October 7, 2008
By bigbrother ~ October 7th, 2008. Filed under: Daily Communique.
Good morning EBKAC’s,
What You Need to Know Today:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped below 10,000 for the first time in five years when someone figured out that the rescue package approved by Congress on Friday would not have had a chance to work by Monday. This certain someone may have been in Europe or Asia, nobody knows, but Big Brother woke up yesterday afternoon lighter by several billion dollars. Now, while it is true that when personal wealth exceeds $500 million any subsequent gain only serves to determine whether the chalet in Gstaad is adorned with Picasso versus Rothko, Big Brother was very fond of that extra several billion dollars and had great plans for it. The inevitable market rebound now prefaces the assembly of a private army to usurp that lesser dictator getting on Big Brother’s nerves.
Blah, blah, Sarah Palin, Obama hates America, vote for him if you love terrorism, blah.
Fox previews a Fair and Balanced portrayal of America’s stupidest voter foolishly and unsuccessfully trying to cast a ballot for Obama.
Someone You Should Know Today:
John Adams (b.1735, d.1826), first U.S. Vice-President, made a record 29 tie-breaking votes in the U.S. Senate, thereby exercising his sole legislative authority; knew he had no additional powers under The U.S. Constitution because he was in the room when it was written. Was not co-President or co-“Father of Our Country” with George Washington and certainly not a fourth branch of the Federal Government. Adams understood that there was never any flexibility intended in the role of the Vice-Presidency and lamented: “My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived”.
Today’s Sports:
Someone won the football game last night, but Big Brother stopped watching MNF when it switched to ESPN.
Today’s Gossip:
Britney Spears is dead. Forever. So you can stop being interested in her life and developmentally arrested yearbook photographers can stop chasing her around. You can all go back to doing whatever it was you did before she became sooo interesting. You get a taste. NOW GET BACK TO WORK.
Read a Book:
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that
a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised
these beautiful things.
Rudyard Kipling, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”
That is All,
Big Brother
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