Don’t Worry, They’ll Still raise Your Interest Rates Anyway

The government, your government, is going to toss even more of your tax money into the bottomless abyss called US financial services- personified this time in Citibank.  So while Citi is raising interest rates even on their most reliable customers, you’ll be happy to know that you’re also paying them more through your taxes.

In mid-October, the Treasury Department injected $25 billion into Citigroup and an additional $100 billion into eight other major U.S. financial institutions in an effort to try and unlock frozen credit markets and bring some stability back to the financial system.

Yeah, that worked out well didn’t it…  You can’t rely on the government to do much for good, but you can always depend on it to do plenty to help everyone but the people who authentically need it.  Ours is, after all, a government of the wealthy, for the wealthy by the sweat of the brow of the middle classes.

The Biblioblogger’s SBL Dinner

It’s sad, really, when ‘adults’ can’t manage to get together for a cordial dinner without getting into a ruckus.  Evidently, or so my spies report, John Hobbins and someone named Michael Holcomb (he has a bunch of other first names too so he must be British) planned and organized this year’s dinner and the result was a food fight.  Shameful.  Pictured are Hobbins, Holcomb, Brady, and Scot McKnight rolling around in the sludge they created.  Also present were Davila, Goodacre, NT Wrong (he’s in the back of the crowd over the shoulder of the guy with the black shirt) and Lombatti!  I’d expect that sort of behavior from most of them, but you Antonio…???  Et tu Antonio????

This year’s meeting really seems to be going to the dogs.

Antonio Lombatti’s SBL Presentation

It seems that Antonio’s lecture on the relic hunters went over with a bang.  After it was over, the crowd gave him a robust round of applause and a standing ovation with much hooping, hooting, hollering, and cheering.  It must have been quite a paper (and what a contrast to the reception that Wright’s paper got).

Here are some of the audience and their amazing response:

The SBL E-Listers Meeting…

I can’t say that I’m sorry I missed this year’s meeting.  The usual gang at the E-Lister’s meeting seems to have changed dramatically since last year.  Well, just see for yourself…

Apparently instead of meeting at the Book Exhibit, they decided to do a bus tour of Boston.  If you look closely, you can see Bishop Wrong on the bus!

NT Wright’s SBL Paper

As you can see, Professor Wright held his audience’s rapt attention.

Take careful note and you can see NT Wrong in attendance- in the front row!