Opening Stuff:
I heard the current stock market being described as "Carl Wallenda with a middle ear infection."
Out of Thin Air Department:
When I see news reported about the world financial situation as a cause for up or down movements, my first reaction is to wonder why the so-called experts didn't see it coming? How can self acclaimed geniuses be surprised so often? Like yesterday, when out of the blue the problem that effected my declining pension fund was all-of-a-sudden the weakening French banks. It is almost like the big investors have this vault full of negative or positive information that can they retrieve and release at any give moment to drive a market to match their current manipulation strategy. Skepticism and cynicism abound in the hearts of the excluded.
But, who cares! Tonight the Patriots kick off the NFL Pre-Season. Elsewhere readers in Jacksonville, Baltimore, Philly, Seattle, San Diego, Denver, Dallas, Arizona and Oakland can also retreat into a rhapsody of bone crunching hits, pass catching wizardry and elusive running.
The Question:
Everybody (Well almost everybody) has heard of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy, Larry Ellison and Andy Grove. But these cyber stars were but co-founders of the companies, and over time have become the faces of their famous companies. Name the companies and their co-founders.The Headlines:
--New Unemployment Bennies Apps Falls To 395K, A Four Month Low.--Stocks Futures Brightened After Jobless report; Market up 136 In Early Trading; Moves Up To 265 In Late Morning.
--Britain's PM David Cameron Promises Swift And Thorough measures To End Wanton Street Violence.
--US Trade Deficit Widens To $53.1 Billion.
--Belgium's InBev (Parent of Anheuser) Concerened That Sluggishness Of US Markets Will Impede Company's Need To Raise Prices To Meet Rising Costs.
--New England Patirots Sign Logan Makins To Six Year Contract.
Back to More Stuff:
New Reuters/Ipsos Poll: --Obama slips 4 points to 45%; 73% of Americans think country is "Off on wrong track" (Up 10 points form July, Matching early days of recession); 47% thing "worst is yet to come"; Post "Deal" negativity -- Repubs - 49%, Tea Party 42%, Dems - 40%, Prez - 42%, Boehner - 37%.
More Polling: Washington Post -- 75% say "No Chance Washington can repair economy"; 80% dissatisfied with way political system is working; 70% - Washington focused on wrong things. Gallop -- Anti-Incumbent wave emerging; Independents and Repubs more similar with negative reactions to "Deal" compared to Dems where approval of deal out weighs disapproval. But don't worry, it will all change again after the Super Committee gets muddled down.
I didn't care when Madonna brought out her big Narcissistic picture book, and I certainly don't care about Lady Gaga doing the same thing. I guess that makes me really old.
I really have little trust in the financial markets, but that's all I seem to have. Except a mattress.
The US population seems to be a combination of the Angry, the Smug, the Irresponsible and the Sheep. Excuse me for being arrogant.
There are often times when the GOP looks like a circular firing squad.
Almost Near: Chapter 34 continues. --"What the hell is wrong with me?"
She didn't cry, She didn't look terrified. She just gazed hopefully at him as a man, the only person who could help; Who she could trust. Tucker looked at her for several moments.
How do I answer that, he thought. "I'm glad you miss me. You don't know how deeply I hold you in my heart." She smiled a little at that, but he ached knowing that she may never understand how true that is. Now it was he who had to compose himself. It was he who knew everything except the cause of her trauma. He could tell her everything, but she could be too fragile to grasp it all he thought.
Samantha reached over and grabbed his hand. A breeze ruffled her blouse. And the flowers by his back door behind her; the soft, now waving flowers which seemed as a frame behind her beautiful face.
"Samantha," he started now more forcefully. Taking charge. "You and I are going on a trip!" Her eyes widened. "We are going to New Castle New Hampshire to see that Lawyer. Have you ever been to New Castle? I know a nice little Inn on the water." She squeezed his hand.
"I'm scared. But, I think you are right. It may just be a mistaken identity. We have to find out, don't we? Besides, I like discovering new places."
Tucker hid his emotions. He wanted to cry as he watched the woman he had loved with everything he possessed live alone in another world.
It seems as though Lady Gaga is living by the Madonna handbook of self promotion.
My guess is that the more realistic Liberals are recognizing that the need to stop spending is not a political fairy tale. The representatives of this emotionally driven business sector will appear more conciliatory to protect their huge Social Services Industry that relies solely on Government spending for revenue.
This is that time of year when you realize how bad baseball has become. There is so little left to play for 2/3rd's of the teams, so that almost all games become as intense as lackluster pre-season games. And that includes big rivalry teams like the Red Sox and that Bronx team who are already both pretty much assured of a play-off berth. The Big market team concept is killing the game for the masses.
I turn on games because I am a genuine sports nut. The drone of a game in the background is part of the summer noise for me. Like crickets in fields of multicolored wildflowers.
The Answer:
Gates co-funded Microsoft with Paul Allen; Jobs - Apple, with Steve Wozniak; Ellicson - Oracle with Ed Oates and Bill Miner; McNealy - Sun Microsystems with Andy Bechtalshein and Vhad Khosla; Groves was the business guy who facilitated the big pay-off for super semiconductor engineers and Intel co-founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. And the co-founder of most successful careers is a good spouse or partner.
I enjoy driving country roads; Seeing people nurturing the gardens by their homes; Watching a family of ducks waddle across the road in front of me -- appearing to nod thanks for stopping, as mom and dad nudge a straying duckling to the side of the road.
Wouldn't it be sad if social networks called for a flash mob there?
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