How the….

Just a short post with a couple of links.  One that that is amazing about the internet is the pure volume of information available.  There are important nuggets that can be found, but seem to get overlooked… for example…

How the…. heck is oil below $35 a barrel and gas prices are up?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090212/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices

How the… hell can a $550 BILLION run on banks go on?

http://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com/2009/02/september-15-2008-secret-bank-run-and.html

How the… heck to you conceptualize a trillion (1,000,000,000,000)

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2009/how-much-is-a-trillion-dollars-p1.php

 

I am sure there are more…

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Aw Horses**t…

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/19/autos.ceo.jets/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

You know, sometime you just got to say what’s on your mind.  The above link is to a video of the CEO of General Motors asking for his portion of a 25 billiondollar bailout.  I would just like to call this out as pure horse manure.  It is a sad commentary when, for once a politician asks a direct question and gets the side-step boogy in response; and it infuriates him.  While I have no wonderful solutions for all of the issues that face us today, I do wish that we could step back from all of the double speak and issue avoidance.  When our elected officials speak (especially during election times) we hear a finely polished speeches that really drive at no hard points, corporate executives that their primary concern is there personal wealth well before the base of persons that allow that wealth and the pure fact we allow it.  Bottom line, if it looks like horse manure, smells like horse manure, feels like horse manure (and for an extra bonus, we see it come out of the back side of the horse), well, it must be horse shit.

Love,

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