[Music video links] How about some Beatles: Money and I’m A Loser, which results in a stop by NOLA for Fats Domino’s Blue Monday followed by Marianne Faithful’s As Tears Go By and ends with understanding of Pink Floyd’s version of Money.
Update: I note with personal sadness that Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright has died after a long battle with cancer.
Oh, yes, the Dow dropped 504 points today.
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awwww, it’s cute!
nooooooooooo !!! [i’ve always liked pink floyd better than the beatles.]
the dow… piffle. the one tiny consolation i have for cashing out my retirement funds to pay medical bills is that i did so back when the market was way up.
Apparently the Florida retirement fund is in major trouble over Lehman Brothers. In case you missed it, Lehman Brothers hired John Ellis Bush when he left office. Just a coincidence I’m sure.
you’re right, i did miss that one tidbit of information. i’d been keeping track of his whereabouts [somewhat] when he first left office but eventually figured life was too short for that. yep, gotta be just coinkydink.
Yep! LOL
I was reading a couple stories in IHT about all this. Amazing… or not.
Global markets fall after Wall Street trauma
Examing the ripple effect of the Lehman bankruptcy
And this was interesting as it shows the real state of the economy! Not good.
Airlines’ cuts making cities no-fly zones
(Speaking of the Bushmoron’s no-fly zone coward buffer). 🙂
Oh, I meant to post this one also. Thisis apparently how Bush has decided to solve the financial crisis and help out his MIC friends at the same time. 🙂
U.S. pushing through dozens of foreign weapons deals
I do love the list of countries that are now on the modern weapons systems shopping list! LOL To paraphrase *Short-term gain for long-term pain!* How much more proof does anyone need to see that the GOP are patently insane and just a bunch of criminals? They can add gunrunning to their long list of crimes now, not to mention selling state secrets to foreign nationals.
Sad about Richard Wright BTW. I met him once. I’m a big fan of Pink Floyd. RIP
Most of the stuff the brokerages, banks, and loan companies have been doing were once considered criminal fraud in this country for very good reasons. They need to start throwing some of these people in prison and confiscating their ill-gotten gains, rather than letting them just walk away.
The airlines are another monument to “deregulation”. There was a time when you could take a direct flight between most medium sized cities in the US. Now you have at least one, and usually two stops. It’s hard to talk about “competition” when there is only one viable airline left in a market.
I don’t imagine it occurs to any of these idiots that those weapons could just as easily be pointed at the US. No concept of history, no vision of the future – they only exist 24 hours at a time.
A minor point to consider is that there is no money available to buy the materials needed to build these weapons, so it is unlikely there will actually be any sales. When there is a liquidity and credit crisis business tends to come to a halt.
A minor point to consider is that there is no money available to buy the materials needed to build these weapons, so it is unlikely there will actually be any sales. When there is a liquidity and credit crisis business tends to come to a halt.
Hmm! Until you mentioned it, I hadn’t considered that! And you are right… They have only so far sold off inventory! The rest is a paper shuffle. LOL No wonder they can’t repair/replace the equipment being chewed up in Iraq/Afghanistan! And where is the outrage at that? Jeez!! *wrong*
what a little cutie!
BTW… The cute little fellow is holding an Aussie 50c coin. 😉 LOL
I agree, he’s cute! (And apparently not bullish on the US Dollar!)
It’s a British 50p, only 7 sides, Kryten, so it’s worth $1US, except people will be much happier to see it than $1US these days, Lady Min.
Hmmm. I can’t see it clearly… but it could be a 50p. The UK coin has a smaller diameter and is thinner than out 50c coin. I forget how many sides ours has though. *shrug* Our coin from the late 90’s had that head of the Queen and looked very similar. They keep changing the coin every few years or so. *sigh*
I’m willing to concede the point. 😉 LOL Ain’t I gracious? Heh… It’s 50/50 to me. LOL
Sorry… couldn’t resist. I’m having a slooow day and needed a chuckle. 😀
And yes, I suspect people would be happier to see either than a US minted coin right about now.
The UK made them small at some point to really confuse blind people or save money or something, but back when we still had foreign visitors, before TSA was created to harass people, they were a good sized coin.
We need to do something to differentiate our dollar coins from our quarters, because they are nearly the same size.