Slovenia not in need of bailout yet, says OECD chief

Slovenia Should Focus on Fixing Banks Before Bailout Plea

EBRD: Slovenia can solve own economic problems

[Drew's WHEEEEE™ Technology]

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

Then I met an old actor/comic (at a tram stop) that I'd cast 2 decades ago in car commercials. Sadly now down on his luck and, in his own words, 'on the booze'.

Then a sushi lunch with a rising documentary director to discuss a potential project and the usual 'the word on the streets is' exchange of gossip.

PM = VDMX5 tests for a little music video I'm making for the Singing D. Now I am waiting for scripts for tomorrow, both of which were promised, on bended knees, to be delivered by COB on Friday. Typical! The lead time on commercials voiceovers these days is approximately yesterday.

You can't be me, I'm taken

The Irish Times Monday reported on ECB pressure on Ireland to apply for a bailout in November 2010. Three letters sent by then ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet warned that Dublin should apply for a bailout or risk the country's banks being cut off from access to support.

"A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening," he writes in a new book, The Great Animal Orchestra. "Little by little the vast orchestra of life, the chorus of the natural world, is in the process of being quietened. There has been a massive decrease in the density and diversity of key vocal creatures, both large and small. The sense of desolation extends beyond mere silence.

"If you listen to a damaged soundscape ... the community [of life] has been altered, and organisms have been destroyed, lost their habitat or been left to re-establish their places in the spectrum. As a result, some voices are gone entirely, while others aggressively compete to establish a new place in the increasingly disjointed chorus."

Ryan has been on the ticket for 6 days and already the staff are leaking and running away:

Romney ignored warnings about Ryan's history of lies, exaggerations

Campaign professionals vetting Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as a potential Republican vice presidential candidate warned Mitt Romney`s strategists that the Congressman had a "history of exaggeration and prevarication"  that could become a campaign issue and distraction but the GOP presidential nominee's team ignored the warnings.

"In 1968, France was a dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old American," Borger says, "but Mitt Romney was right in the middle of it."