The three occurrences might even have some kind of strange connection. Over the last week we witnessed another one of these mysterious three occurrences.

They lit up the huge Super-Duper Collider in Switzerland, Lehman Brothers (LEH) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and something I have been talking about for years has finally broke out into a near mass hysteria.

Yes, you read it here first two years ago… I warned the world. And now they even have a name for this terrible assault on us Americans…  And it has nothing to do with a certain mega-insurance company that needs a bailout with more money than the gross national product of most countries around the world.

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Could this be what really zapped Lehman Brothers?

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I knew there was furniture in Grandma’s living room, but I was never sure just what color the fabric was until the day I decided to check under the top two layers and get a look at what was really under there.  Silent alarms must have gone off because Grandma was on me in less than three seconds, and I was forbidden from going into the living room until I was thirty years old.  And even then only when she was there as a chaperone.

This Super-Collider really starts sounding like some James Bond villain scheme when you realize they spent fourteen years and $8 billion to build it. $8 billion! Think of all the schools or hospitals they could have built instead. That’s enough money to put one of those super-cheap computers in every home in Africa.

Europe as seen from space just after the Super-Collider was turned on.
Now you know why the Euro has been dropping in valu

A Super-Collider technical support agent on his way to work

When you have a few extra minutes, Google (GOOG) the term “short-sizing.”

I brought up this assault on the American way of life a few years ago. I watched both the Democratic and Republican conventions, and no one said a thing. In the meantime, just about every man, woman, child and pet are being affected by this short-sizing phenomenon. This is where most every item down at Wal-Mart (WMT) or wherever you shop is now in smaller packages at the same old high prices. 

Think of all the extra fuel being wasted for more trips to the Kroger (KR) because you mistakenly only bought one carton of ice cream and now that carton holds 25% less.