OUR PREZ TREASURES YET ANOTHER YEHUDI

David Cohen was just hired as the new secretary of treasury by Barack Obama. For that small but very, very vocal sliver of Jews that are suspicious of him, this shows his remarkable cleverness in that he will basically hire all the Jews in the public service market to be able to control their opinions. Or maybe because he really thinks they are the best person best job. Na, that will never sell. Oh by the by Mr. Cohen replaced Stuart Levy.

THE WEBS WE WEAVE

They advertise that the Broadway show Spiderman is the most ”talked about” show in Broadway history. True enough, in a related development the Titanic is the most talked about ship in the luxury cruise industry.

BIGGER TO BE SURE, BUT IS IT WORTH THE WEIGHT?

As we approach Super Bowl (45) XLV, writer Jere Longman of the New York Times pointed out an interesting trend for those who have the Super Bowl Championship as the center of their sporting year. The players have gotten better and certainly bigger. But is it worth the weight? Consider the heaviest player on the Packers in Super Bowl 1 was Ron Kostelnik, he was a defensive tackle weighing 250 lbs. There are 13 members on the Packers now who weight more than 300. And here how it’s gone league –wise; in 1970 one player in the league weighed 300, there were three 300 pounders by 1980, ten years later. There were 94 in 1990, 300 in the year 2000 and as the teams opened last year there were 532 players in the league weighing 300 lbs or more. We’re not sure if anyone checks these guys medically, but instead of saying supersize me, they may want to go back to their families and saysupervise me.

GEE WHIZ GE

President Obama has appointed CEO of GE, Jeffrey Immelt as head of the President’s Advisory Board. It is an attempt to reach out toward businesses and his poll numbers are in fact sharply Independents. 58% do and 40 % don’t in fact feel that Obama understands the problems of this country, a really solid high for him. That said, you’ve got to say, gee whiz GE, because they did take billions of dollars from the Fed in the bailout, they do have most of their profitable subsidiaries offshore and wind up getting a huge tax refund. But we want to hope for the best and we believe that GE Chairman, Jeffrey Immelt will be loyal to his job and his president and who knows maybe even loyal enough to keep some more jobs here and pay some more honest taxes. So we are going to hold up on saying; oh, gee GE and see what happens.

WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A SWAY, ON THE STATEMENT OF THE UNION

We have to thank George Will for actually giving us some factual knowledge we did not know as he spins the rising popularity of our president. But what we do know and he pointed out that between Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson the State of the Union was a statement of the union, (our words not his) literally a written copy was sent over to congress, it wasn’t given in person. Nice to know, we never claimed Mr. Will was knowledgeable, we’ve always claimed he was the expert of the erudite sentence, just not the erudites complete truth.

FRIDAY FAUXLOSOPHY

On American extreme politics, does being fearful cause us to act stupidly, or does being stupid cause us to be fearful?

SO GOES JOE DOZE

Fittingly even before Senator Joe Lieberman was to hold his press conference to announce whether he would run or not word already leaked out that he would not run. So figuratively there would be no drama and you could sleep through the conference, but then again, which one of Joe’s conferences or speeches couldn’t you sleep through? We again renew our latest addition to the drug industry, “Joe Doze” assorted tapes of the senator’s career - guaranteed to cure the most hard core insomniac. It would be like counting 10 to 1 backwards when they give you whatever that IV stuff is, you won’t make seven. So while Joe Doze now goes we still have his tape for prosperity and they can help ease the evenings of restless Americans. That, and the fact that he won’t run again.

MISSING WOMAN

No doubt all the news agencies, real or faux, be it NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, Faux news or the real Fox News (www.realfoxnews.com) will all unite that everyone of them must be alert to a serious situation where a lovely young woman, an honor student from Union Academy has gone missing. Her name is Phylicia Simone Barnes; she has been missing since December 28, 2010 in Baltimore. She had left the apartment and according to her half sister has not been seen since. So why are we just focusing on it now? Well it has been reported in the local media in Baltimore and it has been on NBC as well as CNN but it has little legs Nationwide. Why is this? Why isn’t a high school student, honor student, straight A student beautiful young woman, why isn’t this missing white woman getting more attention? I mean who can forget the attention given to Natalie Holloway, this is crucial stuff. Why, we repeat isn’t there more effort to find this beautiful, bright accomplished missing white woman? Police Chief Anthony Guglielmi of Baltimore has a theory and we have a confession, this missing white woman is not a missing white woman she is a missing black woman. So what’s the story? Well maybe the story is the lack of story and we fervently hope this young lady is found safe and we also hope people look at our news, our interest level, our thought process that makes the disappearance of Phylicia Barnes such a late breaking and we sadly predict short-lived story. I guess for the next unfortunate missing lady of similar profile, better luck in the coverage and gene department.

THE INSANITY (IN)DIFFERENCE

Question; is there any record of any of the gun shops, let’s say particularly in Arizona having ever reported to police that there is person here who seems obviously deranged looking to buy a gun with an extended clip and we won’t sell it to him. It would warm my heart to know that those who so fervently live, sell and prosper by the second amendment also have some regard for the sixth commandment, thou shall not kill. If there are any such records I’d love to hear them, but so far haven’t heard of any.

JOB LOSS, THAT’S A GOOD JOB BY OUR GOVERNMENT

Our government is supposed to create jobs but sometimes by eliminating jobs you show that they have helped create and maintain life. Example; Philip Morris is the largest cigarette manufacture in the country; they are going to be giving people buy-outs to trim their employee force of 2600. Keep that number in mind because at one point their work force was 15,000. Don’t think cigarette smoke is dropping? And of course that is loss jobs for late care practitioners and for undertakers, but it has increased jobs for people who sell everything else (food, clothes etc.) these people eat and use and consume as they live on. So this is a job loss again which shows by the US Government is a good job, the smoking campaign has worked and it needs to keep on working.

TAXING ONE’S LOGIC

You can make a case, many have and it is logical, that tax refunds to people making $260,000, a million or even 10 million dollars or more a year is absurd in proportion to their income. The problem is this; those tax cuts, and it was not a tax rise, those tax cuts were going to be reinstated when the new congress was sworn in. So, Barack Obama got the best deal he could get, extending unemployment, working on payroll tax reduction etc. given his circumstances. He’s also in the bargain, got the opening to get the start treaty on open debate. He made the best deal he could. Should he have dealt differently in the months running up to the election, one could certainly argue you to that. But given what he was faced with after the mid-term elections he made the best deal he could. And to do anything different that taxes logic as well.

VICK IS NO VIC’

Michael Vick certainly had a huge night as quarter back for the Philadelphia Eagles, being responsible between passing and running for six touchdowns. People are saying it was an impressive performance, it is. People are saying he is a great talent, always has been. But when people are saying look at what he’s overcome, feeling sympathy for him because he went to prison, hold on hold on. The fact that Vick is no vic has to be repeated, because he went to jail for committing felonies which include animal abuse and cruelty. See, you can’t consider yourself the victim when you were the perp. That said, he is a hell of a talent from the neck down, as for the neck up we will have to keep on checking up.

LAME DUCKS DON’T BE LAME

There is a bill before the Senate to get medical aid for the Responders of 911. A no brainer for the Republican Patriots, right, except they are all against it. Once again the “patriotic” GOP is giving support to the 911 people verbally, but…just…not…financially which really helps a lot with medical bills. In the mean time the Democrats are desperately trying to co-op Senators Olympia Snow and Susan Collins from Maine, before the Senate recesses. It will be interesting to see how the “patriotic” GOP supports real patriotic men and women, and hint, it takes more than wearing flag lapels?

No Ford in my future

In a town called Sanford, Florida, Nick Ginetta is the general manager of a car dealership called National Trucks, and has a, well different idea for promoting sales. Here’s his inspired way to “gun up” business; with every purchase of a new truck he will give out a voucher good for the purchase of an AK-47. News clips of his lot showed all these trucks to have the Ford logo, so I am presuming it’s a Ford dealership. If this is so I’ll tell you what; while I have been a Lincoln/Ford owner several times, but it’s safe to say there is no Ford in my future.

TEA BAG TENNESSEE

In Tennessee there is a town which is basically Tea Bag Nation, everything is privatized, and everything is for profit, no big government. The Fire Department requires you pay “fire insurance”, $50.00 each household so then you have bought into this private capitalistic non-governmental market fire protection. Ok, it seems this past week there was a fire in that town. One of the people had not paid the fire insurance, the fire department showed up and they watched it burn to the ground with a number of pets inside dying in the fire. They were there to make sure the next door neighbor’s house which had paid the fire insurance was not endangered by the fire burning down. Neighbors showed up and offered the fire department hundreds of dollars, I am going to say a $1,000.00 to put out the fire but they refused because “the insurance” had not been paid in advance. They’ve often said people deserve the government they get, and the town of Tea Party Tennessee is a case in point. Because while they now require people to pay for fire protection, what happens when police and emergency room services are next? And how about this one gang, what if someone is denied such assistance, perishes, and then they discover a clerical error…the person had actually paid! May the tea baggers among us be the first to be bagged in the Tea Party Nation.