Nothing to do with the main body of the blog itself, just a one minute speech by Rep. Joe Wilson from South Carolina. Sounding sane, but very short on facts.
I apologize right off the bat today for not writing about what I said I was going to write about yesterday. I said I’d writer about real oppression (Pol Pot, Stalin, Mugabe, Hitler) or about tomorrow’s Primaries here on Staten Island (Vassky, Liu, Mitchell, Rose, etc…) I’ll try to do a bit about the primaries later tonight or early tomorrow, if I find the time. Gonna go over some stuff I think is a wee bit funny first today.
Ya see, there’s this picture that caught my eye. Take a look at it, courtesy of the L.A. Times. It’s a picture of a few gazillion people meeting at the National Mall in Washington. It purported to show over a million, maybe two million people there. If the picture was an accurate portrayal, the tea party would have been massive, but there was only one problem.
It wasn’t a picture of the tea party at all.
It was actually a picture from a massive promise keepers rally at the national mall over a decade ago, October 1997 to be precise. The problem with the photo was a simple one, well two actually. The Cranes in front of the Smithsonian is one clue. On the left edge of the photo send building from the bottom. The last time there were cranes in front of the Smithsonian was when they were building the Imax theater there.
In the 1990’s.
The other clue is a missing building. Near the top right, there should be a building, National Museum of the American Indian. It’s not there.
Oops.
The actual crowd estimate, an unofficial one by Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Department, put the crowd at closer to 60,000 to 75,000 people. Mind you even this number is not necessarily correct, because the city no monger keeps official crowd estimate numbers, due to potential politicizing of them.
For all that the republicans want publicity and need all the help they can get, the continuous negative stream of lies and other crap that comes from that end is really starting to hurt them. Like has been noted previously, the democrats have lost some steam the last few months, but the republicans have not been able to capitalize, due, i think, in large part to their just being blisteringly full of shit. SOOOOO many conspiracy theories, so many stupid lies, so many Hitler/fascist/socialist references, and the bulk of the population just doesn’t seem to be going for it. The base LOOOOOOOOOOVES it, but it doesn’t play well for the average American.
The democrats have their moments of bullshit as well, but nothing quite as amazingly full of shit as the right has shown itself to be.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
In other news, The financial world got some good news, at least as far as government ownership is concerned. The Treasusry department is exploring selling the stock it owns in citigroup, getting rid of all of the more than 7,000,000,000 common shares of citigroup that is currently property of the Treasury over the next 6 to 8 months, and yes that is 7 billion shares. Why now? Why not? We the people stand to make a healthy profit from this. We bought that stock at $3.25 a share. Citigroup closed today at over $4.50, and the stock has been slowly rising for a while now.
Personally I say wait. Ride it out a few months extra and see if we can’t get a better price on it. Say wait until the price is…I dunno $15 a share. That would be a better than 450% profit on a 21 billion dollar investment. We have a deficit to pay off, let’s be wise investors here. It is temporary ownership, but why not make it WISE temporary ownership and make a buck or $96,000,000,000 on it.
But we can’t wait too long. Things aren’t exactly perfect in this economy. Watch a viddy from Friday on bloomberg:
_____________________________________________________________________________________
That’s it for me. Later!
Today’s nuggets, via wikiquote: A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society’s soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores… Capitalism is a government program. George Will
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. Adam Smith
No comments:
Post a Comment