(from For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)
[As Pilar, wife of rebel leader Pablo, instructs Agustin on guarding the dynamite to be used in blowing up a bridge]
". . . "where the [insert profanity which Hemingway calls 'un-nameable'] is this vileness that I am to guard?" "In the cave," Pilar said. "In two sacks. And I am tired of thy obscenity." "I [profanity] in the mild of thy tiredness," Agustin said. "Then go and befoul thyself," Pilar said to him without heat. "Thy mother," Agustin replied. "Thou never had one," Pilar told him, the insults having reached the ultimate formalism in Spanish in which the acts are never stated but only implied. . . "
One father is supervising the recreation of his young son at
the neighborhood playground on a warm, sunny, spring afternoon. The child is totally absorbed in his
activities on the swing set, climbing bars and sliding board alone, in sequence
and then back again. The father finds that his participation has metamorphosed
from a formerly active playing partner/spotter/parent hovering around or
actually physically on the equipment itself, into a passive overseer on the
sidelines. Eventually a group of four or
five adolescent males tumble haphazardly down the block directly across the
street from the playground. The bright, crystalline Sunday atmosphere is
shattered by a harsh ringing (to the father) of a string of current and
colorful profanity followed by uproarious laughter on the part of the
group. The young boy at the playground
is distracted from his joyful reverie by the laughter an looks up in the
direction of the young men in the distance.
The father is somewhat, but not noticeably to his son, perturbed by the
events.
Should the father:
A.Retrieve his child from the playground and march
furious and determined to the group and immediately lecture the teenagers on the
inappropriateness of their verbal onslaught with his son’s attention (and maybe
or maybe not, his interest) captured by the unusual development but absorbing
all aspects of it (including the profanity, which his father has repeated in
the course of the harangue)?
B.Quizzically and humorously suggest to his young
son that, since the sound of the ice cream truck’s bells was perceived in the distant
direction of home, he believed the two of them would greatly benefit from the
pursuance and overtaking of that very truck with the object being the purchase and
consumption of a delightfully cool and satisfying ice cream?
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. . . I find the most gratifying way to react to the antics of our elected officials, is to use profanity
Ignoring the sad idiot who thinks the word 'rape' requires qualifiers, how about our 'friends' of the 'right' persuasion who, in 'their daily greed', are at it again, or are still at it, or who appear to always be at it. . . (forever and ever amen). . .
(from AlterNet / By Lynn Parramore)
"Ever since the Richmonder blog posted a story last weekend pointing to suspicious-looking stock trades made by Paul Ryan on September 18, 2008 – the day Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson met with Congressional leaders to warn of an economic collapse and the need for a giant bailout – the press has been at sixes and sevens. Was it insider trading? Wasn't it? First the story circulated rapidly. Then, when the Romney/Ryan campaign quickly issued denials, some journalists, most notably Benjy Sarlin of Talking Points Memo , leapt to “debunk” the story. Matt Yglesias of Slate , who first credited the story, apologized and backed off.
Earlier this week, I posted an article challenging the denials made by the Romney/Ryan campaign.
John Carney, a senior editor at CNBC.com has responded to my piece on Paul Ryan’s insider stock trades in September 2008. Unlike the Romney campaign, he does not try to claim that Congressman Ryan did not have time to do the trades before markets closed at 4pm. (There is, of course, the possibility that Ryan traded afterhours; that was no part of my story.) Nor does he take refuge in the pathetic argument that some anonymous trustee did it. His objection is that Congressman Ryan’s trading that day followed a larger pattern evident in other transactions that year.
Carney writes:
He did trade in and out of two financial names in 2008: Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. He sold shares in Citi in January, March, June, August, September and December. He bought Citi in February, April, July and October. In other words, Ryan was following a pattern of alternating between buying and selling shares of Citi throughout the year...
Ryan sold shares in Goldman in February, August, October, November and December. He bought shares in Goldman in January, March, June and September.
Notice a pattern here? Each of Ryan’s purchases of Goldman shares coincides with the sale of a share of Citi.
Ryan follows this pattern of going long Goldman when he sold Citi on September 18. That day, Ryan also took part in a meeting where Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke met with Congressional leaders to make their case that the situation in the financial sector had turned so dire as to threaten the entire economy.
Teasing out meaningful patterns from stock market data is a tricky business. It has a tendency to turn researchers into numerologists – they are constantly tempted to find all kinds of significance in some selection of numbers. But look closely at the qualification with which Carney introduced his discussion of the Goldman purchases:
“The only breaks in this pattern were (a) when he neither bought nor sold any stocks in his portfolio in May, (b) skipping November’s sale of Citi and selling in December instead, and (c) selling shares in Citi in both August and September .” [emphasis added]
In other words, Congressman Ryan followed a pattern, except when he didn’t. And in what month does Ryan depart from the pattern? Why, by marvelous coincidence, September, of course.
Perhaps half a loaf is better than none, but Carney began his piece suggesting that those who credit the Ryan insider trading story have fallen under the influence of “liberal fantasies.” Yes, he bought Goldman while selling Citi, but the quick second Citi sale was anomalous. Congressman Ryan, by Carney’s own admission, plainly broke from his routine on September 18, 2008. . . "
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