From their 1994 Clinton Era album “Lord of the Fries” about HillaryCare called “Suture Yourself”
CHICAGO—
A Chicago man has died after authorities say he cut his chest to try to remove his pacemaker.
The Cook County medical examiner says 47-year-old Channing Askew died Monday night at a Chicago hospital. The Chicago Tribune reports ( http://trib.in/sflxJM ) that a doctor told police that Askew apparently had tried to remove his pacemaker himself. Police say paramedics were called to a group home where Askew lived when he complained of chest pain.
We had a guy who worked here at my office some 15 years ago who (I kid you not) performed hemorrhoid surgery on himself in his apartment.
Two-hundred dollars and change buys you a rock-solid rifle—and 440 rounds of ammo. Every time you load it and pull the trigger, it goes BANG and blasts a big hole in whatever it’s pointed at. Works for me.
It comes as no surprise that I have been expecting this whole Greek bailout scheme to fail, and fail spectacularly, but I have to admit that even I was somewhat surprised by this news overnight
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called a referendum and a parliamentary confidence vote, raising the prospect of derailing the European bailout effort and pushing Greece into default. Stocks and the euro tumbled.
Papandreou’s gambit risks pushing the country into default if rejected by voters, and raises the ante with dissidents in his own party. Papandreou’s popularity has plunged after a raft of austerity measures cut pensions and wages, increased taxes and sparked a wave of social unrest. An opinion poll published Oct. 29 showed most Greeks believe the accord on a new bailout package and a debt writedown is negative.
I frankly assumed that they’d just nod their heads and take the 50% write-down last week and then simply not pay a dime so that in a few weeks there would be another write-down. No, this wrapping one’s self in the flag twitchy populist appeal allows him to let the People show those Germans who pay all their bills what they really think of them and lets the politicians off the hook.
The Euro is getting hammered, stock markets around the world are getting whacked…oh, and could Jon Corzine’s Golden Touch have turned MF Global into Credit Anstalt?
U.S. regulators are investigating whether hundreds of millions of dollars are missing from client accounts at MF Global, The New York Times and Bloomberg News reported late Monday after the broker-dealer filed for bankruptcy protection, swamped by big bets on European debt.
…The next thing you know, your firm is bankrupt and hundreds of clients are about to learn that all their money is gone. Poof. This is not a fictional tale. This is precisely what very likely happened at MF Global in the past 72 hours. And someone has to go to jail. That someone, if indeed this criminal act is proven to have taken place, should be none other than Jon Corzine himself.
Life, Makes Ya Barf | Mr. Bingley | 
November 2, 2011 9:17 am | 
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