This is what I did wrong
“The Yankees are used to friendly crowds at Camden Yards, where the Orioles have been also-rans for more than a decade. But this time the park was stuffed with 48,607 boisterous fans, most of them wearing orange and black. They delighted in Sabathia’s struggles.”
“New Stars Fizzle as the Yankees Absorb a Beating” NYTimes 4-7-09
Oops. “Let the Right One In” has newish translation for the DVD/BluRay release. They’re not the same as the English theatrical release. They are almost comical in their translation, “All your bases belong to us,” style. They’re gonna need fansubs, but done right.
On a side note, the English dub was terrible. We switched to the subtitles almost immediately. You couldn’t take the kid seriously. Who are these guys doing the US release? Couldn’t they have gotten some decent US anime voice dubbers to work through the emotions in the English dub?
Reading about this, I think it’s best to get a import DVD and watch it on a region free player.
Michael Phelps must be praising kami-sama for the start of baseball season and Alex Rodriguez. Ooops.
Choices made by business leaders yesterday affects what is happening today. These leaders only see the present and the near future, but don’t imagine anything long term. They do craft business plans for that but honestly does it make sense that ten, fifteen, twenty years these plans all go exceedingly well? Probably not, so they innovate to make things work out. Yet, that innovation is only helpful for the present, and like a butterfly flapping its wings in China, you can never predict the repercussions of innovation will spread.
The pension plan was meant to ensure that the workers of a company was guaranteed a level of income well he retired. Health plans were also provided by the business leaders. These benefits to the worker were meant to stave of some form of social care and socialism by the government. It forced the business to be the ones granting workers benefits. The business leaders smiled because it weakened the worker’s leverage. They are now dependent on the benevolence of the business leader who can hire or fire your and provide the benefits.
Yet, these obligations are too generous, and the business leader doesn’t want to spend money on them. It makes them unprofitable.
Years ago, the Democratic president wanted to provide universal health care to the US. It was business leaders who didn’t want to push for it. “We will end up losing money to ne’er do wells who don’t work for us,” they reasoned. Now they are coming to the government because they can’t afford paying obligations that could’ve been ameliorated by universal health care. Couldn’t these business leaders foresee that the obligations would’ve been spread around to every business and that their costs would’ve come down? Could they not see that having the burden of paying health care costs is making them uncompetitive with foreign companies who have their workers subsidized by government providing benefits? Are these business leaders smart?
If it didn’t scare you, it made you laugh. The Bush Presidency.
“My reputation grows with every failure.”
George Bernard Shaw
The best-laid plans of mice and men
Go oft awry
Robert Burns, “To a Mouse”
“I am absolutely certain that Connecticut’s going to have the good sense to send Joe Lieberman back to the United States Senate.”
Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) circa election 2006
“I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.”
Alan Greenspan, Former Chief of the Federal Reserve
I have probably linked to this already. But you can’t get enough of this one. So prescient. So true. And yet when it was written a lot of that stuff was tongue in cheek. I can’t believe how true it became. So sad. How fucking sad! We are a poorer nation for having President Fucktard, George Bush, as our leader. What a fucking fucktard.
