LOL'ing "on the square".
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson bein' all serious and bald
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score from Lost*
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Just in the event you are not currently freaking the fuck out a bit. QUOTE Dow sinks 661 points in 3 days. The blue-chip index sheds 411 points Wednesday as recession fears take center stage. (Henry) Paulson gives update on revamped $700B bailout. [important bit here] "The concern is that the economy will turn out worse than the current forecast [and] the recession will be longer and more severe," said Hugh Johnson, chief strategist at ThomasLloyd Global Asset Management in New York. [more important bit here] Bailout shift: Wednesday's selloff gained momentum after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Wednesday morning that the government will no longer use the $700 billion bailout fund to buy illiquid assets from banks, which was its original intent. "Indecision is the worst thing for the market," said Dave Rovelli, managing director of U.S. equity trading at Canaccord Adams. UNQUOTE
In other news I passed on seeing Deerhunter tonight with my friend Deerja Noelle, FTW, in order to see my momski who popped along to Toronto for a conference. We had awesome sushi, shopped about for my father's bday/xmas gifts, watched Lost & BBC World News on her 56" HD Plasma hotel room Television and discussed the reasons why placing a G in front of Obama is so fucking important! GOBAMA!! Then on my solo stroll homewards, Badly Drawn Boy's Silent Sigh appeared on my iPod's playlist as I stood in front of The Bay's extensive Christmas display. It was every bit like every scene Hugh Grant ever starred in, really. Hugh. Fucking. Grant. Really. Gobama. Goodnight.
If the news from the following article branches out into an actual cure for A.I.D.S., well, I kinda sorta have to stop making fun of Germans and we're both on speaking terms again. German Doctors Find Potential Cure for AIDS. Which begs the question; how are we not living in the most epic and historic of times?
Chocolate-covered almonds are the most addictive things you can shove into your face.
In my, at times retarded behaviour -- the following is something *I* would probably do.