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July 14, 2005

Hurricane Sputters, Oil Flows, Stocks Surge

Don't look now, but we're within spitting distance of the DJIA level of 10,700 that Clinton bequeathed to George Bush amidst an economic downturn.

And while the GDP continues to grow at the strong pace of 3.8% per annum (per annum is a Latin phrase meaning "for the entire annum"), inflation is quite tame:

Wall Street was encouraged by the latest reading of the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index, which measures how much consumers pay at the retail level. The CPI was unexpectedly flat for June, while "core" CPI -- with food and fuel costs removed -- edged just 0.1 percent higher.

Sound to me like someone's going shopping.

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posted by Ace at 02:21 PM
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Your good news mixed with a good view made my day. What's her name again?

Posted by: El Capitan on July 14, 2005 02:25 PM

Justine "Mallory Keaton" Bateman from Family Ties.

Posted by: ace on July 14, 2005 02:26 PM

I will personally buy 500 shares of busted dot.com stock, if it will help to build the American economy, boost the Dow Jones, and deliver more views of Mallory like that one.

Posted by: utron on July 14, 2005 02:29 PM

Utron! Struggling online retailer www.EnasYorl.com has just annouced that they have 500 shares of stock available for sale!

Posted by: Enas Yorl on July 14, 2005 02:42 PM

You're too slow, Enas Yorl. I got an email tip about some oil stock being traded out of Lagos, Nigeria that was simply too good to pass up. You've got to be ready to pounce on these deals if you're going to profit the way I plan to in the online trading game.

Posted by: utron on July 14, 2005 02:47 PM

Ace -- Just to clarify things, Mallory Keaton was a young teenage girl.... Justine Bateman is a woman. Posting juicy pictures of Justine and then calling them Mallory is just a little.....twisted

Posted by: Master of None on July 14, 2005 02:48 PM

That's it, Ace. I can't in good conscience let another split second go by without hitting the tipjar.

Paypal donation is on the way.

You have Mallory to thank. Her, and my sad cheesecake geekery.

Posted by: Rocketeer on July 14, 2005 02:49 PM

She wasn't really a "girl" by the end of the show, when she actually got cute.

I mean, earlier she was just awkward and froggy-looking. It's when she was dating Nick that she was all hot and stuff.

She must have been nineteen or twenty by then.

Posted by: ace on July 14, 2005 02:50 PM

I propose a double entendre contest for the guys (and Megan) related to the economy and Justine Bateman.

I predict some inflation as a result of Justine's photo.

Posted by: Dman on July 14, 2005 02:58 PM

No way in hell that is Justine Bateman. No way. The pic looks too good to be her. Maybe my memory is fading. It almost looks like the Weird Science chick.

Posted by: El Capitan on July 14, 2005 03:04 PM

El Capitan,

I'd go with "memory fading." Justine Bateman is hot.

Dman,

I'm on board with contest idea. Now who can I flame with a "Laffer curve" reference...?

Posted by: Rocketeer on July 14, 2005 03:09 PM

Okay, host, I'll just go crawl off somewhere and die.

Posted by: spongeworthy on July 14, 2005 03:32 PM

Ahh, Justine Bateman. Yummy.

Posted by: physics geek on July 14, 2005 03:46 PM

Remember that movie with Nick from Family Ties - "My Demon Lover"? That was awesome.

Posted by: NathanB on July 14, 2005 04:20 PM

With a mouth like that, Justine can suck my gross national product anytime she wants.

Posted by: Michael on July 14, 2005 04:21 PM

Rocketeer - I believe the only person you could flame is Bill Clinton as in 'the plaintiff described Mr. Clinton's apendage as sort of a laffer curve'

Posted by: Dman on July 14, 2005 04:43 PM

I'd hit it.

Posted by: Buddha the Magnificent on July 14, 2005 09:37 PM

Buddha, of course you'd hit it. You'd hit a hole in the ground.

Posted by: El Capitan on July 15, 2005 12:04 AM

(an actual segue, from Justine to Jason!)

On the "Mallory" being a creepy thing to call her tip:

It's not wrong to mentally project TV actresses ahead and determine whether they WILL be (not "are) hot or not, right? That doesn't mean you're, you know, one of the Bad People (I'd like to mention that I never could stand that there Star Trek), right?

I'm just sayin' ... Arrested Development got picked up again ... I'm just sayin' ...

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br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

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