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That’s the term I heard all day yesterday. I would not call what happened a fizzle. I’d call it very accurate pricing by the underwriters.
Info and cynicism
May 18, 2012 at 9:23 am 
Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew First the info, an excellent post at Balloon Juice. The author brings her perspective as a lawyer and a campaign treasurer for a local candidate on the Rickett scheme (If you’re not sure, for now it’s a freshly killed zombie revolving around the Rev Wright and Obama). She framed this really well using multimedia, beginning with this conclusion:
It’s a small jump from job creator to The Creator
May 18, 2012 at 2:36 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew The truth hurts: “Somebody like me makes hundreds or thousands of times as much as the average American … but I don’t buy hundreds or thousands of times as much stuff. I own three cars, not three thousand.” Full transcript below.
I like giant turtles of the Cenozoic
May 18, 2012 at 2:15 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew Because “reefer” turned Trayvon into a violent lunatic …
May 17, 2012 at 6:38 pm Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew This is the bombshell: Trayvon Martin had traces of the Marijuana Menace in his system!
Senators to crack down on citizens fleeing US to avoid taxes
May 17, 2012 at 7:42 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew Most middle and upper middle class workers in the US pay about 30% in income taxes on their earned income. But CEOs and other wealthy investors pay only 15% on capital gains, mostly real estate and stock. It’s quite a scam. But one young facebook zillionaire won’t even be paying that when he becomes one of the richest people on earth tomorrow:
Surrogates and brain-stem lock
May 17, 2012 at 7:09 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew 
Haven’t we seen this somewhere? Oh yeah, it was in the opening scene back-story of the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates:
I hate commercials
May 16, 2012 at 1:14 pm Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew I hate commercials, I’d happily pay a premium for every regular TV station for no commercials on any of ‘em, and I say that as someone who doesn’t have much disposable income at all right now. The reason TV commercials suck so much is because they’re unavoidable, ads in other venues, not so much:
New details in Martin-Zimmerman shooting in Florida
May 16, 2012 at 7:34 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew Update 1:45 PM Central: reports out that Martin’s knuckles show signs consistent with a fist-fight.
This suggests there was a fist fight of some sort before 17 year-old Trayvon Martin was shot to death by George Zimmerman earlier this year in Florida:
The deficit monster stirs …
May 16, 2012 at 7:14 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew The deficit monster sleeps peacefully in its cave, fed by conservative overspending and record deficit financing. But whenever a democrat reigns the monster stirs to life, angry and hungry, and bellows its disgust at any spending that does not directly benefit the wealthy:
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