"Ode to Wall Street"

I felt inspired this morning. I haven't had as much time to work on it
as I would like, but here is my "Ode to Wall Street" freely
plargerized from Shakespear, but with my own twists.
Enjoy the news,
Bryan

"Ode to Wall Street"
Oh, DOW Jones, what shall I do?
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou art more temperate than an Iraqi summer:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of revenue,
And Summer's lease hath expired our options trading:
Sometime too hot, the blue chip stocks do shine,
And oft' is gold you should be investing;
And every fair share sometimes declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal Government coffers will not fail
Nor lose possession of that thou owest;
Nor shall Bankruptcy brag thou wanderest in his protection,
When in eternal lines to time the DOW growest:

So long as men can invest, or buy on margin,
So long red lines go up and down, to give stock rises and declines.

"U.S. INVESTING $250 BILLION TO BOLSTER BANK INDUSTRY; DOW SURGES 936 POINTS"

Front page Headline from NY Times today is: "U.S. INVESTING $250 BILLION TO BOLSTER BANK INDUSTRY; DOW SURGES 936 POINTS" -- Bolster the bank industry? How about saving my credit card or paying my electric bill? Wait, wait, what about my car loan and house loan? I've also got cable, cell, magazine subscriptions and rent (yes I pay rent too). Not to mention schools, lunches, gas, clothes and all those other normal day-to-day stuff. When do I get bailed out from making "stupid" purchases on my credit card, huh?

Bolster the banks? How about you bolster my inanitioned wallet there Uncle Sam?

Anyone else ready to join me on the street corner with a sandwich board sign reading, "The end is near, buy a Smith and Wesson?"
enjoy the news
bryan

North Korea is no longer an "axis of evil"

Whoaaa! Over the weekend all of a sudden, North Korea is no longer an "axis of evil" and is off the states sponsoring terrorism list! What the...? Did I miss something here?


I know our own economy is on the forefront of everyone's mind, BUT WHOOOOAAAAAA! Were talking about North Korea! We've had U.S. Soldiers stationed south of the 48th Parallel since 1953 when we just sorta stopped shooting at each other. Technically, we're still at war. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A PEACE TREATY WITH NORTH KOREA!


Kim Jong "License to" Ill has declared many time in the past he was going to whipe his butt with the U.S. military, built an honost to goodness NUCLEAR WEAPON, and even kidnapped actresses from other countries to star in his own person films (Look up Choe Eun Hee)


What happened to change ALL that? Did Bush just wake up yesterday and say, "North Korea is of my list," and his aides misunderstood? They took Korea off the terrorist list and he meant Christmas? I don't get it. This lame duck president is making some pretty damn BIG decisions in his last few months, and I don't like it MISTER. I don't like it one bit!


Have a great sunday and enjoy the news,
bryan

don't be chicken

I don't know if I even want to read the headlines. I'm scared to.
Here, you go first. Go on, don't be chicken.


Enjoy the news,
bryan

buy a gun

The finical headlines are screaming today!
World markets are tumbling. Worst losses on wall street since 1937.
Things are so bad that even Yoko Ono is selling off John Lennon's "artwork" later this month in NY.
The higher prices of gas has caused the price of cocaine to go up, and with the recent beating her portfolio has taken on wall street, she just can't afford the good stuff without selling some of John's old junk.


What is this world coming to?
Enjoy the news,
(and buy a gun, preferably a smith and wesson.)
bryan :>

missed the debate

I missed the debate last night because my daughter wanted to watch Zaboomafoo.
So I don't have anything to say about the debates, but i can tell you the Kratt brothers (http://www.krattbrothers.com/) could probably turn this terrible world around.

Listen, if these guys can have panthers and children on the same stage with a monkey who is throwing things... then these guys can surely deal with baboons in Iran, Jack-asses in North Korea, and the great big bear that is Russia.

Last night, the Kratt brothers took their little lemur friend to a human school and showed him that the big yellow thing doesn't really eat the children. It was pretty funny. I guess you had to be there.

Well anyway,
enjoy the news
Bryan

glance at this mornings headlines

Good morning.


After a good nights rest and pleasant dreams, I love to wake up to a good cup of coffee and read the news to stay in touch with the world around me.


So as I wipe the sleep from my eyes and glance at this mornings headlines...


"Global Fears of a Recession Grow Stronger"
"Group Find Extinction Theatens [sic] 1 in 4 Mammals" (No, I didn't mistype it and I'm not sure what "theatens" is but it sounds bad. See Page 2)
Asian Earthquakes (on land as well as the markets), American Missionaries accused of spying in Venezula, Senators cheating on their taxes...


And a snippet of a story about a women, who was really a man, that served four years on the city council as a women and was getting sued because of it. (What would happen if she decided to run as a man? HE couldn't run for "re-election." Would he/she have to debate him/herself?)


And so with head full of headlines, and the pleasant dreams of last night thoroughly exorcised from my mind, I feel somewhat content in sharing the news with you. May it give you the same day terrors it has now given me. May you go forth from the safety of you beds and homes, into the hostile world where Extinction "Theatens" 1 in 4 mammals, where missionaries are spies and recessions grow. Recessions, and Taxes, and Bear Markets, oh, my.


The one silver lining news story is way back on page 5. Keep going. Couple more pages. There it is. The small story. No, no. At the bottom. "Oil falls below $90." WOW a positive headline! And despite hurricanes and war. Several paragraphs into the story, it even suggests oil could drop below $70! That's AWESOME! We can all go back to driving our SUVs! Hooray.


Enjoy the "news"
Bryan

Three Events and the Tapestry of the Next Decade

From STRATFOR: (Edited by me)
Three Events and the Tapestry of the Next Decade
Three completely disconnected events occurred this week that will weave together the tapestry of the next decade — and, no, those events do not include the $700 billion Wall Street bailout or the U.S. vice presidential candidate debate.

First, Brazil on Oct. 1 made its short list of finalists to supply it with modern jet fighters as part of a large defense modernization program. The final list included the French Dassault Rafale, the Swedish Saab Gripen NG and the American Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.



By any measure, Brazil is a rapidly rising power, and this has nothing to do with the fact that it has discovered an obscene amount of oil in its offshore regions in the past year. Brazil's traditional competitors — Argentina and Venezuela — are in the process of mismanaged economic collapse, leaving Brazil with no competitors in its neighborhood.



More notable than what designs made Brazil's final cut is the design that failed to: Russia's Sukhoi Su-35.



Brazil is emerging on the world stage. The decisions it makes now will shape its policy — and thus that of the rest of the world — for decades to come. Brazil deliberately chose to go with a Western system for its airpower.



The second major event occurred in Washington, where the U.S. Senate gave final approval to a U.S.-Indian agreement allowing full nuclear trade between the two states. Until now, India had languished under nuclear sanctions explicitly designed to retard New Delhi's nuclear weapons and electricity programs.



India too is an emerging power, and, like Brazil, it has been its own worst enemy for decades. The United States has always viewed India as a potential ally: It is a large market, is democratic, is a rival of China and is sufficiently hedged in by geography to never really be a long-term threat to American interests. The nuclear deal does more than simply allow for U.S. industry to help the Indians out with their nuclear program — it is the start of a broad, deep strategic alliance based on concerns about China and Islam.



The third event happened in St. Petersburg, Russia: Germany and Russia held their biannual bilateral government summit.



Germany is the closest thing that Russia has to a friend in Europe these days. And considering that Chancellor Angela Merkel is openly distrustful and critical of the Russian government, that is truly saying something. Merkel certainly wants to stand up to Russia but she has found herself trapped by geography and history. Her country is economically dependent on Russian energy supplies. It could be far easier for the Germans to cut a deal with the Russians to share influence in the regions that lie between them. This has happened before — and has been known to lead to a world war.



And, with that, the broad lines of the next decade have already been sketched. Brazil and India are both emerging as major powers, and doing so in a way that will not challenge — and may well dovetail with — American power. Germany faces a truly agonizing choice: a confrontation that will make it suffer greatly, or a conciliation that will make its neighbors suffer even more.

the future of America

See page two story in the NY Times on Zimbabwe. Is it the future of America or are their too many Chicken Little's screaming the finical skies are falling?

The Somalian Pirates have lowered their demand from 25 million to just 5 million. Seems the credit crisis and plunge on wall street has taken a chunk out of their portfolio too.

It appears VP hopeful Joe Bidden's claims to be an average joe and "your kitchen table is like mine" are a bit exaggerated, unless of course you also live in a 6,800 sq ft, $3 million dollar home on four acres on a lake. (I rent a home on a river, but the water is polluted and you can't swim in it or eat the three eyed fish.)

Car sales for September were the worse since 1993, the same year Jurassic Park appeared in theaters, the battle of Mogadishu took place, and drug lord Pablo Escobar was gunned down. (That took some research!) So this year, Spielberg has a new movie coming out, we are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a drug killer was killed in Baltimore last weekend. Coincidence? I think not!

Enjoy the news,
bryan

buried in a cubicle

News of the day?
I don't know. I've been buried in a cubicle, like a foxhole, armed with only a red pen and a pair of scissors.
(why is it called a pair of scissors anyway?)
Enjoy the news,
Bryan