"Juicebox"

Argh, my head.
Mr. Spock over here doesn't like direct contradiction.
He he.

1. First and most important
Why are there still crazy, fucked-up places in the world without water or basic sanitation?
All these foundations and charities and organizations, and we can't build a well somewhere?
Well, we are on the verge of diverting trillions of $ away from helping people and to global warming.

QOTD
"Getting basic sanitation and safe drinking water to the three billion people around the world who do not have it now would cost nearly $4 billion a year. By contrast, cuts in global carbon emissions that aim to limit global temperature increases to less than two degrees Celsius over the next century would cost $40 trillion a year by 2100."
- Bjorn Lomborg, source
I heart Lomborg: Global Warming as Seen from Bangladesh

2. Tough Economic Times
What a bear market for the last 9 years. Argh.

QOTD2
"U.S. companies' IPO activity has so badly lagged behind the pace of stock delistings in the past decade that the number of publicly traded businesses has dropped 39% over the past 11 years"
- WSJ today, source

The number of publicly listed companies peaked in 1997 at 8,823. Now, it's at 5,401. Eee-yikes: Great Depression of Listings

I wonder if President Obama's tax cuts and vast increase of fed spending will help this in the future. Yikes, again.

3. Tough Economic Times?
Things are tough and yet people scoop up the new (expensive) shit like it's going out of style.

QOTD3
"Demand is so strong for the Nook that Barnes & Noble has begun telling new customers not to expect delivery of the soon-to-be-released e-reader until the second week of December."
- The Nook is B&N's flavor of the Kindle, source
10% unemployment and people a lining up for B&N's latest POS gadget.
I can't figure it out.

4. My head
Two really big head-squeezers:
  1. Health care - The House passes a health care bill that is the worst legislation I can recall in my lifetime. Gibberish. Cross our fingers on the Senate. Dop. Save your money people... or suffer bureaucratic fools deciding your medical treatment.
  2. Muslims terrorists - On this Muslim loser who killed 13 people at the military base... I read a fucking toxic article with quotes about how shithead didn't feel warm and fuzzy because he's a Muslim. I am unaware of 13 Muslims killed in the US because they were Muslim.
Commenting on these two is pointless. If you can't follow along with... ah, forget it.

The biggest contradiction of all, I reckon, is the contrast between all-good personal life (what a great weekend!) and the all-fucked-up-all-the-time public existence you hear about. I can't figger that one out at all.
peace... yow, bill

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