Yeah! Let's steal from the poor. That makes sense. Let's bail out the over-paid CEO's who stole our retirements, our homes, our communities, our cities. Let's give them bonuses for being so smart they ruined the world economy. Yeah! That makes sense! Go for it, Senator Reid. I love the idea. Let's give American Richmond a bonus for building shoddy, decrepit "California WannaBe" housing in Nevada.
Essay now!
21st Century Hubris - Ah, gee . . . Lehman Goes Belly Up!
My my, lookee, another smarter-than-thou investment banker goes belly up. Seriously: Lehman deserves to rot in the grave it dug for itself. Too many of its senior partners thought they -- fat old white men -- knew better than everybody else.
And, some just were con-artists, stealing from their clients. Con-man Richard S. Fuld especially deserves to lose his shirt. He lied to clients, to partners, to the media. And, he continues to lie about the financial solvency of Lehman. Who does he think he is? Oedipus?
FBI Has NO Credibility
I'm listening to the NPR story about Bruce Ivins and hopiing that the Ivins' family sues the FBI. It no longer amazes me that the news media can so easily be sucked into sustaining government propaganda. Nobody mentions how extraordinarily coincidental that the FBI speedily compiled a mass of circumstantial evidence a few weeks after losing a civil case ($5.2 million) to Dr. Steven Hatfill, another alleged suspect about which the FBI also had a mountain of circumstantial evidence.
American Journalism: Dumb and Dumber
That Christopher Hitchens had to experience water-boarding to report as a journalist that the practice is torture is dumb journalism, exploiting sensationalism over real journalism about a serious subject: The Bush Administration's war crimes. That his readers think he achieved some incredible revelation in reporting this experience makes them dumber. But then, his readers, or rather "fans," want to be entertained with sensational journalism and not substantive, meaningful news about world events.
Old Story: Lawmakers Favor Wealthy
As the housing market crumbles, the locus of disintegration is among poor homeowers. The reasons are numerous. Many are economic factors associated with the population -- homeownership can be a risky investment for those with low or modest incomes. The risk is especially high for younger owners who are mobile and cannot bear making a long-term investment in one location. Homeownership is risky for those frequently changing jobs or self-employed. Homeownership is especially risky if the investment is tied to lending that is predatory.
On the Other Hand #1
Why should the Democrats bother with referendums against the Iraqi war? Let W go ahead with his mindless, Ahab-like struggle against his Moby Dick (equals Iraq) conquest. It is sure to fail. We all know that. Even his own party knows that, and the Republicans facing relection in 2008 are already abandoning him. Republican considering Presidential campaigns are worried sick. Even the presidential candidates who support the war argue that Bush Jr. has mismanaged the Iraqi and Afghanistan campaigns and broader war on terror.
Plug into the power of at&t
This is the by-line that all ACC and ATT engineers, tech reps, project managers, and salespersons use at AT&T. Of course, it's a joke -- what power? AT&T depends on the Embarqs, Sprint-Nextels, Nevada Bells of the real world to do their bidding, retarded end-of-line untrained, illiterate technicians who can't google a map to find their way home.
Bush's Legacy
George W. Bush is of our generation -- the Baby Boomers, the twenty-somethings of the 60's-70's. What he leaves behind, we leave behind, complicit fundamentally in his failure because our generation elected him, approved his wacky policies, and more importantly, accepted his ineptitude. He is we, the generation of weirdo anti-war demonstrators and even more weirdo war-mongers. That's what we are, this generation of post-WWII baby boomers -- a conflicted generation of highly ethical, financial scammers, and righteous born-agains.
