Brad Nickel

""Make no mistake about it. We've done it before and we will do it again. America will once again rise from the ashes of the Bushes."" - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

"Globalization creates interlocking fragility, while reducing volatility and giving the appearance of stability. In other words it creates devastating Black Swans. We have never lived before under the threat of a global collapse. Financial Institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks - when one fails, they all fall. The increased concentration among banks seems to have the effect of making financial crises less likely, but when they happen they are more global in scale and hit us very hard. We have moved from a diversified ecology of small banks, with varied lending policies, to a more homogeneous framework of firms that all resemble one another. True, we now have fewer failures, but when they occur ....I shiver at the thought." - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

"an ATM skimmer sits on credit / debit card machines and swipes information as unsuspecting civilians pass their cards through. In the days of old, scammers would have to physically retrieve the skimmer in order to acquire all that precious information; now, models with built-in SMS notification are becoming available, meaning that numbers, expiration dates and that easy-to-forget three digit code on the back can be shot out instantly after the data is snatched." - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

This was emailed to me. Not sure who to give credit to, but made me laugh. - Brad Nickel

President George W. Bush leaves after speaking on the status of the US and global economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 10, 2008. By Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty. - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

This is a fantastic ad to motivate the vote! Fantastic! A little dense in places, but moving. - Brad Nickel

The idea of this freak making life and death decisions is terrifying. - Brad Nickel

"The Obama campaign will air a half-hour primetime special on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m. Sources say the Obama camp is also in talks with NBC and Fox. It’s not yet clear if an ad buy is locked on any other network, however, or if the special's duration or time period is the same." - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

"Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. "McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."" - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

I loved Eyespot's tools. This is a real bummer. From EyeSpot C - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

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"The economy is irrelevant compared with religious identity. What this campaign may be doing is stripping most secular Republicans and independents from the GOP coalition. We could be left with a purely sectarian-Christianist rump, which will control the GOP for a generation. And McCain will have distilled Rove's religious coalition in eight weeks more effectively than Bush in eight years!" - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

""I don't believe the First Amendment is any guarantee to those who wish to disrupt the government," - former Maryland police superintendent, Thomas E. Hutchins. According to the Washington Post, The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday. Police Superintendent Terrence B. Sheridan revealed at a legislative hearing that the surveillance operation, which targeted opponents of the death penalty and the Iraq war, was far more extensive than was known when its existence was disclosed in July." - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

The sign says:"Hey , Sarah! I can see the end of your political career from my house!" - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

"Thanks Kevin. I got to Twitter via FriendFeed(post about that coming soon), which I find absolutely addicting. In some ways it can help productivity and in others it kills it as I get absorbed in all the great posts by people there. FriendFeed basically aggregates your life and your friends. Very nicely done." - Brad Nickel

"The new design looks nice, but works for nada in terms of being an interface to an application, which it is. I realize it may work for the ad, but if I don’t stay on the page(I not being me I refresh obsessively) because I can’t see any content, then whats the point? 1. Cut the masthead down to about a 10th of what it is. “The Atlantic” does nothing for me as a visitor to your site. 2. Kill the all caps navigation and the java script sub nav. Bad interface design. Not intuitive and not easy. It keeps me from visiting the rest of the site. All CAPS is bad on the eyes too and expresses urgency, yet those links are not urgent. 3. Why the tiny search box? Move it to left below “The Dish” masthead. 4. Do you really need a “Dish” masthead/banner? At least one that big? 5. Mixed fonts everywhere. MY EYES! mY EYeS!!" - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

"Excuse me, you’re bothering me,” McCain said. It was a surprising rebuke from a politician who once was famous for palling around with reporters, and who was so media-friendly that he was sometimes known as “the senator from ‘Meet the Press.’”" - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

Ramp the meds until he giggles. If he looks tired and confused, it can be spun as "Reaganesque." Full. Of. Win. - Chris Baskind

Go'way kid, Ya Baw-tha meeee...... - (teh)Hussein

LOL! - Brad Nickel

"Iceland took several dramatic steps to pull its financial system from the brink Tuesday, with the government taking control of the second largest bank, pegging the krona to the euro, and, perhaps most unusually, announcing a loan of 4 billion euros from Russia only to acknowledge later that it was just entering talks on such a deal." - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

As goes Iceland, so goes Svalbard. - Chris Baskind

"Have you heard of anything more outrageous - a week after taxpayers commit $85 billion dollars to rescue AIG, the company's leading insurance executives spend hundreds of thousands of dollars at one of the most exclusive reports in the nation...Let me describe for some of you the charges that the shareholders, taxpayers, had to pay. AIG spent $200,000 dollars for hotel rooms. Almost $150,000 for catered banquets. AIG spent $23,000 at the hotel spa and another $1,400 at the salon. They were getting manicures, facials, pedicures and massages while American people were footing the bill. And they spent another $10,000 dollars for I don't know what this is, leisure dining. Bars?" - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

Disgusting, isn't it? This is what we are bailing out. - Brad Nickel

"Today is a historic day for Enomaly as we shift our business to a cloud computing organization with the release the Elastic Computing Platform (ECP). The Enomaly mission is clear - to bring "Clarity to Cloud Computing". At the heart of this mission is the release of our Enomaly ECP, the next generation of what was formerly known as Enomalism." - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

"In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."" - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

""Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said. "Boooo!" said the crowd. "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued. "Boooo!" the crowd repeated. "Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience." - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

"Having a fan running near a sleeping infant was associated with a 72 percent decrease in the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, researchers reported in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine." - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

"On 9/11, Al Qaeda had no expectation of a traditional military victory against the United States. The point of the attack was economic -- to draw the U.S. into expensive and protracted foreign wars that would deplete our resources and destabilize our government. By invading Iraq, George Bush became the happy idiot to assist Al Qaeda in this goal. Now, Sarah Palin and John McCain take the leaders of Al Qaeda at their word when they say Iraq is the major front in the war on terror." "Seven years after 9/11, we are seeing Al Qaeda's long-term goal being realized: the destabilization and economic collapse of the United States." - Brad Nickel via Bookmarklet

@William - you are right on. Many did see what it could do. Some spoke out and others did not. Too many did not and sat on their hands and their character and we are where we are today, because they feared they would be painted as traitors. We like to believe we are a fearless and proud nation, but sometimes we are cowards. It is truly a sad thing to know that so many in power thought this was all insane and went along. - Brad Nickel

@Gregory - Me too. We all were. The few with true pride that spoke out were belittled. Too sad. - Brad Nickel