Evening Thread
Eschaton — Evening Thread Use it to predict the inane and pointless questions the Villages will ask.

Sony Releases New Piece Of Shit Machine That Doesn't F#&*ing Work (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — The Onion is reporting that Sony's new "stupid box thing" is a "time vampire" that will force the world to scream "work, work, you cocksucking piece of shit" in unison. It includes: impossible to open packaging, random words and numbers on its display screen, and a help menu that's of no use to anyone. WATCH: Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work More on Funny Videos<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' ...

Funny
Eschaton — Warning: lots of bad words. Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work (ht baratunde)

Presser
Eschaton — Presser Discuss. ....drink every time a journalist says "bipartisan." ...drink every time a journalist suggests "spending" and "stimulus" are fundamentally different things.

Presser The Second
Eschaton — Deep Thought The US president is a bi-racial black man named Barack Hussein Obama.

Sony Unveils New Thing
Hoffmania! — Use headphones if you're at work or visiting a senior center - NSFW. Thanks, Monkeyfister...

Deep Thought
Eschaton — Deep Thought The US president is a bi-racial black man named Barack Hussein Obama.

Even More Thread
Eschaton — Deep Thought The US president is a bi-racial black man named Barack Hussein Obama.

History's Greatest Monster
Eschaton — History's Greatest Monster Could be Geithner?

Overnight
Eschaton — Rock on.

Sooooo true: Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work.
Theo Spark — And there is me wanting a Vaio P. Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work H/T Canis 61

The Upside to the Recesion
The Jawa Report — February 10, 2009 The Upside to the Recesion You won't be able to afford this: Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work (h/t) Stable Hand By Gordo at February 10, 2009 12:09 PM | | l digg this

Today's funny thingy
BlondeSense — A must have item! One you can't live without! What does it do? Does it matter? It's a new electronic device from Sony! Does it have to do anything? Caution!!! Lots and lots of swear words! (You'll need many, many indulgences for this one!) From the Onion: Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

Thread
Eschaton — Thread I think this guy should be on TV more. Signed, Not Atrios

Straightforward
Eschaton — Straightforward Indeed it is. The FDIC is EATING (in various ways) 3 banks per week. People know how to do this.

Thursday Is New Jobless Day
Eschaton — Thursday Is New Jobless Day Still at holy crap levels: 623K.

No
Eschaton — No I believe this is what we in the professional blogging biz call "trolling," but I'll bite. The Left, including yours truly, will create an epic 360 degree shitstorm if Obama and the Dems decide that cutting Social Security benefits is a good idea.

"Service Extension In The Urban Core"
Eschaton — "Service Extension In The Urban Core" While I'm certainly for building supertrains everywhere in an abstract sense, given limited resources it makes sense to improve transit in places which already have "transit oriented development" but maybe not quite as much transit as they should. Or, thinking about it from the other direction, a lot of improvements in "transit" can actually be achieved through improvements in land use, by creating transit oriented development around places which are actually well-served by mass transit, but don't have the appropriate density around the stations. The point is that there are places which have high ...

A Cunning Plan
Eschaton — A Cunning Plan Red Staters, not so bright.

People In Suits
Eschaton — People In Suits I'm at NYU for this conference which I'll be covering for The Next American City over here. Never quite got into the whole liveblogging thing, but hopefully the conference be interesting and I will have interesting things to say about it. So, posting, cross-posting, linking, blogging will be happening shortly.

SUPERTRAINS
Eschaton — SUPERTRAINS A little bit more for them in the stimulus, it seems.

The Leader of the Modern Conservative Movement
Eschaton — The Leader of the Modern Conservative Movement It isn't Rush Limbaugh. It's Joe the Plumber.

Even More Blogging
Eschaton — Even More Blogging Can be found over here today and tomorrow.

Pretty Absurd
Eschaton — Pretty Absurd If NPR doesn't want to be associated with Juan Williams , they shouldn't, you know, associate with him. Reducing transparency doesn't really seem to conform to any journalistic ideal I'm aware of.

Crunch Time
Eschaton — Crunch Time My guess is Republican solidarity against the stimulus bill mostly holds up. As it should! They're the opposition party. It isn't their bill. We don't have to live in David Broder's world.

Gregg's Out, No Commerce For Him
Eschaton — Gregg's Out, No Commerce For Him MSNBC.com tells me.

Falling
Eschaton — Falling Haven't reached the bottom yet. Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Home prices dropped the most on record in the fourth quarter as foreclosures dragged down values and the recession pushed buyers out of the market. The median price of a U.S. home declined 12 percent to $180,100 from a year earlier and sales of properties with mortgages in default accounted for 45 percent of all transactions, the Chicago-based National Association of Realtors said today. Prices declined in almost nine out of every 10 cities.

Happy Hour Thread
Eschaton — Happy Hour Thread Off to drink liberally, as I do most Tuesdays. Enjoy your evening!

Hope
Eschaton — Hope Sitting here listening to Bruce Katz talking about the White House Office of Urban Policy. I'm not sure I agree with his thinking about everything, but it's refreshing hearing someone who sounds like they know what they're talking about.

Evening Thread
Eschaton — Evening Thread I'm out, so no more blog for you tonight!

Fresh Thread
Eschaton — Evening Thread I'm out, so no more blog for you tonight!

They Have Conferences
Eschaton — They Have Conferences Atrios doesn't get to go to the really entertaining conferences . Visionary thinkers discuss New Media Empowering Conservative Messages: Mary Katherine Ham, writer, Weekly Standard (invited) Alfonzo Rachel, advocate of right-minded ideas on new media Patrick Ruffini, online and new media strategist (invited) with moderator Bill Whittle, PJTV Cutting. Edge. Stuff.

Good morning, brothers and sisters!
Eschaton — Good morning, brothers and sisters! Now this is what I call an idea! Signed, Not Atrios

Meanwhile
Eschaton — Meanwhile Over there. BAGHDAD — A female suicide bomber with explosives hidden under flowing black garments blew herself up in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims including many women and children south of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring dozens more, according to initial reports from Iraqi security officials.

That Sounded Pretty Interesting
Eschaton — That Sounded Pretty Interesting Email subject line read: White House to Host Media Conference Call with Secret But email program had just cut off: ary of Education Arne Duncan

So What If He Did?
Eschaton — So What If He Did? HSR between LA and Las Vegas makes sense. It's the right distance, there's a lot of traffic between the two, and right-of-way assembly is presumably (this is just a blog post) easier than it would be between a lot of places.

Deep Thought From Austan Goolsbee
Eschaton — Deep Thought From Austan Goolsbee Paraphrased: Who had the crazy idea to create mortgage products for people who are in the habit of not paying their bills.

Show Me The Money
Eschaton — Deep Thought From Austan Goolsbee Paraphrased: Who had the crazy idea to create mortgage products for people who are in the habit of not paying their bills.

Is It A Problem?
Eschaton — Is It A Problem? What do you, readers, think about requiring an 80% LTV (20% downpayment) on primary residence mortgages? Don't think about it terms how it would impact the current crisis if a policy were implemented, whether it's a good idea right now, but if it were to happen in more "normal" times. Discuss.

Bipartisanship And Comity
Eschaton — Bipartisanship And Comity You'd think in that backslapping love nest known as the US Senate, a Republican or two might tell Sherrod Brown that he doesn't have to rush back from his mother's funeral.

You Know What's Deadly?
Eschaton — You Know What's Deadly? Torturing people to death.

Remaining Hip And Relevant
Eschaton — Remaining Hip And Relevant Oh boy.

Critics Question
Eschaton — Critics Question The AP could basically just re-write this article for every line in the stimulus bill.

Deep Thought
Eschaton — Deep Thought Robert Shiller's in mah room lowerin' mah home price index.

Stimulus Passes House
Eschaton — Stimulus Passes House No Republican votes. Viva bipartisanship!

Unquestioned Value
Eschaton — Uncle Alan: While Mr. Greenspan acknowledges that he could have done something to avert the housing crisis, he contends his hands were tied. “If we tried to suppress the expansion of the subprime market, do you think that would have gone over very well with the Congress?” Mr. Greenspan said. “When it looked as though we were dealing with a major increase in home ownership, which is of unquestioned value to this society — would we have been able to do that? I doubt it.” Well, I question it. I have nothing against homeownership, but it isn't right for everyone. Obviously it isn't right for people who can't ...

Happy Hour Thread
Eschaton — Happy Hour Thread Off to drink liberally, as I do most Tuesdays. Enjoy your evening!

EATED
Eschaton — EATED Sherman County Bank, Loup City, Nebraska gets EATED by the FDIC.

Thread
Eschaton — EATED Sherman County Bank, Loup City, Nebraska gets EATED by the FDIC.

Here's Another Thread
Eschaton — EATED Sherman County Bank, Loup City, Nebraska gets EATED by the FDIC.

Late Night
Eschaton — EATED Sherman County Bank, Loup City, Nebraska gets EATED by the FDIC.

Enjoy More
Eschaton — EATED Sherman County Bank, Loup City, Nebraska gets EATED by the FDIC.

Sunday Bobbleheads
Eschaton — Sunday Bobbleheads So many Republicans. ABC's "This Week" — Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Reps. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Peter King, R-N.Y. ___ CBS' "Face the Nation" — White House spokesman Robert Gibbs; Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.; Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. ___ NBC's "Meet the Press" — David Axelrod, senior White House adviser. ___ CNN's "State of the Union" — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Gibbs. "Fox News Sunday" _ Axelrod; Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google; Mark Zandi, Moody's Economy.com

Media Matters
Eschaton — EATED Sherman County Bank, Loup City, Nebraska gets EATED by the FDIC.

But That's Fine!
Eschaton — But That's Fine! I don't have a problem with Republicans who, on balance, wanted the bill to pass but still voted against it. I don't really think it's "cowardice" or whatever, they're simply making it clear that they're the opposition party. And that's a good thing! It's only in bizarro Broderville, combined with the annoying supermajority bits of the Senate, that anyone really thinks differently.

Saturday Afternoon
Eschaton — But That's Fine! I don't have a problem with Republicans who, on balance, wanted the bill to pass but still voted against it. I don't really think it's "cowardice" or whatever, they're simply making it clear that they're the opposition party. And that's a good thing! It's only in bizarro Broderville, combined with the annoying supermajority bits of the Senate, that anyone really thinks differently. ...to be clear, I don't think the opposition party should always oppose everything. But this was a lot of money. A Republican bill would have been very different! There's nothing wrong with making that point.

Home
Eschaton — Home Travel over. Semi-normal blogging to resume.

Disconnect
Eschaton — Disconnect I really do wonder what it would take for the Villagers to realize people don't like Republicans and their stupid shit anymore.

EATED
Eschaton — Missed a few on Friday. Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast, Cape Coral, FL gets EATED. Corn Belt Bank and Trust Company, Pittsfield, IL gets EATED Pinnacle Bank of Oregon, Beaverton, OR gets EATED. We have a very hungry FDIC!

Saturday Evening Thread
Eschaton — Saturday Evening Thread Go give someone some chocolate.

Deep Thought
Eschaton — Deep Thought I really don't know what Democrats have to do to start winning elections.

Late Night Revelry Thread
Eschaton — Deep Thought I really don't know what Democrats have to do to start winning elections.

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Eschaton — Red Velvet Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting Or something like that. Chatter on.