
Read ZH always--many thanks--
North of the 49th
Thank you all. Froeliche weinachten! Best site .Grandma likes your site too, is an avid reader and wide awake. Wish all my neighbors got it, but they arent ready for reality.
Zero hedge readers have a knowledge base giving them strenght and direction during an epic financial storm. As we share the truth we will in fact find freedom. THANK YOU ALL
Happy Holidays to the ZH crew and all contributors.
Santa Bair is denying me my Christmas present of a few more bank failures today.
I must have been naughty this year.
Great thanks from Germany!
You don't know how much we (in EU) need your help, information and education-!
We have even less truth to expect from our MSM!
I love you guys and your work. Keep doing what you're doing.
Merry Christmas All - and with a grateful heart I salute ZH. This hive is buzzin'
Marla,
There is no way I can continue to access this amazing site without a financial contribution. What has been done here is unprecedented and truly exposes the looters for what they are. Your final words yesterday in an extraordinary post, "John Galt" clinched it for me. I urge all to contribute what you can to keep the truth posted. There is no alternative. We are being robbed, lied to and cheated. Zero Hedge is essential for our financial survival. My contribution gladly given. Merry Christmas to you My Lady and to all the hard working staff and Happy Holidays as appropiate.
Thank you.
Thanks for this. What was cool about contributing was when the next mind blowing article came out, even though none of my thinking went into it, I felt like part of making it happen, very directly. This is their house, no question of it, and I will behave. But it really becomes your movement too when you contribute. I don't feel quite as helpless as I did. I might be Josephine average wine drinker (J12case?) but I am part of something cool, beyond scrawling my graffiti on their wall.
Cheers, and a toast. Happy Holidays.
"Of course, there is a risk in digging deeply into complex and sometimes intentionally opaque systems. We get quite a lot of things wrong. We think this is worth the risk however. Given the limitations of our resources we cannot be experts in everything. However, our readership often rises to the occasion and points us to data, sources and analysis we might have missed. It really does seem to be true that the best way to get the right answer is to post the wrong answer on the Internet. We aren't ashamed to be wrong here and there. Correct us with enthusiasm. Tout your own theories in DARPA. Invite discussion, critique and dispute. That's what Zero Hedge is about."
Brilliantly stated!
You may have never written words as beautiful as these Marla and you know how much I enjoy your brain.
Perhaps this should replace the manifesto and be posted prominently so that when the trolls and underminers appear, they can be directed to this paragraph and respond with content.
Thank you. very, very much.
I give you a completely tongue-in-cheek Boo-yah!
Thanks for the memories.
Love this site - send everyone asking questions here because it is so full of depth and honest conversation. You have seen the potential of the web and created something that truly makes that potential into something of real value. Even when you are “wrong” you provide food for thought, and that is very much a missing part of our national dialog. Thanks for bringing something of depth to the world!
The best of Christmas’s to all of you, and may it be another year of unbounded success for the site.
And a special thanks to all the posters – one of the few places where reading the threads actually matters! (I really ought to think up a good name for use here...)
great work, td, marla, contributors, readers, lurkers, et al. it's been an interesting 2009 and 2010 has already been primed to be an adventure as well. i look forward to facing whatever the new year brings with all of you as we disclose, learn, survive and succeed together. take care and have a safe and happy new year.
Clink!
Great Job Everyone!
Let's carry on AS ONE in 2010.
They can't hide the truth forever - and more and more is coming out, despite the best efforts of the Nomenklatura and the MSM (I mean propaganda organs of the state) to control things.
ZH is Samizdat.
ZH and the sharp, critical minds who both contribute and comment here consistently provide the best read of my day. My Sincere Thanks to you all for the light in the fog everyone provides on so many issues... this is what some of us built the 'net FOR, back when it was being built!
CWS
Thank you all for this treasure that you so freely share.
It brings real tears to my eyes to read this post and all the responses.
Truth is the real treasure.
Thank you.
Great job
Thank you Marla, Tyler and all the other folks who contribute
The site is a big part of how I try to make some order out of the chaos of incoming data everyday
Thank you Marla and Tyler for an unprecedented site
and thank you everyone else for you valuable input
Merry, merry holidays Marla, Tyler, and all you wonderful heroes of Zero Hedge!
I love you guys. May your stockings be hung with gold and silver, and your new year flowing with sparkling cheer in satin sheets.
Big sloppy smooches all round from a very grateful reader here in Australia. I continue to spread the Zero Hedge gospel of shining a big noisy spotlight on all the corners of cockroach commerce, in my own little way here too! May your fight club continue on smiting the smug smiles off fatcat faces, for years to come (or until the markets are set relatively free again, whichever comes first).
Zero Hedge is a live plant.
It is the crest of the wave out in front of the managed market. Its reactions are correct. This used to be a world of daily newspapers where the world would wait ‘til next day or never to find out what happened. Well, the world doesn’t wait any longer. Zero Hedge has it. Zero Hedge is the news...
“A popular government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy: or, perhaps both,” said Madison. America was both—until Zero Hedge.
With Zero Hedge to the fore as we head into 2010, I sense a new beginning as the old system breaks from its own incompetence, enabling us to lay to rest, forever, the leviathan from Jekyll Island.
The danger we face is far more critical than financial collapse. “Here,” said Hamilton, “the people rule.” But after the years of stealing, cheating, war making, currency corruption and lying, all that the people have been able to manage is to be ignored “where the people rule.”
Meanwhile, the scholarly Benjamin Bernanke labels the corrupt thieving private companies that brought the world’s biggest economy to crisis…companies that are “systemically critical.”
These master string pullers traffic in power: power to pick winners and losers, power to leverage corporations and foreign governments…power to grant or deny a nuclear power plan, a hydroelectric project, war materials and medical supplies, agricultural projects for thousand of acres, matching cheap labor to exploited resources around the planet. There’s money to be made in almost every project, true, but added muscle from the IMF, the World Bank and the U.S. State Department turn credit into more than just money…it turns credit into world political power.
But credit isn’t enough.
Only a superpower such as the U.S., with a stockpile of tactical nuclear weapons, battle ready carrier groups and the best equipped army in the world can give the string pulling financiers the political power they need.
Now, as financiers scramble to save their ill-gotten bacon, the options for them to use U.S. military power as carrot and stick leverage are dropping fast. There are two reasons for this: One, the neo-con foreign policy Bush promoted and Obama continues has isolated the U.S. from the world’s power centers as never before. Two, the American middle class is signaling its intentions finally to move beyond complaining, phone calling and no-choice voting about destruction of its earnings. And its strongest anger is directed toward corporate government…banker crooks, plutocrat billionaires, toady congressmen, and war for profit.
We hold, no less, the fate of the world in our hands.
+0 mighty eloquent screed there JR
deleuze would have called it a rhizome.
"Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd. Here we have made use of everything that came within range, what was closest as well as farthest away. We have assigned clever pseudonyms to prevent recognition. Why have we kept our own names? Out of habit. To make ourselves unrecognizable in turn. To render imperceptible, not ourselves, but what makes us act, feel, and think. Also, because it's nice to talk like everybody else, to say the sun rises, when everybody knows it's only a manner of speaking. To reach, not the point where one no longer says I. but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I. We are no longer ourselves. Each will know his own. We have been aided, inspired, multiplied."
http://www.capitalismandschizophrenia.org/index.php/Rhizome
to the ZH crew: thank you for your intrepidity, your intelligence and most of all, your courage. inspiration is the best gift of all.
Now I can’t think of anything better than that—to be a part of the Zero Hedge internet-rhizome—with you, Tip, and other Zero Hedgers--making our way through 2010 with Connectivity, Heterogeneity , and Multiplicity headin’ toward Decalcomania-- “forming through continuous negotiation with its context, constantly adapting by experimentation, thus performing a non-symmetrical active resistance against rigid organization and restriction”!
You’re an original to be copied, Tip, a producer of fresh.
Tyler, Marla, et al,
Here is wishing you all, as well as my fellow readers, gold, frankincense, and myrrh for the new year in honor of the season. I am quite proud to admit that this old dog is relegated to Google at least twice a week to decypher which new accronym you have included in a column. That is tribute to the breadth of your coverage.
As one of the last bastions of first ammendment rights, may you all survive the comming fight, grow old, and prosper in reward for a job exeptionally done.
Hello All,
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Merry Christmas to all... And to all a good night..
Oh,oh. Just getting in?
Ya....I spent to much time with my intoxicologist, anyone at ZH have a good remedy?? and five more days until new years...ain't gonna make it..
Lots of fluids (water dude, not booze) and asprin will help a lot. Thins out the ratio of booze/geopol. Nauseated? Force a vomit bulemia boy.
Good luck! Hope it was a blast!!
Hope it was a blast!!
Cell phoned the wife and told her to foam the driveway, coming in on one engine..
anyone at ZH have a good remedy??
if fluids, aspirin, ginger green tea don’t work, how about shock…
A sobering moment with Nancy Pelosi?
A New Year’s voice mail from George Soros that Lloyd Blankfein wants to take you for a ride?
A bank notice that Timothy Geithner will be managing your cash account?
A we’re-just-a-few-minutes-away phone call from your lost cousin Jan and her latest with their combined family of 7 kids, ages 3 months to 13, arriving for a few days…hopefully more?
Geopol: This Is Your Life, a Guest Post by Intoxicologist to be featured on a slow-news day at Zero Hedge?
A chance to play Captain America, Jack Armstrong the all-American boy, or Captain Easy in Cartoon Star Wars by the former Mrs. George Lukas? No? Wonder Women?
A mandatory three-hour course in show biz taught by Jim Cramer?
Whatever, we’ll leave the light on for ya!
JR,
These were a riot!!
A toast to you, dear MsCreant. It’s all in the family. Happy New Year!!! :)
Wow, you folks won't believe this, I just woke up from the most horrible nightmare in my entire life, JR ,MsCreant, and Gimp where in it.
2:55 PM Totally sober, I'll never touch the stuff again....
Priceless! Glad to be of help! Happy New Year! Whoops!!!
Drink ginger green tea and go for a run to get the toxins out of your body, plus fruits and vegetables and lots of water. Who am I kidding, have another one on me..Happy new year!
Thanks Gimp,
I think I will...Hair of the dog,
See MsCreant, No hope for me..
Marla,
There is only one thing to say:
Thank you very, very much.
C.
Thank you to the entire ZH staff (named or not), readers (regulars and newcomers alike); the site truly transforms the mind - in an iconoclastic, enlightening, question-your-fundamental-assumptions-and-be-a-better-person-for-it kind of way. I've consumed a lot more than I've contributed, but hope I've been able to help (a little). A happier new year to one and all.
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Zerohedge is blog of the century!
Ditto...Huggs for everybody...;-)
Pleaaaase include a Google android app also.
more teeshirts!!!!
Zero The Hero, well, the Saints of God in Christ recognize brilliance right away, good job and well done this year. I've recommended your site to all and especially to the Saints anointed with the Holy Spirit of Prophecy, their comments have acknowledge your value and we agree with your sites importance. Keep up the good work, you are a vital witness and tool of the harvest.
In the name of God in Christ, fear not, stand fast and do no harm. This year will devour the weak that are marked by the prophetic strong delusion and ZH will remain a light in the valley of decision and desolation. Keep a backup ready and a file on hand. Keep your eyes open to all things this New Year. Take care and do not forget to take heed to wisdom.
i adore your words and work...my cup runneth over with THANK YOUS!!!!!
Thank you Marla, Tyler, et. al. for an avenue for my brain to go places it did not think possible. I feel blessed to be part of the community. I am constantly amazed by the information you have access to and the analysis on it.
May God bless all of you, and keep the grooves coming! Intellegence and taste in music! Marla, are you married?