2008 Word of the year: “Bailout”

Filed Under (Life) by Jean Valjean on 26-11-2008

Shows just how screwed up we are.  Other contenders were “vet” (the verb, not the noun), “bipartisan”, and “maverick”.

For my taste, the word of the year should have been “hoocoodanode”

Hoocoodanode Happy Gilmore dvd , - means “who could have predicted or known” among all of the highly-paid experts or big-money CEOs that ____ (credit crunch/bank failures/housing mess/you name it) was going to happen? Usually used by so-called “experts” trying to explain their failures.

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SYWSOYLN: Hindu extremists offered reward to kill Christians

Filed Under (Society) by Jean Valjean on 24-11-2008

*SYWSOYLN: Stories You Won’t See On Your Local News

Extremist Hindu groups offered money, food and alcohol to mobs to kill Christians and destroy their homes, according to Christian aid workers in the eastern state of Orissa.

The allegations follow the British Government’s refusal to prevent members of two radical groups linked to the worst antiChristian violence in India since Partition entering Britain.

The US-based head of a Christian organisation that runs several orphanages in Orissa – one of India’s poorest regions – claims that Christian leaders are being targeted by Hindu militants and carry a price on their heads. “The going price to kill a pastor is $250 (£170),” Faiz Rahman, the chairman of Good News India, said.

Hindu extremists’ reward to kill Christians, as Britain refuses to bar members

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The Escape of the Enablers: "Hoocoodanode?"

Filed Under (Technology) by Jean Valjean on 23-11-2008

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained.

– Federal Reserve System Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
Before the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress
March 28, 2007
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This is the beginning of a new day

Filed Under (Life) by Jean Valjean on 22-11-2008

I first heard this from former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz. It is a prayer that he said he taught his players. I don’t believe it’s original, but I still believe it is worth posting:

This is the beginning of a new day
God has given me this day to use as I will
I can waste it or use it for good
What I do today is important because
I’m exchanging a day out of my life for it
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever
Leaving in its place that which I have traded for it
I want it to be gain, not loss
Good, not evil
Success, not failure
In order that I should not regret the price I paid for it
Because the future is just a whole string of nows

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The not-escape of one enabler

Filed Under (Society) by Jean Valjean on 21-11-2008

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“If you took out all the corrupt politicians, you take out 90 percent and be left with us 10 percent”

Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, 8/28/2008

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