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Browning is always festive this time of year.... - Glen C

That Glen: he wants a German Karabiner 98 Kurz BCD4. Hmmm. - Robert Scoble

Unfortunately, he's sooo correct, but that stinks doesn't it?! (You can't handle the Truth!) ... awesome scene - Susan Beebe

Susan: nothing worse than 14-year-old who speaks the truth. - Robert Scoble

Would you consider Patrick's asking for Christmas and Birthday money early a run on the bank? - Michael Hussein Markman

A rifle? I predict a scene like in A Christmas Story. - Rochelle

no marketer has that maturity of understanding ... except to take advantage of it for personal benefit ... patrick has a higher calling, to prepare people for truth, to mature the social processes ... that career category has a name we don't know yet, but he will know .... please do not encourage marketing ... let him go into human transformation - Gregory Lent

My kid runs runs rings around me. Every time I see her, I realize it more. Yours sounds brilliant! - Charlie Anzman

I once asked a Sunday school teacher why she does it. Her answer "They're the only honest people left in the world" .... - Charlie Anzman

Wow...smart kid - Rah™

Appealing to the lowest in humans is more a disease than a talent. - todd

No pressure on Patrick, of course ;) - MiniMage LightBlueRanger

Knowledge of how people can me manipulated can also be used for good. - Rah™

Rah, that is the way of the dark side. It will consume and use you as you think you are using it. - todd

Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Therefore, having knowledge of anything gives you power, which can end up corrupting you. The secret ingredient, I think, is fear. As long as you can control that, you can balance along the edge of the darkside instead of getting swallowed by it. - Rah™

Famous Jack Nicholson Line comes to mind " You Cant Handle The Truth " - johnpiercy

The force that controls fear is the light side. The force that feeds fear is the dark side. - todd

My take would be: People don't like the truth when that parcel of truthiness might mean A) Accepting it entails pressure to change a comfortable habit, B) The Risk/Reward of embracing it is not clear cut or C) You'd rather be happy than right. I could go on, but then my hope for entertainment value would completely evaporate. Anyway, this may be interesting: http://www.philosophytalk.org/... - Micah Wittman

Micah, the On Bullshit guy is always interesting. - todd

excellent - Jeremiah Owyang

one smart son you have, Robert! - Hayk

I don't think it makes it okay. People should be able to face life, be mature, responsible, etc..... but your son IS very smart. Make him be a politician instead. - Patricia

the truth is hate to those who hate the truth. - Jens Christian Freund

It takes a lot of effort to acknowledge and deal with the truth if the truth is not pleasant. Most people don't want to make that effort if it is at all uncomfortable for them. Entertainment is usually pleasurable and when it is an alternative to an uncomfortable truth people prefer it. Patrick has great observational skills. :) - Lindsay Donaghe

Nice one, Patrick! Marketing is an excellent career, I just wish there were more marketers that faced the truth rather than trying to spin things. - Sally Church

I think Americans are experts at denial. From slavery to the cold war, Vietnam to Iraq, we've got a lot of truth we'd rather not think about. There's a shiny Jetsons future from the 50s that we'd rather believe, and anything you can say that suggests an alternate path is called for is insulting to it. "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all". While everyone's giving "advice" to Patrick mine would be: stick with the truth, to heck with marketing. - Jason Wehmhoener

People can't really handle the truth a lot of times. If you tell them the truth usually they get very defensive, because they don't want to see what really is going on. I have had that experience a couple of times when someone told me that I was hanging out with the wrong people, and I got pissed that them, but later found out they were right. - Molly, the Vampy Vampire

I think there are a lot of countries that have been historically engaged in rewriting history because they can't handle the truth. To think that this is just an American trait is just blind stupidity. It's human nature. Looks like your son has given up on the soap box and the ballot box. - Ernie Oporto

Robert - actually something worse: if your Son did NOT know the truth - that is worse! Seriously, I think I would WANT my 14 year old to speak the truth as Patrick does... that mean's he's intelligent, able to discern truth from error and is not intimidated to speak his mind... these are all fantastic attributes for a young adult to acquire!! CONGRATULATIONS Robert, you did a great job of raising him well! :) Now the tricky part is being able to deal with it when he opens his mouth and speaks the truth! - Susan Beebe

ROFL! I love that pic! When I first saw it I thought he was giving somebody the finger LOL! - Michael Forian

"We once had 'irrational exuberance' pushing markets ever higher; now we have irrational pessimism running them into the ground. People have to calm down, or we're in for big trouble." - Jason Kaneshiro

I'm suggesting everyone to reset brains! Like me now http://friendfeed.com/e/91f90e... // Good nite' and listen your dreams...... Startups are more than crisis... Web industry is not the fucking hell of our dreams! - Erhan "peanut" Erdogan

Time for China to slurp it all in - xavier vespa

same here @Jason! - genieyclo

I totally thought that was Chris Kattan in that pic - Kate

LOL Kate...now that you said that, I totally see it. - Faboo Mama

mental maturity, which only comes from surviving chaos, or meditation, and for sure the second one will find few takers ... so, if nature wants the human species to "wise up", chaos is the way, and more will come until people change their ways ... i think about 3 more years for this cycle ... - Gregory Lent

Gregory: I was down today(like dow), but now I'm listening p b j time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... : ) people have great ways to reset brains, maybe one of them is chaos! ; ) - Erhan "peanut" Erdogan

The panic will end when people who understand value come in to pick up the pieces. - Morton Fox

The panic will end when there's more pressure on the upside than on the downside. Right now we still don't know the full extent of the pain. Hence more downside pressure than upside (although watch for wild jumps as the market struggles back to life, as Friday). - Robert Scoble

I think we will begin to see some selective buying next week. The market will be insane until after the election, but the key right now is to get some stability and some calm back into the market place. Prices are starting to become rediculously attractive. People are still going to buy certain things, healthcare, food, certain types of entertainment and so on. - Jason Holbrook via fftogo

So after Corky Romano failed, Chris Kattan became a stock trader? - Ciaoenrico

The thing that we all need to realize is that a lot of buying is going on...A TON! Market volume on the NASDAQ has been EXTREMELY HIGH! Now some of that might be people selling shorts, but not all of it. Anyhow, the point is that a lot of shares are being bought...just more shares are being sold. - Alex IHateMondays Scoble

Alex: yes, at some point this thing will turn, but for now there are more sellers than buyers. In the marketplace customers have disappeared so the financial results haven't yet been fully understood. I wouldn't be surprised if this next week ends up, though. We went down so much so fast over the last 10 days. No market goes down forever, just like no market goes up forever. - Robert Scoble

Prediction: Dow up 5% next week - Mike Doeff

Sorry but 3 billion buys a day isn't going to be all or even mostly short positions being exercised...I'd say the marketplace customers are there, there are just more people who want to get out at the moment...this will change. Eventually greed will overcome fear again and the market will go up...I expect the market to rally a bit until after xmas and then it's 50/50 whether it goes up or down...I say 50/50 because when this quarter's results are released... - Alex IHateMondays Scoble