In Maureen Dowd’s World

Ugh.
Man, what’s it take to become a columnist these days? I could write better than that while suffering from an open head wound. I should sue her for bringing down the property value of my genre.
Anyway, the real deal will be showing up again tomorrow morning.
(Thanks to Veeshir for pointing me to that heresy.)

19 Comments

  1. [Ed. Note: I cleaned this up to try and make it more legible, but it still seems to be monkey gibberish followed by a random series of numbers. Can anyone break this code?]
    Prévisions pour l’endettement étranger des USA Dette étrangËre nette
    Déficit du compte courant
    Déficit du compte courant comme part du PIB
    Dette étrangËre nette comme part du PIB Milliards de dollars 2000
    1999
    $1’846.4
    $267.5
    $338.9
    3.7%
    19.9%
    2000
    2’307.9
    348.9
    461.5
    4.8%
    23.8%
    2001
    2’781.6
    359.8
    473.6
    4.7%
    27.8%
    2002
    3’285.0
    370.0
    503.5
    4.9%
    32.0%
    2003
    3’818.0
    379.6
    533.0
    5.1%
    36.2%
    2004
    4’381.9
    389.3
    563.9
    5.2%
    40.5%
    2005
    4’978.7
    399.7
    596.8
    5.4%
    44.8%
    2006
    5’610.0
    410.4
    631.3
    5.5%
    49.2%
    2007
    6’277.5
    421.5
    667.5
    5.7%
    53.6%
    2008
    6’982.9
    432.9
    705.4
    5.9%
    58.1%
    2009
    7’728.5
    445.1
    745.7
    6.0%
    62.5%
    2010
    8’516.6
    457.9
    788.0
    6.2%
    67.0%
    Source: CBO 2000, revenu national et comptes des produits, et calculs de l’auteur.

  2. First! If I think like MD I guess it doesnt matter if its true or not; Im first and thats all there is to it, you cant change my mind and if you try, youre just meanspirited.
    In re: MD article—Im just confused. Do I accept humor as fact; or, just that her “facts” are humorous? Either way she cant get me down today ’cause I finally stole enough little old ladies wedding rings and sold enough black market endanged species collectibles to get my BIG SCREEN FIXED!!! I kid you not, I’m giddy about it, cause its been broke so long.

  3. What is with it and these commies? They just love your site, don’t they? Hey, commie dude, type in english so we all can understand! No point in arguing with you if you speak foreign; the only thing that will probably get to you is a beating.

  4. I think the dumbass french frog was trying to say the US dollar is losing value.
    Well I hate to burst your dumbass bubble, you cheese eating surrender monkey, but you know what your foreign currency is worth over here in The States? JACK SHIT, thats what. Do foreigners really think most of us give a shit their currency is worth a few cents more than ours? I use American USD, not the worthless toilet paper you call your currency.
    And before the euro, didnt it take about EIGHT french francs to equal ONE American dollar?

  5. Neither my translatatron nor my psychics could figure out what the gibberish was. The psychics did think it had something to do with frogs wandering onto a nuclear weapon testing facility.
    Anyway, if it is about the dollar being lower than the euro, that’s a good thing (within reason). It means they have to buy all our (cheaper) stuff but we don’t have to buy any of theirs. Sure, france could probably feed all of europe (no wait, it’s Iowa that could do that) I lost my train of thought. Just nuke the french.

  6. Ughh! is right. Its not worth commenting on that column, its so bad-wait a minute, I AM commenting- I must have caught a contact high from Mo’s column-WOW! look at all the pretty………

  7. “The pheasants were scattered across the field like Plantagenets at the end of a Shakespearean tragedy”.
    I am dying to see you use that in an episode of “In My World”. Except use monkeys. Or Frenchmen.

  8. Damn, I FINALLY get to show off how smart I am by telling you what the French poster was saying! WAhoo!
    “Prévisions pour l’endettement étranger des USA”
    Predicted foreign deficits of USA
    “Dette étrangËre nette”
    Net foreign debt
    “Déficit du compte courant”
    Deficit in current account”
    God this is fun!
    “Déficit du compte courant comme part du PIB”
    Deficit in current account in terms of 12-oz cans of Mr. Pibb. Hmm…
    “Dette étrangËre nette comme part du PIB”
    Net foreign debt as part of never mind
    “Milliards de dollars”
    Billions of, um

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