I have traditionally used RealClearpolitics polling for a reasonable “Pulse of the Nation” update. But of late I have switched and am trying two new sources for Popular Political Pulse taking. First, I am following leading Republican media commentators that have a modest moderate bent. Think David Brooks, Anna Navarro, David Frum, and George Will. …
Satirists, humorists and pseudo Cancun Culturalists love a Great Buffoon – that is a very proud public figure who either has Texas Prime Beef Hoof-in-Mouth disease or is Ted Cruz, Texas Canadian Senator. And until he is finished running for President in 2024 the Great Buffoon will be spreading delicious Texas Patties such as seen …
Comedian Trump is nominated for several Pandemmy Awards Here for The Best Cure Award See the full set of Pandemmy awards and vote before Monday September 21st where the Pandemmy’s will be announced on the Trevor Noah ‘s The Daily Show.: Just scroll up and down to see all the PanDemmy Awards and which ones …
Comedian Trump – Beautiful Candidate for a Pandemmy Read More »
Triumph The Insult Dog conducts a focus group meeting with real Trump supporters
Tip of the hat to Jimmy Fallon, the Tonight Show
Cartoon in celebration of Trumpian Science on West Coast Wildfires. Tip of the hat to TheWeek.com and Clay Jones @ claytoonz.com
NYTimes Magazine online edition has been the subject of lavish praise from this reviewer of late[see the fulsome accolades for NYTimes Magazine story on a Philippines outpost against the Chinese land grab here]. But the Magazine can be too indulgent as appears to be the case in its extravagant Making a Scene production – 11 …
The Vinyl Cafe Storyland is one more proof that the best humor writer in America is Stuart McLean by way of Toronto and Canada. This notion is typical MacLean humor – self-effacing, off-the-wall, but bright as a Nova Scotia Valley day. But we also enter Testosterone Country, a familiar McLean Mantra – in short no laughing …
Lest we forget who and how delusional the GOP Pundits were. This is remarkably close to what is happening in the GOP. Bart Simpson being punished for not getting permission from Karl Rove to concede Obama victory in Ohio. Very quick but caustically wry humor. But the best analysis is by a Republican in this Kindle Book …
Look what turned up outside 30 Rockefeller Center on Tuesday after Sandy. A script remarkably intact given the hurricane’s drenching: ‘ SNL FinalFinal Presidential Election 2012 Skit – L.Micheals eyes only MYTH ROMNEY – Change You Better Believe In! Players: Myth Romney played by Jason Sudeikis sporting a spray tan that brings Myth about one shade darker …
Found in NYC: SNL Last Skit Before Presidential Election Read More »
Financial turnaround Tall Tales from the Banking Community are not hard to find because the Banksters are creating scandolous headlines at an ever faster rate this year. Yet these same parties and much of the Financial Press continue to insist that everything is a-okay. The apologists make very hollow arguments: 1)financial markets are the …
Weill Weill Weill – the Financial Tall Tale Gold Medal Read More »
Well I saw the Jamie Dimon performance on Meet The Press on Sunday Morning and he looked good in a Black Swan motif. Here is what some commentary had to say: LATimes – What Jamie Dimon Didn’t Tell You on Meet the Press NYTimes – What the Banker Did Tell you in StageCoach FinancialTimes – Jamie Dimon creates a …
One can almost hear the wailing Blues line – “Why Obama and Romney Ain’t Your Man”. It has a haunting truth to it as it careens around your head to a pulsing back beat. Day after day the the obvious becomes a refrain ever louder. These dudes aren’t going to do anything about the Financial …
If the Republicans want a bona fide issue to tar and feather President Obama on, its his kowtowing to the banks exemplified most recently by the Housing Settlement. Once again, “for the sake of the economy”, banks get away with major white collar financial crime. Anything for a settlement. The $25Billion is peanuts in comparison to the the …
The five major problems facing not just the US but almost all developed countries are the following: 1)Jobs are going to the developing countries with very favorable rates of exchange and wage level relative to prosperous developed countries. Wages in China, India, Vietnam, Brazil and others across the board are a fraction of the developed …
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Over and over again, the world is seeing an anguishing and paradoxical debate over the Deficit Conundrum . Simply stated, nation after nation has allowed bubbles of inflated values to occur, accumulate and eventually topple their economies. The classic bubbly case is the overinflated housing markets in the US and parts of Europe that burst …
Political cartoons are making a comeback with the help of turbulent times and dimwitted politicians. Nowhere is that on better display than in in the cartoons by Washington Post caricature draftsman extraordinaire – Toles: This is the first in a slideshow of fun fun fun… The really great jests are down in the righthand corner, …
The following stories catch various Evangelicals and other Christian groups misbehaving: NYTimes – The Evangelical Rejection of Reason YouTube – When Christians Misbehave Guardian – Attacks on Mitt Romney for Mormon faith heightens Republican rivalry. ChristianPost – Can Christians escape the “Hate” label in Gay marriage debate? Wikipedia – Anti-abortion violence, Christian terrorism This raises …
Here is one party that can’t believe that the GOP, Masters of Manipulation of their Message, allowed so many debates to take place. God bless them, because unlike in the broader media coverage and analysis, much is being revealed in the debates about the candidates inherent knowledge of the domestic and world scene, their beliefs …
The Unbelievably Revealing GOP Debate in Las Vegas Read More »
For the past few years admirers of Hewlett Packard as envisioned by the two founders, William Hewlett And David Packard, have had to endure so much unseemly tumult at the top. This is definitely not the founder’s enlightened HP Way. The following Dilbert cartoon catches the madness: But the humor is truly black. Is the …
This is the second part of the Taketh5th review of NYTimes Roger Cohen’s assessment US Interventionism. Our first take was that despite over 100 years of increasing US Intervention in foreign affairs and despite not just the UN but a whole phalanx international agencies such as Atomic Energy Commission, WHO, IMF, World Bank, and others …
Reuters has a story on investigation of S&P and Moody’s by Justice department for their role in the Mortgage meltdown of 2007-2008. Clearly the question is why is this probe starting up 3 years or more after the fact. Here are 5 possibilities: 1)It takes a long time to do Financial fraud prosecutions. Also GOP has held …
The Ratings Agencies Moodys and S+P: Investigations 3 Years Late Read More »
Memo to: President Barack Obama Subject: NYTimes/Princeton’s Paul Krugman was right three times Dear Mr. President We regret to inform you that Paul Krugman was right three times. First he was right about the size and targeting of the stimulus funds. JedReport, June 2010 – Stimulus Spending: Paul Krugman was right – it was not nearly enough …
Memo to: B. Obama – Paul Krugman Was Awfully Right Thrice Read More »
Ye Editor has previously put forward the idea that the GOP is coming apart at the seams and the only thing uniting the Republican party is the notion of making Obama a one term President. Now that the split in the House between the two factions in the GOP has become an open festering wound …
The Only Thing Uniting the GOP Now is “Get Obama” Read More »
The most interesting item heard on NBC’s Meet the Press and ABC’s This Week was the fact that both parties were working towards a 4PM Sunday deal so that the Asian stock markets which are at 9AM Monday time did not spike downwards because of the continued US Debt Ceiling Gridlock . It shows where …
News Corp International is the name of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire that stretches from his native Australia [owning many of the largest Australian newspapers] thru Europe with many interests based in England [including Harpers Collin Book Publishing, Sky Italia and other Sky TV networks, several newpapers including the Sunday Times and the just now defunct …
As Murdoch’s News Empire Crumbles: Rule of Law Implications Read More »
There is a growing unrest that sees President Obama badly overshooting his Centrist tendencies and becoming a Republican. Ye Editor has raised the issue most recently with Race to the Bottom: Obama Curries Wall Street Favors. But Huffington Post’s Drew Westen has done the careful spadework and here is a sampler of an essay laced …
The 3rd Wing of the Republican Party: President Obama Read More »
Being deliberately irrational has become the modus operandi for the GOP as the party of Political Conservatives. However, in recent months, the conservative norms have taken ever more extreme forms including the deliberately irrational or mendacious. Take the latter and Republican Senator John Kyl of Arizona who declared in the Senate that 90% of Planned …
If anything should have been learned from the Financial Meltdown of 2007-2009,it is a childhood lesson that your Mom repeated count less times – playing with fire and other things techie you don’t completely understand…. oops make that derivatives and other complex seccurities while under the influence of extremely high leverage can be very detrimental …
Maybe its the dire economic and political news, but this years April Fool jokes and spoofs on the Web appear to be vintage quality. And that is a high Testament to Foolishness because despite the Web’s seeming pervasiveness , only one Web-originated April Fools prank has cracked the the top 30 in the list of …
Craig Stephens has been writing some rather salty stories for the Marketwatch in the past few months. Craig does more than watch the Chinese markets and economic machine but in fact keeps the whole SouthEast Asian world in view. The latest story about the salt frenzy in China is like a tiny Confucian parable. There …
America has fallen just like Egypt into the grips of ruthless despots. These despots have a rule of law unto themselves[see Frank Rich]. They have accrued huge wealth and unlimited risk insurance from taxpayers; yet the themselves barely pay taxes[see Bob Herbert]. They have accrued $trillions in no small part due to US Federal largesse …
