Live from Las Vegas
I’m in Vegas this weekend. This post is coming to you live from the casino floor as I sip a nine dollar cup of joe and watch midwestern families gangbang nickle slots.
Still humping the American dream.
So, things might be a little bit slow on the old blogaroo this weekend.
Say, did you hear about the new delivery subscription service from Amazon? It’s called Amazon Fibonacci.
It’s really cool. Your first few orders show in up two, three, then five days; but each successive delivery take longer and longer to show up.
I know; it needs work. 😉
Stan Cornyn in Studio with Sinatra
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. This is a classic photo of my dad, the great Stan Cornyn, pretending to look busy in a recording studio with Frank Sinatra. Cornyn is the photogenic fellow with glasses and necktie.
Come to think of it, this is one of the few times I’ve seen him in a necktie. He must have been in trouble with his boss that day.
Lloyd! 8==>
Apparently, Goldman Sachs would be in trouble if it were a Vegas casino.
The issue deals with things called front-running and derivatives trading against its own investors. For the rest of us, “derivatives” is a general term used on Wall Street to describe any kind of securities trading that is done off the market and is consequently unregulated.
Oh, and these are always the types of deals that cause market crashes.
The Securities Act of 1934 specifically defines a class of “qualified” investors who are supposed to have enough assets and enough savvy to make their own mistakes, God bless ‘em. Yet in Vegas, where there is a sucker born every minute and capitalism is at least as popular as it is in New York, section 465.070 of the Nevada Gaming Law makes it a felony “to place, increase or decrease a bet or to determine the course of play after acquiring knowledge, not available to all players, of the outcome of the game or any event that affects the outcome of the game or which is the subject of the bet or to aid anyone in acquiring such knowledge for the purpose of placing, increasing or decreasing a bet or determining the course of play contingent upon that event or outcome. ”
Former Scientologists Claim Abuse – Los Feliz Ledger
Wow. It’s like Synanon more and more every day.
Six former members have claimed allegations of physical and emotional abuse against the Church of Scientology, including workplace abuse, forced detention, isolation from outside family and friends and coerced abortion.
QuantumTom 