UK factory orders and pubs tumble, Apple soars

Posted on July 22, 2009 by stacyherbert| 73 Comments

Stacy Summary: I really must go catch that train . . . in the meantime, here are some headlines for you.  I don’t know about the 52 pubs a week, whether it is a story about people shunning drink or about those crazy leases those chains charge pub landlords. 

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73 Responses to UK factory orders and pubs tumble, Apple soars

  1. kitty | July 23, 2009 at 1:26 am |

    @stacy
    Newsnight just ran a ‘piece’ on Swedish pirates, no debate as such. Perhaps that would be impossible here without a paradigm shift. More a novelty piece for them. A surfing quirrel piece but the squirrel is on crack in ‘broken Britain’.

    Oh the BBC! Another point concerning bias. I wonder if anyone in the UK would have a chance to realize there are modern buildings in Africa. It’s always riots in townships, politcal rallies in football stadiums and visiting statesmen getting up to have a dance.

    Who would know in the UK murder rates are down and most knife crime probably occurs in the kitchen?

  2. Mr Supergeek | July 23, 2009 at 12:52 am |

    I can see now that I deleted the ‘p3′ off the end of the first link ooops, second post works fine..

  4. stacyherbert | July 23, 2009 at 12:31 am |

    @Mr. Supergeek – it says the file has disappeared;

    @Snoop – yes, I liked your pictures! Please post link to them so all can see . . . flickr or one of the myriad of other options out there will work.

  5. Mr Supergeek | July 23, 2009 at 12:29 am |

    @Y’All
    Off topic? but…was annoyed yesterday that I couldn’t find a link on YT to the brillantly funky ‘supermarket blues’ btw it’s got the phrase Y’all in it more than years worth of TAM….enjoy

    http://cid-8ede9197aad998e3.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Eugene%20McDaniels%20-%20Supermarket%20Blues.m

    ‘I really wish I’d stayed home and gotten high instead of coming into the street and having this awful fight……got the supermarket blues…’

  6. snoop diddy | July 23, 2009 at 12:19 am |

    @Veritas
    by increasing taxes, and abolishing all govt programs I was able to collect $31billion for myself. However, the state of California will now be ruled by me and the people will be my slaves.
    Long Live the King!

    P.S. I didnt see ‘legalise marijuana’ on the to do list.

    @stacy,
    did you like my Bernanke pics? With economists falling over themselves to claim him as a god, and printing money considered a revolutionary activity that will provide a panacea for the economy, I thought the banksters deserved a cult revolutionary leader.

    Have to go out for a few hours, back later on.

  7. Mr Supergeek | July 23, 2009 at 12:07 am |

    @stacy
    Wow! Shudder to think what you could you achieve on a good nights sleep.

  8. stacyherbert | July 23, 2009 at 12:03 am |

    @Veritas – I easily balanced the budget; had a billion surplus by the time I got done with it

  9. stacyherbert | July 22, 2009 at 11:52 pm |

    @Chris – well, I finally took Max’s advice, took the uzi out of my suitcase and mowed down half of Shoreditch; finally got some rest after that.

    @Nick, Dublin – I reckon it is probably cheaper to get on one of Ryanair’s kamikaze flights for one euro and fly to some other European city for dinner?

    @Veritas – thanks for that . . . fun; anyone balance the budget, let us know how you did it.

  11. Mr Supergeek | July 22, 2009 at 11:47 pm |

    @mep
    No probs..Hope you liked it….if you or anybody else wants to download….’Smile Out A Style’

  12. snoop diddy | July 22, 2009 at 10:57 pm |

    I havent been through all the old posts, has anyone posted this yet?
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14453
    Now Legal Immunity for Swine flu Vaccine Makers

    by F. William Engdahl

    The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has just signed a decree granting vaccine makers total legal immunity from any lawsuits that result from any new “Swine Flu” vaccine. Moreover, the $7 billion US Government fast-track program to rush vaccines onto the market in time for the Autumn flu season is being done without even normal safety testing. Is there another agenda at work in the official WHO hysteria campaign to declare so-called H1N1 virus—which has yet to be rigorously scientifically isolated, characterized and photographed with an electron microscope—the scientifically accepted procedure—a global “pandemic” threat?
    (article continues)

    Govts and corporations showing a complete lack of accountability but heaven help you if you dont park in the lines correctly or quiz a policeman on the law.

    For Obama, the honeymoon’s over baby, it’s never gonna be that way again:
    Presidential approval tracker
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/presidential-approval-tracker.htm?poe=HFMostPopular

  13. Chris | July 22, 2009 at 9:24 pm |

    @Fibon11235: Agreed. I’ve been using linux since 1997.

    @Stacy: Take care! And how many times has Max told you: if you go to a knife fight, show up with a gun!!!! (not that I’m a gun nut mind you).

  14. Mep | July 22, 2009 at 7:51 pm |

    @Mr Supergeek, Thanks for the song!!!!!

  16. frances snoot | July 22, 2009 at 6:37 pm |

    Marc Faber is calling for “a total collapse” soon:
    http://republicmonetary.com/

    Scroll down the site to the bottom for the video.

  18. Dedo | July 22, 2009 at 5:04 pm |

    @anythingbut green & Youri,……Nope, don’t know anyone who’s died from flu’ , I do remember though that yrs ago, it was only the elderly that were advised to have the vaccine.
    Now it seems everyone’s on board!!
    I was listening to a professor on the MSM this evening explaining to the presenter that the companies don’t make much profit on the vaccines, was the reason they stopped R&D yrs ago apparently (In other words if there’s no profit in it don’t make it).
    Obviously if you research the history of most Pharm businesses, they’re not exactly forthcoming with the truth in any of their dealings, so to listen to this weasel go on was quite nauseating !

  19. anything but green | July 22, 2009 at 4:56 pm |

    The origin of the “36,000″ bogus figure:

    http://www.vaccinetruth.org/the_flu_scare_game.htm

  20. anything but green | July 22, 2009 at 4:53 pm |

    @ youri carma

    The CDC “research” into the Spanish Flu and the killer flu virus should be taken with a big grain of salt.

    I’d wager that a few pertinent questions about the details would reveal the usual fraud. The CDC and WHO cook the data constantly.

  21. anything but green | July 22, 2009 at 4:48 pm |

    The flu death statistics are bogus.

    Sorry to include a long quote but when I post relevant urls it seems folks rarely check the contents:
    http://www.vaccinetruth.org/the_flu_scare_game.htm

    A cursory glance at the most recent (2001) death statistics from the

    http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/nvsr52_09p9.pdf
    Data Highlights page
    posted on the CDC site, shows that Influenza and Pneumonia (International Cause of Death numbers J10 and J18) killed 62,034 people. Quick mental subtraction would tell you that just over half were killed by the flu, versus pneumonia, if the 36,000 number is correct. So far, the size of the flu epidemic seems plausible.

    http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/nvsr52_09p9.pdf
    Here’s the link to the
    National Vital Statistics System page within the CDC site that has the Data
    Highlights and Full Reports.

    This is important, because the Data Highlights page is just that, a single page highlight of all the various mortality stats gathered by the CDC. Now, let’s dig into the more detailed reports. The http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_03.pdf
    “Deaths: Final Data for 2001″ report is an 8MB PDF.
    Skip it unless you want all the charts detailing deaths by race, age, and ethnicity. The 2002 preliminary report contains the interesting parts of the 2001 final report, as well as data from 2002. The second search result for J10 (the mortality code for flu) brings us to page 16 of 48, which contains the breakout of flu and pneumonia. Total flu deaths for 2002: 753. Pneumonia accounted for the other 65,231 deaths. Scrolling to the right are the numbers for 2001. Again, total flu deaths were under one thousand, coming in at 257. That’s right, less than a thousand people died of the flu in 2001 and 2002, according to the CDC’s own numbers.

    Searching around on the CDC website reveals several more pages that call into question the 36,000 deaths per year number. For example, http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/0304season.htm this page dedicated to the 2003-04 season states that “152 influenza-associated deaths among children” occurred during the 2003-04 flu season, but carefully avoids answering its own question about the total number of dead in the 2003-2004 season. Instead, it goes on in serious sounding quais-scientific statistico blather: “During the 2003-04 season, the percentage of P & I-associated deaths was higher than the epidemic threshold for 9 consecutive weeks.” Again, lumping pneumonia and flu deaths together, even though http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/submenus/sub_pneumonia.htm the CDC does not recognize the flu as one of the many causes of pneumonia.

    Finally, the CDC’s own
    http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/gen-info/pandemics.htm
    “Flu Pandemics” page
    puts deaths in the United States from the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919 at 500,000, Asian Flu pandemic of 1957-58 at 70,000, and the Hong Kong Flu pandemic of 1968-69 at 34,000. These are the three 20th century pandemics, and two of them killed close to what the CDC is now calling average. What’s going on here?

    How is it that the CDC could be off by two orders of magnitude between their own official mortality stats, and the press kit number of 36,000 deaths per year. Could it be that the CDC is somehow misleading the public about the relative dangers of the flu?

  22. anything but green | July 22, 2009 at 4:37 pm |

    @ Dedo

    Have you known anyone personally who died from “the flu”?

  23. Youri Carma | July 22, 2009 at 4:35 pm |

    @Dedo

    Maybethat helps but these viruses mutate on a daily base so it’s difficult to say for sure. That’s why often people who get their yearly flu injection still get sick from just an other variation of the virus. That’s why even these yearly anti flu injections, often given to the elder, are bogus.

    Cause the causative agent of a future pandemic never can be known in advance and may well be a novel virus whose susceptibility to existing drugs and vaccines has not been established.

    Other question is: “Can this virus be man made?”

    Current seasonal strains of H1N1 are distant cousins of both the 1918 pandemic strain and the new H1N1 strain.

    At the time, microbiologists didn’t know what caused the widespread deaths; the influenza virus was not identified until 1933. And as the Washington Post reported, although biologists later were able to determine the broad family of influenza viruses the 1918 strain came from, its genetic identity was lost.

    That is, until Jeffrey Taubenberger, a molecular pathologist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Md., and his team toiled for 10 years to piece together the deadly virus in a high-security laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

    They got their samples from small pieces of lung tissue, preserved in wax after the autopsies of two soldiers among the Spanish flu’s 675,000 American victims, and from the frozen body of an Inuit woman who died from the virus in November 1918 and was buried in the Alaska permafrost.

    The virus’ eight gene segments, or strands of RNA, were in fragments, but the team was able to piece them back together using gene sequencing and polymerase chain reaction — a method of creating copies of specific fragments of DNA.

    Analysis of all eight genes showed the Spanish flu came directly from a bird virus and moved into humans after slowly mutating. The analysis suggests that H5N1 also might be capable of spreading between humans through gradual mutations, reported the Washington Post.

    Another team of scientists, led by Terrence Tumpey of the CDC and Adolfo Garcia-Sastre of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, experimented with the live reconstructed Spanish flu virus and found that mice infected with the microbe died unusually quickly, in three days. The results were published in Science magazine in October 2005.

    The 1918 virus was at least 100 times as lethal when compared to another flu virus, a Texas strain of H1N1 from 1991, according to the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.

  24. anything but green | July 22, 2009 at 4:35 pm |

    @ youri carma

    “Seasonal flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people globally in an average year.”

    (1) How do you arrive at that figure? (My guess is you’re using the CDC and/or WHO fraudulent announcements, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.)

    (2) IF flu deaths are 250,000 p.a. on average, what does that say about the current strain?
    (Which are you more scared of, this flu or lightning?)

  25. Mini US | July 22, 2009 at 4:34 pm |

    Soooooo that means that the Chinese get the foreign assets and the countries that sell to them are left holding the $US.
    Hmmm sounds like a good deal for China.

  26. Mr Supergeek | July 22, 2009 at 4:27 pm |

    @stacyherbert
    I know you are aware that ‘ginsters’ are de rigeur when in the uk….But a little tip for you…or any other visitors to crazytown.co.uk if you feel like the ‘plasters coming off’ or you find youself looking around amazed and you aren’t sure what’s going on….just buy a bag of chips and look glum you will soon find yourself blending in…plus I think the vit c and salt from the chips can have a calming effect on your nerves…..Stacy hope the rest of your stay in smokey is more fun sweet dreams.

  27. Dedo | July 22, 2009 at 4:09 pm |

    @Youri,……I actually had the flu back in my early twenties,..it’s that bad, I wanted to die!! (leave my body) Definately puts the immune system through it’s paces.

  28. GB | July 22, 2009 at 4:06 pm |

    @ Max, Stacy, Mike Morgan, all

    in murder mysteries, the detectives investigate the parties who benefited from the death of the victim in order to discover the killer.

    so who benefited from the engineered death of the American economy?

  29. Youri Carma | July 22, 2009 at 4:01 pm |

    Q&A Mexican – Swine Virus:

    People and pigs can both catch the same strains of influenza, but usually when people become infected by an animal, the virus stops there. They are known as dead-ends. The virus never was traced back to any specific pig. It was found only after it began spreading person to person.

    People born before 1920 had a strong antibody response to the new H1N1 virus, meaning their body “remembered” it from infection early in lifejust like people who survived the 1918 pandemic still had immune protection against that virus.

    The virus is an influenza A virus, carrying the designation H1N1. It is genetically different from the fully human H1N1 seasonal influenza virus that has been circulating globally for the past few years. Seasonal flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people globally in an average year.

    The new flu virus contains DNA typical to avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses. Flu viruses mutate constantly, which is why the flu vaccine is changed every year, and they can also swap DNA in a process called reassortment. Most animals can get flu but viruses rarely pass from one species to another. The new H1N1 strain of swine flu is an exception, causing the first pandemic of the 21st century, because it acquired the ability to pass from person to person.

    Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to those of seasonal influenza — sudden onset of fever, coughing, muscle aches and extreme tiredness. Swine flu appears to cause more diarrhea and vomiting than normal flu.

    Companies working on an H1N1 vaccine include Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis AG, Baxter International Inc, GlaxoSmithKline, Solvay and nasal spray maker MedImmune, now part of AstraZeneca.

  30. stacyherbert | July 22, 2009 at 3:59 pm |

    @ItalicBold – thanks for the link; I hadn’t heard the whole story on that man who killed himself . . . or ‘killed’ himself as the story seems to suggest.

  31. Dedo | July 22, 2009 at 3:22 pm |

    @Frances,…..just remember Pareto’s law!

  32. Dedo | July 22, 2009 at 3:20 pm |

    As someone on here stated,….position yourself accordingly, and then hold your breath, shut your eyes, and count to ten ! (metaphorically) you’d pass out if you took it literally

  33. frances snoot | July 22, 2009 at 3:17 pm |

    Phil:

    Some sources say there will be a rush for vaccines…others that it will be mandatory. I asked the acting director of our county health dept. in person and she said, “It will never be mandatory.” WHO knows, but they are not talking!

    How could there be enough for the whole population? The HHS wants to jab children, a group that are forced by circumstance to take mandatory shots.

    Here’s something interesting:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8163127.stm
    (human trials for vaccine underway in Australia)

  34. Dedo | July 22, 2009 at 3:14 pm |

    @Phil,….I take everything with a pinch of salt, seems it adds to the taste !

  35. stacyherbert | July 22, 2009 at 3:11 pm |

    @kitty – how did the conversation / debate go? Perhaps they were inspired to cover it after this piece in the FT today: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bccc6530-762b-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html

  36. kitty | July 22, 2009 at 3:08 pm |

    Newsnight tonight has piece about Swedish Pirates

  37. Mother Earth | July 22, 2009 at 3:01 pm |

    Hang in there Stacy :-) If all else fails there is a Holiday Inn near Kings Cross, Earls Crourt has a swath of cheaper places around it..

    Funny, I went to pick the prunes in the dunes (not the prunes of june sadly GBD) I noticed while jogging, but I was not the only one..Still managed to get away with several kilo’s…

    Here in the Hague, the expat enclave Wassenaar is experiencing a true exodus it seems, lots of divorces also, and split up couples fighting over the mortgage..

  38. Phil | July 22, 2009 at 2:49 pm |

    WHO moves forward in secrecy to accomplish forced vaccination and population agenda

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BUR20090721&articleId=14475

    Is Global Research to be taken seriously? … or with a pinch of salt ?

    Anyone ?

  39. frances snoot | July 22, 2009 at 2:44 pm |

    Point one of GEAB is occurring: unemployment explosion. Point two is coming: bankruptcies. These are two of the three rogue waves GEAB predicts to occur this spring. Here is a precursor story:
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124813472753066949.html

    Third wave will see the death of the dollar and the pound.
    http://news.kontentkonsult.com/2009/07/news-kontent-scoops-geab-36-leap-2020.html
    (I already posted the above link, but how uncanny that it is unfolding)

  40. kitty | July 22, 2009 at 1:51 pm |

    That Grayson Bernanke clip reveals a tie Max has ‘Just Gotta Have’

    Grayson is something else!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0NYBTkE1yQ

  41. Mr Supergeek | July 22, 2009 at 1:47 pm |

    @stacy
    Mmmm am thinking what would the ‘the dog whisperer’ say “Calm Assertive Energy” never fails …..mostly.

  42. Youri Carma | July 22, 2009 at 1:43 pm |

    @stacyherbert

    Talking about knives: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Cut You http://tinyurl.com/lw5wxv

    We Landed On The Moon, Big Deal: All of a sudden people care about NASA again, it’ll pass. http://bit.ly/EjNGk

    Sarko and his talentless wife fight to bring “Big Brother” to France http://bit.ly/1jRxSE

  43. stacyherbert | July 22, 2009 at 1:30 pm |

    @Mr Supergeek – well I’m waiting . . . you know that character Matt Lucas plays of the track suit wearing girl? she just sat down next to me talking EXACTLY as Matt Lucas portrays her

  44. Mr Supergeek | July 22, 2009 at 1:26 pm |

    @stacy
    Remember……..We got ya back….stay cool.

  45. stacyherbert | July 22, 2009 at 1:25 pm |

    Here’s a nice commentary piece on Max’s Goldman Sachs is Scum performance: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Goldman-Sachs-Is-Criminal-by-Allen-L-Roland-090722-961.html

  46. stacyherbert | July 22, 2009 at 1:22 pm |

    @Nancy S – good one! Wow. Neo-medievalism. It’s like Chaucer except with spy satellites and rfid tags recording every miserable day of our wretched lives! Someone should rewrite Canterbury Tales for today- the Miller gets an ASBO, The Knight gets a speeding ticket and the Wife of Bath dies of MRSA bug on a trolley in the hospital hallway.

  47. Nancy S, Huntington Bch, CA | July 22, 2009 at 1:15 pm |

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-unclaimed21-2009jul21,0,2534079.story

    Los Angeles–More bodies go unclaimed as families can’t afford funeral costs

  48. stacyherbert | July 22, 2009 at 1:14 pm |

    @Mike2liverpool – I saw that; read it on the eurostar

  49. M | July 22, 2009 at 1:12 pm |

    @Max & Stacy

    Regarding piratemyfilm: you must have seen “RIP: A Remix Manifesto”, haven’t you?

    http://www.opensourcecinema.org/book/rip-remix-manifesto-1-meet-girl-talk

    Its a real recommendation for anyone interested in the topic.
    You should link to it, it really is great and highly current documentary material!

  50. stacyherbert | July 22, 2009 at 1:12 pm |

    @Dan – don’t do it; there was a knife fight outside her apartment as I was ringing her bell (not realising she was passed out in another part of town), now I am at an internet cafe looking for a hotel room that is less that $300 per night (there aren’t any) and the middle aged Chinese(?) proprietor is sniffing glue openly. Nice town.

  51. Dan | July 22, 2009 at 1:08 pm |

    @stacy

    That’s too funny! The mood I’m in lately, perhaps London is the place for me . . .

  52. stacyherbert | July 22, 2009 at 1:06 pm |

    I have just arrived in London and I just wanted to report that people are not any more sober than when I was last here six months ago. In fact, my friend with whom I am staying is passed out drunk at a pub in Soho and we are trying to get friends to put her in a cab to come home. I think I will go check into a dry hotel!

  53. Fibon11235 | July 22, 2009 at 1:02 pm |

    @Mep
    Get some protection the email software, office software are all free yes free nothing all done by people who care !! and you do not need to suffer no more .. Its better than what you pay for miles better in my opinion and you can be ultra secure if you want to
    see

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTRsLW0eet0&feature=related

  54. Mep | July 22, 2009 at 1:00 pm |

    @ Palantíri – Good point. I just figured that most regulars here trust the links that other regulars post.

  55. Palantíri | July 22, 2009 at 12:57 pm |

    @Mep – As everyone probably has learned by now, not to click on links in emails, so should it be practiced on shorted URL address. You do not know what you get.

  56. Fibon11235 | July 22, 2009 at 12:41 pm |

    @Chris
    Open source software is the best and it works

    Linux computer-operating software is winning customers full stop
    If you dont know what your doing find someone that does. You wont regret it. Those that are running it know what im saying !

    ITS ALL FREE and its better than the stuff you pay for!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ

    But I would recommend http://www.ubuntu.com
    I will never connect to the internet with anything else if I can at all help it, why
    No Spyware
    no bugs
    no virus

    Everything works,everything you plug in works too. All the stuff your use to is free.

  57. Tom | July 22, 2009 at 12:40 pm |

    Hi Stacy.

    Can you please give us a step-by-step description of the ‘bank holiday’ scenario Max briefly mentioned on your radio show on Tuesday – how would it work – would there be fixed exchange rates from then on – would there be a fixed exchange rate on Gold, etc.?

    Thanks,

  58. Youri Carma | July 22, 2009 at 12:09 pm |

    Example of how this Nixon Wax Statue could look like in the “Watergate Scandal Hotel” http://tinyurl.com/m24erk

  60. Youri Carma | July 22, 2009 at 11:27 am |

    Think they made a mistake whit the “Watergate Hotel” , they had to rename it the “Watergate Scandal Hotel”

    They had to put a wax statue of Nixon in the lobby and I we would be sure that some history loving mafia dude could apreciate that and buy the hotel for a fair price. In the lobby you can press a button to see Nixons last goodbey speech to the American public when he had to resign. Simply a genius idea if I say it myself. http://tinyurl.com/qlu3f9

    After all it was Nixon who made the first steps to get the Presedency higher on the mafia scale. He was the giant on which shoulders other crooks could stand like Clinton or Bush , not to mention Goldman Sachs.

    The name of the hotel “The Watergate Scandal Hotel” would have perfectly fitted in with the sign of times we are experiencing now on a daily scale. Scum, Scam, Scimming millions a day.

  61. Chris | July 22, 2009 at 11:09 am |

    Story Max would like: CIT ($$ lending corp., now bankrupt) has been displaced by open-source software company Red Hat Linux:

    http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1612209.html

  62. Youri Carma | July 22, 2009 at 10:41 am |

    Washington’s Watergate Hotel fails to attract buyers http://tinyurl.com/lpr2mo

  64. Youri Carma | July 22, 2009 at 10:34 am |

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Cut You http://tinyurl.com/lw5wxv

  65. Mep | July 22, 2009 at 10:10 am |

    LOL. Read internal Goldman Sachs Memo here:

    http://tinyurl.com/mfd8a5

  66. Mother Earth | July 22, 2009 at 9:51 am |

    It seems the UK is sobering up. This will be good for the pubbers IQ as they will improve their diet. Meanwhile the peasant mentality projecting media is hanging on the lips of family of former ‘royalty’ http://tinyurl.com/l7ul82 gold whispers ‘Up yours!’.

    China and Russia hold a ‘anti terrorist’ drill http://tinyurl.com/mp65bk despite the fact that terrorism (by definition) can not be fought with the large scale conventional tactics exercised. The location is the closest on land to the US, luckily far away from Iran and North Korea..

    (excess) Dog is hot on the chinese menu this month http://tinyurl.com/mpn8hq

  67. Veritas | July 22, 2009 at 9:11 am |

    Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake.

    Steve Jobs: Let them eat iCake.

  68. Ingvend Storrs | July 22, 2009 at 8:54 am |

    Do the extraverts sink into depression when they have to stay home and drink alone from their private bottle of Vodka?

  69. Mep | July 22, 2009 at 8:30 am |

    @ Mike,

    Tinyurl is great for making veryyyyyyyyyyyyyy lonnnnnnngggggg URL’s small.

    http://tinyurl.com/

  70. Photoception | July 22, 2009 at 8:28 am |

    It sounds like these punks are having trouble smoothing over their bad loans. Tisk Tisk.

  71. Danny | July 22, 2009 at 8:27 am |

    @Max – Looks like your buddy is in trouble. Sorry if I’m the one to break it to you.

    Actor Stephen Baldwin files for bankruptcy in NY
    http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56K6CM20090721