Hey Wonkers, happy Fourth of July weekend and shit! Do you need a nap? We sure do! Let's all snuggle dressed like burritos after we read this post, like Wonkette baby, pictured above. (Did you SEE Editrix's baby pictures post this morning? If you didn't, you should go look at it!)
What huddled mass said. I just had to do it. That and spend a lot of time just holding him. Unfortunately I did not have the same freedom to do that with my second son, as son #1 one would immediately come along and say "You have two boys!" grab a book and settle down with us. They are now 25 and 22 and several thousand miles away in Calgary, and I miss being able to give them hugs.
It looks like Sarah Palin did not even write her own statement to her fans.
The message on her channel must have been written by TAPP. It refers to "the other channels on OUR network.
If you are an annual subscriber, you can have the balance of your subscription refunded to your credit card or you can roll your subscription into one of the other channels on our network
An excerpt from an article I haven't finished, but the excerpt is pretty on target:
For the record, my sophisticated hard-working elite European interlocutors, the term moral hazard traditionally applies to creditors. It describes the hazard to the real economy that might result if investors fail to discriminate between valuable and not-so-valuable projects when they allocate society’s scarce resources as proxied by money claims. Lending to a corrupt, clientelist Greek state that squanders resources on activities unlikely to yield growth from which the debt could be serviced? That is precisely, exactly, what the term “moral hazard” exists to discourage. You did that. Yes, the Greek state was an unworthy and sometimes unscrupulous debtor. Newsflash: The world is full of unworthy and unscrupulous entities willing to take your money and call the transaction a “loan”. It always will be. That is why responsibility for, and the consequences of, extending credit badly must fall upon creditors, not debtors. There is one morality tale that says the debtor must repay, or she has sinned and must be punished. There is another morality tale that says the creditor must invest wisely, or she has stewarded resources poorly and must be punished. We get to choose which morality tale we most use to make sense of the world. We do, and surely should, use both to some degree. But if we emphasize the first story, we end up in a world full of bad loans, wasted resources, and people trapped in debtors’ prison, metaphorical or literal. If we emphasize the second story, we end up in a world where dumb expenditures are never financed in the first place.
Everybody seems to love to pretend that there is only one side to these things, and that only one side should suffer. That the lenders should always be made whole on the deal, and if anything goes sideways they should get even more for their troubles. Lending with interest definitively means assumption of risk. Otherwise there would be nothing to charge for but convenience. Both sides need to accept some blame and some loss when these things happen. Not that the banks are likely to do either.
Sarah still lives rent-free in your head?
I've never seen so much attention paid to someone who holds no public office.
What huddled mass said. I just had to do it. That and spend a lot of time just holding him. Unfortunately I did not have the same freedom to do that with my second son, as son #1 one would immediately come along and say "You have two boys!" grab a book and settle down with us. They are now 25 and 22 and several thousand miles away in Calgary, and I miss being able to give them hugs.
Hair color aside, I thought stupidity was the number one prerequisite.
You have no idea. :D
Yeah! Doin' a happy dance here!
And, yes, you can camouflage mediocrity with platitudes for only so long. Go home, Sarah.
I'm OK with it, 'cause you get monies and GoW gets nothing, because this sure as shootin' is the wrong demographic.
Y'all can have your King of Spain. Have you seen the Queen of the Netherlands? Yowsers!
C'mon, man. Everyone knows that the best place to meet horny women is at weddings.
Just don't hit on the one wearing white.
Dual citizenship so I can always escape again if it goes all theocratic.
America has its faults but it's still a great country populated at least in part by people like you fine folks. I love it.
It looks like Sarah Palin did not even write her own statement to her fans.
The message on her channel must have been written by TAPP. It refers to "the other channels on OUR network.
If you are an annual subscriber, you can have the balance of your subscription refunded to your credit card or you can roll your subscription into one of the other channels on our network
I don't know. Hitting on the one wearing white seemed to work for Ben Braddock.
Wait, wait, it's gone? She's quit it?
That is breaking news, if so.
edit: not that I did it, but it got to the point where it was asking me for CC details on the signup page. Is this for real?
An excerpt from an article I haven't finished, but the excerpt is pretty on target:
For the record, my sophisticated hard-working elite European interlocutors, the term moral hazard traditionally applies to creditors. It describes the hazard to the real economy that might result if investors fail to discriminate between valuable and not-so-valuable projects when they allocate society’s scarce resources as proxied by money claims. Lending to a corrupt, clientelist Greek state that squanders resources on activities unlikely to yield growth from which the debt could be serviced? That is precisely, exactly, what the term “moral hazard” exists to discourage. You did that. Yes, the Greek state was an unworthy and sometimes unscrupulous debtor. Newsflash: The world is full of unworthy and unscrupulous entities willing to take your money and call the transaction a “loan”. It always will be. That is why responsibility for, and the consequences of, extending credit badly must fall upon creditors, not debtors. There is one morality tale that says the debtor must repay, or she has sinned and must be punished. There is another morality tale that says the creditor must invest wisely, or she has stewarded resources poorly and must be punished. We get to choose which morality tale we most use to make sense of the world. We do, and surely should, use both to some degree. But if we emphasize the first story, we end up in a world full of bad loans, wasted resources, and people trapped in debtors’ prison, metaphorical or literal. If we emphasize the second story, we end up in a world where dumb expenditures are never financed in the first place.
Everybody seems to love to pretend that there is only one side to these things, and that only one side should suffer. That the lenders should always be made whole on the deal, and if anything goes sideways they should get even more for their troubles. Lending with interest definitively means assumption of risk. Otherwise there would be nothing to charge for but convenience. Both sides need to accept some blame and some loss when these things happen. Not that the banks are likely to do either.
Palin's channel debuted with world wide notoriety at 34,000.
Within 9 months it was not even in the top 1 million.
That is one adorable babby. When mine were that age I would just lie on the bed and stare at them. I could never get enough.
Still too high, just saying.