Thursday, March 31, 2011

a guttermorality news roundup

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1.  hey, national priorities are national priorities




wondering why the president's war speech was slotted unusually early on monday night?  simple--he and all his downer talk weren't about to be allowed to upstage the night's main event.


2.  and speaking of networks



the fun starts at 00:45.

and screw whatever his biases may be--when you live in a "republic" where the top 1% of families control a third of the nation's wealth, a few banks its financial system and a handful of corporations its mainstream media, a guy like jon stewart isn't a mere comedic frill--he's a fuckin' necessity.



3.  i've told you and told you and told you it was coming

Except for fuel costs, U.S. consumers haven't seen much in the way of inflation for almost a decade, so [the coming] broad-based increase in prices will be unprecedented in recent memory.

and no, noblesavage, this isn't an alarmist quote from one of my wild-eyed conspiracy newsletters [although it coulda been two years ago]--this is the CEO of walmart, who's gently tryin to prepare us.

when autumn rolls around and your dollar is buying noticeably less, if you bought gold and silver like i told you to, feel free to thank me--and if you didn't, thank ben bernanke.


and finally, just because mkf lives for clueless unintentional irony,

4.  quote of the week


It should be harder to be an artist. You shouldn't just be able to put a song on YouTube and go out on tour.

1 comment:

noblesavage said...

Well, a compendium of things to be outraged about.

But Miley Cyrus bemoaning the rise to fame of other teenagers is just a sideshow for the real problems this country faces.

You and all the other gold bugs have been betting on inflation for TWO YEARS now (or is it three?).

Inflation will certainly increase from nothing, but how high is it going to go?

Finally, you put out some thoughts on Libya. I'm sure I agree with the military action. But I am also not sure that this will ever escalate much.

George W. Bush spent $1 trillion on Iraq. I think that Obama still has $999 billion to go on he Libyan action before he catches up.