Archive for August 31st, 2009

Carry On Up The Khyber Any Decade Now

Monday, August 31st, 2009

At the moment, it’s not working.

Not clear if the General means the work, no idea what the work is.

Not clear if the General means the strategy, no idea what the strategy is.

Not clear what the General means by success, no idea what success is.

Not clear when, how, or what victory will come to pass, no idea what victory is.

Gorilla tries to help out: “It’s all about updating Movingforwardville: we clear the village, we rebuild the village, we become the village. The Afghans will be but a distant memory, just like the Soviet Union!”

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Aspirin: A Bleeding Good Study

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Yet again, the claims of the pharmaceutical industry in the service of marketing more pills have come up short.

This time, it’s aspirin.

Seems there’s no benefit for otherwise healthy people to take aspirin as a preventive measure against stroke or heart attack. But there is a doubling of the risk of haemmorage.

Gorilla isn’t troubled: “Other than alcohol, and of course the studies aren’t very comforting on that one, there’s very little good in self-medication, but advertising still works great on the bottom line!”

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The Profit Illusion

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Wow, American taxpayers have made a profit on bailing out the banks!

Except the $4 billion profit doesn’t count the hundreds of billions in taxpayer guarantees of the toxic loans held by zombie banks like Bank of America and Citibank, to say nothing of the largesse bestowed on AIG, GM, and Chrysler or the Fed becoming an SIV for the US Treasury to the tune of several trillion.

Alas, the shoe hasn’t begun to drop on these “investments”, but of course that’s Goingbackwardville.

Gorilla thinks: “There’s no accounting for accounting, so it’s better to keep the spoons hidden!”

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Democracy Comes To Japan

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Only took 55 years!

It will be very interesting to see how successfully the new Japanese government copes with the entrenched special interests that have run the country into the ground, particularly in the last 20 years.

Gorilla says: “Hope they have more luck with Movingforwardville than we have!”

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