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Monday, January 21, you see, has been officially declared the gloomiest day of the year.
An expert on depression has devised a formula using factors such as debt and end of festive cheer that is said to prove today is the gloomiest day of the year
Psychologist Cliff Arnall, an expert in depression, has used a mathematical formula to pinpoint today as Blue Monday.
He says it is the day when six factors come together to leave us at our most miserable.
They are: the dank and gloomy weather; Christmas debt; a feeling of monotony after the Christmas cheer has faded; broken New Year’s resolutions; low levels of motivation; and a desperate feeling that you need to take action to improve your drab existence.
Millions are also still struggling to get back into the routine of working after a long Christmas break – and many will not have their next holiday until August.
Looks like it’s going to hit most everybody before it’s over.
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blue
I suspect that Tuesday is going to be bluer.
Or at least Black.
bloom undies.
Hi Jane, my best to Katie.
This is suitable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqYO51AH6qo
Greetings Jane
7 inches of snow, captive kids, and still snowing in NE Iowa. Cabin Fever or an opportunity to play games and movies? I’ll take the latter.
And, tomorrow with the week-end stock reports will be doubly blue. What I am surprised about is how little national media coverage there is to the home crisis, and bankrupcy crisis at the local level. (GUess I am not surprised, considering how litte they have done on Iraq – plus MSM is mostly in NYC where alot of those responsible for this mortgage mess are located).
Are those what Opus wears? Or is it the mayor of NY wearing them?
How’s the pup?
Don’t you just love George Bush?
Katie can come home!
I’m all good.
At least it isn’t a Monday the 13th
and many will not have their next holiday until August.
Uh, Memorial Day, maybe not since it’s a yankee holiday, but the 4th of July, come on now. . .
So, if like me, you skipped the Christmas hoopla this year, remained at home, have enjoyed three consecutive weeks of crisp, clear, cold weather in an area noted for its daily rainfall, received a week-long bonus from generous employer, don’t have a mortgage to worry about, and will be taking seven days off in February, you’re not depressed at all, rather happy, in fact.
Great! We adopted an abandoned little cocker who looks like a miniature raven!
I wish my wife and kid were home. They are overseas visiting relatives. I sure do miss them. I love to play cars with my infant son. He hands them to me to put on the ramps. If a piece comes off, he hands it to me to fix for him.
Ummmm….tinfoil hat next to the computer, but I haven’t put it on quite yet…
“(b) “Catastrophic Emergency” means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;”
National Security Directive 51, May 2007:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news…..09-12.html
Wonderful news, Jane. (And thanks for this site!)
yayZ!
Don’t do this! :0 My sense, is that it will be something of their own doing. Unless there is a massive popular response and that is used as an excuse.
Hundreds of Layoffs Expected at Yahoo
Sprint’s Customer Erosion Prompts Cutbacks
Outside auto show, a stalled state [Michigan]
What’s there to be blue about?
Just go out there and shop!
The article that snippet is from is from the Daily Mail in England so the holiday statment has to be through their eyes.
And US has Fourth of July as well as Memorial day as so-called major holidays before August.
Great news!!
I don’t think they will, but the could. It is there.
“they”
that’s right, all we need to do is shop harder
Your President encourages you to shop in cases of emergency. If you have no money, use your credit cards, if you have no room left on your cards, uhhh?
I hope they are locking all windows above the second floor and giving out parachutes on Wall St. in expecatation tomorrow.
-G
I there a FDL pool for the Dow close for Tuesday?
The president is encouraging all cash and credit strapped Americans to go out shoplifting.
-G
Golden Parachutes for all corporate raiders. See Ya! – they say.
Blue Monday?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3xt-4q7KkA
Ouch. Maybe with the profits going to Actblue.
Yup.
You just can’t trust the Trust-Fund-Preznit to understand economics.
So I’m not feeling blue because the economy is bleeding red?
I feel so much better now.
well, you know it won’t be safety nets!
They call it Stormy Monday, but Tuesday’s just as bad…
Cream does T-Bone Walker’s blues classic:
Cream- Stormy Monday
When were TGIM (Thank doG It’s Monday) T-shirts last printed?
That is good news! Happy to hear it.
Great news!
We need to look at Blue Monday like the Winter Solstice. Every day from now on is a little less depressing, right?
Great news about Katie, Jane.
I love Fats. The Youtube link I posted upthread is to his original version on the 45 RPM record.
Raining and gloomy here in Texas. On the other hand … THE GIANTS WON! And I slept late have had a great day in general.
Tomorrow’s Dow , hour by hour.
Not for Al Sharpton, he’s got Jane saving him his seat.
yes
and it helps to think of the House and Senate gains we’ll make in November :)
Big Bill needs to take some time off of the hustings and take a long nap.
-G
It’s in the single digits here in NE.
-G
New England, not Nebraska.
-G
Guaranteed to be my low ebb of the year. I think the lack of sunlight hits me around mid-January. And that’s without figuring in the Bush Administration.
We don’t have weather here in Vegas. Against state law. Drinking and smoking, on the other hand, are mandatory.
i Monday, January 21, you see, has been officially declared the gloomiest day of the year.
Gloomy? Not me. The sun is out, I can see forever, it’s cold, and I just finished listening to the Shostakovitch 5th Symphony. Gloom there, for a while but then, triumph!
Sigh! :-)
I find this post to be Northern-hemispherically biased.
For instance.
I’ve been listening to 10 CC.
Wall Street Shuffle
Given that this blog originates in the United States, are your surprised?
No — just playing around.
I just got an email from a friend down under, noting how nice and warm the weather is, then clicked over to the Lake to see what was up and found this.
Must have misplaced my snark tag.
I just opened one of my IRA statements. Lost more than $5,000 last year. That’s gloomy.
In relation to the partisan-advocacy-free-thread trial balloon I sent up downstairs, I went over to Digby’s to see what the temperature was over there. Let’s just say it is quite a Hullabaloo. Digby herself even upbraided a few commenters, which she is quite good at.
My university has no retirement – 401Ks instead -so whatever I had in tere is significantly down too. Remember the recent (and ongoing) move to do away with Social Security in favor of something like 401Ks for the country as a whole? Great move!
their goal is realized, in one short administration, two short terms.
their purpose, stated clearly, was to dismantle the new deal
their intention?
redistribute wealth, take it from the middle class, deposit to the coffers of people so rich they can not possibly spend it
why?
to bring back a robber baron economy where there are the wealthy and the poor, where there are uneducated
You are tempting me to go check it out!
I’m down 10K, Bob. Hope that helps.
Where I am it is raining. Dark gray and raining. With more dark gray and rain to come. And I am overjoyed. Since we need the rain. Happy happy rainy day! With an added bonus of some thunder and lightning soon to come. Can’t get no better than that.
I didn’t really read all the details, but it looks like someone asserted that Digby’s site is rabidly pro-Clinton (based on the usual nonsensical misconception that if you say anything at all favorable about a candidate, or criticize anything about an opponent, or even criticize something someone else said that was critical of that candidate, you are immediately assumed to be a “rabid supporter”). Digby basically told them to fuck off.
Ouch.
Same distribution of funds returned 16.1% in 2006. I don’t know how I could spread the money much more conservatively without resorting to some lame 4.5 – 5% CD.
Thanks! I’ll stay here :-)
Yes, I agree. Funny though that they didn’t get to do more. Why didn’t they just eliminate Public Education? They had eight years to do it. Why didn’t they eliminate SS and Medicare. They had eight years to do it. I guess they hoped to be re-elected. There is little question as to their motives. They are as you describe. In fact, isn’t it the Texas Republican Club that unabashedly promotes some of this ideology in its literature. (Along with retaking the Panama Canal.)
I don’t know what we’re down. I do know that about a month ago, hubby transferred everything to the safest place he could. Comparable to a bank acct. I thank everyone here for that advice. But it only earns 2%.
My husband had bright sunshine and minus 32 this morning in Butte, Montana. A year ago, we were both basking the sunny, summery New Zealand and watching Comet McNaught every night down at the lake’s edge. I do love the adventures that I get with my husband.
I think tomorrow may rock a lot of boats, but I also have a feeling like the shoe has been ready to drop for a long time in terms of the economy. I don’t like the damage it does to those that are struggling, but I also feel like it is time to take the medicine (unfortunately, those that need it most will get any of theirs quite sugar coated). But if the shoe is going to drop, then let’s get it over with and get to work on the coping and rebuilding stages.
Well, they’ve been working on dismantling the New Deal since the 1970s, don’t you think? Granted that they’ve accelerated their progress in the last decade.
It is really a remarkable (and nefarious) political achievement that the Republican Party has managed to get so many citizens to continually vote against their most fundamental economic interests based on shiny distractions like illegal aliens, fetuses, gays, bibles, brown people, and Islamofascist terrorism. They said to people, vote for us, we’re gonna totally fuck you over in the ways that have the most influence on your life and that of your friends and family, but hey look over here, we’re gonna fuck over these other people even worse. And people bought it.
Re:
Hilarious! Today is the most magical day in Central Oregon. Winter has finally arrived in style and we are enjoying about 4″ of new champagne powder in town and up to 2 feet of the fluffy stuff up on our ski hill. Sure, there’s a gale blowing it off of the top, but the glades are about as close to heaven on earth as we can get.
And, gloriously, the first issue of our brand new newsletter “The Spark” is taking shape and it’s looking to be a smashing success at blending humor, wit, political insight and a gentle nudge toward activism of a determinedly progressive nature. I’m stoked, as is my partner in this adventure. Look for us in a couple of months as we go global with our web version.
I can’t stop smiling today, it is so glorious here. Whoever these experts are who are declaring this day gloomy… Can we fire them, too? (big smiles, hugs and kisses for one and all! And it’s ‘on my tab’).
New Rules! No gloom in this corner of paradise is permitted today! By order of the Incorrigibly Happy
Aussie markets open and down ~3%..ouch..looks as if the Asian markets are in for another bad day. I sure hope the Dems get ahead of this..otherwise it will be more tax cuts for you know who and the lizard brains will buy it.
Most depressed day of the year? Well I’m happy. So there. It is dark and rainy and gloomy and I’m *still* happy. Fine Scottish weather.
Fight back! Don’t let the bastards get you down.
Read this, Ray.
Yep. What you said.
in one short adminstration, two short terms, they have accomplished a their stated goal;
the deconstruction of the new deal
the purpose?
redistribute wealth from the middle class to the upper class, to people so rich they can never ever spend the wealth they had much less the wealth they’ve aquired
the goal is not to aquire wealth for the wealthy
the goal is to take wealth from the middle class, they want a robber baron economy where there are the “haves” and then everyone else.
that’s their goal, to un educate, to de power, to bring back child labor, to bring back the 60 hour work weekm, to profit from slave labor, to have the elite few served by everyone else
It is dark and drizzly and foggy here in TX and around 50….I love it…when I went out today to walk all around there is green grass coming up and the roses have buds on them…all kinds of stuff peaking though…early, early spring signs…when the soil is wet the grass looks so much greener…sigh
I don’t think they will give up, though. The big money people have very long time horizons. The New Deal will be 80 years old soon, and they are still trying to dismantle it, and they will continue to try. And I think that their latesr attempts indicate their complete absence of morals. The reason is that a lot of people are dependent now on long standing established lawfully funded medical insurance and retirement programs.
If the big money types wanted to privatize social security, they could have come up with an honest plan that did not attempt to steal working peoples’ assets. After all, Canada and Sweden have done honest plans that partially privatize social security, and could lead to full privatization, if the private investment funds outperform the government ones. These programs do not steal working peoples’ money, and unlike the UK and Chile plans, they are not dangerously risky. But, no, The US corporate elit chose to attempt to steal peoples’ money. That is what it really came down to. And the people would not stand for it.
I was a little shocked at the strong language and general atttitude of Ian Welsh’s post yesterday. It went against my natural moderate tendancies. But, when I think of what Bush/Cheney and their backers have done and attempted to do, and how the corporate press seems to be an ally, I have a lot of sympathy for what he said. Problem is, even if we win this year, that rogue element in US society is still powerful and it will not give up at all.
So, need to cheer ourselves up by givign money and time for congressional races next year. Need to wipe out the rogue element politically, and be very aggressive in discrediting it. I don’t know if Edwards is best candidate, but I think his attitude is more honest, more reflective of reality, and more needed than the approach Obama and Clinton are taking.
Message from the Reich Noise Network..FOX Business:
But on FOX Business Channel, things will be just fine if no one panics, because the global markets are tanking not because of US market issues, but because of the valuations in their own markets were over-inflated. Uh huh.
C&L
The thugs are going to use the “Tinker Bell” defense. The Great Bush Economy went to shit because the Dems panicked and didn’t clap loud enough. The lizard brains will buy it.
I hope this destruction of the New Deal mime will now get some serious engagement in MSM and what the impications are.
Oh well, if you’re reading Naomi Klein, then you realize that they’re trying the Friedmanite experiment in New Orleans (dismantling public education included.)
This has truly been a gloomy Monday for me. My transmission went out on my van halfway to my acupuncturists’ appointment. I was thinking that I would finally have money to put into a Roth, but it looks like I’ll be putting it into a new vehicle. The silver lining in my day was that my husband was off work and able to pick me up and help me deal with the car stuff. Blowing snow added to today’s gloominess. Oh well…..car troubles, taxes and death – can’t avoid ‘em I guess. Yeah, right I could try to ride my bike in a snowstorm. Arghhhh.
Richmond,
I think honest discussion of class and economics in the corporate press is less likely than live pornography shows, or the media divas chugging everclear until they puke into the camera.
You can watch the world markets here…it updates every 15 minutes:
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/?
Uh oh. Looks like Bill pissed off Rahm Emanuel and Ted Kennedy. If Big Dawg is actually calling Obama out on the record than I find that kind of refreshing. Obviously Rahm doesn’t.
I have David Cay Johnston’s latest book, “Free Lunch” on my reading table now. As with the Raymond book on “How to Rig an Election”.
It’s getting harder and harder to read this stuff. I much prefer getting out and cracking jokes with my neighbors and compadres.
But, at least when we’re cracking wise, we do keep our eyes on the prize.
And for me, that’s hoping for another leg down in the stock markets. I got out of them at the top in 2000 and haven’t punted a penny since then. I didn’t want to sully my conscience with defense industry issues, which were a pretty sure bet as Bush cynically created perpetual war for perpetual profits.
But if the S&P cracks, say, 900, there’s going to be a lot of change to be picked up on the rebound… after the Dems sweep the November “Democracy Lottery”.
***
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” –H.L. Mencken
Oh, that’s awful…been there many times….:(
The good news is that it will pass…
Not very likely, since the corporate owners of the mainstream media and its journalists have almost all benefited from the destruction. The journalists might change their tune when things get so bad that ordinary citizens become outraged and start looking for a scapegoat. The MSM will assuredly at that point do everything in their power to distance themselves from the corporate oligarchy and become “friends of the people”. We’re not there yet.
Wait until tomorrow, Jane. I think the stock market is going to go coocoo for coconuts!
Digby calls bullshit on Teddy and Rahm..points out what is really going on.
There was some speculation on Kos that the Feds will drop the interest rate a full point prior to opening bell, but I dunno…., they say if the Feds don’t move immediately, it’s gonna be a big hit, and they will automatically shut down part of the market…also they were saying that if one hasn’t already bailed…stay in, and sit tight for the long haul. What a friggin’ mess.
Ground control to Major Tom. Come ya’ll don’t let the Jones’ get down.
Ooh. How did I miss this one? I know I hate Vanity Fair. So I missed this article People v. the Profiteers. Suing KBR Good thing I browse Howie Kleins blog.
This is Rahm’s “Look at Me!” moment of the campaign thus far. Leaving aside whether calling on Bill to chill out is a good or bad thing, Rahm’s bleating about it to the media is about as narcisistic as it gets for a non-presidential candidate. “Yep — I’m tough. I can get on the phone and tell former presidents to shut up.”
Too bad Rahm can’t figure out how to do that with a current president.
It’s raining like hell here in SillyValley and everyone is nervous about their jobs.
God help me, if I’m out of work for two years again…the astral plane will look better and better.
So, as for my financial situation, I got out while the gettin’ was good, and now have most of my money in lame-ass 5% CDs. As long as there isn’t a run on credit unions, I’ll be all right, and I’m up about 7% over a year ago, not counting inflation. (Some of my stocks did okay before I got out.)
I’m depressed about the prospects of the country, though. Even if we didn’t have a bunch of people trying to drown us in a bathtub, I’m not sure, given the new realities of gasoline prices and peak oil, that our economy has enough oomph to pull out of the coming recession before it goes from bad to terrifying. And if bird flu manages to hit us while we’re down, you’re going to see something that makes the Great Depression look like a vacation in the sun in comparison. (And hey, who knows, global warming might have some surprises to throw at us even in the next ten years.)
But what’s got me most depressed today is the fact that my girlfriend’s back from winter holidays and, after being scheduled for a day off today, our company’s main file server went down, so now I get to sit around waiting and hoping to hear from Sun, and, when I don’t hear from them by 7 PM, spending the next six or so hours setting up a new server that we can use until Sun gets back to us.
Server room full of Dell PowerEdges and Apple xServes, and the one goddamn Sun box we own is the only one that has died in the last four years. Whee.
-fred
Ouch.
It’s like being in a car that is sliding on ice down a hill..there is a morbid fascination to the whole thing.
It IS a depressing day. I was supposed to have today off, but wound up having to come in and put some fires out.
Meh.
After 23 years of exemplary service, my wife was kicked to the curb by The Shaw Group at the end of October (she had been Director of Quality for the environmental division). Two weeks notice, 4 weeks severance. And, the cutoff of our health coverage on the last day of her notice.
While she was working out her notice, they closed the employee stock trading window — TWO DAYS after CEO Jim Bernhard dumped millions of his SGR holdings, and three days before it was supposed to have closed. Look at this graph. So, she got screwed on that as well. Our SGR is down now about 25% from when she’d intended to sell it. That was/is our cushion (I got RIF’d last March).
Gloom? Shit.
Australian markets have opened and there’s blood on the floors.
The big shitpile gets bigger.
-G
I think Rahm should STFU
eg,
I do love your term, “Don’t let the bastards get you down.”
You remind me of this ersatz Latin version that I like:
Illegitimi non carborundum
I am all too familiar with depression, and agree that this time of time is really hard. The fact that is way below zero outside means being cooped up.
However on the bright side (admittedly this is a real stretch) the car that was totalled when I was hit from behind last week does NOT need me to spend the $850 to fix the axle and turbo valve (whatever that is). Now if the adjuster will just give me enough to get into a car of equal worth, I will be happy, or at least happier.
Did my eyes deceive me or is Kucinich actually going to be in on the upcoming CNN debate?
Greg – I can’t hit that link…
is it me?
RIF’d in the military?
Great news! Hope that the rest of Katie’s recovery goes well!
Re:
Hmmm, ya think? My guess is that the Plunge Protection Team may perform a deus ex machina.
McCain has been honest enough recently to admit that he has no clue about economics, and his only announced plan for the current and coming problems is to ‘let the Fed take care of it.’ I am very glad that he has been good old Honest John St. McCain on that score recently. He is the probably the most (maybe only) viable GOP candidate for the next election, and it will be nice if he Hoovers himself while the financial markets fall down in a tumble and threaten to take the real economy down with them in the middle of the campaign.
It is important to remind any ultra free market fanatics that the all-seeing all-knowing all-powerful completely unregulated (crony capitalist) market did this to itself. And the brilliant financial engineering hotshots did this to themselves. It is a true market failure.
The big problem is not that a lot of people signed mortgages that they could not afford. The big problem is that the very big players in the financial industry packaged and sold garbage securities to each other. They acted just as naively as an over extended house flipper playing the upward trend in house prices they saw in the local paper. THe reason the financial industry has frozen up is, in large part, because they all owen ths meaningless paper, and they have know idea what it is worth, no idea how to find out what it is worth. And prices aren[’t going up anymore, so they have to worry about what it is worth. So, no one wants to trade financial assets.
The very smart bigshots who want to run everything their way for our (or their) own benefit messed up royally. That is the bottom line.
RIF’d.
Reduction in Force. 10% staff layoff. I was with the Medicare QIO for Nevada.
I got one day’s notice.
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) — The top three Democratic presidential candidates face off in a Monday night debate in South Carolina, with the hearts and minds of African-American voters on the line.
must be the bong
Somewhat OT- Glad to see you, mui1. I’d like to thank you for the encouraging words a few days ago. Left you a reply saying thanks @ the end of that WGA thread, don’t know if you ever saw it. Your kind words meant a lot, as I was pretty down.
Not OT- I’m anything but depressed this Monday evening. It was sunny all day where I’m at, still in the high 30s, & I’m waiting to go out w/friends to The Attic where we’ll talk old times & hoist a few. Carpe noctem!
Yep, it was me. My bad…
I knew what it was, it used to be a military term, like FUBAR.
Hello I haven’t smoked since sometime after that last Skull and Bones party.
Just a drive-by – NPR is streaming last week’s Atlanta Symphony Orchestra MLK tribute concert now. Appears to be about 2 hrs, and among other things features Spelman and Moorhouse glee clubs.
wdav.com looks like an easy set up w/multiple choices for various connections:
http://wdav.org/2_72_98.cfm
Details of concert at:
http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/
Hi GrandmaJ!
just jokin around trying to break the cycle of doom up in here!
I am glad, glad, glad you are back.
Bu’ushenomcs has got the entire U.S. economy increasingly FUBAR.
Is Chuck Norris gay?
Shudder. That actually happened to me once…I was just learning to drive a clutch and I put the clutch in (front wheel drive) and disengaged the gears…I was sliding and sliding down pretty fast and I couldn’t get the car to do anything…I ended up in the middle of an intersection doing a 360…luckily for me that day, the other cars so me coming and were all stopped…probably watching with morbid fascination…but I was okay. Learned how to drive the damn clutch though when an oldtimer clued me in…
Me, too :-)
I am a stand-up comic so I am looking forward to being the life of the soup kitchen line.
Take my rice, please.
I’ll be here all week.
-G
Whoa, there…
Nah.
Well, he does have an attractive younger wife, but then again so did Michael Huffington.
-G
This a great site about changing our habits from spending to conservation.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html
It is a 20 minute vid and worth every bit of it.
I was just watching his comments on Mc Cain’s age. . .not that there’s anything wrong with it!
Uh, does Dana Milbank still smoke? (Just kidding never actually saw him)
Good summary..plus the Thugs have hollowed out the economy..there is not much to look at any more..we now buy all of our shit from China..How long is the rest of the world going to tolerate the falling dollar before they start to raise prices? Back to the 70’s ..stagflation..
rolling in laughter!
Besides that Jane’s dog Katie is recovering and home, if this is Blue Monday, maybe people will be less depressed knowing that Oliver Stone has signed Josh Brolyn to play Bushie in his next movie.
The thought of that, and the contrast, makes me *g*.
At least I already own a George Foreman Grill (favorite cooking implement of the homeless) and several hundred feet of 16 gauge power cord.
;)
My toddler nieces are pestering me. Night all.
Hmmmm….I sure hope the toobz are solvent!!! Hadn’t thought about that…yikes!
Smoke signals.
Speaking without a script… I didn’t know it was possible.
Honestly, I think the full moon is not helping the mood today and of course, it’s a somber day too as we look back on the life of Martin Luther King whose life was cut short by the types of people who say things like, “Money trumps peace” and that kind of garbage.
I heard today that the Dow is down a total of 9% and then recently I read somewhere online that a Depression is the markets down 20%. We’re half way there people! Nice, huh? *passing myself a liquor drink*
If you need something to tide you over, I have a suggestion.
Nursing homes need techs. In our state, it’s a 2 week training program paid for by the nursing facility. That’s way too little, but anyway, then you have a job that can be part time, full time, on call, etc.
Shizza!!
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/?
I choose to look back on the life of MLK in a positive was, thing are not perfect but her helped make them better.
No, he’s got a pretty wife. She used to show up in photo ops behind the Huckster.
Switch hitter?
Am reading the same thing. It’s good huh?
Louis le chat sends healing thoughts to Katie le chien.
Raven, he’s a Hollywood guy. He needs to look good for the screen and that usually includes some cosmetic surgery and some hair plugs.
It always give’s off a bit of a phony, plasticky aura somewhere along the Siegfried and Roy lines.
But I don’t think Chuck is gay.
-G
K, I’m done.
Even with the negatives factoring into a depression index,the commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. today throws the balance well into the positive. If I thought about it, I’d be more liable to get depressed tomorrow.
My God, I forgot that line.
I remember thinking that was one of his defining comments.
Didja see Bush today? He looks like he’s collapsing in on himself. He’s getting damn near looking like one of the three bad guys at the end of Indiana Jones.
-G
I have no personal knowlege about any such activities.
From http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com:
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information
Well, for me it’s somber because he was gunned down in the prime of life. And yes, the positives definitely out way the negatives.
Jane, you reading the Raymond Allen book?
-G
Is he looking more or looking less like Alfred E. Neuman?
*praying that I’m in the same soup kitchen line as GregB*
You crack me up!
Well, poor Bushie is looking a little creepy lately because he doesn’t have his Daddy to bail him out before the economy collapses. See? He’s the spoiled rich kid in the back seat of the police cruiser and is told he can’t make a call home! Poor thing.
Jimmy Carter gave MLK, Jr. the Presidential Medal of Freedom (back before Dubya defiled it with his selections for that same honor). On that occasion, here’s what Carter said:
RIP, Martin.
(And you, too, Buck.)
I think the trip to the middle east was very uncomfortable for G-Boy.
aaaaaaaaaaw.
Had to do the sword dance with a group that looks like they would love to cut anyone’s throat.
Jane, do you search these morbid dates out? Cuz you shouldn’t.
Daddy better figure out how to bail him out or the family legacy goes down with him.
Christy is upstairs with a new thread.I already messed it up, but maybe you all can redeem it by piling on!
Yeah, he must know that his world is nothing but a big shitpile from hereon in.
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Did you see this?
http://www.nysun.com/article/69855
If true….ooopsie. Bushie gonna start looking creepier! LOL
Glorious all over Oregon, but cold too!
Watch out for the South Sister. Is the bulge still growing?
CRIPES!
Hey, it’s blue Monday. Woohoo! Did I miss anything?
Thank you for the link — looks as if it will be available as accessed. Glad to see music by my friend Daniel Roumain featured!
KayInMaine, 20 percent is roughly a bear market, which often accompanies an ordinary recession. (But not always; we have had both without the other.)
The Great Depression, which in most respects was so bad that there’s really no rulebook on predicting one, saw the Dow Jones index fall about 90 percent over the first couple of years. A thing like that could happen, but there’s just no way at the moment to call that “likely.”