Mar 31, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
I think the Turks on the other side of the island are giggling
In the Pearl of the Middle Sea banks have reopened at last. For what little good that does you if you're out of oats and your donkey is hungry. The Cypriot politicians get to decide how much of your money you can reclaim from their Russian Mafia Laundromat.
But the Cypriot man on the street is less than panicked, and leave it to England's Fleet Street to live-blog the stiff upper lip:
Cypriots are not only taking their money out of the banks, they are also depositing it.
Kyriakos Vourghouri, owner of a minimarket, waved a deposit slip showing an amount of €678 euros as he emerged from the bank.
"I didn't withdraw any money. I deposited money," he told AFP. "The problem is not in Cyprus, it is in Europe, which has become gangrenous."
I doubt I'd have used the word "gangrenous." I think "monetarily diarrheatic " might be closer.
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Can't happen here, of course, what with our commitment to free enterprise and sound money.
But the Cypriot man on the street is less than panicked, and leave it to England's Fleet Street to live-blog the stiff upper lip:
Cypriots are not only taking their money out of the banks, they are also depositing it.
Kyriakos Vourghouri, owner of a minimarket, waved a deposit slip showing an amount of €678 euros as he emerged from the bank.
"I didn't withdraw any money. I deposited money," he told AFP. "The problem is not in Cyprus, it is in Europe, which has become gangrenous."
I doubt I'd have used the word "gangrenous." I think "monetarily diarrheatic " might be closer.
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Can't happen here, of course, what with our commitment to free enterprise and sound money.
Mar 27, 2013
Into the wild blue yonder
My youngest and her man are soon to be airborne, off for a few days of frivolous Walloonery in the zone of the Napoleonic Code where habeus corpus is a somewhat iffier proposition than it is here -- or was, anyway, when their native land was operating under a Constitution.
I don't worry about it too greatly. They're not the kind of kids to get into much trouble. Oh, maybe a snide or otherwise disrespectful comment about governments here and there. A lamentable attraction to foreign food, heavily sauced due to late adoption of a technology called "refrigeration" in those parts. Nothing, however, really, that should get them gaoled.
The lady identifies "Dinant" as the adventurous element of the trip. I don't know what she means by that and and am afraid to ask. Wiki informs me that the place held Celts in Neolithic times, so perhaps she just means adventurous communing with our ancestral spirits.
They have also worked a jaunt to the Ardennes into the schedule and promise faithfully that in Bastogne they will turn to face whatever enemy is most obvious and state firmly, "The answer is still "Nuts'."
I don't worry about it too greatly. They're not the kind of kids to get into much trouble. Oh, maybe a snide or otherwise disrespectful comment about governments here and there. A lamentable attraction to foreign food, heavily sauced due to late adoption of a technology called "refrigeration" in those parts. Nothing, however, really, that should get them gaoled.
The lady identifies "Dinant" as the adventurous element of the trip. I don't know what she means by that and and am afraid to ask. Wiki informs me that the place held Celts in Neolithic times, so perhaps she just means adventurous communing with our ancestral spirits.
They have also worked a jaunt to the Ardennes into the schedule and promise faithfully that in Bastogne they will turn to face whatever enemy is most obvious and state firmly, "The answer is still "Nuts'."
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