Obama Does - Romney Can't

Romney backs Obama auto decision, praising ‘backbone’: "'I think a lot of people expected the president just to cave, write a check, and just hope for the better,' Romney said Tuesday morning on CNN. 'I think he's expressing some backbone on this.'"

Obama has skipped over the bull like Fred Astaire.

Anus Watch 2009

Glenn Beck - "I'm a rodeo clown": "If you take what I say as gospel, you’re an idiot."

He says it best, and he further wonders if a guy from some jerkwater town can make it in the big city atmosphere of Liberaland, America? Sure he can, making a ton of cash in the process.

The Old Dame Farts

"Criticism over Obama invite mounts at Notre Dame...", says a headline on Drudgereport.

Bishops John D'Arcy and Thomas Olmsted set an ugly tone right out of the gate, stirring the panty-bunched Alumni to send letters - over 90 percent of them opposing family man and doting father Obama's appearance at commencement, preferring instead the advise of a couple of bachelor Priests.

However, as the actual article states, "73 percent of student letters supported his appearance. Among the 95 seniors who wrote letters, 97 percent supported the president's invitation."

AP Uses Broken Men As Writers

Fascination With Obama Driving Righties to the Men's Room: Hey Obama, why-ya waiting so long to comment on the issue????, asks AP's best.

"'It took a couple of days because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak.'"

Good plan.

But AP's Ron Fournier is a follower of snark, and as such doesn't need to think as long as there is a freeway onramp wall he can decorate. And he's the AP Washington Bureau Chief.

You Owe Us All Your Money

Suze Orman To Bush: "If I were you, I would feel so absolutely horrific that I would take every penny I had and distribute it to anybody and everybody to help them in whatever way I could. You owe the American people every penny of your fortune and your family's fortune.'"

Making Peas From Pea Soup

An Army of Quants Has Annihilated A Country

In trying to understand this whole bank disaster situation and the concepts involved - like derivatives, etc., I came across this article from 2003 by a guy who teaches some of these concepts to people called “Quants” who are the geeks who develop these theoretical valuations of assets that are used by these Wall Street “Fund” makers to make oodles of profit and gigantic salaries.

In the article he muses on about the school/real-world methods of learning. In doing so, he presents a fascinating picture of a science that today has our culture by the balls - a science that isn’t even a science, but rather a system created to explain things that only exist if you believe the explanation. When I read the article - here in 2009, with chaos flooding through the financial world, I could finally understand how greed had constructed a fake world for its own purposes, and why the value of our homes - and America itself, is helplessly sinking until it finds it's true worth.

GOP's Most Out Of Work Brain Donor

Ari Fleischer Shows His Stuff: "'After September 11th having been hit once how could we take a chance that Saddam might strike again? And that's the threat that has been removed and I think we are all safer with that threat removed.'" - Ari Fleischer

Ah!, Saddam and 911, together again !

Help Wanted: Scum Removal Expert Needed

Jim Cramer Defines The Modern Asshat: "'What's important when you are in that hedge fund mode is to not be doing anything that is remotely truthful, because the truth is so against your view - it is important to create a new truth to develop a fiction,' Cramer advises. 'You can't take any chances.'"

Citizens are being educated likkety-split in the workings of American capitalism. We are all coming up to speed and realizing that soft-cloth, easy-to-digest crime is un underlying engine in all of this. It's now horrifying to see that the business community around us is filled with crookery and that a smile above a Brooks Brothers suit is something to distrust.

The only thing that an American capitalist can smile about is that at least their immortal idol, Ronald Reagan, was right about something important; when it comes to the enemy - trust, but verify. I put it differently: demand professionalism every minute of the day until the bad guys are dead.

The Wolf At The Door

How the Wealthy Waged War on Each Other: "So if you want to find the real culprits in the war on wealth, don't look to Washington. Walk down Fifth Avenue, get on a chairlift at Aspen, turn on CNBC, or charter a jet to St. Bart's." - Newsweek

He's Got A Problem With His Hole

Fox News' Glenn Beck strikes ratings gold by challenging Barack Obama: "'Look in your rear-view mirror; we just passed France,' he said. 'I think our country is on the verge of disintegration.'"

Can't wait to see the website with a list of his sponsors.

Morning Game Hunter

Joe Scarborough has picked his deer and nothing's gonna change his tightly focused little brain. He's gonna shoot Geithner over and over until he stops wiggling.

Joe's a Pullman bully on the lines smashing 2x4s into worker's heads. He may not be good at it, but he's definitely at it... that's his limited charm and the reason I watch his show.

The Blink of an Eye

Space rock gives Earth a close shave: "An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday"