Music Overnight: Grateful Dead – Touch of Grey

Your Daily Bloodletting

dr. polidori was mis-diagnosed with a fatal medical problem this past weekend, which diagnosis caused him to sorrowfully climb into bed with Lord Ruthven. But then the actual radiologist’s report made leap out again, resurrected from a veritable tomb as it were…

Sorry, but the same cannot be said of our ailing economy which like the people of Iraq is apparently still in its last throes! One financial expert in that regard set off wails and big orders of sack cloth yesterday (the ashes to be provided by self-immolations of the bond trader’s wives). You see, S and P is mulling 500 billion in mortgage downgrades, while the Feds cut interest rates for the second time in 8 days (which is the financial equivalent of open chest heart massage).

But never fear, Shell Oil just announced “‘obscene’ profits of 27.6 billion dollars” while the ranks of the homeless continue to grow exponentially.

You really have to read the article about the economic stimulus package of 1929. It’s so important that I put it in a separate post below.

Ah, read it!!!

The Barons of Shell Oil are, no doubt, now sighing with Mdme. de Pompadour: “After us, the deluge!”

More Diana Inquest Evidence that her Death was a Hit

Driver Paul’s blood alcohol samples “were cooked” and probably belonged to a suicide victim who had “sucked the gas-pipe” (as the old saying goes)…

Nurse Admits Stealing Body Parts of Dead

At least, they were dead… (See below!)

Bush Seeks Budget Surplus By Cutting Medical Care

Why is it that the United States spends much more money per capita on medical care but delivers much less medical care per capita than any other industrialized nation in the World? The answer isn’t money. It’s there. Or, at least, it was.

Language

Posted in honor of Charmian’s friendship!

TODAY’S MUST READ: The Economic Stimulus Package

of 1929.

BREAKING: Britney in the Ambulance Again

Makes hospital come back. And this is always the “Big News” in Corporate Owned, Brain-dead America…

A Million People Dead

and Saddam was bad for what reason?

Among the Cool Vehicles and Cool Places I won’t be traveling today

is the Shinkansen bullet train.