I think I may not have been clear about what I meant in my statement. I believe we're talking about two different segments of the same problem.

I absolutely agree with you that there has been very poor management of the U.S. debt over the past few years, especially in over the financial bail out/sub-prime mortgage/housing bubble fiasco. And yes, some (many?) of those individuals culpable are working with the current cabinet.

However, my thoughts were more to the fact that 1/2 the American national debt (some $5+ Trillion) is interest. I see this as a crime no single individual could commit over night. Yes, the last few years have had fuck-ups and thefts of the common purse on a colossal scale, but the majority of the (compound) interest on the the U.S. debt was accumulated before the bank bail out. I see those responsible as being the people who permitted the system with a privatized central bank. Money is now created by private companies through debt which the taxpayer is charged compound interest on.

NEW YORK -- Here's a new way to think about the U.S. government's epic borrowing: More than half of the $9 trillion in debt that Uncle Sam is expected to build up over the next decade will be interest.

More than half. In fact, $4.8 trillion.

If that's hard to grasp, here's another way to look at why that's a problem.

In 2015 alone, the estimated interest due - $533 billion - is equal to a third of the federal income taxes expected to be paid that year. /CNN, 2009.

>> ^notarobot:

@NetRunner, @GenjiKilpatrick, It is unfair to blame any single person in recent memory. Not Bernake, not Greenspan. They were making the best choices they knew to make given the system they have inherited.
The people at fault are no longer alive today. I'm sure I don't know American history as well as Americans, but I know that similar issues are being faced by pretty much every country that has left the management of the nation's money supply in the hands of private interests. For myself, in Canada, I'm pretty worried.
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
“Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes that nation's laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.”
-William Lyon Mackenzie King, former Prime Minister of Canada.


The people at fault are very much alive because they could've done something to prevent it years ago. They're in Obamas cabinet now.

@NetRunner, @GenjiKilpatrick, It is unfair to blame any single person in recent memory. Not Bernake, not Greenspan. They were making the best choices they knew to make given the system they have inherited.

The people at fault are no longer alive today. I'm sure I don't know American history as well as Americans, but I know that similar issues are being faced by pretty much every country that has left the management of the nation's money supply in the hands of private interests. For myself, in Canada, I'm pretty worried.

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

“Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes that nation's laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.”

-William Lyon Mackenzie King, former Prime Minister of Canada.

“Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes that nation's laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.”

-William Lyon Mackenzie King, former Prime Minister of Canada.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Hi Scott, I'm glad to hear that you are requiring disclosure - but in poking around and talking to a few people - I don't believe this is universal.

I take your argument, but in general I think the practice of paid blogging is sleazy and detrimental to the entire blogging ecosystem. You're basically drumming up fake enthusiasm for products or services that a blogger would not normally promote. It's bad for the products and most of all, it's terrible for the blogger, because it erodes any sense of trust that the reader may have had in them.

IMO it's a pretty shameful practice and you'd do well to divorce yourself (and Technorati) from it.

Thanks.

>> ^ScottLyon:

Hi Dag,
Scott here, one of the offending emailers, from the Technorati Media Blogger Outreach team.
My apologies if the receipt of the message offended you. What you’ve shared about bloggers as journalists is certainly true in many cases – and I’m glad we have them doing that important work.
On the flip side, there are many types of bloggers we work with who write passionately about their personal lives, experiences, hobbies, causes, opinions or interests and they welcome opportunities to review new products (like this iPad app) or develop sponsored articles–if the posts fit their editorial direction and keep the integrity of their blog. The “good” and the “bad” of a review is always up to the blogger and sponsored content is typically on a topic the blogger has an affinity for and not about a product itself.
When a blogger works on a campaign with us, we require that they disclose when they have received a product to review or payment for post in the manner of their blog our using a tool like . Most of them are doing this anyway and it’s part of our follow up to the bloggers interested in participating.
We are working on ways and finding tools to better help us connect bloggers with opportunities they find relevant. It's big challenge, but we're working on it.
A big part of my position is not marketing for clients, but to also promote blogs, bloggers and blogging. I huge fan of all the different POVs out there and connecting bloggers to opportunities they might be interested in.
All the best...
Scott Lyon
Blogger Outreach Manager
Technorati Media

Hi Dag,

Scott here, one of the offending emailers, from the Technorati Media Blogger Outreach team.

My apologies if the receipt of the message offended you. What you’ve shared about bloggers as journalists is certainly true in many cases – and I’m glad we have them doing that important work.

On the flip side, there are many types of bloggers we work with who write passionately about their personal lives, experiences, hobbies, causes, opinions or interests and they welcome opportunities to review new products (like this iPad app) or develop sponsored articles–if the posts fit their editorial direction and keep the integrity of their blog. The “good” and the “bad” of a review is always up to the blogger and sponsored content is typically on a topic the blogger has an affinity for and not about a product itself.

When a blogger works on a campaign with us, we require that they disclose when they have received a product to review or payment for post in the manner of their blog our using a tool like . Most of them are doing this anyway and it’s part of our follow up to the bloggers interested in participating.

We are working on ways and finding tools to better help us connect bloggers with opportunities they find relevant. It's big challenge, but we're working on it.

A big part of my position is not marketing for clients, but to also promote blogs, bloggers and blogging. I huge fan of all the different POVs out there and connecting bloggers to opportunities they might be interested in.

All the best...

Scott Lyon
Blogger Outreach Manager
Technorati Media

Whoops, my memory failed me. It was made by Dana Lyons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cows_with_guns

Tags for this video have been changed from 'cows, guns, funny, scary, three dead trolls in a baggie' to 'cows, guns, funny, scary, Dana Lyons' - edited by gwiz665

Hydroptere eventually hit 61 knots in a Gulf de Lyon mistral and broke apart. Talk about an epic pitchpole! It would have been a highly emotional few seconds.

Argghhhh fucking Australia needs to normalize it's rating system.

Basically back in the day Australia classified video games as being for kids only, so right now it lacks an adult classification for it's video games. This is why Fallout and several other games simply got banned before and needed to be modified to be allowed into Australia. Fallout 3 was restricted because it had real drug names like Morphine, this was changed to Med-X.

The move to create this new adult rating has been laid down, but it needs a sign off from all provinces, and one in particular (I believe it was New South Wales) isn't signing off to allow the creation of this new rating.

The OFLC has attracted much criticism from gameplayer's groups, industry associations and publications about the absence of a Restricted 18+ category for games. Essentially, this means that any videogames designed purely for adult players do not receive classification and thus are not be able to be sold in Australia. As the demographics of the videogames industry changes, signified poignantly by the average player age of twenty-nine years, the censorship situation is criticised for not fulfilling its perceived role of protecting the vulnerable but also allowing adults to freely choose the material they consume. Media effects theory and its role in creating moral panics seem to reinforce attitudes toward videogames and the resultant censorship situation.

Others in favour of censoring game include pro-censorship advocate Barbara Biggins. She states that 'here are instances where adults' freedoms to see what they want and where they want, have diminished the rights of children to be protected' (Biggins, 1998). Other groups in favour of further censorship of games include: The Lyons Forum, the Christian Democratic Party, Australian Family Association and former Senator Brian Harradine.

Ted Lyons & His Cubs at the Silver Jubilee - Jaan Pehechaan Ho

Scene from the bollywood movie Gumnaam (1965) - Directed by Raja Nawathe
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0623178/

MINK-Caligraphy, is a balm, an obsessive distraction, and so many wonderful things.....welcome to history, become your passion!



Gorgonheap, well, yer a go-getter!


"First two initials followed by last name. K. A. Raidl. (Raidl pronounced Ray-dull.)"

[Rayden, rather, suck yer head off inna minnit!]..never give yer name on the internets....in case you wanna run for the office!!!]

I enjoyed the books and always had a good laugh from the Zifnab/Fizban characters so I started using Zifnab as my online handle and it kinda stuck"


[thank the fucking stars, a reader!]

My avatar notwithstanding, my name is not from the bug, but a type of encryption ke....[all we need to know, thank Bob for insects]

"Also there was this small swamp behind a graveyard down the road from where I lived in some woods where my friends and I braved as kids"[swampthing, can prob'ly cook up a mess a greens, too]

This
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/eric.boix/Koan/Hekiganroku/index.html
[indecipherable: -adj. Having many talons and gifts. 2. lush

"based on the bird, snipe, rather than sniper."
[pigeon and you'd gedda long]

"I found a toque in my parents attic when I was younger and it simply said "fedquip", I had that toque for a long time, it's now my user name."

goddamn we have a lot in common....(*lights bowl)

My name is Farhad.

The 2000.....is because he could die before will ever stop posting before I hit 2000]......(....fahad's ever-presence..)

dag, -For all ya' toilet flushing-wankers it's Dog, in Aussie, and pikey....


so.....anyone else need a Fresh-queued roast????....Microwave or conventional???

This
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/eric.boix/Koan/Hekiganroku/index.html

So, since I believe that God exists and that God desires to make himself known, I don't find it implausible to believe that God would have willed, or guided the process of recording the books of the New Testament, even though they were historically written at different times by different people during the first century. There is evidence that the canon of Scripture we have in the New Testament now was already in place long before these councils met to confirm the canon. The early church needed to confirm the canon of Scripture because there were many false writings and forgeries that were circulating from groups other than the proto-orthodox Christians. Historians have a Christian record, written by Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria, that is the earliest recording of the entire list of the 27 books of the New Testament canon that we have today. It was written in the year 367 C.E. and also has a proscription of heretical books. The canon could have been confirmed earlier than 367 C.E. but this is the earliest document that historians have found naming all 27 books. Irenaus of Lyon was an anti-Gnostic church father that already make mention in 170 C.E. of part of the canon being authoritative: the 4 gospels.

"An animated film starring Tom Waits.

Performed for us live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped - a process that traces back the live action frame by frame and turns it into animation.

The original live action was shot with 5 cameras - 2 high, 2 low and one hand held. The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the background as Tom sang karaoke style different lyrics on each take. Two strippers, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5500 live action frames were hand traced, caricatured, re-drawn, hand inked and painted onto celluloid acitate cels.

Produced by Lyon Lamb, directed by John Lamb, the film bore some cool new technology, talent and was created specifically for a video music market that didn't yet exist. But the buzz was out and we went on to create what arguably may be the first music video created for the new and upcoming MTV market.

A series of unfortunate events prohibited the film from ever being released or sold commerciallly, consequently catapulting it into obscurity... until now,thanks You Tube!

In 1979, an Academy Award was presented to Lyon Lamb for the technology used in this short.

To learn more about this amazing lost film, go to ....TomWaitsLibrary.com and Wikipedia"