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Thursday, September 18, 2008

News Good Morning, News!

Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:01 AM

From the AP: "The worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression forced the Federal Reserve and central banks in other countries to pump billions of dollars into the world's banking system in an urgent bid to stop further damage." Hey grumpy Gus! Turn that frown upside down!

President Bush is working feverishly to aid the current economic crisis (translated, he's trying to convince everyone that this isn't his fault).

Brad Pitt has donated $100,000 to help fight the California ballot initiative that would overturn the Supreme Court's decision to allow same sex marriages. Thank you, Brad -- and if you don't mind, could you also take off your shirt.

Barack Obama calls bullshit on the perception that McCain is pro-choice... BECAUSE HE'S NOT, PEOPLE! HE'S ANTI-CHOICE! (Please tell everyone you know.)

Sarah Palin's first tough lesson: Don't send private government emails over a Yahoo email account, you dipshit.

It's okay to be confused about this week's economic clusterfuck, because our good friend Jon Stewart from the Daily Show is here to explain it all in a hilarious manner. (Hilarious that is, if you're not currently experiencing a panic attack.)


 

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It's kinda funny how my quality of life hasn't changed one single bit with this financial crisis. I still have a job, my coworkers all have jobs, we all still eat food and enjoy entertainment. Those of us with investments ar doing OK to not-so-good, but nothing that isn't killing us (I put my money in mostly commodities since 9/11 and my returns have been positive since.)

Oh well, guess I'll go down to the bread line and chill for a bit.
Posted by NIG GER on September 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM · Report
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That wasn't a ring-tailed lemur, that was a badger with some sort of weird prosthetic tail... Apparently, Jon Stewart needs to, in the words of Gene Simmons, "fire his research people."

That said, I agree with Indy. Those of us fortunate enough to still have jobs (and I know a lot of smart and well educated people who don't right now) aren't noticing much of a change, apart from rising gas and food prices (but those are public policy matters, and we mustn't let such things distract us from "enjoying entertainment."). We can roll with bumps in the road like these, because surely all of us long ago dumped our 401s and IRAs and invested in commodities, right? Right...
Posted by Tommy on September 18, 2008 at 6:24 PM · Report
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Doing well? Ex-cellent.
Posted by Monty on September 19, 2008 at 10:27 AM · Report

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