September 24th, 2008, Late Afternoon | permalink
Republican White House hopeful John McCain has said he is suspending his campaign and returning to Washington to help deal with the economic crisis. The old man can’t multi task apparently, god help him if he’s thrown in to leading two wars, an economy that’s dying on it’s feet, a housing market that’s long since bottomed out and an energy crisis the likes we haven’t seen since Mad Max 2…
September 9th, 2008, Lunch Time | permalink
You’d better read this today, because it’s possible the world will end tomorrow. Strictly speaking, the probability of doomsday isn’t any higher than it is on any normal Wednesday, but there’s been a fair bit of kerfuffle and hullabaloo over the CERN Large Hadron Collider and whether it will create a black hole that will destroy the entire planet.
So the big $700 billion bail out didn’t work out. Washington Mutual disappeared over night. Our bank, Wachovia, is sliding down fast. Gas is increasingly scare here.
What else could go wrong? Cause each passing day is leading us towards that Mad Max scenario…
It’s becoming more and more clear that President Bush has about as much power over the economy as me, despite all his huffing and puffing, he’s quite clearly a step below the lame-duck status… Not even close to a figurehead. Most powerful man in the World? Give me a break.
As for the gas shortage, Hurricane Ike hit 2 weeks ago, and way below the expectations of what class it was going to be, but still 3 weekends later we’re still running dry. I don’t remember it being anywhere close to this bad after the double whammy of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005, sure gas prices sky rocketed as price gouging took hold, but 2 weeks of very limited supply?
In fact, let me refresh your memory of those days…
It came close, but never actually ran out, and that’s when the price of gouged gas was lower than our current lowest today (or at least 2 weeks ago). Madness! Utter, utter madness…