How many of these scenarios have there ever actually been?
Posted by Al Swearengen as Justice, Al Swearengen, History at 5:45 PM MDT
May 7th, 2008
Ticking Time Bomb
April 28th, 2008
The Reverend Wright Gambit
It’s hard to get around the fact that this is an example of Obama playing on the stupidity of the media to get Hillary off of the television screen. It is a fact that by having him up in front of microphones, the utility of his most famous You Tube clip as a weapon for Hillary and the right becomes diminished. Clearly it is time for everyone to talk about Reverend Wright.
Airtime is oxygen to a campaign.
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Politics at 9:34 PM MDT
April 16th, 2008
Merck wrote the research & doctors signed it for money
JAMA published this today. Every one of these doctors need to provide answers to the medical community, and if they didn’t actually conduct the research they attached their name to, their medical license should be revoked. People are dead because of this nonsense…
Recent litigation against Merck & Co Inc related to rofecoxib provided a unique opportunity to examine the practice of guest authorship and ghostwriting related to the research and promotion of this medication. Our objective was to provide a review using a case-study exploration of court documents, in tandem with a review of the medical literature, to describe the practice of guest authorship and ghostwriting related to rofecoxib.
Posted by Al Swearengen as Justice, Al Swearengen at 10:03 PM MDT
April 12th, 2008
The new thing
The final assignment was turned in at 2:34AM this morning, and the paper that says I have attained the rank of B.S. in our society will be here soon. It couldn’t come a moment too soon. The job I started in November is going very well. Now, if you combine the two ranks together, it’s ‘B.S. Investment Analyst’.
I had actually been working on a book with someone last year, but it died on the vine. I’m now working on a team that manages institutional bond funds…I write software and study the market. The key to the business, as I understand it so far, is in being able to come up with good ideas. For me that is much more relevant on the technology side, but having studied finance as a hobby for so long, I can understand more of this dialect right away than I would have otherwise.
Kevin Garnet will play his first playoff game as a Celtic in about two weeks.
My daughter will be born on May 1st.
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen at 10:27 PM MDT
April 9th, 2008
I’ve got a trade on the way
Selling at least half of the gold. Buying Transocean (w/in a week or two), natural gas producers (basket - ETF, Russian play, NGS?), BAM (Brookfield Asset Management), long Yen short USD (looking for an ETF)…selling 15% of the IAU shares and turning 5% into shares of BAM at the opening price.
16,337 shares IAU, $1,506,108.06 (closed at 92.19)
2,450 shares sold at opening price 4/10/08
3,350 shares BAM bought at opening price 4/10/08
more to come…
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Economics at 11:02 PM MDT
April 4th, 2008
Randi Rhodes
I guess you can’t have a radio show and be controversial at the same time…she should sue Air America. To me it looks like she’s doing an appearance somewhere. So if her contract doesn’t stipulate what she can and cannot do when she’s not on the air…eh, I don’t even care really, I just wanted to post this video because as much as I’d like to ignore this election for the next couple of months, Hillary’s campaign makes me feel like Randi in this clip. It’ll probably be pulled shortly, but while it lasts:
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Video, Politics at 11:07 PM MDT
March 31st, 2008
Going off on a storm trooper
There’s this idiot over at Control Congress named bb who back in November agreed to wager on which party would win in 2008. I’ve been working hard lately, so the blog world is pretty much dead to me. Never forgetting about an opportunity to take money from a fool, I check back in after a long hiatus to remind everyone…and being the little baby that he is, of course he’s backing out. A couple of comments were posted, and then tonight I think about ten pounds of stress was unloaded in the span of under 200 words…here’s a taste:
bb, you thought you knew something about the world, and like most of the ideas you and other right-wingers push in lockstep year after year, when it’s time to act, you either:
A) Go through with it and end up looking foolish
or
B) Back out and go off to talk some more shit about something else you know nothing about
The Iraq war is a fine example of right-wingers putting their money where their mouth is, and look how that turned out. At least you can recognize the fact that you’re not smart enough to predict how things are going to turn out before you push in all of your chips…that said, knowing the right-wing mentality, no amount of failure and disaster will ever convince you of the fact that your thoughts and ideas are wrong.
You meddle in areas of seriousness, where adults are discussing important things, and slip in a dick joke (read: “* adverb adjective Liberal *”) every now and then.
Your bullshit is of no consequence to me - besides the scientific thrill of conducting an experiment to see precisely how full of it you actually are - so you can wipe your ass with that greenback in my honor and then stick it in the collection plate for all I care. I didn’t mean for you to mistake my engaging you in a wager as anything more than the opportunity to make some money…sincerely, I’d rather cut off my own feet than toss treats at your stupid repetitive yap from now until November.
To prevent this retard from somehow finding his way over here, I’ll just point you to ‘Control Congress’ on my blogroll. Rest assured, he’s by far the dumbest you’ll find over there. Everyone else is great, and most of them have a healthy sense of humor.
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Politics at 10:52 PM MDT
March 21st, 2008
Obama’s Speech on Race
One of the best speeches in my lifetime:
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Politics, History at 4:47 PM MDT
Warren Haynes and Trey Anastasio
They’re talking for a bit, and then it’s a free-flow jam session with my two favorite guitarists.
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Music at 4:23 PM MDT
March 16th, 2008
Bush surveys the front, on a mission to boost morale
Maureen Dowd: Bush, who used his family connections to avoid Vietnam, told troops serving in Afghanistan on Thursday that he is “a little envious” of their adventure there, saying it was “in some ways romantic.”
(left) my alma matter
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Military at 3:18 PM MDT
Gold Closes Over 1000
March 8th, 2008
+16.72% since November ‘07
November 27, 2007 - I liquidated the portfolio and put it all into gold, ending with 16,337 shares of IAU - avg price $77.70 Total Value - $1,329,020.80 - (The fantasy portfolio had gained 20.16% since it’s inception in February ‘07 with $1,106,000)
Current Value - $1,551,292.37 - 16.72% since 11/27/07 - 40.26% since 2/21/07
My view hasn’t changed. There is no reason to be confident enough to enter the stock market at this point. My advice…check your 401K options and see if you can park it all in an ‘Inflation Protected Bond Fund’ or short of that, a money market account.
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Economics at 2:59 AM MST
March 7th, 2008
How are the new MREs?
Being a smart ass while in the military…it’s a right of passage.Â
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Military at 8:01 PM MST
February 20th, 2008
Omar - RIP
February 15th, 2008
Alan Greenspan - Professional Douchebag
How much of an asshole is this guy? Bernanke and Paulson are testifying before Congress, the former having just slashed 125 basis points off the Fed rate faster than any central banker in history…every week brings out the discovery of another body (UBS being the latest). As if they didn’t have enough to worry about:
Greenspan says U.S. on the edge of recession
And who are the nitwits who handling money for a living while traveling or paying to hear his take on anything? They should all be fired first thing tomorrow!
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Economics at 12:30 AM MST