The Week End Economists take a Breatheder. Mar 05-06, 2016.

[Hugin]

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Yes! He's back! Or, more precisely, They're back! (for now)

A few months ago, largely unnoticed by all, but, a Brazillion people on Facebook, the denizens of Bloom County returned and they brought friends.

Generally, the WEE avoids all reality in it's themes. Preferring the spacious skies of fiction, satire, and an occasional tribute to the passing of a
person who merits the degree of recognition that only the WEE can provide.

However, now, WEE makes an exception in spending a weekend in the whimsy of "Bloom County". (Episode IV Rebooted Reloaded Rewound and Reborn)

"On October 6, 2008, Breathed announced plans to discontinue all work on comic strips with the final Opus strip to run on November 2, 2008. Breathed planned to focus on writing children's books. Breathed explained that he felt that the United States was going to face "tough times", and that he wanted to end the saga of his most memorable character "on a lighter note".

The last Opus comic strip appeared on schedule, but in what may be a comic first the final panel required an online link. The final panel of the strip showed Opus sleeping peacefully in the bed depicted in the classic children's book, Goodnight Moon. This panel was available only online, and the Humane Society of the United States page that displayed it no longer exists.

Breathed said that he had no regrets in leaving political cartooning, as he believed the atmosphere became too bitter for him to make quality cartoons.

In July 2015 Breathed hinted at a return to the strip when he posted a photo to Facebook of him at his computer, starting a cartoon entitled "Bloom County 2015". He added: "A return after 25 years. Feels like going home." The strip was later posted to Facebook. He has subsequently been posting new Bloom County 2015 strips via Facebook on an almost-daily basis."

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A couple of notable Bloom County residents:

Opus the Penguin (Current Meadow Party Vice-Presidential Candidate) Motto: 2 Spaces!




Bill the Cat (Current Meadow Party Presidential Candidate) Motto: Ack! THBBFH!

To learn more, try the Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Breathed

And, stop by the official website for some Bloom'n swag. ("This ain't a charity, y'know." - Steve Dallas, Esq.): http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/


Now, before I leave you to the miasma of what passes for The Economy, a memory of Nov 4th, 2014 aka "Rock Bottom":



DO.NOT.LET.IT.HAPPEN.AGAIN.

That is all.

Carry on.

Scoot!

[Fuddnik]

1. Damn! I was looking for a good write-in.

Bill the Cat!

A friend of mine had him tattooed on his arm years ago.

[Hugin]

2. It's a promising year for them...

They are polling in the positive six decimals.

[Hugin]

3. They are fully vetted.

[Gungnir]

5. Breathed's take on Obama

new classic

[Gungnir]

4. Good news Opus: Penguin brains not changed by loss of flight

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-penguin-brains-loss-flight.html

Losing the ability to fly gave ancient penguins their unique locomotion style. But leaving the sky behind didn't cause major changes in their brain structure, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin suggest after examining the skull of the oldest known penguin fossil.
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"What this seems to indicate is that becoming larger, losing flight and becoming a wing-propelled diver does not necessarily change the [brain] anatomy quickly," said James Proffitt, a graduate student at the university's Jackson School of Geosciences who led the research. "The way the modern penguin brain looks doesn't show up until millions and millions of years later."

Proffitt conducted the research with Julia Clarke, a professor in the Jackson School's Department of Geological Sciences, and Paul Scofield, the senior curator of Natural History at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, where the skull fossil is from.

The skull is from a penguin that lived in New Zealand over 60 million years ago during the Paleocene epoch. According to Proffitt, it likely lived much like penguins today. But while today's penguins have been diving instead of flying for tens of millions of years, the change was relatively new for the ancient penguin.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-penguin-brains-loss-flight.html#jCp

[Gungnir]

6. Primary anxiety of '88

[Gungnir]

7. Ah, Reagan and the 80s; many dandelion breaks needed

[Hugin]

8. Hello. My name is Hugin and I'm a failed cartoonist.

Of the same '80s cohort of cartoonists as Breathed. I was a victim of Reagan era conservative editorial excess and the dead tree media.

To see him climb effortlessly in and out of the public's psyche time and time again is at once awe inspiring and somewhat discouraging for me, personally.

I suppose it's like an Olympic snow boarder watching Shaun White in 2010...

"Well, okay... That sport has been done."

[Gungnir]

9. Tide is turning: $213,000 'emotional distress' judgment against lender

Source: King5.com (h/t Naked Capitalism)

“Intolerable” and “beyond the bounds of decency.”

Those are the words a Seattle federal judge used to describe the conduct of a nationwide mortgage lender in its campaign to drive a Bellevue single mother out of her home.
...
However, Judge Lasnik ruled that nothing in Washington law made it permissible for the lender to toss its legal fees onto the back of the Bellevue mom.

“Such conduct is beyond the bounds of decency and is utterly intolerable,” Lasnik wrote in a January decision.

more from judge at link

http://www.king5.com/story/news/2016/03/04/213000-emotional-distress-judgement-against-lender/81344798/

[Gungnir]

10. Law journalist videoing and going after attys for mortgage servicer in above story

Home page:
http://mortgagemovies.blogspot.com/2016/01/kingcast-and-mortgage-movies-see.html

"Fun" videos at link: (and legal documents)
KingCast and Mortgage Movies See AG Bob Ferguson Dodge Important MERS Issues Postulated by Seattle Councilman Nick Licata and Stand Contra to Multnomah County Commissioners.

KingCast and Mortgage Movies See Select Portfolio Lose Summary Judgment on Fraudulent Mortgage to Frail Elderly Handicapped Woman.

Fabricated death threat by servicer lawyers:
Wright, Finlay & Zak Attorneys Fabricate Death Threat by Journo & Face Lawsuit, Ethics Complaint

[Gungnir]

11. Oh, yeah click on videos to watch some of the Depositions in this case.

Fascinating!

http://www.affordablevideodepo.com/

[Gungnir]

12. Two excellent videos on the stories of two people who were illegally foreclosed on

Oh, Nationstar? They called me along with others to present to the House Committee on Redress and Grievances about them in 2010, and we are putting together a GoFundMe page for my friend in RI who I will be updating next week when I travel back there.

It is insane what many courts allow these people to get away with.

2010:

NationStar Fraudulent Foreclosure: NH Judiciary Panel considers Impeachment on Judge Wageling.
10,013

Pro Se Plaintiff Nails Nationstar in Federal Dual Tracking Summary Judgment Motion.
2015:

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