IONonCampaignN, Jermaine Dupri Vomits On Janet Jackson

I just don't get that -- he's a grown man! Keep yourself together, people!

This is fascinating - how close the economy came to disaster last week....

September 26, 2008 · The potential for disaster was horrifying. For people on Wall Street and in the inner circles of government, last Wednesday and Thursday will long be remembered as the time when the American economy survived a brush with death.

The nation's entire financial system slid toward a terrifying abyss, they say — a landscape where no one would lend and no one could borrow, where no one could buy anything and no one could get paid. As Congress and the Bush administration continue debating a proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, those with intimate knowledge of the crisis say that whatever solution emerges must avert future brushes with very real disaster.

eta: The Week America's Economy Almost Died

MK poops in the carrier 4 parking spaces from home. A cat barfed on the bed.

Ugh!

This is fascinating - how close the economy came to disaster last week....

I heard a similar story on NPR last week (Saturday, maybe?) and it just made me want to stick my head in the ground further.

Also, there's a not-inconsiderable handful of economists who are predicting a massive bank run in the near future. t edit Wait, I just realized that I took that info from the Bill Kristol editorial. I need to find other corroboration before I worry.

It's like telling a crowd not to panic. If you have 2 or 3 people in a room, you can get them to not panic; 10-15 people, well, if you get *some* to not panic, then they can help you calm down the others; but a large crowd? All bets are off. All it takes is one person to start panicking, and mass chaos ensues.

So all it's going to take is enough people pulling their money out of their bank, and soon it's going to gain momentum and people will be flipping out and it'll be It's a Wonderful Life all over again.

t /Eeyore

I am so glad my investments are with Vanguard. They are, like, the anti-panic-ers. They are the stodgy cheapskate grandparents of investment firms.

I know this is Schadenfreude that's going to bite me in the ass, because after all I AM as entwined in American's economy as I can be... but I'm glad this is all coming to fruition during the Cheney/Bush Administration which should make it that much harder to claim it wasn't their policies that brought things to this point.

(Not that some won't try, and not that there wasn't prior legislation that started the balls rolling, particularly Phil Gramm's legislation in 1999.)

Well, ignoring the election stuff (LOVED Tina Fey on SNL - dare we hope that SNL will do a VEEP debate skit?), to say that I got to watch the first episode of True Blood at a friends' house and REALLY enjoyed it. I thought that the tv show would turn out well - mostly because I think that some aspects of the story work better tvwise than bookwise.

I hope that they put dvds out quickly so I can netflix them quickly.

Also, the music was excellent and Bill reminded me of Jared Padalecki. Which is just a bonus.

Heath Ledger's daughter will inherit his estate after all. (He willed it to his parents and sister and they gave it to his daughter.)

I found this timeline of the financial crisis. I thought it was interesting, but I don't know how objective it is.

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Not that some won't try

These are Clinton's policies coming home to roost. Jimmy Carter helped. Reagan and Bush I had no impact in their combined 12 years of control. Really.

My bank is an affiliate of the corporation controlling the Mormon Church. I think they're capitalized sufficiently.

Edit: I shouldn't say "controlling the Mormon Church." I should say, "Managing the copyrights, income, real estate, etc. connected to the Mormon Church."