get this...
One sobering fact from Homer-Dixon's book (see previous post) is this:
Go figure...
The financial repercussions of the September 11th attacks were enormous: the total cost of lost economic growth and decreased equity value around the world ultimately exceeded $1 trillion. Since the cost of the attack on the World Trade Center to Al Qaeda was probably only a few hundred thousand dollars, the terrorists multiplied their impact well over a million-fold.And Bush, Blair, and HoWARd still reckon they can win their insane "war on terror"...
Go figure...
posted by The Editor at
5:11 AM
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Oh...oh....oh dear. I've just been characteristically sarcatsic about war and the bottom line over at Surfdom. And then I come here and discover it's a big problem.
I feel so....something. Confused, perhaps.
Hi Gerry!
I just LOVE Phil's word sarcatsic! From what you were saying the other day about vomiting over your partner when The West Wing is on, I see you as more of a sardogsic kind of person.
I just dropped by to see if you are still keeping up the flow of whatever, and to wish you a sincere, if unlikely, Happy New Year.
Yours
Tony
Ah Tony... You are a naughty puppy... If you're the Tony I'm thinking of, I enjoy watching your daughter-in-law on The Bill. A fine actress. But I fear in real life she would be all too quick to tell me to bugger off, sharpish... A scary temper, I feel. I could be wrong. I usually am...
You want me to be happy? Based on what exactly?
No, she wouldn't, she's a pussycat really. But her husband, my son, might tell you to bugger off. He is not too keen on Australians ever since 2001 when he took his production of The Graduate to Australia; they were hiding under their beds after 9/11 and not going to the theatre so he had to close down in mid-tour and he lost all the money he had made on it in London and on Broadway.
What d'you mean, "Based on what?" It was just a friendly wish and if that's your reaction then the hell with you, antipodean churl.
Tony, I don't think you need to take personally what I said, but if you want to, feel free. "Offence freely given to those who wish to take it..."
Geeeeeez....
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