720P:  Nathan Koppel, WSJ, with Simon Constable, DowJones, re Marc Dreier fraud and the missing $300 million from the plundering law firm, re federal proseuctors charge Kosta Kovachev with conspiracy to commit wire fraud  with Marc Dreier. Ex-Broker Charged in Dreier Case.  

735P: Professional Roundtable with Jodi Schneider, CQ, and John Fund, Wall Street Journal; re the Greg Craig audit of the contacts between the Obama team and Blagojevich officer November-December re the Senate seat; re Rahm Emanuel ambition on the Mr. Speaker track, re Jesse Jackson Junior ambition for the Senate seat.

750P:  Continued re the Franken/ Coleman recount, re the stimulus package for the 11th Congress, re Joe Biden declares no earmarks.

805P: Simona Covel, Wall Street Journal, re the credit crisis and recession threatens small business especially.  Slump Batters Small Business.

820P: Charles Gasparino, CNBC, DailyBeast.com, re Bernie Madoff and his witting accomplices, re the Fairfield Greenwich Group hedge fund, re who is Walter Noel?

835: Financial Professionals, with John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Simon Constable, Dow Jones, Jim McTague, Barron's, re the Madoff scandal grows to feeder funds and go-betweens, re Rich Rein in Lavish Habits as Net Worth Takes Big Hit - Los Angeles Times, re Mort Zuckerman on Bernie Madoff.

850P: Continued, re Obama's Stimulus Is Down Payment - Lawrence Summers, Washington Post.  There's No Painless Cure for Recession - Peter Schiff, Wall Street Journal.  Cash-strapped states weigh selling roads, parks 

905P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major Jewish Organizations, re the IDF air strikes on Gaza (above), re the casualty claims, re the Hamas threats, re Hamas arms with Iran weapons, re Shimon Peres declares that the IDF will not re-enter Gaza.   Israel launches air strikes on Gaza

920P:  Shlok Vaidya, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, re Pakistan moves first rate troops to Line of Control opposite the Punjab, re India moves first rate troops into Winter exercises in the Punjab; re the Pakistan provocation and refusal to close the terror camps.

935P: Harold Holzer, author, "Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861."  Mr. 

Lincoln's transition was four months long (six weeks longer than Mr. Obama's), and still holds the record for pontificating, bribe-seeking, influence-peddling, chest-thunping and double-crossing.  The Blago affair is a tawdry miniature of the gleeful corruption tales of Keystone boss Simon Cameron (right) and the Pennsylvania mob.  Eventually Mr. Lincoln was obliged to hand the giant prize of the War Department to Mr. Cameron, who so misbehaved that he was shipped to the Russian ambassadorship in less than a year.

955P: Exeunt with Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re the TARP bailout of GMAC.  Wall Street Journal: GMAC Mum on Bailout Deadline GMAC wouldn't say on Saturday if it had met a midnight deadline to clear a final hurdle in its bid to become a bank holding company.

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705P PT: Bob Zimmerman, author, re NASA vs. Obama transition team, re: Is Mike Griffin to be fired?, re the outsourcing of NASA, re the $100,000 bag of tools in orbit, re will the Obama Administration close NASA manned space?  NASA's spending is under scrutiny.

720P: Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, re the worldwide crisis and panic, financial, strategic, is it caused by the internet and the destruction of truth?  The Internet Is Bad For The Truth.

735P:  Professional Roundtable with Larry Johnson, No Quarter and State (ret), James Taranto, Wall Street Journal, Margaret Hoover, FNC, re the Greg Craig Audit of the Blagojevich allegations, re the Fitzgerald interviews with Obama, Emanuel, Jarrett, re the Illinois House impeachment proceedings, re Is Caroline Kennedy a Royal?

750P: Continued re the Joe Biden predicted crisis candidates, Pakistan moving first-rate troops to the border, re the IDF massive strike on Hamas in Gaza, re the condusion of American leadership in transition.

805P: Professional roundtable with John Avlon, RealClearPolitics.com, Diana West, author, Craig Unger, re the Bush pardons and the withdrawal of the pardon of an RNC donor, re the Blago scandal grows, re the Caroline Kennedy brouhaha in New York and her NY1 interview. 

820P:  Continued re the mysterious ambitions of Rahm Emanuel, re is the Blago scandal a product of Rahm Emanuel's overreach?

835P:   Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal, re the twin crises of Gaza and the Pakistan-India Line of Control (above) add to the ongoing crisis of CENTCOM plans for Afghanistan, re the Pakistan troop movements to the LOC and the India counters, re the Pakistan military presence on the Afghan border, re the vulnerability of the NATO convoys, re the Taliban's strength and promise to fight alongside the Pakistan Army vs India.  As Taliban nears Kabul, shadow gov't takes hold.

850P: David Grinspoon, Denver Museum Nature and Science, re planetary geology review, Mars, Venus, Titan, Enceladus, Io, re the exoplanets and direct imaging, re the CO2 Jupiter class gas giant exoplanet at 63 light years.

905P:  Gina Chon, Wall Street Journal, from Baghdad, re the final Bush visit to Baghdad, re the shoe-thrower and the Iraqi response, re the Status of Forces agreement and the new rules that the Coalition must ask permission, re the security in Baghdad and Anbar.  Iraq Lawmakers Delay Security Vote The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday postponed a crucial vote on a security pact between the U.S. and Iraq as political leaders continued to hammer out a deal to meet demands by Sunni lawmakers.  Shoving Halts Iraq Security-Pact Debate  A tussle in the Iraqi parliament delayed the start of debate on a security pact with the U.S., while smaller political parties continued to voice concern.  Car bombs in Iraq kill at least 25, wound 64

920P: Gene Meyers, Space Island Group,re the radical proposal to solve energy demands by launching into orbit solar satellites, which are mile-wide solar cells, that can convert sunlight into electricity and then transmit the power using microwave beams to gigantic ground antennas.   View Nasa Video Clip

935P: Robert Mrazek, author "The Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight," re the Battle of Midway, June 4-5, 1942, the confrontation that is regarded as the turning point in the war in the Pacific when the Imperial Japanese Navy lost four of its six major aircraft carriers and was never able to recover the offensive, re the torpedo squadron of Torpedo 8 off USS Hornet that launched on June 4 and flew west with the air group under orders until its commander disobeyed orders and broke off his 15 planes to fly south to find the Japanese carriers, including the Agaki (below) that led the attack on Pearl Harbor, and to attack the overwhelming and impenetrable Japanese air and ship defenses to the squadron's doom; re the case, sixty-seven years later, that the Hornet admiral, Marc "Pete" Mitscher, ordered his air group in the wrong direction and that this contributed to Torpedo Eight's defeat and the loss of all the air group's planes into the sea.  Below find the list of Torpedo Eight's pilots, all lost except for Ensign George Gay, (above left) who crashed into the sea in the middle of the Japanese carriers, witnessed the American dive-bomber attack that sank the carriers, was picked up by American rescue team, and lived until 1994.  Squadron Commander John Waldron, (below in his aircraft morning of June 4, about to take off from Hornet) who made the decision to break formation and fly south, and then to attack without much hope, is circled in the group photo.  All the American torpedo planes form three American carriers failed to get a strike that day, and only 5 of 41 attacking planes (below Torpedo 6 on Enterprise) survived.

Lt. Commander John C. Waldron, commanding officer, KIA 
Lt. Raymond A. Moore KIA 
Lt. James C. Owens KIA 
Lt.(jg) George M. Campbell KIA 
Lt.(jg) John P. Gray KIA 
Lt.(jg) Jeff D. Woodson KIA 
Ens. William W. Abercrombie KIA 
Ens. William W. Creamer KIA 
Ens. Harold J. Ellison KIA 
Ens. William R. Evans KIA 
Ens. George H. Gay WIA 
Ens. Henry R. Kenyon KIA 
Ens. Ulvert M. Moore KIA 
Ens. Grant W. Teats KIA 
Robert B. Miles, Aviation Pilot 1c KIA 
Horace F. Dobbs, Chief Radioman KIA 
Amelio Maffei, Radioman 1 KIA 
Tom H. Pettry, Radioman 1 KIA 
Otway D. Creasy, Jr. Radioman 2 KIA 
Ross H. Bibb, Jr., Radioman 2 KIA 
Darwin L. Clark, Radioman 2 KIA 
Ronald J. Fisher, Radioman 2 KIA 
Hollis Martin, Radioman 2 KIA 
Bernerd P. Phelps Radioman 2 KIA 
Aswell L. Picou, Seaman 2 KIA 
Francis S. Polston, Seaman 2 KIA 
Max A. Calkins, Radioman 3 KIA 
George A. Field, Radioman 3 KIA 
Robert K. Huntington, Radioman 3 KIA 
William F. Sawhill, Radioman 3 KIA

950P: Exeunt re the strange coincidence of major ancient cities and the volvano and earthquake zones between plates in Europe and Asia.  Did Rumbling Give Rise to Rome?

720P:  Rich Karlgaard, Forbes.com, re the financial crisis, the bear market, the joblessness, the global recession and "Turning Around America - A Modest Proposal," recovery program, "The wealth of American households is down about $20 trillion from 18 months ago;" re the car bailout and the failure to halt the filibuster, re the TARP and Detroit, re the Blago distraction, the Bernard Madoff distraction.  

735P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC "Kudlow and Company," re the Senate filibuster an the strict limis urged by Bob Corker, Tennessee (R), re the Dick Cheney mention of Herbert Hoover if the bailout does not apss, re the White House considering TARP for Detroit; re the peculiar melodrama in Chicago.  U.A.W. Chief and Senator Gain From Face-Off.

750P: Professional Roundtable with Natasha Korecki, Chicago Sun-Times,  Margaret Hoover, FNC, and John Fund, Wall Street Journal; re the Chicago Way scandal in the Blagsosphere, re the untouchability of Patrick Fitzgerald, re the test of the Obama transition team (above Blago and Obama at the governors's conference in November), re Rahm Emanuel "death threats," John Kass: 'Where's Rahm?'   and Tribune exclusive: Emanuel talked with office; re the Jesse Jackson Junior admission he is Candidate 5 and the JJJ denial he sought to bribe Blago.   Jackson allies held Blagojevich fundraiser 

Capone (Robert DeNiro): "I'm gonna tell you something. Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with with him. Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand? Now, I have done nothing to harm these people but they are angered with me, so what do they do, doctor up some income tax, for which they have no case. To speak to me like me, no, to harass a peaceful man. I pray to god if I ever had a grievance I'd have a little more self respect. One more thing, you have an all out prize fight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. And that's how you know who won."  From David Mamet's screenplay for Brian De Palma's  "The Untouchables."

805P:  Continued re the ongoing Jackson risk, re the ongoing Emanuel risk, re the prospect of Illinois Attny General Lisa Madigan maneuvering the Illinois Superme Court to dismiss Blago, re the Obama obstacle course ahead, re Al Franken catches up and Norm Coleman in hot water?   In Serbia, disbelief, sympathy for Blagojevich. 

820P: Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the China slowdown and the massive migrant worker dislocation, re the Taiwan prosecution of ex-President Shu-bian, re the collapse of the Austrailian currenc, re the crisis in East Asia markets.

835: Financial Professionals, with John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Simon Constable,Dow Jones, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, Jim McTague, Barron's, re the car bailout in the House and the car wreck in the Senate, re the GOP filibuster, re the GOP blames the UAW (below Ron Gettelfinger UAW chief), re the Cheney  "Herbert Hoover" remark.   More panic for Monday morning: Citadel Halts Withdrawals.  Ecuador Will Default on Foreign Debt.  

850P: Continued, re the Bernard Madoff scandal and the greatest Ponzi scheme ever engineered, the missing $50 billion from the best country clubs in Florida and Long Island Many Red Flags in Case, re the Marc Dreier alleged bunko scheme and the missing $100 million, re the question asked, is capitalism for crooks and the jobless?   Lawyer Accused of $100 Million Swindle;  Letter from the research firm Aksia to its clients on Madoff Securities (pdf)  How Madoff Made Folks Look Dumb. 

905P: Dan Henninger, Wall Street Journal, re the Hank Paulson-led bailout of Christmas, re Santa "too big to fail," Satire: Is Christmas Too Big to Fail?  re the TARP and the complete abuse of capitalism, re the "Chicago Way" defense and the slow deflation of the Obama team, re Blago is everybody's Christmas sticking stuffer: Governor tells ministers he'll be 'vindicated' 

920P:  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major Jewish Organizations, the Durban II UN racist regime; re Rahm Emanuel at the center of the Obama/Blago exposure/ re the Bush administration offer nucler energy to UAE and is the Gulf to be all proliferation?

935P: Eric Maddox, author, with David Seay,  "Mission: Black List #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein As Told By the Soldier Who Pasterminded His Capture," re the relentless and cunning detective work that put together the wiring diagram of Saddam's bodyguard cadre in order to lead closer and closer to where he was hising outside Tikrit; re the exotic and logical nature of Arab names, Son Father Grandfather Tribe Region, that allowed the searchers to cross-reference, re the madness of Saddam.  U.S. Troops May Stay in Iraqi Cities.

955P: Exeunt with Aaron Klein, re are their illicit visits by American officials to Hamas in Gaza?

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705P PT: Scott Horton, TheDailyBeast.com, re a tale of two US Attorneys: Michael Garcia departing the Southern District of New York for a plumb plush job on Wall Street after a tenure that saw few high profile victories, most notably the disgraced and removel but not prosecution of Eliot Spitzer --  and Patrick Fitzgerald, Northern District Illinois, a reputed workaholic and John Law, now an update of Eliot Ness, prosecuting Tony Rezko during the presidential campaign and  now prosecuting Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich during the Obama transition (below Blago with 5th CD and new Obama CoS Rahm Emanuel), re the lasagna mold urban legend, re the Chicago Way meets an Untouchable.

720P: Van Jones, author, "The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems," re blue-collar employment that has been upgraded, re the Obama Administration ambition to create Green Corps jobs, re the prospect of carbon tax, or cap-and-trade, re the financial crisis and the environment.

735P:  Professional Roundtable on Afghanistan with Ann Marlowe, (just returned from theater), Forbes.com, Kerry Patton, (DOD Human Terrain Systems, Regional Command East, just returned from theater) Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal, Larry Johnson, No Quarter and State; re the decision by David Petraeus to recommend a surge of 20-30,000 combat soldiers to Afghansitan in 2009 to overwhelm the Taliban; re the attacks on NATO supply lines from Pakistan; re the continuing friendly fire episodes.  U.K.'s Brown Visits Afghanistan.

750P: Continued re Afghanistan: Marines killed by boy with bomb in a wheelbarrow

805P: Professional roundtable with Monica Crowley, McLoughlin Group,  Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, John Avlon, RealClearPolitics.com, re the Chicago Way and the paralysis of the Obama transition, re the hasty review of contacts with Blago and Harris, re the Jackson, Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett problems, re the ongoing pursuit of Rahm Emanuel and the "death threats" allegation, Tribune exclusive: Emanuel talked with office; re the complete breakdown of normalcy, continuity, transparency, gravity and confidence in the Obama transition. Jackson may not be in clear with fedsEntrepreneurs seek profit from Blagojevich scandal

Capone (Robert DeNiro): A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiams... What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Teamwork... Looks, throws, catches, hustles.Part of one big team. Bats himself the live-long day, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on. If his team don't field... what is he? You follow me? No one. Sunny day, the stands are full of fans. What does he have to say? I'm goin' out there for myself. But... I get nowhere unless the team wins. 
Hoods: Team! 
[Capone beats one of the men to death with a baseball bat] From David Mamet's screenplay for Brian DePalma's 1987 "The Untouchables." 

Blagojevich may decide on his future by MondayFrom Blagobusted.com: Gov. Blagojevich will decide early next week -- perhaps as early as Monday -- whether he should resign, a source close to the governor told the Chicago Sun-Times.

820P: Continued re:  Reverends meet with Blagojevich; Political Wisdom: Conservatives Are Gleeful; Cheney: It's 'Herbert Hoover' time  Could a Kennedy fill Obama's Senate seat?

835P:  Nathan Koppel, Wall Street Journal, re the arrest and investigation of the prominent Wall Street lawyer Marc Dreier, re the missing $100 million, re the loudly voiced fear at the close of the week, after the Bernard Madoff revelations and the missing $50 billion, that everyone is crooked and that the super rich are super weird: Dreier on Brink After Founder's Arrest; Lawyer Accused of $100 Million Swindle; Dreier Faces More Allegations.

850P: Bob Zimmerman, author "Universe in a Mirror," re the surprising falling out between the NASA leadership with Mike Griffin  and the Obama transition team, re the headlines and fallout, re the cost overruns for Mars LAB (right) now delayed until 2011, re the discovery of not only Co2 in the atmosphere of the new Exo at 63 light years but also water vapor and weather, re the sunspot reports. 

905P:  Jeffry Imm, Anti-Jihad League of America, re What is Sharia Finance?, re AIG now promotes a Sharia package throughout the United States, "On December 1, 2008, AIG announced that it was "introducing a Takaful Homeowners Policy, the first installment in Lexington Takaful Solutions, a series of Shari'ah-compliant (Takaful) product offerings in the U.S. The newly announced Takaful products are compliant with key Islamic finance tenets and based on the concept of mutual insurance." Note that AIG indicates that such Sharia insurance products are the "first installment" in a series of Sharia products."

920P: Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, re the Detroit bailout and the failure of the car companiers to make the UAW case, re the GM ordered shut down of 20 plants in January, re the severe cutbacks in production at Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Daimler as well as at the Big Three, re the radical reduction in gasoline consumption, re Is this the End of the New Car?"  Global Auto Contraction Ahead.  Deal Journal: Meet GM's Bankruptcy Advisers.

935P: Karl Jacoby, author, "Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History," the Camp Grant Massacre of April 30, 1871, and the historical frame of four centuries that created the paradox of the cultures of the American West, re the impossibility of one version of American history, re the aftermath of the massacre.  The many incomplete stories of a war crime from at least four major points of view, the Spanish/Mexican, the rival O'Odham peoples, the Euro-American settlers of Arizona Territory, the Apache who were hunted like devils and slaughtered like vultures.  

950P: Exeunt re scale of the financial crisis is now matched by the scale of the fear of worse ahead, re the blending of the Marc Dreier and Bernard Madoff scandals, the widespread reports of malfeasance at the financial centers, the Blagojevich abuse and cynicism.  Re the warnings of 1934.  Also re Billy of LA: Do Zoos Shorten Elephant Life Spans? 

David Mamet:  "I am from Chicago, and, so, having been disillusioned with politics at an early age I do not become involved. The only reason I vote is because they pay me."  (Below, Friday 12 December, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, now a leading name for the Senate seat once Blago is removed from office and is replaced by Lt. Governor Pat Quinn, at her press conference announcing a petition to the Illinois Supreme Court to remove Blago.)

Ness (Kevin Costner): Never stop, never stop fighting till the fight is done. 
Capone: What'd you say? What're you saying? 
Ness: I said, "Never stop fighting till the fight is done." 
Capone: What? 
Ness: You heard me, Capone. It's over. 
Capone: [sneering] Get out, you're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge. 
Ness: Here endeth the lesson.  From David Mamet's screenplay for Brian DePalma's 1987 "The Untouchables." 

720P:  Charlie Gasparino, CNBC, re the job losses worst in 30 years, re the deaf and dumb auto executives and the silence of the Congress re the bailout, re the joblessness and the Congress finally moves, re the prospect of TARP 2.

735P: Professional Roundtable with Diana West, author, Jim McTague, Barron's and John Fund, Wall Street Journal; re the auto bailout politics, is this GOP vs Dem, right vs. left, Main vs Wall Street, or just UAW phobia?  The Japanese attack Detroit, "Tora Tora Tora" again.

750P:  Continued re the Franken/ Coleman recount, re the 111th Congress and the Shape of Things to Come (cheaper).

805P: Larry Kudlow, CNBC "Kudlow & Company," re Tennessee Bob Corker wants the autos to restructure their debt at 30 cents on the dollar before the bailout -- how does this improve Detroit and help the case to the COngress; re the jobless rate soars, re the oil price sinks, re TARP 2?

820P: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Major Jewish Organizations, re pledge by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Minority Whip Eric Cantor that Iran will not get the atomic weapon, re the relations between the 111th Congress and Israel, re Hugo Chavez, the Reds and the Panama Canal.

835: Financial Professionals, with John Tamny, RealClearMarkets.com, Simon Constable,Dow Jones, Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance, re the swan song of the Big Three, re the mockery of Michael Moore that we should buy them on Ebay, re the cost of a GM bankruptcy.

850P: Continued, re jobless number and the worst recession since 1982 so far, re the Fed options.

905P: Stephen Flurry, The Trumpet, re the excavations of the City of David (right) in Jerusalem and the discovery in 2008 of a sealed tunnel that may have been used in the tenth century BC to allow David and his army to conquer the Jebusite fortress.  Re the discoveries in the City of David.  2 Samuel 5:8.

920P:  Aaron Klein, WND, re the funeral of the Holtzbergs and burial on the Mount of Olives, re the settler riot on the West Bank and the confrontation with the IDF.

935P: Colette Livermore, author,  "Hope Endures: Leaving Mother Teresa, Losing Faith and Searching for Meaning," re a missionaries work in the poorest parts of the Indian Ocean basin, re the meaning of charity, sacrifice, humility, re the regime and politics and grinding schedules of Mother House work, re the scale of the need.

955P: Exeunt with Bob Zimmerman, re cost filled Mars Lab delayed 2011, re the Earth's Magnetic Field wobbly?

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705P PT: Peter Sanders, Wall Street Journal, re the financial collapse and the Los Angeles cut-backs, especially the LA Zoo, re the last remaining pachyderm Billy about to be banished to a sanctuary, re the Dumbo economy of 2009 in LA, re what is a zoo?  "At a packed City Council chamber Wednesday, dozens of zoo employees and supporters of the new exhibit sat on one side of the aisle in green T-shirts, while opponents of the Pachyderm Forest and people wearing "Free Billy" stickers -- including the actress Lily Tomlin -- sat on the other."

720P: Thaddeus McCotter, Congress, 11th Michigan (R), re the auto bailout, round two, and the prospects to save GM, re the concessions by the UAW, re the $1 a year men now heading the auto-makers, re the joblessness, re TARP 2 comes to Congress. 

735P:  Professional Roundtable with Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal, Larry Johnson, No Quarter and State (ret), Craig Unger,Vanity Fair, re the Mumbai attacks and the threat of military confrontation in Kashmir, re the collapse of Pakistan, re the worst case scenario for the US forces fighting the Taliban and seeking Bin Laden in Waziristan.

750P: Continued re the CENTCOM plan for the Taliban, re the deterioration of Afghanistan.

805P: Professional roundtable with Monica Crowley, McLoughlin Group,  Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, John Avlon, RealClearPolitics.com, re the auto bailout and the last gasp for GM, re the GOP about to lose the Midwest, re the Bush administration silence and the Obama transition silence on the Detroit trouble?

820P:  Continued re the job losses and the worst downturn sicne 1982, or is this the worst collapse since 1933?

835P:  Janis Bell, author, "Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences," re the end of grammar and the inability of anyone at all to figure out the English language as it is written and as it is spoken, re the host's inability to pass the grammar tests in this book, re how poor grammar brought down the Towel of Babbel.

850P: Tim Johnston, Financial Times, from Bangkok, re the Thai goverment crisis so far, two prime ministers under fire, one resigned and one about to be thrown out, re the demo at the airport, re the economic crisis and the failure of the booming markets to survive.

905P: Mary Kissel, at Hong Kong, Asia Wall Street Journal, re the Bank of China stimulus package fails to mend the downturn, re the unemployment in the migrant worker population, re the prospects of worse ahead for the Asia economies, re the end of de-linking.

920P: Mai Ling, Wall Street Journal, from Beijing, re the parents who lost children in the Chungdu earthquake of May 2008 seek way to find another child .

935P: Richard Greene, edited, "Graham Greene: A Life in Letters."  Richard Greene is no relation of the author, and has assembled a jigsaw puzzle of a complex, mysterious, contradictory and inspiring novelist and thinker, (right)  buried in France.

950P: Exeunt re that it is always the night before Pearl Harbor.