As seen here, a few months back I sarcastically bragged about cracking the top 11,000,000 most visited websites on the internets. I hoped to one day beat out PlanetJulie.com which at the time was the 3,312,310 most visited website (now ranked 6,605,343) per Alexa. That feat – for the most part depending on how you want to spin it – has been accomplished…
I guess this is a testament to setting goals – yes, to me it was an actual goal – no matter how ridiculous they seem.
It’s worth noting, I have to give some major props to the traffic received over the last week or so. I previously was pumped if I broke 75-100 visitors a day. Without being said, I was ecstatic to see the numbers skyrocket to 600-900 visitors a day recently.
That was easily one of the worst speeches I have ever seen though it was crucialy important than he deliver at the least a decent speech. While I’ll be volunteering my ass off over the next 60 days, this was an official obituary for the bush administration and last 8 years. Good riddance you pieces of shiat.
Though I’m not a “true” Jon Stewart fan – he does good work but who the fck remembers to watch Comedy Central other than via online clips – the below from last night was overly entertaining.
As originally seen on BccList.com here, I guess somebody at Goldman needs to be straight up fired for the idiotic prediction of $150 a barrel oil futures AFTER the fed started discussing interest rate hikes.
Regardless, oil futures dipped below $110 a barrel today as seen originally on BccList.com here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Hopefully at least 1 of BccList.com’s nearly 10,000 visitors shorted oil futures. If so, I assume you know how to use paypal – bcclistblog@gmail.com is the email address.
Worth considering: Buy back and take some profits now but expect that oil futures could creep much lower than $100 a barrel especially if there’s an interest rate hike to fight off inflation as is expected.
Note: You may want to consider shorting big oil stocks seeing that their profits should be lower in Q4 considering the decrease in oil futures prices. Downside to shorting big oil stocks now – their declining Q4 profits won’t be announced until early 2009 and anything can happen between now and then. You may be able to short later on this year and still get excellent value though oil stocks are currently nowhere near their recent highs.
From last night’s speeches at the republican National Convention…
carly fiorina – the CEO that nearly drove HP into the ground. If you didn’t know, she’s mccain’s top economic adviser replacing Mr. “Americans are Whining” phil gramm. Seeing that mccain tapped her as an economic adviser shows just how much judgment he has lost in his later days.
“Today, Americans are concerned about keeping their jobs, about keeping their homes, about the rising price of food and fuel.
They are concerned about whether they will be able to find or afford the right health care.
They are concerned about whether they or their children will have the skills and education they need to compete in the twenty first century.”
No shiat. Did you forget that the concern comes because of the failure of the last 8 years?
“I know John McCain. And if we make the right choice, in 2013, American families will keep more of their hard-earned money. Small and large businesses alike will be creating jobs here and spurring robust economic growth, because America will once again be a great place to build a business.”
The last 8 years have blown. Why should be assume the next 4 years will be any different?
“Workers will be able to seek retraining to ensure they have the latest skills.”
Where has the retraining been over the last 8 years?
meg whitman – former CEO and board member of Ebay. Keep in mind, Ebay owes a lot to the technology research that the Clinton administration heavily funded in the 90s.
“It would be foolish to deny what we all know to be true. Our economy is struggling and Americans are hurting. We live in a time of economic anxiety and hardships.
The cost of everything from gasoline to groceries to health care has gone up, while the value of our homes and our investments has gone down. Mortgages once thought to be safe are now threatened, and industries that were once strong are now dying.”
Please explain how john mccain will be any different than bush. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb after mccain’s erratic behavior lately (pick of palin without anyone truly vetting her, “we are all georgians” comment, Time Magazine interview, etc) and say that I would prefer bush to mccain. This is coming from somebody that utterly hates dubya.
mitt romney – an East Coast guy that started off his speech by ripping on the East Coast. I’m not sure that he delivered the right speech. Meaning, I think this was supposed to be somebody else’s speech. I’m not kidding.
“Our economy is under attack. China is acting like Adam Smith on steroids, buying oil from the world’s worst and selling nuclear technology. Russia and the oil states are siphoning more than $500 billion a year from us in what could become the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history. This is no time for timid, liberal empty gestures.
Our economy has slowed down this year and a lot of people are hurting. What happened? Mortgage money was handed out like candy, speculators bought homes for free — when this mortgage mania finally broke, it slammed the economy. And stratospheric gas prices made things even worse.”
Our economy has slowed down this year? Are you serious? You haven’t really been paying attention to the last 8 years. Moreover, as is the theme of this blog posting, everything you mentioned is a direct result of the current REPUBLICAN administration. Take some fcking blame you spin selling snake oil selling piece of shiat.
P.S. My favorite line form last night was when romney tried to scare everyone (again) by saying…
“Did you hear any Democrats talk last week about the threat from radical, violent jihad? Republicans believe that there is good and evil in the world.”
I don’t think romney realizes yet that Americans have become rightfully numb of republican fed fear.
Assuming the email is legit – I am too lazy/tired to search and confirm – I admire how it isn’t a left wing nut job dramatic attack or a right wing spin selling “masterpiece.” Absolutely perfect read.
Digg, thank you and I seriously love you sometimes. huh?
“There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is “a task from God.” The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme.”
jesus christ I hope she doesn’t talk to the media – as threatened by the camp – over the next 60 days. My head is pounding and my ears are ringing.
P.S. Hey sarah – before your speechwriter (who happens to be a “clever” bush speechwriter) crafts up your next set of witty lines, why don’t you take a look at the national debt? Nobody is laughing.
Mic check – 1, 2, um 12. If Jesse Jackson taught us one thing, it’s to make damn certain your mic isn’t hot. Woops.
While the mic is hot during the majority of the clip, the action really starts at the 50 second mark. Come on Peggy and Mike – you conservative pundits – tell us how you really feel about sarah!
Transcript to the best of anyone’s ability…
Murphy: You know, I come out of a blue, swing-state governor world. Engler Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, and these guys, this is all like how you win a Texas race, you run it up. It’s not going to work.
Noonan: It’s over.
Murphy: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
Todd: Don’t you think the Palin pick was insulting to to Kay Bailey Hutchinson?
Noonan: I saw Kay this morning.
Murphy: She’s never been comfortable about that. I mean.
(inaudible banter)
Todd: Is she really the most qualified woman?
Noonan: The most qualified – no. I think they went for this excuse me political bullshit about narratives.
Todd: Yeah, they went to narratives.
Noonan: Every time Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.
Murphy: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism.
Todd: And this is cynical. And as you called it gimmicky.
Wow – this clown (david brickner) is making jeremiah wright look like a saint. The crazy thing is that palin was supposedly in attendance during the sermon when this idiot went off.
After painfully watching the rnc last night, there’s no way I can tune in again tonight other than to see if palin’s speech is regarding her dropping from the ticket.
Reason? As absolutely 100% scripted and premeditated by the gop, the following buzz words/phrases were said VERBATIM by nearly EVERY delegate interviewed on the floor. When pressed for a statement outside of the canned responses below, the delegates looked confused/offended.
1) “sarah palin has far more political experience than Obama.” Really? Ha!
2) “sarah palin has executive experience on a political level.” Nice one. Do they really want to make the “executive experience on the political level” case seeing that mccain has “none” either?
3) “sarah palin has used the line-item veto/veto pen.” Straight up – the consensus of Americans think that Alaska doesn’t count and should be sold off to Canada. I’m confident Obama can use the “veto pen” too seeing that dubya was able to figure out how “it” worked.
4) “sarah palin is pro life and the recent family pregnancies prove it.” No shiat. If sarah and bristol were pro choice, we likely wouldn’t be talking about their recent pregnancies. Legally speaking, abortion is a choice that a woman needs to individually make. Go ahead an ban abortions but – since there will always be a demand – I’d rather them be performed in a doctor’s office than in an alley or staircase “accident.”
5) “john mccain and sarah palin are mavericks and her pick as running mate proves it.” All this pick does is confirm that mccain is crazy as a fcking fox, insane, and incompetent. The same goes for palin for actually accepting the offer and subjecting her family to media vetting since the mccain camp didn’t vet her thoroughly themselves.
6) “john mccain is a hero and patriot.” Captain America is a hero and patriot. john mccain is a politician.
7) “john mccain rather win a war than an election. He will make sure we fight until we win.” We haven’t “won” shiat until bin laden’s head is on a platter AND our country has a budget surplus like the Clinton years. Look at us – we’re grossly in debt and literally on the brink of collapse thanks to the last 8 years. How is that “winning?”
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