Opening Stuff:
80 degrees on Sunday? My fragile body can't react to extremes that fast. Hell, I'm just starting to grow a fat layer to enure me from the winter weather, and now this. And what now am I going to do with all of that gravy in the freezer? Life is tough.
When Joe Biden says, "(GOP) Absolutely strong enough to beat us...), Repubs better start runnin' for the hills. Everything and I mean every little innuendo that comes form the White House these days is calculated to add to the Re-Elect Prime Time campaign. Even from the loose-cannon lips of the Veep. But then, maybe the nation's Plagiarist Laureate read the Tid's "realclearpolitics.com Report yesterday where it was suggested that 0-Man dump Biden in flavor of a moderate Republican. Maybe he's throwing his hat in the ring for a GOP Diversity ticket.
The Question:
Name the last ten Nobel Peace Prize winners.
The Headlines:
--Healthier Payroll data Has WS keeping The Rally Going This Morning.--Moody's Downgrades Credit ratings For 12 British Banks; Royal Bank of Scotland And Lloyds Among the 12; Not Barclays Or HSBC.
--New Zogby Poll Has Cain Leaidng Mitt By Astonishing 20 Points!; Also Shows Cain beating 0-man By 1; Romney Losing To 0-man By 1; Other Polls: CBS - Herman-Mitt Tied; YouGov/Economist - Cain Ober Romney By 4.
--Hugo Chavez Says He Will Size Houses Illegally Built On Caribbean Island Los Roques.
--Economy Adds 103K Jobs; Unemployment Remains At 9.1%
--3 Win Noble Peace Prize for Work On Women's Rights; Liberians Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf And Activist Leymah Gbowee Plus Yemeni Tawakkul take Home Loot.
I had to love the the AP furnished and pretty obviously White House directed giant picture above the fold this morn depicting 0-Man bathed in heavenly lights standing before the press with arms extended wide in a God-like pose. If it was on the cover of Mad magazine it would have been delightful sarcasm.
I'm having this inclination to break down and pay for Showtime just to get their new program "Homeland" -- which appears to be about as close to "24" as we're gong to get for a while. KThunk. KThunk. KThunk. But then my wallet is suffering from severe Quahog-itis -- shut tight.
Today is a day every honest, realistic person should celebrate. Fifteen years ago they pushed the button that enabled Fox News to take to the air. Some people avoid Fox because they fear the Fox personalities ridiculed in the press and thus miss out on the most complete and informed news reporting of any other TV source.
Hope Yen writing for the Washington Post tells us that home ownership has dipped to 65% and opines that it will never again reach the highs of 70% as it was in the recent mid decade. She goes on to list a number reasons for this (Right out of the Obama campaign class-warfare playbook) but fails to mention the only reason that counts. The market was never that large because 5% obviously could afford what they bought. And shouldn't have been approved in the first place. I'm starting to sound like a broken record on this (What's a record daddy?) but the head-in-the-sand opinions keep on coming. And it irks my kind heart.
I could become a full fledged vegetarian if I could smother that stuff from gardens with rich, creamy, fatty pork gravy.
I heard John Henry (Red Sox CEO) this morning suggesting that a better nutritionist could have helped stem the September slide. How about hitters and pitchers who don't choke. The world isn't real any more.
But then I've had a wonderful smile on my face ever since last night when Alex Rodriquez went down swinging for the last out. Again! It was a yummy moment, and becomes even tastier with the knowledge that this overpaid declining "slugger" has 6 more ineffective years remaining at near $30 mil a year. I wish hack writers were paid in inverse proportion to their clunkiness.
Reading between the Lines Movie Reviews:
--I'm putting Ides of March on top of my movie list. Clooney produces, directs and stars in this political thriller that skewers both sides of the ideological aisle. It's centered around an Ohio primary where an up and coming press secretary finds himself involved in a scandal that could sink his candidate.
--Real Steel is about boxing in the future where promoters traipse around the country arranging fights between their Robots. This movie is a takeoff on the old The Champ movie where a washed up boxer tries to comeback for his adorable son. In this one a washed promoter with a rusty old robot makes a comeback after learning that he has a son. It sounds like Shirley Temple meets the Transformers. A lot of people will like it, but not me.
The more RI does to create a happy atmosphere for Illegal Immigrants, the more illegal immigrants will flock to the RI. The more the state with no money will go deeper into debt contributing to the welfare of people who contribute nothing and whose only claim to fame is breaking the law as their first official act in America.
In August, Americans stepped backwards in their use of Credit Cards. This is good for their personal financial situation but a bad sign for confidence in the future.
A segment of a local New England Patriots 1/2 hour TV show is called "Trash Talk"... and it is sponsored by WM Corporation (Waste Management).
If Americans were to abuse their children by making them a part of criminal act as Illegal Immigrants have done to their children, the authorities would take the children away.
Almost Near: Chapter 42 continues. --Samantha stood in the kitchen of Tuckers neat little house. It wasn't hard to get here after she looked in the windows of two cars and saw keys on the floor of one peaking out from beneath the seat. She had scanned the area quickly, thinking that her only potential problem was one the geezer clerks coming out for a smoke. She had laughed at that thinking how anti-smoking measures had made it hard on car thieves. She took all of the back roads she actually remembered clearly and got here in a half an hour. I'll dump the car in Essex she thought, figuring she had a little lead time being two states away form her felony act.
So here she was, and like she seemed to do more and more lately, she was wondering why she was here. Tucker knows me better than I know myself. Why doesn't he just come out and tell me who I am. Wouldn't that be like, easy.
She started poking around, not knowing what she might find but feeling that something was here. Everything was so neat. Her mind flashed to the times they made love, in the kitchen and bedroom. And the meories felt pleasant, But now a small cloud was creeping in to the scene. She shook her head as if to clear aay the apst. Focus she thought. Even not knowing who you asre, you can still focus. maybe I'm me, standing here in tghis house. Maybe that's all i am. But teh nagging thoughts about so many things missing snapped her out of that as fsast as the thought arose. Too many thoughts. Too many thoughts.
With knowing how she got there, she found herself standing before a locked door. The door felt forbidding. Why? She rattled the doorknob. It was very secure. As she looked closer she could see that somebody had recently added a second lock. Now she was really curious.
The Answer:
Before the women above we had Liu Xiaobo (China HR), Obama (Nobody Knows why), Finn Pres Martti Ahtisaari (Peace Several countries), Gore (Exaggerating GW), Bangledesh economist Muhammed Yunus (Microfinancing to ease poverty), Mohamed Elbaradei (Anti Nukes), Kenyan Wangari Maathai (Planting Trees), Shirin Ebadi (Democracy in Iran) and Jimmy Carter (For appearing to be better now than when president).
You have to figure that Lehman execs are still sitting around thinking -- why me and not all the other inept on wall street? --. "Maybe I'll sue Goldman this morning. They must have done something to screw us."
Have a great weekend under the sweltering October sun!
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