The Scrabbled: Making Fun of Each Other since '99

I have a ING checking account that started with a 4.00+% APY and has dropped to sub-1.50%. I am beginning the process of investing/trading because I want to make more money with my money. I just signed up for Etrade but have not transferred any money just yet.

Have you guys been following the news on it? Most recent headline is that the governors are all balking at possibly being forced to cover something they don’t have the budget to do. But, as the theory goes, after 10 years the plan will actually save money. What do you guys think?

As previously noted here, Dubai has blown up pretty quickly and become one of the most bloated and wealthy places on earth. Well, the economic collapse hasn’t treated the city so well. Workers are so desperate to get out of the now-collapsing Wealthy Wonderland that there are thousands of abandoned cars in and around the airport.

It’s been a while since we’ve had any good Bushisms, but here’s a great new one from yesterday:

> “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.”

Full story here.

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So a group of wacko Christians (note to ordinary Christians of the non-wacko variety: no offense), decided the best way to overcome the problems with the economy is with prayer. OK, a bit wacky, right? But nothing all that funny. No, the hilarity comes into the picture when they pick the scene of said prayer: at the golden calf bronze bull on Wall St. C’mon, guys! Don’t you know your Exodus 32?

Crazy bronze bull rubbing and chanting pictures and video at the link above.