Mr. Diggles & You » money

bush wants another $42 billion for wars

mr. diggles — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:47:08 +0000

of course he does.

it is like the 16 year old kid saying “dad, i crashed the ferrari and killed 5k people… can i get a lamborghini now?

we need to fight fires, not wars.

read the retarded article here

you can’t hug your kids with nuclear arms… ok i’m done.

artist unveils $98M diamond skull

mr. diggles — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:34:13 +0000

this is nuts. the artist damien hirst from the uk has covered a human skull from the 1800′s completely in diamonds. the only real part showing is the teeth. it cost him $20 million to make and it is now on the market for $98 million.

the day after it went on the market he already had 3 strong prospects that were interested in buying. the only catch in the purchase is that the buyer must have it somewhere for the public to view.

this is a pretty controversial art piece considered it is a real human skull and it selling for enough money to feed a thrid world country. however, that is kind of why i like it. plus this artist is famous for controversial work. some of his other installations are insane.

read the cnn article here

check damien hirst out on wikipedia

chrysler sells for 7.4 billion: nasa chuckles

mr. diggles — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:46:40 +0000

daimler chrysler moved to undo the most expensive and one of the least successful mergers in auto industry history monday as it agreed to essentially pay to dump the money-losing chrysler unit which it paid $37 billion for nine years ago.

in other news nasa has developed a new space telescope and it is envisioned as the first of a new generation of space observatories. this project behind this first telescope will cost 4.5 billion and it will revolutionize the way we study space and time.

this one craft nasa has developed is worth over half as much as the entire company of chrysler.

and i thought the pt cruiser WAS the next revolutionary space craft. turns out it is nothing but a peice of shit like the rest of their cars.

check out the chyrsler article here

check out the nasa article here

top 10 millionaire counties

mr. diggles — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:02:31 +0000

good old cnn. bringing us the top 10 millionaire counties.
let’s start at no.1 shall we?

los angeles county, california: no big surprise here. apparently there are 268,138 millionaire households. how the hell did they come up with that number? if i was a millionaire i would be quiet. in fact i just may be.
cook county, illinois: number of millionaire households equals 171,118 for this county and apparently it makes up for 40%. damn, i would hate to keep up with the jones here.
orange county, california: thus the amount of fake boobies. number of millionaire households equals 116,157 and this makes up 10% of the state.
maricopa county, arizona: number of millionaire households equals 113,414. i say it is the foreigners.
san diego county, california: i was surprised to not see this one higher on the list. the average price for a house here is like 750k. damn gina! number of millionaire households: 102,138. holy shit batman!
harris county, texas: number of millionaire households: 99,504. interesting. wouldn’t have guess this one – but maybe that is why i am a billionaire instead of a millionaire.
nassau county, new york: i was surpisred to see it took this long for NY to make the list. poor bastards. number of millionaire households: 79,704
santa clara county, california: more cali cats. go arnold! number of millionaire households equals 74,824
palm beach county, florida: hell yeah florida belongs somewhere on here. where do you think all of these millionaires go when they are done?
besides hell…
number of millionaire households equals 71,221
king county, washington: a fun fact for all – microsoft has made more millionaires out of people than any other company in the world. i know that would be expected but hell, i wouldn’t be surprised if it were exon or something. but we all know those oil company’s are owned by like one dude. number of millionaire households equals 68,390

i still can’t figure out why portland didn’t get on the list. oh wait it is because we are too busy being laid back drinking microbrews and coffee. i wouldn’t change a thing… i have been to orange county.

cheers!