Comments on: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:34:06 +0000

It apparently has a core of the college-educated unemployed youth and the middle class, which makes it somewhat unusual, and it is driven from the bottom up with no obvious leader. I think Europe needs to look at what is happening and consider how it will affect the comfortable sitting on top and calling for the “little people” to sacrifice, while the banks continue to prosper with their ill-gotten gains. France is beginning to look like Tunisia with the financial sector playing the role of the ruling clans.

You don’t put all of the time and money into getting a degree to be reduced to selling “sausage on bun” in the streets to survive.

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:25:44 +0000

The turn of affairs in Tunisia came as a huge surprise to me. But a pleasant surprise. I really do bet that other countries in the region and further afield are feeling nervous now. I am sure it gives hope to my friends in Iran too

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:04:08 +0000

Let’s not even consider a threat to coffee until I finished by first quart of the day.

Americans don’t have any idea where things come from, other than a vague concept that oil comes from “Arab countries”, which isn’t very accurate as the majority of the oil we use comes from the Americas.

They are barely out of their last troubles, and now this.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:50:51 +0000

That Ivory Coast situation decidedly has people worried at my office. We’re all a buncha chocoholics. The only thing that could be worse would be if some plague hit the coffee bean plantations of the world, I think the whole Silicon Valley would grind to a halt at that point ;).

– Badtux the Chocoholic Penguin