dagblog - Comments for ""Only 1,000 Soldiers""

Quit exposing yourself,

we are stardust — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:18:40 +0000

Quit exposing yourself, Pug!

It's exciting to a provincial like me, dear. ;o) Thanks; I won't try to grok MMT.

Sorry; I thought you were the other ilk of Spook... (the Bass-o-matic Brit kind, not the 'I know thirty-two ways to kill you without a weapon' kind.

Watch out for Obey's ilk, anyway, y'all!

MI5?! You mean Mossad.

Obey — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:08:44 +0000

In reply to Aw, shucks; I just wanted to

MI5?! You mean Mossad. (dammit, exposed again)

On monetary theory - it's all wildly overrated in the absence of congress willing to deficit spend. Economists bitch about it because it's the one easy yet irrelevant thing to bitch about.

On my travels - just hopping around yourup for work. Nuttin exciting...

Aw, shucks; I just wanted to

we are stardust — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:05:24 +0000

In reply to Yaaas, you called?

Aw, shucks; I just wanted to make sure you saw the Bass-o-mataic. And ask where you're traveling, or if MI-5 makes you keep it a secret and all.

And ask if you know much about Modern Monetary Theory. Big wars online over it, and when I read it is Greek to me, even when I read the counter-arguments. Maybe especially when I read the counter-arguments.

Yaaas, you called?

Obey — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:54:09 +0000

In reply to Calling Mr. Obeyous Ilkshake.

Yaaas, you called?

Calling Mr. Obeyous Ilkshake.

we are stardust — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:51:24 +0000

In reply to Your ilkshake also ,made me

Calling Mr. Obeyous Ilkshake.

Someone too corrupt even for

acanuck — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:37:26 +0000

In reply to I loved the BBC description

Someone too corrupt even for the Gaddafi clan? Great. Despite Africa's third-highest GDP per capita (after Seychelles and Gabon, also oil-rich), Libya had 30% unemployment. I somehow doubt a neoliberal cold shower will help much.

Re: Rumsfeld and our

we are stardust — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:53:02 +0000

In reply to To bring us back on topic,

Re: Rumsfeld and our ilk:

There once was a fuckwad called Rummy

Who drowned people not on their tummy (okay, close enough, no?)

If I could when he's dead

I'd spit on his head

Dispatch him to hell

And not wish him well

As all ilks would do in my stead

I loved the BBC description

quinn esq — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:27:18 +0000

In reply to Talking humanitarian aid, a

I loved the BBC description of this guy from the new Libyan Goverment, who's in charge of foreign affairs apparently:

Ali Issawi - foreign affairs

... Born in Benghazi in 1966, Mr Issawi has a PhD in privatisation from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania. In 2005, he became director general of the Ownership Expansion Programme, a Libyan government fund encouraging privatisation, and founded the Centre for Export Development in 2006.

The next year he became Libya's minister of economy, trade and investment. He was the youngest person to have occupied the post.

Following a cabinet reshuffle in March 2009, Mr Issawi was left without a post. A leaked US diplomatic cable said the French embassy in Tripoli believed the move was "related to accusations of corruption".

Your ilkshake also ,made me

we are stardust — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:21:09 +0000

In reply to My ilkshake brings all the

Your ilkshake also ,made me think of this, ya nasty Pug:

BTW, I'd like to rent that

quinn esq — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:56:37 +0000

In reply to To bring us back on topic,

BTW, I'd like to rent that ad-box of yours. $5.00 to run it for a week:

" Wanted: Ilkman of Human Kindness "

If you could take down any messages from any applicants, that'd be great too. Make it $5.75.

P.S. Why is it "applicant" instead of "applican?"

P.P.S. Life. So many mysteries.