The Crash Et Al

The House voted down the bailout bill today and the stock market crashed c. 770 points--the biggest or second biggest drop in its history. Wachovia Bank went under. Pelosi caused the bill to be voted down by giving a very partisan speech that made the GOPs mad, or the bill was full of pork barrell addedintos, or yaddayadda. Drudge and the WSJ sites and all the news and opinion sites have the accounts of what happened. W is going to give a speech tomorrow morning. And 33 people got killed in Bagdad by a car bomb, and it got reported on the back page of our local paper. Saturday in Des Moines a guy got killed and his son injured when the truck they were driving behind blew a back tire which flew into their pickup. Big Bang Theory was funny tonight, as was 2.5 Men. Sheen and Cryer and good actors, whether I like the premise of the show or not. Am currently watching a late night cage fighting match from Sioux City, which seems to be the state capitol of cage fighting. McCaine is in town for the night to meet with some local business leaders tomorrow. A local yuppie bookstore went broke today in the new east side of downtown yuppie block. It is the 3rd or 4th upscale store to close in the area in the last year. The owner was blaming the big stores(Borders and Daltons), but the main reason may be that books have reached 40 bucks for a hardcover, and even the upscale folks cannot afford the prices. I guess this will be all for right now. The nation's economy is the main news and more expert people on the web can explain it better than I can, even with my brilliant knowledge of world affairs. Interesting that I keep mentioning websites for the news instead of print news. Must be the 21st century way of getting information. Di di mau!