Are you in New Orleans?  For some reason I have you placed there.  We drove through New Orleans on the way to San Antonio and I didn't take the bypass this time.  I wanted to see how New Orleans was doing.  Was bummed though.  Could still see rooftops along I-10 of abandoned houses, they still clearly have the holes hacked into them in order to extract people during Katrina.  There was new building too though.  And some people did have their properties repaired and looking great.  Total recovery seems to be a slower process than what I feel comfortable with.

Unfortunately the Republicans and the New Democrats can't seem to quit making the rich richer, and then the rich go out and buy commodities and bid against each other and the prices go up and up and the poor starve.  Every rich investor is a speculator now in the most heinous sense of the word.  It is what they are compelled to do though to protect their wealth, and they are going to starve people trying to protect what they have.  This is why economic disparity can be so heinous, this is why the banks should not have been saved in the fashion that they were and such moral hazard created.  We keep creating more and more moral hazard and we are going to destabilize every economy pegged to our dollar, and countries poorer than we are aren't going to be able to afford to buy food for their people.

The first book begins by creating the ambience of  William Tell's Chapel on Lake Lucerne with straightforward resonant chords. Lortie produced a booming sound that reverberated with a you-are-there transporting power that even 3-D Imax can't approximate. I have never heard such a piano sound in Segerstrom, and this was just the start of some of the most exceptional Liszt playing I have ever encountered anywhere.