Open Thread

After the rather tumultuous events of the past 48 hours, it is time to take a moderate to quite moderate break. Please use this space to hyperventilate, or else breathe normally, at your leisure.

Comments

[bugs_]

He is releasing his inner angry white male.  Beware.

[trx]

A Black Swan is nothing - just wait for "The Brown Horse":

http://thewapper.wordpress.com/my-photo-comments/my-photo-comments-24/

[PhattyBuoy]

WTF !!

[gangland]

does that picture involve some act of procreation gone wrong? I remember driving out in the boonies late one night, came to a stop sign and saw a huge jack rabbit humping a cat...at first i saw two pairs of huge reflective eyes, then i was like oh look inter-species contact, that's cool, then the rabbit made two hops and began to enjoy the kitty...it freaked me out so much I high-tailed it out of there.

[Don Birnam]

Friday night at last -- the gateway to yet another ( preferably not lost ) weekend...Nat's Bar is the name, and refreshment's the game.

Pour it softly, pour it gently, and pour it to the brim !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pikturz/3600591652/in/set-72157619324965878...

[bugs_]

"not a validation of Supply-Side" LOL

[HeavyHand]

Sorry, what are you all saying?  I'm still listening to Dazed and Confused....

[cougar_w]

Stay away from CNBC. You'll be less of both.

[DaveyJones]

http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/naomiwolf/2010/12/17/swedens-serial-negligence-in-prosecuting-rape-further-highlights-the-politics-behind-julian-assanges-arrest/

[SwingForce]

Beer contains Vitamin P

[gangland]

awesome, thank you for that!

[Sockeye]

Great site here, by the way Tyler and crew. Enjoy some relaxation!

[TexDenim]

So, was Wikileaks involved?

[blindman]

see this

http://maxkeiser.com/2010/12/17/new-wikileaks-documentary/

[SwingForce]

But seriously folks, ZH got wacked because we trash THE BANKS, rest assured Reggie Barnum is next. I don't understand why the Anon Hackers aren't fighting back, do I need to call The Wackmaster for this job?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUbIyska9k

[Cdad]

Well I, for one, do not intend to stop "trashing" banks, as you say because, quite frankly, it is liberating to be that truthful...

And since such a high percentage of corruption is centered in our banking system, what else would a guy spend his day trashing?  I mean there is only so much you can say about Apple zombies...although there is a lot to say about Apple zombies.

And of course there is THE ENTIRE ETF INDUSTRY...but that is coming in 2011....

So to heck with it, I refuse to stop bashing banks based on the facts of the case that they are nothing but a criminal syndicate.

There...come what may...I have my martini shield on anyway....

[buzzard beak]

Merry Christmas everybody, and if all of you living near the everglades could please send your kids out caroling, especially the fat ones, that'll be much appreciated.

[Cheesy Bastard]

Funny!

[Hannibal]

Bradley Manning an American Patriot and Hero needs your support now.

http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/view/858/1/

[Dollar Bill Hiccup]

Shhhh. Can you hear it?

[What a mess_man]

I can - I can hear it!

[SwingForce]

How about this? A song called "LIE" ha, fitting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD7OdyY1js4&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLjzhZgPGZ9Rs

[samsara]

Tyler,  Thank you for being here.  It is THE place to be on the web.

I Hope after this outage that you obtain mirror sites incase.  Please publish your IP address so we can hit it directly incase the DN service isn't working. 

Also PLEASE signup to a few lists on the web so that you could post a message to them if you are down to get the word out of what is happening.

Let us know something like.  Check this lists for news if we are down.  Some very public places and easy to get to.  Please.

Thanks again.

[RichardP]

http://188.126.66.66/

http://188.126.66.68/

[snowball777]

ZeroHedge on Twitter

[blindman]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10860

.

there are words here, but no words for the words

[Beatscape]

What were the last words that the redneck ever said?

"Watch this!"

[Elitist Lib Dum...]

Do you mean RNR?

[penisouraus erecti]

Thought there was a "hold my beer" in there somewhere.

[goldstandard]

Another week of the absurd and far too many items to list. It does leave one to wonder if the entire world has gone fucking mad. All things financial seem to be held together with spit and glue, ready to break apart at any moment only missing a stiff wind to blow things apart. Politicians lie, the Fed head is a moron, Ireland is bust and Portugal along with Spain are ready to fall. The change I wanted to believe in has turned out to be no differentfrom the crap he replaced and the game of further bankrupting the country goes on. Christmas eve couldn't come soon enough as it's the one day I set aside to inflict true damage of the alcoholic kind while reviewing the bullshit from yet another year. Getting older sucks and yet with another year to come, one can only hope that sanity will return. Hope springs eternal I guess as the other options seem less viable. Everyone finish their shopping? I guess I'll get it started tomorrow. Ho fucking ho.

[bobert]

I'm going for a large glass of vino, however, before I do I

can't resist interjecting something fairly optimistic. Perhaps

just perhaps the words "fiscal responsibility" may start to

circulate around DC next year. That would be enough for

me....

[gangland]

carlo rossi cabernet, 1.5 litre $4.99 from mr. young's liquor store across the street, mr. young was a former samsung electrical engineer, is married, has two hot daughters, one attending johns hopkins pre-med and the other is a finance major at princeton. I hcave no idea how he pays for that, his liqour store reminds me of the pawn shop in pulp fiction. some day i'll post a pic of the corner.

[snowball777]

You've had enough already.

Didn't you see those assclowns, both sides of the aisle, smilin' like a cat full of canary?

Cakebread Cab '98.

[Beatscape]

The $60,000 dollar question driving the markets now... Can the Fed maintain control and guide the economy away from a double dip without stoking hyperinflation?

[Misean]

Bah! That's coffee change. We're talkin real money here...

[gwar5]

I'm long toilet paper. The good kind.

[Misean]

I'm long pig...LOL

[Things that go bump]

All the best cannibals are.

[putbuyer]

Lira vs. Stoneleigh

http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2010/12/december-15-2010-debunking...

Graham Summers and Williams betting with Lira. Fuck! who is right?

[RobotTrader]

Well, looks like Brandy is now the new "Apprentice"

Too bad, because now Clint will have to return to the back woods where he came from.

On the other hand, if Brandy would have lost, she would have been instantly snapped up and bought out by some swanky San Francisco hedge fund with billions under management.

Now that she is the new Apprentice, her career is going to absolutely skyrocket.  Odds are, she'll be approached by a corporate chieftain, a Washington plutocrat, an International playboy, or some other guy with billions who will buy her out of her Trump contract, and park her someplace in the Greek Islands on a 300-ft. yacht.

[AUD]

That's bad luck Clint being up against Brandy. Though I suspect Brandy is not an apprentice at all! Well practised I say;

She's got easy movement from her head down to her toes.....

Breaks in on a dollar, almost anywhere she goes.....oooohhh.....

Try some Robert Johnson, Robot, sure, Pink Floyd played some nice stuff but hardly the legends their made out to be.

[AUD]

I didn't junk you by the way.

[Cursive]

If ZH is on twitter now, can we get mobile app?  Please?  Mobile is the only way I can follow at the new job, but I can't comment.  And I know ya'll is missing me large.

[tickhound]

Click the "disable rich text"... bottom left, below comment space, directly above "save". Then highlight comment area and start typing.

This comment brought directly to you via mobile.

[Cursive]

@tickhound

Thanks and I'll give this a try.  BTW, noticed your avatar and was wondering if you saw the "WTF" necklaces for sale?

http://bensbargains.net/deal/127186/

[Cursive]

Test via mobile.

[Cursive]

@tickhound

It worked!  Still, m.zerohedge.com/.org would be cleaner.  Just sayin.

[tickhound]

Wtf! And in sterling silver hehe... glad it worked for ya. Yes m.zh would be sweet, but till then ure good to go. No excusing your silence now.

[goldstandard]

Global systemic crisis: Second half of 2011 - European context and US catalyst - Explosion of the Western public debt bubble (December 16, 2010)

The second half of 2011 will mark the point in time when all the world’s financial operators will finally understand that the West will not repay in full a significant portion of the loans advanced over the last two decades.

http://www.europe2020.org/?lang=en

[Golden monkey]

 Tell me : will they run out of paper or run out of ink in June 2011?

[Kina]

The US finds human rights irritating. Who knew?

US criticises court that may decide on Julian Assange extradition, WikiLeaks cables show

Leaked dispatches reveal diplomats’ disdain for Council of Europe’s stance against extraditions to US and secret renditions

US officials regard European human rights standards as an “irritant”, secret cables show, and have strongly objected to the safeguards which could protect WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from extradition.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/17/wikileaks-european-human-rig...

[Misean]

"Who knew?"

German's, Japanese, Philipino's, Koreans, Afghans, Iraqis, Mexicans, Columbians...

[RECISION]

Now we know who "they" are...

As in - 'They hate our freedoms'

[wackyquacker]

miseans too

[gwar5]

I still miss my college days.

[Salinger]

this is a great read -- essentially the $7b  giveback related to  the madoff lawsuit came out of the pockets of charities who were the main beneficiaries of Picower's estate --  sort of like a few decades from now if Buffett were (hypothetically speaking)  found out to be a fraudster all the billions he has directed to "charities" could be turned back by his kids (who were cut out of the lion's share of the will) to Warren's hypothetical vicitms

Picower Estate to Pay $7.2 Billion for Madoff Victims

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-17/picower-estate-to-pay-7-2-bi...

[Hephasteus]

The good lord giveth and then sendeth someone to stealeth it back and pretendeth to be sympathetic toeth the pliteth.

[Misean]

I miss my college daze too...at least I like to think I miss it.  Hard to remember...

[iota]

Acid House goodness.

http://snd.sc/dMaPkd

[Misean]

Tangerine Dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoXrN4XSabI&feature=related

[Kassandra]

Boy, did I pick a bad day to quit sniffin' glue.

[snowball777]

Get off the ceiling before you get hurt.

[Bodmas]

Tumultuous indeed. So much to learn, though, and so little time...

[lsbumblebee]

Captain Beefheart. RIP.

http://www.thirdage.com/news/captain-beefheart-dies-ms-complications_12-...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIad0M5cZkM&feature=&p=4F8194F50B14254F&i...

[Jim in MN]

Treat me like an ashtray heart....RIP

[Gordon Freeman]

Headline from CNBC website:

BULLS RARING TO GO IN 2011!

I'm speechless...

[Misean]

Michael Jordan's coming out of retirement?

[tickhound]

Ok now that's freaking funny

[Thurifer]

Reunite Gondwanaland!!!

[Rusty Shorts]

LMAO

[SheHunter]

I spent way too many minutes last night clutching a comfort glass of wine in my right hand and tinking with my left hand on these 'puter keys searching for the list of sites that are shut down by the feds due to wikileaks. Could not find my ZH listed but knew...just KNEW...that was why you were off line. W-H-E-W. Joke's on me but that's OK. At least you are back and not censored or sitting in a solitary confinement cell.

[lilimarlene1]

Honestly, it's the most effective year-end, fundraising pitch I've seen! They even switched to a not for profit url: .org: 501c3 compliant.

[adissidentishere]

Everybody gettin' loose ya'll:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sY2rjxq6M

[tickhound]

word

[River]

Fuck you if you don't like Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ysfQjKKi70

[monopoly]

So glad to see Tyler and the staff taking a break. Much over due. Rest well.

[snowball777]

Gold, Mitchez!

[Threeggg]

on Charles Hugh Smith blog tonight

December 17, 2010
The Devil pens a Christmas letter.

Through means I am unable to disclose, I have obtained a copy of the Devil's Christmas letter. Yes, Satan too sends a Yule letter, and no, I was not on his mailing list. I think Satan's Holiday cheer should give us all pause.

To my fallen angels Beelzebub, Lucifer and Leviathan, princes of Hell's demons, and to my minions, lackeys, toadies and sycophants on Earth:

As you know, this time of year usually finds me quite despondent, as the Prince of Peace's influence waxes most atrociously around his birthday. But this year I am in fine spirits, nay, let me even declare myself absolutely giddy, for the destruction of the United States of America draws ever nearer.

Though my minions have long sown festering seeds of hate and disharmony in that now-benighted land, only recently have my favored weapons of destruction--leverage, debt, half-truths and endless, preening justifications for greed, sloth, lust, pride, envy, anger and gluttony--have been unleashed to worm their way into the stricken heart of that Republic.

My most treasured hopes of destitution and conflict in the U.S.A. are nearing fruition.

First, my minions in the Federal Reserve--such loyal servants!--and the Federal government have unleashed a veritable orgy of leverage and debt upon the land, spreading ruination under the false guise of prosperity. What a delicious irony, that the fools doomed to eternal damnation in my Empire believe themselves prosperous as they absorb the poison of exponentially rising leverage and debt.

They have made a mockery of the rule of law, openly flouting it by letting financial crimes go not just unpunished but rewarded. The blatant injustice that roams the land like a foul, slobbering beast--there are two sets of laws and two sets of books now, one for the financial Elites and their political toadies, and another one for the tax donkeys beneath them--this will eventually ignite the firestorm I seek.

American extravagance has surpassed even my highest expectations, as purveyors of luxury goods reap record profits, and the childish desire for instant gratification has become the unspoken ruler of the land. Convenience is now worshipped as a god, sitting triumphant beside entitlement, greed and willful ignorance.

Convenience is, as you all know, the name of a peculiarly slick slide into Hell.

One of my favorite sins, gluttony, is running amok, with half of the people groaning under their own weight, sickened and weakened. My loyal minions in the fast-food and packaged food industries have followed my plans to perfection, and my lackeys in the marketing and media have fueled the instant gratification and ignorance which insidiously undermine even the greatest empires.

Pride--oh, how the Americans excel at hubris and pride! The Federal Reserve chairman, bless his doomed soul, has declared himself 100% confident about an economy that is nothing but a confidence game. Oh, what joy to hear his lies spoken with such confidence!

The mere thought of the word greed cause me to chuckle delightedly, as the U.S. excels as a haven for greed without bounds, a greed so boundless that the entire universe would be insufficient to satisfy its bankers, hedge fund managers, high-frequency traders, Imperial factotums and politicians. How happy I am to see their greed grease their way into Hell.

I feel like dancing a jig when I hear the unbridled sense of entitlement which has poisoned the American spirit. Yes, let greed and avarice be cloaked with rationalizations--"I was promised," "It's my right," "I deserve it," "it's in our contract"--it is wondrous indeed how my secret invention, "free money," debilitates once-independent souls.

Anger is now overflowing everywhere, building my empire with every thoughtless word. Politicians rage against each other, the people rage against the politicians, and behind the scenes my servants in the political action committees feed the anger with billions of dollars in campaign donations. How amusing to see the politicos lay claim to noble ideals even as they scramble on their knees to collect the millions tossed at their feet to do my bidding.

Oh yes, my bidding, for their greed, pride and anger are my bidding. By all means, politicians, do my work: give tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy, let financial crimes go unpunished, allow the financial Elites' looting to go unhindered, transfer the wealth earned by the citizens' sweat to the financial Elites when their trillion-dollar bets go bad--fuel the anger which will tear you from power, and tear the country apart.

I laughed with glee when One Beholden To Me announced that he was doing "God's work"--how I love twisting together irony and lies! He fooled no one, of course, for even the most deluded souls know he is doing My Work, not the Lord's, but they are too distracted by games and ginned-up contests to care.

Not caring is doing my work, too, of course.

The nation bleeds itself with unwinnable wars, sacrificing its best youth on the altar of endless war--how can I not rejoice at this orgy of death, destruction and sowing of hate? The feeble liars at the nation's helm print endless sums to fund war and to prop up vile tyrants, but offer nothing for libraries or literacy or the curing of malaria. How can I not rejoice at a nation which finds trillions for war and next to nothing to fight the diseases of the poor residents of former colonies, including that Prince of Disease, ignorance.

As for sloth--that millions are being paid to sit around watching television instead of being productive creates the perfect breeding ground for resentment, malice and envy. How perfect to pay people to sit at home and rot away, with only their discontent and despair for company.

As you know all too well, idle hands end up doing my piecework for free.

It was almost beyond my dreams to find the nation's wealth and politics so dominated by a tiny handful of wealthy financial plutocrats--they are doing my bidding without hindrance, though I see by their troubled sleep that they know where their greed and rationalizations are taking them. To channel the nation's wealth to a few hands--what better way to nurture envy and anger?

If ignorance were treasure, the American political class must be declared wealthier than Midas, for its ignorance has reached a pinnacle I can truly admire. Ensnared by their lust for power, blinded by their greed for fame and perquisites, they look no further than the next election cycle, dooming their nation to division, disharmony and the desolation of permanent conflict over the dwindling productive assets of this once-great nation.

The people cry out to be saved by the government, as if it was a Savior instead of a vast combine chewing through the wealth of the nation, "investing" it in corruption, parasitic financial Elites, military misadventures, Homeland "Security"--ha, isn't that a jewel, as the nation withers from within--and the steady, unyielding oppression of the remaining productive members of society.

When the people cheer "We're number One," I cheer with them, for pride goeth before a fall. When they believe the half-truths, the illusions, the mispresentations, the misdirections and yes, the outright lies of the ruling class repeated by their toadies in the media, I can no longer restrain my delight, for lies and half-truths are my favored weapons of destruction. The leaders are themselves leaderless, blank, hollowed-out souls doing the bidding of their parasitic masters, focused only on keeping the corrupt and venal status quo together for a few more months, never looking out ten years.

I delight in that shortsightedness, that abject fear of change and transformation, that clinging to failure and pride, that refusal to face reality.

For the U.S.A. is now an Empire of Debt and Lies, its fraudulent financial system built on misrepresentations of risk and value, and its "economy of confidence" a con game based on illusory wealth, parasitic skimming, government gaming and tax donkeys paying for their Financial Masters' idiotic mistakes.

This adolescent desire to believe the lies, because in believing the lies then nothing need change--this might be my most powerful destructive tool.

A hunger for fantasy and illusion, a fear of adaptation, a childish demand for instant gratification--these are forces I can rely on to lead the once-great country to absolute ruin.

And here is the beautifully evil part, my minions--no external enemy is required. The Americans are destroying themselves with their reliance on leverage, debt, denial, half-truths and overflowing servings of the Seven Deadly Sins, all of which they have elevated to "assets" in their hopelessly twisted values. To be supremely unproductive, a churner of lies and financial trickery, is now the most rewarded and admired state in America.

The spiritual rot is now so deep and pervasive that the people no longer even recognize the decay --they have been lulled into a false belief that this culture of fraud, embezzlement, manipulations, propaganda and parasitic financial Elites has always held sway. This is precisely how a people act when they have lost their way, spiritually and morally: they elevate sins to virtues, and forget the lessons of their past.

And of course everyone claiming that there is no spiritual vacuum sucking the nation dry, that the status quo is simply "business as usual"--they are doing my work, too, for habituating to all that is corrupt and reprehensible, all that is lacking in integrity and honesty, this is doing my work most admirably.

Americans no longer hate me, they hate sacrifice, with a passion that enlivens my enthusiasm for their self-destruction.

How can I not be pleased this season? At long last, the destruction of the United States by its own citizens is close at hand. Give me two years, minions, no more than four, and I shall insure they will finally begin reaping what they have sown. Ignorance, my poor dear Americans, will not save you, nor will your endless parade of excuses, justifications and rationalizations. Indeed, they are my weapons which you drive deeper into your nation's heart with every lie, every excuse, every frantic justification for your own entitlement.

I await 2011 with high expectations.

Most sincerely yours,

Satan

http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html

[Aristarchan]

A reply to the Prince of Darkness:

Ah, go clean out your cloven hoof you miserable old fart...one of these days in the probably too near future, you are going to look up from mending your fires and see my evil ass crossing the river styxx......HO HO HO! I can see the look on your face now, like a coon hound shitting bowie knives.

[Die Weiße Rose]

like that poor Devil above spoke the honest truth !

America, please stop spending or you are" going to hell in a handbasket " !

[Aristarchan]

I am going there cause I don't wanna hang out with that bunch of pansies in heaven.

[Leo Kolivakis]

Can't wait to drink with my buddies this weekend!

[Village Idiot]

"bros before hoes"

Why?

[MsCreant]

He just came out. It took a lot of courage on his part, shut up.

[Rusty Shorts]

Are we in Bat Country yet?

[Rastadamus]

I thought the whole thing to be government motivated attempt to suppress the truth....

Kind of a wikiplug for the many wiki leaks.

[RobotTrader]

Heh, check this out!!

Perma-screeching bear Nouriel "Disheveled" Roubini caves in. and springs for a $5.5 million condo in NYC!!

And, he's taking out a $3 million mortgage.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-17/nouriel-roubini-purchases-5-5-million-condo-in-east-village-of-manhattan.html

[tickhound]

If he says one more word about deflation I'm personally cyber-kicking URE ass.

[akak]

And I bet that Count Chocula of Deflation is getting pretty nervous as his "impossible" $1500 gold inches closer and closer every day.

[trx]

Of cource he is..and at the same time he's calling for more QE:

"I think there will be more liquidity increases − after QE2, there will be QE3, QE4 and QE5. This will be the case for not just the US but globally."

http://www.markit.com/en/about/magazine/issue-10/mm10-talking-business.page?

[williambanzai7]

[Rusty Shorts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx86CxKYtg0

[williambanzai7]

They were a tough band!

[Rusty Shorts]

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUrwa3TMSwE&feature=related

[velobabe]

stupid my post

[TruthInSunshine]

Damn you.

You had to make me break it out, didn't you?:

Cheese in the early 90s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDqj8lclWA

[Aristarchan]

And you get three channels: org, net and com.

[Aristarchan]

That one on the right looks like something Ronald Raygun might have been boning back in the early fifties.....

[williambanzai7]

Ronnie Rooter

[Aristarchan]

"No, sweetheart, that is not 'supply side economics' that is trickling down your leg."

[gangland]

billy, listen man, i talked shit to you before, but i wanted to say that i really liked this one. best.

[williambanzai7]

Happy Holidays ;-)

[gangland]

ty u 2 man. ; )

thanks a lot man.

[Village Idiot]

WB, how is the "symbol" coming?  The branding must commence.

[Aristarchan]

And, Willie, it needs to be suitable for stylish tatoos and not so complex that it cannot be fashioned easily from wrought pig metal into a suitable branding iron for those wankers in need of a "mark of the best."

[Village Idiot]

Yes, good point.

[Aristarchan]

Its all in the details, VI.

[Village Idiot]

Yessss my little pretty... he! he! he! (voice of wicked witch/north)

Edit: yeah...um...not sure where that came from?

[Aristarchan]

I understand:)

[Stu]

Debts are subject to the laws of mathematics rather than physics. Unlike wealth, which is subject to the laws of thermodynamics, debts do not rot with old age and are not consumed in the process of living. On the contrary, they grow at so much per cent per annum, by the well-known mathematical laws of simple and compound interest . . . It is this underlying confusion between wealth and debt which has made such a tragedy of the scientific era. The threatened collapse of our Western civilization has nothing to do with the political issues between capitalism and communism, but is the consequence of its false money system. Frederick Soddy, 1950

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Civilization is . . . more unstable at its peak, when it has reached maximum demand on the ecology. Unless a new source of wealth or energy appears, it has no room left to raise production or absorb the shock of natural fluctuations.

Once nature starts to foreclose . . . the social contact breaks down. People may suffer stoically for a while, but sooner or later the ruler's relationship with heaven is exposed as a delusion or a lie. Then the temples are looted, the statues thrown down, the barbarians welcomed, and the emperor's naked rump is last seen fleeing through a palace window.

Ronald Wright

Between wide open borders and fall of the dollar and growing population against a declining resource base, the United States will be defeated from within. Mobs will rule the streets in the nation that is now the third largest in the world – right behind China and India – and unable to support its population except by taking resources from other countries.

Walter Youngquist

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Al Bartlett

[Misean]

A man's gotta know his limitations

Dirty Harry

[traderjoe]

It is this underlying confusion between wealth and debt which has made such a tragedy of the scientific era.

Very interesting point. 

[TruthInSunshine]

Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qujfdzLJPyU

I'm officially deeply buzzed because I am typing this on my wankin iPhone (yeah...whatever). I love everyone.

[Rusty Shorts]

Good tune Sunshine !

[TruthInSunshine]

Indeed, Rusty. Indeed.

Tip jar is open.

[Rusty Shorts]

Here's your tip;'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3m4e45bTo

[TruthInSunshine]

Ahhh...brings back memories of mellow, Bernanke-less times.

Good times...good times.

[tickhound]

Me likes... but on a harder note
Master bernanke let's us know the flood comin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=Rs6RefV1td4

[TruthInSunshine]

I meant 'lucky man' in the first Verve link, but the Duval is talking for me.

[Rusty Shorts]

It's all good Sunshine.

[Rusty Shorts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlpnDJPenBQ

[gangland]

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1011/1011.3706.pdf

no big bang bitchez!

[pinkhouse]

email me when you get your shit straightened out.

thank you,

chumlee

[Aristarchan]

Get your ass back to work.

 - The Old Man

[bullet357]

Weird... called the ex last night who lives in Omaha said The nightly news had a big segment on what to do when a Nuke hits a city near you. I thought nothing of it till i tried to get on ZH then everything fell into place.  Two words to live by Food & Ammo. (Listen to a little "Floyd" to pass the time) paranoid ...no just a coincidence....the silver eagle will soar...That is what I KNOW.

[Aristarchan]

People in Omaha worry about things like this...for obvious reasons.

[Village Idiot]

Lets start a gang.  What are we gonna call ourselves?

[Aristarchan]

Hells' Hedgeclippers? Nah...too wanky.

[tickhound]

The Bold Gitchez

[TruthInSunshine]

Bernanke, Dudley & Sacks - all financial terrorists.

Anyone disagree with that? Speak now or forever STFU.

[Village Idiot]

No. lets talk about starting a gang.

[Misean]

Ok, you be Alfalfa.  I'm thinking of either being Spanky or Buckwheat.

[Village Idiot]

I love Darla.

Edit: Darla was a cock tease.

[Aristarchan]

Dammit to gangsta hell, Misean, you promised ME that I could be Alfalfa!

[Village Idiot]

Our gang needs to wear a bitchin jacket with some tuff shit sewn on.

[Rusty Shorts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePIeKClCQ4Y

[Village Idiot]

Not a chain gang, Rusty!

[Golden monkey]

Pee on a GS bankster and get a small patch for the jacket.

Do the same on a JPM employee to get a full patch.

[Things that go bump]

Lets have a show.

[faustian bargain]

We want the Hookie-lau!

[Die Weiße Rose]

Last night on Z-H we brain-stormed an elaborate 100% fool-proof fail-safe 5 point Recovery plan for the US economy.

Then the Z-H servers went down, because the processors overheated the entire system while in UHF-Trade-Moon-lighting mode.( Ultra-High-frequency after hours trading)

Now I can't find that all important Recovery post ,

but it was referring to the Bush Tax-Cuts,

said something about Austerity and toward the end:

America, put your head between your knees

and kiss your Arse good-bye...

the rest I can't remember because the server went down and someone junked me

because I had spelled "Arse" the European way.

( with an R - as in AusteRity )

oh well...

[TruthInSunshine]

An Irishman abroad tells it like it is

This guy speaks just basic truth.

In the U.S., everyone uses the allure of supposed intellectualism to try and diminish bluntness and replace it with painfully mangled apologism.

[gangland]

i luv u zero hedge, thank u.

[wrongwaytrader]

I don't get to read here as much as I like, so if this has already been covered, someone please re-direct me..... I see some references to wikileaks, and I'm wondering what the general ZH consensus is ?   Real trouble for the govt., or a tool of the govt.?  

[Village Idiot]

please let it be real trouble

[Dirt Rat]

Short answer: tool of the government.

[Aristarchan]

Watch out guys....with that moniker he may be Larry Summers trying to trap you into incriminating yourself:)

[Village Idiot]

barebacking is not a crime

[Aristarchan]

No...but using a saddle is more civilized.

[Village Idiot]

no...one is talking about being civilized.