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Missed it by, "that much."

Ewwww... A word to the wise: Never order the "tuna melt," from Indigo Joe's in Colorado Springs. About an hour of dry-heaving-cleaning later... I think it would have been easier to buy a new house than clean up the mess... but not in this market. Sad, but someday, those dollar bills will be worth less than a two-ply sheet of toilet paper... and it will be intentional. How else will the U.S. pay off nearly eleven trillion dollars in debt without becoming a globally-belligerent empire? Oh wait, something tells me that there are crazy people who intend to do both, or at least they did... and that's why we are in the mess we are. Down the toilet. Maybe we could call (not Indigo) Joe the Plumber to help us out?

The Slow-Motion Tsunami

Asian stocks tumble as crisis intensifies So it begins... despite the historic, mind blowingly large, never before seen, or even dreamt of dumping of cash on a problem, that is simply the largest bailout in the history of mankind (or, the biggest heist in human history, depending on your position). Stocks around the world (your grandma's savings for example) are still tanking? This, despite the injection of 800 billion dollars or whatever into the global credit markets (soon to be into the trillions for sure). The great big shitpile ™ continues to sweep across the global real estate landscape. And of course, nobody could have predicted this catastrophe... oh yeah, that's kind of bullshit ain't it? Sleep tight my angels. PS It helps to read this blog entry out loud in a sarcastic British accent to lessen the blow of the real truth of this possibly slow-motion-long-term horror of a financial global train wreck that possibly is yet to come. Doomed to repeat, history is --...