...we just had a concert by The Boss (must remember to review...)

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

Not sure when the school year finishes but it will be over the next couple of weeks I think.  Then town will be a total nightmare to walk through!

It is time for me to plan my holidays!

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Commerce sent us an email saying we could go watch the fireworks on the DoC roof tomorrow, which is right on the Mall.  But no food, booze or smoking.

And then there's the headache of dealing with a million people trying to get home on the Metro.  L'Enfant Plaza, where I'd be getting on in the District, is pretty busy during off-peak hours, mobbed during peak hours, and Hell on Earth when any kind of event is going on.  It took half an hour to get a train -- and when I got one, I was pinned into about six inches of space by a bazillion freaks in Friar Tuck outfits -- when the idiot Pope put on his little show at the stadium last year, and the fireworks are probably more popular than the Pope.

So I'm thinking teevee is the way to go.  Normally I go up to Iwo Jima, which has a really great view, with my aunt and uncle, but they're not around this year.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

London Pride march tomorrow. Us wierdo trannies are banished to the back and most of my firends seem disinterested, so I shall turn up early, schmooze,  socialise and then see what's happening.

My ultimate goal is the American Beer Festival being held at the White Horse in Parsons Green aka Sloaney Pony. Those who were at the London meet a couple of years back will be familiar having been dragged there by yours truly.

They have Stone Ales on draught !!! Mugga Booga bluggle.

keep to the Fen Causeway

"some kind of regency", that's good.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

Who Are The Short Sellers?

Inquiring minds are asking, who is doing the bulk of short selling?

It's a good question, too. And I have an answer: The market makers like Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch.

Yes, the whiners complaining about short selling are doing the bulk of it! For every buyer there is a seller, and when markets are screaming higher, the market makers are frequently shorting as a pure function of what they do. Moreover, when people buy PUTs, the market makers selling those options short stock as a hedge.

Not only are the market makers shorting, but these actions are where the bulk of naked shorting comes from.

By the way, the SEC initiated a huge short squeeze once before by restricting shorts on financials. Guess what happened when the short squeeze ended and Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and the other market makers were the ones left holding the shorts? The market plunged is what.

wha?

If'Madness is the absence of work'(Foucault), then Sanity is the presence of play..

A Snake Eating Its Own Tail - Clusterfuck Nation

Top Ten Signs You Are Living in a Banana Republic.
Why only ten? While there are certainly countless other signs that our country is a banana republic worthy of comparison to other ignominious, run-down, despotic regimes where the plutocracy plunders the treasury for its own interest, the American audience has an attention span of less than 30 seconds, is addicted to Ritalin and Adderall, and therefore has a penchant for lazy summaries and cliff notes. Have we lost you yet? Without further adieu:
10. Zimbabwe-the archetypal banana republic and the home of the $100 Billion omelet-praises recent US FED action. So the FED-which likely 90% or more of Americans have no idea of what it really is, its role, who controls it, or how it is accountable to taxpayers-prints over $1.2 trillion (with a T), and Zimbabwe declares, "Banks, including those in the USA and the UK, are now not just talking of, but also actually implementing flexible and pragmatic central bank support programmes where these are deemed necessary in their national interests. That is precisely the path that we began over 4 years ago in pursuit of our own national interest and we have not wavered on that critical path despite the untold misunderstanding, vilification and demonization we have endured from across the political divide." Not the kind of endorsement we desire to restore confidence in our financial system.

my bold

can't make it up...

If'Madness is the absence of work'(Foucault), then Sanity is the presence of play..

Never let it be said he did not bite his nose to spite his face.

keep to the Fen Causeway

needs time for a serious run at the presidency?

I'm tired of this backslapping, aint humanity great BS, we're a virus with shoes Bill Hicks

Okay, what's this do for her ? Sarcasm aside I wonder if she believes that, in order to make the next step, she needs to be a regular presence in the lower 48.

Fox anchor ? RW radio ? What's she up to ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

Senate elections next year > Acquisition of gravitas for 2012??

You can't be me, I'm taken

Andrea Mitchell says that, according to her sources, "Palin is out of politics, period."

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

After an evening spent with psychotherapists and sociologists, does anyone wish to take the no side in the proposed debate?

Amurka is clinically insane.

Skennah Kowa

To the Rush Limbaugh crowd an embezzlement indictment -- especially a FEDERAL embezzlement indictment -- will be proof™ of the fear Palin inspires in all Leftists, everywhere.

 

Madness takes its toll. Have exact change ready

If I were you I'd be happy the flight steward had not handed me the NEW! Tamiflu® Inflight magazine with bill of sale tipped between pages--

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Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

haha, sounds about right...

If'Madness is the absence of work'(Foucault), then Sanity is the presence of play..

We had to do this when I landed at Barajas in mid-June. Except the policy was brand-new and the Iberia crew had no foreknowledge of it. The plane was met at the terminal by some functionary with a stack of forms and they told the crew that if every passenger didn't fill it out, we couldn't deboard. So with everyone already standing in the aisles with their luggage waiting to go, they passed them around.

It was a silly form. When asked where in Spain I was staying I wrote "We're just passing through on our way to Portugal" - I was tempted to add "so don't worry about my cough" but was already worried about catching the connection to Lisboa.

We handed them to an Iberia crew member when we got off the plane, who looked like she was just going to drop them on some desk somewhere. Seemed a mostly pointless exercise.

And the world will live as one

Finally, someone with a proper perspective, must be all the Pieces of glacier floating in your whiskey.

I'm tired of this backslapping, aint humanity great BS, we're a virus with shoes Bill Hicks

You're not gong to believe this, but after letting CH write that post, i went outside, to drink on the steps, and found some German household had Dylan escaping through the windows...

"Sometimes even the preznit of the united states must sometime have to stand naked."

Followed by the Boss.  i love deutschland.  false, i'm resigned to deutschland.

Skennah Kowa

brilliant

You can't be me, I'm taken