Eschaton

We'll Tell You What's Reasonable

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:14:00 +0000

I'm curious if all the Villagers who were oh so concerned the feefees of the Bishops will applaud this compromise - which, for me, is fine on substance, politics, message, whatever - even if the Bishops still have hurt feefees?

No fan of the Bishops on this, but they're entitled to have hurt feefees whenever they want, and it isn't for the pundits to tell them when they should settle.

New York Times Twits

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:43:00 +0000

As I said, if the Times does it then it's ok. And, no, Bill Keller, the law isn't what you want it to be the law is what it is. Definitely a Nobel Peace Prize in Missing the Point nominee here.

(ht reader r)

Authoritah

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:28:00 +0000

Don't question it.

Lunch Thread

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:30:00 +0000

enjoy.

There Be Monsters

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:28:00 +0000

Pretty much.

In the time I was mayor, I used to do meetings with City bankers and I'd often open by saying, 'This isn't the world I would have created . . .' [Bankers' bonuses are] like penis extensions, among a small league of men - mine is bigger than yours.

. . . The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

Random Thought

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:25:00 +0000

None of the recent events will stop the eventheliberals from writing pieces about how some Grand Compromise involving a bit more contraception here, a few more restrictions on poor women having abortions there, will allow us to put all of this Lady Party nastiness behind us forever.

Villagers

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:00 +0000

The WaPo (find it yourself) says the robo-signing settlement "rough justice — very rough — in a case of rampant, but essentially victimless, alleged law-breaking."

Forgery and fraud to steal houses. No victims of that!

What's It All About Then

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:40:00 +0000

People can't be this stupid. They have to know that completing imploding the Greek economy won't improve its ability to pay its debts, so...

Midnight Thread

noreply@blogger.com (echidne) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:42:00 +0000

Enjoy The Future

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0000

It's cute when journalists get upset when the bosses tell them what to do.

So This Is Pretty Good Then

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:27:00 +0000

Oh, wait, what?

The $25 billion settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses may trigger a wave of home seizures, inflicting short-term pain on delinquent U.S. borrowers while making a long-term housing recovery more likely.

Happy Hour Thread

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:00:00 +0000

enjoy

Their Internet

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:55:00 +0000

Not much to add, other than the simple fact that SOPA-type legislation has nothing to do with copyright protection, and everything to do with the big guys destroying the ability of the little guys to participate. They "know" (probably correctly) that such laws will never impact them. If the New York Times says it's fair use, it's fair use, if I say it's fair use, it's copyright violation. If the powers that be yank the domain names of Eschaton World Industries, there won't be much I can do. Obviously no one's going to take nytimes.com.

Steal A Home, Pay $2000

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:29:00 +0000

If you're a bank, anyway.

Ummm...Obviously?

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:24:00 +0000

You give it all to rich people?

I thought we were all agreed on this.

Spox

noreply@blogger.com (Jay Ackroyd) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:07:00 +0000

The contrast between the official government organ, the New York Times, and a journalist reporting on a story couldn't be more striking.

Lunch Thread

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0000

enjoy

Bailout Shmailout Failout

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:04:00 +0000

Anyway, for the 400th time I don't know if the Greek bailout 'deal' is real or just another 'if we proclaim it enough it will be true.' But, either way, I predict we'll be back in another few months or so...

As I Said, Just Assholes

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:55:00 +0000

The incentives were probably genuinely there in some circumstances (though incentives were all messed up), but to a great degree Our Galtian Overlords just didn't think the moochers and parasites who forced them to lend them money to buy overpriced homes deserved any help.

Fannie Mae (FNMA) pulled the plug on a 2010 plan to forgive borrowers’ mortgage debt because company executives were “philosophically opposed” to the idea, a former company employee told House investigators.

Thursday Is New Jobless Day

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:37:00 +0000

358K new lucky duckies.

Not bad.

What's It All About Then

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:45:00 +0000

Not the church or church-related entiites.

That was no consolation to Catholic leaders. The White House is "all talk, no action" on moving toward compromise, said Anthony Picarello, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "There has been a lot of talk in the last couple days about compromise, but it sounds to us like a way to turn down the heat, to placate people without doing anything in particular," Picarello said. "We're not going to do anything until this is fixed."

That means removing the provision from the health care law altogether, he said, not simply changing it for Catholic employers and their insurers. He cited the problem that would create for "good Catholic business people who can't in good conscience cooperate with this."

No "compromise," no proper health coverage for women.

Morning Thread

noreply@blogger.com (Thers) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:41:00 +0000

The etiology of a batshit insane hate-monger.

--Molly Ivors

Evening Thread

noreply@blogger.com (echidne) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:12:00 +0000

Progress

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:02:00 +0000

Fabulous.

Social Peace

noreply@blogger.com (Atrios) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000

Keep punishing the women for unapproved sexytime, or the country gets it.