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Sep
23
I heard on the radio this morning that Sarah Palin is at the UN today. While Bush is there to bid farewell and speak with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, she’ll be overshadowing that attempt with meetings and visits to foreign officials. These meetings are to raise her credentials in foreign relations. That’s what I heard and that’s what was said.
In the 80’s and 90’s I worked in bars, night clubs, and restaurants in Boston, MA and Montreux, Switzerland. I worked mostly in five-star places. Boston had it’s share of concerts and Montreux had a yearly rock festival.
Here are some people I met: Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Huey Lewis, Boy George, Chrissy Hines, Billy Idol, John Mellencamp, Little Richard, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Ringo Starr, Kirk Cobain; I stopped Dave Matthews in the street in Seattle and talked to him for 10 minutes; Matt Damon and Ben Afflek drank in a bar I ran in Harvard Square; and Nestor Carbonell worked for me in that same bar for four years while at Harvard.
That list doesn’t make me a rock star or a Hollywood insider. It makes me nothing more than a name dropper. It certainly doesn’t qualify to make decisions pertaining to lighting, directing, casting, or musical composition.
See my point?
Sep
23
Where did we get the $700 billion
Filed Under Corporate Shitheadery, Political Shitheadery | Leave a Comment
I got an IM from a friend yesterday evening. He makes a good point:
For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street. In just one week.
He also included the following link: democracynow.org
He raises a good question. Where are we getting this money? My guess is we’re printing it.
