Abu Dhabi’s plan to increase tourism is taking shape—specifically, a Sphere. Yesterday, Sphere Entertainment and the city’s Department of Culture and Tourism announced that the overgrown plasma orb in Las Vegas will get a sibling in the UAE capital, which wants more visitors.

S: Morning Brew

@LnzyHou @gemswinc

Big picture: Drugstores have pinned their struggles on the rise of online retailers like Amazon and population decline. But an FTC report also lays some blame on the three giant pharmacy benefits managers—companies that act as middlemen to negotiate drug prices—for “squeezing” pharmacies by lowering reimbursement rates.—MM

S: Morning Brew

COSOVERSE...Keep looking at the STARS

Historybook: Marie Antoinette executed (1793); Author Oscar Wilde born (1854); The Walt Disney Co. founded (1923); Actress Angela Lansbury born (1925); Tony-, Academy-, and Emmy-winning actress Shirley Booth dies (1992).

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

- From Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan"

Canada and India not getting along?

Well, I never...

What say you Canucks?

KARMA IS A GUY ON THE CHIEFS

Personal Issue for Me...

Please don't wish ill on others, even the Big O, it diminishes all of us.

@MidnightRider @LnzyHou @NiveusLepus

Put him on House Arrest at Mar-A-Lago and then have FBI chronicle who visits.

@MidnightRider

Clinking glasses or sharing joints

@gemswinc

And their corporate over-extension will be touted as economic woe.

Boeing's Financial Woes

Boeing plans to raise up to $25B through stock and debt offerings over the next three years while also entering into a $10B credit deal with lenders, according to regulatory filings yesterday. The jetmaker seeks to bolster its finances and increase its cash balance as it works to avoid a potential downgrade to junk status by credit rating agencies, which would trigger higher borrowing costs.

S: 1440 Digest

@catlynne333

So, will we have McLovin' McTrumpin' ads for the campaign?

ON this date in 1846 - After the impassioned cries from Bun Man and Mr Purple saying "Doc, you gotta give me somethin' for the pain", dentist William T. Morton invented Ether, the painkiller.

It was used for the first time and suddenly Dr Morton found many, many more patients lining up to get their teeth fixed.

ON this date in 1989 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.

Senators Bun Man and Mr. Purple supported the measure to ensure the federal deficit shrunk.

The Boyz always thought it was ironic that Bush's son would preside over one of the biggest increases of the deficit and totally wipe out a federal surplus.

Bun Man just said, "Kinda like what the Gramm-Rudman Budget Reduction law (signed on this day in 1989) did to the current 'congressional civil war' huh?"

I replied, "Right you are, dude, right you are..."

Ultimately, we all have to decide how to maintain the union and live within our means...

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ONLY CIVILITY KEEPS US CIVIL

ON this date in 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia).

While unsuccessful, this ill-advised raid led ultimately to the outbreak of hostilities which became the Civil War.

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@LnzyHou

IKR, sometimes I see or hear that roar and I think, damn, that sounds sweet and I could be torqued right now, but then I remember LIFE

and LIFE IS BIGGER

ZEP AWAKENS

ON this date in 1968 - The New Yardbirds played their first concert.

The band later changed their name to Led Zeppelin.

Bun Man and Mr. Purple, longtime London partiers, were there as they had followed the many lineup changes in the original Yardbirds (Clapton, Beck, Paige, etc.).

Led Zep found some success on both sides of the Atlantic, and there were good times, bad times, you know they had their share...

Mr. P countered “And if you don’t have money or the ability to get more money?”

“They throw your ass in the slammer...guaranteeing you will never have money or the ability to get more money” replied Bun.

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Listening intently as Mr. Purple and I always do, Bun said “This continued a trend where white folk paid fines and escaped prison when clearly there should have been jail time.”

Always inquisitive, Mr. P asked “How come?”

Said Bun, “Little buddy, you see, if you have money or people think you have the ability to get money, they will keep you in a position where you can continue to put more money into the spin machine…”

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ENRON BABY

ON this date in 2002 - The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five-years’ probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federal investigation of the energy company Enron.

Bun Man schooled us on this one.

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"There is no credible model showing that a big tax cut would pay for itself."

And economist said this, I just can't remember who it was.