Ramen Review

This year has had some funny weather that far. Not bad though. First decent winter since I moved here or so, >10 years ago. When the cold started to get obnoxious, spring broke out. Lasted for 3 weeks or so, unexpectedly turned into summer. April has been what you’d expect May to be. By now, it is colder again and wet, has been raining on and off again for the last few days. But again, the sun is coming thru.
The … read more

aig kaput. read all about it in the mass media.
they will feature it aplenty and in lurid detail. “march is the new october”, or what?
dow needs to hold 6k this week, or all bets are off.
in other news:

(background: the eu head-of-states’ decision[de:] that there will be no eur160-190mrd blanket bailout for non-eurozone eu eastern europe.
i assume that if they would have had the bucks, they would have shelled them out with kisses, smiles and flowers. eastern europe’s economies are … read more

At the 2009 EU parliamentary elections, you may well be able to vote for a CIA enterprise.
D. J. Ganley. Made a killing with Slavic crudes and Pentagon comm equipment. Image from Albanian Canadian League Information Service.
The June 12th, 2008 plebiscite about the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of [the Republic of] Ireland Bill yielded a resounding No. One very happy miltech entrepreneur was Declan James Ganley of Watford, Hertfordshire (England), who got himself a big gift when about 28-28.5% of … read more