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What's really happening here? We have a large number of very rich people claiming that the system will no longer function unless the government underwrites the risks they have taken.

The parallels to the previous scandal of savings and loans in the late eighties and early nineties is interesting to me. There are many differences, clearly, but some things seem eerily similar. The difference here is that the debt is not already backed by the government as it was with the S&Ls. Who is really profiting from the money disappearing? Someone is.

Time to get political.

We as a country are falling behind. Our model for government is not changing as conditions require. Instead, policies are set by looking at economic measures originating in the thirties. The creator of this measure himself warned against using it for any policy setting as was written about in a Harper's article. The measure is Gross Domestic Product or GDP. Unfortunately, this has—stupidly and blindly—guided our government, no matter who's in power, for far too many years.

Wine is a favourite topic of mine and getting together with friends to share wine is a favourite activity. To combine the topic of wine and the sharing of wine would be an exceptional website.

http://urbanvarietal.com will attempt to provide the following:

• Group organization with ability to set up private, semi-private, or public wine tastings (with organized groups or loose lists of people or anyone who wants to come).
• Events would be associable with the wines that will be tasted or have been tasted.