Archive for March 30, 2009
Blood Loss
Bonfils Cuts 10% of Staff, Closes Donor Centers
What if your kid needs blood? What if you do?
Wow. This illustrates, to me at least, how the blowback from the recession is seeping way down into the nooks and crannies of our society. Not good.
Check Out Resveratrol and Vitamin D3
Look into taking Resveratrol and vitamin D3 supplements. The benefits of Resveratrol, i.e., red-wine-in-a-capsule, are still being discovered but the benefits of at least 2,000 mg of vitamin D3 daily are becoming increasingly obvious.
Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor nor do I play one on the Internets.
Bush Really Was Trying to Destroy the Middle Class
Did you hear about this? Last fall, at the very moment the stock market was tanking, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation – the government agency that guarantees the pension funds of U.S. workers – “decided to pour billions of dollars into speculative investments such as stocks in emerging foreign markets, real estate, and private equity funds.”
People knew the crash was coming. Don’t tell me the Bush administration didn’t. Those guys were either (l) trying to enrich their friends on Wall Street with our money; money they had a fiduciary responsibility to protect, or (2) they were trying to prop up Wall Street to protect their sorry asses until they could get out of town.
Now the fund is down significantly at precisely the same time that We the People are looking at potential business failures that could jeopardize the pensions of tens of thousands of us. Per the article, “Currently, the agency owes more in pension obligations than it has in funds, with an $11 billion shortfall as of last Sept. 30.” Good time to switch to the stock market, huh?
My God. When January 20 came and went I was relieved that the Bushies were gone but it looks like the curtain is still being drawn on the unspeakable damage they did – damage that could potentially affect millions of us for decades to come.
Fox News Caught Splicing Video to Fit its Propaganda
Jesus. It was just a few weeks ago that Fox “News” got caught using six month old video and insinuating it was from the day before. Now they’ve been caught airing spliced video (yesterday) on their “premiere” Sunday talk show w/Chris Wallace (Mike’s boy).
They’ll probably issue an “apology” about some crony producer screwing up but we know they’ll be lyin’ their asses off when they do. This kind of thing is becoming way too regular an occurrence for it to be accidental. And besides, the damage has been done – you can’t put toothpaste back in the tube – so they don’t care.
Bad Sign
From Bloomberg: Boston’s John Hancock Tower, the tallest skyscraper in New England, may be sold to lenders led by Normandy Real Estate Partners for about half the $1.3 billion paid in 2006 by Broadway Partners, which defaulted on its loan.
The Real Agenda at the G-20 Summit
Dean Baker (another economist I trust) cuts to the quick as to what this week’s G-20 summit is all about.
(When you think of the G-20 summit, what do you think of in terms of how long it’s going to last? A day? Three days? The answer: Five freakin’ hours. What a joke.)
