by admin | Oct 13, 2008 |
This is the first of two blogs I intend to write on the current financial crises, but, of course, I’ve intended write a lot of other stuff too. Sometimes the fire just goes out before I get ink on paper so to speak. We’ll see. One would have to have been hermetically sealed not to have been scared witless by a) 30% decline in the stock market, and b) talking heads shouting from every news channel that this was the worst crises since the great depression, and c) questions from the DW (darling wife) about whether we still had enough money left to see us into our dotage. My own reaction in times of crisis is to do the ostrich number….that is to say, I...
by admin | Sep 30, 2008 |
In the last few days I’ve heard the number trillion used more than I can ever recall. In the instances where I can recall hearing trillion used it was always in a statement like, “there must be a trillion grains of sand on the beach”, or “I’ve tried to balance my check book a trillion times, and it’s always off”. I don’t recollect people using the designation trillion when talking about something specific as in, “those crazy idiots in congress are going to cost us a trillion dollars with this bailout”. But now that I think about it, the number trillion has been used increasingly for some time to describe stuff. For example: 1. The gross domestic product...
by admin | Aug 20, 2008 |
To say I was shocked when I heard that Cheney was slated to give a keynote address at the Republican convention three weeks hence is a huge understatement. Why would McCain further associate himself and the party, which he presumptively leads, with Dick Cheney, the only politician who has lower approval ratings than Bush 43 and Dan Quayle (when he was Veep)? Just one more of a myriad of mysteries about the politician that no one really knows. Ok, it’s stretching a point to say that no one knows Cheney, but if they do it’s not because Dickey-boy told them anything. He’s one of the most notoriously closed mouth politicians since “Silent Cal”…..Calvin...
by admin | Jul 17, 2008 |
Having been down this road before, it was was with a sense of trepidation, even impending doom, that I anticipated my rapidly approaching “surgical event”. I already had a second opinion, and even revisited the highly regarded Doc for another opinion about his 2nd opinion, trying to see if I could construct any rationale for delaying what everyone said shouldn’t be delayed.. The Event was scheduled for 7:30 Monday morning which translated to a 5:30 am arrival time at the hospital which meant that I’d be hanging around for an hour or so before anything really happened (I thought). I wasn’t expecting much of a night’s sleep, but I did expect a little. I...
