Big Oil Can Survive

I came across a seed today that needs to be planted right now. Basically the notion is to stop making gas and similar products out of petroleum. Oh no! The oil industry screams, not this cockamamie crap again. We have dealt with this already, the legal fees, corporate spies and hit men cost us a fortune, well, it cost the consumers a fortune. Just calm down big oil guy, there’s a plan, a very good plan that won’t put you into the unemployment line.

Now listen up because I don’t like repeating myself, unless you have a stadium full of corporate oil executives. In that case have your people call my people. You'll need to start R & D on producing building and other materials from petroleum. Keep on track with the clean fuel for vehicles production so you can phase out gasoline production as the environmentally friendly cars and trucks take to the road. So without skipping a heart beat you can phase in new building and other materials to sell. These ‘plastic’ building frames and walls and just about anything a contractor may need can be provided by the new, retooled, oil refineries and can halt the production of stinky, polluting, outdated fuel products.

The best part is that our all American oil industry will no longer have to squelch new, effective, and clean by-product solutions for the world to enjoy. The oil industry could actually become patriotic again, could actually begin to do the right thing again and could actually begin to live up to their absurd; they’re not fooling anyone, fantasy commercials. They could actually sell superior building products then wood thereby saving our forests to produce more oxygen, with a better price to the consumer; all while taking billions of tons of choking, global warming pollutants off the market.

It’s time for the oil industries to stop terrorizing the brilliant, new nonpolluting energy products. Cutting off their funding with oil ecomomic clout, and paying off top men in the fight against pollution is no longer necessary. The oil industry can have a future in the new century; we can still use billions of barrels of crude. New, space age, plastics can make cars, trucks, boats, trains, buildings and bridges, all of these things without stinking up the place.

LISTEN to the Mayor of Lansing Mich.

You all thought I was just kidding. It’s coming, sooner or later the pressure cooker will blow. Nationwide, worldwide, to your town. Viva La Revolution!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-nLS6FJtSM

Laughing Stock

Citibank Group stock just fell twenty two percent, could be because recent Citibank escapades have the makings of a great comedy script. But since their bumbling activities are so very real they would fit better in the believe it or not category. There is no good way to break this news; I will just blurt it out. Are you ready? Citibank lost 27 million dollars to a Nigerian money scam. I read this and choked on my Wheaties, I should sue Citi for making me choke and then settle out of court for a measly million. Who knows, they may fall for it. So far the exact details haven’t been brought out but we know this much. A Nigerian scam artist got Citibank to send 27 million to 24 different banks in a dozen countries then he and his cohorts scooped up the cash.
I just can’t believe it. It has to be an inside job. Some bank V.P. had to have loaded his own account with a few million on this deal. I mean even the average grandma doesn’t get fooled by Nigerian cons anymore. Just for the benefit of a doubt, maybe Citi hadn’t heard of the Nigerian cons, they have only been around for two decades. I’m thinking about sending them a registered letter stating that they won the Freakness Triple Crown and if they just send me a five million handling charge I’ll cut them a check for a hundred million and send it right out.
You want to hear more funny Citibank antics? They want the Feds to buy another fifteen percent of its stock with the bailout cash. I’m thinking they will get the money. That’s hilarious; that’s so funny I bet Citi laughs all the way to the bank.
Doom


Thanks to; Tim Stevens from The Business Insider
The scam was perpetrated by 37-year-old Paul Gabriel Amos, a Nigerian citizen living in Singapore. With the help of fraudulent documents, Amos asked Citibank to transfer $27 million from a Citibank account held by the National Bank of Ethiopia into 24 different accounts around the world, all of which he and fellow scammers controlled. Amos's misdeeds were thankfully detected, albeit after the transfer was complete; he was arrested when flying into Los Angeles, and is currently being held after being denied bail by a federal judge in Manhattan. If convicted, he could spend the next 30 years in jail.
As for Citibank, well, we guess its latest misstep will just be covered by taxpayer-funded bailouts!

Here's what I'm Talking About

or; Scientific Doom Sayers: We Don’t Stand a Chance

Here’s a newbie gloom and doom scientific gathering. Ah, maybe not new but just now put out for our consideration. This scenario not only predicts that we will bring civilization to its knees but that we will scratch and claw all the way down. We will have wars, wars concerning a hunk of land to live on; civil wars, wars between nations, races, religions and social classes. Nobody will be exempt and only the cruel and strong will survive.
Despite the fact that I see another dozen downfalls for us humans this one needs no other calamity other than the one we make for ourselves. Check it out. Then have sweet dreams tonight.



http://news.aol.com/article/climate-change-war-conflict/353950?icid=200100397x1219357365x1201318691

Going Postal

I have always been fond of the USPS. It’s romantic tales of the Pony Express, the anticipation of the postman arriving with news from loved ones and the world. Their matching rain cloud blue uniforms that give them a military look and me a sense of security.

Although I am more realistic now I still recall the USPS in their heyday, before the World Wide Web. In those days every citizen watched out for the mailman, it was a high point in many people’s day to receive the mail. Now we get bills and junk advertisements. Some of us don’t even get bills, they come over the net and even hard copy greeting cards are becoming a rarity, unless they’re sent by grandma.

As less mail goes through the USPS system the higher the cost of postage must become because the USPS has the same overhead expense whether they deliver one or two letters to your door. The higher the postage becomes the more people switch to cheaper, electronic methods of delivery. This whole affair is a colossal catch-22. A real no win situation.

The USPS has a growing overhead and dwindling client base. I’m not that sure I can blame the whole thing on bureaucracy. Although it is true that normal bureaucratic bumbling and various fiefdoms ruled by control freak postal princes cause excess expenses are factors, this would not make a difference in the USPS’s eventual demise. The normal squabbling and mismanagement will only serve to hasten the dinosaur’s collapse.

The traditional fixes for our post system are to raise rates and/or increase the federal subsidy. These historic band aids can no longer keep the dinosaur on life support. As stated it’s a catch-22. As the post office gets closer to a gigantic, undeniable point of diminishing returns and raises rates yet again private enterprise will step in and take over all the gravy routes. Unlike the USPS they can pick and choose their customers; the USPS is obligated to deliver to everyone. Thus the only deliveries left to the USPS will be to lone farm houses and a few mountain hermits. Laws taxing firms like UPS and FedEx on their deliveries could help the USPS maintain some kind of competiveness but that won’t happen; thats against the rules, we are capitalists. Or the federal government could increase its subsidy to 95% thereby making sure USPS is solvent and the hermits get their mail. That seems an absurd remedy, paying mega bucks for mini bucks worth of service. But you never know, this is the federal government we’re talking about and you can bet your booty that every person of royalty in the USPS will dig in their heels and resist any reduction of their fiefdom budgets.

So what can, should we do? Well, I for one intend to pop some corn and watch the action. It’s going to be a criminal comedy of bureaucratic tug-a-wars and vultures picking apart a mammoth entity. I think I’ll bring my sleeping bag; it’s going to be a long show.

Madman Madoff

Or a Billion for One

Have you ever tried to get into someone’s mind; someone like an ax murderer, a suburban cannibal or a billion dollar ponzi schemer? I consider myself a sympathetic, understanding and compassionate person and I can appreciate the dark forces that turn someone into a horror for society. Into a person that does grievous harm to many people. Alas, despite my very best sympathetic efforts, these ax hacking, serial cannibals and hearth, home and retirement fund thieves elude my critical examination. I don’t get it. Where do these social psychopaths get their deviant behavior? Born, bred, both? My true sympathies and understanding go to the victims, their families and the humanity they have touched with their foul lives.

As far as ax and serial murderers go all we can assume as a civilized people is their nuts. Some brain construction, damage, upbringing or whatever has destroyed the natural human balance of right and wrong completly. They have become utterly self absorbed maniacs; other people are not real to them. They are the only reality they have. So they are insane, criminally insane.

So I ask you; should we put the suave and sophisticated billion dollar thieves in this category? Madoff ultimately did millions of times the greater harm. Should we assume that he saw only play toys for his amusement while causing the ruination of hundreds of thousands of people, worthy charitable organizations and powerful corporations? How could he be such a personable person yet destroy so many lives? Does one not have to have at least a modicum of humanity to act as and actually be such a grand philanthropist? Should we consider all the good works he did and took credit for with other people’s money? Should we consider his intellect and polished manners as a sign that he’s not just a crook?

Hell no! String the bastard up by his thumbs on the Manhattan Bridge. After stretching his thumbs for a few days they should rip off and he will become just another speed bump. A road kill.

Give a Leg Up

Date line – 02/19/09, New York, New York

Dustin Dibble, 25, made the deal of a lifetime. He got drunk and swapped his leg for $2,336,713.00 with the NYC Transit system. I’m not sure if that would be a good deal for some people. Certainly the idle rich wouldn’t make the trade. Probably not even the folks with a million dollar portfolio. Of course they would have had to start with a 2 million portfolio a year ago.
I imagine it may have been a little nerve racking since he had to wait three years to find out what his leg was worth, if anything. We don’t even know if the NYCT got the leg. Maybe someone swiped it and made a lamp for their living room window. Anyway, now that we know what a besotted leg is worth would you make the trade?
Oh, I forgot; his tort lawyer must have got half or so. That kind of sours the deal for me. I might consider a million for a foot. You know, it really pisses me off that the lawyer got half the leg. Shakespeare was right ‘first kill all the lawyers.’

The truth about the 'Truth Commission'

This is what we need a ‘truth commission’ being promoted by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. They want to find out the who, what, why and when of harsh interrogations and warrantless surveillance programs, and probe White House involvement in politically motivated hiring’s and firings in Bush's Justice Department. I am no longer interested in who did what in furtherance of their cause from bygone days. All I see is more tax payer money going down the toilet while our august leaders jockey about and file suit to make themselves look good and their opponents look bad. There is no good purpose for our representatives to waste time and money on this crap.
Here’s the reason I have really had it with this crap. It’s not a big deal that the infants in DC are whacking each other with their sandbox shovels, that’s tradition, I hope they bleed. But we all know crap runs down hill and this undignified kick, spit and scratch brawl is the example set by the highest in the land for centuries. Now every government institution, from federal to municipal, has no hesitation to sue any other government institution. So the water board sues the environmental department and federal land use division. The city sues the state to get a street permit. The bay commission sues the coast guard for inadequate protections. My right foot is suing my left foot and ankle for copy write infringements whenever I put on a matching pair of socks. My hands have to take time off to testify.
I just thought, naively I guess, that all these elected officials and entrenched bureaucrats where supposed to spend their time, energy and our money on the welfare of our citizens.
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore; I'm gonna sue.

the sun goes down on the west

the sun goes down on the west

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

The End of America

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_end_of_america/

Here is a terror, an end of civilization, film. So it’s right after my own heart. Maybe not quite, it portrays the power building and hoarding and the ass getting led by the nose during the Bush/ass years. I am sure Georgie did not intend to have his presidency defined by 9/11 but it could be that he was not unhappy to have something to do. I mean I don’t recall any other particular programs he was enthusiastic about before then; except for secretly plotting to figure out a reason to execute his legacy from daddy in Iraq, maybe. Maybe it seemed like a nice Robin Hood type thing to do at the time.

The film reveals the eerie similarities of our federal governments’ constitutional violations to Hitler and his Nazis’ rise to power. The suppression, surreptitious and propaganda methods Hitler used to gain power and carry out his murderous plans are closely related to Bush and his cabinets activities regarding the post 9/11 era. The biggest and most important of all the differences is that Bush or, hopefully any other president, can't become dictator of the United States; even though the ground work is almost completed. But I believe that the American citizens and even the American military would awaken and revolt if a socialist dictator got as far as sitting on the throne. A second civil war, but this scenario would be about power and terror.

My vision of a possible demise of our United States is based more on economic disparity. That does not mean a ruthless or mislead president would not take advantage of a weekend constitution and make an attempt to grab dictatorship. The two catastrophes could happen simultaneously.

My views concerning possible catastrophes’ for the United States are summarized in these two blogs.

Lord Save Us 02/08/09
It was nice while it lasted 02/09/09

Federal Budget, Ex-Lax For the Bloated

Original author unknown
When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers.The remaining workers need to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall street, and the media normally congratulate the CEO for making this type of "tough decision," and the board of directors gives a big bonus.

Our government should not be immune from similar risks.

Therefore: Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218 members and Senate members from 100 to 50 (one per State). Also reduce remaining staff by 25%.

Accomplish this over the next 8 years. (two steps / two elections) and of course this would require some redistricting.

Some Yearly Monetary Gains Include:

$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for congress. (267 members X $165,200 pay/member per year).

$97,175,000 for elimination of the above people's staff. (estimate $1.3 Million in staff per each member of the House, and $3 Million in staff per each member of the Senate every year).

$240,294 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.

$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel ear-marks each year (inserted by those members whose jobs are gone. Current estimates for total government pork earmarks are at 15 Billion per year).

The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and would need to improve efficiencies. It might even be in their best interests to work together for the good of our country.

We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more efficient resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep track of what your representative is doing.

Congress has more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in 1911 when the current number of representatives was established. (telephone, computers, cell phones to name a few).

Note:
Congress did not hesitate to head home when it was a holiday, when the nation needed a real fix to the economic problems. Also, we have 3 senators who have not been doing their jobs for the past 18+ months (being on the campaign trail) and still they all have been accepting full pay. These facts alone support a reduction in senators & congress.

Summary of opportunity:

$ 44,108,400 reduction of congress members.

$282,100,000 for elimination of the reduced house member staff.

$150,000,000 for elimination of reduced senate member staff.

$59,675,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining house members.

$37,500,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining senate members.

$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the reduction of congress members .

$8,073,383,400 per year, estimated total savings. (that's 8-BILLION just to start!)

Big business does these types of cuts all the time.

If Congresspersons were required to serve 20, 25 or 30 years (like everyone else) in order to collect retirement benefits there is no telling how much we would save.
Now they get full retirement after serving only ONE term!

The New California Buttitch

After an incredible three plus months CA is getting a new budget. I thought that after this much time, with some of our most intellectual minds in the state, we would have a golden product a real ‘get California on its feet again’ document. Instead we are getting knee capped. We are going to lose many businesses and many people. CA is over pricing itself by adding four HUMONGOUS tax measures. We are already in the top percentage of bank repossessions nationwide, top state taxes nationwide, top housing cost nationwide, top cost of living nationwide. Our incompetent legislature has done us in this time. This time was our last chance to get it right. Our leaders have not shot us in the foot; they have shot us in the balls. Wave goodbye to big and small business, to your friends and neighbors and to your hard earned money. The fleeing refugees’ taxes would have been worth twice the new blackmail taxes thieved from the poor souls left to tend our ghost towns.

I really don’t know what to say for once. Did our politicians cut their overgrown per diems? Their vehicle freebie that only CA legislatures get? Their medical benefits and retirement for life after one term? Their fact finding junkets? Their pork? No is the answer to all of those unfair, unearned bloated expenses. These thieves where elected to represent us, they have not. They only look after their own interests. Our great state comes to this end of the road because it is tradition for our elected officials to stab us in the back the minute they get in office. Wait! They do have an excuse; we elected them. (Well, not me, my choices didn’t make it) What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? It’s your own fault you collective electorate pea brains.

Citizens, prepare to defend your lives and homes. We will no longer be able to depend on fire and police protection. Even good men will turn to crime to feed their family. Since their will not be money to meet the police and court needs the temptation will be higher. People turned bad and the normal criminal element will get away with their crimes. Weapon sales will go up, a bright note for one business. Needed pubic services will wither due to lack of funds. Ambulances, hospitals, schools, power and water companies, the communication systems, all will fall short. Fall over the cliff they are already on. You may be killed for a loaf of bread.

Have a nice day.

He’s Not Heavy, He’s My Brother

This a response to an ongoing e-mail exchange with my brother. So you will have to imagine what was said in some prior posts as I address previous mails.
Repo =home reposition
GC = General Contractor
Re-Fi = refinance
Our names have been removed. Caps are foot notes.

I have even considered taking some idiot job for 10 or 15 bucks an hour. It would be better than sitting on my ass and at least I would get something to augment my reserves. But I am waiting on one GC. I have done about 30 repos for him but none in weeks. He says the banks are waiting to see how things pan out. He says he is expecting a lot of repos this year beginning next month. So I'm going to wait on that before trying to get a two-bit job.
WIFE and I had talked about having a boarder a while ago. We could use some help. Her sister-in-law, BLANK, wants to move in and is ready any time. You may recall she is a really large woman and those kinds have a way of damaging or breaking stuff. We did not purchase chairs, sofas or beds with someone of her size in mind. On top of that she is a 'user' type and I really would not prefer to have her. You would be much more preferable. So we can wait and see what happens. IN YOUR CASE
We figure $500 a month would be okay. That would include basic food. We don't want to have two food things to deal with. WIFE now spends over $400 a month for us two on groceries, so at least two of the five would go to her. The remainder will help with utilities, Internet, TV, roof over head, and insurance. I don't feel there is any profit in there for us. Also some snacks and other types of specialty food would not be included; filet minion, dinning out, etc. We know your funds are limited and these terms will not work for you after so many months depending on what you get going. So the whole thing can be reviewed in 6 months or so. You must not have a concern that you would end up in the street. Unless we do too. You are my brother, family to me and WIFE.
Of course we would love to have you cook when you want to and do whatever other things you may choose. I have lots. Before I had I guess what should be called my break down I was very active concerning home improvement and maintenance. Not anymore. All I manage to do now is my basic chores, dishes, garbage, pellet stove, cat box, couple other small things. We have a crummy gardener once a week for 60 bucks a month and WIFE has a house cleaner come over most months. SHE WORKS FULL TIME I think if I had someone to work with I may actually trim some plants and a few other things that the gardener doesn't do and badly need doing. I have been trying to work up the motivation for several items for months now. I'm pretty sure I might do some of the most egregious ones when they get bad enough.
Other then these details we will have your room and other basic physical occupation issues. We can go over those if your re-fi does not work out. Basically you would have the bedroom next to the office. You would be able to play your guitar back there. We would have to do some rearranging and I would need your help for that.
You are loved
DOOM

Whats Your Beef

I got nothing to add.
Doom

SUBJECT: S. AMERICAN BEEF AT MC DONALDS
THIS IS A GOOD MAN WHO TOOK THE TIME TO WRITE THIS AND EVEN SIGN HIS NAME AND CONTACT, SO PLEASE READ:

I'm sure those of you who aren't in the cattle business don't understand the issues here. But to those of us whose living depends on the cattle market, selling Cattle, raising the best beef possible... This is frustrating.

The original message is from the Texas Cattle Feeders Association
American cattle producers are very passionate about this.

McDonald's claims that there is not enough beef in the USA to support their restaurants. Well, we know that is not so. Our opinion is they are looking to save money at our expense. The sad thing of it is that the people of the USA are the ones who made McDonald's successful in the first place, but we are not good enough to provide beef. We personally are no longer eating at McDonald's, which I am sure does not impact them, but if we pass this around maybe there will be an impact felt.

All Americans that sell cows at a livestock auction barn had to sign a paper stating that we do NOT EVER feed our cows any part of another cow. South Americans are not required to do this as of yet. McDonald's has announced that they are going to start importing much of their beef from South America . The problem is that South Americans aren't under the same regulations as American beef producers, and the regulations they have are loosely controlled.

They can spray numerous pesticides on their pastures that have been banned here at home because of residues found in the beef. They can also use various hormones and growth regulators that we can't. The American public needs to be aware of this problem and that they may be putting themselves at risk now by eating at good old McDonald's.

American ranchers raise the highest quality beef in the world and this is what Americans deserve to eat. Not beef from countries where quality is loosely controlled. Therefore, I am proposing a boycott of McDonald's until they see the light.

I'm sorry but everything is not always about the bottom line, and when it comes to jeopardizing my family's health, that is where I draw the line.

I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth level of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!

I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you? Acting together we can make a big difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass
this message on.

David W. Forrest, Ph.D ., PAS, Dipl.
ACAP Department of Animal Science
Texas A&M University
Phone (979) 845-3560
Fax (979) 862-3399
2471 TAMU College Station , TX 77843-2471

You Miss Tired? or Rubber of Death

There is a video from the ABC news magazine 20/20. It is mind shocking. The tires on your vehicle could be killers, even if they are new. Apparently the US is the only nation where the general population is not aware of this extreme danger. Parents have been losing their children; children have been losing their parents. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of crashes have been caused by this problem and the stockpile of lawsuits is building up for nationwide tire retailers like Sears. The issue is the shelf life of tires. They may have never been mounted on a vehicle and look like new tires but if the manufactures date are four or more years prior to them first being sold you could be buying your doom.

I failed at making a link so you will have to paste this on your browser. Consider the extra expended calories a bonus. No charge.

http://abcnews.go.com/VIDEO/PLAYERINDEX?ID=4826897

It’s a turd, it’s a dame, no! It’s Obama Man!

I have to tell you that I was very favorably impressed with our new president’s first press conference. In fact I am downright jealous of that man’s capabilities. He was to the point and diplomatic on every answer. I don’t know if he had a receiver in his ear to help him field the questions or not but I did hear him answer every inquiry accurately in terms of who, what, where and when. Not just that but he was composed and at ease without effort. But most important he had answers that made sense, answers that were not vague, misleading or a cop out. Answers that addressed the problems and hopes for American citizens while outlining exactly how he wants the work done and what partisan battles, including democrats, he would have to fight to get the work done. He is very balanced and realistic in his thinking, not partisan.

This man is no puppet, no front man. Obama has grasped the reins and kicked the stirrups of the United States. This could not have happened at a better time. America can and must unify behind this leader. Although I did not vote for him there is no reason for me to not fully support him now. In these dark times he gives us hope.

The middle of the end

When I was 22 (I’m now 56) I started my first flooring business. I had many friends working for me. I thought ‘this will be great, we can all work together and make money and be happy.’ I hadn’t read Marx at the time. I was shocked and gravely disappointed at the outcome. Installers did not show up and customers had to be called and told we were not coming that day after they had worked hard to be prepared. Installers showed up, loaded the material, then drove home and went back to bed. I only would find out when the client called and screamed at me. Sales people make side deals for the customer to kick back some of the contract money for a lesser price on the store contract. Expensive tools would go missing on a regular basis.
I would run out of ink in my computer recording all the crap that happened. This experience can be viewed as a microcosm of our country today. Way too many people have not been raised with the morals or values that made America great. This lack of social conscience will carry over to each new generation as the parents do not have the understanding to bless their children with solid principles, the children will be corrupted. Even if parents wanted to they could not since they are lacking ethics themselves. So we are stuck with a nation half full of entitlement and I got mine so up yours citizens.
A nation divided against its self cannot stand, (Abraham Lincoln). We are at the same type of moral crossroads as when Abe first spoke those words. Only much, much worse, there is no obvious opponent to defeat. The enemy is everywhere and nowhere, fingers point in every direction. The people we pay to protect us fall victim to power and greed. The evil will spread with every new generation. This evil has created the world wide attitude that is causing Global Warming, the Exxon Valdez spill, wars, famines, environmental catastrophes, over fishing, pollution and on and on. I say anybody with two cents between their ears can step back and see these truths clearly. Most people do not want to face their guilt or see their predicament. Maybe it will all go away if we just keep our heads in the sand.

Obama Man Plan

Seven hundred billion, one hundred billion, a trillion, being a poor boy born to sharecroppers I have a hard time conceiving the difference. But if I bring it down to smaller numbers that fit on my figures I can do a bit better at the figuring. Just because we’s were poor folk don’t mean daddy raised no fool. I can tell if I already owe a dollar and then my John Deer tractor breaks so I have’ta borrow seven dollars to fix it I’ll be seven times more into debt. The problem is I couldn’t get the one dollar paid off and now I got eight owed. I figure I’m lucky to have some children almost growed up so they can help me with this money problem. Now I know they won’t be too happy with me, saddling them with my I.O.U.’s, but they are going to get a little bitty benefit out of the situation so I figure they should help out. Besides, a dollar today will only be worth a quarter in fifty years so they are actually getting a bargain, only having to pay back only twenty-five percent of my debt.

potpourri

The Seven Deadliest
I have a theory about those who rise to the top, other than them being full of hot air. They all possess at least one of the Seven Deadly Sins. The more sins they have the higher they will rise. Here’s the list in case you forgot; Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and the last but most deadly, Pride. Can you match which sin goes with which captain of democracy?

Obama Man
Our fearless leader Obama Man has struck another blow in order to safe guard our tax payer billion dollar bailout baby. Obama Man has restricted the salaries of our common crooks on Wall St. to the mere pittance of half a million bucks a year. Yes, now we have those Wall St. rascals under control. All we need to do is monitor the menaces of money to make sure they follow our rules, for once. Of course our rules don’t include hiring your wife for an additional half a mil. How about those perks? We don’t need no stinking watch dogs for millions of dollars worth of perks buried in the books; the C.E.O.’s will police themselves, they promised.
Now that all the golden parachute winners have flown the coop we can be sure that those to follow in their footsteps will want their unfair piece of the pie too. But they better watch out, one false step and they may have their hand slapped or even worse, have to go to a Federal country club for a month.
But its no time to be complacent, we still need monitors to watch the monitors and monitors to watch the monitors monitor etc etc.. ad nausea….

Lip Sink
I do not understand the purist attitude about lip syncing. I mean, wake up folks it’s 2009. The standard commercial event needs to run without a glitch. Millions of dollars are being spent on the event and it must run smoothly to assure investors money worth. Besides, this isn’t Milli Vanilli whose lip syncing was a corruption of music, what the audience hears is the actual artist singing at their best. The quality of sound reproduction today stands up to the task of giving us the best sound. Is that not what we wish to hear? Who can ask for more than the best?
Re; Super Bowl

Get down from there before you hurt yourself.

Our earth is threatened with complete destruction as we speak, or at least an uninhabitable surface. Giant meteors, volcanic winters, planetary warming, nuclear devastation, plus another dozen death scenarios or so I don’t recall at the moment. Ho hum, bfd, I want to win the lottery. I just feel like nobody is taking me seriously. I mean we are going along the same well trod path, mucky mucks take everybody’s money to make something that only the self appointed cream of the crop can go to and survive. Recall the swanky redoubt the congress had secretly built for themselves during the cold war.
This time I think time will be against the honored few. They have to finish building the space station and Lunar city before they can all escape the deadly perils of earth. And no matter what amount of money they throw at this dumb idea to maintain the human species in space towns they won’t hold all the high and mighties, there will be inbreeding, life support from earth will vanish. I give that enclose environmental experiment a couple generations at best; they will have murdered themselves over shrinking resources and woman folk. They won’t be ready in time to save anybody anyway. Suppose they do pull it off, suppose all these thieving gas bags are the only representation of the human race left when the aliens finally arrive to save us. I can only shudder at the thought of what would happen to the last humans after being judged unfit to save. Laser target practice? Fill up their suits with helium and kick them a couple hundred miles? Have them spaghettied through a sieve into the void? It doesn’t matter; all of it’s too good for our white collar crooks.

America’s backbone is breaking

A home is the most basic of human needs. We fought a war for independence to keep the Queens men from taking our homes at will. We fought many wars so people around the world can have and keep their own homes. What is really incredible is that we are watching American Idol and hoping for a lotto hit while Rome burns. Out of all people on this earth we should be the people most outraged by what is happening to our fellow citizens. We paid for those homes, over $ 700 billion and counting. Who cares how these poor souls got behind, we will have to foot the bill to feed, clothe and house them once they are kicked out if their homes.
I place the blame for the state of America directly on our elected officials. They unlocked the door and let the foxes into the hen house. For a relatively small enrichment to themselves they allowed billions to be squandered. The newest scandal is Wells Fargo’s big party in Vegas. They are saying that to back out of the contract with the most expensive hotel in town will cost as much as going. So what, if the money is gone either way they should not get a rewarded. They should have to stay home; the highest officials in the land should make sure of this.
I am not impressed with our new hero Obama Man. The inauguration ceremonies cost too much. I agree that seating the most powerful man on earth should have the appropriate amount of celebration but restraint needed to be displayed at the very first presidential event. Restraint would have made the celebration even greater, more pertinent and more powerful. Secondly he hangs on to these tax cheats offered as cabinet potentials. He should have publicly tossed them when their greed was first exposed. What did Obama think he was doing to continue to back these men? It was business as usual.

The poop on the Pope

Aside from the Vatican declaring neutrality, closing its curtains and ignoring what happened on its own front porch during the holocaust this forgiveness of denial is the next best thing. Well, not all denial, they did say maybe only six hundred thousand or so where killed and that was not even in the ovens. Besides it was probably the Jews own fault. They said or did the wrong thing. Just like the only people too stupid to get out of jury duty will become jurors the Jews too stupid to avoid the Nazi’s get roasted. So that’s okay, the Vatican will forgive those who think this.
It is a difficult place the Pope has got himself. On one hand he has this insane denial to deal with. Which, in my opinion, does not even deserve to be considered; the holocaust is fact, and it’s a grievous sin to even suggest otherwise. But on the other hand the Pope and the church, according to doctrine, must forgive the truly repentant. Maybe Hitler repented at the last second and those of us that are fortunate enough to make it to heaven will find that S.O.B. there. God would that piss me off. Maybe this Bishop has a new leaf. Would not all the faithful be obliged to forgive this man?
Pope “Oh, Lord what do I do? I have angered the masses against your house.” God “Pope, dude, you really screwed up, if you wanna forgive people and all that’s great but don’t go blabbing all over town. I thought I gave you some wisdom. Yeah, here it is, right here, wisdom with a check mark. I should’a made sure to take care of that mouth of yours while I was at it. We’ll you head on, I can’t help you, you stuck your foot in it this time, dang maybe I should of picked up the option on that other guy..sweet Jesus you just can’t find good help anymore.