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I've been mostly keeping fairly quiet about this whole thing with the financial markets, but today on NPR's Morning Edition I heard something that really rubbed me the wrong way. I heard the phrase "financial Pearl Harbor" used to refer to our current (or immanent) situation. This is not a financial Pearl Harbor. A financial Pearl Harbor would be, I don't know, Switzerland blowing up all of our mints simultaneously. Or _maybe_ China deciding "You know what? We don't want your filthy capitalist lucre anymore. No more loans for you." For there to be a Pearl Harbor, you have to be attacked by somebody. Who is doing the attacking here?

Please stop using emotional trigger words to try to manipulate people into a knee-jerk reaction. Or, at the very least, use something that is going to actually give them an accurate context. This isn't a financial Pearl Harbor. This is a financial Titanic. Or maybe a financial Hindenburg. Possibly a financial Triangle Shirt Factory Fire.
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It's like talking to a spammer...

Palin fails Turing Test: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/25/palin-bailout-healthcare/

Have you ever chatted with a Turing Bot (I can't remember what they're technically called)? She reminds me of that.

(first seen at nminusone)