The Associated Press and its member newspapers will take legal action against Web sites that use newspaper articles without legal permission, the group said on Monday … [1] Is this the beginning of the end?  In a lot of ways I’d rather be crafting poems about catch basins and studying Robert Fludd if the MSM is going to start shooting at us for feeding the sidebar. Thoughts?

If the PPIP passes in its current form, my wife and I are pulling the rip cord, liquidating all our assets and leaving the country post-haste. [1] Well, it did.[2] The US government has and will have an implicit and often explicit ongoing liability to guarantee US banks against runs, so just live with it. God’s in his Heaven – All’s right with the world! Right? Well old Bob knew corruption.  He knew that in times like these the worst stuff would be happening behind the topiary in the best homes in places like The Hamptons.  Among the nicest looking…
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Hat tip to Freedom’s Phoenix for this one:

Nowadays he supplies oysters to some of the best restaurants in Manhattan. But in his previous incarnation, Mr Osinski played a crucial, if inadvertent, role in stirring up the financial whirlwind that has battered the world. As the top computer programmer for the titans of Wall Street, he wrote the complex software that bundled home mortgages into bonds, making possible the subprime loans collapse that sparked the global meltdown. [1] It’s official, truth really is stranger than fiction.  And meanwhile the WSJ is confirming that this is indeed what destroyed the planet.[2]

I’m taking a rare break from my computer and leaving things in John and Igor’s capable hands.  I should be back Wednesday. Oh John, there’s a couple of extra cans of spam in the pantry if Igor gets hungry. See everyone later– twist