This Week's In Memoriam
By Logan Murphy Saturday Nov 24, 2007 4:45pm
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This Week's In Memoriam segment noted the passing of Milo Radulovich, actor Dick Wilson, better known as Mr. Whipple from Charmin commercials, former Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith and 9 more soldiers killed in Iraq.


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IMPEACH THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION!!!
Seize the day.
Catch up with you later.
Rich in San Bruno @ 1:
Can't wait 'till '08
Decided to see (again) the movie "Good Night and Good Luck" (2005) in tribute to Mr. Radulovich's passing the other day....
Amazing story, well done period piece...
One of my all time favorites....
Heard in next room on Evening News.
"Look for ways to save the Galapagos"
What the hell you mean looking? After 47 years of solutions and suggestions were looking?
(Capitalists. "Lets see if we can make a fat profit from saving the Galapagos. If not, it's not worth it. To risky.")
Bank Run Tip
A former senior commercial loan type in the banking business sends along this "confirmation" of how things are going in the US banking world:
"Just a note based on what I read. I just left my banking position (major money center banks as senior commercial loan officer) and the comment from one of your readers holds true. There is a procedure in place now to circumvent any type of 'run' on funds. Specific plans for limiting daily cash draws and total withdrawals within a specific time period. Read the small print on bank literature, their ability to do this is there.
Secondly, I was in commercial lending and there is no new policy position to limit corporate borrowing. However the credit folks are becoming the stone wall leaving the officers to deal with the customers as to why they don't qualify when their financial situation is as good or better than during previous credit actions. My counterparts at other banks are experiencing like problems. Drying up the credit to businesses, unofficially. Not a good sign. Thanks for your good work."
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
...what your house in Malibu burned and you lost your job, thanks for the... ¨tip¨.
GC @ 8:
Thats a snip. Anyway how bout this one.
Forecast: U.S. dollar could plunge 90 pct
By UPI
11/24/07 -- -, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A financial crisis will likely send the U.S. dollar into a free fall of as much as 90 percent and gold soaring to $2,000 an ounce, a trends researcher said.
"We are going to see economic times the likes of which no living person has seen," Trends Research Institute Director Gerald Celente said, forecasting a "Panic of 2008."
"The bigger they are, the harder they'll fall," he said in an interview with New York's Hudson Valley Business Journal.
Celente -- who forecast the subprime mortgage financial crisis and the dollar's decline a year ago and gold's current rise in May -- told the newspaper the subprime mortgage meltdown was just the first "small, high-risk segment of the market" to collapse.
Derivative dealers, hedge funds, buyout firms and other market players will also unravel, he said.
Massive corporate losses, such as those recently posted by Citigroup Inc. and General Motors Corp., will also be fairly common "for some time to come," he said.
He said he would not "be surprised if giants tumble to their deaths," Celente said.
The Panic of 2008 will lead to a lower U.S. standard of living, he said.
A result will be a drop in holiday spending a year from now, followed by a permanent end of the "retail holiday frenzy" that has driven the U.S. economy since the 1940s, he said.
L.A. Confidential @ 9:
better buy all that china crap you can gang next yr the chinese will be sending us care packages,
tyree @ 10:
...the dollar could plunge, has since the punk stole the Office, WAKE UP... Day late yen short. Vote Dennis K for a leader that stands for family values not corporate values.
well, it would appear that there is nothing left for us to do now....except wait....and see what happens.
GC @ 11:
in reference to the financial situation the country is facing.
Ohio Proud @ 4:
Oh-eight...
Too late!
oddly no names of Pajamas Media, Clear Channel or Fox personalities
Can anyone tell me of why the actions of Mr. Whipple have risen to enough significance to be included in this memorium? Before the names of those killed in combat? What kind of twisted sense of importance is that?
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