Memnison Journal

Possibly the most annoying and rude commercial I’ve seen in a while; it doesn’t sink in as to what’s going on until the end.  Aaaaargh.  (NSFW, really mostly crass as heck, and it sure helps if you know the slang reference to the anatomy.)

Where’s Mjöllnir when you need it!
Mr Alexander said the burglar threw himself out of a first floor window of his home in Edinburgh when he threw open the door and confronted him.
Speaking today Mr Alexander said: “As soon as he saw me his eyes went wide with terror.
“He [...]

Hedge Fund founder who lost a serious bundle in the Madoff ponzi scheme commits suicide, and no, he didn’t jump out a window.
The radical Israeli settlers in the West Bank are a political nightmare that any government will have serious problems with and neither main party coalition wants to deal with.  Of course, government policies [...]

Saudi man needs money, and essentially sells off his eight-year-old daughter for $5000 for marriage to a 58-year-old-guy.  Horrified mom takes it to court.  Court sides with the dad, and says the kid can make the decision to go for a divorce - when she’s older.   Like puberty.

A commercial real estate attorney speaks up:
Suddenly, and coinciding with the Lehman/Goldman fiasco, the commercial lending markets completely disappeared. Not just a slow down, but a complete and total shut down. Loans for which there were commitments were suddenly pulled. Term loans (most in the development world are for 1-2 years at a time) were [...]

Limbaugh et al: The Democrats invented / created the recession and so on so as to gain control over the business world.  As in nationalize it all, the dirty Marxists. 
*background music: The Red Flag*

Barones Pizza, a local joint, has gone under due to the  Lisle’s city fathers’ dumb decision to redo the ‘downtown’ Main Street of our village.  The local businesses on the two blocks have been hurting a lot - especially since the whole area has been torn up all summer and fall from the construction to [...]

Dayton officials say that an entry they put in a pile of stuff for a possible Obama-signable economic stimulus package for local jobs wasn’t supposed to be there - an initiative to get hookers off Dayton streets.  I can’t imagine the sort of jobs something like *that* would generate locally.
Wait, maybe I could.  *shudder*

HBO production and presently running on that network.  My take on it is that it’s a once-funny;  I have a hard time watching gangster movies because I really don’t get off on people beating and killing each other, especially if the people involved doing the beating are serious scum.   This is SOPRANOS GO BAGHDAD; [...]

I decided to order a bunch of items for Christmas from Big Chain Store, with outlets nearby, and most of it was for Meredith. In total, the sum was *um* expensive. A couple of the items, which were Nintendo DS games for Mere, the online store said - oh, we don’t have that [...]

Cops in a small town outside Dayton, Ohio, got a report of a strange man sitting in a running car that was stopped in a driveway.  Coming up to the car, they found that the passenger seat was filled with a full beer keg, and the drivers side was filled with a very drunk man [...]

*glyph of annoyance*and another*
*notice of attempt to retcon Anne of Green Gables with a made up new origin*
*Or when they retconned the USS Rittenhouse into mad Admiral Rittenhouse who wanted to rule the universe in Star Trek fiction - aaargh*

Joe the Plumber says now that being on the campaign trail with McCain appalled him, but (1) he thought Obama was worse, and (2) the only bright spot on the campaign trail was Goshdarnit Winky.  So much for his judgement…

Well, if you’d never heard of our Governor before, you have now.    My reflections on this inside.

Various Illinois politicos are asking for a pardon for former Governor George Ryan, whose corruption in office led to a lot of people in jail and several deaths.  One paper wrote: “Instead of selling license plates, [Ryan] gets to make them.”
Otherwise, Ryan will stay in jail till 2013.
Good.  Let him rot there.