It's Official: Tiger Woods Has Learned Nothing

"The best golfer in history. And an asshole."



When you consider the deals made on golf courses around the world that have destroyed people's lives, I would only have to say that Tiger should represent golf without apology. He's perfect.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster: Should Investigation Be Public?

"[As of now, the hearings] won't be open to the public ... Almost certainly, the investigative interviews will occur behind closed doors. Members of the press and the public will be shut out from this terribly important government task."



Of course, it would be silly in a free society to allow the information revealed during this investigation to be shared with the public.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Recession Over? Not So Fast, Says The Organization That Tracks Downturns

There has been a major push to declare the Recession over since Government and Business Leaders reluctantly acknowledged there was a Recession to start with. I think the reasons for this are twofold.



First, to promote a lemming response amongst the American Consumer. If people think the economy isn't as bad as it is they may return to the behavior of spending on things they really don't need and can't afford. Exactly what our international trade partners require from their economic relationship with the United States.



Secondly, the individuals who had the most influence on the economic crisis are extremely wealthy with tremendous leverage over elected officials in both political parities. These individuals don't want to be exposed to any legal ramifications ... even if you could find a court that wasn't rigged in their favor in the first place. Furthermore, the fraud that is in the process of collapsing has made them richer and powerful beyond their fondest aspirations and they have no intention of allowing any changes in the current economic model.



So, the rest of the US and global population are along for the ride as this sliver of avarice driven humanity mandates their madness as our reality.



So, sure, the Recession is over ... or it isn't ... same difference.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Arianna Suggests Elizabeth Warren As A Candidate To Replace Justice John Paul Stevens On The Supreme Court (VIDEO)

I think Warren might be too conservative ... ehem.



I can't see supporting her.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

16 Porn Parodies Based On Beloved Sitcoms (NSFW Video)

I can see "The Brady Bunch", but "The Partridge Family"?



I mean, come on, is nothing sacred?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Daniel Gross: America's Amazing Comeback

More happy talk, nothing has fundamentally changed with the structural problems of the global economy since the crisis in 2008. Massive amounts of stimulus money have been dropped into the global economy to buy time for this economic "Prague Spring" we are experiencing. When the impact of multinational stimulus intervention wears off then lets talk the wonder of the American economy.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Interest Rates: The Era Of Cheap Credit Is Over

The world needs the American consumer. No other culture on earth would allow itself to go bankrupt accumulating Fred Flintstone Chia Pets like Americans.



Without jobs, without cheap credit, there is no American Consumer.



Maybe the US Government or the IMF should just start cutting all of us weekly checks to keep us spending on crap we never needed in the first place, otherwise the Anglo/American vision of a global economy is done for.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Wal-Mart Cutting Prices On EVERYTHING

"THE REASON: Analysts say the cuts are Wal-Mart's way of responding to toughened competition. The company's fourth-quarter report showed store traffic dropped."



The reason is we are in a Depression, people don't have jobs, are afraid of losing their jobs, and have experienced wage stagnation for decades ... in short, Americans are finding themselves tapped out and don't have the resources to blow in WalMart's Emporium of Chinese Made Kitsch they once had.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Glenn Beck Believes Gay Handicapped Black Female Immigrant Will Be Obama's Supreme Court Nominee

Beck would probably prefer a pale, semi-literate, refugee from The Morning Zoo, with bad hemorrhoids, a White Board, and a cretinous following that inspires within him delusions of grandeur ...



Just a guess.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Alan Grayson Confronts GOP For Spying On Democratic Gathering (VIDEO)

"Politics and Poker, Politics and Poker

Shuffle up the cards and find the Joker.

Neither games for children

Either game is rough

Decisions, decisions ... Like

Who to pick? How to play? What to bet?

When to call a bluff."



Fine hand Mr. La Guardia ... er ... Grayson.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Obama Administration Missed Chance To Get Tougher On Unsafe Mines

A strong, decisive President who didn't feel the need to capitulate on every issue ... like, say, Theodore Roosevelt, or FDR ... would have mine owners and managers lawyered up or diving out of windows right now.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Two-Party System at Risk

Excellent post, Sir. May I say that the only thing that will save the GOP at this point is the influence of actual Republicans. I don't think these ideologues have any interest in what the Republican party actually stands for and only uses it as a vehicle to further their myopic aims.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Gingrich: Obama 'Most Radical President In American History' (VIDEO)

Gingrich wastes so many syllables trying to get his message across. Why doesn't Newt just say what he means.



"The President is black and that is bad."



I hear the dog whistle associated with "the most radical president in American history". Playing the race card is all the GOP has left to corral the denizens of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh who comprise what remains of their party's base.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Michelle Bachmann: Tea Party And GOP Are 'Merging'

Merging into an orgy of idiots.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

The Confederacy: Kill the Myth Once and For All

Mr. Schweitzer, to put a fine point on it, there is no difference between the Confederacy and the British of 1814 who burned Washington, the Imperial Japanese of 1941 who bombed Pearl Harbor, or Al Qaeda of 2001 that destroyed the World Trade Center. I prefer not to romanticize American enemies in anyway. The Confederacy was an enemy of the United States of America not worthy of anymore commemoration than the Viet Cong. As for saluting Confederate Generals, Yamashita, the Japanese "Tiger of Malaya", was a fine General as well, but we still hanged him.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Harry Reid Tells Nevada Voters: 'I Need Your Help'

Harry Reid's predicament is due to the problem with mortgages and the drop off in the entertainment economies of the two key Democrat strongholds in Nevada of Reno/Sparks and Las Vegas/Paradise ... the rest of the state is basically John Birch territory. Had Reid championed and strong-armed through the Senate consumer friendly mortgage legislation forcing Banks to write down principal and renegotiate mortgage terms then he wouldn't find himself with his back against the wall now. I understand that the Senate represents corporations more than people, but people, currently, elect the Senators. Reid should have been Machiavellian and thrown the Banks and Wall Street under the bus to save his skin and didn't.



Don't tell me it was Reid's stand on Health Care Reform that sank him, he forgot that all politics is local, and it was no secret that the very areas he relies on for re-election were suffering the worst during the economic crisis. I'm sure the Democrats of Reno/Sparks and Las Vegas/Paradise who have lost their jobs, homes or are heading towards that condition are wondering what the upside of Reid as Majority Leader of the Senate was for them. Therein. lies Reid's problem.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Bernanke: Financial Crisis 'Largely Behind Us'

I don't think we can trust any information coming from the Fed, because the institution is culpable in what occurred with the economy. Any information coming from Bernanke should be considered as biased as that of any trade organization spin.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Privatization or Public-ization?

"There's a lot of talk these days about the growing support for a privatization of America's public school system, and what it augurs over the long haul. "



It's bad enough the influence the State of Texas has on school curriculum nationally. I can't wait to see the future of America's students when the US Chamber of Commerce is deciding what they learn.



The push for privatization intimates that the US Government is incompetent to run major enterprises, and that Teachers Unions are the problem with US Education when the fact is the poor state of public education rests primarily on poor American parenting skills.



It maybe the goal of your piece to build a bridge between factions, but how is "Public-ization" of school systems, in essence taking public funds to underwrite private enterprise, any different than mandating people to buy a for profit health insurance policy from private industry? What these trends signify to me is that the "Free Market" from the corporate perspective is dead and the business model now requires raiding public coffers in order to meet investors expectations.



In other words, "public-ization" has nothing to do with the education of America's children.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Giuliani's Obama-Nuke Critique Defies And Ignores Reagan

Giuliani's rhetorical technique resembles a toddler reaching into its diaper, grabbing a fistful of content, and hurling it about its playpen.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Greenspan Testifies To Financial Crisis Commission, Blames Fannie, Freddie For Subprime Crisis (LIVEBLOG, VIDEO)

Greenspan is in CYA mode, pointing fingers in all directions. The bottom line is the economic system that he and his buddy Milton Friedman advocated for was a fraud. These guys made their fortune telling rich and powerful people exactly what they wanted to hear to the detriment of the rest of the US, and arguably global, population.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost