and she said.. "how you interpret the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"

If I knew the exact time and exact location a $67.2 million dollar lottery ticket was purchased I still don't think I'd try and cheat someone out of it. No matter if I wanted to give some of the money to the recently laid-off cleveland police or not.

The things people will do in this world constantly amaze me. For money. For greed. For power.

It's the worst when it's for money because it's so false and empty. Money is made up thing. A human apparition. Tiny pieces of paper that carry the whole weight of the world on them.

Al Franken was on NPR with Terry Gross last night talking about his latest USO tour in Iraq and he told a story about how he was transported from Tikrit to Baghdad in a Black Hawk helicopter that was also carrying a few million dollars - U.S. dollars - of Saddam's money. His own little bankroll, I guess. You know, spending change. A little money in his pocket. Even evil world dictators respect the hard and true U.S. dollar as it falls, ungracefully, in the face of the Canadian Looney and the Euro. Al Franken said the Black Hawk diverted to deliver the cash and they had to walk around blindly in the expansive wasteland that is the bombed out Baghdad airport. I guess a few million bucks is more important than a few comedians.

OPEC continues to lie to us. They told us we'd be seeing an increase in production if oil surged over $28 a barrel for 20 full days. I believe it did, and I believe the OPEC nations continue to limit the output, to the chagrin of the northern world as we dive head first into this cold snap that will no doubt be responsible for hundreds of deaths.

Not that increased production would help at all. I just thought it was interesting, because it's all about money.

It's always been about power and survival and more recently that means it's been all about money. As we have replaced real friends and relationships with internet acquaintances so we replace the cold harsh desire for survival with cold hard cash.

CA$H is KING baby.

Why do you suppose that, by the time we had typewriters and keyboards, the dollar sign made it on their - albeit as a secondary symbol - but the cent sign didn't? It's no longer about cents. No one makes cents anymore. It's about dollars. Bigger and better and more and more.

Some people wouldn't look at money as technology, but it really is. Money is probably one of the biggest technological revolution this world has ever seen. Somewhere, at some point, some guy said "Hey, look. I don't have any chickens and I don't have any beaver tails either. I want some of that bread you got there. How about I give you this piece of inorganic material and then when you want something from me you can give it back, hmm?" And that was that: money was born. It's gotten a lot more complicated since then but one thing remains the same: CA$H is KING.

Pertinent little story on Slashdot today talks about Photoshop and maybe even Paint Shop Pro screening for images of U.S. currency. Won't allow a user to open a file if it throws the warning. Trying to cut back on the counterfeiters, I guess... cause CA$H is KING. Makes you wonder whose pushing that technology into private commercial software. Makes you wonder how much money is being passed around to make that happen.

CA$H is KING