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 […]
“You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on” just a joke from a Gridiron Dinner in 2001.
Distinguished Humor: George W. Bush Read More »
ABC TV has a hokey drama called V which posits an invasion of the World[read Manhattan USA] by some advanced spacecraft born aliens[technologic superiority triumphs again] lead by a svelte supermodel[done in by beauty yet again]. But watch Ms Alien’s life-sucking dentures which appear when Ms Cool-n-Calculating loses her Cool. Of course they are here
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Anthony Mozilo, the former CEO of Countrywide Financial , just got tagged by the SEC with “the biggest financial penalty ever against a public company’s senior executive”. This follows the settlement earlier this summer with Goldman Sachs in which the SEC also claims the largest fine ever – $550 million. It appears the SEC is
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Nicholas Christoff argues in today’s NYTimes that the US has become a Banana Republic. This appears to update our posting Going Bananas on Sept 27th 2010[see below]. You, dear reader, say “what is this monkey business about the US being a Banana Republic”? So lets go to the Wikipedia definition of a Banana Republic: Banana
Microsoft has decided to strike back at Apple. One cannot forget the Apple ads that derided the PC so effectively over the past year or two – Windows Vista presented such an inviting target. But now with Windows 7 improvements and Mac prices going ever higher relative to the equivalent PC, Redmond has launched its
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Summer Theater is well …. soapy, meller-dramatik, and often tainted with fits of outrighteous comedy and unexpected self-satire. And this season’s IT Summer Stock is packed to the gilt edge with certified Box office bonanzas. First there is a new Summer Stock Valuation leader – AAPL, displacing vaunted enemy number one, MSFT from the top
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Normally one would avoid using SCOTUS, as it suggests genitalia or a social disease of the malbreeding ilk – rather than the Supreme Court of the United States. But the Supreme Court under the “enlightenment” of Chief Justice Roberts is routinely providing such bad decisions that maybe the implied epithets fit his Court. The
MarketWatch has just reported that the Senate has made it safe to bet big and naked on Wall Street. An amendment to the Finance Reform Bill that would have outlawed Naked CDS – Credit Default Swaps that are pure bets on what will happen on default positions taken by others; this prudish amendment has thankfully
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Apple’s Steve Jobs appears to have a)granted Adobe’s Lee Brimelow’s wish and scr#wed himself and b)has Amazon, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm and a bevy of other mobile players wishing for many more happy returns by the Cupertino Czar to such faux pas plays in an unforgivably fast evolving Mobile Lite Device market. Lets handle
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Will the Creative Disruption that will be taking place in Scrabble this late Spring be gaga-allowed or Lady Gaga – now allowed too. This all comes about as as Mattel, “Makers of Scrabble” [Hasbro is so far saying “no thank you” for its North American edition of the game], changes the rules of the game
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The idea of a independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency is gaining traction again as seen in this Huffington Post . Could the following LOL comic skit be contributing to the momentum? The problem for the GOP opposition is that they do not want to be on the opposite side of popular and Tea Party sentiment
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