Comments on: News overkill

By: alda

alda — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:41:09 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! I must say I did less staring at the sky last weekend than staring at the walls in AAH’s room.

Rebecca – it was red and white, it is now white with one wall covered in black patterned wallpaper. That wallpaper job almost killed EPI and me.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:24:53 +0000

But you left out the important news… what colour are you painting it?

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:52:17 +0000

tj3: That reminds me of some friends that traveled around the world. Most of their thoughts on other cultures centered around determining whether or not the culture was better or worse than the US culture. Africa no middle class, Vietnam bad roads, Europe a US culture in a museum, etc. Each time the US came out on top, funny that!
This came out in our discussions on Thomas Friedman and his (in my opinion) vile philosophies. They fully supported the idea that a superior civilization had the right to impose its ways on an inferior civilization even if it meant violence.
In the US we get (or used to) all the benefits of killing people abroad and stealing their property. People like Friedman help us feel better when buying Nike shoes or cheap oil or other products made from slave labor in China, Sri Lanka, Honduras, Haiti, etc.
Saying ‘no’ to a new pair of shoes may be a better plan to save the world that the UN nonsense (just a thought greeny-weenies).
But to their credit, they did travel around the world. More than I can say.

By: Moose Drool

Moose Drool — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:31:01 +0000

Enjoy it Alda!

On day two of digging out from our snow storm here in the Washington DC area.

(My muscles sure could use a soak in that hot tub.)

By: kevin o'connor waterford Ireland

kevin o'connor waterford Ireland — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:03:15 +0000

@tom thumb no you did not offend me at all, it was just another of my insane posts I do, the point being to contrast Icesave with the amounts wasted on the war in Iraq, that tied in nicely with your comment about the 9 bill on nukes.

By: kevin o'connor waterford Ireland

kevin o'connor waterford Ireland — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:32:13 +0000

Kreppa overload I am exhausted here in Ireland ha ha, what must it be like in Iceland. !!!

By: CarolQ

CarolQ — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:44:40 +0000

Aw, Tom Thumb, you did a good job (I can tell you’re an American like me) trying to cheer everyone up.

On a brighter note, here in Washington state we have just come off the warmest January on record and tomorrow is the silly Super Bowl.

Alda, you hve done a great job keeping us informed; don’t know how you do it. You should take the weekend off and just “smell the flowers” as they say.

By: tom joseph aka tj3

tom joseph aka tj3 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:06:25 +0000

To tend ones own garden and to refresh oneself is what we all need.

Here is a little something from the USA not Iceland, not related exactly to Icesave or anything much there directly.

David Stockman a Ronald Regan economic official has said that the policy they took was a serious error. Now this is interesting why? Well because today’s Republican leaders in the USA are still advocating the Reagan doctrine of starving government through tax cuts, so as to stop spending.It did not work and never will.

What is really cool though, is that people today will be more than happy to vote against their own interests because they do not want to have anything explained to them. They know everything already. This is odd since David Stockman is one of the originators of the ideas that they hold and take for their own today.

If people will not listen to anything except their own best loved ideas, reality will have no effect on their thinking …then what?

Now in the way that this indirectly is similar to Iceland’s current conditions is purely accidental. People all over the world do not want to change or evaluate anything and make changes as everyone is so smart and capable and this is of course the best of all possible worlds.

Candide the hero of Voltaire’s book of that name, after many adventures went home and tended to his own garden also. Having been exposed to a parade of mad ideas and travel to insane lands ruled by leaders ever more mad and misguided.

Things never change! But perhaps it is time they must.

Have a nice day Alda! Tomorrow also and on.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:40:38 +0000

Good for you Alda !

By: Tom Thumb

Tom Thumb — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:45:11 +0000

@kevin of Emerald Isle: I am sorry if I offended you. I try to cheer people up and see what happens. On a more serious note, I read tj99′s post on the forum about the need to vote down the referendum’s debt and I agree that this is a ‘national crisis’ which has international implications.