*y Apologies For Causing The Financial Crisis: *I am not solely
responsible, of course, but I am white, and I do have blue eyes
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5983430.ece>.
Gordon Brown's efforts to smooth a path to international agreement
at next week's G20 summit in London hit a bump in Brazil yesterday
when he was told that the financial crisis was the fault of the
"white and blue-eyed".
President Lula da Silva of Brazil warned that there would be spicy
discussions and "tough confrontation" next Wednesday as world
leaders faced up to who should pay the costs of the banking crisis.
(The blue eyes part of Lula's theory is a little puzzling. If the eye
color map you can find here
<http://eupedia.com/europe/maps_of_europe.shtml#eye_colour> is
reasonably accurate, the financial crisis would appear to have started
in Estonia. If so, I missed that part of the news.)
I am not sure how I caused the crisis, but my apologies, anyway.
- 6:49 AM, 27 March 2009
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