Monday is the day the United States celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King, the black Republican Conservative American who pushed the US Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act – over the protests of the Southern Democrats, like Al Gore Jr’s father.
S&P did the widely expected sovereign debt downgrades today – dropping France from the AAA club, and pushing down Italy, Spain and 6 other countries. Germany keeps its AAA rating as the cream continues to float to the top of Europe.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/13/us-eurozone-sp-idUSTRE80C1BC20120113
That picture is really symbolic – at first glance, I thought
“There is blood in the streets”
until I realized what it is.
Monday is a holiday in the United States, so the US markets will be closed (unless the racist white people who ignore MLK day show up for work) – so if things get ugly over the situation in Europe on Monday, nobody will be at Goldman Sachs to catch the falling knife
Private industry expects me to show up and be ready for work at 8am, regular time, Monday morning.
Brother in-law state employee is off.
You must work for racists!
I actually am going to connect this to radio 🙂
Back around 1987, I was doing work for Chrysler located in Highland Park. MLK day was still in transition – it was basically a “holiday” where employers looked the other way when the black employees took the day off, but the rest were expected to show up (and government employees took the day off)
So I’m driving to work at Chrysler heading down I75 to Highland Park – I have WXYT-AM on the radio and I’m getting the traffic report. Every day, there are places where the traffic backed up at predictable times – like how in the morning in Pittsburgh, traffic always backs up coming down Greentree Hill on the parkway west.
So the guy in the traffic ‘copter (not to be confused with an actual helicopter) announces that traffic is close to stopped at exactly the place I’m at on I-75. On every day of the year, that would be true – but because a large portion of the people driving into Detroit to work are government employees, the freeway is completely empty. I’m driving at about 65 mph through this “traffic backup”
That was one of the things that really opened my eyes about how fraudulent radio had become. George Carlin used to have a bit where he pretends to be doing traffic reports by making helicopter noises. That’s not entirely fictional. Now the person doing your local traffic report is just reading from the Internet web sites from 1000 miles away, and has never even driven in your city.
“it was basically a “holiday” where employers looked the other way when he black employees too the day off, but the rest were expected to show up (and government employees took the day off)”
With all the things that have changed at a future-shock pace since 1987, it’s so nice to discover that some things never change. As with most “Monday” government holidays, I observe them by working so that everyone’s power stays on while they watch the parades on TV with beers in hand at 10 am. 🙂
I am an oddball in this situation — a government employee who works every holiday of the year except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s.
Funny on the traffic reports that they are trying to make Sigalert a national brand for traffic. Sigalert means a lot in LA, but before I started listening to Handel on the Law thanks to this website, I had never heard of a Sigalert, and until looking it up on Wikipedia, had no idea what it meant.