You think they can't get more evil and stupid, and something like this happens.
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. "The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier," he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle.
This must be read to be believed, because it is simply unbelievable.
Guitarists, violinists, clarinetists, bassoonists, all manner of acoustical musicians play instruments made of wood. They tweak them, renovate them, overhaul them, customize them endlessly. They use bits of wood to create bridges, bows, neck joints, fingerboards, etc., endlessly. There is absolutely no way on God's Green Earth to know the provenance of each bit of wood--many of the instruments are decades, even centuries old, and are maintained and renovated with parts from similar instruments.
Obama's goons have decided they know better. This is Hope and Change, unmasked.
OS will on the phone to his Congressman bright and early Monday.
Folks, these criminals with badges must be removed from their offices, and they must be barred from any position that would allow them to create this sort of harm in the future.
November 2012 cannot come soon enough.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Helicopter Ben's Speech, Translated Into Southern
Of course, the United States faces many growth challenges. Our population is aging, like those of many other advanced economies, and our society will have to adapt over time to an older workforce. Our K-12 educational system, despite considerable strengths, poorly serves a substantial portion of our population. The costs of health care in the United States are the highest in the world, without fully commensurate results in terms of health outcomes. But all of these long-term issues were well known before the crisis; efforts to address these problems have been ongoing, and these efforts will continue and, I hope, intensify.
The schools suck. They spend money like drunken sailors and produce illiterate graduates who are essentially unemployable.
The health care system sucks as badly as the schools. It spends money like a drunken sailor, and we're less, nor more, healthy at the end of the day.
'Tain't telling yew nothin' new, but dem politicians gotta git-er-dun' or weez doomed!
Normally, monetary or fiscal policies aimed primarily at promoting a faster pace
of economic recovery in the near term would not be expected to significantly affect the longer-term performance of the economy. However, current circumstances may be an
exception to that standard view--the exception to which I alluded earlier. Our economy is suffering today from an extraordinarily high level of long-term unemployment, with nearly half of the unemployed having been out of work for more than six months. Under these unusual circumstances, policies that promote a stronger recovery in the near term may serve longer-term objectives as well. In the short term, putting people back to work reduces the hardships inflicted by difficult economic times and helps ensure that our economy is producing at its full potential rather than leaving productive resources fallow. In the longer term, minimizing the duration of unemployment supports a healthy economy by avoiding some of the erosion of skills and loss of attachment to the labor force that is often associated with long-term unemployment.
If'n President Teleprompter and his homeboyz don't git off their asses and stop doing things that crush job creation, like shutting down the entire oil industry in the Gulf, and attempting to kill the coal industry, NLRB blackmail of Boeing (neeeed we continue?), then weze all screwed. People who don't work, and live off gubbermint cheese, fergit what it feels like to work, ya'll.
Notwithstanding this observation, which adds urgency to the need to achieve a
cyclical recovery in employment, most of the economic policies that support robust
economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.
We cain't fix this stuff. We're here to help, but you-all GOTS to git yer act together. Don't matter how many helicopters we send up with how much cash, it don't matter. We needs us some grown-ups in charge, and we ain't seen none in years!
Finally, and perhaps most challenging, the country would be well served by a
better process for making fiscal decisions. The negotiations that took place over thesummer disrupted financial markets and probably the economy as well, and similar
events in the future could, over time, seriously jeopardize the willingness of investors around the world to hold U.S. financial assets or to make direct investments in job-creating U.S. businesses. Although details would have to be negotiated, fiscal policymakers could consider developing a more effective process that sets clear and transparent budget goals, together with budget mechanisms to establish the credibility of those goals. Of course, formal budget goals and mechanisms do not replace the need for fiscal policymakers to make the difficult choices that are needed to put the country’sfiscal house in order, which means that public understanding of and support for the goals of fiscal policy are crucial.
Likes I said beferr--we gots to git us some sober grownups runnin' things, and not let meth-head Cousin Cody anywhere near anybody's money.
Now, git going. I'm tarehd of dealing wif you peepulz. Call me up when yew want to act responsible-like,
The schools suck. They spend money like drunken sailors and produce illiterate graduates who are essentially unemployable.
The health care system sucks as badly as the schools. It spends money like a drunken sailor, and we're less, nor more, healthy at the end of the day.
'Tain't telling yew nothin' new, but dem politicians gotta git-er-dun' or weez doomed!
Normally, monetary or fiscal policies aimed primarily at promoting a faster pace
of economic recovery in the near term would not be expected to significantly affect the longer-term performance of the economy. However, current circumstances may be an
exception to that standard view--the exception to which I alluded earlier. Our economy is suffering today from an extraordinarily high level of long-term unemployment, with nearly half of the unemployed having been out of work for more than six months. Under these unusual circumstances, policies that promote a stronger recovery in the near term may serve longer-term objectives as well. In the short term, putting people back to work reduces the hardships inflicted by difficult economic times and helps ensure that our economy is producing at its full potential rather than leaving productive resources fallow. In the longer term, minimizing the duration of unemployment supports a healthy economy by avoiding some of the erosion of skills and loss of attachment to the labor force that is often associated with long-term unemployment.
If'n President Teleprompter and his homeboyz don't git off their asses and stop doing things that crush job creation, like shutting down the entire oil industry in the Gulf, and attempting to kill the coal industry, NLRB blackmail of Boeing (neeeed we continue?), then weze all screwed. People who don't work, and live off gubbermint cheese, fergit what it feels like to work, ya'll.
Notwithstanding this observation, which adds urgency to the need to achieve a
cyclical recovery in employment, most of the economic policies that support robust
economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.
We cain't fix this stuff. We're here to help, but you-all GOTS to git yer act together. Don't matter how many helicopters we send up with how much cash, it don't matter. We needs us some grown-ups in charge, and we ain't seen none in years!
Finally, and perhaps most challenging, the country would be well served by a
better process for making fiscal decisions. The negotiations that took place over thesummer disrupted financial markets and probably the economy as well, and similar
events in the future could, over time, seriously jeopardize the willingness of investors around the world to hold U.S. financial assets or to make direct investments in job-creating U.S. businesses. Although details would have to be negotiated, fiscal policymakers could consider developing a more effective process that sets clear and transparent budget goals, together with budget mechanisms to establish the credibility of those goals. Of course, formal budget goals and mechanisms do not replace the need for fiscal policymakers to make the difficult choices that are needed to put the country’sfiscal house in order, which means that public understanding of and support for the goals of fiscal policy are crucial.
Likes I said beferr--we gots to git us some sober grownups runnin' things, and not let meth-head Cousin Cody anywhere near anybody's money.
Now, git going. I'm tarehd of dealing wif you peepulz. Call me up when yew want to act responsible-like,
Thursday, August 25, 2011
The Bailouts, Round 2: JPM To Buy BAC With 100 Billion Tax Dollars
Word floating that Little Timmy will be ponying up 100 billion dollars of OUR MONEY to make the pending Bank of America failure less traumatic to the banksters.
If the House Republicans want to live up to the promises they made the voters, they need to scream bloody murder at the very top of their lungs.
Three years ago, we were all caught by surprise, and the dirty deeds were done before we could understand what was happening.
Now, no longer. We have all grown cynical, and informed.
BAC is the product of a shotgun marriage, paid for with tax dollars, as they took over Merrill Lynch, shortly after buying Countrywide. That worked out well, did it not?
Now for the next round, to attempt to paper over that mess.
Whatever happened to the concept of risk in business? Or is that just for small, Main Street businesses, small banks, individual families?
This will not end well, ya'll.
If the House Republicans want to live up to the promises they made the voters, they need to scream bloody murder at the very top of their lungs.
Three years ago, we were all caught by surprise, and the dirty deeds were done before we could understand what was happening.
Now, no longer. We have all grown cynical, and informed.
BAC is the product of a shotgun marriage, paid for with tax dollars, as they took over Merrill Lynch, shortly after buying Countrywide. That worked out well, did it not?
Now for the next round, to attempt to paper over that mess.
Whatever happened to the concept of risk in business? Or is that just for small, Main Street businesses, small banks, individual families?
This will not end well, ya'll.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The Republic And Mother Earth, Saved In The Nick Of Time: The Feds Raid Gibson Guitar Factories In Nashville And Memphis
File under: You just can't make this stuff up.
From the Nashville Tennessean:
Federal agents are in the process of raiding the offices of the Nashville-based Gibson Guitar Corporation.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began executing search warrants this morning on guitar factories and corporate headquarters in Nashville and Memphis, according to Nicholas Chavez, special agent in charge with the Fish and Wildlife.
Chavez said the raid included both the corporate headquarters on Park Plus Boulevard and a factory on Elm Hill Pike.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported tourists arriving to a Gibson Guitar factory in downtown Memphis this morning to find the doors locked and agents inside.
The Game Warden is raiding a guitar shop!!
Huh??!!
Read on, read on!!
Gibson was also raided in 2009 for possible violations of the Lacey Act, which bans the importation of endangered plants and wildlife. Federal officials seized ebony and other woods they said were prohibited under the act. Gibson has said in the past it was "fully cooperating" with the investigation.
This is about the wood used to build guitars.
This country has been, well, sodomized, by bankers and their lawyers, with the Feds complicit or looking the other way. Our borders are not secure, and that little civil war in Mexico is going make its way to our heartland, sooner or later.
But never fear, ya'll, Da Fedz iz on da JOB! Dey gunna shut down that rogue guitar operashun, and save da Rain Ferest and all of Gaia's little furry friends!
Hope 'n Change, ya'll!
From the Nashville Tennessean:
Federal agents are in the process of raiding the offices of the Nashville-based Gibson Guitar Corporation.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began executing search warrants this morning on guitar factories and corporate headquarters in Nashville and Memphis, according to Nicholas Chavez, special agent in charge with the Fish and Wildlife.
Chavez said the raid included both the corporate headquarters on Park Plus Boulevard and a factory on Elm Hill Pike.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported tourists arriving to a Gibson Guitar factory in downtown Memphis this morning to find the doors locked and agents inside.
The Game Warden is raiding a guitar shop!!
Huh??!!
Read on, read on!!
Gibson was also raided in 2009 for possible violations of the Lacey Act, which bans the importation of endangered plants and wildlife. Federal officials seized ebony and other woods they said were prohibited under the act. Gibson has said in the past it was "fully cooperating" with the investigation.
This is about the wood used to build guitars.
This country has been, well, sodomized, by bankers and their lawyers, with the Feds complicit or looking the other way. Our borders are not secure, and that little civil war in Mexico is going make its way to our heartland, sooner or later.
But never fear, ya'll, Da Fedz iz on da JOB! Dey gunna shut down that rogue guitar operashun, and save da Rain Ferest and all of Gaia's little furry friends!
Hope 'n Change, ya'll!
New York City's Last Print Music Outlet
OS, from his headline banner, and his tiny little pulpit, continues to insist that we won't have an economy worth working in unless we have a culture worth the sacrifice of time, energy and wealth.
This poignant short film about Manhattan's final classical print music outlet tells a real tale. Remember, Manhattan used to be the center of the musical world in the 20th century.
Yes, one could say all sorts of things like, 'Bricks and mortar are dead, she should sell the business and retire, she should move to the burbs, etc. etc.' But, on Manhattan, has the culture caved to the extent that it won't support one walk-in music store?
OS remembers some phrase about the canary in the coal mine...
This poignant short film about Manhattan's final classical print music outlet tells a real tale. Remember, Manhattan used to be the center of the musical world in the 20th century.
Al Niente: New York's last sheet music store from lea khayata on Vimeo.
Yes, one could say all sorts of things like, 'Bricks and mortar are dead, she should sell the business and retire, she should move to the burbs, etc. etc.' But, on Manhattan, has the culture caved to the extent that it won't support one walk-in music store?
OS remembers some phrase about the canary in the coal mine...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
While Obama Is On Vacation, And The Next Recession Gathers Steam....
Let's remember what life was like when we had a real President.
Not a neurotic self-righteous Baptist preacher wanna-be, or a Yale patrician, or an Arkansas Bubbah who never could keep it in his pants, or a patrician's son who understood little past loyalty to himself, or a leftist who dedicated his life to the demise of the country.
A President.
We miss you, Gipper.
Not a neurotic self-righteous Baptist preacher wanna-be, or a Yale patrician, or an Arkansas Bubbah who never could keep it in his pants, or a patrician's son who understood little past loyalty to himself, or a leftist who dedicated his life to the demise of the country.
A President.
We miss you, Gipper.
Monday, August 22, 2011
And Folks Will to Attend/Buy Tickets/Donate Their Wealth To The Louisville Orchestra Because?
The battle just gets uglier between the AFM and management.
The American Federation of Musicians announced that it has placed the Louisville Orchestra on its “Unfair List,” just a week after the orchestra emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy without a collective bargaining agreement with its musicians and just weeks before the orchestra’s season-opening performance scheduled for Sept. 10.
Placing the organization on the unfair list means that any union members who play for the Louisville Orchestra without a contract could be fined. All the orchestra’s musicians are members of the New York-based union.
The federation issued a statement saying it took the action because during a U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing on Aug. 15 the orchestra’s chief executive, Robert Birman, said the orchestra would continue working toward a contract with the current musicians but could also pursue agreements with non-union musicians or sidestep the union to make agreements with union musicians.
Utter silliness, from both sides.
The Seattle Symphony seems to be thriving, sans the AFM.
Maybe, it's time to rethink the entire enterprise...just sayin'...
The American Federation of Musicians announced that it has placed the Louisville Orchestra on its “Unfair List,” just a week after the orchestra emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy without a collective bargaining agreement with its musicians and just weeks before the orchestra’s season-opening performance scheduled for Sept. 10.
Placing the organization on the unfair list means that any union members who play for the Louisville Orchestra without a contract could be fined. All the orchestra’s musicians are members of the New York-based union.
The federation issued a statement saying it took the action because during a U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing on Aug. 15 the orchestra’s chief executive, Robert Birman, said the orchestra would continue working toward a contract with the current musicians but could also pursue agreements with non-union musicians or sidestep the union to make agreements with union musicians.
Utter silliness, from both sides.
The Seattle Symphony seems to be thriving, sans the AFM.
Maybe, it's time to rethink the entire enterprise...just sayin'...
Thoughtful Take On Libya, The Morning After Gadaffi's Exit: Juan Cole, University of Michigan
Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009) and he also recently authored Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
His thoughts on recent events in Libya here.
There is a lot of tin-foil-hat nonsense floating about. This seems like a level-headed, considered view of the situation.
His thoughts on recent events in Libya here.
There is a lot of tin-foil-hat nonsense floating about. This seems like a level-headed, considered view of the situation.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Interpreting Tony Blair: It's Not My Fault, Honest!
Tony left just in time, before the inevitable outcomes of trashing British culture top-to-bottom revealed themselves in all their viciousness. His final thumb in the eye was to leave the UK in the tender care of Gordon Brown, and Gordon Brown to take the vituperation when all fell apart.
However, with His Legacy threatened by the recent riots, he just had to speak up.
He says, says he, that talk of a general moral decline is wrong-headed. It's simply a problem of--
First, there was a legal system overwhelmed by the nature of the crime committed by these young people, buttressed as it is by gangs and organised crime.
Second, these individuals did not simply have an individual problem. They had a family problem. This is a hard thing to say and I am of course aware that this, too, is a generalisation. But many of these people are from families that are profoundly dysfunctional, operating on completely different terms from the rest of society, middle class or poor.
Most of them are shaping up that way by the time they are in primary school or even in nursery. They then grow up in circumstances where their role models are drug dealers, pimps, people with knives and guns, people who will exploit them and abuse them but with whom they feel a belonging. Hence the gang culture that is so destructive.
This is a phenomenon of the late 20th century. You find it in virtually every developed nation. Breaking it down isn't about general policy or traditional programmes of investment or treatment. The last government should take real pride in the reductions in inequality, the improvement in many inner-city schools and the big fall in overall crime. But none of these reaches this special group.
There it is, ya'll! It's not my fault! The entire essay is an attempt to distract away from the moral and ethical issues of a society that really seems to have lost its way, and the resultant crime in the streets. It's just those dysfunctional families, you know, tsk-tsk. Let's not get into any discussion of good-and-evil here.
Yo! Tony! Lissen' up, bro'!
Screwed-up families and kids are created by people operating in a moral vacuum, where no one dares use the big 'E' word, or the 'S' word ('Sinfulness'), or the 'F' word ('Failure'--as in the failed Welfare State). The families where Mom and Dad stay sober and walk with the kids to the local parish church for Sunday School and choir practice tend to not, repeat not produce gang members. The families that insist the kids do their school work tend to not produce candidates for exclusion from school.
Yet, these are the values ridiculed by the past thirty years of popular culture and official policy. Vice is excused, marriage rates have plummeted, out-of-wedlock birth is now common, and the most famous quote of 10 Downing Street during your term was 'We Don't Do God'.
Indeed, you didn't. And it shows, Tony. It's not just the cities, Tony. OS has friends with kids in good schools in small towns well away from the big cities of the UK, and those students are instructed to always walk at least in pairs, never at night, lest they be set upon by the local hoodie types. And this is in the picture-postcard, bucolic English small towns. It's not just the cities, it's everywhere.
This reminds OS of late 2001 and 2002, when Bill Clinton was at pains to convince us all that it wasn't his fault that Bin Laden ran free while Bill was busily chasing Monica Lewinsky around the Oval Office. There are reports that Osama was offered up to us on a plate, and Bill was too busy thinking with his smaller brain to pay attention.
Tony still has books to sell, a legacy to protect, a seat in Lords to possess, a university chair in his name to be awarded. Let's not connect the dots between his past performance and present outcomes.
That really would be wrong, at least in Tony's moral universe.
However, with His Legacy threatened by the recent riots, he just had to speak up.
He says, says he, that talk of a general moral decline is wrong-headed. It's simply a problem of--
First, there was a legal system overwhelmed by the nature of the crime committed by these young people, buttressed as it is by gangs and organised crime.
Second, these individuals did not simply have an individual problem. They had a family problem. This is a hard thing to say and I am of course aware that this, too, is a generalisation. But many of these people are from families that are profoundly dysfunctional, operating on completely different terms from the rest of society, middle class or poor.
Most of them are shaping up that way by the time they are in primary school or even in nursery. They then grow up in circumstances where their role models are drug dealers, pimps, people with knives and guns, people who will exploit them and abuse them but with whom they feel a belonging. Hence the gang culture that is so destructive.
This is a phenomenon of the late 20th century. You find it in virtually every developed nation. Breaking it down isn't about general policy or traditional programmes of investment or treatment. The last government should take real pride in the reductions in inequality, the improvement in many inner-city schools and the big fall in overall crime. But none of these reaches this special group.
There it is, ya'll! It's not my fault! The entire essay is an attempt to distract away from the moral and ethical issues of a society that really seems to have lost its way, and the resultant crime in the streets. It's just those dysfunctional families, you know, tsk-tsk. Let's not get into any discussion of good-and-evil here.
Yo! Tony! Lissen' up, bro'!
Screwed-up families and kids are created by people operating in a moral vacuum, where no one dares use the big 'E' word, or the 'S' word ('Sinfulness'), or the 'F' word ('Failure'--as in the failed Welfare State). The families where Mom and Dad stay sober and walk with the kids to the local parish church for Sunday School and choir practice tend to not, repeat not produce gang members. The families that insist the kids do their school work tend to not produce candidates for exclusion from school.
Yet, these are the values ridiculed by the past thirty years of popular culture and official policy. Vice is excused, marriage rates have plummeted, out-of-wedlock birth is now common, and the most famous quote of 10 Downing Street during your term was 'We Don't Do God'.
Indeed, you didn't. And it shows, Tony. It's not just the cities, Tony. OS has friends with kids in good schools in small towns well away from the big cities of the UK, and those students are instructed to always walk at least in pairs, never at night, lest they be set upon by the local hoodie types. And this is in the picture-postcard, bucolic English small towns. It's not just the cities, it's everywhere.
This reminds OS of late 2001 and 2002, when Bill Clinton was at pains to convince us all that it wasn't his fault that Bin Laden ran free while Bill was busily chasing Monica Lewinsky around the Oval Office. There are reports that Osama was offered up to us on a plate, and Bill was too busy thinking with his smaller brain to pay attention.
Tony still has books to sell, a legacy to protect, a seat in Lords to possess, a university chair in his name to be awarded. Let's not connect the dots between his past performance and present outcomes.
That really would be wrong, at least in Tony's moral universe.
Tripoli Is Hotting Up: France 24
This from France 24, which tends to have a good handle on Middle East news:
Explosions and gunfire rocked Tripoli on Saturday night, after days of battlefield defeats left Muammar Gaddafi’s government and troops penned ever more tightly in the besieged capital.
The scale of the unrest was unclear, but speculation was rife that Gaddafi’s 41-year rule was close to collapse.
Tripoli residents told Reuters they could hear shooting from several locations and there were anti-Gaddafi protesters in the streets. Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told state television however: “All of Tripoli is safe and stable.”
This week’s rebel advances on Tripoli—Muammar Gaddafi’s last major stronghold—have transformed the war by cutting the capital off from its main road link to the outside world and putting unprecedented pressure on Gaddafi.
Two twitter feeds from appear to be reputable sources are here:
http://twitter.com/#!/JomanaCNN
http://twitter.com/#!/jessradio
Gates of Vienna has been keeping up with the refugee flood making its way from Northern Africa to Southern Europe, which has been generally overlooked in all the tizzy about Europe being, well, broke.
Chinstraps on, ya'll. If you're in the markets, the waters will be choppy. If you're in Tripoli, though, you're likely to get caught in the crossfire. Gadafi and his ilk tend to create as much chaos, and as many refugees and casualties as possible, in order to retain power and/or cover their escape to the airport with the country's gold reserves to keep them warm. Gas up that Gulfstream, Mohamar! don't fergit the bullion. Hugo Chavez may be yer home-boy, but nothing sez 'thank-yew' like about a ton of gold.
BTW, if the rebels capture the Lockerbie Bomber again (who did not, after all, die of cancer) will they ship him back to the Scots for safekeeping? Or will they quietly turn him over to the CIA? Just sayin...
Explosions and gunfire rocked Tripoli on Saturday night, after days of battlefield defeats left Muammar Gaddafi’s government and troops penned ever more tightly in the besieged capital.
The scale of the unrest was unclear, but speculation was rife that Gaddafi’s 41-year rule was close to collapse.
Tripoli residents told Reuters they could hear shooting from several locations and there were anti-Gaddafi protesters in the streets. Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told state television however: “All of Tripoli is safe and stable.”
This week’s rebel advances on Tripoli—Muammar Gaddafi’s last major stronghold—have transformed the war by cutting the capital off from its main road link to the outside world and putting unprecedented pressure on Gaddafi.
Two twitter feeds from appear to be reputable sources are here:
http://twitter.com/#!/JomanaCNN
http://twitter.com/#!/jessradio
Gates of Vienna has been keeping up with the refugee flood making its way from Northern Africa to Southern Europe, which has been generally overlooked in all the tizzy about Europe being, well, broke.
Chinstraps on, ya'll. If you're in the markets, the waters will be choppy. If you're in Tripoli, though, you're likely to get caught in the crossfire. Gadafi and his ilk tend to create as much chaos, and as many refugees and casualties as possible, in order to retain power and/or cover their escape to the airport with the country's gold reserves to keep them warm. Gas up that Gulfstream, Mohamar! don't fergit the bullion. Hugo Chavez may be yer home-boy, but nothing sez 'thank-yew' like about a ton of gold.
BTW, if the rebels capture the Lockerbie Bomber again (who did not, after all, die of cancer) will they ship him back to the Scots for safekeeping? Or will they quietly turn him over to the CIA? Just sayin...
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