Dakryn's Batshit Theory of the Week

[Dak]

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Ahmadinejad is a nobody. Sure, he's crazy, but he has no real power in Iran, the Middle East, or Central Asia.

 

[Dak]

Not if you listen to Fox News

 

[Dak]

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/22/technology/louis_ck_million/index.htm?source=cnn_bin

A friend told him "everyone's going to steal it...so I just wrote a note that said, you know, please don't do it," Louis C.K. said, as the audience laughed. "And they didn't. So it made a lot of money."

Why voluntaryism can work.

 

[Dak]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/21/france-turkey-armenia-genocide-denial-row

Diplomatic relations between France and Turkey were on a knife-edge after Ankara warned of reprisals if the French parliament approves a law making it illegal to deny that the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey was genocide.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Awesome Louis C.K. story.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Yeah, his approach to the marketing of his newest stand up special is genius.

 

[Dak]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/23/turkey-accuses-france-genocide-algeria

Turkey and France ratchet up the drama. WWI redux???

The beginning of the 21st century is beginning to look eerily like the beginning of the 20th century in many ways.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Pot calling the kettle black much?

 

[Dak]

 

[Vimana]

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but it's a little weird how SOPA and that other thing that could allow detainment of US citizens indefinitely are being proposed around the same time.

 

[Dak]

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way" ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

[Dak]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11361/1199563-100.stm

Somerset County District Attorney Jerry Spangler will not charge a man who fatally shot another man with a bow and arrow, saying today that changes in the state's Castle Doctrine factored into his decision.

Mr. Spangler said the unidentified 38-year-old Center City man who confessed to shooting Tony L. Bittinger on Oct. 10 claimed he did so in self-defense.

Mr. Bittinger was found shot through the chest with an arrow near the front steps to the man's house.

The Castle Doctrine was amended this summer to expand a homeowner's right to use deadly force against intruders, Mr. Spangler said.

The new Castle Doctrine expands a homeowner's "castle" to include porches and eliminates the owner's duty to retreat before attacking an intruder.

Mr. Spangler said the man might not have been charged under the old statute, but the new law "makes it much clearer" that the shooting was justified.

Trooper Joseph Drzal said Mr. Bittinger, who had been romantically involved with the man's wife, made several threatening phone calls to the man before driving up to his home to confront him. There, he threatened the man with a heavy wooden club.

The man told him to leave repeatedly. When Mr. Bittinger attempted to come up the stairs, the man shot him in the chest with an arrow. He died before first responders arrived.


Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11361/1199563-100.stm#ixzz1iKtFd8I1

About time.

 

[Dak]

http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/story/_/id/7415167/green-bay-new-england-make-history-strong-offenses-weak-defenses

More Signs of the Decline of Western Civilization: Last week the Wall Street Journal ran an article noting that the Federal Reserve supplied a huge bailout to European banks, and wondering why this development -- America may get the bill for money squandered in Europe -- "surprisingly … is largely unnoticed here." Not entirely unnoticed -- a month ago, I detailed the Fed action in TMQ. Sports columns are unlikely to be your best source of fiscal policy news. But doesn't it say something about the state of the mainstream media that a quirky ESPN column had important information about Federal Reserve activity before most major newspapers noticed?



Now check a front-page lead story from the New York Times last week The story reports "fears that the move could backfire." What move? Transferring advanced U.S. weapons, including frontline jet fighters and tanks, to Iraq. Since the United States invaded Iraq with the stated intention of disarming the country, the fact that the United States now wants Iraq to have much better arms than before is puzzling. The MSM hasn't said much regarding this weird development. But you read about it three months ago in TMQ. Same point: Doesn't it say something about the state of the mainstream media that a quirky ESPN column was ahead of the news curve on a major international-affairs story?

 

[Dak]

 

[Dak]

When seconds count, cops are on the phone: Woman shoots intruder while on the phone with 9-1-1

 

[Dak]

Iran: Will block Straits of Hormuz if oil exports blocked

I hope they do.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

This WSJ article requires a stupid subscription to read, but the abstract is very intriguing:

Little Alarm Shown at Fed At Dawn of Housing Bust

In his second meeting as chairman of the Federal Reserve in May 2006, Ben Bernanke heard a Fed governor warn about the nation's mortgage market. But Mr. Bernanke described the cooling of the housing boom as a "healthy thing."

"So far we are seeing, at worst, an orderly decline in the housing market," he said.

Mr. Bernanke's words were contained in 1,197 pages of transcripts released Thursday of closed-door Fed meetings from that year. The transcripts paint the most detailed picture yet of how top officials at the central bank didn't anticipate the storm about to hit the U.S. economy ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409004577157001537763864.html

I wonder if some transparency law is actually taking effect, or if the Fed's just doing this voluntarily to try to distract critics away.

 

[Dak]

I think the Fed and it's associated feeders are sweating bullets. Why else rush the NDAA and the addendum through? End the Fed rallies = "economic terrorism".

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I'm not going to say that's not true, but... that's quite a stretch