Again, a crappy day for Birds fans (Seahawks and Eagles) so I’m just going to take out my anger and frustration by trash-talking some politicians tonight on “The David Goldstein Show” on Newsradio 710-KIRO, from 7PM to 10PM.
7PM: Do multimillionaires need yet another tax break? Multimillionaire Seattle developer Martin Selig has sunk nearly a million dollars into estate tax repeal Initiative 920, and multimillionaire Seattle Times publisher Frank Blethen has contributed the blood, sweat and rhetorical tears of his entire editorial board. But in a state with the most regressive tax structure in the nation (by far) can one possibly justify making estate tax repeal a top priority? No on 920 spokesman Sandeep Kaushik will join me to field your questions, and hammer a few more nails into the initiative’s coffin. Kaushik, a former newspaperman himself, will also join me in ranting on the way this self-serving initiative has distorted the editorial process at many of our state’s leading newspapers.
8PM: What can we expect from a Democratic Senate? Um… a Democratic state Senate, that is. Washington Dems currently hold a nominal 2-seat majority in the state Senate, with two conservative Dems often voting with the Republicans on key issues. But Dems are poised to pick up as many as five seats in close races throughout the state. Two of the party’s most promising new candidates, Eric Oemig (45th LD) and Yvonne Ward (31st LD) join me to talk about their races, and what we might expect from a real Democratic majority.
9PM: Obama-rama hit town this week. Did Seattle just meet the next President of the United States? Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was greeted by standing-room-only crowds in the wake of his kinda-sorta announcement that he might in fact be considering a run for the White House. Obama was in town hawking his book and campaigning for Darcy Burner and Maria Cantwell, and local blogger Andrew Villeneuve will give us a firsthand account of the big rally. Can Obama win? Is America ready to elect its first black president? Do you just not get the whole Obama thing? Give me a call and share your thoughts.
Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).
re 53: Here’s an article that explains it to you: And to anyone else who thinks your mockery is in any way factual,they’ll see this quote and this link every time you refer to zero-sum games and oil. You disgust me you sneering buffoon! —”Here’s the bottom line: Any finite resource is a ZSG. Even an infinite resource has only 100% of marketshare, to be divided amongst competitors. That percentage is also a ZSG.
Let’s see how some of these zero sum issues apply to different areas:
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Markets: are probably the best example of a ZSG. In 2000, the Wishire 5000 was worth $1.2 trillion more than it is today. Some people bought, some people sold. Mark-to-market, there is a loss to the collective buyers from the collective sellers. Its even more specific with individual companies.
I short the SPX to you — each tick is zero sum — there’s a winner and a loser.
Stocks that always go up and never go down are exempt from this; Please let me know as soon as you find any.”
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/10/zero_sum_game_z.html
It started out as a gag here on the editorial page of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and soon became a superstition: Every time the stock market took a little dip, we’d reprint one of Paul Krugman’s dour columns from the New York Jaundiced Times about the imminent doom of the American economy. Almost immediately the market would bounce back and then some. It worked every time. But we may have overdone it of late. By now the Dow Jones has started to cross into 12,000 territory. A few more Krugman columns explaining how the economy has cooled off and the thing could overheat. We reprinted one of his columns [recently] and, sure enough, by the end of the day, the Dow ended the day over 12,000 for the first time. AN HISTORIC HIGH! and all that jazz. Well, sure. The Krugman touch never fails. The more Professor Eeyore says the economy is going to hell, the more heavenly it gets. Can it be just a coincidence? The
Dow seems to surge whenever it sees ‘Paul Krugman’ in a by-line. It must be a kind of Pavlovian reaction by now.” —Paul Greenberg
I wonder who’s gonna get Selig’s loot. Does he have kids? I hope they’re more socially responsible than he is!!! He’ll probably give it to a rightwing think tank or propaganda mill, like Richie Scaife did with Andrew Mellon’s money!!! (blarrrghhh) (puke)
Im kind of a radio nut I don’t even have cable becoase I listen to the radio so much it is really a wast o money to have cable.
46 klake
You don’t throw up from taking too much acid. How come MWS doesn’t call the South Park guys STUUUUPPPIIIDDD?
Let’s see them blame THAT on Clinton!
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 10/29/06@ 9:47 pm
ROGER YOU HAVE TO QUITE BLAMMIMG BILL FOR ALL YOUR MISTAKES. Lighten up man you are becoming a drag.
7 – pay the fucking gambling debt you owe to Goldy, loser.
65 Anonymous
Things that are different:
- Correlation
- Causation
Learn it. Live it.
Is my favoret jew on tonight?
14,000 weapons missing in Iraq. Good work, pukians! Another fiasco by Rumsfeld’s Pentagon.
Pay the fucking gambling debt you owe to Goldy.
klake the nazi has posted 21% of the comments on this thread.
Loosy 13 – Priceless… probably your best work ever. It’s in the archive.
Thanks…
LMAO….
Somebody once said to me: ” If you don’t shut up , I’m going to rip off your head and shit down your neck. ”
I wish now that I’d shut up.
Newspapers across the state are endorsing Alaska’s Senatorial Candidate Mike McGavick. But VOTERS are voting for hero Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell who by the way flakey klakey has a double digit lead over your pal the lobbyist.
If I-933 passes, what would you like to see Mark the Redneck live next door to?
[ ] 1. wrecking yard
[ ] 2. toxic chemical dump
[ ] 3. dynamite factory
[ ] 4. all of the above
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 10/29/06@ 9:55 pm
You will find all of the above if you live in Seattle and a few nuts to go with them.
14 SITTING FEDERAL GOP POLITICIANS ARE under arrest, indictment, probation, conviction or investigation. Only ONE Dem is in that situation. And just think how many rethugs we’d have in jail if there were any REAL oversight!!!
Lucy is the sexyest headless woman in america
Hey Goldy – How ’bout a segment on the clout FUWA will have with the 99th most influential senator and the 5 time winner of the no rocket scientist award.
obama is a nice story. He may well be president but not in 2008. If the democrats are stupid enough to send him up for the presidential election before he’s ready, it could ruin him politically forever.
In case you haven’t read a history book lately, there have only been two presidents elected in the last 70 years that were not either a former Vice President or a Governor of a state. And none since Kennedy was shot. Obama is not going to break that trend. you want to know who your next president is? Look for a southern democratic governor that can play it down the middle.
Lucy are you going to be the headless horse woman for hallowen?
If so, vote for Initiative 933! When your neighbors can do any fucking thing they want, you may find yourself living next door to a wrecking yard, toxic disposal landfill, or dynamite factory because government can’t afford to pay your neighbors to just live in their fucking house and not blow up the neighborhood!
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 10/29/06@ 9:54 pm
Roger if you live in Green Lake you have that problem. Hell you might have a few home grown Terrorist living there today.
14,000 weapons missing in Iraq. Good work, pukians! Another fiasco by Rumsfeld’s Pentagon.
Commentby Roger Rabbit— 10/29/06@ 9:47 pm
We would have got all of them if you where there Roger. Bummer Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just think, we’re only a matter of weeks away from being able to bring these right wing traitors to justice. I can’t wait!
If life wasn’t rosy in Seattle fish wrappers today DEMOCRATIC win will make the state greener, WOW. Now these Clowns are counting their eggs before they hatch. Jim McDermott the man that sleep while Queen Gregoire was appointed Governor of Seattle. Woops Washington. Now that is the person you want representing you in Washington DC. You know the chap that flew to Bagdad Iraq to save Saddam Hussein from himself. Now he was the only Liberal that voted against the War and the others were not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Oh!!!! Did I say that, only one person that could see all the lies the Socialist Democrats claimed Bush said. WOW !!!!!!!!!!! What fools do we have in Washington take your pick there is two Washington and one lives in the twilight Zone. Now is he really going to create a national health care system when the folks here who are all Socialist Democrats can’t pass it in this state? Maybe but unlikely. Alternative energy, you got to be kidding they have not figure out how to tax it yet, many years off. Now you folks tell me how you think little Jimmy will make a hit in Washington and that’s DC.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003328907_whatif29m.html
Democratic win would strengthen state’s clout
By Alicia Mundy
Seattle Times Washington bureau
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim McDermott, Washington’s most liberal congressman, is called courageous by his fans and an embarrassment bordering on irrelevant by his detractors.
Next month, both camps may be calling him Mr. Chairman.
If Democrats win control of the House, McDermott could become an important politician.
He’d get a subcommittee chairmanship on the House Ways and Means Committee, a platform he says he’d use to push for universal health-care coverage and alternative energy.
Speculation about McDermott’s potential elevation — and that of other Democrats, such as Rep. Norm Dicks of Bremerton — is part of the grand guessing game in full swing on Capitol Hill.
Roger Rabbit has posted only 20% of the comments on this thread — not 30% like Goldy says.
4 MTR
“The Smartest Woman In The World is’t gonna be president because she’s such a divisive evil bitch.”
Umm, all he said was that she is polarizing. The divisive evil one is Bush. But be that as it may, if one’s faults were what disqualified one for high office, (a) Bush would not be president and (b) McCain wouldn’t have a chance. Go Hill! Drive MTR crazy!
I think it’s funny that the pushers of the Martin Selig Tax Relief Initiative bought ads on Goldy’s show to peddle their lies!
BTW Selig is a FREELOADER!!! At times he’s owed Seattle City Light over $1 million in unpaid utility bills, and used to be a chronic property-tax late payer until they started charging scofflaws like him 12% interest. But he’s got $1 million to buy misleading TV and radio ads for his personal initiative! Go figure. That guy’s priorities are fucked up.
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You’re assuming the South will continue calling the shots, but I think the South shot its wad on GWB. 2004 demonstrated the Democrats can win without a single southern state. If Ohio hadn’t been stolen, they would have pulled it off.
gold is the only show i realy listen to on kiro any more
Or is that also like checkers?
…the oil industry is a zero sum game ( like checkers )
Commentby headless lucy— 4/9/06@ 2:56 pm
Ohhhhh! Hi!!!! anybody home?????????????? Knock knock!!!!
Where is everybody????????????????? Taking a nap??????????????? Sweet Dreams FoolSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS1
I love Lucy even though she dosn’t have a head
Roger here is a message that Howard Dean wants you to hear. Sweet DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRAkHNI02nI
Holy shit… even a kook like joni balter says The Smartest Woman In The World is’t gonna be president because she’s such a divisive evil bitch.
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=joni26&date=20061026&query=balter
did joni wander off the plantation? I’ll bet she’s on the phone right now with screamin dean
Where is Chicken Little when you need him?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjrH09wVmrk
Where is Al Goreaaaaaaaaaaaa when you need him?
Let’s see them blame THAT on Clinton!
Where are the 14,000 weapons? Did the terrorists get them? Is Rumsfeld making America safer?
Checkers and the oil industry are both zero sum games. The oil industry claims it is not a zero sum game — but it is. If a minister compares the legal problems of Tom DeLay to the persecution of Christ , that is an asinine comparison.
A zero sum game is where there are a set number of pieces — no more, no less — like , um, checkers, or chess, or bituminous coal, or oil. I’ll let you read up on game theory yourself to figure out the significance of the oil industry insisting that oil production is NOT a zero sum game(Put on your thinking cap here, i.e., in limited supply –like the game pieces in a checkers game)when it clearly and obviously is.
That’s how I know you are a third tier Republican — you are stupid.
this site has turned to shit
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Well I don’t think Redneck has to worry about the estate tax. He’s not even good for a $100 gambling debt or a $99 donation to http://www.operation-helmet.org/.
eyed glassblower?
are you going to some party.
I never go out for hallowen . I uselly jsut light a candle and listen to art bells gost storys on halloween on kvi .
If you have never herd art bell you should give him a listen he is on now his show just started on kvi 570 am
He does mostly gohst’s ufo crop circles that kind of stuff.
But his halloween show is really speceal he has his callers call in with real gohst storys. And they are really good mostly
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If a minister compares the legal problems of Tom DeLay to the persecution of Christ , that is an asinine comparison.
Commentby headless lucy— 10/29/06@ 7:28 pm
The difference is Tom DeLay’s got it coming.
goldy
are you guys still wonking it out?
oops …..one eyed glassblower?
Roger are moon lighting at Newsweek now?
Inhofe Blisters Global Warming Alarmists
Newsweek Magazine has finally admitted that it got it wrong on climate change 31 years ago.
In an Oct. 23 article that appeared on the news weekly’s Web site, senior editor Jerry Adler wrote that an April 1975 piece on global cooling had been “spectacularly wrong.”
In that article, the magazine told readers that the Earth was heading into a new Ice Age.
It reported that there were “ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically.” And it warned of a “drastic decline in food production” that would cause shortages affecting “just about every nation on Earth.”
Scientists, Newsweek said, were calling on governments to take immediate action to head off the coming catastrophe. The magazine even offered a possible solution — pour soot over the Arctic ice cap to help it melt.
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“Roger if you live in Green Lake you have that problem. Hell you might have a few home grown Terrorist living there today.”
Commentby klake— 10/29/06@ 9:57 pm
The only problems in Green Lake are (a) dogs (b) Sharkansky. Get rid of those and you’ve got a decent neighborhood. I like Stefan’s garden though.
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You will find all of the above if you live in Seattle and a few nuts to go with them.
Commentby klake— 10/29/06@ 9:59 pm
Bellevue already has plenty of nuts, and if I-933 passes, it’ll have wrecking yards, toxic landfills, and dynamite factories too.
I’m looking forward to hearing Andrew. I’ve been reading his stuff for a while, but I don’t think I’ve actually heard his voice yet.
Have a good show.
klake’s wife is gone for the weeekend so he bought a carton of Marlboros and 2 casses of Moosehead and hunkered down to the keyboard to spend his time commenting to the people he REALLY prefers: the Liberals on HA!!!!
The more it looks like a Democratic win, the higher the stock market goes.
30 klake
Despite its cropping up as one of the most reliably quoted bits of deceitful GOP propaganda since Communist putting fluoride in our drinking water, the “new Ice Age” theory of the 1970s was
(1) Proposed and believed by only a minority within the scientific community
(2) Consistent with the observed cooling trend from the 1940s through the 1970s
(3) Reflective of the contemporary undeveloped understanding of global climate
(4) Examined and basically debunked by the rest of the community (so to say “scientists believed in global cooling” if you mean that “all or most scientists adhered to the New Ice age theory” is either ignorant and deceptive or both)
(5) Replaced by a robust climate research program out of which has emerged the current overwhelming, essentially-unanimous consensus of the scientific community on global anthropocentric climate change (referred to by klake, the lazy press, and the ignorant as “global warming”).
That John guy who called Goldy’s show sure is an angry dude. He sounds like one of those cheap labor conservatives who think bosses are the only people who “work.” The whole fucking point of being a boss is to make other people work.
Hey loocy – how ’bout an update on your efforts to fix the “negro problem”?
“Black people can be stressful to be around 24/7. Believe me , I know.” Commentby headless lucy— 9/16/05@ 10:12 pm
Thanks Cynical though for your help with the Negro problem.
Commentby headless lucy— 9/17/05@ 7:47 am
re 6: Why don’t you take your lily-white lips and plant them firmly on Bob Corkers pasty behind — which is what you really want to do.
Goldy did you check your clocks on your server? Accourding to the big clock in the sky you are an hour off.
28 klake
That’s your liberal media for you.
64
you’re just noticing?
Roger do you remember the good old days?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3syLQlNFFhk
You folks are sleeping at the keyboard tonight?
Newspapers Across Washington State Endorse Mike
From Seattle to Spokane and from Centralia to Lynden, newspapers have endorsed Mike McGavick for U.S. Senate. Mike’s message of real change for Washington is cutting across ideological, partisan and geographic boundaries. Mike has tied the incumbent for the number of major Washington state newspaper endorsements — a huge victory and a sign that Washingtonians agree that we need to do better.
These newspapers know that you can’t expect change in Washington, D.C., by sending the same people back — and they agree that a vote for Mike is a vote for common sense and independent-minded Northwest values!
Hell only the spammers are posting tonight,
re 62: No. I’m wearing an eyepatch and a fright wig and I’m going to be, Gihouly — or whatever the hell that one eyed glassblower is.
I have been listening to kuow public radio lately
DO YOU WANT TO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO A DYNAMITE FACTORY?
If so, vote for Initiative 933! When your neighbors can do any fucking thing they want, you may find yourself living next door to a wrecking yard, toxic disposal landfill, or dynamite factory because government can’t afford to pay your neighbors to just live in their fucking house and not blow up the neighborhood!
Roger do you have a Ghost Rider problem?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGjsPYLb9xU&NR
ROGER RABBIT POLL
If I-933 passes, what would you like to see Mark the Redneck live next door to?
[ ] 1. wrecking yard
[ ] 2. toxic chemical dump
[ ] 3. dynamite factory
[ ] 4. all of the above
Hey Redneck could you please post your address? I want to buy some investment property in your neighborhood.
klake’s wife is gone for the weeekend so he bought a carton of Marlboros and 2 casses of Moosehead and hunkered down to the keyboard to spend his time commenting to the people he REALLY prefers: the Liberals on HA!!!!
Commentby headless lucy— 10/29/06@ 7:03 pm
Hey sweety how did you guest and its been fun. And we all love you too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!