One more week til the opening of NFL camps!

Is there anything more pathetic than a man trying to explain how he looked everywhere for an item magically produced out of thin in 3 1/2 seconds by a women. A smiling women. Standing there. Watching him squirm.

Oh yeah, there probably is something more pathetic. How about pulling back the curtain revealing what's really going on with Libors. They say that about $800 Trillion in investments are affected by the way big banks play self-serving games with interbank interest rates. Like many things in The Global Investment community before "Creative" banking, it wasn't always so with Libors -- formally a legitimate rate set by Thomsn-Reuters to govern borrowing by banks. Oh, the rate is still set legitimately, but the data that finally arrives at the rate setter after going through a web of manipulation is far from clean. The result is that the investors, whose money the banks are using, do not get the full return. By falsifying true interest rates,The banks are essentially siphoning-off for the personal benefit of their executives. As columnist Matt Taibbe says, -- "It's the equivalent of robbing a charity or church to pay for a lap dance." If you want to know what's really going on in this complex maze, you have to ask someone smarter than I.

The Question:
What band started playing together 50 years ago today?

The Headlines:
--Freeh Commission Investigation Into Sandusky Abuse Activities: "The Most Powerful Men At Penn State Failed To Take Any Steps For 14 Years To Protect the Children Who Sandusky Victimized."; Paterno Blasted.
--Buffett says US Growth Slowing; Europe Slipping.
--San Bernadino Latest cal City To Seek Bankruptcy.
--New Jobless Claims Fall To 350K; It's A 4 Year Low.
--US Auto Plants Put Off Normal Retooling Two Week Shut Down To Catch Up With Orders.
--9 Dead, 11 Injured In Mont Blanc Summertime Avalanche.
--House Votes To repeal ObamaCare; 5 Dems Join GOP.
--Looters Add To Misery Of Colorado Fire Victims.
--Romney Tells NAACP What He Thinks.

To many women cell phone users, "hands off" means taking both hands off the steering wheel to dial.

Does anybody on the public stage raise their noses higher in the air than Hillary C? O, maybe Barak O! "I look down on you." Check it out. Looking up into nostrils has never been great for public self esteem.

The new data from CNBC once again puts RI at the Top of the list titled, Worst Business Climate! This really isn't news at all, since it has been horrific here for businessmen of quite a while. The problem here is one that occurs in situations throughout society. Everybody knows what the problem is, but the solutions suggestions are never relevant to the real problem, and often mask the the real situation. It happens in marriages, businesses, organizations and of course here in RI.

US Entitlement group #73: "Hey, I've got a cute little, tight fitting outfit and expensive vehicle. How come the taxpayer isn't building an expensive bike-path for me?" Of course the entitled are always creative. So this group has massed together, dominating streets barely two cars wide and force cars to slow until it is safe to pass. And I won't even mention their apparent inability to stop at stop signs. Drivers just have to drive with their hearts in their throats hoping they won't hit one of these creatures.

In the last three weeks, Newport where I dwell has welcomed the worlds greatest sailors for the America's cup series, hoards of plain ole' folks to gawk at the tall ships, 32 professional tennis players from around the world, many olympics bound, for the Campbell Tourney (Yes the Soup) as a prelude to the induction of new Hall Of Famers. And now music! Newport has been known for its Jazz and Folk festivals (Coming in August), but the greatest of all events is The Newport Music festival, whicf lasts two weeks and includes much of the great new (and established) classical talent in the world. The concerts continue all day long, some days through Midnight, and are set throughout the town in the fine parlors of historic mansions. "Newport -- The something for Everybody Town".

I'd like to start reviewing "America's Got Talent" and picking winners, but I keep falling asleep. It must be too much Howie Mandel.

I'm checking out that new list Developed by Nielson called, "TV's Most Powerful Moments". I totally agree with #1 - September 11 2001, but that's where it ends. Katrina was second - but to me only powerful because it was on air so much. The assassination of JFK was only #15 and I would put that at a definite 1 or 2. Hell, they have the "Death of Whitney Houston" at 12 and Obama's "Acceptance speech at 13. Of the rest (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tv-most-memorable-moments-911-oj-katrina-nielsen-121010226.html), I would only find about two or three more out of twenty that rate the Title of of "Most Powerful" anything. The Challenger Disaster, Oklahoma City Bombing, Columbine and maybe the OJ Verdict would make it on my list. Maybe Diana's death as an interesting news item but not as a something powerful. If we are going back as far as JFK, I'm thinking how about Watergate or Clinton/Lewinsky as glued to TV events. Whitney Houston's Death? Man have we lost touch.

The Answer:
The Rolling Stones have been making music for fifty years today. They've given us a lot of satisfaction, but even they can't get me off of my cloud today. Oh maybe later we should all go to Ruby Tuesday's for dinner, and raise a glass...or what ever gets them high. Hey, maybe we could order take-out from RT', go to a hospital and get high with a few of our friends. Oh, different group.

Knowing out cultural mindset, I'm really surprised that Michael Jackson's death didn't beat out 911.

I'm outta here.

Maybe the theme song for the Romney campaign should be "You can't always get (handed) what you want." But you can work for it. Do you think Mick would agree to a rewrite?