From Naish Piazza’s blog: I Love This Little Girl… and So Will You. OBTW, speaking of Front Sight, don’t miss out on their “Get a Gun” training and gear package offer. This offer will probably end soon, so don’t hesitate any longer!
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Our hard working Economic Editor Cheryl N. sent us an enormous batch of news and commentary. Note, BTW, how many of these highlight the derivatives market: Meltdown Shakes Up Wall Street Workers—Wall Street Crisis Could Put Fed Rate Cut Into Play—Stocks Tumble Amid New Wall Street Landscape—Obama, McCain Blame Economic Woes on Greed, Policy—Greenspan: US In “Once-In-A-Century” Financial Crisis—Tectonic Shift As Lehmans Fails and Merrill Sold—AIG Allowed To Borrow Money From Subsidiaries (Portfolio Plummets)—Black Monday: FTSE Plunges 212 Points As Global Markets Tumble After Lehman Collapse/BofE Injects 5 billion pounds into money markets—Frantic Day On Wall Street As Banks Fall—Wilbur Ross: Possibly 1,000 Banks Will Fail In Coming Months—Dangerous “Lehmers”—The Rise and Fall of Lehman Bros—Doomed Lehmans Now Bros. Grimm—Derivatives Market Traded On Sunday To Cut Lehman Risks—Silences Say It All—Implications of a 10-Day Refinery Outage—Stocks Plunge 500 Points; $700 billion in Wealth Erased—AIG Workers On Edge At Once-Safe Company—Is This The Death Knell Of Derivatives?—UK Bank Customers Urged Not To Panic—The Death of Wall Street, Part 1—Stocks Get Pummeled—Bush: Markets Are Resilient and Flexible (bwahahahahaha!)—Pimco, Vanguard Are Biggest Lehman Bond Fund Losers—AIG’s Reported Sales Likely To Draw Many Bidders—Fed Injects $70 billion in Banking System—Americans Should Worry About Bank Deposits—Lehmans Is Dead: Where’s The Crime Scene Tape?—The Other Gulf Surge Tide—Deleveraging Not Deflation Resulting in Commodities Temporary Violent Correction—Lehman’s Bankruptcy: The Ultimate Wall Street Derivatives Defaults Nightmare (this one is a must read!)—AIG, Lehman Shock Hits World Markets—AIG Seeks HUGE Loans As Stocks Dive 61%–and, last but not least (and as partial confirmation of what I predicted): Merrill Bailout Disguised As Buyout.
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Justin B in Phoenix recommended reading a post over at the Tom Bowers Subguns Forum: My Houston Hurricane Story or “How BCR’s Roll” (This post actually dates back to Hurricane Rita, but it is a useful illustration of the value of well-orchestrated family preparedness.)