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Comic Relief from Bonnie-and-Clyde Wannabees
Comic relief came yesterday in the novel form of a Colorado shootout that put the until-recently-unheard-of Dougherty Gang behind bars and left gun-moll and self-styled redneck stripper Lee-Gracey Dougherty with an exit wound in her leg. Only in America, as they say. As we went to press early Thursday morning following an all-day outage of Rick’s Picks (and a thousand other web sites served by a Dallas data center that was hit by a power blackout), the Bonnie-and-Clyde wannabees were still the top story on Google news, proving that timing is everything if you want to be an overnight sensation.
Wall Street in particular must have welcomed the entertaining story of the Dougherty siblings’ interstate armed robbery spree, since, without it, the evening news would surely have been dominated by video clips of trading-floor denizens puking their guts out following a 520-point plunge in the Dow. However, as of late Wednesday night, it would appear that the traders had lost little time trying to wrest back control of the headlines with their own brand of comic relief: a 200-point rally in Dow index futures that was continuing into the wee hours on Thursday. We wouldn’t be so churlish as to admonish them for their newly reinvigorated faith in America, but shouldn’t someone break the bad news to them about the dire condition of Spain and Italy?
Meanwhile, the previous, huge dead-cat bounce, a 429-pointer on Wednesday, elicited in the Boulder, Colorado Daily Camera what may have been the most clueless headline concerning the economy that we’ve seen all year: Fed Pledge Boosts Stocks. So, did yesterday’s 520-point reversal perhaps occur because somebody discovered the Fed had crossed its short, slimy little fingers when it made that promise? The sub-headline was just as bad: Market Soars After Reserve Vows to Maintain Low Rates into 2013. Just what we needed: another couple of years of interest-free borrowing by speculators from the nest eggs of grandma, grandpa, and 75 million Baby Boomers who until a few years ago actually believed they’d be able to retire at 65. They still can, of course, provided they’re willing to subsist on the cat food, senior-center shuffleboard and afternoon matinées that the interest on a million dollars buys these days.
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I remember last night/early this morning that the futures took a radical turn into the positive. I think it was the PPT doing the usual, do anybody know what caused the futures to go positive that early and that strong.
I hope those tuna weren't swimming in the highly radioactive water spewed from the Fukushima reactors as they melted down.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/08/fukushima-radiation-highest-ever....
If tuna is chicken of the sea, is chicken tuna of the land?
http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=50929&d=3&m=9&y=2004
http://gizmodo.com/5734934/israels-dimona-nuclear-facility-splits-time-as-cyberweapon-testing-ground
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negev_Nuclear_Research_Center
NO! IEA inspections! can we bomb Israel NOW like Iran?
WHEN did WE bomb IRAN?
http://www.youtube.com/presstvglobalnews#p/u/4/y9qbjNNAafo
Exposing the world rogue; nuclear power-Double Standards-08-06-2011
From: PressTVGlobalNews | Aug 7, 2011 | 390 views Loading... A comic interview with Prince bin Talal in southern France, the comic News real on a film on Murdochs, Norwegian cartoon on terrorism, a BBC reporter tear down an anti-war placard, US A-Attack on Hiroshima, IAEA's investment on rogue states, Mordechai Vanunu's comment on Israel's mass murder bombs, New Jersey's debt woe report and a thundershower, and a clip on Barack Obama's blame game with former presidents are the major issues covered in this edition of Double Standards.And why is grandma eating brand name cat food? Generics are just as good and 8 cents a can cheaper.
It's this kind of extravagance that is killing the country. No wonder we are in debt to our whiskers
Anonymouse, WHY isn't cat food mouse-flavored??
You frighten me. I'm going back to my hole to eat some cheese now.
i thought all of the chicken parts went into tube steaks
http://www.mnn.com/local-reports/illinois/local-blog/roadkill-its-whats-...
It's what's fer dinner!
Man, I'm bummed out. I thought this Dougherty gal was powers hotter than Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killers. You know the mantra, off in the head, wildest in bed.
Comic relief is seeing Tiger Woods in 127th place.
What? You do not bow to the one who would change the world: Gandi, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha and Tiger. Well, Tiger, ...............not so much.
hey rick~~~~can we get the picture in the baseball hat or in the hula skirt in nyc? you look like a college prof hyping a new lecture series on the 4 turnings
not that there's anything wrong with that
yeah this is tough, getting old, getting poor, getting scrrrrewed
but it sure beats the hell outa working!
The old version of Kennel Ration that used to made from horse meat (back in the 60s) made some mighty fine chilli. Where I grw up in a medium size sothern city there was a man arrested for putting in his lunch counter chilli. Everyone raved about it.
on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 13:06
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"The old version of Kennel Ration that used to made from horse meat (back in the 60s) made some mighty fine chilli"
ev: i won't go into the hows and why's of what happened, but long, long ago, in a place far, far away, i actually ate that stuff and thougt it was pretty good.....for dog food.
the frogs.....they big on horsemeat and will mange it toot sweet.....don't know if they've ever done the 'dillo, tho........
My wife's better than your wife
My wife's better than yours
My wife's better
Cause she eats Ken-L-Ration
My wife's better than yours
Trigger chili, Bambi chili, Porky chili, Daisy chili, Fido chili, or Felix chili. What's the difference? As The Bernanke would say, tradition!
texas roadkill chili recipe
Good to see coon wasn't on the list. Naturally, coons are smarter than to become road kill anyhow. Although, I have seen some of the old coots and rash young coons populating the roadsides now and then. But for the most part, you won't see a coon festooning the drainage ditches. While you're out scouring the countryside for coons, they are at your house rummaging through your garbage cans.... Heh, heh.
on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 14:13
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"Good to see coon wasn't on the list. Naturally, coons are smarter than to become road kill anyhow."
yo, rocky: back home we used to use a certain coon body part to make a mighty fine tooth-pick......i don't think the beatles ever sung about that, tho............
Adds a whole new meaning to "needle-dick".
Rocky, u the 'coon!
lol
Time to start feeding the strays and eating the week little kittens. Mmmmgoood. Taste like chicken.
...and, in case you don't know what chicken is, there's a little silhouette of one right next to the word "chicken."
The "Salmon" looks kind of like an Orca, though.
I suspect those symbols are for those shoppers who are English-challenged.
In which case, are they under the delusion that there's cat meat in the can? I'm sooo cornfused...:>D
..."In GRAVY!!" mmmmMMMMMmmmmmmmmm!
i'm a meow mix man myself
Breaking News: Stock Market Soars 250 points as President Obama Announces Vacation :-)
Mark Twain:
and, well, ditto wrt Our Dear President.
- Ned
Have you checked the price of canned cat food lately? Granny ain't gonna be eating cat food! Try cracked corn, maybe.
Jimmy cracked corn (but I don't care)...just sayin'
The red Banquet dinners are the new cat-food-in-a-can substitute for Seniors. As low as 88 cents each at your local grocer. From your friends at CON-agra.
Thinking about collapse? Then you must see this: http://www.collapsenet.com/262.html
Cracked corn $10/50 lbs at the feed store. Used to be $4 before ethanol.
Oh, Woe is me! Whats a person to do now? Can't even look forward to retiring on delicious Friskies now? Woe is me!