Hmmm, at the home rain gauge, only 1.06 inches today.
Somehow it seems like more.

Ask and you shall receive...let me try that again...another bank please!

This might be a long night. I don't care if I'm right or not with my call of 7.
35 would be just fine with me. Maybe America will wake up with some obscene number of failures. My God, what does it take to awaken the people to WTF is going on in this country?!?!?

Louisiana makes an appearance ...

The first swindle in the land of Jindal.

These banks failing in the 1930's would have set off a chain reaction within the area where they were, and set off runs on every other banking institution regardless of their financial condition...

Today, we are more concerned about the number of failed banks being the same as our guess~

Blackwaterwannabe wrote:

That would really suck.

Blackwaterwannabe for czar?
Your enlistment papers are waiting at the front desk.

Vonbek777 wrote:

Deprive the population of beer, chocolate, and coffee....

They tried to run that scenario in the simulations, but the computers melted before they could see the outcome.

From the last thread on TALF

I think the TALF wind-down will have a negligible impact at this point. In ABS, the vast majority of bonds that qualified for TALF financing were trading inside of levels where the financing was profitable.

In CMBS, TALF was still a good deal, but the volume going to TALF was dwindling. Financing is once again available from the dealers (like banks), so that helps dampen the effect of TALF going away. CMBS spreads have been grinding tighter steadily for the quarter, and this may stop the grind, but I doubt things head the other way.

Cooking - Squirrel (Skillet)

......That actually looks appetizing. Amazing the stuff you're willing to eat when you're hungry and dieting...LOL

They claim he's had all these heart attacks, but it must be similar to somebody with an amputated limb that feels a mock pain where the appendage used to be....

If Liz gets a zombie, I want a flying saucer.

When is Sheila getting to CA? I imagine OneWest is ready for another.

Bob Dobbs wrote:

What, ouzo and cherry schnaps on the rocks with a slice of melon?

A dirty ouzo martini in a bucket.

Double

Black Star Ranch wrote:

......That actually looks appetizing. Amazing the stuff you're willing to eat when you're hungry and dieting...LOL

I ate it when I was a kid because we used to hunt them, and the folks required that we eat what we shot or caught....it is pretty good if you can tolerate fried food.

Pavel, you posted an icon.

I'm so proud.

sm_landlord wrote:

Your enlistment papers are waiting at the front desk.

"Ahem". Thank you, thank you fellow citizens. I am honored for your nomination and will move to expedite quality control for all breweries in and those shipped to our great land. There will be a nominal $1.00 quality surcharge on each 6 pack, but you are allowed to take that off your 2011 tax.
God Bless America.

I'm not paying.

hahahahahahahaha

Somewhere in Lousiana, a befuddled Bill Murray look-alike confronts a pizza delivery driver.
"Where all all those pizzas going?"
"To the bank, of course! It's Friday... you know, BFF?"
"Friday is still just once a week, right?"

Bob Dobbs wrote:

What, ouzo and cherry schnaps on the rocks with a slice of melon? Something.

Nah, ever had Retsina?

Are we still waiting for a Puerto Rican bank ?

Nah, ever had Retsina?

It's not bad.

middle-class-money-angst: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

Fed's Flow of Funds numbers again show average Americans' net worth gaining more by mortgage defaults than asset appreciation.

If there is a recovery in Americans' finances, they don't see it.

The Federal Reserve reported Thursday that the net worth of U.S. "households" increased at about a 5% annual rate in the fourth quarter, a good deal slower than the blistering 20% pace over the two previous quarters, but still a solid increase.

Not long after the news was posted on the Wall Street Journal's Web site early that afternoon, the vituperative comments began to flow. Many simply dismissed the data as inaccurate or worse. The numbers simply didn't jibe with what they were seeing in their own finances or those around them.

Most of the gain in wealth has come from the rebound in the stock market, which drove a 15.4% annual rate of gain in households' equity holdings in the period. For the year, their equity holders increased 30.9%.

NGBROI wrote:

My God, what does it take to awaken the people to WTF is going on in this country?!?!?

Does it matter any more? The system is broken and something else is emerging even as we speak. Reforms don't matter. More regulation doesn't matter. It's over. Time to look for what is coming.

Here's the result from my effort today to "awaken the people," specifically a small family sliding into poverty because of illness and injury:

Big business employs other businesses & the money does trickle down. Insurance companies employ people & the money trickles down.

She would rather die than give up that illusion.

No, no Pavel...please stay timeless.

LOL ... my head still hurts.

You're supposed to drink it but you don't hit yourself on the head with the empty bottle.

How about a name change to Flavor Enhancement Premium ?

ResistanceIsFeudal wrote:

Whatever your scam, in the Big "Appall", somebody does it better...

Glad to see yore spellin'' it rite now.............

lawyerliz wrote:

Still not paying.

we have lawyers...

Greek Bailout: 2oz of ouzo, 2oz peach schnapps (like the drink Greek Kiss), 6 cups bitter lemon, warm to room temperature, add four tablespoons goats milk, and a twist of lemon to curd the milk. Mix. Now sit in the direct sun and chug.

pavel.chichikov wrote:

It takes less and less time for the barber to cut my hair.

pavel, you are timeless icons or no - thanks for bringing the rest of us knuckledraggers along for the ride

Now sit in the direct sun and chug.

It's a recipe for when you've drunk poison by mistake?

Does that include the nose and ear hair ?

And the curly bits that stick out from the back of your shirt collar?

I'm glad I'm a girl.

I seem to have no more leg hair.

Hurrah!

pavel.chichikov wrote:

You're supposed to drink it but you don't hit yourself on the head with the empty bottle.

That would have been the kind thing to do - before you drink too much. I don't know which leaves the worse hangovers - retsina or ouzo [raki or arrak similar]... my roommate was Turkish - we drank oceans of the stuff usually while cooking [Middle Eastern meals]. Got blindingly drunk some nights.

Happy BFF= three already!

Every Friday is BFF as we close the dead banks.

Three more years to go for a month without a BFF- anybody wanna bet?

Someday this war's gonna end...

Does that include the nose and ear hair ?

I do that myself with a special scissors from Germany. Ja!

Citizen AllenM wrote:

hree more years to go for a month without a BFF- anybody wanna bet?

I'll take that bet - not because they don't need to be closed but because Sheila runs out of money form time to time.

Where's that bottle to hit Cinco over the head with?
I wave a in his imaginary direction.

Stamos wrote:
someone set up a betting system to gamble on when we will hit the Bank failure #100 benchmark.
Only if we can sell and trade derivatives on it... an honest market is common as an honest politician

retsina or ouzo

Pernod is similar. Drank it once with a bunch of Icelanders, who happened to have some. Then they went to the cemetery and pee peed on the tombstones - supposedly to show their contempt for death.

Slivovitz is better

I would agree.

I think they just had to go.

pavel.chichikov wrote:

Then they went to the cemetery and pee peed on the tombstones - supposedly to show their contempt for death.

And here I thought you were supposed to challenge Death to a game of 52 pickup and sneak out the back door.

And here I thought you were supposed to challenge Death to a game of 52 pickup and sneak out the back door.

The way those guys drink you'd be lucky to be able to walk.

Barley wrote:

Retsina ice cubes in carbonated water is excellent

I had quite a few drinking binges with Retsina in Greece in my younger years. I never got used to the taste but after a few glasses things started to flow. Greeks know how to party!

Mmmm, raki. Lion's milk. In Kas, on the balcony, escaping northern winter in a February, guaranteed to fire up the evening.

C

I never got used to the taste

After a while you can't taste anything anyway.

Had some hot saki for dinner.

Very good with sushi.

That's the name of a local Brevard hospital.

Vonbek777 wrote:

Don't you know it's impolite to ask...

Damn straight, watch your :backside: cinco, or lliz will go all Atropos on your :donkey:

Vonbek777 wrote:

Deprive the population of beer,

YouTube - No beer no tv make homer go crazy

IT MUST BE JUST LIKE LIVING IN PARADISE! Van Halen is good for homeless person like me.

dryfly wrote:

Don't make me go 'Crazy Turk'..." Ummm - no we wouldn't want that - please settle down & have another drink.

Don't ever let a Greek and a Turk get into an argument if it is ...[homefield here]... coffee and especially not if things have been flowing.

Pavel, that's what it took.

RE, I really miss the dinners my friend's wife used to make for us. He was a Soviet television correspondent stationed in DC. Lots and lots to drink, but also plenty to eat, which is how it should be, and the pace of the eating and drinking is slow and measured. Lots of small courses of savory things. You end up feeling good and mellow, not stuffed to the gills and sickish.

Because I could be one of "those"..

Unviables...bad persons...

:handsclapping: :handsclapping: very good anonymous very good!

Unviables...much better. Stupid pavel...

Venezuelan energy crisis hits workers' income - Daily News - EL UNIVERSAL

According to the CTV leader, the power crisis together with high inflation levels, devaluation and increased prices of some staple foods have created a sort of "Molotov cocktail against workers." As a result, the recent 10 percent increase in minimum wage, which came into force last week, and the additional 15 percent raise in September will be meaningless.

Actually Montana calling?

Poka...

energyecon wrote:

the recent 10 percent increase in minimum wage, which came into force last week, and the additional 15 percent raise in September will be meaningless.

That's defaultionary, right?

Rajesh. No we rely on Piper two engines, silly. So get me, silly! And all the terminators out there...Z4-D3...TANGO!

Shrimp banks and Shrimp Pizza?

gabyjan wrote:

cinco-x you mean as in"unexpectedly"

Ya'; Thanks! Nice catch

KILL TANGO! KILL TANGO! Z312-A4

we are being invaded!?

Mexican military copter over U.S. neighborhood

BROWNSVILLE — The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.

Now this may take you minds off of BFF for a minute:

The woman arrived in the African country last winter. Six months later, she found a small white tumor on her shoulder. The tumor was 3-4 centimeters in diameter. The tumor disappeared in two days, but later reappeared on the woman’s head. Afterwards, the tumor was moving from one spot on the woman’s body to another for several months.

The woman eventually stopped paying attention to it until she felt sharp pain in her right eye. She looked in the mirror and was shocked to see a white worm crawling from one corner of her eye to the other. The helmint disappeared, but the woman found it the next day, underneath her lower eyelid.

The tourist decided to return to Russia to undergo medical treatment in Moscow. The woman caught the tropical disease known as loiasis. The moving tumor, which the woman had on her body, is known as the Calabar swelling: it is a typical symptom of loiasis.

Loiasis is a parasitic disease caused by a certain type of helmint known as Loa loa. The disease transmits through the bite of deer fly or mango fly. Incidents when worms penetrate into the brain or the spinal cord may lead to lamentable consequences. An infected individual may develop a severe form of encephalitis.

The geographical distribution of human loiasis is restricted to the rain forest and swamp forest areas of West Africa, being especially common in Cameroon and on the Ogowe River. Humans are the only known natural reservoir. It is estimated that 12-13 million humans are infected with the Loa loa larvae.

Some music:
I.G.Y. Donald Fagen

"BROWNSVILLE — The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande."

Apache just wanna go home...

ghostfaceinvestah wrote:

we are being invaded!?
Mexican military copter over U.S. neighborhood

Dry run for martial law.............

"I'm on your team, LBB. I bet if we shave our heads, we probably look alike"

You mean like real, I am just calibrating this shit, man.

Not nearly as bad as the Guinea Worm:

There is no vaccine or medicine to treat or prevent Guinea worm disease. Once a Guinea worm emerges a person must wrap the live worm around a piece of gauze or a stick to extract it from the body. This long, painful process can take up to a month.[5] This is the same treatment that is noted in the famous ancient Egyptian medical text, the Ebers papyrus from 1550 B.C.[4] Some people have said that extracting a Guinea worm feels like the afflicted area is on fire.[9][10]

Although Guinea worm disease is usually not fatal, the wound where the worm emerges could develop a secondary bacterial infection such as tetanus, which may be life-threatening—a concern in endemic areas where there is typically limited or no access to health care.[11] Analgesics can be used to help reduce swelling and pain and antibiotic ointments can help prevent secondary infections at the wound site.[6]

Dracunculiasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sweet dreams.

" Mexican military copter over U.S. neighborhood.Did it dump pesos?

Never know about those runaway toyotas...evil spirits...bad mojo, evil dogs...no good...gonna get you!

EvilHenryPaulson wrote:

Please Thai not to panic

. . . . there is a North - South Buddhist-Muslim divide,

I never understood how the political upheaval was consistent with Buddhist traditions.

I don't think the Muslims from the South are involved with these skirmishes.

you're welcome cinco-x

"I'm just goofin', but I am >50% German.

According to the Field Manual, you are borderline German. You make a good rocket? Unless no, you are unfortunately dead meat...unless chapter 7c) German Jews making a rocket...than it is ok.

major, major here.

charles hugh smith-Bells Will Ring At The Bottom in Stocks and Housing

"Here's something else that's currently considered "impossible" which seems highly probable to me, just based on history and human psychology: that stocks will trade at price-earnings ratios of 4 to 6, that dividends will exceed 10% because interest rates exceed 10%, and that houses will routinely sell for 10% or 20% of their bubble highs even in desirable areas. Houses in undesirable areas will have zero value except for scrap, and unfortunately most McMansions have little useable lumber or other materials, being largely constructed of wood chips, defective drywall, plastic piping, fake rock or brick, etc.

Stocks which sold for $40 a share today will trade for $1 or $2. Volume will be light because people will have given up playing the crooked shysters' Wall Street games. The Dow Jones Industrial Average will trade around 1,000 (down from 10,600 today) and after years and years of shouting and screaming and hype about "the bargain of a lifetime" and "this is bottom, the market willl never go lower than 6,700 ever again in the entire history of humankind," etc. etc. etc., people will have finally relinquished their core belief in the fairness, goodness and wonderfulness of stocks and housing as surefire pathways to wealth. "

Germany vs. Greece...hmm..maybe Monty Python was telling us something...
Philosopher Football

EvilHenryPaulson wrote:

the religious divides also overlap with the urban/rural divides, and income divides, and education divides...

All that is true and the Buddhists seem to fear allowing Muslims to increase their power in the country.

What I've watched going on with Thaksin, pro and con, over the years seems to be internal among Buddhists.

one more and i win. wait. zero more and i win. i forgot about last night...

If you have Greek bailout you have to eat the guinea worm

noob goldberg wrote:

sporkfed wrote:

Are we still waiting for a Puerto Rican bank ?

Only for the past 18 months.

Sheila keeps hoping a hurricane will do the dirty work for her.

Vonbek777 wrote:

. It eventually ate its way out the side. Painful, lost his mind from the pain for awhile.

Sounds like the Star Trek epidsode of The Wrath of Khan. Maybe we should capture some of them and plant them all over DC?

All this talk about worms, reminded me of one my dad used to read me...
The Ballad Of The Ice-Worm Cocktail

I just did a search...apparently it was John Hanning Speke and it was a beetle. There is a debate on the truth of the claim though.

Greeks & Albanians

As I've mentioned before, my mother is 100% Greek. My m-i-l is 100% Albanian. I have a teen with a grumpy streak. I know it's the Greek & Albanian genes warring within.

Yes, I voted 5, but have you noticed the FDIC loss-ratios are much smaller than 6 months ago?

There were a bunch in the 40% range back then and now they're typically 15%-30%. Maybe its a case of triage and the sickest ones were dealt with first. If that's the case, we might have to face up to it not being as bad as we hoped.

kcoop wrote:

Interesting. Is this inflationary?

Ken, not so much... Sorry for not including the blog address.

picosec,

Good. I don't really want sit by the campfire telling stories about back in the day when we had electricity anytime we wanted it.

Just got in from work, did I miss anything? I saw RockyR and Scotto were discussing our airport boondoggle here in Panama City after I left this morning. My husband is working on that job site and it is a mess. They are way behind schedule and it is still flooding with heavy rain. One day they went in to work on one of the buildings and there was several inches of flood water in the building. The guy they hired (Phoenix Construction owned by James Finch) is notorious for screwing jobs up. He is the one they are trying to fine for the water problems as they didn't put enough sod down. They built the damn thing in a wetlands ( a freaking swamp). No amount of sod will fix that. St. Joe corporation had swamp land they needed to dump so we the dumbasses are funding that for them. They put it to a vote here years ago and it was voted down by the people so they just went ahead and did it anyway. Personally I don't care one way or another, at least my husband has a job for the time being working out there.

No, Kristina. I just hate myself equally like last time and we still like to see you naked 12.3 years ago

blackwater...

You mean at the center of the known universe? Same as it was in 05. Well, a few cracks and the paint is fading here and there....Doom rode its pale horse south as best as I can tell

Three plus one? Is that it Sheila?

Reading some Yahoo News stories (but not the comments):

Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences - Yahoo! News

712 Comments

Dems weigh transitional Medicare expansion - Yahoo! News 

13,454 Comments

Do you think some people actually would read over 13,000 comments?

Edit: wait a minute, that second story is supposedly only 51 minutes old and has the title:
"Health bill's prospects abruptly improve; Obama delays trip"

I guess Yahoo didn't update the text in the URL . . . or else it's just the same story from August 2009.

Do you think some people actually would read over 13,000 comments?

Well, loserbeachtuna's brother probably typed 3,234 of them

yea! dinner!

Rajesh wrote:

FDIC is selling a lot of structured notes. Perhaps they are trying to build up their piggy bank (named "DIF") so they can buy a named Zions or Regions or Westernbank.

Maybe those forward premiums they are charging member banks isn't coming in as fast as they thought it would.

nova wrote:

So we still going take a charter out fishing and go Somalian as planned?

You bet...but why so far? There's banks around here...

Oh, no, the amoral scumbags used to be just the bankers; now it's the cab drivers, too:

NEW YORK – Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters at a rate that was supposed to be used for trips to the suburbs, the Taxi and Limousine Commission said Friday. At least 1.8 million trips were wrongly charged at the suburban rate, which is double the rate within city limits, the commission said.

NYC: Taxi drivers overcharged riders by $8.3M-plus - Yahoo! News

Maybe those forward premiums they are charging member banks isn't coming in as fast as they thought it would.

Maybe the forward premiums are a version of a stress test. Pay the premium or get closed.

And at those bank closings, they order Sicilian pizza.

picosec wrote:

they order Sicilian pizza.

Papa' John's! W/ !

dryfly wrote:

Oooooo... that'd send a message.

a good message.

Papa John's is my favorite "chain pizza". I get their "Works" with extra cheese and extra garlic butter...YUM.

LoserBeachBum wrote:

how fucking MORE clueless Greenpeace could be...

You have a way with words LBB. Have you considered graduate school?

No too smart for grad school...he needs to go directly to PhD research...perhaps Antarctica...looking for the all black penguin.

"You have a way with words LBB. Have you considered graduate school? "

Just saying I was once and still are a westerner but I am beginning to understand the Asian mentality...and that kind of shit is like "fucking your next wife". You go and wave a flag, better prepare for war. Especially Brits and Aussies are idiots, when it comes to Asians. So no wonder Asians are attacking back, even when they are wrong...

Greece debt: EU agrees bailout deal |
World news |
guardian.co.uk

Here are my general photos.

Pictures by kristina40_bucket - Photobucket

Comrade Kristina wrote:

Feel free to peruse my bucket. It is all public.

That quite an open minded husband you have...

Why Obama is Disappointing Us, and What We Can Do About It.

RockyR wrote:

maybe the guy is just drunk.

Maybe he's on antifreeze, glue or gasoline. Or all three.

Noob,
Drunk ? Not pretty.

Well, Australian prime minister has a clue but how things are going, there will be all out Japanese full attack carrier group, "supporting" the whale friggin fish ships, near Australia next time. Because it is all about honor this time....

Tom,

I was a Cherokee. This time I maybe Latvish

Tom Stone wrote:

Mine did,taking the long route through europe.Until they change the definition of African American to mean those born in africa who are naturalized citizens,I urge all of my fellow Americans to answer this question accurately,especially if you live in Atherton,Piedmont or Martha's Vineyard.

I wish I had a census form to fill out, right now. That's awesome.

Alas, I have to wait another year for my chance.

nova wrote:

I was a Cherokee. This time I maybe Latvish

I will write in Vulcan.

Re: Greek bailout deal: from the article:

"Rehn said he would unveil new proposals next month, enshrining a new single currency regime of "rigorous surveillance of national budgets" and that Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency, would need to be given formidable new auditing powers over the books of eurozone member states..."

Oh no! Not Formidable! Auditing! Powers! Sounds like they're getting SERIOUS!

Snark off, I can't believe the Germans have signed up for this -- it will be electoral suicide for any politician with their fingerprints anywhere near this stuff. [German Finance Minister] Schäuble would be better off staying in the hospital, faking a coma, and letting the rest of the coalition take the fall.

I thought we were all from Mars and Venus...

DCRogers wrote:

Snark off, I can't believe the Germans have signed up for this

Are they any more fiscally responsible than Greece? Who writes the swaps that hide German banker debt?

YouTube - I write the songs - Barry Manilow

km4 wrote:

or do you just just like to jack off ?"

Do I win a with that?

km4 wrote:

constructive debate

Beginning to believe that is an oxymoron.

Maybe the Germans can sell their voters that this is their time again. They, and only they, can fix this and run this Euro thing correctly.

sm_landlord wrote:

I will write in Vulcan.

I just spent 20 minutes in absolute awe at the amount of energy people put into learning fictitious languages. While I couldn't find a vulcan/english translator ( Mr. Klingon has something helpful, but not a translator), I have restored my faith in geekdom's ability to expend great deals of energy on things that the rest of the world would not care to understand.

Vancouver update:
• bubble is still on, but it appears to be set up for popping for the second time during this year
• The Provincial and Federal Sales tax are going to be merged into one, and now home sales won't be completely exempt depending on the price (the new Harmonized Sales Tax is 12%), this comes into effect on June 1st
• The local RE report for Feb showed higher sales, but much higher listings, ergo inventory is high/growing
• I've noticed a few homes from last spring that still have not sold, are sitting vacant, at least one from last spring switched realtors and was professionally staged for showings.
• A lot of developers got started early, probably because of the HST date, there doesn't seem to be much in the pipeline after this batch is completed. Many are building homes with laneway houses
• Laneway housing. This is the big thing right now. Typically in Vancouver SFH lots go street-front yard-house-big backyard-alley. Basement suites are a staple of homes in Vancouver, but this laneway house concept fits somewhere between zoning for condos and zoning for SFHs. A bit higher density than a duplex, but with physical separation. Laneway houses are only approved in certain situations, where space allows. They must have separate utilities. I think they fill a nice niche in the housing spectrum.
• Could be used for extended family like in-laws, nieces/nephews going to university, rented, easy path to downsizing (owner moves into the laneway house, stay in the same neighbourhood, don't have to worry about timing the RE market, a lot of people have a strong trust that owning RE is the one safe investment / retirement plan)
Laneway Housing :: Vancouver EcoDensity
W.11th Lane House - Lanefab: Custom laneway houses and detached garden suites

nova wrote:

Maybe the Germans can sell their voters that this is their time again. They, and only they, can fix this and run this Euro thing correctly.

This should end well.

Then again in a Munich biergarten a young man mutters to himself about "the conspiracy"

German corporate bankruptcies have risen sharply

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Corporate insolvency is on the rise in Germany German corporate bankruptcies jumped considerably last year, rising by more than 11 percent and marking the first annual increase since 2003. The volume of debt more than doubled.

Data released on Tuesday by the national statistics office showed that 32,687 companies became insolvent in 2009, as Germany suffered its worst recession in 60 years.

...

The insolvencies of these large corporations also affected the total volume of debt, which the statistics office said rose to around 85 billion euros ($116 billion) in 2009 from 33.5 billion euros one year earlier.

The rise in insolvencies last year marked the first time since 2003 that the number of filings was above the previous year's filings. In 2003, statistics recorded a high of 39,320 corporate insolvencies.

nova wrote:

They, and only they, can fix this and run this Euro thing correctly.

The dream German fix is roughly, let them run the Bundesbank, er, ECB, and anyone who wants to peg their currency or economy to the Deutschemark, er, the Euro is free to; but they control the presses.

Egos aside, that might not have been a worse system for Europe to have chosen.

So Rob is the sun pale lemon now? Seems to be a debate about appearance of the sun in the northern hemisphere. I've stared at the sun too much to tell.

Beach Bum drunk and/or ed?

I have it on good authority that Moriarty killed the archduke. Secret Baconian Master assassin.

Vonbek777 wrote:

I have it on good authority that Moriarty killed the archduke. Secret Baconian Master assassin.

The 7% solution.

RD,

I never thought of it before but the EU is a lot like the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. A lot of differences gathered under an umbrella that is held together by some shaky hands.

I never thought of it before but the EU is a lot like the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. A lot of differences gathered under an umbrella that is held together by some shaky hands.

Not at all as bellicose, or as desperate.

In the basement? With the candlestick?

nova wrote:

I never thought of it before but the EU is a lot like the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. A lot of differences gathered under an umbrella that is held together by some shaky hands.

Didn't the Austro-Hungarian Empire at least have a central government?

DCRogers,

I was just typing out loud. I think my reasoning was if the Germans were to influence policy and the UK were to run into problems what would they ask for in return?

noob, AAII went to an editor yesterday. I think it is a lot better than AA I

Yup, you are. He has been coherent, if unpleasant in the past.

I've been networking with local govt budget wonks all over So Cal for the past few weeks. After several consecutive quarters of crappy revenues, they are finally on the bandwagon. It's superficial though. I don't think they get the big picture.

AA1 is available on kindle.And congrats NoVa,I hope you have a good editor,that second eye is important.

Tom,

So do I. Because, I really need the help.

Feckless Ness wrote:

I've been networking with local govt budget wonks all over So Cal for the past few weeks. After several consecutive quarters of crappy revenues, they are finally on the bandwagon. It's superficial though. I don't think they get the big picture.

Exactly. They had 8 quarters of "next quarter." Now it is 4 halves of next half. Worse than lacking a big picture. They are end loading a disaster.

I read AA in one sitting. Obviously, a good read. Kind of disappointed I do that with books I get into. I tend to read them so fast I probably miss some detail/pleasure.

Not that I've ever taken such a course, but this would be a reason to never take a speed reading class. It might affect your enjoyment of future reading.