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Today's Daily Wrap Up: Kidman gives birth, Smith takes box office, Bozo passes
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148 days ago in The Review Digest · Authority: 1

Hmm...may need to create a version 3.1 of this look we have going on here. If so expect it soon. Otherwise, onto the news: Clav Note: What the hell? I just got used to version 3.0... Nicole Kidman gives birth to baby girl Kirby: So sometime in the near future we'll all be meeting a little girl named Sunday and saying how great a country music star/actress she is until she eventually becomes the crack cocaine snorting fucked up kid that we all know she'll be. Or disappears like Dakota Fanning...where the fuck is she? Clav: The baby's name is "Sunday Rose Kidman Urban." Post-Modern poetry never sounded so bad. Hancock takes top spot at the box office despite reviews Kirby: SPOILER: I'm not surprised. Clav: SPOILER: I'm thoroughly unsurprised. Larry Harmon, aka Bozo the Clown, passes at age 83 Bozo in his classic act. Kirby: I used to watch Bozo on WGN back in the day. I remember this game where you could win like $100 if you could throw a ping pong ball into all of these cups. I could've done it...I could've had the kick ass stereo system AND $100...but no, he had to go and die... Clav: I once watched an episode where the kid punched Bozo and he just tried to play it off as nothing. No lie. Guy on '24' thinks his role as black prez will help Obama Kirby: ...I'm sorry...give me a few...I can't stop laughing at the thought of a fictional character having an impact on actual politics... Clav: Wait, does he mean the "leading the nation" part or the "getting fatally shot in the throat" party? Friends: The Movie not in talks or production, mere rumor Kirby: Damn. I wanted to see how Joey continued his life. Wait...wasn't there a TV show about that? Clav: It's in moments like these that I know God is there, watching over us all. Now if he'd just take care of that asshole Josh Groban. Abba will never perform on stage again Kirby: Considering the only song I know is the homoerotic Mamma Mia, this is no loss to anyone. Except fans of homoerotic songs... Clav: Further proof of God? You bet. Not that ABBA wasn't good for what they were, it's just nobody's good old and wrinkly. Stones, take note. Osbournes head back to TV as variety show hosts Kirby: Unless this variety show features Ozzy ending the show by biting off the head of a random animal, I'll pass. Clav: Further proof of God? You- Wait a minute, what the fuck? Clinton (Bill) to be featured on Elvis Costello show Kirby: Reports are also telling us that he'll be wearing a "Hillary 2008" pin while on the show and talk about his wife's campaign, which apparently he is not aware has ended. Clav: ... There's a SUNDANCE channel? And they put Elvis Costello on it? I feel like there are better "worthless has beens" who you can use, guys. I mean, Costello is still kind of cool... Barrymore and Long (Barrylong?) are no more Boobs always win over a guy...unless he's gay Kirby: They actually said she might like PCs...they actually used that joke...that was my joke...bastards...go die like Bozo... Clav: Aww, at least he won't lose any of the full resolution of Barrymore's wondrous breasts on his Macintosh. Too bad he's masturbating to those pictures for the foreseeable future. Steve Irwin's daughter to get own doll Kirby: Also to be released with the doll is a Steve Irwin with Stingray action figure, including stingray action and underwater diving gear. Hole for sting ray tail not included, please use a small knife to create said hole. Do so under supervision of a parent, and do not go near stingrays for they might actually kill you like they did Steve Irwin, even if there's a very small possibility of it happening. Clav: OK readers (3), so is there a problem, or is there a problem, when I, Clav, think a joke is way out of line? Just wondering. I mean, come on, the girl's name is BINDI for fuck's sake. Aren't there a thousand jokes we could've made about that instead? I mean, shit, we're talking about a guy who owns a Miley Cyrus T-Shirt here...
8 new messages in 6 topics - digest
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149 days ago in Believing · Authority: 3

misc.invest.stocks http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks?hl=en misc.invest.stocks@googlegroups.com Today's topics: * free market economics is treason, Sustainable economy is the core of freedom: We declared our economic independence before we declared our political independence, Bostonian Sam Adams, the fiery leader of the movement, knew frugality was not enough. To become truly independent, America had to produce at home what previously had been imported from England - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/47a4b1a581acb5de?hl=en * Market question for you geniuses - 3 messages, 3 authors http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/a1638a3efefb6b57?hl=en * Beer up another $1 for case - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/ecd25ec8b12d2f04?hl=en * CV Resumes curriculum vitae Samples Top Interview Questions - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/f9c9adc5fea405f8?hl=en * As Good As It Gets - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/075ca5cb37b4cd9c?hl=en * R.I.P. Blash feel free to Join your hero - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/d47130c20cae1357?hl=en ============================================================================== TOPIC: free market economics is treason, Sustainable economy is the core of freedom:We declared our economic independence before we declared our political independence, Bostonian Sam Adams, the fiery leader of the movement, knew frugality was not enough. To become truly independent, America had to produce at home what previously had been imported from England http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/47a4b1a581acb5de?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sat, Jul 5 2008 9:18 pm From: Video61@tcq.net On Jul 5, 8:50 pm, Don Tiberone <s_knig...@my-deja.com> wrote: > On Jul 5, 3:58 pm, Vide...@tcq.net wrote: > > > as ever, dumb to the core. free markets create deficits. think > > reagan, bush, then clinton on free trade, and bush right back to the > > twin deficits. those deficits are the result of market fundamentalism. > > low taxes on the wealthy, deregulation debacles, and free trade > > deficits. so you see, its your polices crank. and anyone who gives out > > advise that makes no sense at all, is a crank. anyone who embraces or > > acts upon advise that makes no sense at all, is a crank. we hardly ran > > a deficit from 1933-1968 till your type came along. in the 200 years > > plus of america, the deficit was a combined 900 billion dollars for > > over 2 hundred years. your type has racked up a estimated 10-11 > > trillion dollars. > > so as any crank that thinks they know whats up, is simply outraged at > > the results of your own policies. > > The time period fits in with the gold standard being broken. > Coincidence? bullshit. ignorance is not a excuse. we lived thru a rolling recession depression from 1870-1895, the gold standard never stopped it. the great depression happened under the gold standard. conservative spent money like drunken sailors in the 1920's. a liberal restored the gold standard, FDR, and it stood till hayeks pupil freidman advised another conservative crank, nixon, to spend money like a drunken sailor, then we were forced off of the gold standard. if you listen to cranks, you will be viewed as a crank. Throughout the 1900's, there was virtually zero > inflation. That is, until the Federal Reserve was created. i am not a fan of the federal reserve, it is a private sector entity in a free market. Ever since > then, the dollar has lost most of it's purchasing power. It's your > idol Keynes who was a Fed supporter. he is not my idol, i am not into extremes. the dollar went ker plunk under the gold standard with a conservative at the helm in 1929. so much for conservative economics. it did it again in 1973. Incidentally, you Keynesians are > the ones who promote all this government "stimulus" so you can blame > yourselves for running the deficits into infinity. Your type is the > one who promotes tons of government spending, even if you don't have > the money to spend. > of course that is not true, and i have stated that before. but you are such a crank, that you cannot understand it. but, history is on my side. what two conservative administartions spent money like drunken sailors whist on the gold standard, and the results were depression, or near depression? > Your type was the one cheerleading the bubble in the 1920's. here i am telling you about how bad a bubble is, and that they are unsustainable, and quite damaging to a economy, and you say i cheered it on, man you are a crank, and one that is a bubble investor on top of it. You call > me a bubble investor? you are. Your idol Keynes was the ultimate bubble > investor. he is not my idol. he did give out good advise during the depression, on the other hand, hayek was not even taken seriously after the depression started. he was completely discredited. Had he been alive, he would've been cheerleading the tech > bubble. Then again, the guy was a feverish flip flopper so maybe not. > Afterall, the guy called gold a barbarous relic, only to then invest > in gold! > you judge all peoples beliefs on your own. man you are extreme. > And more of his feverish flip flops. > > Keynes on Hayek. > > "In my opinion it is a grand book ... Morally and philosophically I > find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only > in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement." > i think he was being polite to a crank:) > It's no wonder you too, are a feverish flip flopper. How's your > bullish dollar call doing? Or was that short dollar? I can't keep up > with you feverishly flip flopping positions. you cannot keep up, because you do not understand. you are a feverish bubble investor, what can i expect. ============================================================================== TOPIC: Market question for you geniuses http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/a1638a3efefb6b57?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 3 == Date: Sat, Jul 5 2008 9:20 pm From: "FrediFizzx" "phil scott" <phil@philscott.net> wrote in message news:50629e51-e619-4ba3-87db-58665c4ef632@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com... depression.. 10 years at the bottom, 10 more at least to dig out... starting a few months ago, bottom will be over the next two or three years if not suddenly...I predict a sudden drop and panic but not to the bottom... bottom comes in years following. No up spikes after that. the short opportunities are now unless you miss timing and get caught in a short squeeze.. that will happen pervasively also as insiders manipulate the markets. ================= Hmm... Apparently someone found what they think is a workin' Ouija board. Little does he know that they are defective ones secretly planted by the market Kabal to headfake the outsiders. Fred == 2 of 3 == Date: Sat, Jul 5 2008 10:05 pm From: bob36swmla@webtv.net (bob wald) they just sold leases off fla......something over 1bil barrels oil expected.... afew tcfg too.... == 3 of 3 == Date: Sun, Jul 6 2008 12:06 am From: ausound bob36swmla@webtv.net (bob wald) wrote in news:21484-48705285-648 @storefull-3171.bay.webtv.net: > they just sold leases off fla......something over 1bil barrels oil > expected.... > afew tcfg too.... > > finding and producing natural gas in the new site will be expensive. Three-dimensional mapping of the ocean floor, which must happen before any drilling, could take up to two years, Strive said. If a promising site is found, engineers must drill up to three miles below the ocean surface to extract the oil or natural gas. And it will take years before the company begins producing anything at the site -- and there is no guarantee of success. A company can have as much as $4 billion invested and a wait of up to five years before seeing any return on the investment, a 2006 Congressional compromise that allows drilling on 8.3 million acres more than 125 miles off the Panhandle -- an area that had been covered by the moratorium, which was enacted out of environmental concerns. In exchange, the state got a no-drilling buffer along the rest of its beaches. In March, four companies -- Australia-based BHP Billiton Petroleum Deepwater Inc., Houston-based Anadarko E&P Co., Shell Offshore Inc. and Italian oil and natural gas company Eni SpA -- purchased leases on 36 Gulf of Mexico tracts under the 2006 compromise. Some companies had leases to drill off the Panhandle before the 1981 moratorium. They were grandfathered in when the moratorium passed because they were already actively exploring in their lease areas. The Interior Department estimates there could be 18 billion barrels of oil and 77 trillion cubic feet of natural gas beneath the 574 million acres of federal coastal waters that are now off-limits. ============================================================================== TOPIC: Beer up another $1 for case http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/ecd25ec8b12d2f04?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sat, Jul 5 2008 10:04 pm From: "catalpa" "Lawyerkill" <Lawyerkill@aol.com> wrote in message news:78165d65-ea1e-446b-9d07-4f8393ddfba9@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... On Jul 5, 4:15?pm, "catalpa" <cata...@entertab.org> wrote: > "Lawyerkill" <Lawyerk...@aol.com> wrote in message > > news:b39784df-4085-4166-945d-db8c30901215@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > > > Two months ago it went up $1, now another dollar,WTF is up with that > > BS? Soon I'll have to starting drinking milk! > > So far, beer prices in NJ haven't gone up this year. > > Bud 12 oz 30 pk ? ? ? ? ? ? ? $18.99 > Coors Light 12 oz 30 pk ? $16.99 > Yuengling 12 oz 24 pk ? ? ?$14.99 --Yes they have, I'm in Central Jersey. --Miller Lite was $ 19.25 two months ago now it's $21.25 You must live in the high rent district. In quaint and lovely downtown Trenton the local beer, wine and spirits emporium has Miller Lite as follows: 12 oz bottles 24 pk $14.99 12 oz cans 30 pk $16.99 ============================================================================== TOPIC: CV Resumes curriculum vitae Samples Top Interview Questions http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/f9c9adc5fea405f8?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sat, Jul 5 2008 10:17 pm From: rawebadvert3 RESUME EXAMPLES / CV EXAMPLES NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH RESUMEWRITERGUIDE.COM RESUMEWRITERSGUIDE.COM is a website is designed for you to learn how to write a resume on your own. Hiring someone to do a resume is not enough learn how to do it on your own. If you do hire someone to help you write a resume this will help you guide the resume writer to put in the correct information for you to increase your chances on getting a job. People do need resume templates and resume samples as a base to get started on their resumes, but this information that I have on my site will help you fill in the resume / CV templates or resume / CV samples with the best information to present the best possible resume to your potential employer. No matter what type of resume you are writing either a technical resume, sales resume, marketing resume, teaching resume, nursing resume, or general resume this site will help you. If you are a Career Worker looking to change positions, a potential new immigrant, or entry level worker, Please check us out. RESUME EXAMPLES / CV EXAMPLES NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH RESUMEWRITERGUIDE.COM ARE YOUR EMPLOYMENT REFERENCES OK WHEN YOU APPLY FOR A JOB HERE ARE SOME TIPS POSITIVE VS. NEGATIVE THINKING AGE DISCRIMINATION TOP INTERVIEW QUESTIONS TOP TEACHER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS SIGNS OF LAYOFF RIF OR REDUNDANCY http://www.resumewritersguide.com ============================================================================== TOPIC: As Good As It Gets http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/075ca5cb37b4cd9c?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sat, Jul 5 2008 10:49 pm From: retrogrouch@comcast.net On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:39:39 -0700, "FrediFizzx" <fredifizzx@hotmail.com> wrote: > >Not the point. But you certainly wouldn't expect that to be >happening. Fairly easy to see the Republicans haven't been doing what >they stand for. ;-) They talk conservative but do the opposite. >"White man speaketh with forked tongue." LOL! > >Fortunately the US economy is so big and diverse the poli-tics can't >really mess it up beyond repair. Though the shrub squad is tryin' >real hard. ;-) The total Hard Assets US Balance Sheet approx. > >Assets 111 Trillion >Liabilities 50 Trillion (Fed Gov. Debt is about 5 Trillion of this) >Income (GDP) 13 Trillion per year > >Looks OK to me. We have a net worth of around 60 trillion. Not too >shabby. And a recession is only a drop of a few hundred billion in GDP. And a depression would flow from a half trillion decrease at the wrong time. Sheesh. ============================================================================== TOPIC: R.I.P. Blash feel free to Join your hero http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/browse_thread/thread/d47130c20cae1357?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sun, Jul 6 2008 12:04 am From: "Seth Davis" <> Buff-Meister "BUFFETTHATER" wrote: > Just heard. There r 2 Bozos, > one a clown and the other the poster known as blash. > > One had sense to die, the other just shows up and gets > beaten daily. > > http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/07/03/obit.bozo.ap/index.html The difference is Bozo the Clown had a brain. -- ============================================================================== You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "misc.invest.stocks" group. To post to this group, visit http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to misc.invest.stocks-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com To change the way you get mail from this group, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/misc.invest.stocks/subscribe?hl=en To report abuse, send email explaining the problem to abuse@googlegroups.com ============================================================================== Google Groups: http://groups.google.com?hl=en
Pocket of a Clown
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151 days ago in Blobby's Blog · Authority: 4

I went out a few nights ago with an old co-worker for a few rounds. Well, she’s not an old co-worker. She is older than I am, but I wouldn’t call her “old”. Let’s just say she is a former co-worker. We meet every few months and usually head to a wine bar and knock back a few sniff, sip and swallow. Yes, I’m still talking about vino! I wish I had gotten the name of the bottle we had, but I didn’t. It was a great red - a blend. We talked a little about the old place of employ (well, mine - she still works there). We talked about Denton and my ring…….which meant I had not seen her since we got those last October. We chatted about travel, her kids, my cats and various other things. …and lord knows how we got on the subject, but we touched on clowns. Oh wait, I remember. It was about my trip to Vegas….then it went into Cirque du Soleil….which led to the real circus…which led to clowns….and how nobody truly likes them (speak now or forever hold your peace if you do). My anti-clown feelings were solidified with Poltergeist. …and time and time again, I’ve heard that was a tipping point for many grease-painted, red-nosed, wig-wearing, horn-tooting haters. Then Kathy said - ‘try going a week without a clown reference coming up’. Kath said at least once every week something about a clown comes up - and it has for years. I told her I would keep an eye out for this trend. Not 48 hrs later - I get this! Poor Bozo! I already sent Kathy and email damning her to hell for putting me on this path. I’ll keep you all posted on if this goes on weekly. I expect you will all to do the same to me. Song by: Dwight Yoakam
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151 days ago in BLOBBY'S BLOG · Authority: 6

Pocket of a Clown I went out a few nights ago with an old co-worker for a few rounds. Well, she's not an old co-worker. She is older than I am, but I wouldn't call her "old". Let's just say she is a former co-worker. We meet every few months and usually head to a wine bar and knock back a few sniff, sip and swallow. Yes, I'm still talking about vino! I wish I had gotten the name of the bottle we had, but I didn't. It was a great red - a blend. We talked a little about the old place of employ (well, mine - she still works there). We talked about Denton and my ring.......which meant I had not seen her since we got those last October. We chatted about travel, her kids, my cats and various other things. ...and lord knows how we got on the subject, but we touched on clowns. Oh wait, I remember. It was about my trip to Vegas....then it went into Cirque du Soleil....which led to the real circus...which led to clowns....and how nobody truly likes them (speak now or forever hold your peace if you do). My anti-clown feelings were solidified with Poltergeist. ...and time and time again, I've heard that was a tipping point for many grease-painted, red-nosed, wig-wearing, horn-tooting haters. Then Kathy said - 'try going a week without a clown reference coming up'. Kath said at least once every week something about a clown comes up - and it has for years. I told her I would keep an eye out for this trend. Not 48 hrs later - I get this! Poor Bozo! I already sent Kathy and email damning her to hell for putting me on this path. I'll keep you all posted on if this goes on weekly. I expect you will all to do the same to me. Song by: Dwight Yoakam
They’re Laughing in Heaven
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151 days ago in SlushPile.net · Authority: 45

I had a challenging day of conference calls yesterday. When it was finished, my back hurt from being hunched over the desk for eight hours and my ear buzzed from the headset I wear during these calls. I put my cellphone in a drawer and went out to dinner and to a movie. Late last night, I went to send an email and saw a link on CNN that invited readers to share their Bozo memories. I figured it was giving people a chance to recount embarrasing tales of falling down or putting their foot in their mouth. I thought it referred to the general connotation of being clownish. After sending my email, I went back to CNN to look at that article. And then I saw this headline above, one that I hadn’t noticed the first time. “Bozo actor dead at 83.” And a bad day got immensely worse. Over the last year, I had gotten to know Larry Harmon, the man who owned the rights to Bozo for more than fifty years. He was a kind man, always smiling, who truly loved life, people, and his country. Maybe someday I’ll be able to describe him without falling back on old cliches that people always spout whenever someone passes away. But for right now, all I can think of are those cliches. And they’ll have to do because they do apply here. He was an inspiration to the power of positivity. I spoke to him on the phone a few days before his unfortunate death. Just like always, his voice boomed over the line as he told jokes and performed impersonations. At the age of 83, he had suffered from some of the various health issues that creep up at such ages. But he never showed any decline in energy or laughter. He always smiled great big grins, with his mouth open and teeth shining, while his eyes beamed. My thoughts and prayers are with the Harmon family. This is sad, sad news. But the kind people in heaven better be ready. Because Bozo’s coming and they’ll soon be rolling with laughter.
Bozo Actor Kaput and Senator Helms Burns in Hell
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151 days ago in uptown avenger · Authority: 6

Guess which one is worth mourning? The other is not even worth a link. Jesse Helms was an asshole of metaphysical proportions. I recall an "artist" who drew the face of Senator Helms on his penis and then videotaped it. Quite funny. Can't find it, but the Music Box Theatre showed the movie years ago.