Via Jennifer:

Rules.

Word.

He won’t help them when their homes have been destroyed….

Since Bush was reviled as hating blacks (and being racist and/or “hating black people”)when he couldn’t get millions of dollars of Federal aid to them in Louisiana and Mississippi fast enough post Katrina, then it must follow that Mr. “we won” Obama must hate white people in downstate Illinois because he has DENIED any federal disaster aid to all those counties which were destroyed by that line of tornadoes last week…

Racist bastard.

Sorry, illness has temporarily disabled the Free Ice Cream machine.

mayhaps tomorrow there will be content.

If my head doesn’t explode.

Hope you did move your money out of the EURO….

Greece has done the deal, and now come the Defaults, and the big economic Tsunami.

Will this bring down the $15+ TRILLION house of cards/

Let us hope not.

But I’d hedge my bets if I were you.

This is the way it should work.

Read this. It is long, and a history lesson….but I promise it is relevant.

Think about it.

How is todays economics any different than what happened then?

Think Greece and the bailouts. Think “Quantative Easing” I and II. Think what the EU wants to do to all those folks who currently hold Greek bonds. Think about what happens if Greece (and all the other PIIGS default, and what happens to the insurance market and to the bond market and to the worlds economies.  I, for the life of me, cannot see any difference, except that instead of a King, the decisions are made by a bunch of economists in a meeting in Brussels and Washington DC.

How are we not getting the “short end of the stick”?

BTW, if you have investments (retirement or otherwise) in Europe, or based on the EURO, I highly suggest that you divest yourself of them immediately. The crash will not be good for any of us, no matter where we have our money. But there will be people who are hurt, and people who are devastated. Those with Euro holdings will be in the latter category. 

(Disclaimer: I am not an investment advisor, nor do I play one on TV. Make your own decisions….)

I really don’t have much fear of spiders, but I think that this would kinda creep me out just a bit….

Yeah, I know they are harmless, and that they are eating all the mosquitoes and all that…

Still:

I might well have to move if this happened to my home.

What Borepatch said.

Amen brother.

We gotta have a beer sometime.

Seems Britain (and apparently the rest of the EU) are finally figuring out what a boondoggle wind power really is. 

And how much money we are wasting on it, for little or even negative gain.

Now if only the folks in the US would learn the lesson.

But Peter (whom I have met, and if he is racist, he hides it well) just speaks the truth.

Until we, as a society admit that a significant subset of our population (and culture) has issues, and take steps to remedy that, we will continue to have a criminal minority.