Opening Stuff:
Life seems better when the Rhode Island Symphony comes to a town. Any town. It's more, much more than the grand music. It's the gathering of people. Like it was when the families and kids and music lovers gathered at old Eldritch Field in the middle of downtown East Greenwich, the town that gave birth to the US Navy. Nobody cared what anybody looked like, they just consumed the smiles on each others faces. Every race, ever gender, every political persuasion gathered in the melodies and savored the peace of the night exactly the same way. If they couldn't, God help them. You always know it's a great night when people leaving are saying almost unison, "Why don't we do things like this more often".
Sunday Newspapers are better when football is back on the sports pages.
In the politics just get weirder and weirder department, how about a 2012 clash featuring Hillary, Trump and GOP'er. Some Execs are starting a Trump Third Party movement! Hillary could win that one.
If you don't throw wild thoughts onto the table, new ideas'll never get there.
Obama supporters keep repeating that the Prez is focused like a Laser beam on the jobs problem. I like that. "Laser Beam" Obama. What better? He is so singularly focused that he misses the realities affecting 2/3's of the Country. Is laser beam just a contemporary way of saying "Head in the sand"?
The Question:
1. Every time I think of the planes flying into the towers on September 11 2001, my heart stops and my stomach turns over. It is the one of great American tragedies that have occurred in September in the last century. name the other one? 2. Bonus Q: Who is Iva Ikuku Toguri?
The Headlines:
--Euro-Doubt Has World Stocks Falling While WS Rests; New Italian And Greek Questions And Political Defeat In Germany Casts Clouds.--Hurricane Katia Looks To Be On Deadly Path Towards East Coast; Experts Expect It To veer North And Away Leaving heavy Surf On beaches And Rocky Coasts.
--Possibly Peace Deal In Libya Breaks Down As Daffy Forces In key Stronghold Reject Rebel Offer.
--RI Gov. Chafee-Lite's Admin Payroll Up (25.25%) From $1.94 Mil To $2.43 Mil; New Gov Has Encouraged New Kinds Of Taxes To Bail Out State.
--MS Sans Lewis Expects To Raise More Than 2010.
"Oh no! It's raining on our Baseball game!": "The rain stopped! Who did you call, Charlie Brown? The weatherman?" "No, Dial-a-Prayer."
Are all of these storms really larger, or do they just look larger becasue of all that red swirling stuff they now show on TV?
Apparently the big popular phrase around here in the post-Irene days -- "Congratulations on your Return to Power." is being Tweeted around the world. Gadhafi was seen ordering a big "Return to Power" Cake! How about that social networking.
Just what Rhode Island needs -- More administrators.
When you look at a lot of individual companies, it appears that the economy is doing quite well. The real problem may be that the economy is just not big enough any longer to produce jobs the American way. Oh, it has the capability of producing piddling jobs for ever and ever. But, the continuing encroachment of new technology upon the manufacturing as well as the service sectors will tend to make those jobs more piddling. Tis overtime reducing average income and the discretionary spending necessary to support piddling jobs. Then the Gov will step in and pay more and more to people to do less and less, further reducing discretionary spending. Sounds like the potential for a bad couple of cycles.
I worry when I first see new neighbors all dressed from head to toe in black.
Could-get-very-interesting, Department:
That suit brought by the US of A on behalf of Fannie/Freddie against 17 of the financial bigs could make for some great morning reading. The suit basically accused the "Bigs" of fraud in the selling of allegedly known Toxic investments to the big Gov mortgage houses. What will be revealing will be the defense arguments which could expose complicity on the part of the Quasi-Gov behemoths. This is a conspiracy mongers dream come true! There will be lots of squirming going on.
I was researching the expected $23Bil+ unfunded pension liability for GM prior to the upcoming IPO thinking there may be a good story there. I hit a roadblock when some financial WS experts said it would have little or no effect on the much anticipated coming out party for the once proud biggest company in the world. Wait a minute...did I say Wall Street expert? Uh, oh!
Stock Tip: The Movie "Contagion" is going to be great for the sale of Purell Hand Sanitizing Dispensers. That is, if Wall Street still worked that way.
Supply and Demand was always a nice, simple economic model upon which companies and consumers alike would make rational business and investment decisions. But rampant speculation techniques made possible by lightning fast computers has done away with that logic, effectively taking opportunity and sensible planning out of the hands of business and home owners. Of course house flipping was one of the more repugnant money grabbing fads of the last decade. Most speculation adds significant amounts of cost with no increased value... and puts tons of dough in the pockets of a few.
All of a sudden it seems like everything in the world is happening on September 6!
I thought that one of the great travesties in recent history was Fed bureaucrats forbidding Boeing from building a plant in Carolina because it was a "right ot work state.". It's scary for the future of America to think that the exec branch has forgotten the premise of what made the country great and has gained that much unfettered power that it can circumvent private entities from making rational decisions.
Brian Bassett seems like a guy with a heart.
People I don't read about: Winners of food eating contests.
Almost Near: Chapter 38. --Audrey didn't press the children. They were responding to her, more than she could have hoped. Yet she, a reporter, found it surprisingly easy to walk away without asking more. The heaviness in her heart was telling her to leave them alone.
She rose almost immediately after they began to cry after telling of Bounty. She wrapped her arms around them and found them willing to snuggle deeply within a stranger's caress. The three stood still, posed in a sculpture like moment, not moving; comforting, each other. Audrey found difficulty to break it up. She looked up and saw Florence staring, little rivulets of tears on her cheeks.
These two little girls would need a lot of help. She knew it. It is why she didn't press sleeping with Daddy. When she felt the sobbing diminish and a sense of calm within them, she released the two and stood back. And looked at them as if they were her own. She could tell they didn't want her to go.
"I'll be back tomorrow. Your Aunt Florence is a good person and will take good care of you."
"We know that." Did they say everything in unison, Audrey wondered.
Within minutes, a drained Audrey was rushing down to her car. To what? Sit and cry her eyes out? She wondered.
She felt the vibration from her cell phone. She it pulled out as she reached the main sidewalk, and instinctively looked back at the house. It was a text, "Call your office."
The Answer:
1. For some unexplained reason, forty-four years ago Ford decided to introduce the Edsel to an unsuspecting American Public. The reaction was one of horror. 2. Iva Toguri was "Tokyo Rose". There is much evidence pointing to he the fact that she was coerced to utter anti-American sentiments, as opposed to Rachel Maddow who does it from the heart.
Only 110 shopping days left til Christmas! The Tids: Working to build a better economy.
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