Thursday, 5. November 2009, 04:19:51
DABA girls, hoaxes, Spoiled Rich People, Eat the Rich
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Sorry for taking so long to get around to this. I remember carrying an article which I remember tearing out of Time Magazine about an alleged (although neither I nor the Time Magazine writer knew this at the time) support group called
"DABA Girls", or "Dating A Banker Anonymous". Some highlights of the article:
The economic crisis came home to 27-year-old Megan Petrus early last year when her boyfriend of eight months, a derivatives trader for a major bank, proved to be more concerned about helping a laid-off colleague than comforting Ms. Petrus after her father had a heart attack.
For Christine Cameron, the recession became real when the financial analyst she had been dating for about a year would get drunk and disappear while they were out together, then accuse her the next day of being the one who had absconded.
Dawn Spinner Davis, 26, a beauty writer, said the downward-trending graphs began to make sense when the man she married on Nov. 1, a 28-year-old private wealth manager, stopped playing golf, once his passion. “One of his best friends told me that my job is now to keep him calm and keep him from dying at the age of 35,” Ms. Davis said. “It’s not what I signed up for.”
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Wednesday, 4. November 2009, 19:55:39
decision by committee, government spending, waste, vanity
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WASHINGTON—In recognition of mankind's inherent propensity for tragically foolish decisions, Congress allocated nearly $500 billion Monday for the construction of a new national monument honoring human folly.
"From Hannibal's disastrous crossing of the Alps to Custer's humiliating defeat at Little Bighorn, human history has been plagued by senseless mistakes, and it is high time we built a memorial to honor that history," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said of the expensive and ill-advised monument. "My deepest hope is that future generations of Americans will one day look upon this pointless edifice and be filled with a sense of awe and wonder at mankind's utter lack of foresight."
"To think of all the ways our time and money could have been better spent," Pelosi continued. "I can imagine no more fitting tribute."
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Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 06:58:39
Calcium Caseinate, coffee creamer, margarine, Men At Work
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Vegemite
There was even a hit song in the early eighties where they sing a verse about this stuff!
I come from the Land of Down Under!
Lever pre-2000Same processes used for the manufacture of soap, margarine and munitionsSafe and stable edible material having reinforced concrete-like structureRead more...
WIDGETIZE