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At The Wheel: Dyon and Speed Demon
My name: Dyon
My age: 38
My profession: Retail
City/town: Portland
Relationship status: Partnered but Open to a triad ;-)
Sexuality: Gay
Car: 1968 Ford Mustang
What is the best thing that you like about your ride?
I like the fact that if I'm on the line with someone else thats trying to either get in my lane, beat me to the next light, or even just show off, my ride will dust them. Not to mention that its comfortable enough for the speedy take-offs and the smooth enough for long rides.
Do you like to take road trips in your car? Describe your favorite road trip -- where did you go? What did you do?
I love taking road trips in my car. Even though my car isn't typically a luxury car with all the internal amenities, my car still is comfortable enough for the long haul. The most recent day trip I took was up to Mt. St. Helens and then out to the Bagby Hotsprings in the same day. The St. Helen part was to get out of the city, see some nature and explore the wilds of a National Monument. I went with friends so we were able to act silly (well that happens no matter where we are heh) in the Ape Caves and then still take some amazing photos outside in the wilds.
The Hotsprings part was because we all decided that after hiking all day, we needed to rest. I mean it was only 70 some miles. Just a hop, skip, and a jump away. There it was great, we got to hike some more through the forest and then go nude into the hot tubs. What better way to end a fun day trip!?
Do you like tinkering under the hood, or do you leave repairs and routine maintenance to your mechanic?
I usually leave my work to my mechanic.
What is the most you've ever paid for a car? What is the most you would ever pay for a car?
I usually like to find cars that are not perfect. I don't like to pay a lot for the car but will pay a lot to fix it up and make it perfect. I just replaced the engine in my 68 Stang and it was about 6 grand.
What special touches have you added to your car that reflect your personality and individuality?
The main touch is the paint job. It couldn't just be normal (as I'm not) So I got a paint color that looks purple in certain light and angles and blue in another. Its called Spicy Eggplant. Spicy, yea thats me.
Another touch I've added is neon lights inside the dash. My car is a classic so I didn't want to change its look too much, so adding the blue dash lights added without taking away from its classic feel.
Do you find yourself more attracted to people with similar car tastes to your own? Or doesn't it matter?
I love guys that like classic cars. I mean I know how much work they can be so its rewarding to see other guys going through the same things I go through. Also its just hot to see a hot guy next to a hot muscle car. Gets me all revved up!
Do you have a great memory of a date that relates to you car? Describe that night (or day).
Well the main date that I have related to my car is its purchase date. I remember it very well because it was the worse looking car I had ever seen, plus it was Thanksgiving. Here I was purchasing a horrible looking Mustang on the day I should be giving thanks. But after looking back and seeing how my car has progressed from then to today, I'm giving thanks every day now.
If you had an unlimited budget and could change anything you wanted on your car, what modifications or accessories would you add?
I have a wonderful paint job but it wasn't one that is totally to the frame. I would like to stripe the paint down to bare metal and start from the bottom up. Get a true ground up paint job.
Do you think your car has a personality or soul? What kind of sound or behavior does it have that makes it unmistakably your car?
Everyone hears the rumbling my engine makes and knows its me. My car has a low growl, one that sounds like its ready to dust any competitor and teach any upstart younger car a lesson.
Do you have a nickname for your car?
Speed Demon
Have you upgraded the car stereo? What is your "dream" sound system?
I've upgraded my car stereo enough to hear it over my engine but not enough to break windows as I pass by. I think that my stereo is loud enough. But my dream system, of course, would be a maybe a banging sound system the blew out windows that also was Bluetooth enabled so that when I entered the car with my Smartphone, I would be able to listen to my mp3s I have saved on it. I think a seamless integration between my home stereo, Smartphone, and my car stereo would be great.
What aspect of your ride most attracted you when you decided to own and drive it?
I love classic cars. And what can be more classic that a 1968 Mustang; thats what drew me to my car. Not to mention I could imagine how my car would eventually look once it was all fixed up.
Have you ever pushed your car to its performance limit? What was the fastest speed?
I've raced my car but never to its limit. The max speed I've gone was 130 mph. I'm sure it can go much faster but I know that getting a ticket at that speed would doom me to riding the bus heh.
Are you a member of any car clubs or other auto related organizations?
No, I would love to get a Gay Nationwide Mustang club together though!
What was the first car you ever had? Do you ever get nostalgic for it?
The first car I ever had was a 82 Mercury Capri. It was my first foray into a Mustang like car. The Mercury Capri had the same body type as its sister division, the Mustang so my car looked just like an 82 Mustang. No I'm not nostalgic for it. I cant believe that I spent my money on a knock-off when I could have had the real thing!
If you could trade your ride in for any other car, what would it be, regardless of the price?
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I've got three new heroes. The first one is smart, spunky and stylish. That she's also slightly deaf and a little wobbly on her feet didn't stop her from suing the government of the United States. As you may have noticed, Edie Windsor has recently been on the front page of many newspapers, magazines and blogs as the plaintiff in the provocative Supreme Court case that could possibly strike down the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996.
Gender politics aside, I was struck by the fact that an 83-year-old woman stands boldly at the center of the ongoing battle to legalize same sex marriage. Her feistiness and courage go against every single stereotype I hold on what it's like to be in your ninth decade of life. And I like that.
I recently attended an experimental modern dance performance that featured an exploration of the human form in its unclothed, honest beauty. It was directed by 93-year-old Anna Halprin, who still works every day to spread her artistic vision. I have the great privilege of knowing Anna personally and have seen firsthand that she has battled and overcome cancer as well as the grief and sadness of the passing of her beloved husband. Anna also suffers from advanced arthritis that can be very debilitating. Yet she still wakes up every day to teach dance, choreograph new work and even perform all over the world to sold-out crowds. And, as the performance I attended demonstrates, she still gets a kick out of shocking her audience. Whether I enjoyed her artistic statement doesn't really matter. The real point is that Anna Halprin continues to pursue her passion, all the while tearing down the stereotypes of what is possible to achieve when you're in your tenth decade of life. This inspires me, and that's why Anna Halprin is also my elder hero.
My third new hero is popular actress and comedian, Betty White. She is a terrific example of a bawdy comedic actress performing in her 90s with no retirement in sight. She also has an incredibly positive spirit that resonates with young and old alike. Her willingness to laugh at life and even herself hits a nerve with audiences throughout the world. Recently chosen by Reuters as the most trusted and admired celebrity, Ms. White leverages her celebrity to draw a spotlight to another of her passions: animal rights.
Sure, there have always been some over-achievers -- women and men alike -- who have lived long lives. Mother Teresa helmed the Missionaries of Charity well into her 80s. Maggie Kuhn founded the radical Gray Panthers at age 65 and kept fighting ageism until she passed away at age 89. Pablo Picasso continued to create art in his tenth decade of life. Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize at 80 and, whether you agree or disagree with his positions, one must be impressed with his tireless work for peace throughout the globe at age 88. Warren Buffett, at 82, continues to be one of the most influential business leaders in the U.S.
But these individuals are still exceptional exceptions. I've been spending a lot of time recently thinking about what life looks like when you're in your 80s and 90s. In my early 60s, I'm not anywhere near there yet, but I'm keeping my eyes open for some great role models of what potentially awaits me. Unfortunately, what I mostly notice is far too many long lived people with no clear vision of who they might be in this stage of their lives: how they might spend their time, share their talents and influence their family, friends and community.
In the past few decades, we've done a pretty good job of redefining the 60s and 70s as a time to stay engaged and productive; it's assumed that many of us will not only live that long but be actively involved in life, from creating encore careers to learning new skills, from visiting foreign lands to contributing back to the world.
But what happens when you hit 80, 90 or 100? More and more of us are, in fact, doing so yet the 80s, 90s and beyond remain mostly uncharted waters. It wasn't that long ago that most of us expected to be dead by the time we hit 80. If we lived longer than this, just being alive was considered enough of an achievement. That's no longer the case.
This last year I have been feeling the need for role models that can show me -- show us -- what 80, 90 and beyond might look like. If I am lucky enough to live that long and be healthy, I want to feel like I can find both meaning and purpose in my life. Then I watched the YouTube clip of Edie Windsor standing on the steps of the Supreme Court building, with her bright coral scarf waving in the March breeze, proudly wearing the diamond circle pin that her partner gave her because an engagement ring would have raised too many questions, and proving that you're never too old to change not just your own life but the lives of those around you and maybe even how an entire country views an issue. And I realized, "Now there's someone to learn from!"
Similarly, when I attended that dance performance directed by Anna Halprin. She's beautiful and vibrant because she continues in her own way to send a positive message to the world. She has said, "I don't necessarily feel old but I do feel an urgency to live every day to its fullest - to accomplish the things I want to get done." That's how I hope to feel when I'm 93.
And Betty White. When she appeared on Saturday Night Live, I thought, "Who wouldn't want to have the energy, spunk and ambition she has! Plus she seems to be having a wonderful time."
So maybe the biggest contribution these three women can make is that they give me hope. They give us hope. They're trailblazing the path forward to what it can mean to be 83, 93 or maybe even 103. And as a boomer woman -- who like the 40 million other women who are part of my generation-- will likely live well into my 80s, 90s and beyond -- I need a vision of what the future might hold for me. I need some role models -- elder heroes -- and a new image of what these later years in life might potentially hold.
Who are your elder heroes? Who inspires you on the next stage of our life journey?
Earlier on Huff/Post50:
George Clooney, 50, who is living evidence that some people just get better with age. Good looks and great acting aside (watch him sweep the Oscars), we love Clooney's humanitarian side even more, which includes finding a resolution to the Darfur conflict and raising money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake and 9/11. Thanks to him, we now can find the Sudan on a map. How popular is this guy? Try typing "George" into Google search and his name comes up second on auto-complete, beat out only by our country's first president. Photo: Getty
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, 56, who is and will be instrumental to the recovery of the European economy. And frankly, somebody needs to be already. Photo: Getty
Steve Jobs: Is there anything left to say about Steve Jobs, the man we lost at age 56, who changed the world? Our universe would not exist if Jobs hadn't. Photo: Getty
The Liberian president and the only female head of state in Africa, Johnson Sirleaf was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize along with the peace activist Leymah Gbowee, also from Liberia, and Tawakul Karman of Yemen, a pro-democracy campaigner. The women were recognized "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." In 2010, the Economist called her "arguably the best president the country has ever had." Liberian voters agree: After an initial runoff vote, Johnson Sirleaf was re-elected by an overwhelming margin in November.
Artist/activist Ai Weiwei, 54, made international headlines last spring and summer when he was detained in Beijing and interrogated some 50 times. Charging "economic crimes," Beijing hit Ai with a tax bill of $2.4 million. Chinese citizens rallied to his defense, raising $1.3 million to help pay it off. No Arab Spring for China, but a victory for the people nonetheless. Photo: Getty
Meryl Streep, 63, has accumulated two Academy Awards from her 16 nominations and won seven Golden Globes from 26 nominations -- more nominations than any other actor in history. She's lent her support to the National Women's History Museum, which is well overdue. Go, Iron Lady, go! Photo: Getty
Of the thousands of graduates who received diplomas from Florida International University in December, only one got a standing ovation: 50-year-old Aaron Alvin, Sr., who overcame homelessness, drug addiction, and a rap sheet to earn his master's degree in social work -- with a 3.73 GPA, to boot. A comeback kid who reminds us how life-changing education can be.
Elizabeth Warren, 62, is the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts. Warren's feature role in this year's viral video "Why Occupy Wall Street" captured the collective rage and gave much-needed clarity to the movement. Well before the 2008 meltdown, the Harvard Law professor and grandmother of three outline the economic peril of the middle-class in her book "The Two-Income Trap." Her reminder that "nobody in this country got rich on his own" resonated with Americans who still believe in opportunity for all. Photo: Getty
Christopher Hitchens, 62, the recently departed pundit whose boozy rants drew the world's raves and wrath. The New York Times called him "a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa." R.I.P. Chris, and thanks for proving that there is always room for public intellectualism at the table. We are hoisting a scotch in your honor. Photo: Getty
Hillary Clinton, 64, for her surprising speech to the U.N. in defense of gay rights globally and calling on nations to eliminate laws that criminalize or marginalize LGBT individuals. A bold and unexpected move to which we say brava! Photo: Getty
Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, 77, has been called the world's greatest living psychologist, and the foremost thinker on human decision making and happiness. Kahneman's research challenged the rational model of judgment and has influenced the worlds of economics, medicine and politics. His 2011 book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow," sums up decades of research showing why human beings react, judge and choose so badly -- and gives us the knowledge and the hope to do better. Photo: Getty
Ellen Degeneres, 53, the comedian, talk-show host and kindest judge American Idol has ever seen, published a new book in 2011, "Seriously...I'm Kidding." In it she writes: "I don't know at what age people stop wanting to be older. It must be around 40, when you're 'over the hill.' I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future." Named one of the ten most admired women in the U.S. in 2011 by a USA Today/Gallup poll, she was also appointed a special envoy for Global AIDS awareness by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. Seriously, we love her.
Jafar Panahi, 51, the Iranian filmmaker who was banned from making films for 20 years, but who made one anyway while he was under house arrest using an iPhone and digital camera. His co-director smuggled the documentary, called "This Is Not A Film," to the Cannes Film Festival on a USB hidden inside a cake. Photo: Getty
Cher, for not only being a hot mama at age 65, but also for being a good one. We loved her mama-bear defense of son, Chaz. And for what it's worth, we thought he should have won "Dancing With The Stars" too. Photo: Getty
Richard Branson, who at age 62 is the only boomer we know who's going to outer space. The English businessman, responsible for bringing us all things Virgin, is a chronic adventurer. In 2004, he set a record for the fastest-crossing of the English Channel in an amphibious vehicle, and later tried to break a sailing record crossing the Atlantic. In 2010, he tried for the world record of putting a round of golf in the dark at the Black Light Mini Golf in The Docklands, Melbourne, Australia. He succeeded in getting 41 on the par 45 course. Why not shoot for the moon? Photo: Getty
Ginni Rometty, 54, becomes IBM chairman and CEO on the first of the new year, after Samuel Palmisano chose her in October to replace him in the top job. She joins an elite group of female CEOs, but Palmisano told the New York Times that her gender had nothing to do with her promotion. "Ginni got it because she deserved it," Palmisano told the Times. "It's got zero to do with progressive social policies."
British environmentalist and filmmaker Sir David Attenborough, 85, for his BBC documentary series "Frozen Planet," which will debut in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel in March. A tireless champion of the planet, Attenborough was knighted in 1985 for his science and nature documentaries. He also has a new 3D documentary about King Penguins 'The Bachelor King 3D' that opens on New Year's Eve. We adored his gorgeous two-minute Frozen Planet trailer, which he narrated to the tune "What A Wonderful World." Photo: Getty
Virginia A. Moyer, 59, who leads the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and named a "person who matters" by Time Magazine. This year, she revolutionized the way we see cancer screening by arguing that blanket screening is more dangerous than helpful and removing the recommendation of PSA-tests for prostate cancer for healthy men.
Astronaut Mark Kelly, 47, (okay, he's not 50, but still a Baby Boomer) gets our award for Husband of the Year for his unflinching love and support of his wife, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.). We like how he hasn't left her side since her Jan. 8 shooting in Arizona except to command the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (which she attended). We like him so much, we'll even shamelessly plug his new book, "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope." If there's anyone more inspirational than Giffords and her husband, we'd like to meet them. Photo: Getty
Edith Pearlman, 74, for having won the acclaimed PEN/Malamud Award. Pearlman has been quietly and consistently producing some of our country's most outstanding fiction. With this recent accolade, she joins the ranks of luminaries like John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.
Tony Bennett, who is still touring at age 85, staged a remarkable comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s, scoring a few more gold records and expanding his audience to the MTV generation. Sorry kids, he belongs to us. Bennett does around 200 shows a year, a testament to his stamina and the world's unfaltering appetite for good music. Photo: Getty
Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, outlined her eight years in Washington at the highest levels of power in her 2011 memoir "No Higher Honor" with "unexpected candor," according to the Washington Post. We knew Condi was brilliant, but we were bowled over by her comedic skills: She guest-starred as an ex-lover of the fictional Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) on an episode of 30 Rock, which included a hilariously epic battle of the bands (Rice on piano and Baldwin on flute).
Admiral William McRaven, 56, is credited for organizing and executing Operation Neptune's Spear, the special ops raid that took out Osama bin Laden on May 2. Could someone tell George W. Bush that it is finally OK to say "Mission accomplished?" Photo: Getty
Diana Nyad, 62, embodies the spirit of "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." The journalist and long-distance swimmer has twice attempted to swim from Cuba through the shark-infested waters to Florida. She's promised a third try in 2012 and we're sure that one's the charm. Photo: Getty
Forbes' third-richest-man-in-the-world Warren Buffet, 81, for his proposal to raise taxes on million-plus earners and noting that the ultra-rich pay lower rates than everyday workers. Buffett joined Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in pledging to give away at least half of their wealth over time, inviting other billionaires to do the same. Can we clone him and send him to Washington? Photo: Getty
Madonna, 53, the mistress of reinvention is the director of the new film W.E., just signed a three-album deal with Interscope, and graces the December cover of Harper's Bazaar. And don't plan on seeing any wardrobe malfunctions when she headlines the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show on Feb. 5. She's a showman alright, but a perfectionist first. Photo: Getty
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlosconi, 75, who resigned in semi-disgrace in November. He was Italy's most powerful politician and an unrepentant adulterer whose ego met its match in the European debt crisis. We add him to this list as a reminder that even the mighty fall and as a thank you for stepping aside and averting the collapse of Europe and the world as we know it. Photo: Getty
Christine Lagarde, 55, took over as managing director of the International Monetary Fund after bad boy Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned. Forbes ranked her the 9th most-powerful woman in the world this year. Lagarde told 60 Minutes that when she applied for her first job with a Paris law firm, she was told her credentials were impeccable, but there was one thing she should know: she would never make partner because she was a woman. She walked out of the interview and joined the international law firm Baker & McKenzie, making history when she became its first female chair at the age of 43. As the first woman in charge of the global economy, Lagard's savvy stewardship could help make economic history. Photo: Getty
Steven Pinker, 57, for restoring our faith in humanity with his 800-page book "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined." The Harvard psychologist, known for his theories of language, the mind and morality (and his flowing locks), argues that human beings today are less likely to suffer a violent death, or be subject to violence or cruelty by others, than their counterparts in any previous century. Though critics assailed the book as "a comfort blanket for the smug," we think Pinker's optimistic perspective is much needed in our times.
Dilma Rousseff, 64, who is the first female president of Brazil -- and also its first leader to have been imprisoned as a political dissident. She may even be the first Brazilian president to have been previously declared an enemy of the state, which is pretty cool when you think about our changing times. Photo: Getty
Jon Corzine, 64, who "inspires" us with his ability to become a caretaker of other people's money and yet have no idea where it's gone. (Kind of like Congress.) Former N.J. governor and head of Goldman Sachs, Corzine took over MF Global in 2010, promising to make it into the next Goldman. Now we can't wait to hear what happened to the missing $1.2 billion in client money. And don't expect Giants and Jets fans to be erecting a monument in his honor any time soon: A more than 50% toll hike put in place while he was governor will have motorists paying $3.60 to drive from the Goethals Bridge to the MetLife Stadium. Photo: Getty
New York Times columnist Gretchen Morgensen, 55, for her persistently excellent coverage of the greed and recklessness by Wall Street firms, government officials and regulatory agencies that conspired to bring the world economy to its knees. Her 2011 book "Reckless Endangerment" with co-author Joshua Rosner, focuses on the role Fannie Mae played in encouraging the financial practices underlying the crisis. She consistently tells the stories the powers that be don't want us to hear.
Rep. Luis Guitérrez of Illinois, 58, who has taken the fight for the DREAM Act and against anti-immigrant actions/laws to all corners of the the U.S. The first Latino to be elected to Congress from the Midwest back in 1993, Guitérrez was arrested in front of the White House in July, where he was protesting President Obama's deportation policies.
Mama Kris Kardashian, 56, for her icky ability to monetize every move one of her daughters makes and inspiring a dreadful obsession among the young to be famous for being famous. As manager for the family, we blame her for Kimbo's hoopla wedding and the 72-day marriage that followed. They sneeze, she calls a publicist. So why is she here? It's good to learn by example, including learning how not to parent your kids. Photo: Getty
Clint Eastwood, who at age 80, is going to make cameo appearances in his family's own reality TV show. Move over Kardashians, "The Eastwoods" are going to make our day -- and hopefully with more dignity and class. Photo: Getty
Voted one of the sexiest women alive by Esquire, actress Helen Mirren, 66, probably needs to build another display cabinet for all her awards. Sophisticated, dignified and proof that with age comes grace and more grace. Photo: Getty
Richard Gere, 62, is one of those people who uses his star power for good. He'll be getting a George Eastman Award for his contributions to movies and humanitarian causes. Gere has been active in the AIDS fight and works to protect the rights and lands of tribal peoples. Free Tibet, anyone? Photo: Getty
Diane Keaton, 65, for her book "Then Again," an honest and insightful ode to motherhood. We love Keaton for her intelligence, quirkiness and delicious authenticity. Where would cinema be without the inimitable Annie Hall? Photo: Getty
Bob and Pam Tebow, (Bob is 63 and Pam is 62) the Christian missionary parents of Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow, for teaching the world how to raise a Heisman Trophy winner who walks on water. You gotta love that the home-schooled Tebow sent millions of fans each week to their bibles to look up the verses he face-painted on.
The 65-year-old Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner was released in 2010 from nearly 15 years of house arrest, and in November formerly registered her party, the National League for Democracy, for any upcoming elections. The event marks a breakthrough in democracy following decades of brutal military rule.
Vermont native Bill McKibben, 51, is credited with galvanizing the environmental community against Keystone XL, the pipeline system the would extend from northeastern Alberta, Canada to multiple destinations in the United States. He began his anti-climate change crusade in 1989 with the publication of his stance on global warming, "End of Nature," in the New Yorker. McKibben founded the 350.org movement which organized an August protest on Capitol Hill against Keystone XL. Police arrested 1,253 people for civil disobedience in the two weeks of protests. Bill, you rock.
Gloria Steinem, 77, won the Lifetime Achievement Award in Glamour Magazine's 2011 Women Of The Year. In her December interview with Huff/Post 50, she reminded us that midlife "is a whole free, amazing, different, wonderful part of life that is not about looking backward, it's about looking forward." And before you say she doesn't look 77, let us remind you that this is what 77 looks like. Photo: Getty
Tom Waits, 62, with his trademark growl of a voice made what critics are calling one of the best albums of the year, "Bad as Me." Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year too, an event at which he noted, "They say I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with . . . like it's a bad thing." Photo: Getty
Patti Smith, singer/songwriter, poet and visual artist who turns 65 on December 30, for offering a model of continual creative evolution. In 2011, she made her television acting debut on the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She was also a winner of the Polar Music Prize which noted: "Patti Smith is a Rimbaud with Marshall amps. She has transformed the way an entire generation looks, thinks and dreams. With her inimitable soul of an artist, Patti Smith proves over and over again that people have the power." Photo: Getty
James Arruda Henry, who learned to read at 96 and wrote a book two years later. He reminds us that literacy is the key to civilization, and we are all capable of brilliant late-blooming.
Actress Betty White, with a twinkle in her eye at age 89, is a hot mama no matter how you cut it. She's taken on a cult-like following and reinvented her image as senior sex kitten. Count us among those tuning in to the NBC special Betty White's 90th Birthday Party that airs on her birthday in January 2012. Photo: Getty
John Ashbery, who wrote an acclaimed new translation of Rimbaud at age 84. Proof that the pen never wearies. Or as Rimbaud himself once wrote, "I am intact, and I don't give a damn."
Diane von Fürstenberg, who turns 65 on New Year's Eve, brought us the iconic wrap dress that still hangs in our closet. We include her on this list for her sheer power of endurance -- with a nod to adaption. Now president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, she teamed up with Match.com to style three first-date outfits for women who are dating and is part of Project Pop-up, a competition in which young fashion retailers in New York City battle for the chance to sell their wares designs from pop-ups at prime locations across the city. Photo: Getty
Snoopy, who made his first appearance in the "Charlie Brown" comic strip on Oct. 4, 1950, two days after the strip premiered -- which makes him 61 in human years. We are honoring his enduring appeal across generations and the fact that he's never been caught in a sexting scandal, published photos of his privates on Facebook or been mentioned by TMZ.com to the best of our knowledge. Victories, all. Photo: Getty
Canada's NDP Leader Jack Layton, 61, who left this message to the nation when he died this past summer: "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Photo: Getty
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On Saturday we saw for the first time this year Mercedes falter in qualifying. Instead, it was a surprise, but most certainly welcome and popular return for both Felipe Massa and Williams to pole position. The Grove-based squad clearly had Stuttgart's number, which saw Valterri Bottas also miss out on pole to his team-mate by the narrowest of margins. And that is only the start of it… Let RichlandF1's Alex Goldschmidt run you through the major stories of qualifying.
Jenson Button, speaking earlier this week said that if you make a mistake at the Red Bull Ring you as a driver will clearly be punished. Even before the on-track action got underway, Race Director Charlie Whiting said that any driver, with no exceptions, would have their lap time deleted if abusing the track limits, especially at the exit of turn eight.
Well, on that front, the party had clearly started with Fernando Alonso, Marcus Ericcson, Adrian Sutil and Jules Bianchi being some of the first to suffer that fate in Q1, and it would continue throughout all three sessions of qualifying. Ultimately, it was drivers like Kevin Magnussen, who kept pushing, but respected the track limits that were the most handsomely rewarded, with a good lap time that ensured their progression.
However, aside from the talk of track limits, the biggest news was that Mercedes' Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton failed to deliver in qualifying. Yes, it is Toto Wolff's home race, as well as a non-executive board member in the form of F1 legend Niki Lauda, but the pressure for the team to deliver after all the success they have had so far this season left them in a position that put them under even more scrutiny. Both drivers had no answer to the efforts of the Williams cars, with Rosberg forced to settle for third, while Hamilton ended up ninth, the Brit having spun out after the rear end snapped his W05 out from under him.
Hamilton is adamant that no one should count him out, especially considering the comeback performances that we have seen from him in previous years. However, some other parties will be considering damage control as their main priority after Saturday.
Take the defending champions Red Bull, who were no where near the pace of the frontrunners. Daniel Ricciardo may have bettered his team-mate Sebastian Vettel on a Saturday for the sixth time this season, but it was a gloomy afternoon for Red Bull. The four-time champion again looked out of sorts with his car, which has single handedly spoilt his title as a one-lap king. Vettel, knocked out in Q2, placed just twelfth after Sergio Perez's 5-place grid penalty from Montréal dropped the Mexican to 16th.
However, even though he has qualified behind his new team-mate, there have been some impressive drives through the field to score well-needed points from the German in the past, so it would be foolish to rule him out during Sunday's 70-lap race. Ricciardo seems to be set on simply making the best of a bad situation this weekend, and he is once again doing the job that is expected of him, putting the RB10 into a solid top five slot.
The fact that times in qualifying were so close, especially in regards to the fight for pole, where the top seven drivers were split by just eight tenths of a second, meant that there was nowhere to hide for drivers. Fernando Alonso even went off at the final turn, doing F1's version of RallyX in his efforts to post a lap time. It showed that even the man generally considered as the best driver in the sport can get it wrong from time to time.
The Spaniard said that getting fourth for Ferrari showed that his ongoing faith with the Maranello team is being rewarded, the Scuderia showing some progress with its recent upgrades. Even Kimi Räikkönen showed a better turn of pace on Saturday, even if both drivers did have their fair share of off-track excursions as they attempted to find the limit of the tricky F14 T.
Another surprise was to see Red Bull outpaced by their sister team, Toro Rosso, which served to particularly highlight the fine form of the young Russian rookie Daniil Kvyat, who has so far shone since his debut. This may be his first season in F1, but the youngster secured a hat trick of pole positions when the FIA Formula 3 European Championship came to the Red Bull Ring last year so he knows the track well, as does McLaren star Kevin Magnussen.
This apparent advantage saw both the rookies have a better outing than their respective teammates Jean-Éric Vergne and Jenson Button, with both 'old hats' failing to progress past Q2. Even if the 2009 champion felt that he had been impeded by one of the Lotus cars whilst trying to get the best out of the MP4-29, the Dane seemed to have his team-mate in hand.
Lotus and Sauber's season woes continued on Saturday. The latter would have had Adrian Sutil in Q2, had the German not had his best lap deleted for having been outside the white line, while Esteban Gutierrez also failed to progress, ending the session behind his team-mate.
Lotus' Romain Grosjean is coming to the point of the season where he may have to think long and hard about his potential options for the future. Meanwhile, Pastor Maldonado had another, yes, ANOTHER off-track excursion during Q2. Ultimately both cars failed to progress into the final top 10 shootout.
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So, this weekend instead of two Silver Arrows battling for pole, it was a case of two Martini-liveried Williams' fighting for the top spot. Bottas may have been disappointed on missing out on a potential maiden pole position, but no one could have foreseen that Massa would take his first pole position since the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix, with Williams securing its first row lock out since Juan-Pablo Montoya and Ralf Schumacher both qualified on the froth row for the 2003 German Grand Prix, 11 long years ago.
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Grant Williams submits his latest weekly thoughts on the big picture.
February 2012 finds the world in its own timeloop as we remain trapped in our very own Groundhog Day watching politicians try endless new and inventive ways to 'fix' a simple problem of way, WAY too much debt. It isn't complicated. The world grew fat and happy on the sugar rush provided by a decades-long injection of cheap and easy credit and now it's time for the crash diet. Trying to avoid the 'crash' seems to be uppermost in everybody's mind.
Since 2008 and the bursting of the great credit bubble, central banks have been printing money hand over fist in a desperate attempt to generate the inflation they feel is necessary to drag the world out of a perceived deflationary spiral. The chart (left) shows the growth in 'assets' of G-3 Central Banks over the last 17 months alone, during which time, they have increased by 32%.
To date, the level of the various benchmark CPI indicators would suggest there have been no deleterious effects, but just because the results aren't showing up where those in charge of measuring them are LOOKING, doesn't mean they aren't showing up at all.
Look at food prices across Asia. Look at housing prices in Hong Kong. Look at fuel prices in Nigeria. Look at heating costs in the UK.
Look at gold.
Targeting inflation is a dangerous game to play because - well, because it is impossible. You cannot target 'inflation' per se, only a specific measure of a specific collection of items, and the wider that collection of items is, the harder you make it for yourself. But despite what seems fairly obvious to many - namely that 'inflation' cannot be finely controlled by setting interest rates (though, if caught in time and tackled aggressively enough it can sometimes betamed as Paul Volcker demonstrated), the minds in charge of setting policy have a peculiar attitude towards something that is so imprecise and so multi-faceted. The general level of certainty surrounding interest rate policy, quantitative easing and inflation amongst Central Bankers is a constant source of amazement to me.
The playbook for the game we are playing now was drawn up a long time ago and we can't say we weren't shown what lay between the covers.
As far back as November 2002, when Bailabankout Ben made his seminal speech to the National Economists' Club, we were told how this was going to play out.
Firstly, the title:
Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here
'Sure'? Hard to see how you can be 'sure' Ben, but OK.
Secondly, this famous nugget with which most of you are no doubt familiar:
"The conclusion that deflation is always reversible under a fiat money system follows from basic economic reasoning."
'Always'. 'Basic economic reasoning'.
Thirdly, the big one:
...the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services. We conclude that, under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation...
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If we do fall into deflation, however, we can take comfort that the logic of the printing press example must assert itself, and sufficient injections of money will ultimately always reverse a deflation.
Three quotes. Three uses of the word 'always'.
If something is 'always' guaranteed to work, you just keep doing it until you get the result you expected, right.
The inflation warning light that is built into the gold price has been flashing non-stop for eleven straight years and, after the short-lived and, yes I'll say it, somewhat suspicious-looking correction in December, gold has resumed its inexorable march higher this year amidst a wave of predictions for both high and higher prices and further inflationary action by the ECB in the form of the LTRO along with consistent and concerted talk of the need to generate inflation by the world's other Central Banks.
(Incidentally, the recent announcement by the FOMC that they would keep their low rate policy for ANOTHER year - out to 2014 - struck me as incredibly strange. The only possible reason for doing that, in my mind at least, would be to fire a shot across the bow of other Central Banks hell-bent on debasing their currencies in the face of a strengthening dollar. That is NOT something Bailabankout Ben is about to sit quietly and let happen. In fact, a case could be quite easily made for QE3 being not necessarily triggered by poor economic numbers, but by a strengthening dollar - but more of that another time).
Gold is most certainly NOT signalling a nice 2% rise in inflation as its gains since 2000 demonstrate.
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Shhhhh, don't tell Trav --- apparently, in his universe, the word "bagholder" can only possibly relate to those who hold silver (and somehow, regardless of when or at what price they purchased it).
You can but you'll turn a nice shade of blue-grey.
And it only costs $5.00 / oz to get it out of the ground. Or was that gold?
how about this Manhattan Transfer:
were you expecting something different?
I have one email account that I use JUST to register to Peter Schiff mailing list!
And I got email from Rick Santorum. So Peter is supporting Rick
It doesn't surprise me at all. From the way Schiff behaved during his recent senate campaign, I don't trust him one inch any more. He's only in it for the money (though he does make many valid points in general).
Met him once. Could not agree more. On point for ideas, but his personality leaves something to be desired.
Peter Schiff is Jewish. Jews will naturally want to have a foot hold in all camps, so there will be those fighting for and, apparently, against the status quo. When the dust settles there will be plenty of Jews in the winning camp, and they will open the door to the rest.
Not that my comment is worth any more than yours but I met him once too (at a hard money conference a few years back) and I found him to be engaging, friendly and informative. So there you go. Every one is entitled to off days.
Inflating gold, it's tradition, bitchez!
Gold is most certainly NOT signalling a nice 2% rise in inflation as its gains since 2000 demonstrate.
Need more be said than this?
Apparently, to the clueless deflationary flat-earthers, there is --- but that is, and will be, their problem, NOT mine. Let them sit in vain waiting for their magical appreciating fiat currency, nervously biting their nails as gold, silver, food and petroleum all continue relentlessly rising in price, and the dollar (and every other fiat currency) continues to lose purchasing power.
I can just hear them now: "Next year in (deflationary) Jerusalem!"
And next year, and the year after that, and the year after that .....
I ran across this link recently, which is pretty clearly anti-deflation: http://www.grandpappy.info/hfood1yr
Basically the fellow has a stock list for a one-year supply of long-shelf-life food, every year he gets new pricing info, make adjustments for calories and package size changes, and documents every single detail. The cost of feeding an adult with very basic foods is up 33% in four years. So not the same rise as gold has seen, but the cumulative CPI over the past four years is nowhere near 33%, even though we all know both food and gas has gone up by massive amounts. I think it's just that gold is an immediate leading indicator and the food pricing follows with a delay, which suggests things will be ugly a year from now.
This is obviously by intent, saving banks by hiding inflation. Clearly cost-push, rather than demand-pull inflation, and caused by dollar devaluation.
There's lots of interesting tidbits from the link -- like tomato sauce suddenly losing 160 calories per same-sized can, and going from thick sauce to water as the producer dilutes it while maintaining the same price.
Deflation is occuring in all sorts of places. $5 toaster, $8 coffee maker, $2000 houses. Automobiles seem to be quite a bit more affordable than in 2007.
Food and Energy relentlessly march onwards to higher prices, but there's a few things to look at there. Food is essentially a derivative of oil, since oil is used to make the fertilizers, transport them, to sow the seeds, to dispense the pesticides, to harvest, refrigerate, transport the food to market.
Rising oil prices are affected by several factors, including currency depreciation (the money printing), the desire for oil producing countries to have higher prices, and possible declines in supply, as well as security and geopolitical issues.
Outside of food, oil, silver and gold, what else is getting more expensive?
Don't be faked out by the reduction in quality. Accelerated depreciation rates have to be factored into price. A toaster that lasts 20% the life expectancy of its predecessors requires a fivefold multiplier on its price (per unit of usage).
Exactly, producers are cutting whereever they can. Interestingly, many don't actually want to do so, but are forced into quality cuts by the stores, notably Walmart. This story from last year presents the issue pretty well: http://grist.org/business-technology/2011-11-11-is-your-stuff-falling-ap...
It cites a study that basically shows how killing quality results in lower costs, but also competitively enables Walmart because of how the economies of scale work against stores that actually want to sell quality goods, dragging everything down.
College and bailout costs.
"Outside of food, oil, silver and gold, what else is getting more expensive? "
The most expendable item.. government.
The welfare state. America's military and the global empire it supports. The public sector in general. Education. Housing costs have remained remarkably static in many metro areas (not including Las Vegas, Phoenix and a few other epicenters) despite a huge overstock.
Anything that the government has a hand in. Medicine and war come to mind.
Outside of food, oil, silver and gold, what else is getting more expensive?
Lawyers Fees. Medical bills. Taxes. Car Repairs. Paper. Hard Drives. Bank Loans. Prime Real Estate. DVDs. Fencing Panels. Wood. Property Taxes.
$2000 houses.
Going for the jugular. Tough.
So as the RE bubble was meant to increase the housing inventory and keep US citizens in their way of life, meaning that hardwork should allow you to buy a house later in life, so what, it means that the US elite has well served the base with what the base desires?
Come on, it is well known that in US citizenism, the elite does not work hand in hand with the base but wants to destroy it.
US citizens always tell there is conspirational elites everywhere wanting to kill them.
Make me laugh!
Here once again we have the Chinese citizen troll, spreading the anti-American propaganda of nose-picking, roadside-shitting Chinese citizenism.
Not content with invading, conquering and raping Tibet, Chinese citizens and their running dog imperialism now look with greedy eyes at the independent republic of Taiwan, and eventually to the entire rest of the world.
Chinese citizens are always invading, conquering, exploiting, destroying and blobbing up.
Destroying their own environment is not enough for Chinese citizens, as Chinese citizenism demands that their toxic environmental destruction be spread and blob up the entire earth, all to build empty ghost cities to celebrate the perversion of Chinese citizenism.
It is the eternal nature of Chinese citizens to spit, pick their noses and blob up.
PS: Shouldn't you be working on the sequel to your "Little Red Book", Chairman Maose? Or does Chinese citizenism spamming simply take up too much of your time?
Tibet is 1950.
Justifying every US citizen move thanks to Tibet is childish and dangerous.
Consider, US citizenism is conquering China. Just like the rest of the world.
As the current strand of US citizens indulge itself in justifying everything through Tibet, the potential for the US citizen newcomers grows geometrically.
Same stuff as usual. US citizens behave the same, correction is situational.
In banking, they call it fractional reserve.
In war, they will call it what they call.
Same method.
US citizenism all the way.
Chinese sanitation and hygiene is 1350.
As the current strand of running dog Chinese citizenism attempts to justify itself, and deny its own existence, it continues to encourage animal-like, rabbit-breeding Chinese citizens to spit in public, pick their noses and shit on the roadsides.
Such is the 'advanced" and "cultured" nature of Chinese citizenism.
Even as dozens of empty ghost cities rise to the skies, and the formerly free people of Tibet are genocided into extinction and their land colonized by Chinese citizenism blobbing up, Chinese citizens continue to spit, pick their noses and shit on the roadsides.
This is called barbarism.
Barbarism and blobbing up are synonymous with Chinese citizenism.
formerly free people of Tibet
Free people of Tibet? US citizenism way then.
Tibetans maintained a system of slavery. Slavery is not freedom, contrary to US citizenism cheap propaganda.
They also had an extended network of children abduction to feed the monasteries.
A system that China curbed without eliminating since abduction keeps going on in Tibet for the same reasons.
Only a US citizen can see freedom in Tibet.
Hey, usually, US citizens of A has no issue when referring to their country back in the eighteenth, 19th century as a free country while being obviously a slaver country.
US citizenism is as US citizen does.
Make me laugh, chinese troll!
More lies from the Chinese citizenism troll.
Tibet was completely free, and did NOT practice slavery, before the cruel, unjustified and monstrous Chinese citizens invasion of 1950.
Tibet was an independent nation for centuries, living in harmony and utterly unwarlike, until the Chinese crypto-fascists under Mousy Tongue invaded their peace-loving nation and proceeded to colonize, exploit, rape, destroy the environment, kill the Tibetans and otherwise blob up.
The entire world condemned the crypto-fascist running dog Chinese imperialists for their criminal invasion of Tibet, but to no avail --- Chinese citizenism recognizes nothing but its own short-sighted greed.
Like the Old Prussians under the cruel Teutonic Knights, the racially arrogant Chinese will one day appropriate the name "Tibetans" even as they kill off the last real such people. Such is the nature of rapacious Chinese citizenism.
But one day, the world will turn against Chinese citizenism, and they will pay for their crimes, and for shitting on the roadsides too.
I do not have the time to wait for your reply, Chinese citizenism citizen, as I know that your spitting and nose-picking will take some time before you can respond. For all I know, you are looking for a roadside to shit on as well.
But be aware that we all recognize you for what you are, an evil and disingenuous Chinese citizenism citizen, and nobody believes your bigoted lies about Tibet, your anti-Americanism, or your untruthful blobbing up.
We are free of you and your crypto-fascist running dog imperialist masters in Beijing. Chinese citizenism will be defeated and wiped out, much as you defeated and are wiping out the poor innocent Tibetans in your Chinese citizenism greed.
We shall overcome Chinese citizenism.
Gold is most certainly NOT signalling a nice 2% rise in inflation as its gains since 2000 demonstrate.
Need more be said than this?
Apparently, to the clueless deflationary flat-earthers, there is --- but that is, and will be, their problem, NOT mine.
Obviously gold is not signalling inflation-otherwise it would be going down-not up-
Gold is signalling the same thing now as it was in 2001-
Credit risk ie: Deflation risk-
Here's what gold does during inflation-unless you think we had deflation from 1980-2001-
I think you have it completely assbackwards and if you care to show me wrong with some data that proves it-fine-otherwise you're just theorizing -
Akak, please help me to understand, because while I agree that there is plenty of inflation going around, I also think that the credit bubble is being artificially inflated even though it has been burst. At some point CB techniques will fail to blow hot air into the bubble and/or the hole will enlarge and no amount of hot air can sustain it. At that point doesn't all credit disentigrate and we have massive deflationiary death spiral? I feel that at some point the global ponzie will collapse under its own complexity and we will be left with whatever is in the near field grasp. Do you think that before we get to the collapse we will hyperinflate? Will it then collapse? Either way we are screwed but the preparations are different and I am trying to best prepare. Thanks in advance for any insight. -j.d
ZH is highlighted in this incredible video!!! Fold up the tents,,,time to get out of town!!!
That G3 chart looks like K2, were gonna need more oxygen,
On second thought it looks like a ten year Gold chart !!!
Huh, I wonder why that is?
Clint Eastwood making commercials about hardships in the motor city for a company bailed out with billions of US taxpayer funds to help FIAT shareholders beat Ford. Is nothing sacred?
Certainly not if you were a GM bond holder.
What a great idea!!!!
Clint for president!!!!
What will I think of next?????
or bill clinton? om
don't say that---you know I don't vote!
Bill had his turn. It's Hillary next then Jeb then Chelsea then I guess the first twin presidents.
Mochella Obama for President.
Whoever voted me down it was a bad joke.
Wasn't me. I'm not American so I think it would be funny as hell if she was president. Ross Perot level of funny. Just think of the state of the union speech.
Would she make a "Giant Sucking Sound," or just suck?
Everything Ross Perot predicted, has now come true.
Thanks for typing that for me
The only reason I watched it is because I sincerely expected it to go along the lines of "Was that five trillion Benny bucks or was it six.............You feel lucky bitchez? Do ya? 'Cause I don't...........not even dirty fucking Harry can fix this shit".........and then he blows his head off as the camera pans across the American landscape as it burns to the ground. That would have been some classic Eastwood.
Things that make you want to puke ... like how re-reading Bernanke's speech
"Targeting inflation is a dangerous game to play because - well, because it is impossible."
These bankers are not stupid. They know that inflation targeting doesn't work. They just want to be able to print whenever and however much they want.
The 2% target is running around 12% actual these days, so yes, targeting 2% inflation is a joke. There could be 30% inflation and Bernanke would still say he's targeting 2%.
The whole "targeting inflation" thing is just a cover story for currency printing how much and however they want.
When a bank needs a trillion dollars, no problem, print a trillion dollars, who cares about inflation.
When the government needs a trillion dollars, no problem, print a trillion dollars, who cares about inflation.
When ECB needs a trillion dollars in currency swaps, no problem, print a trillion dollars, who cares about inflation.
When IMF needs a trillion dollars, no problem, print a trillion dollars, who cares about inflation.
You have to ignore what he says and watch what he does.
Kinda like targetting a building with an ICBM, with MIRVs.
Sure, you'll hit your target, right on the mark, just ignore the "collateral damage."
I don't think most people, even here, realize yet how blatent the data manipulation has become. Please note that the new target does not use the CPI, but the CPCE (which of course no one outside of Ben's circle has ever heard of). Check out this link for a little information about it:
The critical point is that The largest share of the core PCE is wages!
How about that? it doesn't matter if prices of goods double, as long as your wages don't go up, you will spend the same amount (buying half as much as you did before), so no inflation. problem solved.
PS: I am not much of a fan of the Iranian regime, but they do have a way with words. doesn't "The Evil One" roll off the tongue much better than "The Chairsatan" ?
Can't talk now, the Corporate Bowl's on.
Go GE, go.
(Literally!) a circus...
and gladiators, even...
ring any bells?
Got bread?
No bread, but I do have an Ipad2 in the crock pot with some leather and a stone.
I heard those are the ingredients to make dollars! We'll be rich!
There will be plenty of cheap starches consumed across America today.
Why shouldn't "Bailout Ben" as you call him SAY that interest rates should stay flat for another year and a half? If Europe plunges into a massive deflation (more than a probability now) thus dragging down Japan (been in a deflation for over 2 decades now) then all he ends up doing is pointing out the obvious. The question then would be "has he truly prevented a deflation here in the USA?" If so...mission accomplished.
If Europe plunges into deflation I will eat my hat. If it doesnt will you?
They have a printing press. They cannot plunge into deflation.
Although the situation itself isn't anything to laugh about, It makes me laugh to see the market chases prices ever higher (central planning offering what ZeroHedge proffered as "Bernanke's guarantee"). Same old cheap money & cheap credit.
The full retard zone.
Typical that a legitimate salvage operation of long abandoned cargo in international waters should be hijacked by broke, corrupt dictatorships (US and Spain).
Curious that Odyssey called that treasure site "Black Swan".
How can I concentrate on the Super Bowl when you keep posting!
If you want to make money bet against whoever I pick to win.
thus our largest exports are inflation and war, Ok, I get it now.
GE ad during the Superbowl: "WE are going to revitalize manufacturing"
Buahahahaaa, did they mix up vitalize with the ever more popular vaporize?
but they make turbines that make electricity that make beer that makes the sheep go baaah. Homer Simpson gets it and so do americans and that'd all that matters
They also make generators that make Japasheeple go bzzzzzzz
They're right. We're going to manufacture more debt, more bonds, more junk securities, more unfunded liabilities than ever! Welcome to the "knowledge economy." This is a post-industrial society, don'tcha know? USA! USA!
The world could use more WB the 7.
and to think a large percentage of New Jersians are watching football whilst their glorius tubby governor makes nice with PE types - I want to puke
You can control inflation if you remove some causes from the equation, like criminalize parasitic price speculation and evangelize people to ride a bike instead of those gas guzzling SUVs.
If you _want_ to make such an effort, that is another matter.
The he/she Maddona should be playing "Free Safety <> Finally an uneventfull score!
Lady Gaga, maybe
Vigilant Citizen'll have something on her show, lickety split.
sorry, I couldn't resist
The awards shows and tv events are so over-the-top in terms of their "symbolism" it's pretty much a joke at this point. It's high-time they take this stuff to other walks of life…
…imagine seeing Ben Bernanke photographed at a DC-area Starbucks wearing a Baphomet t-shirt. The alt-media blogosphere would be set ablaze with a simple wardrobe choice! ZH might see its first 200k view/10k comments article if this happened.
Gentle Ben should do it just for kicks. Something to break up the boredom of manning the printing press. LOL
$eur not happy
Kind of a boring Superbowl but NY won...So Futures up?
After what's his face (Giants WR) caught that pass and stayed in...The announcer said 'everybody will remember that catch in 50 years' or something close to that...I thought to myself...Nobody is going to remember anything about this Superbowl in 5 years...
As a "keen"" poster said! It's priced in. If it's not, it shall be on the next "HeadLine"!
Just imagine what is actually happening, that has real impact on the global serfs' pathetic lives, that may or may not be reported on in three weeks after all this Toilet Bowl shit is flushed....
Our days are few in number, and whatever we achieve is a puff of wind.
-- Gilgamesh to his friend Enkidu
Aaaaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhh (totally O/T...sort of) ... The central planners have shut down btJunkie!!! The fuckers....
Antitrust (2001)
Mercury Rising (1998)
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
The Art of War II: Betrayal (Video 2008)
Fantasia (1940)
Fantasia/2000 (1999)
you are right, WTF..them SOBs..
"The choice is deadly deflation of dollar devaluation."
paraphrasing....Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis (Portfolio) [Hardcover] James Rickards (Author)
the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services. We conclude that, under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation...
No such thing as government- we are under the control of the CORPORATMENT.
Oh come on. Central banks are buying gold for tradition. Bernanke told Ron Paul exactly that in a public hearing before congress. Get it? Central banks all over the world are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to satisfy their need for tradition. How hard is that to understand?
So move along. These are not the droids you are looking for.
Things that makes you go FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4185684,00.html'Israeli attack will prompt Pakistani response'
European diplomat based in Islamabad says Israeli strike would force Pakistan to support Iranian retaliation, while EU official says 'political and economic consequences of attack would be catastrophic for Europe'
I'll remind you that Pakistan got 110 nukes. And they are allied with China.
So China wants to lose its export markets and Pakistan wants a rendezvous with India ? Would certainly solve a few problems but I am not sure Pakistan will like the aftermath
Yes, Pakistan is (unofficially) part of ANA, the Asian Nuclear Alliance, with four Asian nuclear powers firmly on Iran's side.
I really believe it's gonna be a thermonuclear showdown with America vis a vis Iran.
I understand many of us have never seen a real nuclear showdown in our lifetime. Some remember Bay of Pigs, but even that wasn't a real showdown where someone draws a line in the sand and says don't cross it or we'll push the buttons.
I believe Iran is that line in the sand. And no, it's not Iran making that threat. It's ANA making that threat.
Time will tell of course.
As the Futures drift lower. You gotta love this guy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWyABiUpihs&feature=related
Look at heating costs in the UK
Look at food costs in the UK too...That 30% devaluation plus rampant speculation in West London funds has made food prices a joke here so much so that Aldi has seen as 20% sales increase as people migrate away from overpriced supermarkets jacking up prices to boost profits. How supermarkets can charge twice Aldi prices for items from the same manufacturer is unclear - that they do is clear.
Do you think BoE is going to release a second tranch of QE? They are talking 50-75 Billion Pounds. The macro numbers looked decent last week. Thanks for your input.
Most supermarkets run on razor thin margins, we're talking 5%. Tesco for example made 3.8 billion GBP profit in 2011, on 68 billion turnover. 5.6% profit. Hardly profiteering.
If you look at the way Aldi (or Lidl) do business, they have examined how a supermarket works and cut all costs:
- Everything stays in the carton it was sent.
- Limited range of goods.
- Mostly self branded goods.
- Relatively few staff in the stores.
- No bag packing at the checkouts.
Most of the cost of running a business is people. So Aldi have set their stores up to require the minimum number of people.
The classic example is the checkout. Compare Tesco stores with Aldi stores. In order to get good throughput the tesco stores have lots of tills, dozens of them sometimes. This means high capital costs, and wage costs. Unlike Tesco, Aldi clearly looked at the problem and made it impossible to pack your bags at the till, because that's what takes the time, so the goods go back in the trolly, and you pack your bags at a point away from the till. For the same till throughput, lower capital costs, and wage costs.
It is the same story with shelf stacking. Tesco, things are taken out of the cartons and go up on their shelves individually. Aldi, they rip the front and top off the carton and the entire box goes up on the shelf.
These are just the things you can see, the distribution chain is probably similarly organised. Aldi and Lidl are going to wipe the floor with Tesco.
What amazes me is not the arrogance of economists in their absolute certainty that they know what they are doing. No, it is the absolute abscense of morality in asking whether they should.
OT (sorry, it does make me go hmmm) Earthquake in Iran near Bushehr Nuclear Plant. 50 km from this (unused) plant, at 10 Km depth. Magnitude 5.
Mother Nature, or a HAARP shot across the bow?
Ok, so people say we have inflation. So we take our example, oil, which is averaging 10X the low in the 1990's. If we really have inflation in oil, then all related prices would reflect this gain in price over time.
What we're seeing though, are major infrastructural concerns going an all the time. A refinery blast, an oil rig disaster, oil pipeline leaks, headlong dive into disastrously polluting gas fracking or oil sands, all of the type of infrastructural breakdown that you would see if profits were not essentially growing against costs, despite the production decline. (not to mention geopolitical conflict)
Rather than have the growth that goes along with inflation as you might see in China, evidence is all around that deflation is a major concern. And China does not fit with the paradigm of peak production decline, because they have more limited sources of energy than the west.
We are in a deflation from the point of view of the stock market in real terms. The currencies that have appreciated and demanded interventions repetitively are the Yen and the Swiss Franc. There is no doubt that both these countries are experiencing classic deflationary tides, though prices in their economies remain very firm, despite their currencies. There is also a housing bubble in various places outside the U.S.
The third leg of the triple waterfall crash that needs to take place should be getting underway with the Greek default. But even there the collapse has not resulted a rapid sell-off so far. This has most certainly not been an 'everything, all at once' type deflation, but rather having an inflationary recession of the kind that typifies a monetary crisis.
There. I said it. That's some really sick air under the market. Gnarly, dudes.
Nigeria story is different.
US citizens wanted to cover their asses for a possible decrease in oil supply.
Considering that the nigerian oil sector is mostly at the hand of private entities (US citizen owned entities), Nigeria domestic consumption was a perfect target for making up for the possible loss due to the escalation of conflict against Iran.
The prices increase in Nigeria derives more than anything from the will to suppress domestic consumption so that it can be exported to US citizens countries.
Different case from the stated others.
Nigerians would do well to flee any dealings that they might have with greedy, exploitive, nose-picking Chinese citizens.
Chinese citizens are merely the means by which the so-called "Communist Party" (Quasi-Fascist Party) of China spreads its malignant doctrine of Chinese citizenism.
Not content with raping resources and blobbing up, Chinese citizenism-practicing Chinese citizens will move into Nigeria to spit, pick their noses and shit on the roadsides, infecting the negroes with the plague of Chinese citizenism.
Chinese citizenism consists of colonizing, exploiting, destroying, poisoning and blobbing up.
Nigeria will be conquered by the turds of Chinese citizenism.
But in present days, Nigerians are under US citizenism imperium.
Justifying present action using a hypothetical is US citizenish.
Iranian country shall build a nuclear device, has to stop them now.
The insane quest for symetry keeps going.
A little bird tells me that China will fall way before US citizenism, so one wonders who is next in the scapegoat list, as everything under US citizenism, scapegoat come scarce these days.
Compared to the crimes and perversions of crypto-fascist, running dog imperialist Chinese citizenism, all bad policies of the US and other nations fade into insignificance.
Chinese citizenism is the existential threat to all humanity that must be dealt with soon, or the world be become one giant toxic garbage heap, with a Chinese citizen eating puppies, rhino toes and bear penises on the top.
Woah, the makings of a new crusader right there; hold your horses Akak!
Hate and reason are not good bed fellows...
Don't take that bait, its not fate and its stale as Mao's cultural revolution spate.
To come back to the post :
The play is never over... and the applause should never be imposed by Potus or Emperor.
People's voice and people's choice; we need more than ever to impose bottom up control on top down falsification and MS media spin.
LOL Falak!
Sorry to cause you, or anyone else here (except for AnAnymouse) any discomfort. I do not of course believe anything that I have written in reply to our dear Chinese friend (aside from the slams at Chinese actions and policies towards Tibet, where I meant every word), but was merely serving back to him a parody of the same sort of bigoted, absurdist nonsense that he loves to bombard and collectivistically condemn us with under the meaningless name of "US citizenism". It was all just to jab back at him, with tongue firmly in cheek --- I truly have nothing against the Chinese people.
(I just hope he does not read this!)
monday morning humor!
nigerian oil sector is mostly at the hand of private entities (US citizen owned entities)
The biggest Shell Nigeria is Anglo-Dutch and accounts for >50% Nigerian production. Then again the proxy war waged by Muslim terrorists in Nigeria such as Boko Haram is probably designed to boost oil prices through a squeeze
Many (most?) commodities, not just gold have approximately doubled to tripled in price since 2005.
Corn for example, 2005 peak ~250, now ~640. More than doubled in 7 years. That puts inflation at 13% per year.
charts on audjpy and S&P500 and copper
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