Admittedly, this will probably result in a one-hour waste of time, but $100K for charity isn’t a bad rate of return. And KO can always eviscerate Ziegler retrospectively.

Best of luck.

Now, admittedly, the prohibition on cameras is often intended to prevent the distraction of dozens or hundreds of flashes; and the ban on recording is often to preserve the option of the speaker or the venue to release a commercial version. This doesn’t seem to be the case here. Prohibiting cell-phone recording is — how shall I put this — stupid. And unenforceable. I mean, I guess they could catch people trying to video-record with their cells, but it’s pretty much impossible to notice someone audio-recording.

Searching bags, though, is a rather common thing — e.g., they do it at Disneyland and at the San Jose Jazz Festival (where they don’t want you to sneak in your own booze).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20091020/sc_space/getoutorionidmeteorshowerpeaksovernight

Ronald Reagan put Greenspan in place during his administration and gave him very powerful influential voice. Greenspan’s opinion was the know all end all at the time on economics. President Clinton kept Greenspan on, as the bull market tides kept riding high. Then the trouble that Born had been concerned about and warned against hit, wave coming down. Surfs up.

Apparently we still have not learned the lessons from the first stock market crash which resulted in the Great Depression and it’s devastation. Why? Get the fricken wall street banking regulations in place and right now.

How many times do we have to go through this? It’s the middle class tax paying citizens that come out on the short end of the stick. They get rescused for bad and greedy business choices by us, then, back on their feet it’s back to business as usual. Oh how handy to have the government to turn to using our tax dollars as a loan.

It’s time we stop getting screwed by big money mongers abusing the system. I’m almost to the point of saying we should have let the banks and auto industry fail, they sure didn’t deserve to be bailed out by us. I didn’t feel that way at the time, when they said woe is me, it would devastate and cripple our country if they fail. Well look at the fallout amongst us, the little guy.

Now those banks are back in the black, same old same old, they have jobs and undeserved bonuses while millions of ‘us’ are out of work, without insurance and on the street thanks to them. Could we have gotten through this and come out better by letting them fail, I don’t know. But I’m beginning to wonder.

One thing I do know, there are certain industries that absolutely need regulating!

End of rant.