… and they did. Read it here thanks to Felicity
Picture number one – the events that caused this took place is 1981, Barack Obama was 20 years old.
And after a short gap for breath, this will be along soon.
In the meantime read the words of Obama’s acceptance speech here at Channel 4
2am : Obama will win. McCain predicted to lose Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Virginia and North Carolina both close. It feels, from a distance rather like the 1997 general election did in the UK.
Taking a little punt. Via Matt Wardman
High quality character analysis from a fine journalist in Time magazine
I drew this back early in 2008 when Barack Obama was battling Hillary Clinton and John Edwards and John McCain was fighting off Mitt Romney, Mike Huckerbee, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. Looking back at it now, it’s too long and done in great haste, but the music is still great.
This is borderline illegal. Suppliers are legally entitled to charge for interest at payment which take over 30 days. Of course, the relative size of supplier and buyer means that few suppliers feel able to exercise this option (alienating the buyer) and this allows the larger institution to ‘bully’ in this way. Do you think the government will be mentioning it? The line about maintaining Tesco’s cashflow is plain hilarious. Corporate action of this sort is one of the ‘invisible’ effects of the hard economic times the country is going through. Via Lloyd.
UPDATED: 1pm. More evidence of what is going on in the real economy. This story nails the impact that our current system of non-personal relationships between business (producer) – buyer – and large financial institutions can easily lead to. The story is from The Daily Telegraph.
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