Former Democratic Presidential wannabe John Edwards embarrassed Democrats, Christians, and especially himself in his toadying remarks after beating those sketchy campaign finance charges the other day.
The gist of the charges is that he used a million bucks of campaign money to "hide" his mistress back when he was a clean-cut presidential candidate and his wife was dying of cancer.
It was a rambling admission of sins and regret and all that good stuff that the TV audience needs to see to make it worthwhile watching the news.
To which the think-tank here at Falling Downs replies; WHO FUCKING CARES?
Hey Edwards, you're a shit for cheating on your wife. The fact that she's got terminal cancer doesn't help the optics. But it's not the first time somebody espousing family values got caught dropping their trousers for somebody they're not married to.
Get over yourself!
And that's the advice the think-tankers here have for the twats who pursued this case. You're cut from the same cloth as the Guardians of Public Virtue in places like Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Pants-off time is private time, and I don't care to have public money spent hunting down folks who cheat on their spouses. What's that got to do with anything?
All this attention to his public contrition is just going to make Edwards think he can rebuild his political career.
That's the last thing America needs!
Friday, June 1, 2012
Obama promises a million well-paying manufacturing jobs for returning heroes
Obama was in Minnesota today talking up his initiative to fast-track returning service members into "well-paying" manufacturing jobs.
Good luck with that, Mr. President.
Maybe President Hopey-changey hasn't noticed, but those jobs are a little scarce on the ground these days.
I'm guessing the last 30 or 40 years of bipartisan war on America's working class has something to do with that.
The well-paying manufacturing jobs are still well-paying, at least by Mexican standards.
Trouble is, they're in Mexico.
So maybe what this jobs-for-veterans initiative needs is free Spanish lessons and a ticket to Tijuana.
Elsewhere in his remarks the President managed to blame the European economic crisis for America's economic crisis. A trillion dollars on stupid wars in the last ten years and trillions more bailing out the too-big-and-politically-well-connected-to-fail banksters had nothing to do with it.
There was a somber note as well. Obama encouraged the nation to pray for the economy.
Well, nothing else is working, so why not?
Good luck with that, Mr. President.
Maybe President Hopey-changey hasn't noticed, but those jobs are a little scarce on the ground these days.
I'm guessing the last 30 or 40 years of bipartisan war on America's working class has something to do with that.
The well-paying manufacturing jobs are still well-paying, at least by Mexican standards.
Trouble is, they're in Mexico.
So maybe what this jobs-for-veterans initiative needs is free Spanish lessons and a ticket to Tijuana.
Elsewhere in his remarks the President managed to blame the European economic crisis for America's economic crisis. A trillion dollars on stupid wars in the last ten years and trillions more bailing out the too-big-and-politically-well-connected-to-fail banksters had nothing to do with it.
There was a somber note as well. Obama encouraged the nation to pray for the economy.
Well, nothing else is working, so why not?
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Romney's Bain Capital moving snowmobile manufacturing jobs to Mexico
Makes sense, doesn't it?
Bain Capital bought the Ski-doo brand almost ten years ago.
Let's move those snowmobile lines to Mexico, where there's no snow.
Out of Quebec, where there's snow on the ground for at least eight months of the year.
They hide Romney's stake in Bain behind a lot of "blind trust" hoo-ha these days, because everybody knows it's a good idea to have blind trust in politicians.
Not that it matters. How many delegates is Quebec going to have at the Republican Convention?
Besides, what's wrong with replacing those $25 an hour Canadians with $25 a week Mexicans?
That's what's known as "efficiency" in your corporate circles.
Bain Capital bought the Ski-doo brand almost ten years ago.
Let's move those snowmobile lines to Mexico, where there's no snow.
Out of Quebec, where there's snow on the ground for at least eight months of the year.
They hide Romney's stake in Bain behind a lot of "blind trust" hoo-ha these days, because everybody knows it's a good idea to have blind trust in politicians.
Not that it matters. How many delegates is Quebec going to have at the Republican Convention?
Besides, what's wrong with replacing those $25 an hour Canadians with $25 a week Mexicans?
That's what's known as "efficiency" in your corporate circles.
Oh no! Euro zone in crisis again!
My God! That is the crisis that just won't go away, isn't it?
I'm watching the BBC news on the TV, and those folks just can't get enough of their Euro-crisis.
It's pretty much the top story night after night. What will the Greeks do? What will the Irish do? What will the Spaniards do?
The crisis has apparently rotted the innards of every Euro economy except the German one, which I suppose is an object lesson for anybody who ever thinks they "won" a war.
Ya, we had them by the balls, but look at the bastards now.
So almost 70 years after the fall of the Hun, the BBC can spend night after night speculating about what Frau Merkel might do or not do next.
I'm watching the BBC news on the TV, and those folks just can't get enough of their Euro-crisis.
It's pretty much the top story night after night. What will the Greeks do? What will the Irish do? What will the Spaniards do?
The crisis has apparently rotted the innards of every Euro economy except the German one, which I suppose is an object lesson for anybody who ever thinks they "won" a war.
Ya, we had them by the balls, but look at the bastards now.
So almost 70 years after the fall of the Hun, the BBC can spend night after night speculating about what Frau Merkel might do or not do next.
Snapping turtle bites wallet
The other morning I had the hounds out for their walk. It's been turtle season around here. That's when all the turtles have to cross the road, lay their eggs and then walk back across the road.
On this particular morning we saw three snapping turtles. They are quite a magnificent animal. Kind of boggles the mind to think they shared the earth with the dinosaurs.
Boggles the mind even more when you realize they'll still be crawling out of the bogs and the lochs and the sloughs and the marshes every spring even after we nuke the Iranians and they nuke us back.
Lucy, the young pup, was taking a keen interest. She'd nose in, the turtle would lunge, Lucy would get her face out of the way just in time. Then she'd take a few paw swipes at it. Great fun!
Great fun till one of them took a nip out of her paw.
I didn't even notice till we got back to the house and there was blood all over.
Of course, by then the farm manager was in on the act.
Oh my God Lucy's bleeding! We have to take her to the vet!
We do? I'm thinking cut an old bed sheet into bandage-sized strips, wrap her up real good, lock her in the woodshed for a few days, and we're good as gold.
Not good enough for the farm manager.
Soon enough we're at the vet.
Five hundred dollars later we're on our way home. While there is an exhaustive itemized bill that details how a turtle bite becomes a $510.00 item, the gist of it is that the vet wrapped bandages around her foot real good.
But at least they weren't fashioned from old bed sheets.
Today we went back to the vet so he could show us how to wrap a bandage around Lucy's foot all on our own.
That fifteen minute lesson was another hundred bucks!
We just spent 600 dollars on a dog we got at the pound for a $39 fee.
Think I'll be calling her off the snapping turtles when she's ready to walk again.
On this particular morning we saw three snapping turtles. They are quite a magnificent animal. Kind of boggles the mind to think they shared the earth with the dinosaurs.
Boggles the mind even more when you realize they'll still be crawling out of the bogs and the lochs and the sloughs and the marshes every spring even after we nuke the Iranians and they nuke us back.
Lucy, the young pup, was taking a keen interest. She'd nose in, the turtle would lunge, Lucy would get her face out of the way just in time. Then she'd take a few paw swipes at it. Great fun!
Great fun till one of them took a nip out of her paw.
I didn't even notice till we got back to the house and there was blood all over.
Of course, by then the farm manager was in on the act.
Oh my God Lucy's bleeding! We have to take her to the vet!
We do? I'm thinking cut an old bed sheet into bandage-sized strips, wrap her up real good, lock her in the woodshed for a few days, and we're good as gold.
Not good enough for the farm manager.
Soon enough we're at the vet.
Five hundred dollars later we're on our way home. While there is an exhaustive itemized bill that details how a turtle bite becomes a $510.00 item, the gist of it is that the vet wrapped bandages around her foot real good.
But at least they weren't fashioned from old bed sheets.
Today we went back to the vet so he could show us how to wrap a bandage around Lucy's foot all on our own.
That fifteen minute lesson was another hundred bucks!
We just spent 600 dollars on a dog we got at the pound for a $39 fee.
Think I'll be calling her off the snapping turtles when she's ready to walk again.
Buy RIM
Buy now, thank me later.
The long slow death spiral of Research In Motion has created a buying opportunity. It's in the ten dollar range, and ten and lower makes for some interesting upside opportunities.
Yes they've been losing market share, especially in the fad-driven North American market, and that's more than reflected in the share price. But they still make a solid product.
And they're about more than market share. RIM sits on substantial cash reserves and judging by what the Nortel auction got for their intellectual property, RIM's patent bank is on its own worth several times the current market cap.
The founders long ago lost interest in their creation, preferring instead to play the role of public philanthropists and would-be sports tycoons. At ten bucks a share RIM is a juicy target for a hedge to take over and part out, or for a tech company that wants a presence in the phone market, like Facebook.
The long slow death spiral of Research In Motion has created a buying opportunity. It's in the ten dollar range, and ten and lower makes for some interesting upside opportunities.
Yes they've been losing market share, especially in the fad-driven North American market, and that's more than reflected in the share price. But they still make a solid product.
And they're about more than market share. RIM sits on substantial cash reserves and judging by what the Nortel auction got for their intellectual property, RIM's patent bank is on its own worth several times the current market cap.
The founders long ago lost interest in their creation, preferring instead to play the role of public philanthropists and would-be sports tycoons. At ten bucks a share RIM is a juicy target for a hedge to take over and part out, or for a tech company that wants a presence in the phone market, like Facebook.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Kings vs. Devils; what's to cheer for?
I have to go for the personal connection every time.
Junior went to high school with Drew Doughty down in Guelph.
I'm sure they were never actually classmates because Junior pretty much set the record for skipping classes, a record I set back in the '70's, so even if he and Drew were in the same class Junior would never know about it.
Truth be told, I think Junior eclipsed my truancy records at the GCVI.
But I come at this question from another angle.
I gotta cheer for the old guy.
Whenever Mark Martin enters a NASCAR race he's the only guy on my radar.
Whenever a 40 year old or more pitcher gets a start or a close in the bigs, that's the side I'm rooting for.
And when a 40 year old goalie makes it into the Stanley Cup finals, it goes without saying...
Go Devils!
Junior went to high school with Drew Doughty down in Guelph.
I'm sure they were never actually classmates because Junior pretty much set the record for skipping classes, a record I set back in the '70's, so even if he and Drew were in the same class Junior would never know about it.
Truth be told, I think Junior eclipsed my truancy records at the GCVI.
But I come at this question from another angle.
I gotta cheer for the old guy.
Whenever Mark Martin enters a NASCAR race he's the only guy on my radar.
Whenever a 40 year old or more pitcher gets a start or a close in the bigs, that's the side I'm rooting for.
And when a 40 year old goalie makes it into the Stanley Cup finals, it goes without saying...
Go Devils!
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